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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,852 3,604 5,917
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.97% 6.78% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.61% 20.17% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 2,310 5,298
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,650 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% - -

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 11,866 17,870 24,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.06% 33.62% 38.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,598 10,427 19,968
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £102,500
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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -42 1,690 £60,000 - 1,400
UK excluding London -48 1,239 £55,650 +1.18% 1,327
Work from Home -24 780 £60,000 - 769
London -22 497 £80,000 +6.67% 259
North of England -31 366 £62,500 +13.64% 274
South East -39 338 £55,000 -12.00% 423
Midlands -34 259 £52,500 -4.55% 173
North West -21 186 £62,500 +19.05% 148
West Midlands -39 134 £52,500 -4.55% 61
East Midlands -22 125 £52,750 -4.09% 110
South West -39 115 £55,000 - 155
Yorkshire -34 114 £60,750 +21.50% 83
East of England -55 91 £55,000 -4.35% 189
North East -10 66 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Scotland -78 45 £60,000 +33.33% 59
Wales -27 25 £47,500 -20.83% 65
Northern Ireland -17 8 £95,000 +61.70% 22
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 40 (2.16%) IIS
2 39 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.19%) CMS
4 13 (0.70%) Confluence
5 12 (0.65%) Kinematics
6 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Endur
6 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 887 (47.89%) Azure
2 350 (18.90%) AWS
3 235 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (11.23%) SaaS
5 178 (9.61%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.13%) Serverless
7 110 (5.94%) Power Automate
8 107 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (5.18%) PowerApps
10 88 (4.75%) GCP
11 82 (4.43%) GitHub
12 77 (4.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 69 (3.73%) Azure Functions
14 56 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 35 (1.89%) Entra ID
18 32 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
19 30 (1.62%) Azure AKS
20 28 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.43%) DNS
3 8 (0.43%) HTTP
4 6 (0.32%) Internet
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
6 4 (0.22%) Firewall
6 4 (0.22%) SAN
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) Broadband
8 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.11%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
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 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.054%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (19.82%) SQL Server
2 86 (4.64%) Relational Database
3 83 (4.48%) Power BI
4 76 (4.10%) MySQL
5 75 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 70 (3.78%) NoSQL
7 69 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.13%) Redis
13 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.27%) Big Data
16 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 130 (7.02%) Git
2 83 (4.48%) Selenium
3 81 (4.37%) JIRA
4 69 (3.73%) Visual Studio
5 55 (2.97%) Postman
6 41 (2.21%) WebDriver
7 40 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 36 (1.94%) Jenkins
9 35 (1.89%) SoapUI
10 23 (1.24%) SpecFlow
11 18 (0.97%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 12 (0.65%) GitLab
15 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.54%) JMeter
17 9 (0.49%) REST Assured
18 7 (0.38%) LabVIEW
18 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
19 6 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 466 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 314 (16.95%) Finance
3 110 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (4.48%) Law
5 74 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.56%) Retail
7 57 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (2.48%) Front Office
10 38 (2.05%) Banking
11 36 (1.94%) Electronics
12 34 (1.84%) Legal
13 30 (1.62%) Marketing
14 27 (1.46%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.81%) Aviation
16 15 (0.81%) Billing
16 15 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.70%) Military
18 12 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 907 (48.97%) Developer
2 425 (22.95%) Senior
3 303 (16.36%) Software Engineer
4 243 (13.12%) Software Developer
5 242 (13.07%) C# Developer
6 238 (12.85%) .NET Developer
7 217 (11.72%) Senior Developer
8 207 (11.18%) Lead
9 142 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 99 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 94 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
12 84 (4.54%) .NET Software Engineer
13 76 (4.10%) C# .NET Developer
14 74 (4.00%) Lead Developer
15 71 (3.83%) Analyst
16 68 (3.67%) Support Engineer
17 66 (3.56%) C# Software Developer
18 65 (3.51%) Architect
18 65 (3.51%) Graduate
19 63 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,123 (60.64%) .NET
2 315 (17.01%) .NET Core
3 279 (15.06%) React
4 241 (13.01%) ASP.NET
5 198 (10.69%) HTML
6 192 (10.37%) .NET Framework
7 177 (9.56%) AngularJS
7 177 (9.56%) CSS
8 143 (7.72%) REST
9 114 (6.16%) RESTful
10 95 (5.13%) Entity Framework
11 86 (4.64%) Vue
12 77 (4.16%) Blazor
13 72 (3.89%) ASP.NET MVC
14 59 (3.19%) SOAP
15 57 (3.08%) Node.js
16 56 (3.02%) ASP.NET Web API
17 54 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
18 45 (2.43%) HTML5
18 45 (2.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 85 (4.59%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 44 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.67%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.97%) Client/Server
12 18 (0.97%) Hedge funds
12 18 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 17 (0.92%) Derivative
13 17 (0.92%) Robotics
14 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.81%) IoT
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (4.86%) Windows
2 66 (3.56%) Linux
3 20 (1.08%) Android
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.27%) VMS
7 4 (0.22%) Solaris
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.054%) AIX
9 1 (0.054%) Fedora
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (33.10%) Agile
2 559 (30.18%) Software Engineering
3 457 (24.68%) DevOps
4 432 (23.33%) CI/CD
5 403 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 306 (16.52%) Mentoring
8 298 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 286 (15.44%) Microservices
10 206 (11.12%) Computer Science
11 158 (8.53%) Test Automation
12 154 (8.32%) Scrum
13 147 (7.94%) AI
13 147 (7.94%) SDLC
14 143 (7.72%) MVC
15 123 (6.64%) Migration
16 121 (6.53%) CRM
17 119 (6.43%) Containerisation
17 119 (6.43%) OO
18 103 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 632 (34.13%) SQL
2 445 (24.03%) JavaScript
3 306 (16.52%) Python
4 248 (13.39%) Java
5 230 (12.42%) TypeScript
6 145 (7.83%) C++
7 102 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.94%) PHP
9 49 (2.65%) C
10 47 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.40%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.24%) Bash
13 18 (0.97%) Delphi
13 18 (0.97%) Go
14 17 (0.92%) Bicep
14 17 (0.92%) Rust
15 14 (0.76%) VBA
16 10 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.43%) XAML
Qualifications
1 287 (15.50%) Degree
2 147 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 120 (6.48%) Security Cleared
4 70 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 52 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 51 (2.75%) ISTQB
8 41 (2.21%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 29 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.51%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (1.08%) DV Cleared
14 17 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.76%) PhD
16 9 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.43%) ISEB
18 6 (0.32%) CREST Certified
19 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
20 4 (0.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.67%) QA
2 41 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.70%) WCAG
6 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) SLA
11 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.054%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.054%) IFRS
11 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (8.80%) Docker
2 20 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.08%) Firmware
3 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.054%) HDFS
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 143 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.40%) Terraform
3 28 (1.51%) Grafana
4 14 (0.76%) Ansible
5 8 (0.43%) Kibana
5 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
7 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.11%) Nagios
9 1 (0.054%) MOM
9 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 420 (22.68%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.92%) Oracle
3 29 (1.57%) Google
4 23 (1.24%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.97%) Xamarin
6 16 (0.86%) SAP
7 15 (0.81%) Sage
8 13 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.70%) Palantir
9 10 (0.54%) Databricks
9 10 (0.54%) VMware
10 9 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
11 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.43%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.38%) Adobe
12 7 (0.38%) IBM
12 7 (0.38%) Infor
13 6 (0.32%) DevExpress
13 6 (0.32%) Epicor