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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,382 1,914 5,439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 3.86% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.28% 14.62% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,859 1,591 3,843
10th Percentile £39,163 £37,500 £36,741
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 £82,500 £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% -0.50%

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 18,503 13,095 24,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 26.41% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,149 8,447 15,323
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 13 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 13 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 +18 3,092 £60,000 -4.00% 1,434
UK excluding London +31 2,609 £57,500 - 875
Work from Home +18 1,517 £55,000 -8.33% 2,223
South East +36 769 £60,000 - 239
London -16 653 £85,000 +6.25% 692
North of England +39 626 £57,500 -4.17% 200
Midlands -3 417 £60,000 +9.09% 126
East of England +34 319 £60,000 +9.09% 132
North West +55 296 £55,000 -12.00% 99
South West +36 285 £53,750 +3.37% 96
West Midlands -13 219 £61,250 +11.36% 58
East Midlands +21 198 £60,000 +9.09% 67
North East +3 170 £65,000 +13.04% 49
Yorkshire -8 160 £55,000 -8.33% 54
Northern Ireland +7 116 £50,000 -10.31% 24
Wales -58 46 £51,619 +4.81% 23
Scotland -1 33 £52,500 -18.60% 56

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 42 (1.24%) 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 1,647 (48.70%) Azure
2 596 (17.62%) AWS
3 482 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
4 349 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 249 (7.36%) SaaS
6 247 (7.30%) GitHub
7 210 (6.21%) Power Automate
8 191 (5.65%) Serverless
9 190 (5.62%) Azure AI
10 188 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 165 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 163 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
13 151 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
14 150 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
15 126 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 110 (3.25%) 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%) Broadband
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VLAN
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
7 8 (0.24%) Wireless
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (17.42%) SQL Server
2 510 (15.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.34%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.50%) Power BI
5 162 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 101 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 84 (2.48%) 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
18 13 (0.38%) Big Data
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 306 (9.05%) Git
2 73 (2.16%) JIRA
3 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.12%) Selenium
5 33 (0.98%) GitLab
6 28 (0.83%) 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 20 (0.59%) Postman
12 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.35%) 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%) MSI
17 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
17 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 572 (16.91%) Social Skills
2 508 (15.02%) Finance
3 193 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (5.35%) Legal
5 124 (3.67%) Law
5 124 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 115 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 101 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 91 (2.69%) Games
9 73 (2.16%) Retail
10 68 (2.01%) Advertising
11 67 (1.98%) Electronics
12 65 (1.92%) Marketing
13 61 (1.80%) Aerospace
14 53 (1.57%) Banking
15 45 (1.33%) Front Office
16 40 (1.18%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.03%) Automotive
18 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,752 (51.80%) Developer
2 792 (23.42%) .NET Developer
3 746 (22.06%) Senior
4 736 (21.76%) Software Engineer
5 377 (11.15%) Software Developer
6 364 (10.76%) C# Developer
7 355 (10.50%) Lead
8 349 (10.32%) Senior Developer
9 335 (9.91%) C# Software Engineer
10 246 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 176 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
13 159 (4.70%) Lead Developer
14 141 (4.17%) Graduate
15 139 (4.11%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.99%) .NET Software Engineer
17 119 (3.52%) Architect
18 115 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
20 88 (2.60%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,160 (63.87%) .NET
2 760 (22.47%) ASP.NET
3 740 (21.88%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 492 (14.55%) React
6 390 (11.53%) CSS
7 387 (11.44%) HTML
8 326 (9.64%) AngularJS
9 322 (9.52%) RESTful
10 303 (8.96%) Blazor
11 300 (8.87%) Entity Framework
12 291 (8.60%) Vue
13 262 (7.75%) .NET Framework
14 257 (7.60%) Node.js
15 250 (7.39%) REST
16 220 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
17 163 (4.82%) Terraform
18 149 (4.41%) ML.NET
19 145 (4.29%) WPF
20 117 (3.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
3 150 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 128 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 106 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 90 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 58 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 57 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 51 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 46 (1.36%) Hedge funds
12 45 (1.33%) AI Agents
13 34 (1.01%) Robotics
14 29 (0.86%) Data Structures
15 26 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 25 (0.74%) Low-Code
17 24 (0.71%) Legacy Code
18 23 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.23%) Windows
2 113 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Android
4 40 (1.18%) 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 1,173 (34.68%) Agile
2 1,140 (33.71%) Software Engineering
3 928 (27.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 850 (25.13%) CI/CD
5 797 (23.57%) DevOps
6 574 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
7 569 (16.82%) Microservices
8 554 (16.38%) AI
9 474 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 473 (13.99%) Mentoring
11 325 (9.61%) Test Automation
12 289 (8.55%) SDLC
13 277 (8.19%) Computer Science
14 271 (8.01%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.53%) Software Testing
16 212 (6.27%) Scrum
17 205 (6.06%) OO
18 204 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
19 195 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
20 191 (5.65%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,216 (35.96%) SQL
2 831 (24.57%) JavaScript
3 572 (16.91%) Python
4 518 (15.32%) TypeScript
5 353 (10.44%) C++
6 302 (8.93%) Java
7 138 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 125 (3.70%) PHP
9 85 (2.51%) C
10 68 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.33%) Bicep
12 43 (1.27%) Go
13 40 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 37 (1.09%) VBA
15 34 (1.01%) Bash
16 24 (0.71%) Ruby
17 23 (0.68%) Rust
18 22 (0.65%) Delphi
19 19 (0.56%) Scala
20 15 (0.44%) F#
Qualifications
1 418 (12.36%) Degree
2 191 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 148 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.36%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.21%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.62%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
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
1 309 (9.14%) QA
2 68 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 56 (1.66%) 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%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
System Software
1 380 (11.24%) Docker
2 25 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
3 18 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.089%) vSphere
9 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 331 (9.79%) Kubernetes
2 30 (0.89%) 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 1,118 (33.06%) 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 21 (0.62%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
13 15 (0.44%) 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%) iManage