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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 41 18
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,189 2,502 7,884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 5.95% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.08% 18.05% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 2,117 6,847
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,250
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 15,542 13,865 32,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 32.99% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,562 10,168 25,031
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -33 2,012 £61,500 -5.38% 746
UK excluding London -40 1,495 £57,500 - 592
Work from Home -23 809 £60,000 -7.69% 632
London -24 559 £82,500 +10.00% 240
South East -23 443 £60,000 - 221
North of England -15 417 £60,000 +9.09% 134
Midlands -46 276 £57,500 +4.55% 86
North West -13 206 £60,000 +14.29% 87
South West -19 151 £55,000 -2.22% 60
East of England -53 146 £60,000 -9.37% 66
East Midlands -28 142 £55,000 - 40
Yorkshire -42 137 £62,000 +3.68% 28
West Midlands -57 134 £58,250 +5.91% 46
North East -24 74 £70,000 +21.74% 19
Scotland -64 39 £60,000 +23.71% 16
Wales -45 24 £41,500 -36.15% 15
Northern Ireland -36 9 £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 63 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.05%) CMS
3 20 (0.91%) IIS
4 11 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.27%) Confluence
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.091%) JBoss
8 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.091%) nginx
8 2 (0.091%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.046%) Apache
9 1 (0.046%) Appian
9 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Simulink
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.091%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 941 (42.99%) Azure
2 360 (16.45%) AWS
3 213 (9.73%) SaaS
4 207 (9.46%) Power Platform
5 201 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (5.80%) Serverless
7 125 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 106 (4.84%) PowerApps
9 104 (4.75%) Power Automate
10 88 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (3.56%) Azure Functions
12 77 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
13 67 (3.06%) GitHub
14 62 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
15 61 (2.79%) GCP
16 47 (2.15%) Azure AKS
17 38 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
18 33 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 30 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
20 24 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.50%) Broadband
3 9 (0.41%) DNS
4 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.37%) HTTP
5 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) Intranet
7 5 (0.23%) Internet
8 4 (0.18%) Firewall
8 4 (0.18%) LTE
8 4 (0.18%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) Network Security
10 2 (0.091%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.091%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.091%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.091%) SSL
10 2 (0.091%) VPN
11 1 (0.046%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (19.78%) SQL Server
2 125 (5.71%) Power BI
3 85 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (3.29%) NoSQL
5 59 (2.70%) MySQL
6 53 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 47 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.69%) Redis
13 13 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.50%) DB2
15 7 (0.32%) Metadata
15 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.18%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 146 (6.67%) Git
2 66 (3.02%) Selenium
3 57 (2.60%) Visual Studio
4 52 (2.38%) JIRA
5 41 (1.87%) Postman
6 32 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.28%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.23%) SoapUI
9 24 (1.10%) SpecFlow
10 23 (1.05%) GitLab
11 22 (1.01%) Jenkins
12 21 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
13 17 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.55%) NUnit
15 11 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 426 (19.46%) Finance
2 337 (15.40%) Social Skills
3 121 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (2.97%) Public Sector
5 62 (2.83%) Law
6 61 (2.79%) Manufacturing
7 55 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (2.33%) Front Office
9 46 (2.10%) Banking
10 44 (2.01%) Retail
11 40 (1.83%) Games
12 34 (1.55%) Electronics
13 31 (1.42%) Legal
14 25 (1.14%) Aerospace
15 21 (0.96%) Marketing
16 18 (0.82%) Automotive
17 15 (0.69%) Advertising
17 15 (0.69%) Aviation
17 15 (0.69%) Investment Banking
18 12 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,130 (51.62%) Developer
2 497 (22.70%) Senior
3 446 (20.37%) Software Engineer
4 409 (18.68%) Software Developer
5 401 (18.32%) C# Developer
6 295 (13.48%) .NET Developer
7 248 (11.33%) Senior Developer
8 242 (11.06%) Lead
9 191 (8.73%) C# Software Engineer
10 167 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 156 (7.13%) C# Software Developer
12 152 (6.94%) C# .NET Developer
12 152 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 130 (5.94%) .NET Software Engineer
14 118 (5.39%) Graduate
15 102 (4.66%) Graduate Developer
16 96 (4.39%) Lead Developer
17 92 (4.20%) Graduate Software Developer
18 89 (4.07%) SQL Developer
19 84 (3.84%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,342 (61.31%) .NET
2 380 (17.36%) .NET Core
3 253 (11.56%) ASP.NET
4 245 (11.19%) React
5 192 (8.77%) HTML
6 188 (8.59%) CSS
7 181 (8.27%) .NET Framework
8 132 (6.03%) REST
9 131 (5.98%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.98%) RESTful
11 91 (4.16%) Vue
12 86 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
13 82 (3.75%) Entity Framework
13 82 (3.75%) Node.js
14 81 (3.70%) Blazor
15 57 (2.60%) WPF
16 52 (2.38%) Playwright
17 51 (2.33%) jQuery
18 42 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
19 39 (1.78%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 78 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.10%) Hedge funds
7 44 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 40 (1.83%) Low-Code
9 40 (1.83%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.01%) Sports Betting
14 21 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
15 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
16 19 (0.87%) Legacy Code
16 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 18 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 17 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.71%) Windows
2 81 (3.70%) Linux
3 18 (0.82%) Android
4 14 (0.64%) VMS
4 14 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.091%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.091%) Solaris
6 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (31.98%) Software Engineering
2 608 (27.78%) Agile
3 431 (19.69%) DevOps
4 423 (19.32%) CI/CD
5 415 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 299 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (12.01%) Mentoring
8 252 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 247 (11.28%) Microservices
10 237 (10.83%) Computer Science
11 195 (8.91%) Test Automation
12 181 (8.27%) AI
13 179 (8.18%) SDLC
14 147 (6.72%) MVC
15 138 (6.30%) Scrum
16 135 (6.17%) Business Intelligence
17 128 (5.85%) Containerisation
18 107 (4.89%) Software Testing
19 103 (4.71%) Analytics
19 103 (4.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 659 (30.11%) SQL
2 438 (20.01%) JavaScript
3 364 (16.63%) Python
4 270 (12.33%) TypeScript
5 242 (11.06%) Java
6 222 (10.14%) C++
7 109 (4.98%) PHP
8 89 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 49 (2.24%) C
10 41 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.46%) Go
12 29 (1.32%) Bash
13 27 (1.23%) Bicep
13 27 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 24 (1.10%) VBA
15 20 (0.91%) Scala
16 18 (0.82%) Rust
17 17 (0.78%) Delphi
17 17 (0.78%) F#
18 16 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 314 (14.34%) Degree
2 159 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 44 (2.01%) ISTQB
5 44 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.96%) PhD
10 19 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.49%) QA
2 38 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.64%) GDPR
5 13 (0.59%) WCAG
6 12 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
8 3 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.091%) ITGC
10 1 (0.046%) HL7
10 1 (0.046%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.046%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 180 (8.22%) Docker
2 21 (0.96%) Firmware
3 15 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 100 (4.57%) Terraform
3 36 (1.64%) Grafana
4 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.091%) MIIS
9 2 (0.091%) MOM
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 417 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.92%) Oracle
3 31 (1.42%) Google
4 23 (1.05%) Adobe
5 13 (0.59%) Xamarin
6 12 (0.55%) Databricks
6 12 (0.55%) VMware
7 11 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.46%) SAP
9 7 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.32%) iManage
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir
10 6 (0.27%) Aderant
11 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Intapp
11 5 (0.23%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.23%) Workday