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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 48 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -30 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,548 2,223 8,188
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.73% 5.11% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.57% 16.31% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,222 1,835 7,003
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,146
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,929 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 16,370 13,633 33,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.57% 31.32% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,391 9,132 25,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -13 2,385 £60,000 -7.69% 917
UK excluding London -19 1,807 £57,500 -2.54% 729
Work from Home -5 935 £56,500 -13.08% 559
London -14 613 £82,500 +6.45% 274
South East +7 555 £59,500 -0.83% 206
North of England +8 492 £60,000 +4.35% 210
Midlands -25 310 £58,250 +5.91% 88
North West +42 251 £60,000 +15.67% 127
East of England -9 201 £60,000 -9.37% 86
South West -4 193 £55,000 - 81
East Midlands +13 157 £55,000 - 42
West Midlands -49 153 £60,000 +9.09% 46
Yorkshire -16 142 £55,000 -20.58% 40
North East -13 99 £65,000 +13.04% 44
Scotland -41 26 £57,500 +6.98% 26
Wales -52 25 £50,000 -24.24% 17
Northern Ireland - 7 £80,000 - 31

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 66 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.06%) CMS
3 26 (1.02%) IIS
4 13 (0.51%) Confluence
5 12 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.24%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.078%) nginx
11 1 (0.039%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.039%) Appian
11 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.27%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.078%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.078%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Shopify
4 2 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (46.23%) Azure
2 418 (16.41%) AWS
3 293 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (8.95%) Power Platform
5 207 (8.12%) SaaS
6 143 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 143 (5.61%) Serverless
7 125 (4.91%) GitHub
8 114 (4.47%) Power Automate
8 114 (4.47%) PowerApps
9 107 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
10 91 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 86 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
12 73 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
13 67 (2.63%) Azure AI
14 66 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 65 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 63 (2.47%) GCP
17 54 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
18 53 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (0.98%) Internet
2 17 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 15 (0.59%) Broadband
4 14 (0.55%) DNS
5 11 (0.43%) Firewall
6 10 (0.39%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.31%) DHCP
8 6 (0.24%) HTTP
9 5 (0.20%) LAN
9 5 (0.20%) LTE
9 5 (0.20%) WAN
10 4 (0.16%) Intranet
10 4 (0.16%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
11 3 (0.12%) VPN
12 2 (0.078%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.078%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 232 (9.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 192 (7.54%) MongoDB
4 132 (5.18%) Power BI
5 71 (2.79%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.43%) MySQL
7 59 (2.32%) Relational Database
8 58 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
9 48 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.59%) Redis
13 11 (0.43%) DB2
13 11 (0.43%) Metadata
14 8 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.31%) GIS
15 7 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 177 (6.95%) Git
2 56 (2.20%) JIRA
3 54 (2.12%) Selenium
4 48 (1.88%) Visual Studio
5 39 (1.53%) Postman
6 32 (1.26%) GitLab
7 25 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 24 (0.94%) WebDriver
9 23 (0.90%) SoapUI
9 23 (0.90%) SpecFlow
9 23 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 20 (0.78%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.47%) NUnit
14 10 (0.39%) LabVIEW
15 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.31%) Yeoman
General
1 475 (18.64%) Finance
2 373 (14.64%) Social Skills
3 136 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 63 (2.47%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.32%) Games
7 57 (2.24%) Electronics
7 57 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (2.24%) Retail
8 55 (2.16%) Banking
9 48 (1.88%) Law
10 47 (1.84%) Front Office
11 46 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 33 (1.30%) Automotive
12 33 (1.30%) Legal
13 32 (1.26%) Advertising
14 27 (1.06%) Marketing
15 15 (0.59%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.55%) Aviation
17 12 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,324 (51.96%) Developer
2 561 (22.02%) Software Engineer
3 543 (21.31%) Senior
4 468 (18.37%) .NET Developer
5 421 (16.52%) Software Developer
6 386 (15.15%) C# Developer
7 276 (10.83%) C# Software Engineer
8 264 (10.36%) Lead
9 255 (10.01%) Senior Developer
10 198 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 172 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 164 (6.44%) C# .NET Developer
12 164 (6.44%) C# Software Developer
13 153 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
14 117 (4.59%) Graduate
15 111 (4.36%) Lead Developer
16 96 (3.77%) Graduate Developer
17 95 (3.73%) .NET Software Developer
18 94 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 93 (3.65%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,614 (63.34%) .NET
2 509 (19.98%) .NET Core
3 421 (16.52%) ASP.NET
4 319 (12.52%) React
5 265 (10.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 262 (10.28%) CSS
7 255 (10.01%) HTML
8 194 (7.61%) AngularJS
9 189 (7.42%) .NET Framework
10 170 (6.67%) RESTful
11 168 (6.59%) Vue
12 166 (6.51%) REST
13 159 (6.24%) Entity Framework
14 157 (6.16%) Blazor
15 133 (5.22%) Node.js
16 105 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
17 90 (3.53%) WPF
18 59 (2.32%) ML.NET
19 57 (2.24%) JSON
20 56 (2.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 152 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 95 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
4 80 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 75 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 68 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.12%) Hedge funds
8 48 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 45 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 25 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.94%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.94%) Management Information System
14 23 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
14 23 (0.90%) Onboarding
15 22 (0.86%) Sports Betting
16 21 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 126 (4.95%) Windows
2 94 (3.69%) Linux
3 34 (1.33%) Android
4 25 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.51%) VMS
7 11 (0.43%) Unix
8 6 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.078%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (31.04%) Software Engineering
2 751 (29.47%) Agile
3 608 (23.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 550 (21.59%) CI/CD
5 527 (20.68%) DevOps
6 360 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (12.52%) Microservices
8 318 (12.48%) AI
9 296 (11.62%) Mentoring
10 270 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 260 (10.20%) Computer Science
12 232 (9.11%) Test Automation
13 208 (8.16%) SDLC
14 158 (6.20%) Machine Learning
15 151 (5.93%) Scrum
16 146 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
17 144 (5.65%) Containerisation
18 128 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
19 127 (4.98%) MVC
20 124 (4.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 834 (32.73%) SQL
2 533 (20.92%) JavaScript
3 431 (16.92%) Python
4 325 (12.76%) TypeScript
5 299 (11.73%) C++
6 270 (10.60%) Java
7 103 (4.04%) PHP
8 95 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.59%) C
10 45 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.37%) Bicep
12 32 (1.26%) Bash
12 32 (1.26%) Go
13 30 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 24 (0.94%) VBA
15 20 (0.78%) Rust
15 20 (0.78%) Scala
16 17 (0.67%) F#
17 16 (0.63%) Haskell
17 16 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 380 (14.91%) Degree
2 187 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (4.91%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.77%) Azure Certification
6 44 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.06%) PhD
10 25 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 12 (0.47%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
18 6 (0.24%) CREST Certified
18 6 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.53%) QA
2 41 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.75%) GDPR
5 14 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.47%) SLA
8 11 (0.43%) WCAG
9 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.078%) EMIR
12 2 (0.078%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.078%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.078%) ITGC
13 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (9.54%) Docker
2 29 (1.14%) Firmware
3 21 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 123 (4.83%) Terraform
3 35 (1.37%) Grafana
4 12 (0.47%) Ansible
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.078%) Control-M
8 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.078%) MIIS
8 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 2 (0.078%) Nmap
8 2 (0.078%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.039%) Nessus
9 1 (0.039%) Netcool
Vendors
1 621 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 48 (1.88%) Google
3 47 (1.84%) Oracle
4 26 (1.02%) Facebook
5 23 (0.90%) Adobe
6 20 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 17 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.67%) VMware
8 14 (0.55%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.51%) Databricks
10 11 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.35%) Apple
11 9 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.35%) iManage
11 9 (0.35%) Splunk
12 8 (0.31%) YouTube
13 7 (0.27%) Intapp
13 7 (0.27%) Sony
13 7 (0.27%) Yahoo!
14 6 (0.24%) Dynatrace