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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 72 21
Rank change year-on-year +23 -51 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,385 1,898 5,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.87% 3.83% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.15% 14.78% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 1,587 3,525
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £80,125 £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% -

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 18,653 12,844 23,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 25.90% 30.97%
Number of salaries quoted 13,227 8,240 14,152
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 2 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 2 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 +19 3,088 £60,000 -4.00% 2,428
UK excluding London +31 2,613 £57,500 - 1,549
Work from Home +20 1,531 £57,500 -4.17% 1,197
South East +24 774 £60,000 - 395
London -22 648 £85,000 +6.25% 1,080
North of England +39 630 £57,500 -4.17% 374
Midlands -3 410 £60,000 +9.09% 234
East of England +32 314 £60,000 +9.09% 222
North West +49 301 £55,000 -12.00% 203
South West +31 286 £54,250 +3.33% 125
West Midlands -20 209 £62,500 +13.64% 111
East Midlands +18 201 £60,000 +9.09% 123
North East +5 173 £70,000 +27.27% 69
Yorkshire 0 156 £55,000 -8.03% 107
Northern Ireland -2 115 £35,000 -37.22% 47
Wales -58 44 £51,619 +6.43% 51
Scotland +12 43 £55,000 -14.73% 121

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
1 115 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.27%) IIS
3 31 (0.92%) CMS
4 25 (0.74%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 9 (0.27%) nginx
8 8 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.089%) DNN
11 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 60 (1.77%) 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 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,636 (48.33%) Azure
2 591 (17.46%) AWS
3 486 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
4 353 (10.43%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.71%) GitHub
6 251 (7.42%) SaaS
7 213 (6.29%) Power Automate
8 202 (5.97%) Serverless
9 194 (5.73%) Azure AI
10 186 (5.49%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 165 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
13 155 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
14 135 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
15 128 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 119 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.40%) Azure Functions
18 90 (2.66%) GCP
19 53 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.83%) Internet
2 22 (0.65%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.32%) VLAN
5 11 (0.32%) Wireless
6 10 (0.30%) Broadband
6 10 (0.30%) VPN
7 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 3 (0.089%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.089%) Intranet
10 3 (0.089%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (17.67%) SQL Server
2 501 (14.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 450 (13.29%) MongoDB
4 183 (5.41%) Power BI
5 163 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 96 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.57%) MySQL
9 82 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.03%) Redis
12 33 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.59%) Metadata
16 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 330 (9.75%) Git
2 78 (2.30%) JIRA
3 44 (1.30%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.12%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 32 (0.95%) Selenium
6 31 (0.92%) Claude Code
7 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.68%) NUnit
9 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.56%) Postman
11 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
13 9 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 581 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 508 (15.01%) Finance
3 208 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.41%) Legal
5 130 (3.84%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.72%) Law
7 119 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.57%) Games
10 72 (2.13%) Retail
11 69 (2.04%) Electronics
12 68 (2.01%) Advertising
13 65 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 64 (1.89%) Marketing
15 53 (1.57%) Banking
16 43 (1.27%) Front Office
17 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 34 (1.00%) Automotive
19 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,713 (50.61%) Developer
2 792 (23.40%) .NET Developer
3 771 (22.78%) Senior
4 757 (22.36%) Software Engineer
5 359 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 347 (10.25%) C# Software Engineer
6 347 (10.25%) Software Developer
7 336 (9.93%) Lead
8 331 (9.78%) C# Developer
9 251 (7.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 167 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 154 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
12 144 (4.25%) Lead Developer
13 138 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
14 130 (3.84%) Graduate
15 123 (3.63%) Architect
16 120 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 115 (3.40%) C# Software Developer
18 99 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
19 87 (2.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,172 (64.17%) .NET
2 750 (22.16%) ASP.NET
3 728 (21.51%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.46%) ASP.NET Core
5 516 (15.24%) React
6 376 (11.11%) HTML
7 373 (11.02%) CSS
8 332 (9.81%) RESTful
9 331 (9.78%) AngularJS
10 304 (8.98%) Entity Framework
11 300 (8.86%) Blazor
12 282 (8.33%) Vue
13 272 (8.04%) REST
14 270 (7.98%) .NET Framework
15 266 (7.86%) Node.js
16 221 (6.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 169 (4.99%) Terraform
18 148 (4.37%) ML.NET
19 138 (4.08%) WPF
20 117 (3.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 178 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 156 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 144 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.80%) Algorithms
8 61 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 58 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 55 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 55 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 52 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 41 (1.21%) Robotics
14 31 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 25 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
16 25 (0.74%) IoT
16 25 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 183 (5.41%) Windows
2 113 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (34.74%) Agile
2 1,175 (34.71%) Software Engineering
3 924 (27.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 889 (26.26%) CI/CD
5 811 (23.96%) DevOps
6 606 (17.90%) AI
7 599 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
8 572 (16.90%) Microservices
9 489 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 473 (13.97%) Mentoring
11 338 (9.99%) Test Automation
12 295 (8.71%) SDLC
13 274 (8.09%) Computer Science
14 264 (7.80%) Machine Learning
15 228 (6.74%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.35%) Scrum
17 210 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
18 207 (6.12%) OO
19 198 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
20 196 (5.79%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,211 (35.78%) SQL
2 834 (24.64%) JavaScript
3 585 (17.28%) Python
4 512 (15.13%) TypeScript
5 343 (10.13%) C++
6 295 (8.71%) Java
7 127 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 116 (3.43%) PHP
9 87 (2.57%) C
10 71 (2.10%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.39%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.33%) Bicep
13 44 (1.30%) Go
14 35 (1.03%) VBA
15 29 (0.86%) Bash
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 22 (0.65%) Delphi
18 20 (0.59%) Ruby
19 18 (0.53%) Scala
20 17 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 403 (11.91%) Degree
2 183 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.60%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.59%) PhD
10 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.15%) OSCP
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.089%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (9.01%) QA
2 69 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.33%) GDPR
5 22 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.56%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 400 (11.82%) Docker
2 29 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.41%) 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 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 336 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.74%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) EnCase
8 5 (0.15%) FTK
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 2 (0.059%) Kibana
11 2 (0.059%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,132 (33.44%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.69%) Google
3 62 (1.83%) Facebook
4 55 (1.62%) Oracle
5 36 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 29 (0.86%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.77%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk