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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,138 2,339 7,379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.77% 7.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.74% 16.28% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,733 1,938 6,130
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,498
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,810 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 17,689 14,363 30,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 29.29% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,666 9,544 22,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,206
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 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 18 July 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 +1 2,864 £60,000 -7.69% 591
UK excluding London +7 2,355 £57,500 -4.17% 473
Work from Home +1 1,401 £55,000 -15.38% 304
South East +17 683 £60,000 - 169
London -21 650 £82,500 +3.13% 188
North of England +30 590 £56,500 -4.24% 112
Midlands -7 386 £55,000 - 69
North West +51 285 £57,500 +4.55% 53
East of England +5 268 £60,000 -9.37% 69
South West +21 266 £53,000 -3.64% 49
West Midlands -23 201 £60,000 +9.09% 33
East Midlands +16 185 £55,000 - 36
Yorkshire +11 166 £55,000 -16.98% 33
North East -5 139 £60,000 +4.35% 29
Northern Ireland 0 83 £61,250 -23.44% 2
Wales -38 47 £51,810 -17.10% 8
Scotland -14 34 £52,500 -18.60% 14

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 87 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.12%) IIS
3 33 (1.05%) CMS
4 19 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.096%) DNN
12 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.096%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.096%) Kentico
12 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.096%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.096%) Magento
6 2 (0.064%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.064%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.064%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.032%) Eikon
7 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.032%) RMDS
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,580 (50.35%) Azure
2 519 (16.54%) AWS
3 421 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (9.27%) Power Platform
5 240 (7.65%) SaaS
6 227 (7.23%) GitHub
7 178 (5.67%) Azure AI
8 165 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 163 (5.19%) Serverless
10 159 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
11 157 (5.00%) PowerApps
12 155 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
13 134 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
14 115 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 101 (3.22%) Azure Functions
18 71 (2.26%) GCP
19 57 (1.82%) Azure AKS
20 54 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.98%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) Broadband
3 18 (0.57%) DNS
4 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.29%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.25%) Firewall
6 8 (0.25%) VPN
7 7 (0.22%) HTTP
7 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.19%) BGP
8 6 (0.19%) DHCP
8 6 (0.19%) IPsec
9 5 (0.16%) LAN
9 5 (0.16%) WAN
10 4 (0.13%) Intranet
10 4 (0.13%) LTE
10 4 (0.13%) Modbus
10 4 (0.13%) Network Security
11 3 (0.096%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.096%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 523 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 512 (16.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 447 (14.24%) MongoDB
4 165 (5.26%) Power BI
5 161 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 74 (2.36%) MySQL
8 60 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 56 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.73%) Redis
13 21 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.45%) Db2
15 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Metadata
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 217 (6.92%) Git
2 64 (2.04%) JIRA
3 40 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.15%) GitLab
4 36 (1.15%) Selenium
5 26 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 22 (0.70%) Postman
7 20 (0.64%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.61%) SpecFlow
9 16 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.51%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.38%) NUnit
12 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.22%) Moq
14 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.19%) MSTest
General
1 525 (16.73%) Finance
2 475 (15.14%) Social Skills
3 161 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (4.02%) Legal
5 108 (3.44%) Manufacturing
6 104 (3.31%) Law
7 88 (2.80%) Games
8 78 (2.49%) Retail
9 70 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.20%) Advertising
11 64 (2.04%) Marketing
12 59 (1.88%) Banking
12 59 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 57 (1.82%) Electronics
14 53 (1.69%) Aerospace
15 50 (1.59%) Front Office
16 38 (1.21%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.12%) Automotive
18 20 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,720 (54.81%) Developer
2 785 (25.02%) .NET Developer
3 687 (21.89%) Senior
4 675 (21.51%) Software Engineer
5 412 (13.13%) Software Developer
6 379 (12.08%) C# Developer
7 329 (10.48%) Senior Developer
8 307 (9.78%) C# Software Engineer
9 302 (9.62%) Lead
10 238 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 178 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 165 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
13 151 (4.81%) .NET Software Engineer
14 148 (4.72%) Graduate
15 135 (4.30%) Lead Developer
16 102 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
17 101 (3.22%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 96 (3.06%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,041 (65.04%) .NET
2 758 (24.16%) .NET Core
3 728 (23.20%) ASP.NET
4 579 (18.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 451 (14.37%) React
6 374 (11.92%) CSS
7 359 (11.44%) HTML
8 311 (9.91%) AngularJS
9 294 (9.37%) RESTful
10 288 (9.18%) Blazor
11 283 (9.02%) Vue
12 269 (8.57%) Entity Framework
13 257 (8.19%) Node.js
14 239 (7.62%) .NET Framework
15 214 (6.82%) ASP.NET Web API
16 210 (6.69%) REST
17 154 (4.91%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.82%) LINQ
19 110 (3.51%) WPF
20 84 (2.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 200 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 120 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.69%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.83%) Robotics
17 24 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
18 23 (0.73%) Legacy Code
19 22 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.84%) Windows
2 108 (3.44%) Linux
3 42 (1.34%) Android
4 34 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.064%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (35.37%) Agile
2 1,000 (31.87%) Software Engineering
3 905 (28.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 758 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 722 (23.01%) DevOps
6 527 (16.79%) Microservices
7 488 (15.55%) AI
8 471 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
9 393 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 378 (12.05%) Mentoring
11 283 (9.02%) Test Automation
12 275 (8.76%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.44%) Machine Learning
14 243 (7.74%) SDLC
15 205 (6.53%) Scrum
16 200 (6.37%) Multithreading
17 184 (5.86%) TDD
18 179 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
18 179 (5.70%) OO
19 175 (5.58%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (37.92%) SQL
2 731 (23.30%) JavaScript
3 513 (16.35%) Python
4 489 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 339 (10.80%) C++
6 274 (8.73%) Java
7 136 (4.33%) PHP
8 134 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 78 (2.49%) C
10 59 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.43%) Bicep
12 41 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 39 (1.24%) Go
14 34 (1.08%) Bash
15 32 (1.02%) VBA
16 25 (0.80%) Rust
17 22 (0.70%) Scala
18 20 (0.64%) F#
19 19 (0.61%) Haskell
20 18 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 389 (12.40%) Degree
2 183 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 117 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 42 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (0.83%) PhD
9 19 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) GXPN
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (8.00%) QA
2 51 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 27 (0.86%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.35%) WCAG
8 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.16%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.064%) ITGC
12 2 (0.064%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.064%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 365 (11.63%) Docker
2 25 (0.80%) Firmware
3 20 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.096%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 328 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 144 (4.59%) Terraform
3 36 (1.15%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.096%) Control-M
9 3 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.064%) MIIS
10 2 (0.064%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,018 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.71%) Google
3 64 (2.04%) Facebook
4 50 (1.59%) Oracle
5 27 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.73%) Adobe
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) YouTube
8 19 (0.61%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.51%) Databricks
10 16 (0.51%) VMware
11 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.45%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.32%) iManage
16 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow