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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 55 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -34 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,410 2,090 5,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.13% 4.18% 6.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.41% 15.27% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,906 1,728 4,456
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -7.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 18,524 13,683 25,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 27.38% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,960 17,340
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 26 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 26 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 +10 3,116 £60,000 -4.00% 635
UK excluding London +24 2,623 £57,500 - 428
Work from Home +10 1,538 £55,000 -8.33% 329
South East +22 757 £60,000 - 106
London -21 661 £84,750 +5.94% 265
North of England +36 648 £57,500 -4.17% 110
Midlands +1 415 £60,000 +9.09% 71
East of England +30 320 £60,000 +9.09% 59
North West +53 302 £55,000 -8.33% 52
South West +28 292 £53,500 +1.90% 56
West Midlands -13 217 £60,000 +4.35% 29
East Midlands +20 198 £55,000 - 41
Yorkshire +7 181 £55,000 -8.33% 29
North East -3 165 £65,000 +13.04% 30
Northern Ireland +7 116 £50,000 -10.31% 7
Wales -49 46 £51,619 +3.24% 11
Scotland -13 31 £50,000 -22.78% 18

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 (1.09%) 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
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 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 51 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.29%) 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%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (49.12%) Azure
2 583 (17.10%) AWS
3 475 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
4 327 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 265 (7.77%) SaaS
6 252 (7.39%) GitHub
7 199 (5.84%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 176 (5.16%) PowerApps
9 176 (5.16%) Serverless
10 170 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
11 158 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 157 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
13 138 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
14 129 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 116 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 104 (3.05%) Azure Functions
17 88 (2.58%) GCP
18 51 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (1.44%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 14 (0.41%) Firewall
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
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 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.088%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 457 (13.40%) MongoDB
4 176 (5.16%) Power BI
5 168 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
6 97 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 87 (2.55%) MySQL
8 79 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 73 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 34 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.85%) Redis
14 19 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.44%) Metadata
16 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
18 11 (0.32%) Data Lake
18 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 294 (8.62%) Git
2 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 43 (1.26%) Selenium
3 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 33 (0.97%) GitLab
5 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
9 22 (0.65%) Postman
10 19 (0.56%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.44%) SpecFlow
12 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 558 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 531 (15.57%) Finance
3 192 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.13%) Legal
5 123 (3.61%) Law
6 120 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 99 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (2.70%) Games
9 83 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 77 (2.26%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 62 (1.82%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,789 (52.46%) Developer
2 797 (23.37%) .NET Developer
3 752 (22.05%) Senior
4 742 (21.76%) Software Engineer
5 411 (12.05%) Software Developer
6 384 (11.26%) C# Developer
7 358 (10.50%) Lead
7 358 (10.50%) Senior Developer
8 331 (9.71%) C# Software Engineer
9 246 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 177 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 161 (4.72%) C# Software Developer
12 160 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
13 157 (4.60%) Lead Developer
14 156 (4.57%) Graduate
15 143 (4.19%) .NET Software Engineer
16 121 (3.55%) Architect
17 116 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 106 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
19 103 (3.02%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,180 (63.93%) .NET
2 777 (22.79%) ASP.NET
3 766 (22.46%) .NET Core
4 605 (17.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 498 (14.60%) React
6 392 (11.50%) CSS
7 386 (11.32%) HTML
8 326 (9.56%) AngularJS
8 326 (9.56%) RESTful
9 311 (9.12%) Blazor
10 297 (8.71%) Entity Framework
11 296 (8.68%) Vue
12 268 (7.86%) .NET Framework
13 267 (7.83%) Node.js
14 250 (7.33%) REST
15 222 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
16 161 (4.72%) Terraform
17 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
18 140 (4.11%) WPF
19 119 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
2 154 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
3 130 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 100 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
8 52 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 49 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
10 46 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 43 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 38 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 33 (0.97%) Robotics
14 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 28 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
16 27 (0.79%) Fixed Income
16 27 (0.79%) Legacy Code
17 25 (0.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.99%) Windows
2 118 (3.46%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 36 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.12%) VMS
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 1,199 (35.16%) Agile
2 1,139 (33.40%) Software Engineering
3 941 (27.60%) Full-Stack Development
4 840 (24.63%) CI/CD
5 805 (23.61%) DevOps
6 588 (17.24%) Microservices
7 562 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
8 544 (15.95%) AI
9 464 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 459 (13.46%) Mentoring
11 328 (9.62%) Test Automation
12 290 (8.50%) SDLC
13 282 (8.27%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 223 (6.54%) Software Testing
16 217 (6.36%) Scrum
17 207 (6.07%) OO
18 199 (5.84%) Multithreading
19 191 (5.60%) Software Architecture
20 188 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (36.13%) SQL
2 813 (23.84%) JavaScript
3 568 (16.66%) Python
4 526 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.03%) C++
6 298 (8.74%) Java
7 144 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 140 (4.11%) PHP
9 83 (2.43%) 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 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 411 (12.05%) Degree
2 191 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 143 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 107 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 42 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.53%) PhD
10 17 (0.50%) 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
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (9.24%) QA
2 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.94%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.35%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) SLA
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
1 395 (11.58%) Docker
2 21 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 13 (0.38%) 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
1 346 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,111 (32.58%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 50 (1.47%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.67%) Adobe
6 23 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 18 (0.53%) Apple
8 18 (0.53%) Databricks
8 18 (0.53%) VMware
9 17 (0.50%) Sony
9 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.41%) Intapp
11 13 (0.38%) Foundry
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.32%) IBM
13 11 (0.32%) Splunk
14 10 (0.29%) Aderant
14 10 (0.29%) Xamarin