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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 67 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -45 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,415 1,905 5,401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.91% 3.85% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.20% 14.69% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,852 1,591 3,621
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18,764 12,971 23,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.98% 26.20% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,309 8,367 14,509
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +17 3,118 £60,000 -4.00% 2,163
UK excluding London +30 2,630 £57,500 - 1,367
Work from Home +19 1,533 £55,500 -7.50% 1,074
South East +25 771 £60,000 - 353
London -18 661 £85,000 +6.25% 984
North of England +35 635 £57,500 -4.17% 314
Midlands -1 412 £60,000 +9.09% 190
East of England +30 324 £60,000 +9.09% 212
North West +55 305 £55,000 -12.00% 180
South West +32 288 £54,000 +2.86% 106
West Midlands -16 214 £62,500 +13.64% 90
East Midlands +19 198 £60,000 +9.09% 100
North East +2 173 £70,000 +24.44% 50
Yorkshire -9 157 £55,000 -8.33% 86
Northern Ireland -3 116 £50,000 -10.31% 79
Wales -48 44 £51,619 +6.43% 38
Scotland +11 42 £55,000 -14.73% 96

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
1 118 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.26%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.029%) Revit
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,648 (48.26%) Azure
2 594 (17.39%) AWS
3 488 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 354 (10.37%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.61%) GitHub
6 250 (7.32%) SaaS
7 213 (6.24%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.86%) Serverless
9 194 (5.68%) Azure AI
10 188 (5.51%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
13 155 (4.54%) Dynamics 365
14 145 (4.25%) Azure Logic Apps
15 129 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 121 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.34%) Azure Functions
18 90 (2.64%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
5 10 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.29%) VLAN
5 10 (0.29%) Wireless
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 503 (14.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.21%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.45%) Power BI
5 163 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 98 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.55%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.00%) Redis
12 33 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.61%) Metadata
16 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 326 (9.55%) Git
2 76 (2.23%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.05%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Selenium
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 30 (0.88%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
14 9 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.23%) Moq
General
1 585 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 521 (15.26%) Finance
3 204 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.36%) Legal
5 130 (3.81%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.69%) Law
7 122 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 89 (2.61%) Games
10 73 (2.14%) Retail
11 69 (2.02%) Electronics
12 68 (1.99%) Advertising
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 64 (1.87%) Aerospace
15 56 (1.64%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 34 (1.00%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,748 (51.19%) Developer
2 797 (23.34%) .NET Developer
3 772 (22.61%) Senior
4 756 (22.14%) Software Engineer
5 363 (10.63%) Senior Developer
6 358 (10.48%) Software Developer
7 349 (10.22%) C# Developer
8 347 (10.16%) C# Software Engineer
9 344 (10.07%) Lead
10 250 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 175 (5.12%) Full-Stack Developer
12 161 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
13 151 (4.42%) Lead Developer
14 137 (4.01%) .NET Software Engineer
15 134 (3.92%) Graduate
16 122 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
17 121 (3.54%) Architect
18 119 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 100 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
20 88 (2.58%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,180 (63.84%) .NET
2 754 (22.08%) ASP.NET
3 734 (21.49%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.31%) ASP.NET Core
5 517 (15.14%) React
6 386 (11.30%) CSS
6 386 (11.30%) HTML
7 332 (9.72%) RESTful
8 331 (9.69%) AngularJS
9 302 (8.84%) Blazor
10 300 (8.78%) Entity Framework
11 285 (8.35%) Vue
12 271 (7.94%) .NET Framework
13 267 (7.82%) REST
14 261 (7.64%) Node.js
15 221 (6.47%) ASP.NET Web API
16 167 (4.89%) Terraform
17 148 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 142 (4.16%) WPF
19 116 (3.40%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 226 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 174 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 139 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 104 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 57 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 54 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.52%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 37 (1.08%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.45%) Windows
2 113 (3.31%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 40 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,181 (34.58%) Agile
2 1,170 (34.26%) Software Engineering
3 933 (27.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 888 (26.00%) CI/CD
5 814 (23.84%) DevOps
6 601 (17.60%) AI
7 591 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
8 572 (16.75%) Microservices
9 484 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 482 (14.11%) Mentoring
11 338 (9.90%) Test Automation
12 292 (8.55%) SDLC
13 281 (8.23%) Computer Science
14 268 (7.85%) Machine Learning
15 227 (6.65%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.33%) Scrum
17 209 (6.12%) OO
18 205 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
19 200 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
20 195 (5.71%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,222 (35.78%) SQL
2 844 (24.71%) JavaScript
3 592 (17.34%) Python
4 519 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 353 (10.34%) C++
6 306 (8.96%) Java
7 131 (3.84%) PowerShell
8 120 (3.51%) PHP
9 91 (2.66%) C
10 71 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.38%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
12 46 (1.35%) VB.NET
13 37 (1.08%) VBA
14 31 (0.91%) Bash
15 23 (0.67%) Delphi
15 23 (0.67%) Rust
16 22 (0.64%) Ruby
17 18 (0.53%) Scala
18 16 (0.47%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 414 (12.12%) Degree
2 188 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 161 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 120 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.20%) OSCP
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.11%) QA
2 71 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.32%) GDPR
5 22 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.59%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 394 (11.54%) Docker
2 28 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.53%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 333 (9.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.70%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) EnCase
8 5 (0.15%) FTK
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
12 1 (0.029%) Kibana
12 1 (0.029%) logstash
12 1 (0.029%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,129 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.66%) Google
3 62 (1.82%) Facebook
4 54 (1.58%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 17 (0.50%) Adobe
9 17 (0.50%) Apple
9 17 (0.50%) Databricks
9 17 (0.50%) HP
10 16 (0.47%) Foundry
10 16 (0.47%) Sony
10 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
11 13 (0.38%) Intapp
12 12 (0.35%) Aderant
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.32%) IBM
13 11 (0.32%) Splunk