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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 55 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -34 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,285 2,245 6,182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.54% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.05% 15.75% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 1,862 5,010
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,275 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £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 18,204 14,253 26,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 28.84% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,982 9,428 19,180
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 31 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 31 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 +7 2,993 £60,000 -7.69% 865
UK excluding London +11 2,493 £57,500 - 629
Work from Home +7 1,493 £55,000 -12.00% 477
South East +17 714 £60,000 - 210
London -22 664 £82,500 +3.13% 326
North of England +36 620 £57,500 -4.17% 155
Midlands -10 400 £57,500 +4.55% 97
North West +47 294 £55,000 -2.22% 84
South West +28 290 £53,000 -3.64% 63
East of England +14 286 £60,000 - 84
West Midlands -14 212 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East Midlands +14 188 £55,000 - 52
Yorkshire +21 181 £55,000 -15.38% 39
North East -5 145 £60,000 +4.35% 33
Northern Ireland +11 106 £57,500 -28.13% 5
Wales -49 45 £51,619 -1.68% 19
Scotland -15 34 £50,000 -22.48% 17

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 95 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (1.00%) CMS
4 22 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) 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 (0.091%) DNN
12 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.091%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 45 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.091%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.091%) Magento
6 3 (0.091%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.091%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.061%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.061%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.061%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.061%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,639 (49.89%) Azure
2 556 (16.93%) AWS
3 441 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 309 (9.41%) Power Platform
5 259 (7.88%) SaaS
6 240 (7.31%) GitHub
7 185 (5.63%) Azure AI
8 181 (5.51%) Power Automate
9 166 (5.05%) PowerApps
10 160 (4.87%) GitHub Copilot
11 159 (4.84%) Serverless
12 154 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 148 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
14 126 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
15 118 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 107 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 96 (2.92%) Azure Functions
18 80 (2.44%) GCP
19 56 (1.70%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.89%) Internet
2 18 (0.55%) Broadband
2 18 (0.55%) DNS
3 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.37%) HTTP
5 10 (0.30%) Firewall
6 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.24%) VPN
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) DHCP
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) LTE
10 4 (0.12%) Modbus
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
10 4 (0.12%) SNMP
11 3 (0.091%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 565 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 513 (15.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.79%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.11%) Power BI
5 164 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
6 85 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 83 (2.53%) MySQL
8 70 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 62 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (0.79%) Redis
14 15 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.43%) Db2
16 13 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.37%) Metadata
18 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 248 (7.55%) Git
2 71 (2.16%) JIRA
3 44 (1.34%) Selenium
4 42 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.04%) GitLab
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.70%) Jenkins
8 21 (0.64%) Postman
8 21 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.55%) NUnit
11 16 (0.49%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 529 (16.10%) Finance
2 522 (15.89%) Social Skills
3 170 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (4.69%) Legal
5 114 (3.47%) Law
5 114 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 87 (2.65%) Games
7 80 (2.44%) Retail
8 77 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 75 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 72 (2.19%) Advertising
11 67 (2.04%) Marketing
12 56 (1.70%) Banking
12 56 (1.70%) Electronics
13 54 (1.64%) Aerospace
14 46 (1.40%) Front Office
15 39 (1.19%) Legal Technology
16 36 (1.10%) Automotive
17 24 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,778 (54.12%) Developer
2 804 (24.47%) .NET Developer
3 726 (22.10%) Senior
4 701 (21.34%) Software Engineer
5 426 (12.97%) Software Developer
6 391 (11.90%) C# Developer
7 352 (10.72%) Senior Developer
8 324 (9.86%) Lead
9 314 (9.56%) C# Software Engineer
10 243 (7.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 183 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 171 (5.21%) C# Software Developer
13 169 (5.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 152 (4.63%) Graduate
15 151 (4.60%) .NET Software Engineer
16 144 (4.38%) Lead Developer
17 111 (3.38%) Architect
18 109 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 103 (3.14%) Graduate Developer
20 102 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,131 (64.87%) .NET
2 769 (23.41%) .NET Core
3 761 (23.17%) ASP.NET
4 594 (18.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 475 (14.46%) React
6 386 (11.75%) CSS
7 374 (11.39%) HTML
8 323 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 310 (9.44%) RESTful
10 304 (9.25%) Blazor
11 290 (8.83%) Vue
12 285 (8.68%) Entity Framework
13 260 (7.91%) Node.js
14 258 (7.85%) .NET Framework
15 235 (7.15%) REST
16 221 (6.73%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.75%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.65%) LINQ
18 120 (3.65%) WPF
19 88 (2.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
3 134 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 126 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 90 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.58%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.46%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 30 (0.91%) AI Agents
14 30 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (0.88%) Robotics
16 28 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
16 28 (0.85%) Legacy Code
17 26 (0.79%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 162 (4.93%) Windows
2 111 (3.38%) Linux
3 42 (1.28%) Android
4 37 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (35.37%) Agile
2 1,056 (32.15%) Software Engineering
3 925 (28.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 799 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 768 (23.38%) DevOps
6 563 (17.14%) Microservices
7 520 (15.83%) AI
8 507 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 432 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 415 (12.63%) Mentoring
11 303 (9.22%) Test Automation
12 283 (8.61%) Computer Science
13 273 (8.31%) Machine Learning
14 266 (8.10%) SDLC
15 207 (6.30%) Scrum
16 201 (6.12%) Multithreading
17 199 (6.06%) Software Testing
18 196 (5.97%) OO
19 191 (5.81%) TDD
20 178 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,226 (37.32%) SQL
2 780 (23.74%) JavaScript
3 542 (16.50%) Python
4 520 (15.83%) TypeScript
5 336 (10.23%) C++
6 282 (8.58%) Java
7 145 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.29%) PHP
9 75 (2.28%) C
10 66 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.46%) VB.NET
12 46 (1.40%) Bicep
13 42 (1.28%) Go
14 33 (1.00%) Bash
15 32 (0.97%) VBA
16 22 (0.67%) Rust
16 22 (0.67%) Scala
17 19 (0.58%) Delphi
17 19 (0.58%) F#
18 18 (0.55%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 401 (12.21%) Degree
2 196 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 92 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 39 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.67%) PhD
9 19 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.46%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.12%) ISEB
19 3 (0.091%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (8.74%) QA
2 54 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.85%) GDPR
5 20 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.33%) WCAG
7 10 (0.30%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.18%) NCSC
10 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.091%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.091%) PSD2
13 2 (0.061%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.061%) NIST
14 1 (0.030%) EMIR
System Software
1 384 (11.69%) Docker
2 21 (0.64%) Firmware
3 20 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 346 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 156 (4.75%) Terraform
3 34 (1.04%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.091%) Control-M
9 3 (0.091%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.061%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,073 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.65%) Google
3 65 (1.98%) Facebook
4 48 (1.46%) Oracle
5 30 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.70%) Adobe
8 22 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
9 19 (0.58%) Databricks
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.49%) Intapp
11 16 (0.49%) VMware
12 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.37%) iManage
13 12 (0.37%) SAP
13 12 (0.37%) Splunk
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 9 (0.27%) Aderant