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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 34 18
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,007 2,604 7,637
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.51% 6.37% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.93% 18.97% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 2,193 6,761
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
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 14,407 13,724 31,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.05% 33.56% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9,999 10,208 24,719
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,508
25th Percentile £46,276 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,050 £56,750 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +5.09% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -38 1,845 £60,000 -7.69% 931
UK excluding London -49 1,365 £57,500 - 764
Work from Home -24 781 £60,000 -4.00% 535
London -29 521 £80,000 +6.67% 269
North of England -36 398 £62,500 +19.05% 185
South East -36 387 £57,500 -4.17% 234
Midlands -41 264 £55,000 - 124
North West -38 188 £60,000 +17.90% 90
South West -9 138 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Yorkshire -26 136 £65,000 +23.81% 60
East Midlands -23 135 £55,000 - 54
West Midlands -51 129 £57,500 - 70
East of England -61 117 £55,000 -16.93% 101
North East -10 74 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Scotland -70 44 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Wales -48 18 £42,500 -34.62% 25
Northern Ireland -37 9 £80,000 +18.52% 6
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 52 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.20%) IIS
3 21 (1.05%) CMS
4 10 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.25%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.15%) Confluence
7 3 (0.15%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.100%) nginx
9 1 (0.050%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.050%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.20%) Simulink
4 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.30%) Shopify
3 3 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.100%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.100%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.050%) Endur
5 1 (0.050%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 894 (44.54%) Azure
2 351 (17.49%) AWS
3 216 (10.76%) SaaS
4 205 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
5 193 (9.62%) Power Platform
6 125 (6.23%) Serverless
7 112 (5.58%) Azure Logic Apps
8 96 (4.78%) Power Automate
9 94 (4.68%) PowerApps
10 93 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (3.79%) Azure Functions
12 72 (3.59%) GCP
13 71 (3.54%) GitHub
14 64 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
15 57 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
16 43 (2.14%) Azure AKS
17 37 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 32 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
19 27 (1.35%) PaaS
20 24 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.55%) Broadband
4 6 (0.30%) Ethernet
4 6 (0.30%) Internet
5 5 (0.25%) DNS
5 5 (0.25%) HTTP
6 4 (0.20%) Intranet
6 4 (0.20%) Modbus
7 3 (0.15%) DHCP
7 3 (0.15%) Firewall
7 3 (0.15%) LTE
7 3 (0.15%) Network Security
8 2 (0.100%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.100%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.100%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.050%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.050%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.050%) Profibus
9 1 (0.050%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (19.73%) SQL Server
2 114 (5.68%) Power BI
3 80 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 63 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 61 (3.04%) MySQL
7 51 (2.54%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (0.95%) Redis
11 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.55%) DB2
14 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.30%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
16 4 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.20%) ClickHouse
16 4 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 125 (6.23%) Git
2 69 (3.44%) Selenium
3 65 (3.24%) Visual Studio
4 51 (2.54%) JIRA
5 38 (1.89%) Postman
6 32 (1.59%) WebDriver
7 30 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.35%) SpecFlow
9 26 (1.30%) SoapUI
10 24 (1.20%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.95%) TeamCity
12 17 (0.85%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.80%) NUnit
14 13 (0.65%) GitLab
15 11 (0.55%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.45%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.40%) Balsamiq
18 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
19 6 (0.30%) JMeter
19 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 390 (19.43%) Finance
2 363 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 119 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.69%) Public Sector
5 73 (3.64%) Law
6 58 (2.89%) Manufacturing
7 54 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (2.29%) Retail
9 45 (2.24%) Banking
10 42 (2.09%) Front Office
10 42 (2.09%) Games
11 36 (1.79%) Electronics
12 29 (1.44%) Legal
13 27 (1.35%) Marketing
14 21 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.85%) Military
16 15 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.70%) Aviation
18 11 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,029 (51.27%) Developer
2 445 (22.17%) Senior
3 370 (18.44%) Software Engineer
4 353 (17.59%) Software Developer
5 344 (17.14%) C# Developer
6 278 (13.85%) .NET Developer
7 237 (11.81%) Senior Developer
8 224 (11.16%) Lead
9 168 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 135 (6.73%) C# Software Engineer
11 126 (6.28%) C# .NET Developer
12 123 (6.13%) C# Software Developer
13 115 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 111 (5.53%) .NET Software Engineer
15 85 (4.24%) Graduate
16 77 (3.84%) Lead Developer
17 75 (3.74%) Senior Software Developer
18 71 (3.54%) SQL Developer
19 69 (3.44%) .NET Software Developer
20 67 (3.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,260 (62.78%) .NET
2 373 (18.58%) .NET Core
3 253 (12.61%) React
4 249 (12.41%) ASP.NET
5 189 (9.42%) HTML
6 185 (9.22%) .NET Framework
7 184 (9.17%) CSS
8 138 (6.88%) AngularJS
9 136 (6.78%) REST
10 109 (5.43%) RESTful
11 87 (4.33%) Entity Framework
12 85 (4.24%) Vue
13 78 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
14 77 (3.84%) Blazor
15 67 (3.34%) Node.js
16 47 (2.34%) Playwright
16 47 (2.34%) WPF
17 46 (2.29%) ASP.NET MVC
18 45 (2.24%) jQuery
19 42 (2.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.73%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.14%) Low-Code
7 38 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 37 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 35 (1.74%) Hedge funds
10 33 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 26 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.05%) Sports Betting
13 21 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 19 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.90%) Client/Server
15 18 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.85%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 98 (4.88%) Windows
2 73 (3.64%) Linux
3 17 (0.85%) Android
4 16 (0.80%) Unix
5 15 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.70%) VMS
7 10 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.100%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.100%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.100%) Solaris
8 2 (0.100%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.050%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (31.69%) Software Engineering
2 590 (29.40%) Agile
3 427 (21.28%) DevOps
4 404 (20.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 396 (19.73%) CI/CD
6 315 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
7 260 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 257 (12.81%) Mentoring
9 252 (12.56%) Microservices
10 209 (10.41%) Computer Science
11 170 (8.47%) AI
12 168 (8.37%) SDLC
13 164 (8.17%) Test Automation
14 142 (7.08%) MVC
15 126 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
16 125 (6.23%) Scrum
17 124 (6.18%) Containerisation
18 107 (5.33%) OO
19 97 (4.83%) User Experience
20 96 (4.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 635 (31.64%) SQL
2 442 (22.02%) JavaScript
3 334 (16.64%) Python
4 257 (12.81%) TypeScript
5 232 (11.56%) Java
6 192 (9.57%) C++
7 82 (4.09%) PHP
8 78 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 54 (2.69%) C
10 42 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.69%) Go
12 27 (1.35%) Bash
13 25 (1.25%) VB.NET
14 22 (1.10%) Bicep
14 22 (1.10%) Rust
15 19 (0.95%) Delphi
16 17 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.85%) VBA
17 15 (0.75%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 285 (14.20%) Degree
2 133 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 65 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 50 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (2.24%) ISTQB
7 42 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 33 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.20%) PhD
10 23 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.50%) CREST Certified
17 9 (0.45%) ISEB
18 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.30%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (7.17%) QA
2 35 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.75%) GDPR
5 12 (0.60%) WCAG
6 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.40%) SLA
9 3 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.15%) EMIR
10 2 (0.100%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.100%) ITGC
11 1 (0.050%) HL7
11 1 (0.050%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.050%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.050%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 178 (8.87%) Docker
2 22 (1.10%) Firmware
3 13 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.35%) KVM
6 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 149 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.43%) Terraform
3 37 (1.84%) Grafana
4 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.40%) Ansible
6 7 (0.35%) Kibana
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.15%) Nmap
7 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.100%) MIIS
8 2 (0.100%) MOM
8 2 (0.100%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.050%) Control-M
9 1 (0.050%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.050%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.050%) Nessus
9 1 (0.050%) Netcool
Vendors
1 402 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.14%) Oracle
3 32 (1.59%) Google
4 18 (0.90%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.80%) SAP
6 13 (0.65%) Adobe
7 12 (0.60%) Databricks
8 11 (0.55%) VMware
9 9 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 9 (0.45%) Palantir
9 9 (0.45%) Sage
10 8 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.40%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.35%) iManage
11 7 (0.35%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.30%) Epicor
12 6 (0.30%) Facebook
12 6 (0.30%) IBM
12 6 (0.30%) IFS