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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,150 2,345 7,227
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.75% 7.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.77% 16.25% 23.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 1,944 5,996
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,185 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £70,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -

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 17,726 14,432 30,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.75% 29.26% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12,703 9,594 22,361
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,280 £35,475
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +2 2,877 £60,000 -7.69% 606
UK excluding London +7 2,370 £57,000 -5.00% 489
Work from Home +2 1,406 £55,000 -15.38% 310
South East +17 686 £60,000 - 175
London -21 647 £82,500 +3.13% 187
North of England +35 595 £56,500 -4.24% 122
Midlands -9 391 £55,000 - 67
North West +46 287 £56,250 +2.27% 55
East of England +4 271 £60,000 -9.37% 69
South West +19 266 £52,500 -4.55% 51
West Midlands -19 203 £60,000 +9.09% 34
East Midlands +18 188 £55,000 - 33
Yorkshire +18 168 £55,000 -15.38% 36
North East -3 140 £60,000 +4.35% 34
Northern Ireland +2 83 £61,250 -23.44% 2
Wales -40 47 £51,810 -17.10% 10
Scotland -13 33 £50,000 -22.48% 13

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 87 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.11%) IIS
3 33 (1.05%) CMS
4 19 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.095%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.095%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.095%) Magento
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.063%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.032%) Eikon
7 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.032%) RMDS
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,585 (50.32%) Azure
2 519 (16.48%) AWS
3 422 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
4 290 (9.21%) Power Platform
5 241 (7.65%) SaaS
6 228 (7.24%) GitHub
7 178 (5.65%) Azure AI
8 165 (5.24%) Power Automate
9 162 (5.14%) Serverless
10 158 (5.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 157 (4.98%) PowerApps
12 155 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
13 134 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
14 115 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 112 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 99 (3.14%) Azure Functions
18 69 (2.19%) GCP
19 57 (1.81%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.97%) Internet
2 18 (0.57%) Broadband
2 18 (0.57%) DNS
3 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.25%) Firewall
5 8 (0.25%) VPN
6 7 (0.22%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.19%) BGP
7 6 (0.19%) DHCP
7 6 (0.19%) IPsec
8 5 (0.16%) LAN
8 5 (0.16%) WAN
9 4 (0.13%) Intranet
9 4 (0.13%) LTE
9 4 (0.13%) Modbus
9 4 (0.13%) Network Security
10 3 (0.095%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 523 (16.60%) SQL Server
2 512 (16.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 447 (14.19%) MongoDB
4 164 (5.21%) Power BI
5 161 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 75 (2.38%) MySQL
8 60 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 56 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.73%) Redis
13 21 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.44%) Db2
15 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.38%) Metadata
17 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (0.35%) Big Data
17 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 218 (6.92%) Git
2 64 (2.03%) JIRA
3 40 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.21%) Selenium
5 35 (1.11%) GitLab
6 26 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.70%) Postman
8 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.51%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.51%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.38%) NUnit
13 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.22%) Moq
15 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 523 (16.60%) Finance
2 473 (15.02%) Social Skills
3 160 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (4.00%) Legal
5 109 (3.46%) Manufacturing
6 104 (3.30%) Law
7 86 (2.73%) Games
8 78 (2.48%) Retail
9 70 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.19%) Advertising
11 64 (2.03%) Marketing
12 59 (1.87%) Banking
12 59 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.84%) Electronics
14 53 (1.68%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.56%) Front Office
16 38 (1.21%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.11%) Automotive
18 20 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
18 20 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,731 (54.95%) Developer
2 787 (24.98%) .NET Developer
3 688 (21.84%) Senior
4 678 (21.52%) Software Engineer
5 417 (13.24%) Software Developer
6 385 (12.22%) C# Developer
7 330 (10.48%) Senior Developer
8 307 (9.75%) C# Software Engineer
9 302 (9.59%) Lead
10 238 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 179 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (5.30%) C# Software Developer
13 166 (5.27%) C# .NET Developer
14 151 (4.79%) .NET Software Engineer
15 150 (4.76%) Graduate
16 137 (4.35%) Lead Developer
17 101 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
17 101 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
18 99 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 95 (3.02%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,050 (65.08%) .NET
2 757 (24.03%) .NET Core
3 730 (23.17%) ASP.NET
4 580 (18.41%) ASP.NET Core
5 449 (14.25%) React
6 373 (11.84%) CSS
7 359 (11.40%) HTML
8 310 (9.84%) AngularJS
9 294 (9.33%) RESTful
10 290 (9.21%) Blazor
11 282 (8.95%) Vue
12 270 (8.57%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.13%) Node.js
14 240 (7.62%) .NET Framework
15 215 (6.83%) ASP.NET Web API
16 212 (6.73%) REST
17 154 (4.89%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.81%) LINQ
19 110 (3.49%) WPF
20 84 (2.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 148 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
3 119 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.68%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.83%) Robotics
17 24 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 24 (0.76%) Legacy Code
18 22 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.86%) Windows
2 108 (3.43%) Linux
3 42 (1.33%) Android
4 34 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.35%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (35.30%) Agile
2 1,001 (31.78%) Software Engineering
3 908 (28.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 755 (23.97%) CI/CD
5 722 (22.92%) DevOps
6 528 (16.76%) Microservices
7 490 (15.56%) AI
8 470 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
9 392 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 375 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 282 (8.95%) Test Automation
12 273 (8.67%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.41%) Machine Learning
14 242 (7.68%) SDLC
15 205 (6.51%) Scrum
16 199 (6.32%) Multithreading
17 184 (5.84%) TDD
18 179 (5.68%) OO
19 178 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
20 175 (5.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (37.81%) SQL
2 732 (23.24%) JavaScript
3 512 (16.25%) Python
4 487 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 340 (10.79%) C++
6 270 (8.57%) Java
7 137 (4.35%) PHP
8 134 (4.25%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.54%) C
10 59 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.46%) Bicep
12 41 (1.30%) VB.NET
13 38 (1.21%) Go
14 35 (1.11%) Bash
15 32 (1.02%) VBA
16 23 (0.73%) Rust
17 22 (0.70%) Scala
18 20 (0.63%) F#
19 19 (0.60%) Haskell
20 18 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 387 (12.29%) Degree
2 183 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 116 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.79%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (7.94%) QA
2 51 (1.62%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 27 (0.86%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.35%) WCAG
8 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.16%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.063%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.063%) ITGC
12 2 (0.063%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.063%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 366 (11.62%) Docker
2 25 (0.79%) Firmware
3 20 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.095%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 331 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.63%) Terraform
3 36 (1.14%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.095%) Control-M
9 3 (0.095%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.063%) MIIS
10 2 (0.063%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,018 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.67%) Google
3 64 (2.03%) Facebook
4 48 (1.52%) Oracle
5 27 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.73%) Adobe
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.51%) Databricks
10 16 (0.51%) VMware
11 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.32%) iManage
16 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow