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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 -31 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,985 2,332 8,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.07% 4.87% 7.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.17% 16.28% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 1,924 6,823
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £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 £70,000
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 17,390 14,325 33,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 29.92% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,360 9,528 24,978
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £111,250 £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 5 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 5 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 +1 2,770 £60,000 -7.69% 869
UK excluding London +3 2,206 £57,500 -4.17% 714
Work from Home +2 1,272 £55,000 -15.38% 531
South East +18 661 £60,000 - 221
London -18 640 £82,500 +3.13% 273
North of England +33 567 £57,500 -4.17% 181
Midlands -9 371 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North West +47 284 £57,500 +4.55% 88
East of England +1 260 £60,000 -9.37% 92
South West +12 248 £55,000 - 72
East Midlands +11 187 £55,000 - 40
West Midlands -24 184 £59,500 +8.18% 56
Yorkshire +2 155 £55,000 -19.41% 49
North East -4 128 £60,000 +4.35% 47
Wales -44 42 £51,619 -20.59% 19
Scotland -19 33 £55,000 -12.00% 30
Northern Ireland -24 26 £65,000 -18.75% 23

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 81 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.04%) CMS
2 31 (1.04%) IIS
3 18 (0.60%) Confluence
4 15 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.30%) WordPress
6 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.20%) nginx
7 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.17%) Apache
8 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.13%) JBoss
9 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.10%) DNN
10 3 (0.10%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.10%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.10%) Kentico
10 3 (0.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.10%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.067%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
2 5 (0.17%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.10%) Magento
4 3 (0.10%) Shopify
5 2 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.067%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.067%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.034%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.034%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,518 (50.85%) Azure
2 516 (17.29%) AWS
3 412 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
4 278 (9.31%) Power Platform
5 216 (7.24%) SaaS
6 211 (7.07%) GitHub
7 162 (5.43%) Azure AI
8 161 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 160 (5.36%) Serverless
10 156 (5.23%) Power Automate
11 151 (5.06%) PowerApps
12 139 (4.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 127 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
14 110 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 104 (3.48%) Azure Functions
15 104 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
16 100 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 73 (2.45%) GCP
18 57 (1.91%) Azure AKS
19 56 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 58 (1.94%) Internet
2 19 (0.64%) Broadband
3 16 (0.54%) DNS
4 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.34%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.30%) Firewall
7 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) VPN
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) LTE
10 5 (0.17%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) BGP
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) IPsec
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.10%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 497 (16.65%) SQL Server
2 474 (15.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 412 (13.80%) MongoDB
4 160 (5.36%) Power BI
5 149 (4.99%) Elasticsearch
6 80 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.45%) MySQL
8 60 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 40 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.70%) Redis
13 16 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.44%) Db2
15 12 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.40%) Metadata
16 9 (0.30%) Big Data
16 9 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (0.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 210 (7.04%) Git
2 56 (1.88%) JIRA
3 41 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.17%) GitLab
4 35 (1.17%) Selenium
5 26 (0.87%) Postman
6 25 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.77%) SpecFlow
8 21 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.60%) Jenkins
10 14 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 13 (0.44%) NUnit
12 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.30%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 521 (17.45%) Finance
2 418 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 152 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (3.55%) Manufacturing
5 83 (2.78%) Games
6 73 (2.45%) Retail
7 72 (2.41%) Law
8 71 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 64 (2.14%) Advertising
10 62 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (2.08%) Legal
11 56 (1.88%) Electronics
11 56 (1.88%) Marketing
12 55 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 54 (1.81%) Banking
14 49 (1.64%) Front Office
15 35 (1.17%) Automotive
16 22 (0.74%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,634 (54.74%) Developer
2 740 (24.79%) .NET Developer
3 665 (22.28%) Software Engineer
4 612 (20.50%) Senior
5 418 (14.00%) Software Developer
6 382 (12.80%) C# Developer
7 315 (10.55%) C# Software Engineer
8 289 (9.68%) Lead
9 285 (9.55%) Senior Developer
10 235 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (5.66%) C# .NET Developer
12 168 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
13 165 (5.53%) C# Software Developer
14 154 (5.16%) .NET Software Engineer
15 143 (4.79%) Graduate
16 134 (4.49%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.32%) Graduate Developer
18 97 (3.25%) Azure Developer
19 95 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
19 95 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,948 (65.26%) .NET
2 739 (24.76%) .NET Core
3 681 (22.81%) ASP.NET
4 533 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 445 (14.91%) React
6 352 (11.79%) CSS
7 335 (11.22%) HTML
8 296 (9.92%) AngularJS
9 274 (9.18%) RESTful
10 273 (9.15%) Blazor
11 266 (8.91%) Vue
12 245 (8.21%) Entity Framework
13 239 (8.01%) Node.js
14 222 (7.44%) .NET Framework
15 203 (6.80%) REST
16 197 (6.60%) ASP.NET Web API
17 144 (4.82%) ML.NET
18 108 (3.62%) LINQ
19 104 (3.48%) WPF
20 70 (2.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 193 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 136 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.88%) Hedge funds
9 51 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.51%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.11%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 25 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.80%) Legacy Code
18 23 (0.77%) Robotics
18 23 (0.77%) Sports Betting
19 22 (0.74%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.89%) Windows
2 111 (3.72%) Linux
3 43 (1.44%) Android
4 28 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.067%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,026 (34.37%) Agile
2 939 (31.46%) Software Engineering
3 865 (28.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 702 (23.52%) CI/CD
5 680 (22.78%) DevOps
6 466 (15.61%) Microservices
7 454 (15.21%) AI
8 418 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
9 334 (11.19%) Mentoring
10 324 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (9.15%) Computer Science
12 251 (8.41%) Machine Learning
13 245 (8.21%) Test Automation
14 230 (7.71%) SDLC
15 192 (6.43%) Scrum
16 190 (6.37%) Multithreading
17 183 (6.13%) TDD
18 178 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
19 172 (5.76%) OO
20 157 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (38.09%) SQL
2 677 (22.68%) JavaScript
3 473 (15.85%) Python
4 447 (14.97%) TypeScript
5 339 (11.36%) C++
6 269 (9.01%) Java
7 129 (4.32%) PHP
8 108 (3.62%) PowerShell
9 76 (2.55%) C
10 58 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.44%) Bicep
12 39 (1.31%) Go
13 36 (1.21%) Bash
13 36 (1.21%) VB.NET
14 30 (1.01%) VBA
15 24 (0.80%) Rust
16 20 (0.67%) Scala
17 19 (0.64%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.60%) F#
19 17 (0.57%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 385 (12.90%) Degree
2 183 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 128 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.94%) PhD
9 21 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.17%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.17%) GPEN
16 5 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.06%) QA
2 48 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 24 (0.80%) GDPR
5 21 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.40%) SLA
8 11 (0.37%) WCAG
9 5 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.17%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.067%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.067%) ITGC
13 1 (0.034%) EMIR
13 1 (0.034%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 358 (11.99%) Docker
2 28 (0.94%) Firmware
3 22 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.20%) KVM
8 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 319 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 145 (4.86%) Terraform
3 36 (1.21%) Grafana
4 18 (0.60%) Ansible
5 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.10%) Control-M
7 3 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.10%) Kibana
8 2 (0.067%) MIIS
8 2 (0.067%) MOM
9 1 (0.034%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.034%) Nessus
9 1 (0.034%) Netcool
9 1 (0.034%) Nmap
Vendors
1 940 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 76 (2.55%) Google
3 60 (2.01%) Facebook
4 47 (1.57%) Oracle
5 25 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.77%) Adobe
7 19 (0.64%) Apple
7 19 (0.64%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.64%) YouTube
8 17 (0.57%) Sony
8 17 (0.57%) VMware
8 17 (0.57%) Yahoo!
9 15 (0.50%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.47%) Databricks
11 12 (0.40%) Intapp
12 11 (0.37%) Splunk
13 10 (0.34%) IBM
13 10 (0.34%) iManage
13 10 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.30%) ServiceNow