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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 225 218
Rank change year-on-year -126 -7 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 160 534 412
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 1.10% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.17% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 153 420 378
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,475 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 33,211 45,623 28,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.39% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 20,994 24,773 21,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,242 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +40.00% 19
North of England -79 38 £57,500 +15.00% 18
South East -54 34 £55,000 +4.76% 21
West Midlands +31 24 £66,000 +32.00% 12
East Midlands -6 24 £75,000 +50.00% 7
East of England +19 22 £53,250 +3.90% 7
North East -8 17 £50,000 -
South West +13 14 £43,750 -16.67% 2
North West +3 14 £65,000 +30.00% 11
Yorkshire -44 7 £80,000 +61.62% 7
Wales -8 2 £38,250 -15.00% 2
Scotland +7 1 £40,000 -24.53% 1
Northern Ireland +3 1 - -
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 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.

1 160 (100.00%) C#
2 128 (80.00%) .NET
3 80 (50.00%) Azure
4 62 (38.75%) SQL
5 57 (35.63%) Agile
6 49 (30.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (30.00%) AWS
7 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
7 48 (30.00%) SQL Server
8 41 (25.63%) Software Engineering
9 40 (25.00%) MVC
10 38 (23.75%) CSS
11 37 (23.13%) .NET Core
12 36 (22.50%) ASP.NET
13 31 (19.38%) .NET Framework
14 30 (18.75%) HTML
14 30 (18.75%) React
15 28 (17.50%) Degree
15 28 (17.50%) SaaS
16 25 (15.63%) AngularJS
16 25 (15.63%) Computer Science
17 24 (15.00%) CI/CD
17 24 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (15.00%) Mentoring
18 22 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (13.75%) REST
18 22 (13.75%) TypeScript
19 21 (13.13%) DevOps
19 21 (13.13%) Microservices
20 20 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree

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 8 (5.00%) CMS
2 5 (3.13%) IIS
3 3 (1.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.63%) Kentico
5 1 (0.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.88%) Magento
2 3 (1.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
3 1 (0.63%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 80 (50.00%) Azure
2 48 (30.00%) AWS
3 28 (17.50%) SaaS
4 9 (5.63%) Power Automate
5 8 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.75%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.88%) GCP
9 2 (1.25%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.25%) GitHub
9 2 (1.25%) NuGet
9 2 (1.25%) Pulumi
9 2 (1.25%) Sage Pay
9 2 (1.25%) Serverless
9 2 (1.25%) Zapier
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) RS-232
2 1 (0.63%) RS-422
2 1 (0.63%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 20 (12.50%) MySQL
3 5 (3.13%) Redis
4 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.25%) MS Access
7 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Visual Studio
2 9 (5.63%) Git
3 7 (4.38%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.25%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) MSTest
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 35 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.25%) Finance
3 17 (10.63%) Games
4 8 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Aviation
5 5 (3.13%) Law
5 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Electronics
7 3 (1.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.25%) Banking
8 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Local Government
9 1 (0.63%) Marketing
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (80.00%) .NET
2 38 (23.75%) CSS
3 37 (23.13%) .NET Core
4 36 (22.50%) ASP.NET
5 31 (19.38%) .NET Framework
6 30 (18.75%) HTML
6 30 (18.75%) React
7 25 (15.63%) AngularJS
8 22 (13.75%) REST
9 17 (10.63%) jQuery
10 16 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (9.38%) Entity Framework
12 13 (8.13%) Blazor
13 11 (6.88%) WPF
14 10 (6.25%) Vue
15 7 (4.38%) WinForms
16 6 (3.75%) DirectX
16 6 (3.75%) OpenGL
16 6 (3.75%) RESTful
17 5 (3.13%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.75%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.88%) EPoS
6 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.25%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.25%) IoT
7 2 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.63%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.63%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.63%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.63%) Online Games
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Android
2 6 (3.75%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.50%) Windows
4 3 (1.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.63%) Agile
2 49 (30.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 41 (25.63%) Software Engineering
4 40 (25.00%) MVC
5 25 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 24 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 24 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 22 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (13.13%) DevOps
8 21 (13.13%) Microservices
9 15 (9.38%) Coaching
9 15 (9.38%) Design Patterns
9 15 (9.38%) OOP
10 14 (8.75%) Conflict Resolution
10 14 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.50%) TDD
11 12 (7.50%) Web Development
12 11 (6.88%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (6.88%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) C#
2 62 (38.75%) SQL
3 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 19 (11.88%) PHP
6 17 (10.63%) Java
7 14 (8.75%) C++
8 8 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 8 (5.00%) XAML
9 4 (2.50%) Delphi
9 4 (2.50%) Python
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) C
10 1 (0.63%) Dart
10 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.63%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.63%) Swift
10 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (17.50%) Degree
2 20 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.63%) PhD
3 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (6.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (5.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.25%) Google
2 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle
2 2 (1.25%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe
3 1 (0.63%) ESRI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP