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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 68 22
Rank change year-on-year +21 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,381 1,895 5,399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.97% 3.86% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.24% 14.65% 22.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,857 1,574 3,782
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
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 £81,625 £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% -0.05%

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 18,532 12,937 23,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.27% 26.33% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,180 8,304 15,114
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,900
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £106,250
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +16 3,093 £60,000 -4.00% 2,443
UK excluding London +29 2,612 £57,500 - 1,396
Work from Home +17 1,516 £55,000 -8.33% 1,196
South East +32 769 £60,000 - 356
London -17 652 £85,000 +6.25% 1,251
North of England +43 626 £57,500 -4.17% 340
Midlands -1 417 £60,000 +9.09% 201
East of England +34 324 £60,000 +9.09% 199
North West +60 298 £55,000 -12.00% 182
South West +26 283 £53,750 +2.38% 117
West Midlands -11 219 £62,500 +13.64% 100
East Midlands +24 198 £60,000 +9.09% 100
North East 0 169 £65,000 +10.64% 73
Yorkshire -4 159 £55,000 -8.33% 88
Northern Ireland +8 116 £50,000 -10.31% 54
Wales -56 44 £51,619 +6.43% 46
Scotland -2 35 £52,500 -18.60% 102

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
1 114 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.27%) IIS
3 28 (0.83%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 11 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
10 5 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.089%) DNN
12 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.089%) Simulink
5 3 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 55 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) 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%) JDE EnterpriseOne
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%) RMDS
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,650 (48.80%) Azure
2 598 (17.69%) AWS
3 484 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
4 350 (10.35%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.39%) SaaS
6 247 (7.31%) GitHub
7 210 (6.21%) Power Automate
8 194 (5.74%) Serverless
9 190 (5.62%) Azure AI
10 188 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 165 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 162 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
13 153 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
14 152 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 130 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
16 121 (3.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 112 (3.31%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.63%) GCP
19 49 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
20 46 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.83%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Firewall
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 15 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.33%) Broadband
7 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.24%) VLAN
8 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Wireless
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%) Intranet
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (17.51%) SQL Server
2 508 (15.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 450 (13.31%) MongoDB
4 187 (5.53%) Power BI
5 162 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 85 (2.51%) Relational Database
8 79 (2.34%) MySQL
9 74 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 27 (0.80%) Redis
13 23 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.56%) Metadata
15 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.44%) Data Lake
17 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.41%) Big Data
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 308 (9.11%) Git
2 72 (2.13%) JIRA
3 43 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.09%) Selenium
5 33 (0.98%) GitLab
6 27 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 24 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.65%) NUnit
10 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
13 11 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.24%) Subversion
17 7 (0.21%) Moq
17 7 (0.21%) MSI
17 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 576 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 514 (15.20%) Finance
3 192 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (5.32%) Legal
5 124 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 121 (3.58%) Law
7 115 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 101 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 89 (2.63%) Games
10 72 (2.13%) Retail
11 68 (2.01%) Advertising
12 67 (1.98%) Electronics
13 65 (1.92%) Marketing
14 62 (1.83%) Aerospace
15 53 (1.57%) Banking
16 44 (1.30%) Front Office
17 40 (1.18%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.04%) Automotive
19 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,746 (51.64%) Developer
2 791 (23.40%) .NET Developer
3 749 (22.15%) Senior
4 742 (21.95%) Software Engineer
5 370 (10.94%) Software Developer
6 360 (10.65%) C# Developer
7 355 (10.50%) Lead
8 350 (10.35%) Senior Developer
9 340 (10.06%) C# Software Engineer
10 248 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 174 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 160 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.67%) Lead Developer
14 140 (4.14%) Graduate
15 136 (4.02%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.99%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.55%) Architect
18 116 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
20 88 (2.60%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,159 (63.86%) .NET
2 757 (22.39%) ASP.NET
3 738 (21.83%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 496 (14.67%) React
6 391 (11.56%) CSS
7 388 (11.48%) HTML
8 327 (9.67%) AngularJS
9 324 (9.58%) RESTful
10 303 (8.96%) Blazor
11 300 (8.87%) Entity Framework
12 291 (8.61%) Vue
13 263 (7.78%) .NET Framework
14 256 (7.57%) Node.js
15 250 (7.39%) REST
16 219 (6.48%) ASP.NET Web API
17 166 (4.91%) Terraform
18 149 (4.41%) ML.NET
19 143 (4.23%) WPF
20 116 (3.43%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 151 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
4 129 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 129 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 90 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 60 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 57 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 46 (1.36%) Hedge funds
13 35 (1.04%) Robotics
14 31 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 25 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (0.74%) Low-Code
16 23 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
16 23 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.24%) Windows
2 113 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
8 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.059%) VMS
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (34.84%) Agile
2 1,137 (33.63%) Software Engineering
3 925 (27.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 854 (25.26%) CI/CD
5 799 (23.63%) DevOps
6 574 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
7 570 (16.86%) Microservices
8 556 (16.44%) AI
9 478 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 478 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 326 (9.64%) Test Automation
11 289 (8.55%) SDLC
12 279 (8.25%) Computer Science
13 270 (7.99%) Machine Learning
14 221 (6.54%) Software Testing
15 212 (6.27%) Scrum
16 207 (6.12%) OO
17 204 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
18 197 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
19 191 (5.65%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1,217 (36.00%) SQL
2 830 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 568 (16.80%) Python
4 515 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 354 (10.47%) C++
6 302 (8.93%) Java
7 137 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 125 (3.70%) PHP
9 86 (2.54%) C
10 67 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.36%) Bicep
12 43 (1.27%) Go
13 40 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 37 (1.09%) VBA
15 34 (1.01%) Bash
16 23 (0.68%) Ruby
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 418 (12.36%) Degree
2 192 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 148 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 111 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 50 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (9.17%) QA
2 68 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 57 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.18%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.53%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 4 (0.12%) NIST
9 4 (0.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.089%) PSD2
System Software
1 385 (11.39%) Docker
2 25 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) 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 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 334 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.71%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.089%) Control-M
8 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) Bosun
9 2 (0.059%) EnCase
9 2 (0.059%) FTK
10 1 (0.030%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,122 (33.19%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.63%) Google
3 63 (1.86%) Facebook
4 51 (1.51%) Oracle
5 32 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 20 (0.59%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 16 (0.47%) HP
13 15 (0.44%) Intapp
14 14 (0.41%) Foundry
15 12 (0.35%) Aderant
15 12 (0.35%) SAP
16 11 (0.33%) IBM
17 10 (0.30%) Splunk