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 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 303 242
Rank change year-on-year -55 -61 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 166 294 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.77% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.83% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 155 204 329
10th Percentile £25,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 37,920 35,482 26,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 93.47% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23,015 17,792 20,250
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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
Midlands +5 48 £70,000 +33.33% 4
South East -5 47 £56,250 +12.50% 15
North of England -20 35 £55,000 +10.00% 27
East Midlands -18 27 £75,000 +42.86% 2
West Midlands +29 21 £70,000 +33.33% 2
East of England +11 19 £25,000 -50.00% 1
North East +9 17 £50,000 +5.26% 10
South West +11 12 £42,500 -15.00% 4
North West +12 10 £75,000 +50.00% 13
Yorkshire -26 8 £78,750 +59.09% 5
Scotland +2 2 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Wales -3 2 £38,250 -17.30% 2
Northern Ireland -7 1 - -
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, 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.

1 166 (100.00%) C#
2 119 (71.69%) .NET
3 82 (49.40%) Azure
4 60 (36.14%) Agile
5 58 (34.94%) SQL
6 55 (33.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (27.11%) AWS
7 45 (27.11%) SQL Server
8 44 (26.51%) JavaScript
9 42 (25.30%) Software Engineering
10 41 (24.70%) .NET Core
11 36 (21.69%) MVC
12 32 (19.28%) CSS
13 31 (18.67%) ASP.NET
14 30 (18.07%) React
15 26 (15.66%) SaaS
16 25 (15.06%) .NET Framework
17 24 (14.46%) TypeScript
18 22 (13.25%) AngularJS
18 22 (13.25%) Computer Science
18 22 (13.25%) HTML
18 22 (13.25%) Mentoring
19 21 (12.65%) CI/CD
19 21 (12.65%) REST
20 20 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
20 20 (12.05%) PHP
21 19 (11.45%) Degree
22 18 (10.84%) ASP.NET MVC
22 18 (10.84%) DevOps
23 17 (10.24%) Problem-Solving

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 7 (4.22%) CMS
2 3 (1.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.81%) IIS
3 2 (1.20%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.60%) Kentico
4 1 (0.60%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 82 (49.40%) Azure
2 45 (27.11%) AWS
3 26 (15.66%) SaaS
4 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.02%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.61%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.81%) Zapier
9 2 (1.20%) GitHub
9 2 (1.20%) Pulumi
9 2 (1.20%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.60%) Sage Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (27.11%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.04%) MySQL
3 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.41%) Power BI
4 4 (2.41%) Redis
5 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.20%) MS Access
6 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.60%) GIS
7 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (4.22%) TeamCity
2 6 (3.61%) Visual Studio
3 4 (2.41%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) Git
5 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) MSTest
6 1 (0.60%) NUnit
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (19.28%) Finance
2 29 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.84%) Games
4 6 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.01%) Aviation
5 5 (3.01%) Law
5 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.41%) Electronics
7 2 (1.20%) Banking
7 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (71.69%) .NET
2 41 (24.70%) .NET Core
3 32 (19.28%) CSS
4 31 (18.67%) ASP.NET
5 30 (18.07%) React
6 25 (15.06%) .NET Framework
7 22 (13.25%) AngularJS
7 22 (13.25%) HTML
8 21 (12.65%) REST
9 18 (10.84%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (8.43%) Entity Framework
10 14 (8.43%) jQuery
11 8 (4.82%) Vue
11 8 (4.82%) WinForms
12 7 (4.22%) Blazor
12 7 (4.22%) WPF
13 6 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
13 6 (3.61%) DirectX
13 6 (3.61%) OpenGL
14 4 (2.41%) Apache Cordova
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.61%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.41%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.81%) IoT
6 2 (1.20%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.20%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.60%) EPoS
7 1 (0.60%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.60%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.01%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.14%) Agile
2 55 (33.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 42 (25.30%) Software Engineering
4 36 (21.69%) MVC
5 22 (13.25%) Computer Science
5 22 (13.25%) Mentoring
6 21 (12.65%) CI/CD
7 20 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.84%) DevOps
9 17 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (9.04%) Microservices
12 14 (8.43%) Coaching
12 14 (8.43%) Conflict Resolution
13 13 (7.83%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.63%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (6.63%) OOP
14 11 (6.63%) TDD
15 10 (6.02%) Mathematics
16 9 (5.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) C#
2 58 (34.94%) SQL
3 44 (26.51%) JavaScript
4 24 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 20 (12.05%) PHP
6 13 (7.83%) Java
7 11 (6.63%) C++
8 8 (4.82%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.82%) XAML
9 6 (3.61%) Delphi
10 3 (1.81%) C
10 3 (1.81%) COBOL
11 1 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) Dart
11 1 (0.60%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (11.45%) Degree
2 14 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.81%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.60%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.02%) Terraform
2 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.01%) Oracle
3 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe
4 1 (0.60%) ESRI
4 1 (0.60%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.60%) Perforce
4 1 (0.60%) Xamarin