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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,787 3,637 5,131
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.01% 6.80% 9.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 20.17% 23.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,577 2,333 4,600
10th Percentile £34,900 £40,000 £38,125
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 £76,250 £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 11,423 18,032 21,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.26% 33.72% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8,359 10,531 17,727
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 12 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 12 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 -43 1,637 £60,000 - 1,272
UK excluding London -47 1,205 £57,500 +4.55% 1,188
Work from Home -24 774 £60,000 - 730
London -23 482 £80,000 +6.67% 236
North of England -25 360 £62,500 +17.92% 241
South East -46 332 £55,650 -10.96% 393
Midlands -34 255 £55,000 - 145
North West -16 180 £62,500 +18.48% 122
West Midlands -32 137 £55,000 - 55
East Midlands -20 118 £52,500 -4.55% 88
Yorkshire -27 118 £60,750 +21.50% 67
South West -47 106 £55,000 - 128
East of England -61 85 £55,000 -2.22% 176
North East -7 64 £65,000 - 52
Scotland -75 43 £60,000 +33.33% 55
Wales -26 26 £47,500 -5.00% 61
Northern Ireland -18 8 £95,000 +61.70% 19
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 (2.18%) IIS
1 39 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.23%) CMS
3 14 (0.78%) Kinematics
4 13 (0.73%) 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 (0.056%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.056%) Kentico
Applications
1 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.45%) 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 (0.056%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.74%) 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 (0.056%) Endur
7 1 (0.056%) Infor CloudSuite
7 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.056%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.056%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 873 (48.85%) Azure
2 337 (18.86%) AWS
3 226 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
4 197 (11.02%) SaaS
5 163 (9.12%) Power Platform
6 121 (6.77%) Serverless
7 107 (5.99%) Power Automate
8 104 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 82 (4.59%) GCP
11 79 (4.42%) GitHub
12 69 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 58 (3.25%) Azure Functions
14 51 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
15 46 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
16 45 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 31 (1.73%) Entra ID
18 28 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
19 27 (1.51%) Azure AKS
20 26 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.07%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.50%) DNS
4 8 (0.45%) HTTP
5 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.056%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.056%) IPv6
10 1 (0.056%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.056%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (20.37%) SQL Server
2 86 (4.81%) Relational Database
3 82 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 77 (4.31%) MySQL
4 77 (4.31%) Power BI
5 73 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 72 (4.03%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 35 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 24 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.23%) Redis
12 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (0.34%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 125 (6.99%) Git
2 85 (4.76%) Selenium
3 84 (4.70%) JIRA
4 65 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 56 (3.13%) Postman
6 43 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 41 (2.29%) WebDriver
8 38 (2.13%) Jenkins
9 37 (2.07%) SoapUI
10 19 (1.06%) SpecFlow
11 18 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.67%) GitLab
13 12 (0.67%) NUnit
14 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.45%) JMeter
15 8 (0.45%) MSTest
15 8 (0.45%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.39%) PowerBuilder
17 6 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 468 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 292 (16.34%) Finance
3 111 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (4.53%) Law
5 76 (4.25%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.64%) Retail
7 52 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (2.57%) Front Office
10 38 (2.13%) Banking
11 36 (2.01%) Legal
12 35 (1.96%) Electronics
13 30 (1.68%) Marketing
14 24 (1.34%) Games
15 17 (0.95%) Billing
16 15 (0.84%) Aviation
16 15 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.67%) Back Office
17 12 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 886 (49.58%) Developer
2 407 (22.78%) Senior
3 271 (15.17%) Software Engineer
4 238 (13.32%) C# Developer
5 236 (13.21%) .NET Developer
6 235 (13.15%) Software Developer
7 215 (12.03%) Senior Developer
8 209 (11.70%) Lead
9 139 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 86 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 77 (4.31%) C# Software Engineer
12 74 (4.14%) Analyst
12 74 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
13 72 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
14 69 (3.86%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.75%) Support Engineer
16 66 (3.69%) Senior Software Developer
17 65 (3.64%) C# Software Developer
18 62 (3.47%) Architect
18 62 (3.47%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,095 (61.28%) .NET
2 310 (17.35%) .NET Core
3 277 (15.50%) React
4 245 (13.71%) ASP.NET
5 204 (11.42%) HTML
6 197 (11.02%) .NET Framework
7 187 (10.46%) AngularJS
8 179 (10.02%) CSS
9 133 (7.44%) REST
10 116 (6.49%) RESTful
11 100 (5.60%) Entity Framework
12 91 (5.09%) Vue
13 79 (4.42%) Blazor
14 76 (4.25%) ASP.NET MVC
15 66 (3.69%) ASP.NET Web API
16 63 (3.53%) SOAP
17 60 (3.36%) Node.js
18 52 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
19 48 (2.69%) Web Services
20 43 (2.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 132 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 90 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.51%) Low-Code
12 22 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.06%) Client/Server
13 19 (1.06%) Robotics
14 17 (0.95%) Derivative
15 16 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 14 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.78%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.70%) Windows
2 55 (3.08%) Linux
3 20 (1.12%) Android
4 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 13 (0.73%) Unix
4 13 (0.73%) 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 (0.056%) AIX
7 1 (0.056%) Fedora
7 1 (0.056%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (34.19%) Agile
2 527 (29.49%) Software Engineering
3 439 (24.57%) DevOps
4 420 (23.50%) CI/CD
5 397 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 378 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 313 (17.52%) Mentoring
8 301 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 283 (15.84%) Microservices
10 200 (11.19%) Computer Science
11 162 (9.07%) Scrum
12 160 (8.95%) Test Automation
13 148 (8.28%) SDLC
14 143 (8.00%) MVC
15 140 (7.83%) AI
16 127 (7.11%) Migration
17 119 (6.66%) CRM
17 119 (6.66%) OO
18 111 (6.21%) Containerisation
19 105 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 634 (35.48%) SQL
2 435 (24.34%) JavaScript
3 293 (16.40%) Python
4 248 (13.88%) Java
5 226 (12.65%) TypeScript
6 130 (7.27%) C++
7 100 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 72 (4.03%) PHP
9 45 (2.52%) C
9 45 (2.52%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.62%) VB.NET
11 20 (1.12%) Bash
12 17 (0.95%) Bicep
12 17 (0.95%) Delphi
13 15 (0.84%) Go
14 14 (0.78%) VBA
15 13 (0.73%) Rust
16 10 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.56%) Scala
17 9 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (15.72%) Degree
2 146 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 104 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 66 (3.69%) SC Cleared
5 53 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.85%) ISTQB
7 39 (2.18%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 28 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.56%) PhD
15 8 (0.45%) 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 (9.79%) QA
2 38 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.23%) GDPR
4 16 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.67%) WCAG
6 9 (0.50%) 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 (0.056%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.056%) IFRS
10 1 (0.056%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.056%) NIST
10 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (8.39%) Docker
2 18 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.90%) Firmware
4 10 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.056%) HDFS
8 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.056%) Squid
8 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 90 (5.04%) Terraform
3 23 (1.29%) Grafana
4 12 (0.67%) Ansible
5 6 (0.34%) Kibana
5 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.056%) WMI
Vendors
1 422 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 51 (2.85%) Oracle
3 26 (1.45%) Guidewire
4 25 (1.40%) Google
5 18 (1.01%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.95%) Sage
7 15 (0.84%) SAP
8 13 (0.73%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.73%) Palantir
9 11 (0.62%) Databricks
10 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.45%) Dataiku
11 8 (0.45%) Infor
11 8 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.45%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.45%) VMware
12 7 (0.39%) Adobe
12 7 (0.39%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.39%) Facebook
12 7 (0.39%) Talend