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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,946 3,151 7,056
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.70% 6.87% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.66% 19.99% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,699 2,248 6,345
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,549 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
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 13,270 15,762 28,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.38% 34.39% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,384 10,047 23,318
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -43 1,785 £60,000 -7.69% 901
UK excluding London -50 1,301 £57,500 - 738
Work from Home -29 773 £60,000 -7.69% 495
London -21 522 £80,000 +6.67% 277
North of England -29 376 £65,000 +23.81% 188
South East -45 376 £55,000 -12.00% 247
Midlands -36 266 £52,500 -4.55% 95
North West -33 181 £62,500 +22.81% 100
East Midlands -23 140 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Yorkshire -29 131 £65,000 +30.00% 57
South West -35 127 £55,000 -4.35% 96
West Midlands -51 126 £52,500 -8.70% 57
East of England -66 93 £55,000 -16.93% 74
North East -7 64 £70,000 +16.67% 36
Scotland -71 46 £60,000 +34.83% 31
Wales -45 16 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Northern Ireland -32 9 £95,000 +61.70% 5
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 48 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.75%) IIS
3 18 (0.92%) CMS
4 8 (0.41%) Kinematics
5 7 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.26%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.21%) Confluence
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.10%) nginx
9 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.051%) Kentico
Applications
1 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.31%) Shopify
4 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.10%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.10%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.10%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.051%) Endur
6 1 (0.051%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 887 (45.58%) Azure
2 345 (17.73%) AWS
3 230 (11.82%) SaaS
4 221 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
5 196 (10.07%) Power Platform
6 130 (6.68%) Serverless
7 104 (5.34%) Power Automate
8 103 (5.29%) Dynamics 365
9 96 (4.93%) PowerApps
10 95 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 83 (4.27%) GCP
12 75 (3.85%) Azure Functions
13 67 (3.44%) GitHub
14 58 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
15 54 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 40 (2.06%) Azure AKS
17 37 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 34 (1.75%) Entra ID
19 30 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
20 27 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.36%) DNS
4 6 (0.31%) DHCP
4 6 (0.31%) HTTP
4 6 (0.31%) Internet
5 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.15%) Broadband
6 3 (0.15%) LTE
7 2 (0.10%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.10%) Intranet
7 2 (0.10%) Modbus
7 2 (0.10%) NAS
7 2 (0.10%) VLAN
8 1 (0.051%) IPv6
8 1 (0.051%) SSL
8 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (19.94%) SQL Server
2 100 (5.14%) Power BI
3 83 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 77 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 67 (3.44%) MySQL
6 57 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 53 (2.72%) MongoDB
8 48 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 45 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.13%) Redis
13 16 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 8 (0.41%) DB2
16 7 (0.36%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.26%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.26%) GIS
18 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (6.73%) Git
2 69 (3.55%) Selenium
3 62 (3.19%) Visual Studio
4 58 (2.98%) JIRA
5 41 (2.11%) Postman
6 36 (1.85%) WebDriver
7 33 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
8 29 (1.49%) Jenkins
9 28 (1.44%) SoapUI
10 25 (1.28%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.72%) GitLab
14 13 (0.67%) NUnit
15 9 (0.46%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.46%) LabVIEW
16 7 (0.36%) Balsamiq
16 7 (0.36%) PowerBuilder
16 7 (0.36%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.31%) git-flow
General
1 410 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 349 (17.93%) Finance
3 124 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (4.47%) Law
5 78 (4.01%) Public Sector
6 61 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 58 (2.98%) Retail
8 54 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (2.47%) Banking
10 43 (2.21%) Front Office
11 39 (2.00%) Electronics
12 33 (1.70%) Games
13 31 (1.59%) Legal
14 30 (1.54%) Marketing
15 17 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.87%) Military
16 16 (0.82%) Aviation
16 16 (0.82%) Investment Banking
16 16 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 970 (49.85%) Developer
2 428 (21.99%) Senior
3 341 (17.52%) Software Engineer
4 309 (15.88%) Software Developer
5 300 (15.42%) C# Developer
6 250 (12.85%) .NET Developer
7 227 (11.66%) Senior Developer
8 198 (10.17%) Lead
9 161 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 116 (5.96%) C# Software Engineer
11 106 (5.45%) .NET Software Engineer
11 106 (5.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 106 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 95 (4.88%) C# Software Developer
13 67 (3.44%) Analyst
14 66 (3.39%) Lead Developer
14 66 (3.39%) Senior Software Developer
15 65 (3.34%) Architect
16 64 (3.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 64 (3.29%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,199 (61.61%) .NET
2 343 (17.63%) .NET Core
3 262 (13.46%) React
4 223 (11.46%) ASP.NET
5 192 (9.87%) HTML
6 187 (9.61%) .NET Framework
7 177 (9.10%) CSS
8 153 (7.86%) AngularJS
9 138 (7.09%) REST
10 95 (4.88%) RESTful
11 88 (4.52%) Entity Framework
12 71 (3.65%) Vue
13 68 (3.49%) Blazor
14 57 (2.93%) Node.js
15 55 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
16 49 (2.52%) ASP.NET MVC
17 46 (2.36%) XML
18 44 (2.26%) ASP.NET Web API
19 43 (2.21%) WPF
20 42 (2.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (3.34%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.06%) Low-Code
8 35 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 33 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 29 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.49%) Hedge funds
11 28 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 18 (0.92%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.87%) Sports Betting
15 15 (0.77%) Derivative
16 14 (0.72%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
16 14 (0.72%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.78%) Windows
2 69 (3.55%) Linux
3 23 (1.18%) Android
4 19 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.87%) Unix
6 11 (0.57%) VMS
7 10 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.10%) Nucleus RTOS
9 2 (0.10%) Solaris
9 2 (0.10%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.051%) Fedora
10 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (31.65%) Software Engineering
2 592 (30.42%) Agile
3 444 (22.82%) DevOps
4 415 (21.33%) CI/CD
5 390 (20.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 350 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (14.54%) Mentoring
8 280 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 264 (13.57%) Microservices
10 200 (10.28%) Computer Science
11 172 (8.84%) AI
12 163 (8.38%) SDLC
13 149 (7.66%) Test Automation
14 145 (7.45%) Scrum
15 129 (6.63%) MVC
16 123 (6.32%) Containerisation
17 113 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
18 110 (5.65%) Migration
19 106 (5.45%) CRM
19 106 (5.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 629 (32.32%) SQL
2 450 (23.12%) JavaScript
3 317 (16.29%) Python
4 248 (12.74%) TypeScript
5 241 (12.38%) Java
6 163 (8.38%) C++
7 93 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 67 (3.44%) PHP
9 53 (2.72%) C
10 44 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.49%) VB.NET
12 26 (1.34%) Go
13 23 (1.18%) Rust
14 22 (1.13%) Bash
15 17 (0.87%) Delphi
15 17 (0.87%) VBA
16 16 (0.82%) Bicep
17 15 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.77%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.62%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 281 (14.44%) Degree
2 133 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 129 (6.63%) Security Cleared
4 78 (4.01%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 50 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.31%) ISTQB
8 37 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 28 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 24 (1.23%) DV Cleared
13 23 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 21 (1.08%) PhD
15 16 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.41%) ISEB
18 7 (0.36%) CREST Certified
19 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 5 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (8.89%) QA
2 31 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.92%) GDPR
5 11 (0.57%) ISO 9001
5 11 (0.57%) WCAG
6 8 (0.41%) SLA
7 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.15%) EMIR
8 3 (0.15%) SEPA
9 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.051%) HL7
10 1 (0.051%) IFRS
10 1 (0.051%) ITGC
System Software
1 177 (9.10%) Docker
2 24 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.98%) Firmware
4 9 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.31%) KVM
7 2 (0.10%) vSphere
8 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.051%) Squid
8 1 (0.051%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.42%) Terraform
3 27 (1.39%) Grafana
4 13 (0.67%) Ansible
5 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.41%) Kibana
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.15%) Nmap
8 2 (0.10%) Control-M
8 2 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.10%) MOM
8 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.051%) Nessus
9 1 (0.051%) Netcool
9 1 (0.051%) WMI
Vendors
1 402 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 49 (2.52%) Oracle
3 33 (1.70%) Google
4 21 (1.08%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.87%) SAP
6 14 (0.72%) Palantir
7 13 (0.67%) Databricks
8 12 (0.62%) Guidewire
8 12 (0.62%) Sage
9 11 (0.57%) VMware
10 9 (0.46%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.46%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.41%) Adobe
11 8 (0.41%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.36%) iManage
12 7 (0.36%) Infor
13 6 (0.31%) Aderant
13 6 (0.31%) Foundry
13 6 (0.31%) IFS