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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 349 186
Rank change year-on-year +23 -163 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 278 184 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.65% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.73% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 251 154 1,024
10th Percentile £24,000 £35,750 £36,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,125 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 62,970 25,190 67,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.98% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41,929 13,343 48,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +27 99 £65,000 +13.04% 8
South East -3 69 £55,000 +1.38% 10
Midlands -40 58 £55,000 +4.76% 5
North West +24 52 £75,000 +42.86% 4
East Midlands -10 38 £30,000 -42.86% 4
Yorkshire -18 38 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East of England -11 33 £25,000 -44.44%
West Midlands -66 20 £70,000 +36.59% 1
North East -40 9 £100,000 +11.11% 3
South West -63 9 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland - 8 £60,000 -
Wales -31 2 £37,500 -21.05%
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 278 (100.00%) C#
2 149 (53.60%) .NET
3 113 (40.65%) Azure
4 90 (32.37%) SQL
5 66 (23.74%) Agile
6 65 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (21.94%) SQL Server
8 59 (21.22%) AWS
9 52 (18.71%) Computer Science
9 52 (18.71%) CSS
10 51 (18.35%) .NET Core
10 51 (18.35%) Software Engineering
11 48 (17.27%) PHP
12 44 (15.83%) SaaS
13 37 (13.31%) SDLC
14 36 (12.95%) Microservices
15 35 (12.59%) ASP.NET
16 34 (12.23%) MVC
17 33 (11.87%) HTML
18 31 (11.15%) Microsoft
19 30 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
19 30 (10.79%) Vue
20 28 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
20 28 (10.07%) Degree
21 25 (8.99%) Product Vision
21 25 (8.99%) Resource Allocation
22 24 (8.63%) CQRS
22 24 (8.63%) Mentoring
23 21 (7.55%) C++
24 20 (7.19%) JavaScript

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 (1.08%) IIS
2 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 113 (40.65%) Azure
2 59 (21.22%) AWS
3 44 (15.83%) SaaS
4 13 (4.68%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (1.44%) Serverless
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.08%) GitHub
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.72%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (21.94%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.12%) MySQL
3 14 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.96%) Power BI
5 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.16%) Git
2 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (20.14%) Finance
2 25 (8.99%) Social Skills
3 12 (4.32%) Banking
4 10 (3.60%) Retail
5 9 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (0.36%) Advertising
8 1 (0.36%) Games
8 1 (0.36%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (53.60%) .NET
2 52 (18.71%) CSS
3 51 (18.35%) .NET Core
4 35 (12.59%) ASP.NET
5 33 (11.87%) HTML
6 30 (10.79%) Vue
7 20 (7.19%) jQuery
8 17 (6.12%) React
9 16 (5.76%) .NET Framework
10 15 (5.40%) AngularJS
11 11 (3.96%) WinForms
12 10 (3.60%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (3.60%) Entity Framework
12 10 (3.60%) XML
13 9 (3.24%) REST
14 8 (2.88%) Blazor
14 8 (2.88%) RESTful
15 6 (2.16%) ASP.NET Core
16 4 (1.44%) CSS3
16 4 (1.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.96%) Mobile App
1 11 (3.96%) Virtual Team
2 10 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.88%) Sports Betting
4 6 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.80%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.44%) EPoS
7 3 (1.08%) IoT
8 2 (0.72%) Digital Signage
8 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.72%) NHS
8 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.72%) Smart City
9 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.36%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.36%) Robotics
9 1 (0.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.24%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.44%) Windows
3 3 (1.08%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.74%) Agile
2 65 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 52 (18.71%) Computer Science
4 51 (18.35%) Software Engineering
5 37 (13.31%) SDLC
6 36 (12.95%) Microservices
7 34 (12.23%) MVC
8 30 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (8.99%) Product Vision
9 25 (8.99%) Resource Allocation
10 24 (8.63%) CQRS
10 24 (8.63%) Mentoring
11 20 (7.19%) OOP
12 16 (5.76%) API Development
13 15 (5.40%) CI/CD
13 15 (5.40%) Clean Code
13 15 (5.40%) Fintech
13 15 (5.40%) Web Development
14 14 (5.04%) API Integration
15 13 (4.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 278 (100.00%) C#
2 90 (32.37%) SQL
3 48 (17.27%) PHP
4 21 (7.55%) C++
5 20 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.83%) Java
7 11 (3.96%) Delphi
7 11 (3.96%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.60%) Python
9 6 (2.16%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) C
10 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
1 28 (10.07%) Degree
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.08%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.60%) Oracle
3 4 (1.44%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.44%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.08%) Splunk
5 1 (0.36%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.36%) Perforce
5 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce