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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -45 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,843 3,601 5,830
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.99% 6.80% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.60% 20.18% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 2,300 5,223
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,811 17,840 24,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.19% 33.68% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,569 10,396 19,714
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £46,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £102,500
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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -43 1,682 £60,000 - 1,145
UK excluding London -47 1,238 £57,500 +4.55% 1,065
Work from Home -24 777 £60,000 - 620
London -21 493 £80,000 +6.67% 239
North of England -28 370 £62,500 +13.64% 240
South East -42 336 £55,000 -12.00% 337
Midlands -35 260 £55,000 - 138
North West -21 187 £62,500 +19.05% 134
West Midlands -41 135 £55,000 - 53
East Midlands -25 125 £52,750 -4.09% 82
Yorkshire -36 116 £61,500 +23.00% 66
South West -43 114 £55,000 - 116
East of England -59 89 £55,000 -2.22% 138
North East -9 69 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Scotland -73 45 £60,000 +33.33% 55
Wales -25 26 £47,500 -20.83% 51
Northern Ireland -14 8 £95,000 +61.70% 13
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 40 (2.17%) IIS
2 39 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.19%) CMS
4 13 (0.71%) Confluence
4 13 (0.71%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Simulink
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Endur
6 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 890 (48.29%) Azure
2 349 (18.94%) AWS
3 236 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
4 205 (11.12%) SaaS
5 172 (9.33%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.16%) Serverless
7 109 (5.91%) Power Automate
8 103 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (5.10%) PowerApps
10 88 (4.77%) GCP
11 83 (4.50%) GitHub
12 79 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
13 68 (3.69%) Azure Functions
14 56 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 35 (1.90%) Entra ID
18 32 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.57%) Azure AKS
20 28 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.95%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.49%) DNS
4 8 (0.43%) HTTP
5 6 (0.33%) Internet
6 5 (0.27%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) Firewall
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.11%) Broadband
9 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SMTP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.054%) LTE
10 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (19.91%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.61%) Relational Database
3 81 (4.40%) Power BI
4 77 (4.18%) MySQL
5 75 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 73 (3.96%) NoSQL
7 69 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 24 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.19%) Redis
12 21 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.27%) GIS
16 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 132 (7.16%) Git
2 83 (4.50%) Selenium
3 81 (4.40%) JIRA
4 69 (3.74%) Visual Studio
5 55 (2.98%) Postman
6 41 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 41 (2.22%) WebDriver
7 38 (2.06%) Jenkins
8 35 (1.90%) SoapUI
9 23 (1.25%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.71%) NUnit
13 12 (0.65%) GitLab
14 11 (0.60%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.54%) JMeter
16 9 (0.49%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
18 6 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 466 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 307 (16.66%) Finance
3 110 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (4.50%) Law
5 76 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.58%) Retail
7 54 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (2.93%) Manufacturing
8 47 (2.55%) Front Office
9 39 (2.12%) Banking
10 36 (1.95%) Electronics
11 34 (1.84%) Legal
12 30 (1.63%) Marketing
13 27 (1.47%) Games
14 16 (0.87%) Billing
14 16 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.76%) Aviation
17 13 (0.71%) Military
18 12 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 903 (49.00%) Developer
2 421 (22.84%) Senior
3 299 (16.22%) Software Engineer
4 244 (13.24%) Software Developer
5 241 (13.08%) C# Developer
6 240 (13.02%) .NET Developer
7 219 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 213 (11.56%) Lead
9 140 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 96 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (4.88%) C# Software Engineer
12 84 (4.56%) .NET Software Engineer
13 77 (4.18%) C# .NET Developer
14 73 (3.96%) Lead Developer
15 72 (3.91%) Analyst
16 66 (3.58%) Senior Software Developer
16 66 (3.58%) Support Engineer
17 65 (3.53%) Graduate
18 64 (3.47%) Architect
18 64 (3.47%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,124 (60.99%) .NET
2 316 (17.15%) .NET Core
3 281 (15.25%) React
4 244 (13.24%) ASP.NET
5 200 (10.85%) HTML
6 194 (10.53%) .NET Framework
7 180 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 179 (9.71%) CSS
9 143 (7.76%) REST
10 116 (6.29%) RESTful
11 96 (5.21%) Entity Framework
12 88 (4.77%) Vue
13 78 (4.23%) Blazor
14 71 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
15 60 (3.26%) SOAP
16 58 (3.15%) ASP.NET Web API
17 57 (3.09%) Node.js
18 55 (2.98%) ASP.NET Core
19 47 (2.55%) Web Services
20 45 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 136 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 86 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.68%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 18 (0.98%) Derivative
12 18 (0.98%) Robotics
13 17 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 17 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.81%) IoT
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (4.83%) Windows
2 65 (3.53%) Linux
3 20 (1.09%) Android
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 13 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.27%) VMS
7 4 (0.22%) Solaris
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.054%) AIX
9 1 (0.054%) Fedora
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (33.64%) Agile
2 554 (30.06%) Software Engineering
3 455 (24.69%) DevOps
4 437 (23.71%) CI/CD
5 402 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
6 378 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 310 (16.82%) Mentoring
8 303 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 286 (15.52%) Microservices
10 207 (11.23%) Computer Science
11 158 (8.57%) Test Automation
12 155 (8.41%) Scrum
13 148 (8.03%) SDLC
14 145 (7.87%) AI
15 142 (7.70%) MVC
16 127 (6.89%) Migration
17 120 (6.51%) OO
18 119 (6.46%) CRM
19 118 (6.40%) Containerisation
20 107 (5.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 630 (34.18%) SQL
2 442 (23.98%) JavaScript
3 305 (16.55%) Python
4 251 (13.62%) Java
5 232 (12.59%) TypeScript
6 143 (7.76%) C++
7 102 (5.53%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.96%) PHP
9 49 (2.66%) C
10 47 (2.55%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.41%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.25%) Bash
13 18 (0.98%) Bicep
13 18 (0.98%) Delphi
14 17 (0.92%) Go
15 16 (0.87%) Rust
16 13 (0.71%) VBA
17 12 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.54%) Scala
19 8 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (15.57%) Degree
2 148 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 120 (6.51%) Security Cleared
4 72 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 51 (2.77%) ISTQB
8 41 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 29 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 26 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.09%) DV Cleared
14 17 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.65%) PhD
16 9 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.43%) ISEB
18 6 (0.33%) CREST Certified
19 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
20 4 (0.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.60%) QA
2 41 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.14%) GDPR
4 17 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.71%) WCAG
6 11 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) SLA
11 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.054%) IFRS
11 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (8.84%) Docker
2 20 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.03%) Firmware
4 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.33%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
8 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.37%) Terraform
3 26 (1.41%) Grafana
4 14 (0.76%) Ansible
5 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.38%) Kibana
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 419 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.93%) Oracle
3 29 (1.57%) Google
4 24 (1.30%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.98%) Xamarin
6 15 (0.81%) Sage
6 15 (0.81%) SAP
7 13 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 13 (0.71%) Palantir
8 11 (0.60%) Databricks
9 10 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.54%) VMware
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.38%) Adobe
11 7 (0.38%) IBM
11 7 (0.38%) Infor
11 7 (0.38%) Talend
12 6 (0.33%) Epicor