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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 49 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,124 2,351 7,697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.78% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.70% 16.31% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 1,946 6,401
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,679 £48,750 £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 £78,750 £80,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 17,645 14,413 31,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 29.33% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 9,591 23,808
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £78,750
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 15 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 15 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 2,847 £60,000 -7.69% 1,028
UK excluding London +8 2,336 £57,500 -4.17% 993
Work from Home +2 1,399 £55,000 -15.38% 836
South East +17 683 £60,000 - 265
London -21 652 £82,500 +3.13% 245
North of England +36 574 £56,500 -3.00% 235
Midlands -8 390 £55,000 - 138
North West +44 278 £57,500 +4.55% 127
South West +17 264 £54,000 -1.82% 97
East of England +2 264 £60,000 -9.37% 129
West Midlands -18 201 £60,000 +9.09% 64
East Midlands +14 189 £55,000 - 74
Yorkshire +8 161 £55,000 -18.52% 73
North East -8 135 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Northern Ireland +7 83 £61,250 -23.44% 43
Wales -38 47 £51,810 -20.29% 38
Scotland -16 33 £50,000 -20.00% 70

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 85 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.09%) IIS
3 31 (0.99%) CMS
4 19 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) 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 (0.096%) DNN
12 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.096%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.096%) Kentico
12 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 44 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.096%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 45 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.096%) Magento
4 3 (0.096%) Shopify
5 2 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.064%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.064%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,568 (50.19%) Azure
2 525 (16.81%) AWS
3 424 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
4 286 (9.15%) Power Platform
5 239 (7.65%) SaaS
6 228 (7.30%) GitHub
7 177 (5.67%) Azure AI
8 165 (5.28%) Serverless
9 162 (5.19%) Power Automate
10 160 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 155 (4.96%) PowerApps
12 154 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 132 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
14 112 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 106 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 102 (3.27%) Azure Functions
17 73 (2.34%) GCP
18 57 (1.82%) Azure AKS
19 54 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.98%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) Broadband
3 18 (0.58%) DNS
4 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.29%) Firewall
5 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.096%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.096%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (16.39%) Azure SQL Database
1 512 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 445 (14.24%) MongoDB
3 163 (5.22%) Power BI
4 160 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
5 83 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 74 (2.37%) MySQL
7 59 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 42 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.67%) Redis
12 19 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (0.45%) Db2
14 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) Metadata
15 11 (0.35%) Big Data
15 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 211 (6.75%) Git
2 61 (1.95%) JIRA
3 36 (1.15%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.12%) GitLab
5 34 (1.09%) Selenium
6 26 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.70%) Postman
8 21 (0.67%) SpecFlow
8 21 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 15 (0.48%) Jenkins
10 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.38%) NUnit
12 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.22%) Moq
14 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 526 (16.84%) Finance
2 460 (14.72%) Social Skills
3 156 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (4.00%) Legal
5 106 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 104 (3.33%) Law
7 89 (2.85%) Games
8 78 (2.50%) Retail
9 72 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.21%) Advertising
11 64 (2.05%) Marketing
12 58 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 55 (1.76%) Banking
13 55 (1.76%) Electronics
14 54 (1.73%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.57%) Front Office
16 38 (1.22%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.12%) Automotive
18 19 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,705 (54.58%) Developer
2 784 (25.10%) .NET Developer
3 684 (21.90%) Senior
4 678 (21.70%) Software Engineer
5 408 (13.06%) Software Developer
6 371 (11.88%) C# Developer
7 325 (10.40%) Senior Developer
8 311 (9.96%) C# Software Engineer
9 296 (9.48%) Lead
10 239 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 175 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.28%) C# .NET Developer
13 162 (5.19%) C# Software Developer
14 155 (4.96%) .NET Software Engineer
15 146 (4.67%) Graduate
16 131 (4.19%) Lead Developer
17 101 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
18 99 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
19 97 (3.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 96 (3.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,038 (65.24%) .NET
2 762 (24.39%) .NET Core
3 726 (23.24%) ASP.NET
4 578 (18.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 446 (14.28%) React
6 371 (11.88%) CSS
7 354 (11.33%) HTML
8 306 (9.80%) AngularJS
9 290 (9.28%) RESTful
10 287 (9.19%) Blazor
11 281 (8.99%) Vue
12 267 (8.55%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.19%) Node.js
14 238 (7.62%) .NET Framework
15 213 (6.82%) ASP.NET Web API
16 209 (6.69%) REST
17 154 (4.93%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.84%) LINQ
19 110 (3.52%) WPF
20 81 (2.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 200 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 146 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 117 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 111 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 71 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.73%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 28 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 25 (0.80%) Robotics
17 24 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
18 23 (0.74%) Legacy Code
19 22 (0.70%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 151 (4.83%) Windows
2 110 (3.52%) Linux
3 42 (1.34%) Android
4 34 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 8 (0.26%) Unix
8 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.064%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (35.18%) Agile
2 997 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 904 (28.94%) Full-Stack Development
4 759 (24.30%) CI/CD
5 722 (23.11%) DevOps
6 518 (16.58%) Microservices
7 480 (15.36%) AI
8 464 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
9 383 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 372 (11.91%) Mentoring
11 282 (9.03%) Test Automation
12 276 (8.83%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.48%) Machine Learning
14 238 (7.62%) SDLC
15 199 (6.37%) Multithreading
16 198 (6.34%) Scrum
17 182 (5.83%) TDD
18 178 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
18 178 (5.70%) OO
19 173 (5.54%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (37.74%) SQL
2 726 (23.24%) JavaScript
3 511 (16.36%) Python
4 487 (15.59%) TypeScript
5 339 (10.85%) C++
6 276 (8.83%) Java
7 134 (4.29%) PHP
7 134 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 77 (2.46%) C
9 57 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 45 (1.44%) Bicep
11 40 (1.28%) Go
11 40 (1.28%) VB.NET
12 35 (1.12%) Bash
13 31 (0.99%) VBA
14 26 (0.83%) Rust
15 22 (0.70%) Scala
16 20 (0.64%) F#
17 19 (0.61%) Haskell
18 18 (0.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 387 (12.39%) Degree
2 184 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (0.86%) PhD
9 19 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.35%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
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
1 251 (8.03%) QA
2 50 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.83%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
6 12 (0.38%) WCAG
7 11 (0.35%) ISO 9001
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 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.064%) ITGC
12 2 (0.064%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.064%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 367 (11.75%) Docker
2 25 (0.80%) Firmware
3 22 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.19%) KVM
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.096%) vSphere
10 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 330 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.67%) Terraform
3 38 (1.22%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.096%) Control-M
9 3 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.064%) MIIS
10 2 (0.064%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,011 (32.36%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.75%) Google
3 64 (2.05%) Facebook
4 48 (1.54%) Oracle
5 27 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.74%) Adobe
7 22 (0.70%) YouTube
8 20 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 19 (0.61%) Apple
10 17 (0.54%) Sony
10 17 (0.54%) VMware
10 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.51%) Databricks
12 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
13 13 (0.42%) Intapp
14 12 (0.38%) SAP
14 12 (0.38%) Splunk
15 11 (0.35%) IBM
16 10 (0.32%) iManage
17 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow