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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 309 181
Rank change year-on-year -42 -128 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 187 252 805
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.79% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.86% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 172 174 773
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,075 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.54% -6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,938 £64,750
90th Percentile £78,625 £69,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 44,359 29,277 47,561
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 91.38% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 27,794 14,439 36,845
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,966 £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 19 February 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 19 February 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
Midlands -9 55 £65,000 +23.81% 8
North of England -37 49 £55,000 +10.00% 15
South East -31 46 £60,000 +20.00% 27
East Midlands -15 37 £65,000 +23.81% 3
West Midlands +2 18 £60,000 +14.29% 5
North West -17 18 £60,000 +20.00% 9
East of England +1 16 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire -29 16 £65,000 +31.31% 3
North East -6 15 £50,000 -2.44% 3
South West -1 11 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Scotland -5 8 £60,000 +29.03%
Wales -4 1 £37,500 -21.05%
Northern Ireland -27 1 - - 1
C# Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 February 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.

1 187 (100.00%) C#
2 121 (64.71%) .NET
3 80 (42.78%) Azure
4 66 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (30.48%) Agile
6 50 (26.74%) SQL
7 49 (26.20%) .NET Core
8 45 (24.06%) AWS
8 45 (24.06%) SQL Server
9 42 (22.46%) Software Engineering
10 39 (20.86%) JavaScript
11 32 (17.11%) MVC
11 32 (17.11%) React
12 30 (16.04%) ASP.NET
13 29 (15.51%) CSS
14 26 (13.90%) SaaS
15 24 (12.83%) .NET Framework
16 21 (11.23%) Computer Science
16 21 (11.23%) TypeScript
17 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.70%) Microservices
18 19 (10.16%) HTML
18 19 (10.16%) Mentoring
19 18 (9.63%) AngularJS
19 18 (9.63%) CI/CD
19 18 (9.63%) PHP
20 17 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
21 16 (8.56%) Degree
21 16 (8.56%) Design Patterns
21 16 (8.56%) DevOps

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 5 (2.67%) CMS
2 2 (1.07%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.07%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Kentico
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.78%) Azure
2 45 (24.06%) AWS
3 26 (13.90%) SaaS
4 13 (6.95%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.74%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.67%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.60%) Zapier
10 2 (1.07%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.07%) GitHub
10 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.07%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.53%) GCP
11 1 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.95%) MySQL
3 9 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 4 (2.14%) Redis
6 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.07%) MS Access
7 1 (0.53%) GIS
7 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.21%) TeamCity
1 6 (3.21%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.14%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 28 (14.97%) Finance
2 21 (11.23%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.02%) Games
4 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.21%) Retail
5 5 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.14%) Electronics
6 4 (2.14%) Law
7 3 (1.60%) Aviation
7 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.07%) Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Advertising
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Local Government
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (64.71%) .NET
2 49 (26.20%) .NET Core
3 32 (17.11%) React
4 30 (16.04%) ASP.NET
5 29 (15.51%) CSS
6 24 (12.83%) .NET Framework
7 19 (10.16%) HTML
8 18 (9.63%) AngularJS
9 17 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
10 16 (8.56%) REST
11 14 (7.49%) Entity Framework
12 12 (6.42%) WinForms
13 11 (5.88%) jQuery
14 9 (4.81%) Vue
15 8 (4.28%) Blazor
15 8 (4.28%) WPF
15 8 (4.28%) XML
16 6 (3.21%) DirectX
16 6 (3.21%) OpenGL
17 4 (2.14%) Autofac
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.35%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.21%) 3D Graphics
3 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.67%) IoT
5 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.14%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.14%) EPoS
5 4 (2.14%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.07%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.07%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.07%) NHS
6 2 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.07%) Smart City
7 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 8 (4.28%) Android
3 4 (2.14%) Windows
4 2 (1.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 57 (30.48%) Agile
3 42 (22.46%) Software Engineering
4 32 (17.11%) MVC
5 21 (11.23%) Computer Science
6 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (10.70%) Microservices
7 19 (10.16%) Mentoring
8 18 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 16 (8.56%) Design Patterns
9 16 (8.56%) DevOps
10 15 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (7.49%) SDLC
12 12 (6.42%) Architectural Patterns
13 11 (5.88%) Coaching
13 11 (5.88%) Conflict Resolution
13 11 (5.88%) OOP
13 11 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (5.35%) TDD
15 9 (4.81%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 187 (100.00%) C#
2 50 (26.74%) SQL
3 39 (20.86%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.63%) PHP
6 12 (6.42%) Java
7 11 (5.88%) C++
8 10 (5.35%) Delphi
9 8 (4.28%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.74%) XAML
11 3 (1.60%) C
11 3 (1.60%) COBOL
12 1 (0.53%) Bash
12 1 (0.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (8.56%) Degree
2 13 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.07%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.60%) GDPR
2 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.28%) Oracle
3 5 (2.67%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.53%) ESRI
4 1 (0.53%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.53%) Perforce