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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 385 204
Rank change year-on-year -46 -181 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 249 148 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.43% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.49% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 226 136 549
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 79,733 30,447 50,940
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 89.28% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 17,292 29,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,946 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -2 92 £82,500 +32.00% 15
South East -3 82 £51,500 -5.72% 25
North West -3 43 £75,000 +20.00% 11
East of England -23 38 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Midlands -61 33 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -48 32 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -30 17 £50,000 -18.37%
West Midlands -47 17 £70,000 +10.24% 10
East Midlands -30 16 £25,000 -55.36% 2
South West -86 4 £42,500 -16.26% 3
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 249 (100.00%) C#
2 149 (59.84%) .NET
3 80 (32.13%) Azure
4 62 (24.90%) Software Engineering
5 57 (22.89%) SQL
6 53 (21.29%) CSS
7 52 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (20.48%) SQL Server
9 49 (19.68%) Agile
10 46 (18.47%) .NET Core
11 44 (17.67%) HTML
12 39 (15.66%) AWS
13 37 (14.86%) ASP.NET
14 35 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (13.65%) Fintech
16 32 (12.85%) Computer Science
17 31 (12.45%) JavaScript
18 30 (12.05%) SDLC
19 29 (11.65%) Degree
20 25 (10.04%) .NET Framework
20 25 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
20 25 (10.04%) SaaS
21 24 (9.64%) CI/CD
21 24 (9.64%) Clean Code
21 24 (9.64%) Microservices
21 24 (9.64%) MySQL
21 24 (9.64%) PHP
22 23 (9.24%) MVC
23 22 (8.84%) API Development
23 22 (8.84%) Mentoring

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 6 (2.41%) IIS
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.13%) Azure
2 39 (15.66%) AWS
3 25 (10.04%) SaaS
4 14 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.81%) Serverless
6 5 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.40%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.40%) PaaS
10 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.40%) FTP
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) RTP
2 1 (0.40%) RTSP
2 1 (0.40%) SCTP
2 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.40%) SS7
2 1 (0.40%) VoIP
2 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.64%) MySQL
3 19 (7.63%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.01%) SQLite
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.80%) Redis
8 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (7.23%) Git
2 5 (2.01%) Claude Code
2 5 (2.01%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.20%) GitLab
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.40%) git-flow
5 1 (0.40%) JIRA
5 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (14.86%) Finance
2 22 (8.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.43%) Banking
4 7 (2.81%) Law
4 7 (2.81%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.41%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.01%) Electronics
6 5 (2.01%) Games
7 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (59.84%) .NET
2 53 (21.29%) CSS
3 46 (18.47%) .NET Core
4 44 (17.67%) HTML
5 37 (14.86%) ASP.NET
6 25 (10.04%) .NET Framework
7 22 (8.84%) Vue
8 21 (8.43%) jQuery
9 18 (7.23%) Entity Framework
10 15 (6.02%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (6.02%) REST
11 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 11 (4.42%) React
13 10 (4.02%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (3.61%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.21%) WPF
16 7 (2.81%) RESTful
17 6 (2.41%) WinForms
18 5 (2.01%) Blazor
18 5 (2.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.81%) Hedge funds
3 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.61%) Life Science
5 4 (1.61%) Sports Betting
6 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.20%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.80%) IoT
7 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.40%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.40%) CUDA
8 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.90%) Software Engineering
2 52 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (19.68%) Agile
4 35 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (13.65%) Fintech
6 32 (12.85%) Computer Science
7 30 (12.05%) SDLC
8 25 (10.04%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (9.64%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.64%) Clean Code
9 24 (9.64%) Microservices
10 23 (9.24%) MVC
11 22 (8.84%) API Development
11 22 (8.84%) Mentoring
11 22 (8.84%) OOP
12 20 (8.03%) Code Quality
12 20 (8.03%) OO
13 18 (7.23%) DevOps
14 17 (6.83%) CQRS
14 17 (6.83%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 249 (100.00%) C#
2 57 (22.89%) SQL
3 31 (12.45%) JavaScript
4 24 (9.64%) PHP
5 13 (5.22%) C++
5 13 (5.22%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.02%) Java
7 7 (2.81%) Python
8 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.20%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) Delphi
9 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 29 (11.65%) Degree
2 17 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.21%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.82%) QA
2 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (4.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle
3 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.20%) Splunk
4 2 (0.80%) DevExpress
4 2 (0.80%) Telerik