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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,411 2,096 5,807
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.20% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.37% 15.19% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,904 1,727 4,520
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 18,570 13,795 25,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.29% 27.64% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,176 9,044 17,566
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +12 3,113 £60,000 -4.00% 1,435
UK excluding London +24 2,607 £57,500 - 903
Work from Home +9 1,536 £55,000 -8.33% 679
South East +22 747 £60,000 - 279
London -13 675 £82,500 +3.13% 682
North of England +42 637 £57,500 -4.17% 237
Midlands -6 414 £60,000 +9.09% 106
East of England +32 315 £60,000 +9.09% 128
South West +36 302 £53,000 +0.95% 86
North West +49 299 £55,000 -5.58% 114
West Midlands -10 217 £60,000 +4.35% 43
East Midlands +16 197 £55,000 - 63
Yorkshire +20 182 £55,000 -10.20% 54
North East -4 156 £65,000 +8.33% 71
Northern Ireland +6 116 £50,000 -10.31% 11
Wales -49 46 £51,619 +3.24% 24
Scotland -21 32 £50,000 -22.78% 51

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 98 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) IIS
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) 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
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 44 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) 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 50 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Magento
7 2 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,690 (49.55%) Azure
2 578 (16.95%) AWS
3 469 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 325 (9.53%) Power Platform
5 269 (7.89%) SaaS
6 252 (7.39%) GitHub
7 197 (5.78%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 173 (5.07%) PowerApps
9 173 (5.07%) Serverless
10 169 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
11 161 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 153 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 137 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
14 129 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 115 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 107 (3.14%) Azure Functions
17 88 (2.58%) GCP
18 52 (1.52%) Azure AKS
18 52 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 21 (0.62%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Broadband
4 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.50%) HTTP
6 12 (0.35%) Firewall
7 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.23%) VPN
9 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) DHCP
10 6 (0.18%) IPsec
10 6 (0.18%) SNMP
11 5 (0.15%) LAN
11 5 (0.15%) WAN
12 4 (0.12%) Intranet
12 4 (0.12%) Modbus
12 4 (0.12%) Network Security
13 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 457 (13.40%) MongoDB
4 173 (5.07%) Power BI
5 167 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 88 (2.58%) MySQL
8 80 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 32 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.82%) Redis
14 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.41%) Metadata
16 13 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 10 (0.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 290 (8.50%) Git
2 73 (2.14%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Selenium
3 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.00%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) NUnit
8 22 (0.64%) Postman
9 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.50%) SpecFlow
10 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.23%) Subversion
12 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
13 7 (0.21%) Moq
General
1 560 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 536 (15.71%) Finance
3 186 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (5.10%) Legal
5 124 (3.64%) Law
6 117 (3.43%) Manufacturing
7 99 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (2.64%) Games
9 82 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 80 (2.35%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 60 (1.76%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 56 (1.64%) Banking
16 49 (1.44%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.08%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,812 (53.12%) Developer
2 802 (23.51%) .NET Developer
3 757 (22.19%) Senior
4 738 (21.64%) Software Engineer
5 424 (12.43%) Software Developer
6 390 (11.43%) C# Developer
7 363 (10.64%) Senior Developer
8 357 (10.47%) Lead
9 327 (9.59%) C# Software Engineer
10 249 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.78%) C# Software Developer
13 162 (4.75%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (4.63%) Graduate
15 157 (4.60%) Lead Developer
16 145 (4.25%) .NET Software Engineer
17 117 (3.43%) Architect
18 115 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 108 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
20 105 (3.08%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,183 (64.00%) .NET
2 782 (22.93%) .NET Core
3 778 (22.81%) ASP.NET
4 603 (17.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 497 (14.57%) React
6 398 (11.67%) CSS
7 393 (11.52%) HTML
8 330 (9.67%) AngularJS
9 324 (9.50%) RESTful
10 312 (9.15%) Blazor
11 301 (8.82%) Entity Framework
12 296 (8.68%) Vue
13 273 (8.00%) .NET Framework
14 267 (7.83%) Node.js
15 254 (7.45%) REST
16 222 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
18 134 (3.93%) WPF
19 119 (3.49%) LINQ
20 87 (2.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
3 151 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
4 132 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 98 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.41%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 44 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 32 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 32 (0.94%) Robotics
15 28 (0.82%) Legacy Code
16 27 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
18 24 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.93%) Windows
2 119 (3.49%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.26%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) VMS
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (35.27%) Agile
2 1,130 (33.13%) Software Engineering
3 939 (27.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 842 (24.68%) CI/CD
5 811 (23.78%) DevOps
6 585 (17.15%) Microservices
7 559 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 537 (15.74%) AI
9 463 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 452 (13.25%) Mentoring
11 325 (9.53%) Test Automation
12 289 (8.47%) SDLC
13 286 (8.38%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.51%) Software Testing
16 220 (6.45%) Scrum
17 212 (6.22%) OO
18 201 (5.89%) Multithreading
19 189 (5.54%) Software Architecture
19 189 (5.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,234 (36.18%) SQL
2 816 (23.92%) JavaScript
3 568 (16.65%) Python
4 532 (15.60%) TypeScript
5 338 (9.91%) C++
6 296 (8.68%) Java
7 147 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.13%) PHP
9 82 (2.40%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.06%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
17 22 (0.64%) Scala
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
19 18 (0.53%) F#
Qualifications
1 414 (12.14%) Degree
2 193 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
16 4 (0.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (9.29%) QA
2 60 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 33 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.91%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.35%) WCAG
7 8 (0.23%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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 (0.088%) 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
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 401 (11.76%) Docker
2 20 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 350 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 164 (4.81%) Terraform
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 19 (0.56%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.088%) Control-M
8 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) MIIS
10 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.029%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,106 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.67%) Adobe
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) VMware
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Foundry
13 12 (0.35%) iManage
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 12 (0.35%) Splunk
14 11 (0.32%) Aderant
14 11 (0.32%) IBM