C# Job Trends

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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -42 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,932 4,730 4,628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.58% 7.08% 9.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.22% 21.73% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,673 3,140 4,121
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,914 21,764 20,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.07% 32.57% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,634 13,009 17,212
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,418 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 November 2025. 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 -43 1,759 £60,000 - 822
UK excluding London -53 1,271 £57,500 +4.55% 758
Work from Home -19 880 £60,000 +4.35% 533
London -24 543 £80,000 +6.67% 219
North of England -33 359 £60,000 +14.29% 158
South East -45 349 £60,000 - 272
Midlands -26 271 £55,000 +4.76% 99
North West -25 184 £62,500 +19.05% 97
West Midlands -23 147 £57,500 +4.96% 54
Yorkshire -21 129 £55,000 +10.00% 29
East Midlands -10 124 £52,000 +4.00% 41
East of England -52 111 £55,000 -4.35% 90
South West -64 103 £55,000 +10.00% 77
North East -19 48 £50,000 -16.67% 32
Scotland -71 45 £60,000 +25.00% 48
Wales -23 34 £48,500 -7.62% 25
Northern Ireland -14 7 £71,250 +9.62% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 56 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.74%) IIS
3 39 (2.02%) CMS
4 20 (1.04%) Kinematics
5 18 (0.93%) Confluence
6 12 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.26%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.052%) Kentico
12 1 (0.052%) MetaMask
Applications
1 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.16%) OrCAD
4 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 7 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 7 (0.36%) Shopify
4 5 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
5 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.16%) Magento
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.10%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.052%) Endur
8 1 (0.052%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.052%) ION Anvil
8 1 (0.052%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.052%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.052%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 979 (50.67%) Azure
2 374 (19.36%) AWS
3 257 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
4 205 (10.61%) SaaS
5 181 (9.37%) Power Platform
6 148 (7.66%) Dynamics 365
7 124 (6.42%) Power Automate
8 121 (6.26%) Serverless
9 111 (5.75%) PowerApps
10 109 (5.64%) GitHub
11 102 (5.28%) GCP
12 72 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 67 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 63 (3.26%) Azure Functions
15 61 (3.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 60 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
17 43 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
18 35 (1.81%) Entra ID
19 29 (1.50%) PaaS
20 25 (1.29%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.41%) DNS
3 8 (0.41%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.41%) HTTP
3 8 (0.41%) Internet
4 7 (0.36%) Modbus
4 7 (0.36%) WPA
5 6 (0.31%) MQTT
5 6 (0.31%) SAN
6 4 (0.21%) DHCP
6 4 (0.21%) Firewall
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.10%) FTP
8 2 (0.10%) NAS
8 2 (0.10%) SMTP
8 2 (0.10%) SSH
8 2 (0.10%) VLAN
9 1 (0.052%) Broadband
9 1 (0.052%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (23.19%) SQL Server
2 101 (5.23%) MySQL
3 98 (5.07%) Relational Database
4 94 (4.87%) MongoDB
5 86 (4.45%) Power BI
6 79 (4.09%) NoSQL
7 76 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 43 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 40 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (1.45%) Redis
13 25 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (0.83%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
18 6 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (0.31%) KDB
18 6 (0.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 188 (9.73%) Git
2 83 (4.30%) JIRA
3 67 (3.47%) Selenium
4 53 (2.74%) Visual Studio
5 40 (2.07%) Postman
6 38 (1.97%) Jenkins
7 30 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.40%) TeamCity
9 24 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 24 (1.24%) WebDriver
10 20 (1.04%) NUnit
11 19 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 18 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.83%) GitLab
13 16 (0.83%) SoapUI
14 12 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.52%) JMeter
16 9 (0.47%) MSTest
16 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
17 8 (0.41%) Artifactory
General
1 545 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 322 (16.67%) Finance
3 127 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (5.85%) Law
5 91 (4.71%) Retail
6 81 (4.19%) Public Sector
7 71 (3.67%) Front Office
7 71 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 61 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (2.74%) Banking
10 42 (2.17%) Electronics
10 42 (2.17%) Legal
11 36 (1.86%) Back Office
12 31 (1.60%) Games
12 31 (1.60%) Marketing
13 26 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.14%) Billing
14 22 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,005 (52.02%) Developer
2 431 (22.31%) Senior
3 257 (13.30%) Software Engineer
4 254 (13.15%) C# Developer
5 245 (12.68%) .NET Developer
6 242 (12.53%) Lead
7 239 (12.37%) Senior Developer
8 207 (10.71%) Software Developer
9 163 (8.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 96 (4.97%) Architect
11 84 (4.35%) Analyst
12 78 (4.04%) Graduate
13 77 (3.99%) Lead Developer
14 76 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 67 (3.47%) C# .NET Developer
16 65 (3.36%) Graduate Developer
17 64 (3.31%) Support Engineer
18 62 (3.21%) C# Software Developer
19 56 (2.90%) .NET Software Engineer
20 55 (2.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,165 (60.30%) .NET
2 326 (16.87%) React
3 311 (16.10%) .NET Core
4 291 (15.06%) ASP.NET
5 253 (13.10%) CSS
6 244 (12.63%) HTML
7 241 (12.47%) .NET Framework
8 235 (12.16%) AngularJS
9 161 (8.33%) RESTful
10 154 (7.97%) REST
11 132 (6.83%) Entity Framework
12 106 (5.49%) Vue
13 101 (5.23%) Blazor
14 86 (4.45%) ASP.NET MVC
15 78 (4.04%) Web Services
16 77 (3.99%) ASP.NET Web API
17 66 (3.42%) Node.js
18 64 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
19 63 (3.26%) HTML5
20 61 (3.16%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.07%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.16%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 73 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 46 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (2.23%) Algorithms
8 42 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 41 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 40 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (1.29%) Robotics
13 23 (1.19%) IoT
14 21 (1.09%) Derivative
15 20 (1.04%) Operational Technology
16 19 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 18 (0.93%) AI Agents
18 17 (0.88%) Client/Server
19 15 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
20 14 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 98 (5.07%) Windows
2 60 (3.11%) Linux
3 21 (1.09%) Android
4 19 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.67%) Unix
7 4 (0.21%) VMS
8 3 (0.16%) Solaris
9 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.10%) Nucleus RTOS
10 1 (0.052%) AIX
10 1 (0.052%) Fedora
10 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (36.18%) Agile
2 547 (28.31%) DevOps
3 531 (27.48%) Software Engineering
4 500 (25.88%) CI/CD
5 471 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
6 406 (21.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 343 (17.75%) Microservices
8 340 (17.60%) Mentoring
9 330 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 238 (12.32%) Computer Science
11 196 (10.14%) MVC
12 193 (9.99%) Test Automation
13 170 (8.80%) Scrum
14 151 (7.82%) SDLC
15 143 (7.40%) AI
16 141 (7.30%) Containerisation
17 135 (6.99%) CRM
17 135 (6.99%) User Experience
18 133 (6.88%) Clean Code
18 133 (6.88%) OO
Programming Languages
1 726 (37.58%) SQL
2 514 (26.60%) JavaScript
3 333 (17.24%) Python
4 287 (14.86%) Java
5 246 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 158 (8.18%) C++
7 109 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 94 (4.87%) PHP
9 63 (3.26%) C
10 55 (2.85%) T-SQL
11 50 (2.59%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.19%) Bicep
13 20 (1.04%) Go
14 18 (0.93%) Bash
15 17 (0.88%) VBA
16 16 (0.83%) Rust
17 15 (0.78%) Delphi
18 12 (0.62%) VB
19 10 (0.52%) PL/SQL
20 9 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 340 (17.60%) Degree
2 186 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 65 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (3.21%) SC Cleared
6 50 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 31 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 14 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.62%) HND
15 11 (0.57%) PhD
16 8 (0.41%) ISEB
17 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.36%) HNC
18 6 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (9.47%) QA
2 35 (1.81%) GDPR
3 34 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 19 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.36%) NIST
7 7 (0.36%) WCAG
8 4 (0.21%) HL7
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.10%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) ITGC
10 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.052%) COBIT
11 1 (0.052%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.052%) IFRS
11 1 (0.052%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
System Software
1 201 (10.40%) Docker
2 21 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.67%) Firmware
5 10 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) KVM
10 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.052%) HDFS
11 1 (0.052%) Squid
Systems Management
1 172 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 95 (4.92%) Terraform
3 23 (1.19%) Grafana
4 14 (0.72%) Ansible
5 10 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.36%) Control-M
7 6 (0.31%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.10%) Nagios
11 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.052%) Kibana
12 1 (0.052%) Nmap
12 1 (0.052%) WMI
Vendors
1 484 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 56 (2.90%) Oracle
3 37 (1.92%) Guidewire
4 30 (1.55%) Google
5 21 (1.09%) Xamarin
6 19 (0.98%) Sage
7 18 (0.93%) Databricks
7 18 (0.93%) VMware
8 14 (0.72%) SAP
9 13 (0.67%) DevExpress
10 12 (0.62%) Infor
10 12 (0.62%) Palantir
11 11 (0.57%) Dynatrace
11 11 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.52%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.52%) Siemens
13 9 (0.47%) Rockwell
13 9 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.47%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.41%) Dataiku