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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 57 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,417 2,079 5,627
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.11% 4.15% 6.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.37% 15.21% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,909 1,719 4,217
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £88,750
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 18,606 13,666 24,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.92% 27.29% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13,249 8,945 16,651
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,750
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 30 August 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 30 August 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 +9 3,123 £60,000 -4.00% 1,087
UK excluding London +22 2,631 £57,500 - 759
Work from Home +8 1,545 £55,000 -8.33% 595
South East +22 762 £60,000 +4.35% 228
London -17 660 £84,750 +5.94% 468
North of England +37 647 £57,500 -4.17% 191
Midlands -2 415 £60,000 +9.09% 115
East of England +32 321 £60,000 +9.09% 89
North West +49 302 £55,000 -8.33% 105
South West +30 295 £53,000 +0.95% 78
West Midlands -11 218 £60,000 +4.35% 47
East Midlands +16 197 £55,000 - 67
Yorkshire +4 177 £55,000 -8.33% 43
North East +1 168 £65,000 +13.04% 45
Northern Ireland +4 116 £50,000 -10.31% 23
Wales -55 46 £51,619 +3.24% 20
Scotland -15 31 £52,500 -18.60% 30

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
1 102 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.14%) IIS
3 32 (0.94%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 14 (0.41%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.20%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 54 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.29%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Magento
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,678 (49.11%) Azure
2 586 (17.15%) AWS
3 481 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
4 336 (9.83%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.61%) SaaS
6 251 (7.35%) GitHub
7 204 (5.97%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.65%) Azure AI
9 182 (5.33%) PowerApps
10 177 (5.18%) Serverless
11 169 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 158 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 157 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
14 145 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
15 129 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 106 (3.10%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.58%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
20 47 (1.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.84%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 14 (0.41%) Firewall
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
8 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 520 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 460 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 181 (5.30%) Power BI
5 168 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 97 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 87 (2.55%) MySQL
8 79 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 78 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (0.82%) Redis
14 21 (0.61%) DynamoDB
15 17 (0.50%) Metadata
16 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.38%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
18 11 (0.32%) Big Data
18 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 300 (8.78%) Git
2 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 42 (1.23%) Selenium
5 33 (0.97%) GitLab
6 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 22 (0.64%) Postman
11 20 (0.59%) Claude Code
12 14 (0.41%) SpecFlow
13 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
16 8 (0.23%) Subversion
16 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
17 7 (0.20%) Moq
General
1 560 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 532 (15.57%) Finance
3 192 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.12%) Legal
5 122 (3.57%) Law
6 120 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 104 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (2.69%) Games
9 85 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 77 (2.25%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 69 (2.02%) Marketing
13 62 (1.81%) Electronics
14 59 (1.73%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.08%) Automotive
19 28 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,790 (52.39%) Developer
2 802 (23.47%) .NET Developer
3 755 (22.10%) Senior
4 747 (21.86%) Software Engineer
5 406 (11.88%) Software Developer
6 381 (11.15%) C# Developer
7 359 (10.51%) Lead
8 357 (10.45%) Senior Developer
9 331 (9.69%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 174 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
12 160 (4.68%) C# .NET Developer
12 160 (4.68%) Lead Developer
13 158 (4.62%) C# Software Developer
14 156 (4.57%) Graduate
15 140 (4.10%) .NET Software Engineer
16 122 (3.57%) Architect
17 115 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 106 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
19 102 (2.99%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,184 (63.92%) .NET
2 777 (22.74%) ASP.NET
3 766 (22.42%) .NET Core
4 605 (17.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 501 (14.66%) React
6 392 (11.47%) CSS
7 386 (11.30%) HTML
8 328 (9.60%) RESTful
9 325 (9.51%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.07%) Blazor
11 299 (8.75%) Entity Framework
12 296 (8.66%) Vue
13 268 (7.84%) .NET Framework
13 268 (7.84%) Node.js
14 250 (7.32%) REST
15 224 (6.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 164 (4.80%) Terraform
17 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
18 140 (4.10%) WPF
19 119 (3.48%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 157 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 130 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 128 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.58%) Virtual Team
8 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 49 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
12 45 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 40 (1.17%) Management Information System
15 33 (0.97%) Robotics
16 28 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 27 (0.79%) Legacy Code
18 26 (0.76%) Data Structures
18 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 172 (5.03%) Windows
2 118 (3.45%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) VMS
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (35.15%) Agile
2 1,151 (33.68%) Software Engineering
3 939 (27.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 848 (24.82%) CI/CD
5 812 (23.76%) DevOps
6 583 (17.06%) Microservices
7 567 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
8 545 (15.95%) AI
9 464 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 461 (13.49%) Mentoring
11 327 (9.57%) Test Automation
12 290 (8.49%) SDLC
13 285 (8.34%) Computer Science
14 280 (8.19%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.50%) Software Testing
16 218 (6.38%) Scrum
17 207 (6.06%) OO
18 197 (5.77%) Multithreading
19 192 (5.62%) Technical Leadership
20 191 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,240 (36.29%) SQL
2 818 (23.94%) JavaScript
3 571 (16.71%) Python
4 527 (15.42%) TypeScript
5 341 (9.98%) C++
6 297 (8.69%) Java
7 143 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 140 (4.10%) PHP
9 83 (2.43%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.43%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.02%) Bash
15 34 (1.00%) VBA
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.61%) Delphi
18 21 (0.61%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 417 (12.20%) Degree
2 192 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.61%) PhD
9 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (9.19%) QA
2 64 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 42 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.05%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.41%) WCAG
7 7 (0.20%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) SLA
9 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 394 (11.53%) Docker
2 21 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 13 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 345 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,123 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.63%) Google
3 65 (1.90%) Facebook
4 50 (1.46%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.67%) Adobe
6 23 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.64%) YouTube
8 18 (0.53%) Apple
8 18 (0.53%) VMware
9 17 (0.50%) Databricks
9 17 (0.50%) Sony
9 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.41%) Intapp
11 13 (0.38%) Foundry
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.32%) HP
13 11 (0.32%) IBM
13 11 (0.32%) Splunk
14 10 (0.29%) Xamarin