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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 49 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,146 2,346 7,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.76% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.74% 16.27% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,740 1,945 6,113
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.58% +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 17,734 14,421 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.29% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,707 9,589 22,724
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,212
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +2 2,873 £60,000 -7.69% 597
UK excluding London +8 2,362 £57,250 -4.58% 479
Work from Home 0 1,406 £55,000 -15.38% 304
South East +18 684 £60,000 - 169
London -22 651 £82,500 +3.13% 187
North of England +31 593 £56,500 -4.24% 117
Midlands -9 388 £55,000 - 68
North West +45 287 £56,250 +2.27% 53
East of England +4 269 £60,000 -9.37% 68
South West +17 267 £52,500 -4.55% 53
West Midlands -20 201 £60,000 +9.09% 35
East Midlands +18 187 £55,000 - 33
Yorkshire +14 167 £55,000 -15.38% 35
North East -4 139 £60,000 +4.35% 32
Northern Ireland +1 83 £61,250 -23.44% 2
Wales -39 47 £51,810 -17.10% 8
Scotland -8 33 £50,000 -22.48% 13

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 87 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.11%) IIS
3 33 (1.05%) CMS
4 19 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.095%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.095%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.095%) Magento
6 2 (0.064%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.064%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.064%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.032%) Eikon
7 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.032%) RMDS
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,584 (50.35%) Azure
2 519 (16.50%) AWS
3 421 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
4 291 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 241 (7.66%) SaaS
6 227 (7.22%) GitHub
7 178 (5.66%) Azure AI
8 165 (5.24%) Power Automate
9 163 (5.18%) Serverless
10 159 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 157 (4.99%) PowerApps
12 155 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 134 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
14 115 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 101 (3.21%) Azure Functions
18 71 (2.26%) GCP
19 57 (1.81%) Azure AKS
20 54 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.97%) Internet
2 18 (0.57%) Broadband
2 18 (0.57%) DNS
3 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.25%) Firewall
5 8 (0.25%) VPN
6 7 (0.22%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.19%) BGP
7 6 (0.19%) DHCP
7 6 (0.19%) IPsec
8 5 (0.16%) LAN
8 5 (0.16%) WAN
9 4 (0.13%) Intranet
9 4 (0.13%) LTE
9 4 (0.13%) Modbus
9 4 (0.13%) Network Security
10 3 (0.095%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.095%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 525 (16.69%) SQL Server
2 512 (16.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 447 (14.21%) MongoDB
4 165 (5.24%) Power BI
5 161 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 75 (2.38%) MySQL
8 60 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 57 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.73%) Redis
13 21 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.45%) Db2
15 12 (0.38%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Metadata
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 218 (6.93%) Git
2 64 (2.03%) JIRA
3 40 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.18%) Selenium
5 36 (1.14%) GitLab
6 26 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.70%) Postman
8 20 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.51%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.51%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.38%) NUnit
13 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.22%) Moq
15 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.19%) MSTest
General
1 525 (16.69%) Finance
2 475 (15.10%) Social Skills
3 161 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (4.01%) Legal
5 108 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 104 (3.31%) Law
7 87 (2.77%) Games
8 78 (2.48%) Retail
9 70 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.19%) Advertising
11 64 (2.03%) Marketing
12 59 (1.88%) Banking
12 59 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 57 (1.81%) Electronics
14 53 (1.68%) Aerospace
15 50 (1.59%) Front Office
16 38 (1.21%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.11%) Automotive
18 20 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,724 (54.80%) Developer
2 786 (24.98%) .NET Developer
3 688 (21.87%) Senior
4 678 (21.55%) Software Engineer
5 413 (13.13%) Software Developer
6 382 (12.14%) C# Developer
7 329 (10.46%) Senior Developer
8 307 (9.76%) C# Software Engineer
9 303 (9.63%) Lead
10 239 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 179 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (5.28%) C# .NET Developer
13 165 (5.24%) C# Software Developer
14 151 (4.80%) .NET Software Engineer
15 150 (4.77%) Graduate
16 136 (4.32%) Lead Developer
17 102 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
18 101 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
19 98 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 96 (3.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,043 (64.94%) .NET
2 757 (24.06%) .NET Core
3 728 (23.14%) ASP.NET
4 579 (18.40%) ASP.NET Core
5 450 (14.30%) React
6 374 (11.89%) CSS
7 359 (11.41%) HTML
8 311 (9.89%) AngularJS
9 294 (9.35%) RESTful
10 289 (9.19%) Blazor
11 283 (9.00%) Vue
12 269 (8.55%) Entity Framework
13 257 (8.17%) Node.js
14 239 (7.60%) .NET Framework
15 214 (6.80%) ASP.NET Web API
16 211 (6.71%) REST
17 154 (4.90%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.81%) LINQ
19 110 (3.50%) WPF
20 84 (2.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 200 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
3 120 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
5 99 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.83%) Robotics
17 24 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
18 23 (0.73%) Legacy Code
19 22 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.83%) Windows
2 108 (3.43%) Linux
3 42 (1.34%) Android
4 34 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.064%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (35.31%) Agile
2 1,003 (31.88%) Software Engineering
3 907 (28.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 758 (24.09%) CI/CD
5 723 (22.98%) DevOps
6 528 (16.78%) Microservices
7 489 (15.54%) AI
8 472 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 393 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 378 (12.02%) Mentoring
11 283 (9.00%) Test Automation
12 275 (8.74%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.42%) Machine Learning
14 243 (7.72%) SDLC
15 205 (6.52%) Scrum
16 200 (6.36%) Multithreading
17 184 (5.85%) TDD
18 179 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
18 179 (5.69%) OO
19 175 (5.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (37.86%) SQL
2 731 (23.24%) JavaScript
3 514 (16.34%) Python
4 489 (15.54%) TypeScript
5 341 (10.84%) C++
6 274 (8.71%) Java
7 138 (4.39%) PHP
8 134 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 79 (2.51%) C
10 59 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.43%) Bicep
12 41 (1.30%) VB.NET
13 39 (1.24%) Go
14 34 (1.08%) Bash
15 32 (1.02%) VBA
16 25 (0.79%) Rust
17 22 (0.70%) Scala
18 20 (0.64%) F#
19 19 (0.60%) Haskell
20 18 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 389 (12.36%) Degree
2 183 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 117 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 42 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (0.83%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) GXPN
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (7.98%) QA
2 51 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 27 (0.86%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.35%) WCAG
8 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.16%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.064%) ITGC
12 2 (0.064%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.064%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 365 (11.60%) Docker
2 25 (0.79%) Firmware
3 20 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.095%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 329 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 145 (4.61%) Terraform
3 36 (1.14%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.095%) Control-M
9 3 (0.095%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.064%) MIIS
10 2 (0.064%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,018 (32.36%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.70%) Google
3 64 (2.03%) Facebook
4 50 (1.59%) Oracle
5 27 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.73%) Adobe
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.51%) Databricks
10 16 (0.51%) VMware
11 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.45%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.32%) iManage
16 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow