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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,420 2,127 5,772
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.24% 6.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.37% 15.29% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,914 1,758 4,522
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -6.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 18,614 13,908 25,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 27.72% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,179 9,133 17,577
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +11 3,121 £60,000 -4.00% 714
UK excluding London +21 2,611 £57,500 - 602
Work from Home +10 1,545 £55,000 -8.33% 413
South East +19 747 £60,000 - 206
London -19 678 £82,500 +3.13% 212
North of England +38 640 £57,500 -4.17% 151
Midlands -2 415 £60,000 +9.09% 81
East of England +29 315 £60,000 +9.09% 81
South West +28 303 £52,500 - 58
North West +46 301 £55,000 -6.78% 83
West Midlands -5 218 £60,000 +4.35% 31
East Midlands +17 197 £55,000 - 50
Yorkshire +20 183 £55,000 -8.33% 31
North East -5 156 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Northern Ireland +7 115 £50,000 -10.31% 3
Wales -54 46 £51,619 -0.73% 17
Scotland -16 32 £50,000 -22.78% 20

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
1 101 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) IIS
3 33 (0.96%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.20%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 49 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Magento
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,699 (49.68%) Azure
2 583 (17.05%) AWS
3 468 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 328 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 269 (7.87%) SaaS
6 252 (7.37%) GitHub
7 198 (5.79%) Power Automate
8 194 (5.67%) Azure AI
9 175 (5.12%) PowerApps
10 173 (5.06%) Serverless
11 169 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
12 161 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 154 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
14 140 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
15 129 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 115 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 107 (3.13%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.54%) GCP
19 53 (1.55%) Azure AKS
20 52 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Broadband
4 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.50%) HTTP
6 12 (0.35%) Firewall
7 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.23%) VPN
9 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) DHCP
10 6 (0.18%) IPsec
10 6 (0.18%) SNMP
11 5 (0.15%) LAN
11 5 (0.15%) WAN
12 4 (0.12%) Intranet
12 4 (0.12%) Modbus
12 4 (0.12%) Network Security
13 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 607 (17.75%) SQL Server
2 517 (15.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 457 (13.36%) MongoDB
4 174 (5.09%) Power BI
5 167 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 94 (2.75%) MySQL
8 82 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 39 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 32 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.85%) Redis
14 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.41%) Metadata
16 13 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 10 (0.29%) Db2
Development Applications
1 289 (8.45%) Git
2 74 (2.16%) JIRA
3 43 (1.26%) Selenium
3 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.99%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) Postman
10 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.50%) SpecFlow
11 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.20%) Moq
14 7 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 561 (16.40%) Social Skills
2 542 (15.85%) Finance
3 183 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (5.09%) Legal
5 128 (3.74%) Law
6 116 (3.39%) Manufacturing
7 101 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 88 (2.57%) Games
9 84 (2.46%) Public Sector
10 81 (2.37%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
13 58 (1.70%) Electronics
14 57 (1.67%) Banking
15 47 (1.37%) Front Office
16 41 (1.20%) Legal Technology
17 37 (1.08%) Automotive
18 26 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,819 (53.19%) Developer
2 808 (23.63%) .NET Developer
3 760 (22.22%) Senior
4 740 (21.64%) Software Engineer
5 427 (12.49%) Software Developer
6 396 (11.58%) C# Developer
7 365 (10.67%) Senior Developer
8 357 (10.44%) Lead
9 328 (9.59%) C# Software Engineer
10 251 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 183 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 168 (4.91%) C# Software Developer
13 165 (4.82%) C# .NET Developer
14 162 (4.74%) Graduate
15 158 (4.62%) Lead Developer
16 148 (4.33%) .NET Software Engineer
17 117 (3.42%) Architect
18 114 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 109 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
19 109 (3.19%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,189 (64.01%) .NET
2 785 (22.95%) .NET Core
3 777 (22.72%) ASP.NET
4 603 (17.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 498 (14.56%) React
6 403 (11.78%) CSS
7 394 (11.52%) HTML
8 332 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 323 (9.44%) RESTful
10 311 (9.09%) Blazor
11 302 (8.83%) Entity Framework
12 297 (8.68%) Vue
13 274 (8.01%) .NET Framework
14 268 (7.84%) Node.js
15 255 (7.46%) REST
16 222 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.56%) ML.NET
18 132 (3.86%) WPF
19 119 (3.48%) LINQ
20 87 (2.54%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
3 150 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
4 132 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 119 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 98 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.40%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 43 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 32 (0.94%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 29 (0.85%) Legacy Code
17 28 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.73%) Fixed Income
19 24 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 169 (4.94%) Windows
2 119 (3.48%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.26%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) VMS
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (35.23%) Agile
2 1,137 (33.25%) Software Engineering
3 941 (27.51%) Full-Stack Development
4 842 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 813 (23.77%) DevOps
6 584 (17.08%) Microservices
7 553 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
8 539 (15.76%) AI
9 464 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 452 (13.22%) Mentoring
11 322 (9.42%) Test Automation
12 294 (8.60%) Computer Science
13 291 (8.51%) SDLC
14 277 (8.10%) Machine Learning
15 220 (6.43%) Scrum
16 219 (6.40%) Software Testing
17 215 (6.29%) OO
18 201 (5.88%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.56%) TDD
20 187 (5.47%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,241 (36.29%) SQL
2 819 (23.95%) JavaScript
3 567 (16.58%) Python
4 533 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.00%) C++
6 302 (8.83%) Java
7 147 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 145 (4.24%) PHP
9 82 (2.40%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.40%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 43 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.02%) Bash
14 35 (1.02%) VBA
15 26 (0.76%) Rust
16 22 (0.64%) Delphi
16 22 (0.64%) Ruby
16 22 (0.64%) Scala
17 18 (0.53%) F#
Qualifications
1 419 (12.25%) Degree
2 201 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.27%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
16 4 (0.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (9.21%) QA
2 59 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 33 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.91%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.35%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) SLA
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.058%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 403 (11.78%) Docker
2 20 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 351 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 165 (4.82%) Terraform
3 34 (0.99%) Grafana
4 19 (0.56%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.088%) Control-M
8 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.058%) MIIS
10 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.029%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,112 (32.51%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.60%) Google
3 65 (1.90%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.67%) Adobe
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Intapp
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) VMware
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 13 (0.38%) iManage
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) Foundry
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 12 (0.35%) Splunk
14 11 (0.32%) IBM