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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,895 4,792 4,709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.57% 7.08% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.08% 21.90% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 3,200 4,193
10th Percentile £32,950 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,575 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,786 21,883 21,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 32.33% 40.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,517 13,125 17,429
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 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 -42 1,728 £60,000 - 844
UK excluding London -54 1,241 £57,500 +4.55% 775
Work from Home -22 863 £60,000 +4.35% 610
London -26 540 £80,000 +6.67% 209
North of England -35 347 £60,000 +14.29% 163
South East -49 341 £57,500 -4.17% 253
Midlands -28 268 £55,000 +2.44% 113
North West -24 176 £62,500 +19.05% 105
West Midlands -24 147 £57,500 +4.55% 68
Yorkshire -26 125 £55,000 +10.00% 34
East Midlands -7 121 £51,000 +2.00% 43
East of England -54 109 £55,000 -4.35% 95
South West -58 100 £55,000 +10.00% 87
North East -14 48 £50,000 -16.67% 25
Scotland -80 43 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Wales -21 34 £48,500 -3.00% 30
Northern Ireland -15 6 £62,500 -3.85% 8
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 59 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.80%) IIS
3 39 (2.06%) CMS
4 20 (1.06%) Kinematics
5 18 (0.95%) Confluence
6 12 (0.63%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.053%) Kentico
12 1 (0.053%) MetaMask
Applications
1 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 71 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.42%) Shopify
4 7 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.16%) Magento
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.11%) Sage 1000
9 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.053%) Endur
9 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.053%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.053%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 953 (50.29%) Azure
2 364 (19.21%) AWS
3 255 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
4 200 (10.55%) SaaS
5 182 (9.60%) Power Platform
6 152 (8.02%) Dynamics 365
7 123 (6.49%) Power Automate
8 115 (6.07%) Serverless
9 112 (5.91%) PowerApps
10 109 (5.75%) GitHub
11 101 (5.33%) GCP
12 70 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 64 (3.38%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (3.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 61 (3.22%) Azure Functions
14 61 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
15 42 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (1.74%) Entra ID
17 29 (1.53%) PaaS
18 24 (1.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.42%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.42%) HTTP
3 8 (0.42%) Internet
4 7 (0.37%) DNS
4 7 (0.37%) Modbus
4 7 (0.37%) WPA
5 6 (0.32%) MQTT
5 6 (0.32%) SAN
6 4 (0.21%) DHCP
6 4 (0.21%) Firewall
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
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 (0.053%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.053%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (23.43%) SQL Server
2 98 (5.17%) MySQL
2 98 (5.17%) Relational Database
3 93 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 85 (4.49%) Power BI
5 78 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 75 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
8 47 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 45 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 26 (1.37%) Redis
12 24 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 7 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
17 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
17 6 (0.32%) KDB
17 6 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 184 (9.71%) Git
2 84 (4.43%) JIRA
3 66 (3.48%) Selenium
4 51 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 40 (2.11%) Postman
6 39 (2.06%) Jenkins
7 30 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.42%) TeamCity
9 25 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (1.21%) WebDriver
11 20 (1.06%) NUnit
12 19 (1.00%) GitLab
13 18 (0.95%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.84%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.63%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.53%) JMeter
18 9 (0.47%) MSTest
18 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
19 8 (0.42%) Artifactory
General
1 548 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 310 (16.36%) Finance
3 126 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (6.17%) Law
5 91 (4.80%) Retail
6 82 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 76 (4.01%) Front Office
8 71 (3.75%) Manufacturing
9 62 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.85%) Banking
11 43 (2.27%) Legal
12 42 (2.22%) Electronics
13 35 (1.85%) Back Office
14 32 (1.69%) Games
15 30 (1.58%) Marketing
16 26 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (1.16%) Billing
17 22 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.74%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 984 (51.93%) Developer
2 421 (22.22%) Senior
3 246 (12.98%) Software Engineer
4 242 (12.77%) C# Developer
5 239 (12.61%) .NET Developer
6 237 (12.51%) Lead
7 230 (12.14%) Senior Developer
8 194 (10.24%) Software Developer
9 156 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 94 (4.96%) Architect
11 87 (4.59%) Analyst
12 75 (3.96%) Lead Developer
13 73 (3.85%) Graduate
14 72 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 64 (3.38%) Support Engineer
16 63 (3.32%) C# .NET Developer
17 60 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
18 57 (3.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
19 55 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
19 55 (2.90%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,144 (60.37%) .NET
2 317 (16.73%) React
3 300 (15.83%) .NET Core
4 283 (14.93%) ASP.NET
5 251 (13.25%) CSS
6 242 (12.77%) HTML
7 236 (12.45%) .NET Framework
8 232 (12.24%) AngularJS
9 159 (8.39%) RESTful
10 153 (8.07%) REST
11 130 (6.86%) Entity Framework
12 107 (5.65%) Vue
13 100 (5.28%) Blazor
14 85 (4.49%) ASP.NET MVC
15 79 (4.17%) Web Services
16 74 (3.91%) ASP.NET Web API
17 63 (3.32%) ASP.NET Core
17 63 (3.32%) Node.js
18 62 (3.27%) HTML5
19 60 (3.17%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 151 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 43 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.32%) Robotics
12 22 (1.16%) Derivative
12 22 (1.16%) IoT
13 20 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.90%) Client/Server
16 15 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
17 14 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.01%) Windows
2 59 (3.11%) Linux
3 21 (1.11%) Android
4 19 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.74%) Unix
7 3 (0.16%) Solaris
7 3 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Fedora
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (36.04%) Agile
2 537 (28.34%) DevOps
3 509 (26.86%) Software Engineering
4 493 (26.02%) CI/CD
5 467 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (20.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 335 (17.68%) Microservices
8 332 (17.52%) Mentoring
9 325 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (12.14%) Computer Science
11 193 (10.18%) MVC
12 189 (9.97%) Test Automation
13 171 (9.02%) Scrum
14 150 (7.92%) SDLC
15 140 (7.39%) AI
15 140 (7.39%) Containerisation
16 137 (7.23%) CRM
17 134 (7.07%) Clean Code
18 133 (7.02%) User Experience
19 132 (6.97%) OO
Programming Languages
1 717 (37.84%) SQL
2 509 (26.86%) JavaScript
3 329 (17.36%) Python
4 285 (15.04%) Java
5 236 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 159 (8.39%) C++
7 108 (5.70%) PowerShell
8 87 (4.59%) PHP
9 60 (3.17%) C
10 54 (2.85%) T-SQL
11 51 (2.69%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.21%) Bicep
13 20 (1.06%) Go
14 18 (0.95%) Bash
15 17 (0.90%) VBA
16 16 (0.84%) Rust
17 15 (0.79%) Delphi
18 12 (0.63%) VB
19 10 (0.53%) PL/SQL
20 9 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 335 (17.68%) Degree
2 183 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (4.75%) Security Cleared
4 64 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (3.27%) SC Cleared
6 47 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 31 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 12 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.63%) HND
15 10 (0.53%) PhD
16 8 (0.42%) ISEB
17 7 (0.37%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.37%) HNC
18 6 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.60%) QA
2 33 (1.74%) Accessibility
2 33 (1.74%) GDPR
3 19 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (0.84%) ISO 9001
5 15 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.37%) NIST
7 7 (0.37%) WCAG
8 4 (0.21%) HL7
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) EMIR
9 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.11%) ITGC
10 2 (0.11%) MiFID
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.053%) COBIT
11 1 (0.053%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.053%) IFRS
11 1 (0.053%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (10.50%) Docker
2 21 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.69%) Firmware
5 10 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.053%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 170 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.75%) Terraform
3 21 (1.11%) Grafana
4 14 (0.74%) Ansible
5 10 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.37%) Control-M
7 6 (0.32%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.11%) Kibana
10 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.053%) Nmap
11 1 (0.053%) WMI
Vendors
1 477 (25.17%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.06%) Oracle
3 37 (1.95%) Guidewire
4 29 (1.53%) Google
5 22 (1.16%) Xamarin
6 19 (1.00%) Sage
7 18 (0.95%) Databricks
8 17 (0.90%) VMware
9 15 (0.79%) SAP
10 14 (0.74%) DevExpress
11 12 (0.63%) Infor
11 12 (0.63%) Palantir
12 11 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.53%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.53%) Siemens
14 9 (0.47%) Rockwell
14 9 (0.47%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.47%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.42%) YouTube