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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,417 1,881 5,321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.94% 3.84% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.21% 14.56% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,866 1,568 3,646
10th Percentile £40,000 £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 £81,250 £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 12,915 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.39% 30.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,275 8,325 14,640
10th Percentile £38,986 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,250
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 22 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 22 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 +20 3,126 £60,000 -4.00% 1,733
UK excluding London +27 2,638 £57,500 - 1,136
Work from Home +19 1,528 £55,000 -8.33% 937
South East +30 774 £60,000 - 291
London -19 658 £85,000 +6.25% 743
North of England +39 637 £57,500 -4.17% 284
Midlands 0 418 £60,000 +9.09% 169
East of England +34 326 £60,000 +9.09% 161
North West +53 303 £55,000 -12.00% 160
South West +32 288 £54,250 +3.33% 87
West Midlands -22 220 £62,500 +13.64% 86
East Midlands +22 198 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North East +1 175 £67,153 +16.79% 50
Yorkshire -6 159 £55,000 -8.33% 76
Northern Ireland +2 116 £50,000 -10.31% 61
Wales -58 43 £51,619 +6.43% 31
Scotland +3 38 £55,000 -14.73% 68

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
1 119 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) 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 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.059%) 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%) 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%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,659 (48.55%) Azure
2 595 (17.41%) AWS
3 489 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 358 (10.48%) Power Platform
5 258 (7.55%) GitHub
6 247 (7.23%) SaaS
7 216 (6.32%) Power Automate
8 199 (5.82%) Serverless
9 193 (5.65%) Azure AI
10 191 (5.59%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 167 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
14 152 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 123 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.37%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.60%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 49 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) 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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (17.62%) SQL Server
2 506 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.23%) MongoDB
4 189 (5.53%) Power BI
5 163 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 95 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.49%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (0.97%) Redis
12 32 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (0.76%) 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
1 322 (9.42%) Git
2 74 (2.17%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.02%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Selenium
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 28 (0.82%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 22 (0.64%) 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
15 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.23%) Moq
15 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 583 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 517 (15.13%) Finance
3 199 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.36%) Legal
5 129 (3.78%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.69%) Law
7 119 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.66%) Games
10 72 (2.11%) Retail
11 68 (1.99%) Advertising
12 67 (1.96%) Electronics
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 63 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,758 (51.45%) Developer
2 800 (23.41%) .NET Developer
3 770 (22.53%) Senior
4 760 (22.24%) Software Engineer
5 361 (10.56%) Senior Developer
5 361 (10.56%) Software Developer
6 355 (10.39%) C# Developer
7 348 (10.18%) C# Software Engineer
8 346 (10.13%) Lead
9 252 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 177 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 162 (4.74%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (4.54%) Lead Developer
13 136 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
14 135 (3.95%) Graduate
15 126 (3.69%) C# Software Developer
16 121 (3.54%) Architect
17 116 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 104 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
19 89 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,183 (63.89%) .NET
2 756 (22.12%) ASP.NET
3 738 (21.60%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 513 (15.01%) React
6 388 (11.35%) CSS
6 388 (11.35%) HTML
7 332 (9.72%) AngularJS
8 330 (9.66%) RESTful
9 304 (8.90%) Blazor
10 301 (8.81%) Entity Framework
11 291 (8.52%) Vue
12 271 (7.93%) .NET Framework
13 266 (7.78%) REST
14 258 (7.55%) Node.js
15 221 (6.47%) ASP.NET Web API
16 169 (4.95%) Terraform
17 148 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 145 (4.24%) WPF
19 116 (3.39%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
4 138 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 107 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 54 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 36 (1.05%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
16 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.44%) Windows
2 116 (3.39%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.20%) 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 1,182 (34.59%) Agile
2 1,164 (34.06%) Software Engineering
3 936 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 881 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 815 (23.85%) DevOps
6 591 (17.30%) AI
7 583 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
8 573 (16.77%) Microservices
9 482 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 480 (14.05%) Mentoring
11 336 (9.83%) Test Automation
12 293 (8.57%) SDLC
13 279 (8.17%) Computer Science
14 269 (7.87%) Machine Learning
15 228 (6.67%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.29%) Scrum
17 207 (6.06%) OO
18 205 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
19 204 (5.97%) Business Intelligence
20 195 (5.71%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,220 (35.70%) SQL
2 848 (24.82%) JavaScript
3 587 (17.18%) Python
4 523 (15.31%) TypeScript
5 353 (10.33%) C++
6 302 (8.84%) Java
7 133 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 121 (3.54%) PHP
9 87 (2.55%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.40%) Bicep
12 45 (1.32%) Go
13 43 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 31 (0.91%) Bash
16 23 (0.67%) Delphi
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
17 22 (0.64%) Rust
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 416 (12.17%) Degree
2 191 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 157 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 117 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 52 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.64%) PhD
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
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
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.18%) OSCP
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.16%) QA
2 71 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) 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
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%) NIST
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%) MISRA C
System Software
1 391 (11.44%) 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
1 335 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.67%) 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 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,135 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.58%) Google
3 62 (1.81%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 27 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Adobe
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.41%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk