C#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 18
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,088 2,590 7,762
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.51% 6.33% 8.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.03% 19.19% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 2,187 6,838
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,882 13,499 31,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 32.99% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,286 10,249 24,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,565 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.90% -1.82%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

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

C# job vacancy trend in the UK

C#
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 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
England -38 1,921 £60,000 -7.69% 931
UK excluding London -46 1,423 £57,500 - 764
Work from Home -24 791 £59,500 -6.30% 535
London -23 541 £82,500 +10.00% 269
North of England -36 415 £62,500 +13.64% 185
South East -27 410 £57,500 -4.17% 234
Midlands -44 263 £57,500 +4.55% 124
North West -35 199 £60,000 +17.90% 90
South West -21 143 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Yorkshire -30 141 £62,500 +17.92% 60
East Midlands -25 134 £55,000 - 54
West Midlands -55 129 £57,500 - 70
East of England -60 129 £55,000 -16.93% 101
North East -11 75 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Scotland -57 45 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Wales -55 18 £42,500 -32.00% 25
Northern Ireland -34 10 £80,000 - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 56 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.15%) CMS
3 23 (1.10%) IIS
4 11 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.24%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.19%) Confluence
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.096%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.096%) Kinematics
7 2 (0.096%) nginx
8 1 (0.048%) Apache
8 1 (0.048%) Appian
8 1 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.048%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.19%) Simulink
4 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.29%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.096%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.048%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 923 (44.20%) Azure
2 355 (17.00%) AWS
3 217 (10.39%) SaaS
4 212 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (9.63%) Power Platform
6 128 (6.13%) Serverless
7 121 (5.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 103 (4.93%) Power Automate
9 100 (4.79%) PowerApps
10 95 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
11 77 (3.69%) Azure Functions
12 72 (3.45%) GitHub
13 70 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
14 68 (3.26%) GCP
15 60 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
16 44 (2.11%) Azure AKS
17 36 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 32 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
19 25 (1.20%) PaaS
20 24 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 13 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
3 11 (0.53%) Broadband
4 6 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.24%) HTTP
5 5 (0.24%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 4 (0.19%) Modbus
7 3 (0.14%) DHCP
7 3 (0.14%) Firewall
7 3 (0.14%) LTE
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 2 (0.096%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.096%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.096%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.048%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.048%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.048%) Profibus
9 1 (0.048%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (19.97%) SQL Server
2 119 (5.70%) Power BI
3 78 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 64 (3.07%) MySQL
6 62 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 45 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 45 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (0.81%) Redis
11 16 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.53%) DB2
14 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 5 (0.24%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.24%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 130 (6.23%) Git
2 72 (3.45%) Selenium
3 63 (3.02%) Visual Studio
4 54 (2.59%) JIRA
5 38 (1.82%) Postman
6 31 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 30 (1.44%) WebDriver
8 29 (1.39%) SpecFlow
9 26 (1.25%) SoapUI
10 24 (1.15%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.91%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.77%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.77%) NUnit
13 15 (0.72%) GitLab
14 11 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.43%) Balsamiq
17 8 (0.38%) LabVIEW
18 6 (0.29%) JMeter
18 6 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 407 (19.49%) Finance
2 359 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 125 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.54%) Public Sector
5 71 (3.40%) Law
6 58 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 47 (2.25%) Front Office
9 45 (2.16%) Banking
10 43 (2.06%) Retail
11 41 (1.96%) Games
12 33 (1.58%) Electronics
13 32 (1.53%) Legal
14 25 (1.20%) Marketing
15 22 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.86%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.81%) Military
18 16 (0.77%) Aviation
19 14 (0.67%) Telecoms
20 11 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,077 (51.58%) Developer
2 463 (22.17%) Senior
3 393 (18.82%) Software Engineer
4 372 (17.82%) C# Developer
4 372 (17.82%) Software Developer
5 292 (13.98%) .NET Developer
6 241 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 239 (11.45%) Lead
8 170 (8.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 148 (7.09%) C# Software Engineer
10 142 (6.80%) C# .NET Developer
11 137 (6.56%) C# Software Developer
12 124 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 118 (5.65%) .NET Software Engineer
14 96 (4.60%) Graduate
15 89 (4.26%) Lead Developer
16 78 (3.74%) Graduate Developer
17 77 (3.69%) SQL Developer
18 75 (3.59%) .NET Software Developer
18 75 (3.59%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,303 (62.40%) .NET
2 377 (18.06%) .NET Core
3 258 (12.36%) ASP.NET
4 244 (11.69%) React
5 193 (9.24%) HTML
6 192 (9.20%) CSS
7 185 (8.86%) .NET Framework
8 134 (6.42%) AngularJS
9 133 (6.37%) REST
10 108 (5.17%) RESTful
11 87 (4.17%) Vue
12 84 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
12 84 (4.02%) Entity Framework
13 78 (3.74%) Blazor
14 67 (3.21%) Node.js
15 50 (2.39%) jQuery
16 48 (2.30%) Playwright
16 48 (2.30%) WPF
17 43 (2.06%) XML
18 41 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 117 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 75 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.16%) Low-Code
7 42 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 40 (1.92%) Hedge funds
9 33 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.01%) Sports Betting
12 20 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 19 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.86%) Legacy Code
15 17 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.93%) Windows
2 78 (3.74%) Linux
3 17 (0.81%) Android
4 16 (0.77%) Unix
5 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.67%) VMS
6 11 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.096%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.096%) Solaris
7 2 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.048%) Nucleus RTOS
8 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (31.32%) Software Engineering
2 602 (28.83%) Agile
3 433 (20.74%) DevOps
4 408 (19.54%) CI/CD
5 399 (19.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 314 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
7 259 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 255 (12.21%) Mentoring
9 244 (11.69%) Microservices
10 217 (10.39%) Computer Science
11 178 (8.52%) Test Automation
12 175 (8.38%) SDLC
13 173 (8.29%) AI
14 144 (6.90%) MVC
15 131 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
16 129 (6.18%) Scrum
17 124 (5.94%) Containerisation
18 106 (5.08%) OO
19 102 (4.89%) Software Testing
20 99 (4.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 648 (31.03%) SQL
2 444 (21.26%) JavaScript
3 341 (16.33%) Python
4 262 (12.55%) TypeScript
5 243 (11.64%) Java
6 208 (9.96%) C++
7 90 (4.31%) PHP
8 81 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.63%) C
10 42 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.63%) Go
12 27 (1.29%) Bash
13 25 (1.20%) VB.NET
14 23 (1.10%) Bicep
15 22 (1.05%) VBA
16 20 (0.96%) Rust
17 18 (0.86%) Delphi
18 17 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.72%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 295 (14.13%) Degree
2 141 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (5.65%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 48 (2.30%) ISTQB
5 48 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.05%) PhD
11 21 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (0.96%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.48%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.43%) ISEB
18 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.04%) QA
2 38 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.72%) GDPR
5 13 (0.62%) WCAG
6 11 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.38%) SLA
9 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.14%) EMIR
10 2 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.096%) ITGC
11 1 (0.048%) HL7
11 1 (0.048%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.048%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.048%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 174 (8.33%) Docker
2 21 (1.01%) Firmware
3 12 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.38%) KVM
6 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.048%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.26%) Terraform
3 37 (1.77%) Grafana
4 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.38%) Ansible
6 7 (0.34%) Kibana
7 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.14%) Nmap
7 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.096%) MIIS
8 2 (0.096%) MOM
9 1 (0.048%) Control-M
9 1 (0.048%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.048%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.048%) Nessus
9 1 (0.048%) Netcool
9 1 (0.048%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 402 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.06%) Oracle
3 32 (1.53%) Google
4 17 (0.81%) Xamarin
5 15 (0.72%) Adobe
5 15 (0.72%) SAP
6 13 (0.62%) VMware
7 12 (0.57%) Databricks
8 10 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.43%) Palantir
9 9 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.34%) iManage
11 7 (0.34%) Sage
11 7 (0.34%) Workday
12 6 (0.29%) Aderant
12 6 (0.29%) IBM
12 6 (0.29%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.29%) Talend