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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 55 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,297 2,243 5,981
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.53% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.04% 15.72% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,835 1,859 4,814
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +9.32% -5.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 18,277 14,268 25,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.71% 28.81% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,010 9,441 18,690
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +8 3,003 £60,000 -7.69% 958
UK excluding London +12 2,502 £57,500 - 700
Work from Home +6 1,496 £55,000 -12.00% 528
South East +16 717 £60,000 - 227
London -22 667 £82,500 +3.13% 368
North of England +38 621 £57,500 -4.17% 180
Midlands -8 401 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North West +48 295 £55,000 -4.35% 95
South West +21 292 £53,000 -3.64% 67
East of England +11 286 £60,000 -2.04% 78
West Midlands -15 213 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East Midlands +14 188 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire +21 181 £55,000 -15.38% 47
North East -8 145 £60,000 +4.35% 39
Northern Ireland +8 108 £57,500 -28.13% 23
Wales -52 45 £51,619 -1.68% 24
Scotland -11 34 £50,000 -22.48% 23

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 95 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.03%) IIS
3 33 (1.00%) CMS
4 23 (0.70%) Confluence
5 15 (0.45%) 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
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.091%) DNN
12 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.091%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.091%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.091%) Magento
6 3 (0.091%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.091%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.061%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.061%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.061%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.061%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,642 (49.80%) Azure
2 556 (16.86%) AWS
3 443 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
4 311 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.95%) SaaS
6 240 (7.28%) GitHub
7 186 (5.64%) Azure AI
8 183 (5.55%) Power Automate
9 166 (5.03%) PowerApps
10 161 (4.88%) Serverless
11 160 (4.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 156 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 148 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
14 128 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
15 118 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 107 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 98 (2.97%) Azure Functions
18 80 (2.43%) GCP
19 56 (1.70%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.88%) Internet
2 18 (0.55%) Broadband
2 18 (0.55%) DNS
3 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.36%) HTTP
5 10 (0.30%) Firewall
6 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.24%) VPN
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) DHCP
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) LTE
10 4 (0.12%) Modbus
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
10 4 (0.12%) SNMP
11 3 (0.091%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 568 (17.23%) SQL Server
2 513 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.74%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.10%) Power BI
5 164 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
6 85 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 84 (2.55%) MySQL
8 71 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 63 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (0.85%) Redis
13 15 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 14 (0.42%) Db2
15 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.36%) Metadata
17 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 251 (7.61%) Git
2 72 (2.18%) JIRA
3 45 (1.36%) Selenium
4 43 (1.30%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.03%) GitLab
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.70%) Jenkins
8 21 (0.64%) Postman
8 21 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.58%) NUnit
9 19 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.49%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 530 (16.08%) Finance
2 526 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 173 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (4.73%) Legal
5 115 (3.49%) Law
6 114 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 87 (2.64%) Games
8 80 (2.43%) Public Sector
8 80 (2.43%) Retail
9 77 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 72 (2.18%) Advertising
11 67 (2.03%) Marketing
12 56 (1.70%) Banking
12 56 (1.70%) Electronics
13 55 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 46 (1.40%) Front Office
15 39 (1.18%) Legal Technology
16 36 (1.09%) Automotive
17 24 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,781 (54.02%) Developer
2 802 (24.33%) .NET Developer
3 733 (22.23%) Senior
4 703 (21.32%) Software Engineer
5 425 (12.89%) Software Developer
6 392 (11.89%) C# Developer
7 356 (10.80%) Senior Developer
8 325 (9.86%) Lead
9 314 (9.52%) C# Software Engineer
10 244 (7.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 171 (5.19%) C# Software Developer
13 168 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
14 154 (4.67%) Graduate
15 151 (4.58%) .NET Software Engineer
16 144 (4.37%) Lead Developer
17 112 (3.40%) Architect
18 110 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.18%) Graduate Developer
20 103 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,133 (64.70%) .NET
2 769 (23.32%) .NET Core
3 761 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 594 (18.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 477 (14.47%) React
6 388 (11.77%) CSS
7 376 (11.40%) HTML
8 323 (9.80%) AngularJS
9 312 (9.46%) RESTful
10 304 (9.22%) Blazor
11 292 (8.86%) Vue
12 286 (8.67%) Entity Framework
13 262 (7.95%) Node.js
14 260 (7.89%) .NET Framework
15 235 (7.13%) REST
16 221 (6.70%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.73%) ML.NET
18 122 (3.70%) WPF
19 120 (3.64%) LINQ
20 89 (2.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
3 137 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
4 126 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 92 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.58%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.06%) Management Information System
13 30 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 30 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 29 (0.88%) Robotics
15 28 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
15 28 (0.85%) Legacy Code
16 27 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 24 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.94%) Windows
2 111 (3.37%) Linux
3 42 (1.27%) Android
4 37 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (35.37%) Agile
2 1,063 (32.24%) Software Engineering
3 926 (28.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 802 (24.33%) CI/CD
5 774 (23.48%) DevOps
6 565 (17.14%) Microservices
7 519 (15.74%) AI
8 512 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
9 435 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 417 (12.65%) Mentoring
11 308 (9.34%) Test Automation
12 283 (8.58%) Computer Science
13 273 (8.28%) Machine Learning
14 268 (8.13%) SDLC
15 208 (6.31%) Scrum
16 201 (6.10%) Multithreading
16 201 (6.10%) Software Testing
17 197 (5.98%) OO
18 191 (5.79%) TDD
19 178 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (37.22%) SQL
2 784 (23.78%) JavaScript
3 545 (16.53%) Python
4 524 (15.89%) TypeScript
5 337 (10.22%) C++
6 282 (8.55%) Java
7 146 (4.43%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.28%) PHP
9 75 (2.27%) C
10 66 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.46%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.43%) Bicep
13 42 (1.27%) Go
14 33 (1.00%) Bash
15 32 (0.97%) VBA
16 22 (0.67%) Rust
16 22 (0.67%) Scala
17 19 (0.58%) Delphi
17 19 (0.58%) F#
18 18 (0.55%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 404 (12.25%) Degree
2 196 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 128 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 96 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.67%) PhD
9 19 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.12%) ISEB
19 3 (0.091%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (8.83%) QA
2 55 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.85%) GDPR
5 20 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 10 (0.30%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
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
11 3 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.091%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.091%) PSD2
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.061%) NIST
13 1 (0.030%) EMIR
System Software
1 385 (11.68%) Docker
2 21 (0.64%) Firmware
3 20 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.091%) vSphere
10 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 347 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 157 (4.76%) Terraform
3 34 (1.03%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.091%) Control-M
9 3 (0.091%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.061%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,078 (32.70%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.97%) Facebook
4 48 (1.46%) Oracle
5 30 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.70%) Adobe
8 22 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
9 19 (0.58%) Databricks
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.49%) Intapp
11 16 (0.49%) VMware
12 14 (0.42%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.36%) iManage
13 12 (0.36%) SAP
13 12 (0.36%) Splunk
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 9 (0.27%) ServiceNow