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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 51 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,845 2,282 8,324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.99% 5.01% 7.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.65% 16.27% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,524 1,887 6,995
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
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 17,088 14,028 33,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 30.80% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 9,259 25,320
10th Percentile £36,795 £35,500 £35,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 2,661 £60,000 -7.69% 709
UK excluding London +2 2,083 £57,500 -4.17% 609
Work from Home 0 1,155 £55,000 -15.38% 413
London -17 633 £82,500 +3.13% 203
South East +12 625 £59,500 -0.83% 207
North of England +30 553 £57,500 -3.20% 143
Midlands -15 355 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West +52 277 £60,000 +9.09% 70
East of England 0 245 £60,000 -9.37% 72
South West +12 230 £55,000 - 68
East Midlands +13 182 £55,000 - 42
West Midlands -30 173 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Yorkshire -2 153 £55,000 -19.71% 34
North East -3 123 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Wales -44 37 £51,619 -21.79% 18
Scotland -16 34 £52,500 -11.76% 18
Northern Ireland -27 6 £65,000 -18.75% 10

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 79 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.05%) IIS
3 29 (1.02%) CMS
4 17 (0.60%) Confluence
5 14 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.32%) WordPress
7 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.18%) nginx
9 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) Apache
10 4 (0.14%) JBoss
11 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.070%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.070%) DNN
12 2 (0.070%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.070%) Immediacy CMS
12 2 (0.070%) Kentico
Applications
1 40 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 5 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.070%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.070%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.070%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.035%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.035%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,412 (49.63%) Azure
2 486 (17.08%) AWS
3 379 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
4 263 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 205 (7.21%) SaaS
6 188 (6.61%) GitHub
7 157 (5.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 153 (5.38%) Serverless
9 147 (5.17%) Power Automate
10 142 (4.99%) PowerApps
11 132 (4.64%) Azure AI
12 121 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
13 117 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 100 (3.51%) Azure Functions
14 100 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 100 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
15 92 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 67 (2.36%) GCP
17 56 (1.97%) Azure AKS
17 56 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.79%) Internet
2 19 (0.67%) Broadband
3 14 (0.49%) DNS
3 14 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.32%) Firewall
6 8 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.070%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 400 (14.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 343 (12.06%) MongoDB
4 153 (5.38%) Power BI
5 121 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.57%) MySQL
8 58 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 37 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (0.70%) Redis
13 15 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.46%) Db2
15 12 (0.42%) Metadata
16 11 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
18 7 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
18 7 (0.25%) GIS
18 7 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 206 (7.24%) Git
2 57 (2.00%) JIRA
3 44 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.44%) Selenium
5 35 (1.23%) GitLab
6 28 (0.98%) Postman
7 24 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 24 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.60%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.46%) NUnit
10 13 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.42%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.42%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.32%) SoapUI
13 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 504 (17.72%) Finance
2 398 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 151 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (3.62%) Manufacturing
5 76 (2.67%) Games
6 67 (2.36%) Retail
7 66 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 59 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (1.97%) Advertising
9 56 (1.97%) Electronics
10 55 (1.93%) Banking
11 51 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 50 (1.76%) Law
13 49 (1.72%) Front Office
14 47 (1.65%) Marketing
15 40 (1.41%) Legal
16 34 (1.20%) Automotive
17 18 (0.63%) Investment Banking
18 16 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,538 (54.06%) Developer
2 655 (23.02%) .NET Developer
3 642 (22.57%) Software Engineer
4 578 (20.32%) Senior
5 425 (14.94%) Software Developer
6 379 (13.32%) C# Developer
7 307 (10.79%) C# Software Engineer
8 273 (9.60%) Senior Developer
9 271 (9.53%) Lead
10 226 (7.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 165 (5.80%) C# .NET Developer
11 165 (5.80%) C# Software Developer
11 165 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 157 (5.52%) .NET Software Engineer
13 138 (4.85%) Graduate
14 127 (4.46%) Lead Developer
15 99 (3.48%) Graduate Developer
16 94 (3.30%) .NET Software Developer
16 94 (3.30%) Azure Developer
17 93 (3.27%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,843 (64.78%) .NET
2 672 (23.62%) .NET Core
3 606 (21.30%) ASP.NET
4 457 (16.06%) ASP.NET Core
5 404 (14.20%) React
6 326 (11.46%) CSS
7 312 (10.97%) HTML
8 267 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 245 (8.61%) RESTful
10 240 (8.44%) Blazor
11 238 (8.37%) Vue
12 220 (7.73%) Entity Framework
13 210 (7.38%) .NET Framework
14 204 (7.17%) Node.js
15 198 (6.96%) REST
16 170 (5.98%) ASP.NET Web API
17 119 (4.18%) ML.NET
18 100 (3.51%) WPF
19 92 (3.23%) LINQ
20 66 (2.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 121 (4.25%) Greenfield Project
3 109 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.97%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.23%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (0.91%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.84%) Legacy Code
16 23 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (0.81%) Sports Betting
17 22 (0.77%) AI Agents
17 22 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 143 (5.03%) Windows
2 107 (3.76%) Linux
3 41 (1.44%) Android
4 26 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.32%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.070%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 939 (33.01%) Agile
2 887 (31.18%) Software Engineering
3 782 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 656 (23.06%) CI/CD
5 630 (22.14%) DevOps
6 421 (14.80%) AI
7 413 (14.52%) Microservices
8 401 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
9 315 (11.07%) Mentoring
10 304 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 274 (9.63%) Computer Science
12 233 (8.19%) Test Automation
13 227 (7.98%) SDLC
14 220 (7.73%) Machine Learning
15 179 (6.29%) Scrum
16 169 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
17 166 (5.83%) TDD
18 163 (5.73%) Multithreading
19 155 (5.45%) Containerisation
20 154 (5.41%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (36.94%) SQL
2 621 (21.83%) JavaScript
3 452 (15.89%) Python
4 402 (14.13%) TypeScript
5 331 (11.63%) C++
6 266 (9.35%) Java
7 123 (4.32%) PHP
8 98 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.50%) C
10 57 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.48%) Bicep
12 39 (1.37%) Go
13 35 (1.23%) Bash
13 35 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 29 (1.02%) VBA
15 23 (0.81%) Rust
16 19 (0.67%) MATLAB
16 19 (0.67%) Scala
17 17 (0.60%) F#
17 17 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (13.53%) Degree
2 185 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 123 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 43 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.98%) PhD
9 25 (0.88%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.35%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.18%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.18%) GPEN
15 5 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.52%) QA
2 47 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.81%) GDPR
5 19 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.42%) SLA
8 11 (0.39%) WCAG
9 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.11%) NCSC
12 2 (0.070%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.070%) ITGC
13 1 (0.035%) EMIR
13 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 327 (11.49%) Docker
2 28 (0.98%) Firmware
3 21 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) KVM
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.92%) Terraform
3 36 (1.27%) Grafana
4 17 (0.60%) Ansible
5 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.070%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.070%) MIIS
10 2 (0.070%) MOM
11 1 (0.035%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.035%) Nessus
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool
11 1 (0.035%) Nmap
Vendors
1 838 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.18%) Google
3 50 (1.76%) Facebook
4 45 (1.58%) Oracle
5 24 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.81%) Adobe
7 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.60%) VMware
9 16 (0.56%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.56%) YouTube
10 15 (0.53%) Apple
10 15 (0.53%) Databricks
11 13 (0.46%) Sony
11 13 (0.46%) Yahoo!
12 11 (0.39%) Intapp
13 10 (0.35%) iManage
13 10 (0.35%) Splunk
14 9 (0.32%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (0.28%) IBM