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 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,868 3,488 6,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.78% 7.03% 9.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.86% 20.49% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 2,305 6,167
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,825 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +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 12,567 17,025 27,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.69% 34.32% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,000 10,115 22,920
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 6 months to 15 February 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 15 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
England -43 1,714 £60,000 -7.69% 828
UK excluding London -51 1,254 £55,825 -2.91% 715
Work from Home -29 767 £60,000 -6.25% 503
London -24 500 £80,000 +6.67% 200
North of England -33 366 £62,500 +19.05% 180
South East -44 358 £55,000 -12.00% 245
Midlands -38 262 £52,500 -4.55% 105
North West -24 178 £62,500 +19.05% 107
East Midlands -24 131 £52,500 -4.55% 53
West Midlands -39 131 £51,250 -6.82% 52
Yorkshire -37 121 £61,500 +23.00% 45
South West -39 117 £55,000 - 63
East of England -68 89 £55,000 -16.93% 62
North East -15 67 £70,000 +16.67% 31
Scotland -80 45 £60,000 +33.33% 41
Wales -43 16 £45,000 -25.00% 26
Northern Ireland -26 9 £95,000 +61.70% 8
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 40 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.98%) IIS
3 18 (0.96%) CMS
4 10 (0.54%) Kinematics
5 8 (0.43%) Confluence
6 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 876 (46.90%) Azure
2 344 (18.42%) AWS
3 234 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
4 213 (11.40%) SaaS
5 185 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 129 (6.91%) Serverless
7 105 (5.62%) Power Automate
8 96 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (4.93%) PowerApps
10 89 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 86 (4.60%) GCP
12 73 (3.91%) Azure Functions
13 70 (3.75%) GitHub
14 52 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 52 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
15 39 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 37 (1.98%) Entra ID
17 33 (1.77%) Azure AKS
18 29 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
19 28 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.77%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 6 (0.32%) HTTP
3 6 (0.32%) Internet
4 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (19.33%) SQL Server
2 92 (4.93%) Power BI
3 80 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 70 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 61 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (3.27%) MySQL
6 59 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 44 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 37 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.02%) Redis
12 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.37%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.27%) Big Data
15 5 (0.27%) DB2
15 5 (0.27%) GIS
15 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 128 (6.85%) Git
2 73 (3.91%) Selenium
3 69 (3.69%) Visual Studio
4 65 (3.48%) JIRA
5 47 (2.52%) Postman
6 38 (2.03%) WebDriver
7 35 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 30 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 29 (1.55%) Jenkins
10 23 (1.23%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) GitLab
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.48%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.37%) JMeter
17 7 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
General
1 436 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 332 (17.77%) Finance
3 120 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (4.28%) Law
5 76 (4.07%) Public Sector
6 60 (3.21%) Retail
7 55 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.41%) Banking
10 44 (2.36%) Front Office
11 39 (2.09%) Electronics
12 32 (1.71%) Games
13 30 (1.61%) Legal
14 29 (1.55%) Marketing
15 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.91%) Military
16 16 (0.86%) Aviation
16 16 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 913 (48.88%) Developer
2 417 (22.32%) Senior
3 318 (17.02%) Software Engineer
4 270 (14.45%) Software Developer
5 260 (13.92%) C# Developer
6 237 (12.69%) .NET Developer
7 213 (11.40%) Senior Developer
8 201 (10.76%) Lead
9 148 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 109 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
11 102 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 93 (4.98%) .NET Software Engineer
13 87 (4.66%) C# .NET Developer
14 75 (4.01%) C# Software Developer
15 67 (3.59%) Analyst
16 66 (3.53%) Lead Developer
17 63 (3.37%) Architect
17 63 (3.37%) Support Engineer
18 61 (3.27%) Senior Software Developer
19 58 (3.10%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,137 (60.87%) .NET
2 321 (17.18%) .NET Core
3 267 (14.29%) React
4 226 (12.10%) ASP.NET
5 188 (10.06%) HTML
6 185 (9.90%) .NET Framework
7 169 (9.05%) CSS
8 161 (8.62%) AngularJS
9 134 (7.17%) REST
10 98 (5.25%) RESTful
11 89 (4.76%) Entity Framework
12 74 (3.96%) Vue
13 68 (3.64%) Blazor
14 57 (3.05%) ASP.NET MVC
15 54 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
16 52 (2.78%) Node.js
17 51 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
18 46 (2.46%) SOAP
18 46 (2.46%) WPF
19 41 (2.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.14%) Low-Code
9 35 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 31 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 25 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.96%) Derivative
14 18 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.86%) Robotics
16 15 (0.80%) Sports Betting
17 14 (0.75%) AI Agents
18 13 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.09%) Windows
2 72 (3.85%) Linux
3 23 (1.23%) Android
4 17 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.86%) Unix
6 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.43%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) Fedora
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (31.69%) Agile
2 582 (31.16%) Software Engineering
3 443 (23.72%) DevOps
4 415 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 376 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 373 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
7 293 (15.69%) Mentoring
8 285 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 271 (14.51%) Microservices
10 195 (10.44%) Computer Science
11 160 (8.57%) AI
12 156 (8.35%) SDLC
13 154 (8.24%) Test Automation
14 145 (7.76%) Scrum
15 128 (6.85%) MVC
16 119 (6.37%) Containerisation
17 115 (6.16%) CRM
18 114 (6.10%) Migration
19 103 (5.51%) OO
20 102 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 614 (32.87%) SQL
2 442 (23.66%) JavaScript
3 320 (17.13%) Python
4 239 (12.79%) Java
5 228 (12.21%) TypeScript
6 158 (8.46%) C++
7 104 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 67 (3.59%) PHP
9 57 (3.05%) C
10 43 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.45%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.28%) Bash
13 21 (1.12%) Go
14 20 (1.07%) Bicep
14 20 (1.07%) Rust
15 16 (0.86%) Delphi
16 14 (0.75%) VBA
17 12 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 11 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 283 (15.15%) Degree
2 136 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 132 (7.07%) Security Cleared
4 77 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 63 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.46%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 37 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 23 (1.23%) DV Cleared
14 21 (1.12%) PhD
15 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.43%) ISEB
18 7 (0.37%) CREST Certified
19 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (9.53%) QA
2 36 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.07%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
8 4 (0.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.054%) HL7
10 1 (0.054%) IFRS
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.054%) ITGC
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (8.99%) Docker
2 24 (1.28%) Firmware
3 23 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
8 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.03%) Terraform
3 26 (1.39%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) MOM
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.054%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 404 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 49 (2.62%) Oracle
3 32 (1.71%) Google
4 21 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.91%) Guidewire
5 17 (0.91%) SAP
6 14 (0.75%) Palantir
7 12 (0.64%) Sage
8 11 (0.59%) Databricks
9 10 (0.54%) VMware
10 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.37%) Adobe
12 7 (0.37%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.37%) IBM
12 7 (0.37%) Infor
12 7 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.32%) Epicor
13 6 (0.32%) Telerik