C# Job Trends in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 44 17
Rank change year-on-year -24 -27 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,676 1,588 5,927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 5.53% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.90% 19.07% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,524 1,360 5,162
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +10.43% -8.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,915 8,329 21,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.15% 28.98% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,764 5,702 16,375
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

C# job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

C#
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
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# within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +7 514 £60,000 - 238
North of England 0 450 £60,000 +9.09% 156
Midlands -37 295 £60,000 +9.09% 91
North West +16 228 £60,000 +14.29% 85
East of England -14 184 £60,000 -9.37% 84
South West -12 167 £55,000 - 64
East Midlands +4 151 £60,000 +9.09% 53
West Midlands -50 144 £58,250 +5.91% 38
Yorkshire -24 138 £60,000 +0.33% 36
North East -15 84 £65,000 +13.04% 36
Scotland -44 38 £60,000 +20.00% 22
Wales -33 30 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Northern Ireland -30 8 £95,000 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
C#
UK

C#
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 40 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.01%) IIS
3 14 (0.84%) CMS
4 6 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.24%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) WordPress
8 1 (0.060%) Appian
8 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.060%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.30%) Simulink
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.060%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.060%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 740 (44.15%) Azure
2 256 (15.27%) AWS
3 174 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (9.73%) SaaS
5 124 (7.40%) Power Platform
6 73 (4.36%) GitHub
7 68 (4.06%) Serverless
8 67 (4.00%) Power Automate
9 65 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 65 (3.88%) PowerApps
10 58 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
11 53 (3.16%) Azure AI
12 45 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
13 41 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (2.45%) Azure Functions
14 35 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
15 30 (1.79%) GCP
16 26 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (1.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.13%) Internet
2 10 (0.60%) Ethernet
3 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.24%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.18%) SSL
6 2 (0.12%) Broadband
6 2 (0.12%) Firewall
6 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.12%) Intranet
6 2 (0.12%) Modbus
7 1 (0.060%) DHCP
7 1 (0.060%) HTTP
7 1 (0.060%) LAN
7 1 (0.060%) LTE
7 1 (0.060%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.060%) Profibus
7 1 (0.060%) RS-232
7 1 (0.060%) WAN
7 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (19.09%) SQL Server
2 171 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 137 (8.17%) MongoDB
4 83 (4.95%) Power BI
5 49 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 47 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (2.15%) MySQL
8 35 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 31 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.54%) Redis
13 7 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.42%) Metadata
14 4 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.18%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.18%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 105 (6.26%) Git
2 38 (2.27%) JIRA
2 38 (2.27%) Visual Studio
3 35 (2.09%) Postman
4 34 (2.03%) Selenium
5 27 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 26 (1.55%) GitLab
7 24 (1.43%) SoapUI
8 21 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 18 (1.07%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.54%) Jenkins
10 9 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.48%) Moq
11 8 (0.48%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.42%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.42%) NUnit
13 6 (0.36%) MSTest
13 6 (0.36%) Yeoman
General
1 228 (13.60%) Social Skills
2 217 (12.95%) Finance
3 83 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (3.82%) Manufacturing
5 42 (2.51%) Electronics
6 41 (2.45%) Games
7 39 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 36 (2.15%) Retail
9 30 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 29 (1.73%) Automotive
11 21 (1.25%) Advertising
12 20 (1.19%) Law
13 18 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.95%) Aviation
15 15 (0.89%) Marketing
16 11 (0.66%) Legal
17 10 (0.60%) Banking
18 9 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.48%) Military
20 6 (0.36%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 960 (57.28%) Developer
2 367 (21.90%) Software Engineer
3 346 (20.64%) .NET Developer
4 339 (20.23%) Software Developer
5 330 (19.69%) Senior
6 288 (17.18%) C# Developer
7 172 (10.26%) Senior Developer
8 171 (10.20%) C# Software Engineer
9 164 (9.79%) Lead
10 136 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 132 (7.88%) C# Software Developer
12 114 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 111 (6.62%) C# .NET Developer
14 96 (5.73%) .NET Software Engineer
15 84 (5.01%) Graduate
16 75 (4.47%) .NET Software Developer
16 75 (4.47%) Graduate Developer
17 67 (4.00%) Graduate Software Developer
18 63 (3.76%) Lead Developer
19 61 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,101 (65.69%) .NET
2 407 (24.28%) .NET Core
3 322 (19.21%) ASP.NET
4 195 (11.63%) HTML
4 195 (11.63%) React
5 191 (11.40%) CSS
6 189 (11.28%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (8.83%) AngularJS
8 143 (8.53%) .NET Framework
9 132 (7.88%) Vue
10 119 (7.10%) RESTful
11 117 (6.98%) Entity Framework
12 102 (6.09%) Node.js
13 97 (5.79%) REST
14 93 (5.55%) Blazor
15 69 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
16 49 (2.92%) ML.NET
17 48 (2.86%) WPF
18 45 (2.68%) jQuery
19 39 (2.33%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 57 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 51 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 40 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 36 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 34 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 22 (1.31%) Legacy Code
11 19 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (0.95%) Robotics
14 14 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
15 13 (0.78%) Hedge funds
15 13 (0.78%) Management Information System
16 12 (0.72%) Sports Betting
17 10 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 10 (0.60%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.28%) Windows
2 43 (2.57%) Linux
3 20 (1.19%) Android
4 12 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.060%) Unix
8 1 (0.060%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (31.15%) Software Engineering
2 506 (30.19%) Agile
3 421 (25.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 322 (19.21%) CI/CD
5 291 (17.36%) DevOps
6 190 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (11.28%) Mentoring
8 186 (11.10%) Microservices
9 178 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 170 (10.14%) AI
11 167 (9.96%) Computer Science
12 152 (9.07%) SDLC
13 122 (7.28%) Test Automation
14 105 (6.26%) Scrum
15 103 (6.15%) Machine Learning
16 102 (6.09%) MVC
17 92 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
18 87 (5.19%) Clean Code
18 87 (5.19%) OO
19 86 (5.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 565 (33.71%) SQL
2 346 (20.64%) JavaScript
3 223 (13.31%) Python
4 209 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 167 (9.96%) C++
6 142 (8.47%) Java
7 76 (4.53%) PHP
8 56 (3.34%) PowerShell
9 39 (2.33%) C
10 29 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.25%) Bash
12 16 (0.95%) Go
13 15 (0.89%) Delphi
14 10 (0.60%) VB.NET
15 9 (0.54%) VBA
16 8 (0.48%) Bicep
16 8 (0.48%) Embedded C
17 7 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.42%) XAML
18 6 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 241 (14.38%) Degree
2 114 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (3.64%) Security Cleared
4 44 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 28 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 23 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 14 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (0.72%) PhD
12 8 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.12%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.12%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.95%) QA
2 28 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.95%) GDPR
4 12 (0.72%) ISO 9001
4 12 (0.72%) WCAG
5 9 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.54%) SLA
6 5 (0.30%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.12%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
7 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
8 1 (0.060%) HL7
8 1 (0.060%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 149 (8.89%) Docker
2 20 (1.19%) Firmware
3 6 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.060%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.28%) Terraform
3 8 (0.48%) Grafana
4 4 (0.24%) Ansible
5 3 (0.18%) Control-M
5 3 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.12%) MIIS
6 2 (0.12%) Nmap
7 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 401 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (1.73%) Oracle
3 24 (1.43%) Google
4 20 (1.19%) Adobe
4 20 (1.19%) Facebook
5 12 (0.72%) Xamarin
6 11 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (0.54%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.36%) Apple
8 6 (0.36%) Sony
8 6 (0.36%) Yahoo!
8 6 (0.36%) YouTube
9 5 (0.30%) Allen-Bradley
9 5 (0.30%) Siemens
9 5 (0.30%) Splunk
9 5 (0.30%) VMware
10 4 (0.24%) Altera
10 4 (0.24%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.24%) SYSPRO
11 3 (0.18%) Foundry