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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,410 1,938 5,419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.02% 3.90% 6.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.22% 14.75% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,886 1,608 3,836
10th Percentile £38,772 £37,500 £36,744
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,750 £81,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.34%

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 18,712 13,139 24,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.56% 26.45% 30.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,335 8,501 15,343
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.16% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +16 3,119 £60,000 -4.00% 1,000
UK excluding London +27 2,634 £57,500 - 720
Work from Home +16 1,540 £55,000 -8.33% 598
South East +33 773 £60,000 - 200
London -19 655 £85,000 +6.25% 400
North of England +39 638 £57,000 -5.00% 170
Midlands +3 418 £60,000 +9.09% 105
East of England +32 322 £60,000 +9.09% 105
North West +60 303 £55,000 -12.00% 82
South West +33 290 £53,500 +1.90% 78
West Midlands -9 219 £60,000 +9.09% 46
East Midlands +18 199 £58,750 +6.82% 58
North East 0 172 £65,000 +13.04% 42
Yorkshire -2 163 £55,000 -8.33% 48
Northern Ireland +7 116 £50,000 -10.31% 23
Wales -59 46 £51,619 +3.24% 18
Scotland -4 33 £52,500 -18.60% 39

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
1 113 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 53 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (49.12%) Azure
2 597 (17.51%) AWS
3 488 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 350 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 252 (7.39%) GitHub
5 252 (7.39%) SaaS
6 209 (6.13%) Power Automate
7 196 (5.75%) Azure AI
8 191 (5.60%) Serverless
9 190 (5.57%) PowerApps
10 169 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 164 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
12 154 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
13 148 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
14 127 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 120 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 110 (3.23%) Azure Functions
17 88 (2.58%) GCP
18 50 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
19 45 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 17 (0.50%) Broadband
3 17 (0.50%) Firewall
3 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.23%) VPN
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 6 (0.18%) VLAN
8 6 (0.18%) Wireless
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (17.45%) SQL Server
2 526 (15.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 464 (13.61%) MongoDB
4 191 (5.60%) Power BI
5 167 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 101 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 84 (2.46%) Relational Database
8 81 (2.38%) MySQL
9 77 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.79%) Redis
14 23 (0.67%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.56%) Metadata
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.44%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
19 13 (0.38%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 309 (9.06%) Git
2 73 (2.14%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.20%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
8 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.62%) Postman
10 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
16 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
16 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 573 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 520 (15.25%) Finance
3 196 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (5.28%) Legal
5 124 (3.64%) Law
6 123 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 110 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 99 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 94 (2.76%) Games
10 76 (2.23%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 68 (1.99%) Marketing
13 66 (1.94%) Electronics
14 60 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 53 (1.55%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,773 (51.99%) Developer
2 804 (23.58%) .NET Developer
3 749 (21.96%) Senior
4 737 (21.61%) Software Engineer
5 383 (11.23%) Software Developer
6 365 (10.70%) C# Developer
7 358 (10.50%) Lead
8 351 (10.29%) Senior Developer
9 328 (9.62%) C# Software Engineer
10 246 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 178 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 160 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
13 159 (4.66%) Lead Developer
14 146 (4.28%) Graduate
15 141 (4.13%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.96%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.52%) Architect
18 117 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 106 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
20 91 (2.67%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,184 (64.05%) .NET
2 779 (22.84%) ASP.NET
3 762 (22.35%) .NET Core
4 608 (17.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 501 (14.69%) React
6 399 (11.70%) CSS
7 396 (11.61%) HTML
8 335 (9.82%) RESTful
9 331 (9.71%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.09%) Blazor
11 305 (8.94%) Entity Framework
12 300 (8.80%) Vue
13 268 (7.86%) .NET Framework
14 265 (7.77%) Node.js
15 252 (7.39%) REST
16 223 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
17 165 (4.84%) Terraform
18 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
19 146 (4.28%) WPF
20 118 (3.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
4 132 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 131 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 106 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 56 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
13 44 (1.29%) AI Agents
14 33 (0.97%) Robotics
15 29 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Code
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 178 (5.22%) Windows
2 116 (3.40%) Linux
3 43 (1.26%) Android
4 39 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) VMS
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (35.16%) Agile
2 1,142 (33.49%) Software Engineering
3 949 (27.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 863 (25.31%) CI/CD
5 809 (23.72%) DevOps
6 580 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 579 (16.98%) Microservices
8 556 (16.30%) AI
9 477 (13.99%) Mentoring
10 475 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 331 (9.71%) Test Automation
12 294 (8.62%) SDLC
13 281 (8.24%) Computer Science
14 279 (8.18%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.48%) Software Testing
16 217 (6.36%) Scrum
17 209 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
17 209 (6.13%) OO
18 195 (5.72%) Multithreading
19 191 (5.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,241 (36.39%) SQL
2 844 (24.75%) JavaScript
3 575 (16.86%) Python
4 530 (15.54%) TypeScript
5 353 (10.35%) C++
6 308 (9.03%) Java
7 141 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 129 (3.78%) PHP
9 84 (2.46%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.32%) Bicep
11 45 (1.32%) Go
12 41 (1.20%) VB.NET
13 38 (1.11%) VBA
14 34 (1.00%) Bash
15 24 (0.70%) Rust
16 23 (0.67%) Delphi
16 23 (0.67%) Ruby
17 19 (0.56%) Scala
18 15 (0.44%) F#
Qualifications
1 421 (12.35%) Degree
2 191 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 149 (4.37%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (9.15%) QA
2 68 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 56 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.17%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.47%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (11.44%) Docker
2 23 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 17 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.18%) KVM
9 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.088%) vSphere
11 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 341 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (0.94%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) Bosun
8 2 (0.059%) EnCase
8 2 (0.059%) FTK
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,133 (33.23%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) Adobe
7 22 (0.65%) VMware
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 18 (0.53%) Apple
9 17 (0.50%) Sony
9 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.47%) Databricks
11 15 (0.44%) HP
11 15 (0.44%) Intapp
12 14 (0.41%) Foundry
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk