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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 51 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,905 2,282 8,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.04% 4.94% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.92% 16.25% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 1,888 6,991
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,761 £50,000 £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 £77,500 £80,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 17,170 14,043 33,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.98% 30.37% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12,189 9,299 25,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £77,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 2,715 £60,000 -7.69% 724
UK excluding London +3 2,139 £57,500 -4.17% 623
Work from Home +1 1,210 £55,000 -15.38% 420
South East +13 643 £59,500 -0.83% 211
London -18 633 £82,500 +3.13% 207
North of England +29 566 £57,500 -4.01% 144
Midlands -12 364 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West +50 281 £57,687 +4.88% 70
East of England +1 252 £60,000 -9.37% 76
South West +8 236 £55,000 - 71
East Midlands +18 185 £55,000 - 42
West Midlands -28 179 £59,500 +8.18% 48
Yorkshire +3 157 £55,000 -19.71% 36
North East -3 128 £60,000 +4.35% 41
Wales -32 40 £51,619 -20.59% 18
Scotland -12 34 £52,500 -16.00% 19
Northern Ireland -27 6 £65,000 -18.75% 12

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 79 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.03%) CMS
2 30 (1.03%) IIS
3 17 (0.59%) Confluence
4 14 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.31%) WordPress
6 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 6 (0.21%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.17%) nginx
9 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.14%) Apache
9 4 (0.14%) JBoss
10 3 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.069%) DNN
11 2 (0.069%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.069%) Immediacy CMS
11 2 (0.069%) Kentico
11 2 (0.069%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 41 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.24%) Simulink
4 6 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.10%) Magento
3 3 (0.10%) Shopify
4 2 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.069%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.069%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.034%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,468 (50.53%) Azure
2 500 (17.21%) AWS
3 397 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
4 266 (9.16%) Power Platform
5 205 (7.06%) SaaS
6 203 (6.99%) GitHub
7 158 (5.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 153 (5.27%) Serverless
9 149 (5.13%) Power Automate
10 145 (4.99%) Azure AI
11 144 (4.96%) PowerApps
12 130 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
13 122 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
14 103 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
15 100 (3.44%) Azure Functions
15 100 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
16 98 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 68 (2.34%) GCP
18 56 (1.93%) Azure AKS
18 56 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.86%) Internet
2 19 (0.65%) Broadband
3 14 (0.48%) DNS
3 14 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.31%) Firewall
6 8 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.24%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) DHCP
9 5 (0.17%) LAN
9 5 (0.17%) LTE
9 5 (0.17%) VPN
9 5 (0.17%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.10%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.10%) RS-232
11 3 (0.10%) SSL
12 2 (0.069%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 447 (15.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 387 (13.32%) MongoDB
4 155 (5.34%) Power BI
5 139 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (2.72%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.51%) MySQL
8 59 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 38 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (0.72%) Redis
13 16 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.45%) Db2
15 12 (0.41%) Metadata
16 11 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
18 8 (0.28%) DynamoDB
18 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 7 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 208 (7.16%) Git
2 58 (2.00%) JIRA
3 44 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.41%) Selenium
5 35 (1.20%) GitLab
6 28 (0.96%) Postman
7 24 (0.83%) SpecFlow
7 24 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.62%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.45%) NUnit
10 13 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.31%) SoapUI
13 8 (0.28%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 516 (17.76%) Finance
2 403 (13.87%) Social Skills
3 153 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 80 (2.75%) Games
6 72 (2.48%) Retail
7 69 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 61 (2.10%) Advertising
9 59 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.93%) Electronics
11 55 (1.89%) Banking
12 53 (1.82%) Aerospace
13 52 (1.79%) Marketing
14 50 (1.72%) Law
15 49 (1.69%) Front Office
16 40 (1.38%) Legal
17 34 (1.17%) Automotive
18 18 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
20 15 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,591 (54.77%) Developer
2 706 (24.30%) .NET Developer
3 647 (22.27%) Software Engineer
4 578 (19.90%) Senior
5 425 (14.63%) Software Developer
6 381 (13.12%) C# Developer
7 310 (10.67%) C# Software Engineer
8 273 (9.40%) Lead
9 272 (9.36%) Senior Developer
10 227 (7.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 167 (5.75%) C# .NET Developer
11 167 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.68%) C# Software Developer
13 160 (5.51%) .NET Software Engineer
14 138 (4.75%) Graduate
15 128 (4.41%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.41%) Graduate Developer
17 95 (3.27%) Azure Developer
18 94 (3.24%) .NET Software Developer
19 93 (3.20%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,899 (65.37%) .NET
2 720 (24.78%) .NET Core
3 655 (22.55%) ASP.NET
4 505 (17.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 425 (14.63%) React
6 341 (11.74%) CSS
7 327 (11.26%) HTML
8 287 (9.88%) AngularJS
9 262 (9.02%) RESTful
10 260 (8.95%) Blazor
11 257 (8.85%) Vue
12 238 (8.19%) Entity Framework
13 223 (7.68%) Node.js
14 218 (7.50%) .NET Framework
15 199 (6.85%) REST
16 191 (6.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 132 (4.54%) ML.NET
18 106 (3.65%) LINQ
19 102 (3.51%) WPF
20 66 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 130 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 110 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.93%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 38 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.20%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.83%) Legacy Code
16 23 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (0.79%) Robotics
16 23 (0.79%) Sports Betting
17 22 (0.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.92%) Windows
2 107 (3.68%) Linux
3 42 (1.45%) Android
4 26 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Unix
8 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.069%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (33.77%) Agile
2 892 (30.71%) Software Engineering
3 835 (28.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 672 (23.13%) CI/CD
5 651 (22.41%) DevOps
6 437 (15.04%) AI
7 435 (14.97%) Microservices
8 407 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 315 (10.84%) Mentoring
10 308 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 274 (9.43%) Computer Science
12 235 (8.09%) Test Automation
13 233 (8.02%) Machine Learning
14 228 (7.85%) SDLC
15 191 (6.57%) Scrum
16 180 (6.20%) Multithreading
17 177 (6.09%) TDD
18 173 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
19 162 (5.58%) OO
20 155 (5.34%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,102 (37.93%) SQL
2 644 (22.17%) JavaScript
3 455 (15.66%) Python
4 423 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 332 (11.43%) C++
6 268 (9.23%) Java
7 123 (4.23%) PHP
8 98 (3.37%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.48%) C
10 58 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.45%) Bicep
12 39 (1.34%) Go
13 36 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.20%) Bash
15 29 (1.00%) VBA
16 23 (0.79%) Rust
17 19 (0.65%) MATLAB
17 19 (0.65%) Scala
18 17 (0.59%) F#
18 17 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 386 (13.29%) Degree
2 185 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 129 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 79 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.51%) Master's Degree
6 43 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.96%) PhD
9 25 (0.86%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.21%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.17%) CREST Certified
17 5 (0.17%) GPEN
17 5 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.40%) QA
2 48 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.79%) GDPR
5 20 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.41%) SLA
8 11 (0.38%) WCAG
9 5 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.17%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.10%) NCSC
12 2 (0.069%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.069%) ITGC
13 1 (0.034%) EMIR
13 1 (0.034%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 340 (11.70%) Docker
2 28 (0.96%) Firmware
3 22 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) KVM
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 303 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.82%) Terraform
3 36 (1.24%) Grafana
4 17 (0.59%) Ansible
5 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.17%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.10%) Control-M
9 3 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.069%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.069%) MIIS
10 2 (0.069%) MOM
11 1 (0.034%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.034%) Nessus
11 1 (0.034%) Netcool
11 1 (0.034%) Nmap
Vendors
1 893 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 67 (2.31%) Google
3 56 (1.93%) Facebook
4 45 (1.55%) Oracle
5 24 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.79%) Adobe
7 19 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 18 (0.62%) YouTube
9 17 (0.59%) Apple
9 17 (0.59%) VMware
10 16 (0.55%) Xamarin
11 15 (0.52%) Sony
11 15 (0.52%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.48%) Databricks
13 11 (0.38%) Intapp
14 10 (0.34%) iManage
14 10 (0.34%) Splunk
15 9 (0.31%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
16 8 (0.28%) IBM