C# Job Trends

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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -46 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,855 3,560 6,802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.90% 6.89% 9.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.41% 20.33% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 2,262 6,141
10th Percentile £35,775 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 12,041 17,510 27,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.84% 33.89% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,663 10,124 22,774
10th Percentile £33,025 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 2 February 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 -42 1,694 £60,000 -4.00% 877
UK excluding London -50 1,244 £55,000 -4.35% 748
Work from Home -25 782 £60,000 - 558
London -20 494 £80,000 +6.67% 264
North of England -35 361 £62,500 +13.64% 189
South East -42 344 £55,000 -12.00% 254
Midlands -36 261 £52,500 -4.55% 114
North West -19 181 £62,500 +18.48% 116
West Midlands -40 131 £51,250 -6.82% 49
East Midlands -21 130 £52,500 -4.55% 65
South West -47 118 £55,000 - 61
Yorkshire -36 114 £60,000 +20.00% 41
East of England -59 93 £55,000 -16.92% 70
North East -11 66 £70,000 +9.80% 33
Scotland -83 44 £60,000 +33.33% 43
Wales -31 22 £45,000 -25.00% 21
Northern Ireland -17 9 £78,750 +34.04% 8
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 39 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.05%) IIS
3 22 (1.19%) CMS
4 12 (0.65%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.49%) Confluence
5 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.054%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 886 (47.76%) Azure
2 345 (18.60%) AWS
3 232 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (11.37%) SaaS
5 178 (9.60%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.12%) Serverless
7 104 (5.61%) Power Automate
8 99 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (4.85%) GCP
9 90 (4.85%) PowerApps
10 82 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 75 (4.04%) GitHub
12 72 (3.88%) Azure Functions
13 54 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 48 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
15 44 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 36 (1.94%) Entra ID
17 32 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
18 28 (1.51%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.38%) DNS
3 7 (0.38%) HTTP
4 6 (0.32%) Internet
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
6 4 (0.22%) Firewall
6 4 (0.22%) SAN
7 3 (0.16%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) Broadband
8 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.054%) LTE
9 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.054%) SMTP
9 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (19.84%) SQL Server
2 87 (4.69%) Power BI
3 84 (4.53%) Relational Database
4 71 (3.83%) MySQL
5 69 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 68 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 66 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 43 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 35 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.08%) Redis
14 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.32%) GIS
16 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (0.27%) Big Data
17 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 127 (6.85%) Git
2 77 (4.15%) Selenium
3 72 (3.88%) JIRA
4 67 (3.61%) Visual Studio
5 50 (2.70%) Postman
6 39 (2.10%) WebDriver
7 37 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
8 33 (1.78%) Jenkins
9 32 (1.73%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.13%) SpecFlow
11 17 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.75%) GitLab
14 13 (0.70%) NUnit
15 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.49%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.43%) LabVIEW
18 7 (0.38%) JMeter
18 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
19 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 454 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 322 (17.36%) Finance
3 114 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (4.37%) Law
5 73 (3.94%) Public Sector
6 60 (3.23%) Retail
7 56 (3.02%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 49 (2.64%) Front Office
10 45 (2.43%) Banking
11 38 (2.05%) Electronics
12 31 (1.67%) Legal
13 29 (1.56%) Marketing
14 28 (1.51%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Aviation
15 16 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.81%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.81%) Military
17 13 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 912 (49.16%) Developer
2 414 (22.32%) Senior
3 303 (16.33%) Software Engineer
4 250 (13.48%) C# Developer
4 250 (13.48%) Software Developer
5 237 (12.78%) .NET Developer
6 212 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 206 (11.11%) Lead
8 144 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 98 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 97 (5.23%) C# Software Engineer
11 83 (4.47%) .NET Software Engineer
12 80 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
13 70 (3.77%) Lead Developer
14 67 (3.61%) Analyst
15 65 (3.50%) C# Software Developer
15 65 (3.50%) Graduate
16 64 (3.45%) Support Engineer
17 63 (3.40%) Architect
18 59 (3.18%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,124 (60.59%) .NET
2 323 (17.41%) .NET Core
3 269 (14.50%) React
4 235 (12.67%) ASP.NET
5 190 (10.24%) HTML
6 184 (9.92%) .NET Framework
7 173 (9.33%) CSS
8 167 (9.00%) AngularJS
9 138 (7.44%) REST
10 102 (5.50%) RESTful
11 91 (4.91%) Entity Framework
12 78 (4.20%) Vue
13 70 (3.77%) Blazor
14 67 (3.61%) ASP.NET MVC
15 56 (3.02%) Node.js
16 55 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
17 53 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
18 51 (2.75%) SOAP
19 46 (2.48%) jQuery
19 46 (2.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 80 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 44 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.78%) Low-Code
11 32 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.02%) Hedge funds
13 19 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 18 (0.97%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.97%) Derivative
14 18 (0.97%) Robotics
15 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.01%) Windows
2 72 (3.88%) Linux
3 21 (1.13%) Android
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.22%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) Fedora
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (32.45%) Agile
2 566 (30.51%) Software Engineering
3 445 (23.99%) DevOps
4 422 (22.75%) CI/CD
5 393 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (20.49%) Full-Stack Development
7 296 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 296 (15.96%) Mentoring
8 275 (14.82%) Microservices
9 204 (11.00%) Computer Science
10 158 (8.52%) Test Automation
11 150 (8.09%) AI
12 148 (7.98%) SDLC
13 147 (7.92%) Scrum
14 139 (7.49%) MVC
15 119 (6.42%) CRM
16 117 (6.31%) Containerisation
17 116 (6.25%) Migration
18 115 (6.20%) OO
19 103 (5.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 616 (33.21%) SQL
2 443 (23.88%) JavaScript
3 315 (16.98%) Python
4 246 (13.26%) Java
5 223 (12.02%) TypeScript
6 156 (8.41%) C++
7 102 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.94%) PHP
9 55 (2.96%) C
10 44 (2.37%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.35%) Bash
11 25 (1.35%) VB.NET
12 19 (1.02%) Go
12 19 (1.02%) Rust
13 18 (0.97%) Bicep
14 17 (0.92%) Delphi
15 15 (0.81%) VBA
16 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 288 (15.53%) Degree
2 144 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 75 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 41 (2.21%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 27 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.86%) PhD
14 9 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.43%) ISEB
16 7 (0.38%) CREST Certified
17 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
18 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.43%) QA
2 40 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.65%) WCAG
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
8 4 (0.22%) SLA
9 3 (0.16%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.054%) IFRS
11 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.054%) ITGC
11 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 161 (8.68%) Docker
2 22 (1.19%) Firmware
3 21 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (7.49%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.23%) Terraform
3 27 (1.46%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) MOM
9 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.054%) Nagios
10 1 (0.054%) Nessus
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 402 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.86%) Oracle
3 31 (1.67%) Google
4 20 (1.08%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.97%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.92%) SAP
7 13 (0.70%) Palantir
7 13 (0.70%) Sage
8 10 (0.54%) Databricks
8 10 (0.54%) VMware
9 9 (0.49%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.49%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.38%) Adobe
11 7 (0.38%) IBM
11 7 (0.38%) Infor
12 6 (0.32%) Epicor
12 6 (0.32%) ESRI
12 6 (0.32%) Salesforce