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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 18
Rank change year-on-year -21 -30 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,494 2,152 7,990
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.69% 5.02% 8.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.34% 16.15% 24.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 1,766 6,894
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,899 £43,813
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -2.65%

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 16,261 13,324 32,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.07% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,267 8,990 24,939
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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -14 2,317 £60,509 -6.91% 749
UK excluding London -19 1,745 £57,500 -4.17% 626
Work from Home -6 918 £57,500 -11.54% 441
London -15 613 £82,500 +6.45% 210
South East +6 547 £60,000 - 178
North of England +17 471 £60,000 +7.14% 182
Midlands -24 301 £60,000 +9.09% 77
North West +38 242 £60,000 +17.90% 109
East of England -15 188 £60,000 -9.37% 75
South West -10 177 £55,000 - 67
East Midlands +2 151 £55,000 - 42
West Midlands -44 150 £60,000 +9.09% 35
Yorkshire -15 139 £56,250 -16.97% 36
North East -10 90 £65,000 +13.04% 38
Scotland -43 32 £60,000 +20.00% 21
Wales -42 26 £50,000 -29.58% 12
Northern Ireland -32 8 £95,000 - 26

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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.12%) IIS
3 25 (1.00%) CMS
4 12 (0.48%) Confluence
5 11 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.20%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.080%) nginx
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.040%) Appian
11 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 31 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.080%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.080%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (45.59%) Azure
2 405 (16.24%) AWS
3 273 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 211 (8.46%) SaaS
6 144 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 144 (5.77%) Serverless
7 114 (4.57%) GitHub
8 111 (4.45%) PowerApps
9 109 (4.37%) Power Automate
10 98 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
11 90 (3.61%) Azure Functions
12 88 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
13 75 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (2.57%) GCP
15 63 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 58 (2.33%) Azure AI
17 56 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
18 54 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
19 51 (2.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.84%) Internet
2 15 (0.60%) Broadband
2 15 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.48%) DNS
4 10 (0.40%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.24%) HTTP
7 5 (0.20%) DHCP
7 5 (0.20%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) Intranet
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.080%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.080%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.080%) LAN
10 2 (0.080%) RS-232
10 2 (0.080%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (18.44%) SQL Server
2 203 (8.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 168 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 130 (5.21%) Power BI
5 71 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.41%) MySQL
8 49 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.68%) Redis
13 11 (0.44%) DB2
13 11 (0.44%) Metadata
14 9 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.28%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.28%) GIS
16 6 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
18 4 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (7.22%) Git
2 58 (2.33%) JIRA
2 58 (2.33%) Selenium
3 54 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 43 (1.72%) Postman
5 31 (1.24%) GitLab
6 30 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.12%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.08%) SoapUI
9 23 (0.92%) SpecFlow
9 23 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
10 21 (0.84%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.76%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.56%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.52%) NUnit
15 9 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.32%) Yeoman
17 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 478 (19.17%) Finance
2 360 (14.43%) Social Skills
3 131 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 64 (2.57%) Public Sector
6 57 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (2.17%) Banking
7 54 (2.17%) Retail
8 53 (2.13%) Games
9 50 (2.00%) Electronics
10 49 (1.96%) Front Office
11 48 (1.92%) Law
12 39 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.24%) Automotive
13 31 (1.24%) Legal
14 27 (1.08%) Advertising
15 25 (1.00%) Marketing
16 15 (0.60%) Aviation
16 15 (0.60%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,306 (52.37%) Developer
2 534 (21.41%) Senior
2 534 (21.41%) Software Engineer
3 439 (17.60%) .NET Developer
4 429 (17.20%) Software Developer
5 412 (16.52%) C# Developer
6 263 (10.55%) Lead
7 260 (10.43%) C# Software Engineer
7 260 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 184 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 176 (7.06%) C# Software Developer
9 176 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 173 (6.94%) C# .NET Developer
11 156 (6.26%) .NET Software Engineer
12 121 (4.85%) Graduate
13 105 (4.21%) Lead Developer
14 104 (4.17%) Graduate Developer
15 97 (3.89%) .NET Software Developer
16 96 (3.85%) SQL Developer
17 95 (3.81%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,577 (63.23%) .NET
2 489 (19.61%) .NET Core
3 390 (15.64%) ASP.NET
4 301 (12.07%) React
5 241 (9.66%) HTML
6 240 (9.62%) CSS
7 229 (9.18%) ASP.NET Core
8 191 (7.66%) .NET Framework
9 177 (7.10%) AngularJS
10 162 (6.50%) RESTful
11 157 (6.30%) REST
12 152 (6.09%) Vue
13 146 (5.85%) Entity Framework
14 143 (5.73%) Blazor
15 126 (5.05%) Node.js
16 93 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
17 82 (3.29%) WPF
18 55 (2.21%) JSON
19 54 (2.17%) jQuery
20 53 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 151 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 89 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
4 73 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 70 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.21%) Hedge funds
8 49 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 41 (1.64%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 24 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
13 23 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (0.92%) Legacy Code
13 23 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 23 (0.92%) Sports Betting
14 22 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 22 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 121 (4.85%) Windows
2 95 (3.81%) Linux
3 30 (1.20%) Android
4 19 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.56%) VMS
7 12 (0.48%) Unix
8 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.080%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.080%) Solaris
10 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (31.07%) Software Engineering
2 731 (29.31%) Agile
3 572 (22.94%) Full-Stack Development
4 534 (21.41%) CI/CD
5 509 (20.41%) DevOps
6 340 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
7 308 (12.35%) Microservices
8 286 (11.47%) Mentoring
9 283 (11.35%) AI
10 266 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 262 (10.51%) Computer Science
12 230 (9.22%) Test Automation
13 202 (8.10%) SDLC
14 148 (5.93%) Scrum
15 142 (5.69%) Containerisation
16 141 (5.65%) Machine Learning
17 138 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
18 128 (5.13%) Infrastructure as Code
19 127 (5.09%) MVC
20 120 (4.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 796 (31.92%) SQL
2 513 (20.57%) JavaScript
3 419 (16.80%) Python
4 315 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 278 (11.15%) C++
6 268 (10.75%) Java
7 109 (4.37%) PHP
8 95 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.57%) C
10 37 (1.48%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.36%) Bash
12 33 (1.32%) Bicep
13 30 (1.20%) Go
14 28 (1.12%) VB.NET
15 23 (0.92%) VBA
16 21 (0.84%) Scala
17 20 (0.80%) Rust
18 19 (0.76%) F#
19 17 (0.68%) Haskell
20 16 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 367 (14.72%) Degree
2 181 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (4.97%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 44 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.60%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.00%) PhD
11 18 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.52%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.24%) CREST Certified
18 5 (0.20%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.49%) QA
2 43 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.80%) GDPR
5 14 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.48%) WCAG
8 11 (0.44%) SLA
9 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.12%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.080%) EMIR
12 2 (0.080%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.080%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.080%) ITGC
13 1 (0.040%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 236 (9.46%) Docker
2 25 (1.00%) Firmware
3 18 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.28%) KVM
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.080%) vSphere
9 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 126 (5.05%) Terraform
3 37 (1.48%) Grafana
4 11 (0.44%) Ansible
4 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.28%) Kibana
6 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.080%) Control-M
7 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.080%) MIIS
7 2 (0.080%) MOM
7 2 (0.080%) Nmap
7 2 (0.080%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.040%) Nessus
8 1 (0.040%) Netcool
Vendors
1 580 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.84%) Google
2 46 (1.84%) Oracle
3 24 (0.96%) Adobe
4 21 (0.84%) Facebook
5 17 (0.68%) OpenAI
6 15 (0.60%) VMware
7 12 (0.48%) Salesforce
7 12 (0.48%) Xamarin
8 11 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (0.44%) Databricks
8 11 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.36%) iManage
9 9 (0.36%) Splunk
10 8 (0.32%) Apple
11 7 (0.28%) Intapp
12 6 (0.24%) Aderant
12 6 (0.24%) Sony
12 6 (0.24%) Yahoo!
12 6 (0.24%) YouTube