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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 54 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -33 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,263 2,259 6,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.58% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.04% 15.79% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 1,873 5,163
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,750 £101,000 £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 18,083 14,309 27,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.02% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 12,873 9,476 19,695
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 28 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 28 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 +8 2,968 £60,000 -7.69% 840
UK excluding London +9 2,474 £57,500 - 639
Work from Home +7 1,476 £55,000 -12.00% 473
South East +19 709 £60,000 - 211
London -22 658 £82,500 +3.13% 300
North of England +36 613 £56,500 -5.83% 159
Midlands -8 392 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West +50 291 £55,000 - 77
South West +23 290 £52,500 -4.55% 67
East of England +13 286 £60,000 - 92
West Midlands -20 205 £60,000 +9.09% 44
East Midlands +12 187 £55,000 - 46
Yorkshire +14 177 £55,000 -15.38% 44
North East -5 145 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Northern Ireland +9 106 £57,500 -28.13% 6
Wales -48 46 £51,619 -6.15% 20
Scotland -12 34 £50,000 -22.48% 20

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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (1.01%) CMS
4 21 (0.64%) Confluence
5 15 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.092%) DNN
12 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.092%) Kentico
12 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
6 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.092%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.092%) Magento
6 2 (0.061%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.061%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.061%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.061%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.061%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.031%) Eikon
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.031%) RMDS
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,628 (49.89%) Azure
2 548 (16.79%) AWS
3 435 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 307 (9.41%) Power Platform
5 258 (7.91%) SaaS
6 237 (7.26%) GitHub
7 182 (5.58%) Azure AI
8 177 (5.42%) Power Automate
9 165 (5.06%) PowerApps
10 160 (4.90%) Serverless
11 158 (4.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 154 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 146 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
14 120 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
15 117 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 104 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 96 (2.94%) Azure Functions
18 78 (2.39%) GCP
19 56 (1.72%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.90%) Internet
2 18 (0.55%) Broadband
2 18 (0.55%) DNS
3 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.28%) Firewall
6 8 (0.25%) 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
11 3 (0.092%) RS-232
11 3 (0.092%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 554 (16.98%) SQL Server
2 511 (15.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 450 (13.79%) MongoDB
4 170 (5.21%) Power BI
5 163 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.54%) MySQL
6 83 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 64 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 63 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 43 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 28 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (0.74%) Redis
13 15 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 14 (0.43%) Db2
15 12 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.37%) Metadata
16 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 237 (7.26%) Git
2 70 (2.15%) JIRA
3 41 (1.26%) Selenium
3 41 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.04%) GitLab
5 25 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 22 (0.67%) Postman
7 21 (0.64%) Jenkins
7 21 (0.64%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.58%) SpecFlow
9 16 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.46%) NUnit
11 13 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 528 (16.18%) Finance
2 512 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 168 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (4.69%) Legal
5 114 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 111 (3.40%) Law
7 86 (2.64%) Games
8 79 (2.42%) Retail
9 77 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 71 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 70 (2.15%) Advertising
12 65 (1.99%) Marketing
13 58 (1.78%) Electronics
14 57 (1.75%) Banking
15 56 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 46 (1.41%) Front Office
17 38 (1.16%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.10%) Automotive
19 22 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,770 (54.24%) Developer
2 797 (24.43%) .NET Developer
3 721 (22.10%) Senior
4 697 (21.36%) Software Engineer
5 428 (13.12%) Software Developer
6 386 (11.83%) C# Developer
7 349 (10.70%) Senior Developer
8 316 (9.68%) C# Software Engineer
8 316 (9.68%) Lead
9 240 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 181 (5.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 169 (5.18%) C# Software Developer
12 168 (5.15%) C# .NET Developer
13 152 (4.66%) Graduate
14 151 (4.63%) .NET Software Engineer
15 140 (4.29%) Lead Developer
16 108 (3.31%) Architect
17 106 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 103 (3.16%) Graduate Developer
19 102 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,116 (64.85%) .NET
2 763 (23.38%) .NET Core
3 753 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 589 (18.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 468 (14.34%) React
6 389 (11.92%) CSS
7 375 (11.49%) HTML
8 320 (9.81%) AngularJS
9 302 (9.26%) RESTful
10 299 (9.16%) Blazor
11 286 (8.76%) Vue
12 280 (8.58%) Entity Framework
13 260 (7.97%) Node.js
14 252 (7.72%) .NET Framework
15 231 (7.08%) REST
16 221 (6.77%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.72%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.68%) LINQ
19 116 (3.56%) WPF
20 90 (2.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.66%) Greenfield Project
3 128 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 126 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 84 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.62%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.01%) Management Information System
14 30 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 30 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (0.92%) Robotics
15 27 (0.83%) Legacy Code
16 25 (0.77%) Low-Code
17 24 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
17 24 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.87%) Windows
2 109 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.29%) Android
4 37 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) VMS
7 8 (0.25%) Unix
8 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.061%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.031%) CentOS
12 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (35.30%) Agile
2 1,048 (32.12%) Software Engineering
3 918 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 787 (24.12%) CI/CD
5 754 (23.11%) DevOps
6 554 (16.98%) Microservices
7 516 (15.81%) AI
8 498 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
9 430 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 405 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 299 (9.16%) Test Automation
12 280 (8.58%) Computer Science
13 270 (8.27%) Machine Learning
14 259 (7.94%) SDLC
15 206 (6.31%) Scrum
16 200 (6.13%) Multithreading
17 198 (6.07%) Software Testing
18 192 (5.88%) OO
19 190 (5.82%) TDD
20 179 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,215 (37.24%) SQL
2 778 (23.84%) JavaScript
3 543 (16.64%) Python
4 513 (15.72%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.48%) C++
6 278 (8.52%) Java
7 146 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 139 (4.26%) PHP
9 79 (2.42%) C
10 65 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.41%) Bicep
12 45 (1.38%) VB.NET
13 40 (1.23%) Go
14 33 (1.01%) VBA
15 32 (0.98%) Bash
16 22 (0.67%) Rust
17 21 (0.64%) Scala
18 19 (0.58%) Delphi
18 19 (0.58%) F#
19 18 (0.55%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 400 (12.26%) Degree
2 194 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (3.83%) Security Cleared
4 91 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.70%) PhD
9 19 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.43%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.15%) GPEN
16 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (8.52%) QA
2 54 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.89%) GDPR
5 20 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.34%) SLA
6 11 (0.34%) WCAG
7 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.18%) NCSC
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
11 3 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.092%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.092%) PSD2
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.031%) EMIR
13 1 (0.031%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 373 (11.43%) Docker
2 23 (0.70%) Firmware
3 21 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.092%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 338 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 152 (4.66%) Terraform
3 34 (1.04%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.092%) Control-M
9 3 (0.092%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.061%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) MOM
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,061 (32.52%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.60%) Google
3 64 (1.96%) Facebook
4 49 (1.50%) Oracle
5 29 (0.89%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.70%) Adobe
8 22 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
10 18 (0.55%) Databricks
11 17 (0.52%) Sony
11 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.49%) VMware
13 15 (0.46%) Intapp
14 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
15 12 (0.37%) SAP
15 12 (0.37%) Splunk
16 11 (0.34%) IBM
16 11 (0.34%) iManage
17 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow