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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 74 22
Rank change year-on-year +26 -52 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,361 1,870 5,169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 3.76% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.19% 14.63% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,789 1,567 3,414
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £73,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 18,479 12,786 22,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.74% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,116 8,181 13,706
10th Percentile £39,163 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +21 3,066 £60,000 -4.00% 2,313
UK excluding London +33 2,599 £59,000 +2.61% 1,375
Work from Home +20 1,534 £57,500 -4.17% 1,134
South East +27 781 £60,000 - 363
London -27 641 £85,000 +6.25% 1,069
North of England +38 627 £57,500 -4.17% 347
Midlands +3 404 £60,000 +9.09% 207
East of England +36 307 £60,000 +9.09% 200
North West +45 297 £55,000 -12.00% 187
South West +27 281 £55,000 +4.76% 109
West Midlands -19 206 £62,500 +13.64% 113
East Midlands +16 198 £60,000 +9.09% 94
North East +8 173 £75,000 +36.36% 61
Yorkshire -4 157 £55,000 -8.18% 104
Northern Ireland 0 115 £35,000 -37.22% 43
Wales -48 44 £51,619 +6.43% 43
Scotland +13 43 £55,000 -14.73% 81

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
1 117 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.31%) IIS
3 29 (0.86%) CMS
4 27 (0.80%) Confluence
5 12 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.27%) nginx
6 9 (0.27%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) Apache
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
9 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.089%) DNN
10 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 35 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 61 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,617 (48.11%) Azure
2 590 (17.55%) AWS
3 485 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 352 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.80%) GitHub
6 254 (7.56%) SaaS
7 212 (6.31%) Power Automate
8 202 (6.01%) Serverless
9 195 (5.80%) Azure AI
10 186 (5.53%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
12 169 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
13 151 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
14 134 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 128 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 116 (3.45%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.62%) GCP
19 55 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
20 46 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.84%) Internet
2 23 (0.68%) Firewall
3 19 (0.57%) DNS
4 17 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.48%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.089%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.089%) Intranet
11 3 (0.089%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 605 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 500 (14.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.48%) MongoDB
4 184 (5.47%) Power BI
5 163 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 100 (2.98%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.62%) MySQL
9 84 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.01%) Redis
11 34 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.60%) Metadata
15 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.45%) Big Data
18 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 332 (9.88%) Git
2 79 (2.35%) JIRA
3 46 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.10%) GitLab
5 33 (0.98%) Claude Code
5 33 (0.98%) Selenium
6 32 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 24 (0.71%) NUnit
7 24 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.45%) Postman
10 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.33%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
14 8 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 592 (17.61%) Social Skills
2 503 (14.97%) Finance
3 208 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.47%) Legal
5 129 (3.84%) Manufacturing
6 128 (3.81%) Law
7 116 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.59%) Games
10 71 (2.11%) Retail
11 68 (2.02%) Electronics
12 67 (1.99%) Advertising
13 65 (1.93%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.87%) Marketing
15 54 (1.61%) Banking
16 42 (1.25%) Front Office
17 38 (1.13%) Legal Technology
18 34 (1.01%) Automotive
19 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
20 21 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,687 (50.19%) Developer
2 789 (23.48%) .NET Developer
3 772 (22.97%) Senior
4 752 (22.37%) Software Engineer
5 360 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 345 (10.26%) C# Software Engineer
7 331 (9.85%) Software Developer
8 326 (9.70%) Lead
9 320 (9.52%) C# Developer
10 248 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 166 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 147 (4.37%) C# .NET Developer
13 138 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
13 138 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 125 (3.72%) Architect
15 123 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 123 (3.66%) Graduate
16 112 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
17 101 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
18 86 (2.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,170 (64.56%) .NET
2 747 (22.23%) ASP.NET
3 722 (21.48%) .NET Core
4 590 (17.55%) ASP.NET Core
5 518 (15.41%) React
6 372 (11.07%) CSS
6 372 (11.07%) HTML
7 332 (9.88%) AngularJS
8 331 (9.85%) RESTful
9 305 (9.07%) Entity Framework
10 299 (8.90%) Blazor
11 281 (8.36%) Vue
12 273 (8.12%) REST
13 271 (8.06%) .NET Framework
13 271 (8.06%) Node.js
14 222 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web API
15 168 (5.00%) Terraform
16 148 (4.40%) ML.NET
17 136 (4.05%) WPF
18 117 (3.48%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 234 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 136 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 56 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 53 (1.58%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.28%) Robotics
15 41 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 31 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 26 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
19 26 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 182 (5.42%) Windows
2 112 (3.33%) Linux
3 42 (1.25%) Android
3 42 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.030%) CentOS
9 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (34.75%) Agile
1 1,168 (34.75%) Software Engineering
2 924 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 890 (26.48%) CI/CD
4 814 (24.22%) DevOps
5 606 (18.03%) AI
6 602 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
7 574 (17.08%) Microservices
8 486 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 473 (14.07%) Mentoring
10 333 (9.91%) Test Automation
11 292 (8.69%) SDLC
12 267 (7.94%) Computer Science
13 266 (7.91%) Machine Learning
14 221 (6.58%) Software Testing
15 215 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
16 210 (6.25%) Scrum
17 207 (6.16%) OO
18 198 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
19 197 (5.86%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (36.03%) SQL
2 832 (24.75%) JavaScript
3 583 (17.35%) Python
4 513 (15.26%) TypeScript
5 341 (10.15%) C++
6 293 (8.72%) Java
7 126 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.30%) PHP
9 87 (2.59%) C
10 75 (2.23%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.49%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.40%) Go
13 44 (1.31%) Bicep
14 33 (0.98%) VBA
15 28 (0.83%) Bash
16 24 (0.71%) Rust
17 23 (0.68%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Ruby
19 18 (0.54%) Scala
20 17 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 396 (11.78%) Degree
2 177 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 123 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.62%) PhD
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.18%) OSCP
14 5 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Member
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (9.04%) QA
2 63 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.84%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.34%) GDPR
5 23 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.57%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) MISRA C
System Software
1 397 (11.81%) Docker
2 30 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 333 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.74%) Grafana
3 19 (0.57%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) EnCase
5 7 (0.21%) FTK
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.089%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.060%) Bosun
9 2 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,131 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.68%) Google
3 62 (1.84%) Facebook
4 55 (1.64%) Oracle
5 35 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 27 (0.80%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Apple
10 17 (0.51%) HP
10 17 (0.51%) Intapp
11 16 (0.48%) Adobe
11 16 (0.48%) Foundry
11 16 (0.48%) Sony
11 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.42%) SAP
13 13 (0.39%) Aderant
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
14 11 (0.33%) Splunk