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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 18
Rank change year-on-year -41 -18 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,107 2,584 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.48% 6.27% 8.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.01% 18.91% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,826 2,185 6,830
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 15,040 13,664 32,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 33.17% 34.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,317 10,257 24,947
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,833 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +1.85% -1.82%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -37 1,936 £60,000 -7.69% 911
UK excluding London -47 1,436 £57,500 - 720
Work from Home -23 798 £57,500 -10.16% 506
London -25 545 £82,500 +10.00% 282
North of England -34 418 £62,500 +13.64% 182
South East -26 412 £57,500 -4.17% 227
Midlands -44 263 £57,500 +4.55% 99
North West -34 201 £60,000 +17.49% 101
South West -22 144 £55,000 -4.35% 90
Yorkshire -36 140 £62,500 +15.21% 52
East of England -52 135 £55,000 -16.92% 84
East Midlands -23 133 £55,000 - 52
West Midlands -55 130 £57,500 +4.55% 47
North East -13 77 £70,000 +21.74% 34
Scotland -57 45 £60,000 +33.33% 32
Wales -49 19 £42,250 -32.40% 21
Northern Ireland -39 10 £80,000 - 3
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 54 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.14%) CMS
3 21 (1.00%) IIS
4 11 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.24%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.14%) Confluence
8 2 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.095%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.095%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.095%) nginx
9 1 (0.047%) Apache
9 1 (0.047%) Appian
9 1 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.19%) Simulink
4 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.095%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 927 (44.00%) Azure
2 355 (16.85%) AWS
3 212 (10.06%) SaaS
4 209 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
5 198 (9.40%) Power Platform
6 126 (5.98%) Serverless
7 120 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 100 (4.75%) Power Automate
9 97 (4.60%) PowerApps
10 92 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
11 74 (3.51%) Azure Functions
12 72 (3.42%) GitHub
13 69 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
14 67 (3.18%) GCP
15 62 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
16 45 (2.14%) Azure AKS
17 36 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 32 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
19 25 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
20 24 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.62%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.52%) Broadband
3 10 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (0.33%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.24%) HTTP
5 5 (0.24%) Internet
6 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 4 (0.19%) Modbus
7 3 (0.14%) DHCP
7 3 (0.14%) Firewall
7 3 (0.14%) LTE
7 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 2 (0.095%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.095%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.095%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.047%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.047%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.047%) Profibus
9 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (19.74%) SQL Server
2 116 (5.51%) Power BI
3 78 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 69 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 63 (2.99%) MySQL
6 60 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.09%) MongoDB
8 43 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (0.81%) Redis
12 16 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.52%) DB2
15 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.24%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.24%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 127 (6.03%) Git
2 71 (3.37%) Selenium
3 61 (2.90%) Visual Studio
4 54 (2.56%) JIRA
5 38 (1.80%) Postman
6 31 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 30 (1.42%) WebDriver
8 28 (1.33%) SpecFlow
9 26 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 23 (1.09%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.90%) TeamCity
12 16 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.76%) GitLab
12 16 (0.76%) NUnit
13 11 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.43%) Balsamiq
15 8 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 6 (0.28%) JMeter
16 6 (0.28%) MSTest
General
1 409 (19.41%) Finance
2 348 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 122 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (3.42%) Public Sector
5 67 (3.18%) Law
6 58 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 56 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (2.33%) Front Office
9 45 (2.14%) Banking
10 42 (1.99%) Retail
11 41 (1.95%) Games
12 34 (1.61%) Electronics
13 32 (1.52%) Legal
14 25 (1.19%) Marketing
15 23 (1.09%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.81%) Military
17 15 (0.71%) Aviation
18 14 (0.66%) Telecoms
19 12 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,092 (51.83%) Developer
2 466 (22.12%) Senior
3 402 (19.08%) Software Engineer
4 386 (18.32%) C# Developer
5 382 (18.13%) Software Developer
6 296 (14.05%) .NET Developer
7 241 (11.44%) Lead
8 239 (11.34%) Senior Developer
9 170 (8.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 154 (7.31%) C# Software Engineer
11 147 (6.98%) C# .NET Developer
12 145 (6.88%) C# Software Developer
13 130 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 121 (5.74%) .NET Software Engineer
15 105 (4.98%) Graduate
16 93 (4.41%) Lead Developer
17 87 (4.13%) Graduate Developer
18 85 (4.03%) SQL Developer
19 79 (3.75%) Azure Developer
20 78 (3.70%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,310 (62.17%) .NET
2 377 (17.89%) .NET Core
3 259 (12.29%) ASP.NET
4 238 (11.30%) React
5 189 (8.97%) HTML
6 188 (8.92%) CSS
7 179 (8.50%) .NET Framework
8 133 (6.31%) REST
9 131 (6.22%) AngularJS
10 109 (5.17%) RESTful
11 87 (4.13%) Vue
12 86 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
13 81 (3.84%) Entity Framework
14 78 (3.70%) Blazor
15 69 (3.27%) Node.js
16 50 (2.37%) jQuery
16 50 (2.37%) WPF
17 49 (2.33%) Playwright
18 43 (2.04%) XML
19 41 (1.95%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 75 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 57 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
5 46 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (2.18%) Low-Code
6 44 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (2.04%) Hedge funds
8 42 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 35 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 26 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.04%) Sports Betting
13 20 (0.95%) Public Cloud
13 20 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 18 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.85%) Legacy Code
15 17 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
16 16 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.75%) Windows
2 77 (3.65%) Linux
3 17 (0.81%) Android
4 16 (0.76%) Unix
5 14 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.66%) VMS
6 11 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.095%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.095%) Solaris
7 2 (0.095%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.047%) Nucleus RTOS
8 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (31.47%) Software Engineering
2 596 (28.29%) Agile
3 428 (20.31%) DevOps
4 404 (19.17%) CI/CD
5 401 (19.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 307 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
7 253 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 253 (12.01%) Mentoring
8 243 (11.53%) Microservices
9 224 (10.63%) Computer Science
10 180 (8.54%) Test Automation
11 176 (8.35%) SDLC
12 172 (8.16%) AI
13 147 (6.98%) MVC
14 130 (6.17%) Scrum
15 128 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
16 123 (5.84%) Containerisation
17 105 (4.98%) Software Testing
18 104 (4.94%) OO
19 99 (4.70%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 649 (30.80%) SQL
2 440 (20.88%) JavaScript
3 347 (16.47%) Python
4 261 (12.39%) TypeScript
5 244 (11.58%) Java
6 209 (9.92%) C++
7 96 (4.56%) PHP
8 82 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 56 (2.66%) C
10 41 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.61%) Go
12 28 (1.33%) Bash
13 26 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 24 (1.14%) Bicep
15 22 (1.04%) VBA
16 20 (0.95%) Rust
17 18 (0.85%) Delphi
18 17 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.71%) PL/SQL
20 12 (0.57%) F#
Qualifications
1 298 (14.14%) Degree
2 145 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (5.46%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 47 (2.23%) ISTQB
5 47 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 32 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 24 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.04%) PhD
11 21 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (0.95%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 14 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.47%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.38%) ISEB
18 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.88%) QA
2 38 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.71%) GDPR
5 13 (0.62%) WCAG
6 11 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.38%) SLA
9 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.14%) EMIR
10 2 (0.095%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.095%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.095%) ITGC
11 1 (0.047%) HL7
11 1 (0.047%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 173 (8.21%) Docker
2 21 (1.00%) Firmware
3 11 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.38%) KVM
6 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 150 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.27%) Terraform
3 37 (1.76%) Grafana
4 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.33%) Ansible
5 7 (0.33%) Kibana
6 3 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.14%) Nmap
6 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.095%) MIIS
7 2 (0.095%) MOM
8 1 (0.047%) Control-M
8 1 (0.047%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.047%) Nessus
8 1 (0.047%) Netcool
8 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 402 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.99%) Oracle
3 31 (1.47%) Google
4 15 (0.71%) Adobe
4 15 (0.71%) SAP
4 15 (0.71%) Xamarin
5 13 (0.62%) VMware
6 12 (0.57%) Databricks
7 10 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (0.43%) Palantir
8 9 (0.43%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.38%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.38%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.38%) Workday
10 7 (0.33%) iManage
11 6 (0.28%) Aderant
11 6 (0.28%) IBM
11 6 (0.28%) IFS
11 6 (0.28%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.28%) Talend