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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 354 188
Rank change year-on-year -24 -166 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 276 206 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.60% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.67% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 255 179 761
10th Percentile £24,400 £26,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £79,000 £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 70,839 30,721 58,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.59% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 48,976 17,720 39,622
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,248
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 1 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 1 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 +23 111 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South East -6 80 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North West +17 47 £75,000 +30.43% 3
Yorkshire +5 42 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Midlands -49 42 £51,250 -2.38% 2
East of England -12 37 £27,500 -50.67% 3
North East -42 22 £100,000 +11.11% 5
East Midlands -23 21 £24,500 -53.33%
West Midlands -52 21 £70,000 +36.59% 2
South West -80 5 £42,500 -11.92%
Wales -61 1 £37,500 +7.14%
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 276 (100.00%) C#
2 155 (56.16%) .NET
3 107 (38.77%) Azure
4 83 (30.07%) SQL
5 64 (23.19%) Agile
6 59 (21.38%) Software Engineering
7 57 (20.65%) SQL Server
8 56 (20.29%) AWS
8 56 (20.29%) CSS
9 52 (18.84%) Computer Science
9 52 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 45 (16.30%) PHP
11 39 (14.13%) .NET Core
11 39 (14.13%) SaaS
12 38 (13.77%) HTML
13 36 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (12.68%) Degree
14 35 (12.68%) SDLC
15 33 (11.96%) Microservices
15 33 (11.96%) MVC
16 32 (11.59%) ASP.NET
17 31 (11.23%) Vue
18 29 (10.51%) Computer Science Degree
19 26 (9.42%) Microsoft
19 26 (9.42%) OOP
20 25 (9.06%) Fintech
20 25 (9.06%) Product Vision
20 25 (9.06%) Resource Allocation
21 24 (8.70%) CQRS
21 24 (8.70%) 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 3 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (38.77%) Azure
2 56 (20.29%) AWS
3 39 (14.13%) SaaS
4 11 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (2.17%) Serverless
7 5 (1.81%) GitHub
7 5 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.36%) GCP
11 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) 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 57 (20.65%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.33%) MySQL
3 13 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.45%) Power BI
6 3 (1.09%) SQLite
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 13 (4.71%) Git
2 5 (1.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.36%) git-flow
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (19.93%) Finance
2 22 (7.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.43%) Banking
4 12 (4.35%) Retail
5 11 (3.99%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Law
7 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.45%) Games
9 3 (1.09%) Electronics
9 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (56.16%) .NET
2 56 (20.29%) CSS
3 39 (14.13%) .NET Core
4 38 (13.77%) HTML
5 32 (11.59%) ASP.NET
6 31 (11.23%) Vue
7 20 (7.25%) jQuery
8 16 (5.80%) .NET Framework
9 14 (5.07%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.35%) React
11 11 (3.99%) Blazor
12 10 (3.62%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (3.26%) REST
14 8 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (2.90%) Entity Framework
14 8 (2.90%) WinForms
15 7 (2.54%) RESTful
16 6 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
17 5 (1.81%) JSON
18 4 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (3.99%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.62%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.81%) Hedge funds
4 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.81%) Sports Betting
5 4 (1.45%) EPoS
6 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.09%) Life Science
7 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.72%) IoT
7 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.72%) NHS
8 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.36%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.19%) Agile
2 59 (21.38%) Software Engineering
3 52 (18.84%) Computer Science
3 52 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 36 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (12.68%) SDLC
6 33 (11.96%) Microservices
6 33 (11.96%) MVC
7 26 (9.42%) OOP
8 25 (9.06%) Fintech
8 25 (9.06%) Product Vision
8 25 (9.06%) Resource Allocation
9 24 (8.70%) CQRS
9 24 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 23 (8.33%) CI/CD
10 23 (8.33%) Clean Code
11 21 (7.61%) API Development
11 21 (7.61%) OO
12 18 (6.52%) Web Development
13 17 (6.16%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 276 (100.00%) C#
2 83 (30.07%) SQL
3 45 (16.30%) PHP
4 22 (7.97%) C++
5 19 (6.88%) Java
5 19 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.99%) Python
6 11 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.81%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.45%) Delphi
9 1 (0.36%) Bicep
9 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (12.68%) Degree
2 29 (10.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.45%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.26%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.45%) OpenAI
2 4 (1.45%) Xamarin
3 3 (1.09%) Oracle
3 3 (1.09%) Splunk
4 1 (0.36%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.36%) Telerik
4 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce