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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +19 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,412 1,933 5,417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.03% 3.90% 6.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.21% 14.76% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,893 1,599 3,832
10th Percentile £38,818 £37,500 £36,299
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 £80,000 £82,500 £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 18,741 13,097 24,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.66% 26.41% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,338 8,454 15,305
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
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 9 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 9 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 3,120 £60,000 -4.00% 1,696
UK excluding London +30 2,635 £57,500 - 975
Work from Home +17 1,540 £55,000 -8.33% 833
South East +36 774 £60,000 - 260
London -19 655 £85,000 +6.25% 880
North of England +38 638 £57,500 -4.17% 235
Midlands +6 416 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England +31 323 £60,000 +9.09% 146
North West +57 302 £55,000 -9.84% 115
South West +36 291 £53,500 +1.90% 107
West Midlands -11 218 £60,000 +9.09% 59
East Midlands +19 198 £57,500 +4.55% 70
North East -2 172 £65,000 +13.04% 58
Yorkshire -5 164 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Northern Ireland +6 116 £50,000 -10.31% 30
Wales -54 46 £51,619 +3.24% 22
Scotland -3 33 £52,500 -18.60% 66

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
1 112 (3.28%) 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 55 (1.61%) 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 1,677 (49.15%) Azure
2 593 (17.38%) AWS
3 487 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
4 350 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 252 (7.39%) SaaS
6 251 (7.36%) GitHub
7 210 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 196 (5.74%) Azure AI
9 191 (5.60%) PowerApps
10 190 (5.57%) Serverless
11 169 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 163 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
13 156 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 150 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
15 127 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 109 (3.19%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.55%) GCP
19 50 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
20 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 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 525 (15.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 463 (13.57%) MongoDB
4 191 (5.60%) Power BI
5 167 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 99 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 83 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 81 (2.37%) MySQL
9 77 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.03%) 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 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 40 (1.17%) 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 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.23%) Subversion
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) MSI
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 573 (16.79%) Social Skills
2 522 (15.30%) Finance
3 194 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (5.22%) Legal
5 122 (3.58%) Law
5 122 (3.58%) Manufacturing
6 109 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 99 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 94 (2.75%) Games
9 75 (2.20%) Retail
10 71 (2.08%) Advertising
11 68 (1.99%) Marketing
12 66 (1.93%) Electronics
13 60 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 53 (1.55%) Banking
15 45 (1.32%) Front Office
16 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.06%) Automotive
18 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,775 (52.02%) Developer
2 805 (23.59%) .NET Developer
3 748 (21.92%) Senior
4 737 (21.60%) Software Engineer
5 383 (11.23%) Software Developer
6 367 (10.76%) C# Developer
7 357 (10.46%) Lead
8 352 (10.32%) Senior Developer
9 329 (9.64%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 178 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 161 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.63%) Lead Developer
14 146 (4.28%) Graduate
15 142 (4.16%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.96%) .NET Software Engineer
17 121 (3.55%) Architect
18 117 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 107 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
20 91 (2.67%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,186 (64.07%) .NET
2 780 (22.86%) ASP.NET
3 763 (22.36%) .NET Core
4 609 (17.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 500 (14.65%) React
6 399 (11.69%) CSS
7 396 (11.61%) HTML
8 335 (9.82%) RESTful
9 331 (9.70%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.09%) Blazor
11 305 (8.94%) Entity Framework
12 300 (8.79%) Vue
13 268 (7.85%) .NET Framework
14 265 (7.77%) Node.js
15 251 (7.36%) REST
16 223 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.81%) 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
3 153 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 132 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 130 (3.81%) 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 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
11 46 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 44 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 33 (0.97%) Robotics
14 29 (0.85%) Data Structures
15 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (0.73%) Legacy Code
17 24 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 179 (5.25%) Windows
2 115 (3.37%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) 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 1,198 (35.11%) Agile
2 1,140 (33.41%) Software Engineering
3 949 (27.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 858 (25.15%) CI/CD
5 810 (23.74%) DevOps
6 579 (16.97%) Microservices
7 575 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
8 550 (16.12%) AI
9 475 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 474 (13.89%) Mentoring
11 329 (9.64%) Test Automation
12 293 (8.59%) SDLC
13 278 (8.15%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.48%) Software Testing
16 217 (6.36%) Scrum
17 210 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
18 209 (6.13%) OO
19 195 (5.72%) Multithreading
20 191 (5.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,240 (36.34%) SQL
2 843 (24.71%) JavaScript
3 574 (16.82%) Python
4 530 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 352 (10.32%) C++
6 306 (8.97%) Java
7 141 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 130 (3.81%) PHP
9 84 (2.46%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.35%) Go
12 45 (1.32%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 24 (0.70%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Delphi
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 20 (0.59%) Scala
19 16 (0.47%) F#
Qualifications
1 419 (12.28%) Degree
2 189 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 147 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) PhD
9 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.11%) QA
2 67 (1.96%) 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 (11.43%) Docker
2 23 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
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
Systems Management
1 341 (9.99%) Kubernetes
2 32 (0.94%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.088%) Control-M
8 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) MIIS
10 1 (0.029%) Bosun
10 1 (0.029%) EnCase
10 1 (0.029%) FTK
10 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,134 (33.24%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.49%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.64%) Adobe
7 22 (0.64%) YouTube
8 21 (0.62%) VMware
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 15 (0.44%) HP
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 14 (0.41%) Foundry
14 12 (0.35%) Aderant
14 12 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.32%) IBM
15 11 (0.32%) Splunk