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 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 362 188
Rank change year-on-year -46 -174 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 276 185 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.53% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.59% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 252 166 673
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,688 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,375 £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 75,753 31,252 55,369
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.46% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52,558 18,055 34,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
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 £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 31 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 31 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 -7 108 £75,000 +25.00% 3
South East +9 80 £51,500 +0.49% 19
North West +11 46 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East of England 0 43 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Midlands -44 40 £55,000 - 2
North East -40 32 £100,000 +11.11% 1
Yorkshire -15 30 £50,000 -16.67%
West Midlands -41 21 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East Midlands -21 19 £25,000 -55.56% 1
South West -82 4 £42,500 -15.00%
Wales -68 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 31 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#
2 156 (56.52%) .NET
3 99 (35.87%) Azure
4 76 (27.54%) SQL
5 66 (23.91%) Software Engineering
6 60 (21.74%) SQL Server
7 58 (21.01%) Agile
8 57 (20.65%) CSS
9 51 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (17.39%) AWS
11 46 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 44 (15.94%) .NET Core
13 42 (15.22%) HTML
14 38 (13.77%) PHP
15 37 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (13.41%) Degree
16 32 (11.59%) ASP.NET
16 32 (11.59%) Fintech
16 32 (11.59%) MVC
16 32 (11.59%) SDLC
17 30 (10.87%) SaaS
18 28 (10.14%) Microservices
19 27 (9.78%) OOP
20 26 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
20 26 (9.42%) JavaScript
20 26 (9.42%) Microsoft
21 25 (9.06%) Clean Code
21 25 (9.06%) Mentoring
21 25 (9.06%) OO
22 24 (8.70%) Vue

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 4 (1.45%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (35.87%) Azure
2 48 (17.39%) AWS
3 30 (10.87%) SaaS
4 13 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (2.17%) Serverless
6 5 (1.81%) GitHub
7 3 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.09%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.36%) GCP
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
9 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 60 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.33%) MySQL
3 16 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.81%) SQLite
6 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.72%) Power BI
6 2 (0.72%) Redis
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.16%) Git
2 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.36%) git-flow
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 53 (19.20%) Finance
2 24 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.43%) Banking
4 13 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.90%) Law
5 8 (2.90%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.17%) Retail
7 5 (1.81%) Electronics
7 5 (1.81%) Games
8 4 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (56.52%) .NET
2 57 (20.65%) CSS
3 44 (15.94%) .NET Core
4 42 (15.22%) HTML
5 32 (11.59%) ASP.NET
6 24 (8.70%) Vue
7 23 (8.33%) .NET Framework
8 21 (7.61%) jQuery
9 14 (5.07%) Entity Framework
9 14 (5.07%) React
10 13 (4.71%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (4.35%) REST
12 11 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (3.26%) WPF
14 8 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
15 7 (2.54%) Blazor
15 7 (2.54%) RESTful
15 7 (2.54%) WinForms
16 5 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.62%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.54%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.45%) Life Science
6 4 (1.45%) Sports Betting
7 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.72%) IoT
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.36%) CUDA
9 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.36%) Robotics
9 1 (0.36%) SCADA
9 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.91%) Software Engineering
2 58 (21.01%) Agile
3 51 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 37 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (11.59%) Fintech
6 32 (11.59%) MVC
6 32 (11.59%) SDLC
7 28 (10.14%) Microservices
8 27 (9.78%) OOP
9 25 (9.06%) Clean Code
9 25 (9.06%) Mentoring
9 25 (9.06%) OO
10 23 (8.33%) CI/CD
10 23 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (7.25%) API Development
11 20 (7.25%) CQRS
11 20 (7.25%) Product Vision
11 20 (7.25%) Resource Allocation
12 18 (6.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 276 (100.00%) C#
2 76 (27.54%) SQL
3 38 (13.77%) PHP
4 26 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.88%) C++
6 16 (5.80%) Java
7 12 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.99%) Python
9 5 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.72%) Delphi
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (13.41%) Degree
2 26 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.90%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.09%) Splunk
3 2 (0.72%) DevExpress
3 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle
3 2 (0.72%) Telerik
4 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce