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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 49 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,563 2,247 8,126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.75% 5.14% 8.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.59% 16.31% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,851 6,963
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,938 £49,750 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 16,440 13,774 33,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.48% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,471 9,240 25,152
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -13 2,398 £60,000 -7.69% 553
UK excluding London -17 1,816 £57,500 -2.54% 490
Work from Home -6 943 £57,500 -11.54% 320
London -16 618 £82,500 +6.45% 131
South East +6 563 £60,000 - 158
North of England +10 498 £60,000 +4.35% 139
Midlands -26 311 £57,500 +4.55% 61
North West +41 257 £60,000 +15.67% 82
East of England -13 197 £60,000 -9.37% 68
South West +3 191 £55,000 - 49
East Midlands +11 158 £55,000 - 32
West Midlands -47 153 £60,000 +9.09% 29
Yorkshire -13 142 £56,250 -17.58% 26
North East -13 99 £65,000 +13.04% 32
Scotland -39 28 £57,500 +10.58% 13
Wales -49 25 £50,000 -24.24% 13
Northern Ireland - 7 £80,000 - 2

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 67 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.09%) CMS
2 28 (1.09%) IIS
3 13 (0.51%) Confluence
4 12 (0.47%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.23%) WordPress
7 4 (0.16%) Apache
7 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.078%) nginx
10 1 (0.039%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.039%) Appian
10 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.27%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.078%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.078%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Shopify
4 2 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,188 (46.35%) Azure
2 419 (16.35%) AWS
3 300 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 216 (8.43%) SaaS
6 147 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 146 (5.70%) Serverless
8 128 (4.99%) GitHub
9 115 (4.49%) PowerApps
10 114 (4.45%) Power Automate
11 105 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
12 94 (3.67%) Azure Functions
13 91 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
14 77 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 69 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 67 (2.61%) Azure AI
17 66 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
18 63 (2.46%) GCP
19 54 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (2.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (0.98%) Internet
2 17 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 15 (0.59%) Broadband
4 13 (0.51%) DNS
5 10 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.39%) Firewall
6 7 (0.27%) DHCP
6 7 (0.27%) HTTP
7 5 (0.20%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) Intranet
8 4 (0.16%) LAN
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
8 4 (0.16%) WAN
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.078%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.078%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (18.65%) SQL Server
2 232 (9.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 193 (7.53%) MongoDB
4 134 (5.23%) Power BI
5 77 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.30%) MySQL
8 58 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
9 49 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
10 35 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.62%) Redis
13 11 (0.43%) DB2
13 11 (0.43%) Metadata
14 8 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.31%) GIS
15 7 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 184 (7.18%) Git
2 58 (2.26%) JIRA
3 55 (2.15%) Selenium
4 53 (2.07%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.60%) Postman
6 32 (1.25%) GitLab
7 28 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
8 25 (0.98%) SoapUI
8 25 (0.98%) WebDriver
9 24 (0.94%) SpecFlow
10 23 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
11 21 (0.82%) Jenkins
12 18 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 15 (0.59%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.51%) NUnit
16 10 (0.39%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
17 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 8 (0.31%) Yeoman
General
1 475 (18.53%) Finance
2 379 (14.79%) Social Skills
3 136 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.43%) Manufacturing
5 64 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 58 (2.26%) Retail
7 57 (2.22%) Electronics
7 57 (2.22%) Games
7 57 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (2.15%) Banking
9 48 (1.87%) Front Office
9 48 (1.87%) Law
10 46 (1.79%) Aerospace
11 33 (1.29%) Automotive
11 33 (1.29%) Legal
12 32 (1.25%) Advertising
13 28 (1.09%) Marketing
14 15 (0.59%) Aviation
14 15 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,348 (52.59%) Developer
2 546 (21.30%) Senior
2 546 (21.30%) Software Engineer
3 476 (18.57%) .NET Developer
4 427 (16.66%) Software Developer
5 392 (15.29%) C# Developer
6 265 (10.34%) C# Software Engineer
6 265 (10.34%) Lead
7 262 (10.22%) Senior Developer
8 193 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 177 (6.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 168 (6.55%) C# Software Developer
11 167 (6.52%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (6.05%) .NET Software Engineer
13 114 (4.45%) Graduate
14 110 (4.29%) Lead Developer
15 98 (3.82%) Graduate Developer
16 97 (3.78%) .NET Software Developer
17 94 (3.67%) Azure Developer
18 93 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,641 (64.03%) .NET
2 516 (20.13%) .NET Core
3 426 (16.62%) ASP.NET
4 322 (12.56%) React
5 267 (10.42%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (10.26%) CSS
7 262 (10.22%) HTML
8 195 (7.61%) .NET Framework
8 195 (7.61%) AngularJS
9 173 (6.75%) RESTful
10 168 (6.55%) Vue
11 167 (6.52%) REST
12 161 (6.28%) Entity Framework
13 157 (6.13%) Blazor
14 137 (5.35%) Node.js
15 107 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
16 86 (3.36%) WPF
17 59 (2.30%) ML.NET
18 57 (2.22%) JSON
19 55 (2.15%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 152 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 96 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
4 80 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 74 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.07%) Hedge funds
8 51 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 45 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.56%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (0.94%) Management Information System
14 24 (0.94%) Onboarding
15 23 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
15 23 (0.90%) Legacy Code
16 22 (0.86%) Sports Betting
17 21 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 128 (4.99%) Windows
2 97 (3.78%) Linux
3 34 (1.33%) Android
4 24 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.51%) VMS
7 12 (0.47%) Unix
8 6 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.078%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (30.51%) Software Engineering
2 764 (29.81%) Agile
3 611 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 558 (21.77%) CI/CD
5 533 (20.80%) DevOps
6 361 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
7 322 (12.56%) Microservices
8 317 (12.37%) AI
9 295 (11.51%) Mentoring
10 278 (10.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 258 (10.07%) Computer Science
12 235 (9.17%) Test Automation
13 215 (8.39%) SDLC
14 158 (6.16%) Machine Learning
15 156 (6.09%) Scrum
16 148 (5.77%) Business Intelligence
17 146 (5.70%) Containerisation
18 130 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
19 128 (4.99%) TDD
20 127 (4.96%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 839 (32.74%) SQL
2 537 (20.95%) JavaScript
3 435 (16.97%) Python
4 329 (12.84%) TypeScript
5 294 (11.47%) C++
6 268 (10.46%) Java
7 101 (3.94%) PHP
8 96 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.58%) C
10 45 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.37%) Bicep
12 34 (1.33%) Bash
13 32 (1.25%) Go
14 30 (1.17%) VB.NET
15 23 (0.90%) VBA
16 20 (0.78%) Rust
16 20 (0.78%) Scala
17 17 (0.66%) F#
18 16 (0.62%) Haskell
18 16 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 379 (14.79%) Degree
2 183 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 126 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 44 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.44%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.05%) PhD
10 26 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 12 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.23%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (5.54%) QA
2 43 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.47%) SLA
7 12 (0.47%) WCAG
8 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.078%) EMIR
11 2 (0.078%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.078%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.078%) ITGC
12 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (9.64%) Docker
2 29 (1.13%) Firmware
3 20 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) KVM
7 4 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 213 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 126 (4.92%) Terraform
3 35 (1.37%) Grafana
4 12 (0.47%) Ansible
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.078%) Control-M
8 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.078%) MIIS
8 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 2 (0.078%) Nmap
8 2 (0.078%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.039%) Nessus
9 1 (0.039%) Netcool
Vendors
1 627 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 48 (1.87%) Google
3 46 (1.79%) Oracle
4 26 (1.01%) Facebook
5 23 (0.90%) Adobe
6 20 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 16 (0.62%) Salesforce
7 16 (0.62%) VMware
8 14 (0.55%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.51%) Databricks
10 11 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.35%) Apple
11 9 (0.35%) iManage
11 9 (0.35%) Splunk
12 8 (0.31%) YouTube
13 7 (0.27%) Intapp
13 7 (0.27%) Sony
13 7 (0.27%) Yahoo!
14 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace