C# Job Trends

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,804 3,631 5,124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.02% 6.81% 9.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.66% 20.20% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 2,324 4,592
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,521 17,971 21,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.31% 33.69% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,435 10,481 17,710
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -42 1,652 £60,000 - 892
UK excluding London -47 1,219 £57,500 +4.55% 787
Work from Home -22 777 £60,000 - 539
London -20 484 £80,000 +6.67% 223
North of England -24 368 £62,500 +17.92% 171
South East -47 335 £55,650 -10.96% 284
Midlands -32 256 £55,000 - 98
North West -14 186 £62,500 +18.48% 99
West Midlands -29 137 £55,000 - 46
East Midlands -22 119 £52,500 -4.55% 52
Yorkshire -26 118 £60,750 +21.50% 39
South West -47 107 £55,000 - 71
East of England -57 85 £55,000 - 92
North East -6 66 £65,000 - 33
Scotland -75 44 £60,000 +33.33% 49
Wales -23 26 £47,500 -5.00% 31
Northern Ireland -18 8 £95,000 +61.70% 6
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 39 (2.16%) IIS
1 39 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.22%) CMS
3 14 (0.78%) Kinematics
4 13 (0.72%) Confluence
5 9 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.055%) Kentico
Applications
1 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.055%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.28%) Shopify
4 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.055%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 881 (48.84%) Azure
2 340 (18.85%) AWS
3 227 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
4 202 (11.20%) SaaS
5 163 (9.04%) Power Platform
6 125 (6.93%) Serverless
7 107 (5.93%) Power Automate
8 104 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (4.99%) PowerApps
10 83 (4.60%) GCP
11 80 (4.43%) GitHub
12 72 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 62 (3.44%) Azure Functions
14 55 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 48 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 46 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
17 31 (1.72%) Entra ID
18 29 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (1.55%) Azure AKS
20 26 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.50%) DNS
4 8 (0.44%) HTTP
5 6 (0.33%) Internet
6 5 (0.28%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.17%) Firewall
8 3 (0.17%) Intranet
9 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SMTP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.055%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.055%) IPv6
10 1 (0.055%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.055%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 86 (4.77%) Relational Database
3 82 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 77 (4.27%) MySQL
4 77 (4.27%) Power BI
5 73 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 72 (3.99%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 35 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.22%) Redis
12 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 125 (6.93%) Git
2 85 (4.71%) Selenium
3 83 (4.60%) JIRA
4 65 (3.60%) Visual Studio
5 56 (3.10%) Postman
6 43 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 41 (2.27%) WebDriver
8 38 (2.11%) Jenkins
9 37 (2.05%) SoapUI
10 19 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 18 (1.00%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.67%) GitLab
13 12 (0.67%) NUnit
14 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.44%) JMeter
15 8 (0.44%) MSTest
15 8 (0.44%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.39%) PowerBuilder
17 6 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 467 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 293 (16.24%) Finance
3 111 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (4.49%) Law
5 76 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.66%) Retail
7 52 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 47 (2.61%) Front Office
10 40 (2.22%) Banking
11 36 (2.00%) Electronics
11 36 (2.00%) Legal
12 30 (1.66%) Marketing
13 24 (1.33%) Games
14 17 (0.94%) Billing
15 15 (0.83%) Aviation
15 15 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 897 (49.72%) Developer
2 412 (22.84%) Senior
3 275 (15.24%) Software Engineer
4 241 (13.36%) C# Developer
5 239 (13.25%) .NET Developer
6 238 (13.19%) Software Developer
7 217 (12.03%) Senior Developer
8 212 (11.75%) Lead
9 141 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 89 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 79 (4.38%) C# Software Engineer
12 75 (4.16%) C# .NET Developer
13 74 (4.10%) .NET Software Engineer
13 74 (4.10%) Analyst
14 71 (3.94%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.71%) Support Engineer
16 66 (3.66%) C# Software Developer
16 66 (3.66%) Senior Software Developer
17 63 (3.49%) Graduate
18 62 (3.44%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,106 (61.31%) .NET
2 314 (17.41%) .NET Core
3 280 (15.52%) React
4 247 (13.69%) ASP.NET
5 204 (11.31%) HTML
6 198 (10.98%) .NET Framework
7 189 (10.48%) AngularJS
8 179 (9.92%) CSS
9 137 (7.59%) REST
10 118 (6.54%) RESTful
11 101 (5.60%) Entity Framework
12 91 (5.04%) Vue
13 80 (4.43%) Blazor
14 77 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
15 66 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
16 63 (3.49%) SOAP
17 60 (3.33%) Node.js
18 52 (2.88%) ASP.NET Core
19 48 (2.66%) Web Services
20 43 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 132 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 90 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 38 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.77%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 22 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.05%) Client/Server
13 19 (1.05%) Robotics
14 17 (0.94%) Derivative
15 16 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 14 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.78%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.66%) Windows
2 55 (3.05%) Linux
3 20 (1.11%) Android
4 13 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.72%) Unix
4 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.22%) Solaris
5 4 (0.22%) VMS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
6 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.055%) AIX
7 1 (0.055%) Fedora
7 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (34.20%) Agile
2 531 (29.43%) Software Engineering
3 439 (24.33%) DevOps
4 425 (23.56%) CI/CD
5 396 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (21.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 313 (17.35%) Mentoring
8 305 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 285 (15.80%) Microservices
10 200 (11.09%) Computer Science
11 163 (9.04%) Scrum
12 160 (8.87%) Test Automation
13 147 (8.15%) SDLC
14 144 (7.98%) MVC
15 140 (7.76%) AI
16 127 (7.04%) Migration
17 119 (6.60%) CRM
17 119 (6.60%) OO
18 113 (6.26%) Containerisation
19 109 (6.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 637 (35.31%) SQL
2 436 (24.17%) JavaScript
3 293 (16.24%) Python
4 248 (13.75%) Java
5 229 (12.69%) TypeScript
6 132 (7.32%) C++
7 100 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 72 (3.99%) PHP
9 47 (2.61%) C
10 46 (2.55%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.61%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.11%) Bash
13 17 (0.94%) Bicep
13 17 (0.94%) Delphi
14 15 (0.83%) Go
15 14 (0.78%) VBA
16 13 (0.72%) Rust
17 10 (0.55%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.55%) Scala
18 8 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 282 (15.63%) Degree
2 146 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 104 (5.76%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 66 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 53 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.83%) ISTQB
7 39 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 28 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.05%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.55%) PhD
15 8 (0.44%) ISEB
16 7 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.28%) CREST Certified
17 5 (0.28%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.70%) QA
2 38 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.22%) GDPR
4 16 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.67%) WCAG
6 11 (0.61%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) HL7
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.11%) SLA
10 1 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.055%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.055%) IFRS
10 1 (0.055%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.055%) NIST
10 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (8.43%) Docker
2 18 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.94%) Firmware
4 10 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) HDFS
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Squid
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 91 (5.04%) Terraform
3 23 (1.27%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Ansible
5 6 (0.33%) Kibana
5 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.17%) Control-M
7 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.11%) Nagios
8 2 (0.11%) Nmap
9 1 (0.055%) WMI
Vendors
1 422 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.77%) Oracle
3 26 (1.44%) Guidewire
4 25 (1.39%) Google
5 18 (1.00%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.94%) Sage
7 15 (0.83%) SAP
8 13 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.72%) Palantir
9 11 (0.61%) Databricks
10 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.44%) Dataiku
11 8 (0.44%) Infor
11 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.44%) VMware
12 7 (0.39%) Adobe
12 7 (0.39%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.39%) Facebook
12 7 (0.39%) Talend