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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 274 197
Rank change year-on-year -38 -77 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 236 234 933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.91% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 1.02% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 215 196 896
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 51,406 22,909 59,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 89.45% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,737 14,188 44,201
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,614 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 74 £60,000 +20.00% 17
Midlands -43 60 £65,000 +23.81% 8
South East -50 56 £55,000 +10.00% 9
East Midlands -31 41 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Yorkshire -33 34 £60,000 +21.21% 4
East of England -16 25 £25,000 -44.44% 4
North West -28 25 £60,000 +20.00% 10
West Midlands -37 19 £70,000 +33.33% 5
North East -24 15 £55,000 +7.32% 3
South West -36 11 £40,000 -20.00%
Scotland -18 8 £60,000 +29.03% 1
Wales -22 2 £37,500 -21.05% 2
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 236 (100.00%) C#
2 140 (59.32%) .NET
3 98 (41.53%) Azure
4 74 (31.36%) SQL
5 71 (30.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (27.54%) Agile
7 58 (24.58%) SQL Server
8 54 (22.88%) .NET Core
8 54 (22.88%) AWS
9 52 (22.03%) Software Engineering
10 40 (16.95%) MVC
11 39 (16.53%) Computer Science
11 39 (16.53%) CSS
12 36 (15.25%) PHP
13 34 (14.41%) SaaS
14 33 (13.98%) JavaScript
15 30 (12.71%) ASP.NET
15 30 (12.71%) React
16 26 (11.02%) Microservices
17 23 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (9.75%) Degree
17 23 (9.75%) HTML
17 23 (9.75%) Microsoft
18 22 (9.32%) SDLC
19 21 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
20 20 (8.47%) .NET Framework
21 19 (8.05%) AngularJS
22 18 (7.63%) Mentoring
23 17 (7.20%) C++
23 17 (7.20%) CI/CD

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 2 (0.85%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.53%) Azure
2 54 (22.88%) AWS
3 34 (14.41%) SaaS
4 15 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.27%) GitHub
8 2 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.85%) Serverless
8 2 (0.85%) Zapier
9 1 (0.42%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.58%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.36%) MySQL
3 11 (4.66%) Power BI
3 11 (4.66%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.12%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (21.19%) Finance
2 21 (8.90%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.51%) Games
4 11 (4.66%) Retail
5 10 (4.24%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.27%) Banking
7 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.27%) Electronics
7 3 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (0.42%) Advertising
8 1 (0.42%) Aviation
8 1 (0.42%) Legal
8 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (59.32%) .NET
2 54 (22.88%) .NET Core
3 39 (16.53%) CSS
4 30 (12.71%) ASP.NET
4 30 (12.71%) React
5 23 (9.75%) HTML
6 20 (8.47%) .NET Framework
7 19 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.20%) jQuery
9 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (6.36%) Vue
10 14 (5.93%) Entity Framework
10 14 (5.93%) REST
11 13 (5.51%) WinForms
12 10 (4.24%) Blazor
12 10 (4.24%) XML
13 6 (2.54%) DirectX
13 6 (2.54%) OpenGL
14 5 (2.12%) WPF
15 4 (1.69%) Autofac
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.51%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) Sports Betting
5 6 (2.54%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.12%) EPoS
6 5 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.69%) IoT
8 3 (1.27%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
9 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.51%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.97%) Android
3 5 (2.12%) Windows
4 2 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 65 (27.54%) Agile
3 52 (22.03%) Software Engineering
4 40 (16.95%) MVC
5 39 (16.53%) Computer Science
6 26 (11.02%) Microservices
7 23 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (9.32%) SDLC
9 18 (7.63%) Mentoring
10 17 (7.20%) CI/CD
10 17 (7.20%) OOP
11 15 (6.36%) DevOps
11 15 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (5.93%) Design Patterns
13 11 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (4.24%) Biometrics
14 10 (4.24%) Product Vision
14 10 (4.24%) Resource Allocation
14 10 (4.24%) TDD
15 9 (3.81%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 236 (100.00%) C#
2 74 (31.36%) SQL
3 36 (15.25%) PHP
4 33 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.20%) C++
6 16 (6.78%) Java
6 16 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.66%) Delphi
7 11 (4.66%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.69%) Python
9 3 (1.27%) C
9 3 (1.27%) COBOL
9 3 (1.27%) XAML
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (9.75%) Degree
2 21 (8.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.85%) PhD
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (2.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.24%) Oracle
3 5 (2.12%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.42%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.42%) Perforce
5 1 (0.42%) WooCommerce