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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -43 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,858 3,583 6,218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.96% 6.78% 9.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.61% 20.18% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,620 2,289 5,585
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -

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 11,901 17,758 25,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 33.63% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,610 10,323 20,911
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -42 1,696 £60,000 -4.00% 1,248
UK excluding London -48 1,238 £55,498 +0.91% 1,144
Work from Home -25 781 £60,000 - 694
London -20 503 £80,000 +6.67% 272
North of England -27 362 £62,500 +13.64% 236
South East -41 338 £55,000 -12.00% 382
Midlands -32 265 £52,500 -4.55% 153
North West -21 182 £62,500 +17.92% 134
West Midlands -38 136 £52,500 -4.55% 56
East Midlands -20 129 £52,250 -5.00% 96
Yorkshire -36 114 £60,750 +21.50% 66
South West -48 114 £55,000 - 125
East of England -57 90 £55,000 -4.35% 152
North East -11 66 £70,000 +7.69% 37
Scotland -80 45 £60,000 +33.33% 56
Wales -26 24 £47,500 -20.83% 51
Northern Ireland -17 8 £95,000 +61.70% 16
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 (2.15%) IIS
2 39 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.18%) CMS
4 12 (0.65%) Confluence
4 12 (0.65%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) 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%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 893 (48.06%) Azure
2 348 (18.73%) AWS
3 236 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (11.36%) SaaS
5 180 (9.69%) Power Platform
6 134 (7.21%) Serverless
7 109 (5.87%) Power Automate
8 107 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (5.17%) PowerApps
10 89 (4.79%) GCP
11 82 (4.41%) GitHub
12 80 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 71 (3.82%) Azure Functions
14 56 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
16 46 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 36 (1.94%) Entra ID
18 32 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.56%) Azure AKS
20 28 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.43%) DNS
3 8 (0.43%) HTTP
4 6 (0.32%) Internet
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
6 4 (0.22%) Firewall
6 4 (0.22%) SAN
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) Broadband
8 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.11%) FTP
8 2 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.11%) SMTP
8 2 (0.11%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.054%) LTE
9 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 369 (19.86%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.57%) Relational Database
3 84 (4.52%) Power BI
4 75 (4.04%) MongoDB
5 74 (3.98%) MySQL
6 69 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 67 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.13%) Redis
13 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.48%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.32%) GIS
15 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 129 (6.94%) Git
2 81 (4.36%) Selenium
3 79 (4.25%) JIRA
4 68 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 53 (2.85%) Postman
6 40 (2.15%) WebDriver
7 39 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 35 (1.88%) Jenkins
9 34 (1.83%) SoapUI
10 23 (1.24%) SpecFlow
11 18 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) GitLab
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.48%) JMeter
15 9 (0.48%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
17 6 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 465 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 323 (17.38%) Finance
3 112 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (4.41%) Law
5 73 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 64 (3.44%) Retail
7 56 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 49 (2.64%) Front Office
10 43 (2.31%) Banking
11 36 (1.94%) Electronics
12 34 (1.83%) Legal
13 30 (1.61%) Marketing
14 26 (1.40%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.81%) Aviation
16 15 (0.81%) Billing
16 15 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.70%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 907 (48.82%) Developer
2 422 (22.71%) Senior
3 305 (16.42%) Software Engineer
4 245 (13.19%) Software Developer
5 243 (13.08%) C# Developer
6 235 (12.65%) .NET Developer
7 215 (11.57%) Senior Developer
8 210 (11.30%) Lead
9 142 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 100 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (5.06%) C# Software Engineer
12 84 (4.52%) .NET Software Engineer
13 77 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 73 (3.93%) Lead Developer
15 70 (3.77%) Analyst
16 66 (3.55%) Support Engineer
17 65 (3.50%) C# Software Developer
17 65 (3.50%) Graduate
18 64 (3.44%) Architect
19 62 (3.34%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,124 (60.50%) .NET
2 317 (17.06%) .NET Core
3 275 (14.80%) React
4 240 (12.92%) ASP.NET
5 193 (10.39%) HTML
6 189 (10.17%) .NET Framework
7 175 (9.42%) AngularJS
8 173 (9.31%) CSS
9 139 (7.48%) REST
10 109 (5.87%) RESTful
11 94 (5.06%) Entity Framework
12 85 (4.57%) Vue
13 76 (4.09%) Blazor
14 72 (3.88%) ASP.NET MVC
15 56 (3.01%) SOAP
16 55 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
16 55 (2.96%) Node.js
17 54 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
18 45 (2.42%) jQuery
18 45 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 128 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 83 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
5 54 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.97%) Client/Server
12 18 (0.97%) Hedge funds
12 18 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 17 (0.91%) Derivative
13 17 (0.91%) Robotics
14 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.81%) IoT
15 14 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 91 (4.90%) Windows
2 69 (3.71%) Linux
3 21 (1.13%) Android
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.22%) Solaris
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.054%) AIX
9 1 (0.054%) Fedora
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (32.88%) Agile
2 563 (30.30%) Software Engineering
3 456 (24.54%) DevOps
4 430 (23.14%) CI/CD
5 403 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 303 (16.31%) Mentoring
8 299 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 281 (15.12%) Microservices
10 207 (11.14%) Computer Science
11 158 (8.50%) Test Automation
12 150 (8.07%) Scrum
13 149 (8.02%) SDLC
14 148 (7.97%) AI
15 143 (7.70%) MVC
16 123 (6.62%) CRM
16 123 (6.62%) Migration
17 119 (6.40%) OO
18 117 (6.30%) Containerisation
19 103 (5.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 628 (33.80%) SQL
2 443 (23.84%) JavaScript
3 312 (16.79%) Python
4 248 (13.35%) Java
5 229 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 149 (8.02%) C++
7 102 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.93%) PHP
9 49 (2.64%) C
10 46 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.40%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.29%) Bash
13 19 (1.02%) Go
14 18 (0.97%) Rust
15 17 (0.91%) Bicep
15 17 (0.91%) Delphi
16 14 (0.75%) VBA
17 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.48%) PL/SQL
19 8 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 288 (15.50%) Degree
2 147 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 121 (6.51%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.82%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.85%) Azure Certification
7 50 (2.69%) ISTQB
8 42 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.81%) PhD
15 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.43%) ISEB
17 6 (0.32%) CREST Certified
18 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
19 4 (0.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.63%) QA
2 41 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.70%) WCAG
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) HL7
9 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.054%) IFRS
11 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.054%) ITGC
11 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (8.72%) Docker
2 20 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.08%) Firmware
3 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.054%) HDFS
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 141 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.38%) Terraform
3 27 (1.45%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.054%) MOM
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 418 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.91%) Oracle
3 30 (1.61%) Google
4 22 (1.18%) Guidewire
5 19 (1.02%) Xamarin
6 16 (0.86%) SAP
7 14 (0.75%) Sage
8 13 (0.70%) Palantir
9 12 (0.65%) Dynatrace
10 10 (0.54%) Databricks
10 10 (0.54%) VMware
11 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
12 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.43%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.38%) Adobe
13 7 (0.38%) IBM
13 7 (0.38%) Infor
14 6 (0.32%) DevExpress
14 6 (0.32%) Epicor