C# Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 361 192
Rank change year-on-year -25 -169 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 277 192 795
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.55% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.62% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 251 170 715
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,875 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 74,603 31,136 56,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 89.45% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,725 17,928 36,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,292 £47,602 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -4.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK excluding London

C# Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +23 108 £75,000 +25.00% 4
South East +7 79 £51,500 +3.00% 17
North West +4 46 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East of England -15 43 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Midlands -54 41 £53,750 -6.52% 3
Yorkshire +1 34 £50,000 -16.67%
North East -39 28 £100,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -17 21 £25,000 -55.56% 1
West Midlands -39 20 £70,000 +21.74% 2
South West -80 5 £42,500 -14.14%
Wales -58 1 £37,500 -1.96%
C# Developer
UK

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 August 2026, C# Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 154 (55.60%) .NET
3 102 (36.82%) Azure
4 80 (28.88%) SQL
5 63 (22.74%) Software Engineering
6 62 (22.38%) Agile
7 60 (21.66%) SQL Server
8 57 (20.58%) CSS
9 52 (18.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 51 (18.41%) AWS
11 49 (17.69%) Computer Science
12 43 (15.52%) .NET Core
13 42 (15.16%) HTML
14 41 (14.80%) PHP
15 38 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (13.36%) Degree
17 34 (12.27%) SDLC
18 33 (11.91%) SaaS
19 32 (11.55%) ASP.NET
20 31 (11.19%) MVC
21 30 (10.83%) Microservices
22 28 (10.11%) Vue
23 27 (9.75%) Fintech
23 27 (9.75%) Microsoft
23 27 (9.75%) OOP
24 26 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
25 25 (9.03%) Clean Code
25 25 (9.03%) JavaScript
25 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
25 25 (9.03%) OO

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (36.82%) Azure
2 51 (18.41%) AWS
3 33 (11.91%) SaaS
4 12 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (2.17%) Serverless
6 5 (1.81%) GitHub
7 4 (1.44%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.36%) GCP
10 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.36%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.36%) FTP
2 1 (0.36%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) RTP
2 1 (0.36%) RTSP
2 1 (0.36%) SCTP
2 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.36%) SS7
2 1 (0.36%) VoIP
2 1 (0.36%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (21.66%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.30%) MySQL
3 16 (5.78%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.81%) SQLite
6 3 (1.08%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) Redis
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.14%) Git
2 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.36%) git-flow
5 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 53 (19.13%) Finance
2 24 (8.66%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.42%) Banking
4 12 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.89%) Law
6 8 (2.89%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.89%) Retail
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.81%) Electronics
9 4 (1.44%) Games
9 4 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (55.60%) .NET
2 57 (20.58%) CSS
3 43 (15.52%) .NET Core
4 42 (15.16%) HTML
5 32 (11.55%) ASP.NET
6 28 (10.11%) Vue
7 23 (8.30%) .NET Framework
8 19 (6.86%) jQuery
9 14 (5.05%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.05%) Entity Framework
9 14 (5.05%) React
10 11 (3.97%) ASP.NET MVC
10 11 (3.97%) REST
11 10 (3.61%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (3.25%) Blazor
13 8 (2.89%) WinForms
13 8 (2.89%) WPF
14 7 (2.53%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (2.53%) RESTful
15 5 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.61%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.81%) Sports Betting
6 4 (1.44%) Life Science
7 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.72%) IoT
9 1 (0.36%) CUDA
9 1 (0.36%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.25%) Windows
2 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.74%) Software Engineering
2 62 (22.38%) Agile
3 52 (18.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 49 (17.69%) Computer Science
5 38 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (12.27%) SDLC
7 31 (11.19%) MVC
8 30 (10.83%) Microservices
9 27 (9.75%) Fintech
9 27 (9.75%) OOP
10 25 (9.03%) Clean Code
10 25 (9.03%) Mentoring
10 25 (9.03%) OO
11 23 (8.30%) CI/CD
12 22 (7.94%) CQRS
12 22 (7.94%) Product Vision
12 22 (7.94%) Resource Allocation
13 21 (7.58%) API Development
13 21 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (6.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 80 (28.88%) SQL
3 41 (14.80%) PHP
4 25 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.86%) C++
6 16 (5.78%) Java
7 11 (3.97%) Python
7 11 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.81%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.08%) Delphi
10 1 (0.36%) Bicep
10 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 37 (13.36%) Degree
2 26 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.89%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.33%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.08%) Splunk
3 2 (0.72%) DevExpress
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle
3 2 (0.72%) Telerik
4 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce