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You should clarify which country you recruit in/for, because these things can vary a great deal between different markets.

Australia.

Yup, Australia has a real hard on for C#. As a dev in Australia, I can support the list you gave, but I'd be cautious to extend that globally.

I'm from Europe and there's a lot of .NET jobs here too. In my experience, the US is the outlier with a very small .NET presence.

Maybe just out of SV, because at least in Florida there are lots of it.

C#/.NET (and Java) run the Fortune 1000 and pretty much every enterprise and internal line-of-business app in the country.

It's the other language stacks that are smaller, but just get more attention on startup-related discussion boards.