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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 51 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -30 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,105 2,370 7,705
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.82% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.54% 16.36% 24.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,719 1,959 6,407
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,845 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 17,706 14,488 32,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 29.44% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,615 9,642 23,863
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,025 £35,000
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 £78,750
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 12 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 12 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 2,853 £60,000 -7.69% 845
UK excluding London +3 2,310 £57,500 -4.17% 729
Work from Home +2 1,366 £55,000 -15.38% 496
South East +17 679 £60,000 - 228
London -18 652 £82,500 +3.13% 247
North of England +36 576 £57,500 -3.85% 186
Midlands -5 392 £56,250 +2.27% 91
North West +42 280 £57,500 +4.55% 96
South West +20 266 £54,500 -0.91% 67
East of England +2 265 £60,000 -9.37% 101
West Midlands -21 200 £60,000 +9.09% 49
East Midlands +14 192 £55,000 - 42
Yorkshire +6 162 £55,000 -19.12% 48
North East -9 134 £60,000 +4.35% 44
Northern Ireland -8 55 £61,250 -23.44% 30
Wales -34 47 £51,810 -20.29% 18
Scotland -23 32 £52,500 -16.00% 29

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 85 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.10%) IIS
3 31 (1.00%) CMS
4 19 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.23%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
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 (0.097%) DNN
12 3 (0.097%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.097%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.097%) Kentico
12 3 (0.097%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.097%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.097%) Magento
4 3 (0.097%) Shopify
5 2 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.064%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.064%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,571 (50.60%) Azure
2 531 (17.10%) AWS
3 424 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
4 286 (9.21%) Power Platform
5 235 (7.57%) SaaS
6 228 (7.34%) GitHub
7 175 (5.64%) Azure AI
8 169 (5.44%) Serverless
9 165 (5.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 161 (5.19%) Power Automate
11 155 (4.99%) PowerApps
12 153 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 133 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
14 116 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
15 107 (3.45%) Azure Functions
16 105 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
17 104 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 76 (2.45%) GCP
19 57 (1.84%) Azure AKS
20 54 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.00%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) Broadband
3 17 (0.55%) DNS
4 14 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.29%) Firewall
7 8 (0.26%) VPN
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.19%) DHCP
10 5 (0.16%) BGP
10 5 (0.16%) IPsec
10 5 (0.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) LTE
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.097%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.097%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 511 (16.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 445 (14.33%) MongoDB
4 163 (5.25%) Power BI
5 159 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (2.64%) NoSQL
7 74 (2.38%) MySQL
8 60 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 55 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.68%) Redis
13 19 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.45%) Db2
15 13 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.39%) Metadata
17 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
17 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
18 10 (0.32%) Big Data
18 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 215 (6.92%) Git
2 61 (1.96%) JIRA
3 38 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.13%) GitLab
4 35 (1.13%) Selenium
5 25 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 24 (0.77%) Postman
7 23 (0.74%) SpecFlow
8 22 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.55%) Jenkins
10 15 (0.48%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.45%) NUnit
12 12 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 534 (17.20%) Finance
2 442 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 155 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (3.41%) Manufacturing
5 105 (3.38%) Law
6 94 (3.03%) Legal
7 88 (2.83%) Games
8 79 (2.54%) Retail
9 73 (2.35%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.25%) Advertising
11 63 (2.03%) Marketing
12 61 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.87%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.84%) Banking
14 57 (1.84%) Electronics
15 48 (1.55%) Front Office
16 38 (1.22%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.13%) Automotive
18 20 (0.64%) Military
19 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,695 (54.59%) Developer
2 783 (25.22%) .NET Developer
3 676 (21.77%) Software Engineer
4 657 (21.16%) Senior
5 412 (13.27%) Software Developer
6 378 (12.17%) C# Developer
7 309 (9.95%) C# Software Engineer
7 309 (9.95%) Senior Developer
8 293 (9.44%) Lead
9 239 (7.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 178 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 167 (5.38%) C# .NET Developer
12 163 (5.25%) C# Software Developer
13 154 (4.96%) .NET Software Engineer
14 145 (4.67%) Graduate
15 132 (4.25%) Lead Developer
16 100 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
17 99 (3.19%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.16%) Architect
19 96 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,024 (65.19%) .NET
2 766 (24.67%) .NET Core
3 727 (23.41%) ASP.NET
4 575 (18.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 448 (14.43%) React
6 373 (12.01%) CSS
7 354 (11.40%) HTML
8 305 (9.82%) AngularJS
9 291 (9.37%) RESTful
10 286 (9.21%) Blazor
11 279 (8.99%) Vue
12 269 (8.66%) Entity Framework
13 255 (8.21%) Node.js
14 241 (7.76%) .NET Framework
15 213 (6.86%) ASP.NET Web API
16 212 (6.83%) REST
17 154 (4.96%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.86%) LINQ
19 108 (3.48%) WPF
20 81 (2.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 147 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
3 117 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 110 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
5 97 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.77%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 43 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 28 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 27 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
17 24 (0.77%) Legacy Code
17 24 (0.77%) Robotics
18 23 (0.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.93%) Windows
2 112 (3.61%) Linux
3 42 (1.35%) Android
4 34 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.064%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,093 (35.20%) Agile
2 982 (31.63%) Software Engineering
3 906 (29.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 744 (23.96%) CI/CD
5 711 (22.90%) DevOps
6 503 (16.20%) Microservices
7 478 (15.39%) AI
8 450 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 360 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 356 (11.47%) Mentoring
11 277 (8.92%) Computer Science
12 271 (8.73%) Test Automation
13 264 (8.50%) Machine Learning
14 234 (7.54%) SDLC
15 199 (6.41%) Multithreading
15 199 (6.41%) Scrum
16 187 (6.02%) TDD
17 180 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
18 176 (5.67%) OO
19 163 (5.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (37.94%) SQL
2 718 (23.12%) JavaScript
3 504 (16.23%) Python
4 479 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 344 (11.08%) C++
6 276 (8.89%) Java
7 129 (4.15%) PHP
8 124 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 78 (2.51%) C
10 59 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.48%) Bicep
12 40 (1.29%) Go
12 40 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 36 (1.16%) Bash
14 30 (0.97%) VBA
15 24 (0.77%) Rust
16 22 (0.71%) Scala
17 20 (0.64%) F#
18 19 (0.61%) Haskell
18 19 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 390 (12.56%) Degree
2 184 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 128 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 82 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 38 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.90%) PhD
9 21 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 20 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.16%) GPEN
15 5 (0.16%) GXPN
15 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (7.12%) QA
2 51 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.84%) GDPR
5 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.39%) SLA
7 12 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) 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
1 371 (11.95%) Docker
2 27 (0.87%) Firmware
3 22 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.23%) KVM
7 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.097%) vSphere
10 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 334 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 149 (4.80%) Terraform
3 39 (1.26%) Grafana
4 18 (0.58%) Ansible
5 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.097%) Control-M
9 3 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.064%) Kibana
10 2 (0.064%) MIIS
10 2 (0.064%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
11 1 (0.032%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,005 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.80%) Google
3 64 (2.06%) Facebook
4 48 (1.55%) Oracle
5 26 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.74%) Adobe
7 21 (0.68%) YouTube
8 20 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 19 (0.61%) Apple
10 18 (0.58%) VMware
11 17 (0.55%) Sony
11 17 (0.55%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.52%) Databricks
13 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
14 13 (0.42%) Intapp
15 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 11 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.35%) Splunk
16 10 (0.32%) iManage
17 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow