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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 371 187
Rank change year-on-year -19 -184 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 285 193 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.56% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.62% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 257 170 721
10th Percentile £24,600 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 73,779 31,098 56,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 89.47% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51,014 17,850 37,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.55% - -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 18 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 18 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 +26 110 £75,000 +25.00% 17
South East +18 85 £51,500 +3.00% 23
North West +19 46 £75,000 +30.43% 5
East of England -18 42 £47,500 -17.39% 8
Midlands -48 42 £51,250 -10.87% 3
Yorkshire -1 36 £55,000 -8.33% 1
North East -44 28 £100,000 +11.11% 11
East Midlands -17 21 £24,500 -56.44% 1
West Midlands -45 21 £70,000 +21.74% 2
South West -77 5 £42,500 -13.27%
Wales -63 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 18 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.

1 285 (100.00%) C#
2 158 (55.44%) .NET
3 107 (37.54%) Azure
4 85 (29.82%) SQL
5 66 (23.16%) Agile
6 64 (22.46%) SQL Server
7 63 (22.11%) Software Engineering
8 60 (21.05%) CSS
9 55 (19.30%) AWS
10 53 (18.60%) Computer Science
11 52 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 45 (15.79%) PHP
13 43 (15.09%) .NET Core
14 42 (14.74%) HTML
15 40 (14.04%) Degree
16 38 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (12.28%) SDLC
18 34 (11.93%) MVC
18 34 (11.93%) SaaS
19 33 (11.58%) ASP.NET
20 30 (10.53%) Microservices
20 30 (10.53%) OOP
21 29 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
21 29 (10.18%) Vue
22 27 (9.47%) Fintech
22 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
22 27 (9.47%) MySQL
23 26 (9.12%) Clean Code
24 25 (8.77%) JavaScript
24 25 (8.77%) 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 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (37.54%) Azure
2 55 (19.30%) AWS
3 34 (11.93%) SaaS
4 12 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (2.11%) Serverless
7 5 (1.75%) GitHub
7 5 (1.75%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.35%) GCP
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (0.35%) FTP
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) RTP
2 1 (0.35%) RTSP
2 1 (0.35%) SCTP
2 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.35%) SS7
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
2 1 (0.35%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.46%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.47%) MySQL
3 17 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.75%) SQLite
6 4 (1.40%) Power BI
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.70%) Redis
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.96%) Git
2 6 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.05%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.35%) git-flow
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (20.00%) Finance
2 25 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 15 (5.26%) Banking
4 12 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.16%) Retail
7 8 (2.81%) Law
8 7 (2.46%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.75%) Electronics
11 4 (1.40%) Games
11 4 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (55.44%) .NET
2 60 (21.05%) CSS
3 43 (15.09%) .NET Core
4 42 (14.74%) HTML
5 33 (11.58%) ASP.NET
6 29 (10.18%) Vue
7 23 (8.07%) .NET Framework
8 22 (7.72%) jQuery
9 15 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.91%) Entity Framework
10 14 (4.91%) React
11 11 (3.86%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (3.86%) REST
12 10 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (3.51%) Blazor
13 9 (3.16%) WinForms
14 7 (2.46%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (2.46%) RESTful
15 6 (2.11%) WPF
16 5 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.51%) Virtual Team
3 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.11%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.75%) Sports Betting
7 4 (1.40%) Life Science
8 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) IoT
10 1 (0.35%) CUDA
10 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.35%) EPoS
10 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.35%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.35%) Robotics
10 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.46%) Windows
2 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.16%) Agile
2 63 (22.11%) Software Engineering
3 53 (18.60%) Computer Science
4 52 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 38 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (12.28%) SDLC
7 34 (11.93%) MVC
8 30 (10.53%) Microservices
8 30 (10.53%) OOP
9 27 (9.47%) Fintech
10 26 (9.12%) Clean Code
11 25 (8.77%) Mentoring
11 25 (8.77%) OO
12 24 (8.42%) CI/CD
13 22 (7.72%) API Development
13 22 (7.72%) CQRS
13 22 (7.72%) Product Vision
13 22 (7.72%) Resource Allocation
14 21 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 285 (100.00%) C#
2 85 (29.82%) SQL
3 45 (15.79%) PHP
4 25 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.72%) C++
6 19 (6.67%) Java
7 11 (3.86%) Python
7 11 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.40%) Delphi
10 1 (0.35%) Bicep
10 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 40 (14.04%) Degree
2 29 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.21%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle
3 3 (1.05%) Splunk
4 2 (0.70%) DevExpress
4 2 (0.70%) Telerik
5 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce