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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -29 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,548 2,241 8,232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.75% 5.12% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.61% 16.25% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 1,845 7,014
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,990 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 16,326 13,790 33,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 31.48% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,405 9,166 25,247
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -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 5 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 5 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 -7 2,385 £60,000 -7.69% 914
UK excluding London -13 1,801 £57,500 -2.54% 727
Work from Home -5 929 £56,500 -13.08% 563
London -14 617 £82,500 +3.13% 265
South East +9 553 £60,000 - 203
North of England +11 490 £60,000 +5.26% 208
Midlands -20 309 £59,000 +7.27% 93
North West +42 251 £60,000 +15.67% 126
East of England -12 200 £60,000 -9.37% 91
South West +3 195 £55,000 - 81
East Midlands +9 156 £55,000 - 46
West Midlands -44 153 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Yorkshire -20 140 £55,000 -19.12% 41
North East -13 99 £65,000 +13.04% 42
Scotland -35 25 £55,000 +2.33% 23
Wales -51 25 £50,000 -24.24% 16
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 28

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 66 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.06%) CMS
3 26 (1.02%) IIS
4 13 (0.51%) Confluence
5 12 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.24%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.039%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.039%) Appian
11 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.039%) nginx
11 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.27%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.078%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 32 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.078%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Shopify
4 2 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,174 (46.08%) Azure
2 414 (16.25%) AWS
3 290 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 207 (8.12%) SaaS
6 141 (5.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 141 (5.53%) Serverless
7 125 (4.91%) GitHub
8 115 (4.51%) PowerApps
9 114 (4.47%) Power Automate
10 109 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
11 91 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 85 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
13 75 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 68 (2.67%) Azure AI
15 66 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 65 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
17 62 (2.43%) GCP
18 54 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
19 53 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (0.98%) Internet
2 17 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 15 (0.59%) Broadband
4 14 (0.55%) DNS
5 11 (0.43%) Firewall
6 10 (0.39%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.31%) DHCP
8 6 (0.24%) HTTP
9 5 (0.20%) LAN
9 5 (0.20%) LTE
9 5 (0.20%) WAN
10 4 (0.16%) Intranet
10 4 (0.16%) Modbus
11 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.12%) RS-232
11 3 (0.12%) VPN
12 2 (0.078%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.078%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 232 (9.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 191 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 131 (5.14%) Power BI
5 72 (2.83%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.43%) MySQL
7 58 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 47 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.51%) Redis
13 11 (0.43%) Db2
13 11 (0.43%) Metadata
14 8 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (0.31%) GIS
15 6 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 176 (6.91%) Git
2 53 (2.08%) JIRA
3 51 (2.00%) Selenium
4 47 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.41%) Postman
6 31 (1.22%) GitLab
7 23 (0.90%) SpecFlow
7 23 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 23 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 22 (0.86%) WebDriver
9 20 (0.78%) SoapUI
10 19 (0.75%) Jenkins
11 17 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.47%) NUnit
15 10 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.31%) Yeoman
General
1 474 (18.60%) Finance
2 369 (14.48%) Social Skills
3 136 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 63 (2.47%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.32%) Games
7 57 (2.24%) Electronics
7 57 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (2.24%) Retail
8 55 (2.16%) Banking
9 48 (1.88%) Law
10 47 (1.84%) Front Office
11 46 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 33 (1.30%) Automotive
12 33 (1.30%) Legal
13 32 (1.26%) Advertising
14 27 (1.06%) Marketing
15 15 (0.59%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.55%) Aviation
17 12 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,322 (51.88%) Developer
2 567 (22.25%) Software Engineer
3 542 (21.27%) Senior
4 470 (18.45%) .NET Developer
5 423 (16.60%) Software Developer
6 384 (15.07%) C# Developer
7 280 (10.99%) C# Software Engineer
8 259 (10.16%) Lead
9 255 (10.01%) Senior Developer
10 197 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 172 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (6.48%) C# Software Developer
13 164 (6.44%) C# .NET Developer
14 155 (6.08%) .NET Software Engineer
15 121 (4.75%) Graduate
16 112 (4.40%) Lead Developer
17 96 (3.77%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.73%) .NET Software Developer
19 93 (3.65%) Azure Developer
19 93 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,618 (63.50%) .NET
2 509 (19.98%) .NET Core
3 421 (16.52%) ASP.NET
4 319 (12.52%) React
5 266 (10.44%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (10.32%) CSS
7 254 (9.97%) HTML
8 195 (7.65%) AngularJS
9 189 (7.42%) .NET Framework
10 171 (6.71%) RESTful
11 168 (6.59%) Vue
12 165 (6.48%) REST
13 157 (6.16%) Blazor
13 157 (6.16%) Entity Framework
14 133 (5.22%) Node.js
15 105 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
16 90 (3.53%) WPF
17 59 (2.32%) ML.NET
18 57 (2.24%) JSON
19 56 (2.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 94 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 81 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 68 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.12%) Hedge funds
8 49 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 45 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 37 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 24 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (0.94%) Legacy Code
12 24 (0.94%) Management Information System
13 23 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
13 23 (0.90%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.86%) Sports Betting
15 21 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 128 (5.02%) Windows
2 94 (3.69%) Linux
3 35 (1.37%) Android
4 26 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.51%) VMS
7 11 (0.43%) Unix
8 7 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.078%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (31.12%) Software Engineering
2 751 (29.47%) Agile
3 606 (23.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 543 (21.31%) CI/CD
5 521 (20.45%) DevOps
6 359 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
7 318 (12.48%) AI
8 317 (12.44%) Microservices
9 290 (11.38%) Mentoring
10 269 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 261 (10.24%) Computer Science
12 228 (8.95%) Test Automation
13 206 (8.08%) SDLC
14 160 (6.28%) Machine Learning
15 149 (5.85%) Scrum
16 145 (5.69%) Business Intelligence
17 144 (5.65%) Containerisation
18 127 (4.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 126 (4.95%) MVC
20 124 (4.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 839 (32.93%) SQL
2 528 (20.72%) JavaScript
3 428 (16.80%) Python
4 321 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 303 (11.89%) C++
6 265 (10.40%) Java
7 107 (4.20%) PHP
8 94 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.59%) C
10 45 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.37%) Bicep
12 32 (1.26%) Bash
12 32 (1.26%) Go
13 30 (1.18%) VB.NET
14 24 (0.94%) VBA
15 20 (0.78%) Rust
15 20 (0.78%) Scala
16 18 (0.71%) MATLAB
17 17 (0.67%) F#
18 16 (0.63%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 375 (14.72%) Degree
2 186 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (4.91%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 43 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.06%) PhD
9 23 (0.90%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 12 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.24%) CREST Certified
16 6 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.46%) QA
2 41 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.82%) GDPR
5 14 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.47%) SLA
8 11 (0.43%) WCAG
9 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.078%) EMIR
12 2 (0.078%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.078%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.078%) ITGC
13 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 243 (9.54%) Docker
2 29 (1.14%) Firmware
3 21 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.24%) KVM
7 5 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.79%) Terraform
3 34 (1.33%) Grafana
4 12 (0.47%) Ansible
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.078%) Control-M
8 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.078%) MIIS
8 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 2 (0.078%) Nmap
8 2 (0.078%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.039%) Nessus
9 1 (0.039%) Netcool
Vendors
1 620 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 48 (1.88%) Google
3 44 (1.73%) Oracle
4 26 (1.02%) Facebook
5 23 (0.90%) Adobe
6 20 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 17 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.67%) VMware
8 14 (0.55%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.51%) Databricks
10 11 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.35%) Apple
11 9 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.35%) iManage
12 8 (0.31%) Splunk
12 8 (0.31%) YouTube
13 7 (0.27%) Intapp
13 7 (0.27%) Sony
13 7 (0.27%) Yahoo!
14 6 (0.24%) SAP