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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,124 2,350 7,424
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.78% 7.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.75% 16.30% 23.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 1,945 6,161
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,990 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -

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 17,604 14,419 30,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.79% 29.35% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 9,580 22,957
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,195
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +2 2,850 £60,000 -7.69% 576
UK excluding London +7 2,342 £57,000 -5.00% 467
Work from Home 0 1,398 £55,000 -15.38% 300
South East +17 683 £60,000 - 165
London -19 649 £82,500 +3.13% 181
North of England +37 582 £55,000 -6.78% 107
Midlands -5 385 £55,000 - 67
North West +46 281 £56,250 +2.27% 54
East of England +5 267 £60,000 -9.37% 67
South West +20 263 £53,500 -2.73% 52
West Midlands -23 200 £60,000 +9.09% 32
East Midlands +18 185 £55,000 - 35
Yorkshire +9 165 £55,000 -16.98% 28
North East -8 136 £59,500 +3.48% 27
Northern Ireland +3 83 £61,250 -23.44% 2
Wales -36 47 £51,810 -20.29% 8
Scotland -22 34 £52,500 -18.60% 15

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 87 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.12%) IIS
3 33 (1.06%) CMS
4 19 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.096%) DNN
12 3 (0.096%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.096%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.096%) Kentico
12 3 (0.096%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 45 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.096%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.096%) Magento
6 2 (0.064%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.064%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.064%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.032%) Eikon
7 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.032%) RMDS
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,574 (50.38%) Azure
2 516 (16.52%) AWS
3 420 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
4 289 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 238 (7.62%) SaaS
6 226 (7.23%) GitHub
7 178 (5.70%) Azure AI
8 164 (5.25%) Power Automate
9 162 (5.19%) Serverless
10 159 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 157 (5.03%) PowerApps
12 154 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 133 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
14 115 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
15 111 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
16 102 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 101 (3.23%) Azure Functions
18 71 (2.27%) GCP
19 57 (1.82%) Azure AKS
20 54 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.98%) Internet
2 19 (0.61%) Broadband
3 18 (0.58%) DNS
4 15 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.29%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.26%) Firewall
6 8 (0.26%) VPN
7 7 (0.22%) HTTP
7 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.19%) BGP
8 6 (0.19%) DHCP
8 6 (0.19%) IPsec
9 5 (0.16%) LAN
9 5 (0.16%) WAN
10 4 (0.13%) Intranet
10 4 (0.13%) LTE
10 4 (0.13%) Modbus
10 4 (0.13%) Network Security
11 3 (0.096%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 521 (16.68%) SQL Server
2 511 (16.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 447 (14.31%) MongoDB
4 165 (5.28%) Power BI
5 160 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (2.62%) NoSQL
7 74 (2.37%) MySQL
8 59 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 56 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.74%) Redis
13 21 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.45%) Db2
15 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Metadata
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 215 (6.88%) Git
2 63 (2.02%) JIRA
3 40 (1.28%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.15%) GitLab
5 35 (1.12%) Selenium
6 26 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.70%) Postman
8 20 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.61%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.51%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.51%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.35%) NUnit
13 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.22%) Moq
15 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 523 (16.74%) Finance
2 471 (15.08%) Social Skills
3 158 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (4.03%) Legal
5 107 (3.43%) Manufacturing
6 104 (3.33%) Law
7 88 (2.82%) Games
8 78 (2.50%) Retail
9 70 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.21%) Advertising
11 64 (2.05%) Marketing
12 59 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 57 (1.82%) Banking
14 56 (1.79%) Electronics
15 52 (1.66%) Aerospace
16 49 (1.57%) Front Office
17 38 (1.22%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.12%) Automotive
19 20 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
19 20 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,710 (54.74%) Developer
2 783 (25.06%) .NET Developer
3 680 (21.77%) Senior
4 673 (21.54%) Software Engineer
5 407 (13.03%) Software Developer
6 376 (12.04%) C# Developer
7 325 (10.40%) Senior Developer
8 305 (9.76%) C# Software Engineer
9 301 (9.64%) Lead
10 235 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.28%) C# .NET Developer
13 162 (5.19%) C# Software Developer
14 150 (4.80%) .NET Software Engineer
15 147 (4.71%) Graduate
16 134 (4.29%) Lead Developer
17 102 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
18 100 (3.20%) Graduate Developer
19 98 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 95 (3.04%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,033 (65.08%) .NET
2 757 (24.23%) .NET Core
3 726 (23.24%) ASP.NET
4 577 (18.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 449 (14.37%) React
6 372 (11.91%) CSS
7 356 (11.40%) HTML
8 310 (9.92%) AngularJS
9 291 (9.31%) RESTful
10 288 (9.22%) Blazor
11 283 (9.06%) Vue
12 268 (8.58%) Entity Framework
13 257 (8.23%) Node.js
14 238 (7.62%) .NET Framework
15 214 (6.85%) ASP.NET Web API
16 210 (6.72%) REST
17 154 (4.93%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.84%) LINQ
19 110 (3.52%) WPF
20 83 (2.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 145 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
3 119 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 113 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.66%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.86%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.83%) Robotics
17 24 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
18 23 (0.74%) Legacy Code
19 22 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 153 (4.90%) Windows
2 108 (3.46%) Linux
3 42 (1.34%) Android
4 34 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.38%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.064%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (35.31%) Agile
2 996 (31.88%) Software Engineering
3 903 (28.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 755 (24.17%) CI/CD
5 717 (22.95%) DevOps
6 525 (16.81%) Microservices
7 487 (15.59%) AI
8 466 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
9 392 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 374 (11.97%) Mentoring
11 282 (9.03%) Test Automation
12 274 (8.77%) Computer Science
13 264 (8.45%) Machine Learning
14 241 (7.71%) SDLC
15 202 (6.47%) Scrum
16 200 (6.40%) Multithreading
17 183 (5.86%) TDD
18 179 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
18 179 (5.73%) OO
19 174 (5.57%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,183 (37.87%) SQL
2 727 (23.27%) JavaScript
3 508 (16.26%) Python
4 488 (15.62%) TypeScript
5 338 (10.82%) C++
6 272 (8.71%) Java
7 135 (4.32%) PHP
8 134 (4.29%) PowerShell
9 79 (2.53%) C
10 59 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.44%) Bicep
12 41 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 39 (1.25%) Go
14 34 (1.09%) Bash
15 31 (0.99%) VBA
16 25 (0.80%) Rust
17 22 (0.70%) Scala
18 20 (0.64%) F#
19 19 (0.61%) Haskell
20 18 (0.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 387 (12.39%) Degree
2 182 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 116 (3.71%) Security Cleared
4 79 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 42 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (0.83%) PhD
9 19 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (7.97%) QA
2 51 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.83%) GDPR
5 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 11 (0.35%) WCAG
8 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.16%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.096%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.064%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.064%) ITGC
12 2 (0.064%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.064%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 363 (11.62%) Docker
2 25 (0.80%) Firmware
3 20 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.096%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 326 (10.44%) Kubernetes
2 144 (4.61%) Terraform
3 36 (1.15%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.096%) Control-M
9 3 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.064%) MIIS
10 2 (0.064%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,015 (32.49%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.72%) Google
3 64 (2.05%) Facebook
4 49 (1.57%) Oracle
5 27 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.74%) Adobe
7 22 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.70%) YouTube
8 19 (0.61%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.51%) Databricks
10 16 (0.51%) VMware
11 15 (0.48%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.45%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.32%) iManage
16 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow