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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 74 22
Rank change year-on-year +27 -52 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,344 1,863 5,095
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.83% 3.77% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.17% 14.66% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 1,559 3,367
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,125 £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 18,408 12,709 22,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 25.71% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13,012 8,137 13,582
10th Percentile £39,016 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,000 £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 10 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 10 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 3,044 £60,000 -4.00% 2,172
UK excluding London +35 2,593 £60,000 +4.35% 1,180
Work from Home +17 1,529 £57,500 -4.17% 987
South East +26 766 £60,000 - 302
London -30 630 £85,000 +6.25% 1,077
North of England +36 625 £57,500 -4.17% 301
Midlands 0 409 £60,000 +9.09% 180
East of England +33 310 £60,000 +9.09% 162
North West +52 295 £55,000 -12.00% 150
South West +29 279 £55,000 +4.76% 100
West Midlands -19 207 £61,250 +11.36% 99
East Midlands +11 202 £60,000 +9.09% 81
North East +3 176 £71,991 +40.47% 58
Yorkshire -1 154 £55,000 -4.35% 97
Northern Ireland +3 114 £35,000 -37.22% 42
Wales -55 49 £53,171 +9.63% 41
Scotland +20 44 £55,000 -13.39% 72

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
1 117 (3.50%) 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%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
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 (1.73%) 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%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) RMDS
7 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,597 (47.76%) Azure
2 582 (17.40%) AWS
3 481 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
4 349 (10.44%) Power Platform
5 267 (7.98%) GitHub
6 249 (7.45%) SaaS
7 209 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 201 (6.01%) Serverless
9 195 (5.83%) Azure AI
10 183 (5.47%) PowerApps
11 174 (5.20%) GitHub Copilot
12 172 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
13 150 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
14 126 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 125 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.44%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.63%) GCP
19 57 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
20 45 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.85%) 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 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 499 (14.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.55%) MongoDB
4 182 (5.44%) Power BI
5 162 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.20%) NoSQL
7 101 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.54%) MySQL
8 85 (2.54%) 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
1 327 (9.78%) Git
2 77 (2.30%) JIRA
3 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.08%) GitLab
5 34 (1.02%) 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
1 598 (17.88%) Social Skills
2 488 (14.59%) Finance
3 203 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.50%) Legal
5 134 (4.01%) Manufacturing
6 131 (3.92%) Law
7 114 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 106 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.63%) Games
10 71 (2.12%) Retail
11 69 (2.06%) Electronics
12 65 (1.94%) Advertising
13 64 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 64 (1.91%) Marketing
14 53 (1.58%) Banking
15 42 (1.26%) Front Office
16 40 (1.20%) Legal Technology
17 32 (0.96%) Automotive
18 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 21 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,678 (50.18%) Developer
2 787 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 778 (23.27%) Senior
4 739 (22.10%) Software Engineer
5 369 (11.03%) Senior Developer
6 342 (10.23%) C# Software Engineer
7 336 (10.05%) Software Developer
8 318 (9.51%) Lead
9 310 (9.27%) C# Developer
10 244 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 164 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 144 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
13 136 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
14 135 (4.04%) Lead Developer
15 132 (3.95%) Architect
16 122 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 116 (3.47%) Graduate
18 105 (3.14%) C# Software Developer
19 101 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
20 86 (2.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,173 (64.98%) .NET
2 744 (22.25%) ASP.NET
3 712 (21.29%) .NET Core
4 589 (17.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 514 (15.37%) React
6 367 (10.97%) HTML
7 364 (10.89%) CSS
8 334 (9.99%) RESTful
9 331 (9.90%) AngularJS
10 303 (9.06%) Entity Framework
11 299 (8.94%) Blazor
12 277 (8.28%) REST
12 277 (8.28%) Vue
13 269 (8.04%) Node.js
14 268 (8.01%) .NET Framework
15 222 (6.64%) ASP.NET Web API
16 166 (4.96%) Terraform
17 148 (4.43%) ML.NET
18 139 (4.16%) WPF
19 118 (3.53%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 232 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 184 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
4 141 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
5 137 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 64 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 60 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 55 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 44 (1.32%) Robotics
14 39 (1.17%) Hedge funds
15 34 (1.02%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
17 27 (0.81%) IoT
18 26 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
18 26 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 180 (5.38%) Windows
2 112 (3.35%) 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%) Mac OS
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 1,163 (34.78%) Software Engineering
2 1,154 (34.51%) Agile
3 921 (27.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 883 (26.41%) CI/CD
5 806 (24.10%) DevOps
6 611 (18.27%) AI
7 604 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
8 573 (17.14%) Microservices
9 481 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 475 (14.20%) Mentoring
11 330 (9.87%) Test Automation
12 289 (8.64%) SDLC
13 265 (7.92%) Machine Learning
14 257 (7.69%) Computer Science
15 219 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
16 212 (6.34%) Software Testing
17 204 (6.10%) OO
18 202 (6.04%) Scrum
19 196 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
20 194 (5.80%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,199 (35.86%) SQL
2 827 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 584 (17.46%) Python
4 506 (15.13%) TypeScript
5 332 (9.93%) C++
6 284 (8.49%) Java
7 125 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 106 (3.17%) PHP
9 87 (2.60%) C
10 75 (2.24%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 46 (1.38%) Go
13 44 (1.32%) Bicep
14 30 (0.90%) VBA
15 27 (0.81%) Bash
16 24 (0.72%) Rust
17 23 (0.69%) Delphi
18 22 (0.66%) Ruby
19 18 (0.54%) Scala
20 17 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 387 (11.57%) Degree
2 169 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 168 (5.02%) Security Cleared
4 125 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 53 (1.58%) 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 (9.03%) QA
2 63 (1.88%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.85%) 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%) SOC 2
System Software
1 397 (11.87%) 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
1 333 (9.96%) 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 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 92 (2.75%) Google
3 62 (1.85%) Facebook
4 55 (1.64%) 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