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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 69 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -47 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,384 1,888 5,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 3.83% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.14% 14.69% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 1,575 3,569
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,675 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 18,657 12,849 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 26.05% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13,194 8,261 14,329
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +17 3,089 £60,000 -4.00% 1,610
UK excluding London +30 2,615 £57,500 - 1,074
Work from Home +21 1,522 £56,500 -5.83% 809
South East +27 771 £60,000 - 258
London -18 647 £85,000 +6.25% 652
North of England +37 632 £57,500 -4.17% 256
Midlands +3 411 £60,000 +9.09% 153
East of England +38 315 £60,000 +9.09% 168
North West +55 304 £55,000 -12.00% 151
South West +30 286 £54,750 +4.29% 75
West Midlands -17 213 £62,500 +13.64% 75
East Midlands +21 198 £60,000 +9.09% 78
North East +4 173 £70,000 +27.27% 42
Yorkshire -5 155 £55,000 -8.18% 65
Northern Ireland -1 116 £50,000 -10.31% 68
Wales -44 44 £51,619 +6.43% 33
Scotland +8 42 £55,000 -14.73% 82

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
1 115 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.27%) IIS
3 31 (0.92%) CMS
4 25 (0.74%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) Apache
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.24%) nginx
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
9 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.089%) DNN
10 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
7 1 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 56 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) RMDS
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,633 (48.26%) Azure
2 590 (17.43%) AWS
3 485 (14.33%) Azure DevOps
4 350 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 259 (7.65%) GitHub
6 252 (7.45%) SaaS
7 211 (6.24%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.91%) Serverless
9 194 (5.73%) Azure AI
10 186 (5.50%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 165 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 154 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
14 141 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 128 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.37%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.63%) GCP
19 50 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.83%) Internet
2 22 (0.65%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.33%) VLAN
5 11 (0.33%) Wireless
6 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.27%) VPN
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 3 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 501 (14.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 183 (5.41%) Power BI
5 163 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 97 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.57%) MySQL
9 81 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.00%) Redis
12 33 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.59%) Metadata
16 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 326 (9.63%) Git
2 76 (2.25%) JIRA
3 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.06%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Selenium
6 31 (0.92%) Jenkins
7 30 (0.89%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.68%) NUnit
10 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.33%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 9 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 575 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 508 (15.01%) Finance
3 203 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (5.35%) Legal
5 129 (3.81%) Manufacturing
6 124 (3.66%) Law
7 121 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.60%) Games
10 72 (2.13%) Retail
11 68 (2.01%) Advertising
12 66 (1.95%) Electronics
13 65 (1.92%) Marketing
14 64 (1.89%) Aerospace
15 53 (1.57%) Banking
16 43 (1.27%) Front Office
17 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 33 (0.98%) Automotive
19 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,722 (50.89%) Developer
2 790 (23.35%) .NET Developer
3 768 (22.70%) Senior
4 753 (22.25%) Software Engineer
5 360 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 351 (10.37%) Software Developer
7 347 (10.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 342 (10.11%) Lead
9 340 (10.05%) C# Developer
10 249 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 171 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 158 (4.67%) C# .NET Developer
13 149 (4.40%) Lead Developer
14 138 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
15 130 (3.84%) Graduate
16 120 (3.55%) Architect
16 120 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 118 (3.49%) C# Software Developer
18 100 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
19 88 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,166 (64.01%) .NET
2 749 (22.13%) ASP.NET
3 725 (21.42%) .NET Core
4 589 (17.41%) ASP.NET Core
5 514 (15.19%) React
6 379 (11.20%) HTML
7 376 (11.11%) CSS
8 331 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 328 (9.69%) RESTful
10 299 (8.84%) Blazor
11 298 (8.81%) Entity Framework
12 284 (8.39%) Vue
13 267 (7.89%) REST
14 266 (7.86%) Node.js
15 265 (7.83%) .NET Framework
16 221 (6.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 167 (4.93%) Terraform
18 148 (4.37%) ML.NET
19 140 (4.14%) WPF
20 116 (3.43%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.68%) Cloud Native
2 173 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 139 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 132 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 60 (1.77%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.65%) Onboarding
12 53 (1.57%) Management Information System
13 52 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 43 (1.27%) Hedge funds
15 38 (1.12%) Robotics
16 31 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 25 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
18 25 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
19 24 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.47%) Windows
2 112 (3.31%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (34.63%) Agile
2 1,166 (34.46%) Software Engineering
3 927 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 885 (26.15%) CI/CD
5 808 (23.88%) DevOps
6 597 (17.64%) AI
7 587 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
8 572 (16.90%) Microservices
9 483 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 473 (13.98%) Mentoring
11 337 (9.96%) Test Automation
12 292 (8.63%) SDLC
13 273 (8.07%) Computer Science
14 263 (7.77%) Machine Learning
15 228 (6.74%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.35%) Scrum
17 205 (6.06%) OO
18 204 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
19 198 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
20 195 (5.76%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (35.79%) SQL
2 832 (24.59%) JavaScript
3 579 (17.11%) Python
4 515 (15.22%) TypeScript
5 344 (10.17%) C++
6 300 (8.87%) Java
7 129 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 116 (3.43%) PHP
9 88 (2.60%) C
10 68 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.36%) Go
11 46 (1.36%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.33%) Bicep
13 36 (1.06%) VBA
14 30 (0.89%) Bash
15 22 (0.65%) Delphi
15 22 (0.65%) Rust
16 21 (0.62%) Ruby
17 18 (0.53%) Scala
18 16 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 403 (11.91%) Degree
2 182 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 161 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 120 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.18%) OSCP
13 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.19%) QA
2 71 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 59 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.33%) GDPR
5 22 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.59%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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 (0.059%) MISRA C
System Software
1 393 (11.61%) Docker
2 29 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.47%) Firmware
5 11 (0.33%) 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 1 (0.030%) HDFS
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 331 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.71%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) EnCase
8 5 (0.15%) FTK
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
12 1 (0.030%) Kibana
12 1 (0.030%) logstash
12 1 (0.030%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,122 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.69%) Google
3 62 (1.83%) Facebook
4 54 (1.60%) Oracle
5 35 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.77%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 17 (0.50%) Apple
9 17 (0.50%) Databricks
9 17 (0.50%) HP
10 16 (0.47%) Adobe
10 16 (0.47%) Foundry
10 16 (0.47%) Sony
10 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
11 13 (0.38%) Intapp
12 12 (0.35%) Aderant
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.33%) IBM
13 11 (0.33%) Splunk