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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 47 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,475 2,371 7,950
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.68% 5.38% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.36% 17.05% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,159 1,975 6,862
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,813 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% -3.51%

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 16,117 13,903 32,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 31.53% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,092 9,655 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 20 May 2026.

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 20 May 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 -17 2,294 £60,509 -6.91% 797
UK excluding London -22 1,732 £58,500 +1.74% 644
Work from Home -8 916 £57,500 -11.54% 430
London -18 607 £82,500 +10.00% 220
South East +8 542 £60,000 - 205
North of England +6 465 £60,000 +9.09% 176
Midlands -33 301 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North West +31 237 £60,000 +11.63% 103
East of England -16 184 £60,000 -9.37% 85
South West -11 176 £55,000 - 68
East Midlands +3 153 £55,000 - 43
West Midlands -50 148 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Yorkshire -19 140 £57,500 -4.17% 37
North East -17 88 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Scotland -39 34 £60,000 +23.71% 19
Wales -35 27 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Northern Ireland -30 8 £95,000 - 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 65 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.05%) IIS
3 24 (0.97%) CMS
4 11 (0.44%) Confluence
5 10 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.20%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.081%) nginx
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.040%) Appian
11 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.081%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.081%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.081%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
5 1 (0.040%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (45.21%) Azure
2 400 (16.16%) AWS
3 268 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (8.85%) Power Platform
5 211 (8.53%) SaaS
6 141 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 138 (5.58%) Serverless
8 110 (4.44%) PowerApps
9 108 (4.36%) GitHub
9 108 (4.36%) Power Automate
10 95 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
11 89 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (3.56%) Azure Functions
13 73 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 60 (2.42%) GCP
16 58 (2.34%) Azure AI
17 54 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
18 53 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
19 51 (2.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.81%) Internet
2 15 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.57%) Broadband
4 12 (0.48%) DNS
5 10 (0.40%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.32%) Firewall
7 6 (0.24%) HTTP
8 5 (0.20%) DHCP
8 5 (0.20%) LTE
9 4 (0.16%) Intranet
9 4 (0.16%) Modbus
10 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.12%) Network Security
10 3 (0.12%) VPN
11 2 (0.081%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.081%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.081%) FIX Connectivity
11 2 (0.081%) RS-232
11 2 (0.081%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 202 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 167 (6.75%) MongoDB
4 128 (5.17%) Power BI
5 72 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 61 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.38%) MySQL
8 50 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.69%) Redis
13 11 (0.44%) DB2
13 11 (0.44%) Metadata
14 9 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.28%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.28%) GIS
16 6 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 178 (7.19%) Git
2 60 (2.42%) Selenium
3 57 (2.30%) JIRA
4 56 (2.26%) Visual Studio
5 42 (1.70%) Postman
6 31 (1.25%) GitLab
7 30 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
8 28 (1.13%) WebDriver
9 27 (1.09%) SoapUI
10 23 (0.93%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.89%) Jenkins
11 22 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
12 19 (0.77%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.53%) NUnit
15 9 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.32%) Yeoman
17 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
17 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 477 (19.27%) Finance
2 355 (14.34%) Social Skills
3 127 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (3.11%) Manufacturing
5 65 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (2.26%) Games
8 54 (2.18%) Banking
9 52 (2.10%) Retail
10 50 (2.02%) Front Office
11 49 (1.98%) Electronics
11 49 (1.98%) Law
12 39 (1.58%) Aerospace
13 32 (1.29%) Legal
14 31 (1.25%) Automotive
15 27 (1.09%) Advertising
16 26 (1.05%) Marketing
17 16 (0.65%) Aviation
18 15 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,302 (52.61%) Developer
2 531 (21.45%) Senior
3 528 (21.33%) Software Engineer
4 435 (17.58%) .NET Developer
5 427 (17.25%) Software Developer
6 419 (16.93%) C# Developer
7 264 (10.67%) Lead
8 262 (10.59%) Senior Developer
9 253 (10.22%) C# Software Engineer
10 179 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (7.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 176 (7.11%) C# Software Developer
13 170 (6.87%) C# .NET Developer
14 155 (6.26%) .NET Software Engineer
15 120 (4.85%) Graduate
16 106 (4.28%) Lead Developer
17 103 (4.16%) Graduate Developer
18 97 (3.92%) .NET Software Developer
19 95 (3.84%) SQL Developer
20 94 (3.80%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,570 (63.43%) .NET
2 493 (19.92%) .NET Core
3 385 (15.56%) ASP.NET
4 294 (11.88%) React
5 239 (9.66%) HTML
6 238 (9.62%) CSS
7 224 (9.05%) ASP.NET Core
8 190 (7.68%) .NET Framework
9 173 (6.99%) AngularJS
10 160 (6.46%) RESTful
11 150 (6.06%) REST
12 147 (5.94%) Vue
13 144 (5.82%) Entity Framework
14 138 (5.58%) Blazor
15 124 (5.01%) Node.js
16 89 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
17 80 (3.23%) WPF
18 53 (2.14%) jQuery
19 52 (2.10%) Playwright
20 51 (2.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 151 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 88 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
4 73 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 60 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.18%) Hedge funds
8 48 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 46 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 41 (1.66%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
13 24 (0.97%) Legacy Code
14 23 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 23 (0.93%) Sports Betting
15 21 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (0.81%) Onboarding
17 19 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 121 (4.89%) Windows
2 93 (3.76%) Linux
3 27 (1.09%) Android
4 20 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.57%) VMS
6 12 (0.48%) Unix
7 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.081%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.081%) Solaris
9 2 (0.081%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (31.31%) Software Engineering
2 724 (29.25%) Agile
3 570 (23.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 521 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 499 (20.16%) DevOps
6 329 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (12.28%) Microservices
8 285 (11.52%) Mentoring
9 275 (11.11%) AI
10 265 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 260 (10.51%) Computer Science
12 224 (9.05%) Test Automation
13 201 (8.12%) SDLC
14 148 (5.98%) Scrum
15 140 (5.66%) Containerisation
16 138 (5.58%) Machine Learning
17 136 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
18 128 (5.17%) MVC
19 123 (4.97%) Infrastructure as Code
20 119 (4.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 796 (32.16%) SQL
2 506 (20.44%) JavaScript
3 413 (16.69%) Python
4 312 (12.61%) TypeScript
5 274 (11.07%) C++
6 264 (10.67%) Java
7 109 (4.40%) PHP
8 96 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.51%) C
10 40 (1.62%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.33%) Bicep
12 32 (1.29%) Bash
13 29 (1.17%) Go
14 26 (1.05%) VB.NET
15 22 (0.89%) VBA
16 21 (0.85%) Scala
17 19 (0.77%) F#
17 19 (0.77%) Rust
18 17 (0.69%) Haskell
19 16 (0.65%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 359 (14.51%) Degree
2 177 (7.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 127 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 74 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 44 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.62%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.97%) PhD
11 18 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 16 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.57%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.24%) CREST Certified
19 5 (0.20%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.41%) QA
2 41 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.77%) GDPR
5 14 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.48%) WCAG
7 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.44%) SLA
8 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 2 (0.081%) EMIR
10 2 (0.081%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.081%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.081%) ITGC
11 1 (0.040%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 235 (9.49%) Docker
2 24 (0.97%) Firmware
3 18 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.28%) KVM
6 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.081%) vSphere
8 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 120 (4.85%) Terraform
3 36 (1.45%) Grafana
4 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.40%) Ansible
6 7 (0.28%) Kibana
7 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.081%) Control-M
8 2 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.081%) MIIS
8 2 (0.081%) MOM
8 2 (0.081%) Nmap
9 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.040%) Nessus
9 1 (0.040%) Netcool
9 1 (0.040%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 575 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.86%) Oracle
3 44 (1.78%) Google
4 26 (1.05%) Adobe
5 21 (0.85%) Facebook
6 16 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 15 (0.61%) VMware
8 12 (0.48%) Xamarin
9 11 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.44%) Databricks
9 11 (0.44%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.44%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.36%) iManage
11 8 (0.32%) Apple
11 8 (0.32%) Splunk
12 7 (0.28%) Intapp
13 6 (0.24%) Aderant
13 6 (0.24%) SAP
13 6 (0.24%) Sony
13 6 (0.24%) YouTube