C# Job Trends

C#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -39 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 983 1,500 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.66% 6.49% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.04% 18.94% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 849 1,215 1,725
10th Percentile £34,350 £40,000 £37,953
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 6,537 7,919 9,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.68% 34.28% 39.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,644 5,455 7,319
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 3 months to 24 December 2025.

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 3 months to 24 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -38 891 £60,000 - 1,402
UK excluding London -43 678 £57,500 +4.55% 1,189
Work from Home -20 408 £60,000 - 893
London -22 241 £80,000 +10.34% 382
South East -35 206 £55,000 -12.00% 386
North of England -31 190 £65,000 +23.81% 289
Midlands -23 143 £57,500 +4.55% 165
North West -28 92 £62,500 +13.64% 156
East Midlands -20 78 £57,500 +4.55% 81
West Midlands -15 65 £57,500 - 78
Yorkshire -34 62 £75,000 +50.00% 85
South West -20 57 £55,000 - 110
East of England -48 45 £55,000 +3.77% 138
North East -3 36 £55,000 -15.38% 50
Scotland -48 29 £60,000 +33.33% 79
Wales -26 11 £42,250 -11.98% 34
Northern Ireland -16 5 £95,000 +40.74% 9
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 44 (2.39%) IIS
2 43 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.69%) CMS
4 16 (0.87%) Kinematics
5 14 (0.76%) Confluence
6 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.22%) nginx
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.16%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.054%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 917 (49.89%) Azure
2 358 (19.48%) AWS
3 239 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (11.32%) SaaS
5 163 (8.87%) Power Platform
6 122 (6.64%) Dynamics 365
7 119 (6.47%) Serverless
8 111 (6.04%) Power Automate
9 93 (5.06%) GitHub
10 91 (4.95%) GCP
11 90 (4.90%) PowerApps
12 73 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 58 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 56 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 53 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 52 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
18 34 (1.85%) Entra ID
19 26 (1.41%) Azure AKS
20 25 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.54%) DNS
4 9 (0.49%) HTTP
5 6 (0.33%) DHCP
5 6 (0.33%) Internet
6 5 (0.27%) SAN
7 4 (0.22%) Firewall
8 3 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.16%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SMTP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 2 (0.11%) WPA
10 1 (0.054%) Broadband
10 1 (0.054%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.054%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (20.95%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 86 (4.68%) MySQL
4 77 (4.19%) MongoDB
4 77 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 76 (4.13%) Power BI
6 67 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 38 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (1.20%) Redis
13 13 (0.71%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 150 (8.16%) Git
2 82 (4.46%) JIRA
3 80 (4.35%) Selenium
4 55 (2.99%) Visual Studio
5 52 (2.83%) Postman
6 41 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 39 (2.12%) Jenkins
8 37 (2.01%) WebDriver
9 32 (1.74%) SoapUI
10 18 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.98%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.82%) GitLab
12 14 (0.76%) NUnit
13 12 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.54%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.54%) JMeter
15 9 (0.49%) MSTest
16 8 (0.44%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 489 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 314 (17.08%) Finance
3 114 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (4.95%) Law
5 77 (4.19%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.03%) Retail
7 56 (3.05%) Front Office
8 53 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (2.12%) Banking
11 38 (2.07%) Electronics
12 37 (2.01%) Legal
13 30 (1.63%) Marketing
14 27 (1.47%) Back Office
15 26 (1.41%) Games
16 20 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.03%) Billing
17 19 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.87%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.65%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 918 (49.95%) Developer
2 419 (22.80%) Senior
3 258 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 239 (13.00%) C# Developer
5 228 (12.40%) .NET Developer
6 224 (12.19%) Software Developer
7 222 (12.08%) Lead
8 219 (11.92%) Senior Developer
9 144 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 82 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 81 (4.41%) Architect
12 78 (4.24%) Analyst
13 74 (4.03%) Graduate
14 68 (3.70%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.65%) C# .NET Developer
15 67 (3.65%) C# Software Developer
16 66 (3.59%) Support Engineer
17 62 (3.37%) .NET Software Engineer
18 60 (3.26%) C# Software Engineer
19 59 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,093 (59.47%) .NET
2 295 (16.05%) .NET Core
3 293 (15.94%) React
4 244 (13.28%) ASP.NET
5 213 (11.59%) HTML
6 205 (11.15%) .NET Framework
7 201 (10.94%) AngularJS
8 198 (10.77%) CSS
9 139 (7.56%) REST
10 132 (7.18%) RESTful
11 106 (5.77%) Entity Framework
12 90 (4.90%) Vue
13 87 (4.73%) Blazor
14 79 (4.30%) ASP.NET MVC
15 68 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
16 63 (3.43%) Node.js
17 60 (3.26%) SOAP
17 60 (3.26%) Web Services
18 50 (2.72%) jQuery
19 49 (2.67%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 76 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 50 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 33 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 28 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.14%) Low-Code
13 20 (1.09%) Robotics
14 18 (0.98%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.98%) Derivative
15 16 (0.87%) AI Agents
15 16 (0.87%) Hedge funds
16 15 (0.82%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 12 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.68%) Windows
2 59 (3.21%) Linux
3 18 (0.98%) Android
4 14 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.76%) Unix
4 14 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Solaris
6 4 (0.22%) VMS
7 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.054%) AIX
9 1 (0.054%) Fedora
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (35.31%) Agile
2 527 (28.67%) Software Engineering
3 493 (26.82%) DevOps
4 459 (24.97%) CI/CD
5 415 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 375 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 330 (17.95%) Mentoring
8 313 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 298 (16.21%) Microservices
10 218 (11.86%) Computer Science
11 187 (10.17%) Test Automation
12 165 (8.98%) Scrum
13 158 (8.60%) MVC
14 142 (7.73%) SDLC
15 140 (7.62%) AI
16 130 (7.07%) Migration
17 128 (6.96%) Containerisation
18 121 (6.58%) CRM
18 121 (6.58%) OO
19 118 (6.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 665 (36.18%) SQL
2 456 (24.81%) JavaScript
3 310 (16.87%) Python
4 265 (14.42%) Java
5 232 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 140 (7.62%) C++
7 105 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 81 (4.41%) PHP
9 52 (2.83%) C
10 46 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 38 (2.07%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.09%) Bash
12 20 (1.09%) Bicep
13 19 (1.03%) Go
14 17 (0.92%) Delphi
15 16 (0.87%) VBA
16 14 (0.76%) Rust
17 10 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.54%) Scala
18 9 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 307 (16.70%) Degree
2 164 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (3.37%) SC Cleared
6 52 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 40 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 26 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.98%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.54%) PhD
16 8 (0.44%) ISEB
16 8 (0.44%) MCP
17 6 (0.33%) HND
17 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.90%) QA
2 36 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.47%) GDPR
4 16 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.87%) ISO 9001
5 15 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.22%) HL7
7 4 (0.22%) NIST
7 4 (0.22%) SEPA
8 3 (0.16%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.054%) COBIT
10 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.054%) IFRS
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (9.30%) Docker
2 21 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.76%) Firmware
4 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) KVM
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 151 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.11%) Terraform
3 25 (1.36%) Grafana
4 13 (0.71%) Ansible
5 7 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.33%) Control-M
6 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) Kibana
9 2 (0.11%) Nagios
9 2 (0.11%) Nmap
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 439 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.94%) Oracle
3 31 (1.69%) Guidewire
4 30 (1.63%) Google
5 17 (0.92%) Sage
5 17 (0.92%) Xamarin
6 16 (0.87%) Databricks
7 15 (0.82%) SAP
8 13 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.71%) Palantir
9 12 (0.65%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.54%) DevExpress
10 10 (0.54%) Infor
10 10 (0.54%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.54%) VMware
11 8 (0.44%) Adobe
11 8 (0.44%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.38%) Informatica
12 7 (0.38%) YouTube