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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 74 23
Rank change year-on-year +26 -51 -5
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,335 1,864 5,074
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.82% 3.78% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 14.80% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,757 1,562 3,356
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 18,453 12,598 22,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.61% 25.52% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,128 13,543
10th Percentile £39,781 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,994 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £83,813 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +18 3,036 £60,000 -4.00% 1,963
UK excluding London +32 2,588 £60,000 +4.35% 1,163
Work from Home +19 1,524 £57,500 -4.17% 932
South East +27 763 £60,000 - 284
London -27 628 £85,000 +6.25% 889
North of England +34 625 £57,500 -4.17% 301
Midlands +1 409 £60,000 +9.09% 182
East of England +31 308 £60,000 +9.09% 159
North West +56 294 £55,000 -12.00% 155
South West +24 278 £55,000 +4.76% 96
West Midlands -17 208 £60,000 +9.09% 105
East Midlands +14 201 £60,000 +9.09% 77
North East +6 176 £73,496 +43.41% 57
Yorkshire -4 155 £55,000 -6.38% 93
Northern Ireland +4 114 £35,000 -37.22% 44
Wales -53 48 £53,171 +9.63% 45
Scotland +23 46 £55,000 -13.39% 73

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
1 118 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.26%) IIS
3 29 (0.87%) Confluence
4 27 (0.81%) CMS
5 11 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.27%) nginx
6 9 (0.27%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.090%) DNN
11 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 33 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.090%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.060%) Revit
8 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 58 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.51%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,595 (47.83%) Azure
2 581 (17.42%) AWS
3 482 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
4 351 (10.52%) Power Platform
5 268 (8.04%) GitHub
6 249 (7.47%) SaaS
7 211 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 201 (6.03%) Serverless
9 195 (5.85%) Azure AI
10 185 (5.55%) PowerApps
11 174 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 173 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
13 152 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
14 125 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
15 123 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.45%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.64%) GCP
19 57 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
20 46 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.86%) Internet
2 23 (0.69%) Firewall
3 20 (0.60%) DNS
4 18 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.48%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.090%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.090%) Intranet
11 3 (0.090%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (17.84%) SQL Server
2 500 (14.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.58%) MongoDB
4 183 (5.49%) Power BI
5 162 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 101 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.55%) MySQL
8 85 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 42 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (1.05%) Redis
11 34 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.60%) Metadata
15 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.54%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.45%) Big Data
19 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 328 (9.84%) Git
2 77 (2.31%) JIRA
3 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.08%) GitLab
5 35 (1.05%) Claude Code
6 32 (0.96%) Jenkins
7 29 (0.87%) Selenium
8 24 (0.72%) NUnit
9 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 15 (0.45%) Postman
11 13 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Eclipse
13 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
14 8 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 600 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 487 (14.60%) Finance
3 204 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.49%) Legal
5 133 (3.99%) Manufacturing
6 131 (3.93%) Law
7 114 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.64%) Games
10 71 (2.13%) Retail
11 69 (2.07%) Electronics
12 65 (1.95%) Advertising
13 64 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 64 (1.92%) Marketing
14 52 (1.56%) Banking
15 41 (1.23%) Front Office
16 40 (1.20%) Legal Technology
17 32 (0.96%) Automotive
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,672 (50.13%) Developer
2 783 (23.48%) .NET Developer
3 777 (23.30%) Senior
4 731 (21.92%) Software Engineer
5 371 (11.12%) Senior Developer
6 337 (10.10%) C# Software Engineer
7 335 (10.04%) Software Developer
8 318 (9.54%) Lead
9 301 (9.03%) C# Developer
10 240 (7.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 163 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 140 (4.20%) C# .NET Developer
13 135 (4.05%) Architect
14 134 (4.02%) .NET Software Engineer
14 134 (4.02%) Lead Developer
15 123 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 113 (3.39%) Graduate
17 102 (3.06%) C# Software Developer
18 100 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
19 84 (2.52%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,173 (65.16%) .NET
2 742 (22.25%) ASP.NET
3 711 (21.32%) .NET Core
4 587 (17.60%) ASP.NET Core
5 515 (15.44%) React
6 366 (10.97%) HTML
7 363 (10.88%) CSS
8 334 (10.01%) RESTful
9 333 (9.99%) AngularJS
10 303 (9.09%) Entity Framework
11 299 (8.97%) Blazor
12 277 (8.31%) REST
12 277 (8.31%) Vue
13 268 (8.04%) .NET Framework
13 268 (8.04%) Node.js
14 222 (6.66%) ASP.NET Web API
15 167 (5.01%) Terraform
16 148 (4.44%) ML.NET
17 137 (4.11%) WPF
18 118 (3.54%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 233 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
3 156 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
4 140 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 136 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 64 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 55 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 55 (1.65%) Onboarding
12 54 (1.62%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.32%) Robotics
14 37 (1.11%) Hedge funds
15 33 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.84%) IoT
18 26 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 25 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 180 (5.40%) Windows
2 112 (3.36%) Linux
3 40 (1.20%) Android
3 40 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) macOS
8 3 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Solaris
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,156 (34.66%) Agile
2 1,155 (34.63%) Software Engineering
3 918 (27.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 886 (26.57%) CI/CD
5 809 (24.26%) DevOps
6 609 (18.26%) AI
7 606 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
8 573 (17.18%) Microservices
9 482 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 475 (14.24%) Mentoring
11 332 (9.96%) Test Automation
12 288 (8.64%) SDLC
13 265 (7.95%) Machine Learning
14 254 (7.62%) Computer Science
15 221 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
16 212 (6.36%) Software Testing
17 204 (6.12%) OO
18 200 (6.00%) Scrum
19 197 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
20 195 (5.85%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (35.83%) SQL
2 826 (24.77%) JavaScript
3 581 (17.42%) Python
4 504 (15.11%) TypeScript
5 331 (9.93%) C++
6 283 (8.49%) Java
7 124 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 104 (3.12%) PHP
9 87 (2.61%) C
10 75 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.41%) Go
13 43 (1.29%) Bicep
14 30 (0.90%) VBA
15 26 (0.78%) Bash
16 24 (0.72%) Rust
17 23 (0.69%) Delphi
18 22 (0.66%) Ruby
19 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
19 17 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 383 (11.48%) Degree
2 170 (5.10%) Security Cleared
3 166 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 127 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 53 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.66%) PhD
9 21 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (0.21%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) CHECK Team Member
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.15%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (9.06%) QA
2 63 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 45 (1.35%) GDPR
5 23 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.54%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.090%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.090%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.090%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) MISRA C
System Software
1 399 (11.96%) Docker
2 30 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.090%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 334 (10.01%) Kubernetes
2 27 (0.81%) Grafana
3 19 (0.57%) Ansible
4 18 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) EnCase
5 7 (0.21%) FTK
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
9 3 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.060%) Bosun
10 2 (0.060%) Kibana
11 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,138 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 92 (2.76%) Google
3 62 (1.86%) Facebook
4 55 (1.65%) Oracle
5 35 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.78%) VMware
8 23 (0.69%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
9 19 (0.57%) Intapp
10 17 (0.51%) Apple
10 17 (0.51%) Foundry
10 17 (0.51%) HP
11 16 (0.48%) Sony
11 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.45%) Aderant
13 14 (0.42%) Adobe
13 14 (0.42%) SAP
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
14 11 (0.33%) iManage