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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 50 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -30 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,190 2,317 6,801
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.72% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.88% 16.11% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,763 1,920 5,594
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £88,750
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 17,839 14,378 28,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.28% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,764 9,539 21,135
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,200 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 23 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 23 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 +3 2,895 £60,000 -7.69% 759
UK excluding London +8 2,409 £57,500 -4.17% 571
Work from Home +3 1,442 £55,000 -12.70% 406
South East +18 693 £60,000 - 188
London -17 650 £82,500 +3.13% 273
North of England +36 596 £56,500 -5.68% 146
Midlands -7 393 £57,500 +4.55% 80
North West +48 285 £55,000 - 72
East of England +8 273 £60,000 -9.23% 81
South West +17 272 £52,500 -4.55% 58
West Midlands -21 203 £60,000 +9.09% 39
East Midlands +12 190 £55,000 - 41
Yorkshire +14 169 £55,000 -15.38% 35
North East -6 142 £60,000 +2.13% 41
Northern Ireland +9 104 £61,250 -23.44% 6
Wales -39 46 £51,619 -13.97% 14
Scotland -6 34 £50,000 -22.48% 20

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 91 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.10%) IIS
3 33 (1.03%) CMS
4 20 (0.63%) Confluence
5 15 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) 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 (0.094%) DNN
12 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.094%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Kentico
12 3 (0.094%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.16%) Simulink
6 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.094%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (1.44%) 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 (0.094%) Magento
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.063%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.063%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.031%) Eikon
7 1 (0.031%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.031%) RMDS
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,596 (50.03%) Azure
2 527 (16.52%) AWS
3 426 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
4 290 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 253 (7.93%) SaaS
6 229 (7.18%) GitHub
7 180 (5.64%) Azure AI
8 169 (5.30%) Power Automate
9 161 (5.05%) PowerApps
10 158 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
10 158 (4.95%) Serverless
11 157 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
12 137 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
13 116 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 113 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
15 104 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 97 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 73 (2.29%) GCP
18 55 (1.72%) Azure AKS
19 54 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.94%) Internet
2 18 (0.56%) Broadband
2 18 (0.56%) DNS
3 15 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.25%) Firewall
4 8 (0.25%) HTTP
4 8 (0.25%) VPN
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.19%) BGP
6 6 (0.19%) DHCP
6 6 (0.19%) IPsec
7 5 (0.16%) LAN
7 5 (0.16%) WAN
8 4 (0.13%) Intranet
8 4 (0.13%) LTE
8 4 (0.13%) Modbus
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.094%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.094%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 533 (16.71%) SQL Server
2 511 (16.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 448 (14.04%) MongoDB
4 164 (5.14%) Power BI
5 163 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 76 (2.38%) MySQL
8 60 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 59 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (0.72%) Redis
12 22 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.41%) Db2
13 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) Metadata
15 11 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 228 (7.15%) Git
2 67 (2.10%) JIRA
3 41 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 39 (1.22%) Selenium
5 36 (1.13%) GitLab
6 27 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.69%) Postman
8 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.56%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.34%) NUnit
14 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.22%) Moq
16 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 522 (16.36%) Finance
2 493 (15.45%) Social Skills
3 161 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (4.73%) Legal
5 108 (3.39%) Law
6 106 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 87 (2.73%) Games
8 79 (2.48%) Retail
9 73 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.19%) Advertising
11 65 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 64 (2.01%) Marketing
13 60 (1.88%) Banking
14 56 (1.76%) Electronics
15 54 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 49 (1.54%) Front Office
17 38 (1.19%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.13%) Automotive
19 21 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,743 (54.64%) Developer
2 788 (24.70%) .NET Developer
3 712 (22.32%) Senior
4 685 (21.47%) Software Engineer
5 416 (13.04%) Software Developer
6 382 (11.97%) C# Developer
7 344 (10.78%) Senior Developer
8 309 (9.69%) C# Software Engineer
8 309 (9.69%) Lead
9 240 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 178 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 166 (5.20%) C# .NET Developer
12 165 (5.17%) C# Software Developer
13 151 (4.73%) Graduate
14 149 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
15 138 (4.33%) Lead Developer
16 101 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
16 101 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
17 100 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 98 (3.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,067 (64.80%) .NET
2 762 (23.89%) .NET Core
3 737 (23.10%) ASP.NET
4 583 (18.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 454 (14.23%) React
6 376 (11.79%) CSS
7 362 (11.35%) HTML
8 311 (9.75%) AngularJS
9 296 (9.28%) RESTful
10 293 (9.18%) Blazor
11 283 (8.87%) Vue
12 273 (8.56%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.03%) Node.js
14 242 (7.59%) .NET Framework
15 219 (6.87%) REST
16 216 (6.77%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.83%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.76%) LINQ
19 113 (3.54%) WPF
20 85 (2.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 204 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 149 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 119 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 100 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 81 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 80 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 52 (1.63%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 47 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (0.94%) Management Information System
13 29 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.88%) Robotics
15 27 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 25 (0.78%) Legacy Code
18 24 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
19 22 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 154 (4.83%) Windows
2 110 (3.45%) Linux
3 42 (1.32%) Android
4 34 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.34%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (35.36%) Agile
2 1,023 (32.07%) Software Engineering
3 910 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 771 (24.17%) CI/CD
5 738 (23.13%) DevOps
6 545 (17.08%) Microservices
7 493 (15.45%) AI
8 480 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 419 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 396 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 296 (9.28%) Test Automation
12 276 (8.65%) Computer Science
13 264 (8.28%) Machine Learning
14 246 (7.71%) SDLC
15 204 (6.39%) Scrum
16 200 (6.27%) Multithreading
17 196 (6.14%) Software Testing
18 184 (5.77%) TDD
19 182 (5.71%) OO
20 177 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (37.34%) SQL
2 749 (23.48%) JavaScript
3 529 (16.58%) Python
4 500 (15.67%) TypeScript
5 341 (10.69%) C++
6 272 (8.53%) Java
7 146 (4.58%) PowerShell
8 139 (4.36%) PHP
9 76 (2.38%) C
10 58 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.47%) Bicep
12 43 (1.35%) VB.NET
13 38 (1.19%) Go
14 34 (1.07%) Bash
15 32 (1.00%) VBA
16 22 (0.69%) Rust
16 22 (0.69%) Scala
17 20 (0.63%) F#
18 19 (0.60%) Haskell
19 18 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 392 (12.29%) Degree
2 187 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 120 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 85 (2.66%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (0.75%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.44%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.16%) GPEN
16 5 (0.16%) GXPN
16 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (8.59%) QA
2 53 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 28 (0.88%) GDPR
4 20 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.38%) SLA
5 12 (0.38%) WCAG
6 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.19%) NCSC
8 5 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.094%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.094%) PSD2
11 2 (0.063%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.063%) ITGC
12 1 (0.031%) EMIR
System Software
1 370 (11.60%) Docker
2 23 (0.72%) Firmware
3 20 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) 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 (0.094%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 335 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 147 (4.61%) Terraform
3 35 (1.10%) Grafana
4 17 (0.53%) Ansible
5 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.094%) Control-M
9 3 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.063%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) MOM
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,028 (32.23%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.70%) Google
3 64 (2.01%) Facebook
4 48 (1.50%) Oracle
5 28 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.72%) Adobe
6 23 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 17 (0.53%) Databricks
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) VMware
11 15 (0.47%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.34%) IBM
15 10 (0.31%) iManage
16 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow