C#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 19 21
Rank change year-on-year -40 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,399 8,499 8,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.13% 7.87% 9.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.39% 24.98% 22.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,964 6,976 6,403
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,930 £43,750 £48,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

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 16,677 34,027 37,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.72% 31.53% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,637 25,223 25,610
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,138 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% +4.76%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C#.

Salary trend for C# in the UK

C#
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 -39 2,207 £65,000 +13.04% 6,642
UK excluding London -45 1,612 £60,000 +9.09% 4,685
Work from Home -30 1,174 £65,000 +18.18% 3,816
London -25 674 £80,000 +6.67% 2,535
South East -39 439 £57,500 - 1,266
North of England -87 349 £59,000 +12.38% 1,197
Midlands -29 329 £55,000 +10.00% 694
East of England -19 274 £66,200 +17.69% 557
West Midlands -15 221 £55,000 +4.76% 375
North West -116 187 £55,000 +4.76% 679
South West -51 116 £55,000 +10.00% 472
Yorkshire -55 111 £68,000 +29.52% 393
East Midlands -57 107 £55,000 +10.00% 304
Scotland -48 71 £56,500 +2.73% 327
North East -13 51 £57,500 -4.17% 129
Wales -38 34 £65,000 +30.00% 128
Northern Ireland -17 1 £80,000 +45.45% 93

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 96 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 59 (2.46%) CMS
3 53 (2.21%) Confluence
4 47 (1.96%) IIS
5 30 (1.25%) Umbraco
6 26 (1.08%) Apache
7 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.63%) Kinematics
9 6 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.25%) WordPress
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.17%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.17%) Sitefinity
11 4 (0.17%) WinCC
12 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.13%) Kentico
12 3 (0.13%) nginx
13 2 (0.083%) DNN
13 2 (0.083%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 122 (5.09%) Chatbot
2 15 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.42%) Trello
5 9 (0.38%) Revit
6 5 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.13%) Blender
7 3 (0.13%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.083%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.083%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.083%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.042%) InVision
9 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.042%) Productboard
9 1 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 130 (5.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.50%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.46%) Magento
3 11 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 9 (0.38%) Sage 200
4 9 (0.38%) Sage 50
4 9 (0.38%) Shopify
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.33%) Orchestrade
6 6 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
6 6 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 4 (0.17%) Endur
7 4 (0.17%) Sage 1000
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 3 (0.13%) Bloomberg AIM
9 2 (0.083%) Carpe Diem
9 2 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.083%) Eikon
9 2 (0.083%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (43.68%) Azure
2 353 (14.71%) AWS
3 317 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 256 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 201 (8.38%) Dynamics 365
6 170 (7.09%) SaaS
7 149 (6.21%) PowerApps
8 145 (6.04%) Power Automate
9 121 (5.04%) Serverless
10 116 (4.84%) GitHub
11 104 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 103 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
13 82 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 76 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 76 (3.17%) GCP
15 60 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 60 (2.50%) Azure Functions
16 39 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
17 36 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
18 34 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.08%) HTTP
2 23 (0.96%) Network Security
3 20 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 18 (0.75%) Modbus
4 18 (0.75%) MQTT
5 15 (0.63%) Internet
6 13 (0.54%) Firewall
6 13 (0.54%) Intranet
7 9 (0.38%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (0.25%) WPA
9 4 (0.17%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.13%) Broadband
10 3 (0.13%) DNS
10 3 (0.13%) SAN
10 3 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.083%) RS-232
11 2 (0.083%) RS-485
12 1 (0.042%) Diameter Protocol
12 1 (0.042%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 126 (5.25%) Relational Database
3 125 (5.21%) MongoDB
4 122 (5.09%) MySQL
5 115 (4.79%) Power BI
6 98 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 83 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 76 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
9 71 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 69 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 65 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
12 34 (1.42%) Big Data
13 32 (1.33%) RDBMS
13 32 (1.33%) Redis
14 21 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.63%) DB2
16 13 (0.54%) Data Hub
16 13 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.54%) SQL CLR
17 10 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 285 (11.88%) Git
2 141 (5.88%) JIRA
3 132 (5.50%) Visual Studio
4 73 (3.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 49 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 48 (2.00%) TeamCity
7 46 (1.92%) NUnit
7 46 (1.92%) Selenium
8 44 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
9 40 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 29 (1.21%) GitLab
11 28 (1.17%) MSBuild
12 26 (1.08%) SpecFlow
13 25 (1.04%) Postman
14 23 (0.96%) Eclipse
14 23 (0.96%) Eclipse RCP
15 14 (0.58%) MagicDraw
16 13 (0.54%) JUnit
16 13 (0.54%) MSTest
17 11 (0.46%) Jasmine
General
1 567 (23.63%) Social Skills
2 415 (17.30%) Finance
3 130 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (5.21%) Retail
5 118 (4.92%) Law
6 107 (4.46%) Banking
7 88 (3.67%) Front Office
8 81 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 55 (2.29%) Public Sector
11 52 (2.17%) Electronics
12 48 (2.00%) Marketing
13 36 (1.50%) Back Office
14 33 (1.38%) Games
14 33 (1.38%) Legal
15 29 (1.21%) Automotive
16 27 (1.13%) Investment Banking
17 23 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.83%) Tech for Good
19 19 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,236 (51.52%) Developer
2 527 (21.97%) Senior
3 374 (15.59%) Software Engineer
4 341 (14.21%) C# Developer
5 332 (13.84%) .NET Developer
6 321 (13.38%) Lead
7 288 (12.01%) Senior Developer
8 186 (7.75%) Software Developer
9 173 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 138 (5.75%) C# .NET Developer
11 119 (4.96%) Architect
12 117 (4.88%) Trainer
13 115 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 109 (4.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 101 (4.21%) Lead Developer
16 90 (3.75%) Analyst
17 85 (3.54%) Senior C# Developer
18 73 (3.04%) Lead Software Engineer
19 69 (2.88%) Graduate
20 64 (2.67%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,441 (60.07%) .NET
2 511 (21.30%) HTML
3 385 (16.05%) .NET Core
4 379 (15.80%) ASP.NET
5 368 (15.34%) CSS
6 365 (15.21%) React
7 317 (13.21%) .NET Framework
8 283 (11.80%) AngularJS
9 201 (8.38%) RESTful
10 184 (7.67%) REST
11 155 (6.46%) Entity Framework
12 123 (5.13%) XML
13 111 (4.63%) ASP.NET Web API
14 110 (4.59%) HTML5
15 108 (4.50%) Blazor
16 102 (4.25%) Web Services
17 100 (4.17%) jQuery
17 100 (4.17%) Node.js
18 97 (4.04%) JSON
19 93 (3.88%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 109 (4.54%) Cloud Native
2 89 (3.71%) Product Ownership
3 73 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
4 69 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 54 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 49 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 44 (1.83%) IoT
8 44 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 39 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.25%) Derivative
13 30 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.04%) Public Cloud
16 23 (0.96%) Hedge funds
16 23 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 22 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 189 (7.88%) Windows
2 115 (4.79%) Linux
3 28 (1.17%) Unix
4 24 (1.00%) Android
5 22 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.042%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
10 1 (0.042%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (35.43%) Agile
2 635 (26.47%) DevOps
3 625 (26.05%) Software Engineering
4 539 (22.47%) CI/CD
5 532 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
6 398 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 381 (15.88%) Microservices
8 330 (13.76%) Computer Science
9 308 (12.84%) Mentoring
10 286 (11.92%) MVC
11 255 (10.63%) Artificial Intelligence
12 229 (9.55%) Code Quality
13 219 (9.13%) Test Automation
14 218 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 206 (8.59%) OO
16 199 (8.30%) SDLC
17 189 (7.88%) Scrum
18 173 (7.21%) TDD
19 163 (6.79%) Design Patterns
20 161 (6.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,057 (44.06%) SQL
2 818 (34.10%) JavaScript
3 546 (22.76%) Python
4 436 (18.17%) Java
5 352 (14.67%) C++
6 326 (13.59%) TypeScript
7 138 (5.75%) C
8 122 (5.09%) PHP
9 101 (4.21%) Rust
10 98 (4.09%) PowerShell
11 67 (2.79%) Ruby
12 66 (2.75%) T-SQL
13 64 (2.67%) MATLAB
14 62 (2.58%) VB.NET
15 58 (2.42%) R
16 50 (2.08%) Dart
17 40 (1.67%) Ada
18 29 (1.21%) PL/SQL
19 28 (1.17%) Bash
20 24 (1.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 596 (24.84%) Degree
2 226 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 72 (3.00%) Security Cleared
5 53 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (1.79%) SC Cleared
7 42 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 39 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 18 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
10 16 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.54%) PhD
12 10 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.29%) HNC
14 7 (0.29%) HND
14 7 (0.29%) MCP
14 7 (0.29%) MCSE
15 6 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.21%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (7.21%) QA
2 62 (2.58%) GDPR
3 37 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 29 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 15 (0.63%) WCAG
7 14 (0.58%) NIST
8 13 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.42%) COBIT
10 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.25%) CDISC
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.13%) MiFID
14 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.083%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.083%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.083%) HL7
15 2 (0.083%) ITGC
15 2 (0.083%) SLA
System Software
1 234 (9.75%) Docker
2 23 (0.96%) Firmware
2 23 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.42%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.17%) vSphere
7 3 (0.13%) LXC
8 2 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.083%) Squid
9 1 (0.042%) HDFS
9 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.042%) Xen
Systems Management
1 217 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.63%) Terraform
3 43 (1.79%) Ansible
4 39 (1.63%) Grafana
5 31 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.33%) Functional Safety
7 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.13%) Control-M
10 3 (0.13%) Puppet
11 2 (0.083%) Nmap
11 2 (0.083%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.042%) Consul
12 1 (0.042%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.042%) logstash
12 1 (0.042%) Packer
12 1 (0.042%) Salt
12 1 (0.042%) vRealize
Vendors
1 604 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 123 (5.13%) PayPal
3 65 (2.71%) Oracle
4 55 (2.29%) Databricks
4 55 (2.29%) Google
5 37 (1.54%) Atlassian
6 30 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 23 (0.96%) VMware
9 18 (0.75%) Siemens
10 17 (0.71%) Guidewire
10 17 (0.71%) Informatica
10 17 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 13 (0.54%) HP
11 13 (0.54%) IBM
11 13 (0.54%) Rockwell
11 13 (0.54%) Sage
11 13 (0.54%) Xamarin
12 12 (0.50%) Okta
13 11 (0.46%) Rollbar