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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 49 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -31 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,704 2,255 8,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.90% 5.06% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.26% 16.16% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,386 1,859 7,196
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,875 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 16,632 13,955 34,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 31.31% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,725 9,194 25,745
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 0 2,531 £60,000 -7.69% 826
UK excluding London 0 1,952 £57,500 - 673
Work from Home -3 1,046 £55,000 -15.38% 481
London -17 623 £82,500 +3.13% 255
South East +10 591 £59,250 -1.25% 205
North of England +27 531 £59,000 +2.61% 169
Midlands -11 333 £57,500 +4.55% 84
North West +54 274 £60,000 +9.09% 98
East of England -6 223 £60,000 -9.37% 76
South West +11 211 £55,000 - 78
East Midlands +14 167 £55,000 - 37
West Midlands -30 166 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Yorkshire -9 148 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North East -11 109 £65,000 +14.04% 38
Scotland -35 30 £55,000 - 27
Wales -44 29 £50,000 -25.37% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 31

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 69 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.00%) CMS
3 26 (0.96%) IIS
4 14 (0.52%) Confluence
5 13 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.26%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) JBoss
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.037%) DNN
13 1 (0.037%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.037%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 36 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.074%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Shopify
4 2 (0.074%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,299 (48.04%) Azure
2 447 (16.53%) AWS
3 330 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 207 (7.66%) SaaS
6 159 (5.88%) GitHub
7 146 (5.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 145 (5.36%) Serverless
9 121 (4.47%) PowerApps
10 120 (4.44%) Power Automate
11 114 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
12 103 (3.81%) Azure AI
13 94 (3.48%) Azure Functions
14 93 (3.44%) GitHub Copilot
15 84 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 84 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
16 80 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 62 (2.29%) GCP
18 55 (2.03%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.48%) Internet
2 17 (0.63%) Broadband
3 16 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.52%) DNS
5 11 (0.41%) Firewall
6 10 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.22%) HTTP
8 6 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 4 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
12 2 (0.074%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 484 (17.90%) SQL Server
2 322 (11.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 272 (10.06%) MongoDB
4 135 (4.99%) Power BI
5 91 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
6 73 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 68 (2.51%) MySQL
8 58 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 49 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.59%) Redis
13 12 (0.44%) Db2
14 11 (0.41%) Metadata
15 9 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.26%) GIS
17 6 (0.22%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 185 (6.84%) Git
2 56 (2.07%) JIRA
3 48 (1.78%) Selenium
4 46 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 32 (1.18%) GitLab
5 32 (1.18%) Postman
6 23 (0.85%) SpecFlow
6 23 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 21 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 19 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.70%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.63%) Jenkins
10 16 (0.59%) SoapUI
11 14 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.48%) NUnit
13 12 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.37%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.33%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 486 (17.97%) Finance
2 372 (13.76%) Social Skills
3 143 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (3.59%) Manufacturing
5 67 (2.48%) Games
6 63 (2.33%) Retail
7 62 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.11%) Banking
9 55 (2.03%) Electronics
9 55 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.70%) Front Office
11 46 (1.70%) Law
12 44 (1.63%) Advertising
13 36 (1.33%) Marketing
14 34 (1.26%) Automotive
14 34 (1.26%) Legal
15 18 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.48%) Aviation
16 13 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,446 (53.48%) Developer
2 599 (22.15%) Software Engineer
3 574 (21.23%) .NET Developer
4 563 (20.82%) Senior
5 428 (15.83%) Software Developer
6 389 (14.39%) C# Developer
7 295 (10.91%) C# Software Engineer
8 271 (10.02%) Senior Developer
9 261 (9.65%) Lead
10 208 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 172 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (6.14%) C# .NET Developer
12 166 (6.14%) C# Software Developer
13 157 (5.81%) .NET Software Engineer
14 131 (4.84%) Graduate
15 118 (4.36%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.66%) Graduate Developer
17 96 (3.55%) Azure Developer
17 96 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 95 (3.51%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,751 (64.76%) .NET
2 604 (22.34%) .NET Core
3 521 (19.27%) ASP.NET
4 368 (13.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 365 (13.50%) React
6 294 (10.87%) CSS
7 284 (10.50%) HTML
8 233 (8.62%) AngularJS
9 211 (7.80%) RESTful
10 204 (7.54%) Blazor
10 204 (7.54%) Vue
11 203 (7.51%) .NET Framework
12 190 (7.03%) Entity Framework
13 180 (6.66%) REST
14 168 (6.21%) Node.js
15 140 (5.18%) ASP.NET Web API
16 94 (3.48%) WPF
17 92 (3.40%) ML.NET
18 75 (2.77%) LINQ
19 61 (2.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 165 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 107 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
3 102 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 80 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 52 (1.92%) Hedge funds
9 46 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 32 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (0.89%) Management Information System
14 24 (0.89%) Sports Betting
15 23 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
15 23 (0.85%) Legacy Code
16 22 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 133 (4.92%) Windows
2 97 (3.59%) Linux
3 38 (1.41%) Android
4 26 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.44%) VMS
7 10 (0.37%) Unix
8 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.074%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.074%) Solaris
11 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (31.69%) Agile
2 833 (30.81%) Software Engineering
3 714 (26.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 595 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 570 (21.08%) DevOps
6 373 (13.79%) AI
7 371 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
8 367 (13.57%) Microservices
9 302 (11.17%) Mentoring
10 286 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (9.91%) Computer Science
12 232 (8.58%) Test Automation
13 214 (7.91%) SDLC
14 193 (7.14%) Machine Learning
15 166 (6.14%) Scrum
16 151 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
17 150 (5.55%) Containerisation
17 150 (5.55%) TDD
18 137 (5.07%) OO
19 136 (5.03%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 951 (35.17%) SQL
2 563 (20.82%) JavaScript
3 432 (15.98%) Python
4 360 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 313 (11.58%) C++
6 266 (9.84%) Java
7 116 (4.29%) PHP
8 95 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.51%) C
10 49 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.41%) Bicep
12 36 (1.33%) Go
13 35 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 33 (1.22%) Bash
15 27 (1.00%) VBA
16 22 (0.81%) Rust
17 19 (0.70%) MATLAB
17 19 (0.70%) Scala
18 17 (0.63%) F#
18 17 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 377 (13.94%) Degree
2 185 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (4.36%) Security Cleared
4 73 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.04%) PhD
10 19 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.58%) QA
2 45 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.44%) SLA
8 11 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.074%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.074%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.074%) ITGC
13 1 (0.037%) EMIR
13 1 (0.037%) NCSC
13 1 (0.037%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 284 (10.50%) Docker
2 29 (1.07%) Firmware
3 22 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.18%) KVM
5 5 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 250 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.73%) Terraform
3 35 (1.29%) Grafana
4 15 (0.55%) Ansible
5 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.26%) Kibana
7 5 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.074%) MIIS
9 2 (0.074%) MOM
10 1 (0.037%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.037%) Nessus
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool
10 1 (0.037%) Nmap
Vendors
1 724 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.00%) Google
3 43 (1.59%) Oracle
4 39 (1.44%) Facebook
5 23 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.81%) Adobe
7 18 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.63%) VMware
9 15 (0.55%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.52%) Databricks
11 13 (0.48%) Apple
12 12 (0.44%) YouTube
13 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.41%) Sony
13 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.33%) iManage
14 9 (0.33%) Splunk
15 8 (0.30%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.26%) Intapp
17 6 (0.22%) Dynatrace