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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 49 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 -30 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,671 2,260 8,479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 5.09% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.14% 16.18% 24.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,862 7,139
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £35,534
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £35,000
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -1 2,500 £60,000 -7.69% 606
UK excluding London -1 1,920 £57,500 - 505
Work from Home -5 1,020 £55,000 -15.38% 425
London -16 624 £82,500 +3.13% 167
South East +11 591 £59,000 -1.67% 164
North of England +27 518 £60,000 +4.35% 131
Midlands -10 325 £57,500 +4.55% 64
North West +59 264 £60,000 +14.29% 77
East of England -6 216 £60,000 -9.37% 64
South West +5 207 £55,000 - 57
East Midlands +16 164 £55,000 - 28
West Midlands -37 161 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Yorkshire -7 149 £55,000 -16.98% 20
North East -7 105 £65,000 +14.04% 35
Scotland -23 30 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Wales -46 29 £50,000 -25.37% 13
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 13

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 69 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.01%) CMS
2 27 (1.01%) IIS
3 14 (0.52%) Confluence
4 13 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.26%) WordPress
7 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) JBoss
10 3 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.037%) DNN
12 1 (0.037%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.037%) Immediacy CMS
12 1 (0.037%) Kentico
Applications
1 35 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.075%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.075%) Shopify
4 2 (0.075%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,279 (47.88%) Azure
2 442 (16.55%) AWS
3 325 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
4 231 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.79%) SaaS
6 153 (5.73%) GitHub
7 146 (5.47%) Serverless
8 145 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 120 (4.49%) PowerApps
10 119 (4.46%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
12 95 (3.56%) Azure AI
13 93 (3.48%) Azure Functions
14 87 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 85 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
16 82 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
17 79 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 62 (2.32%) GCP
19 54 (2.02%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.42%) Internet
2 16 (0.60%) Broadband
2 16 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.52%) DNS
4 11 (0.41%) Firewall
5 10 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.30%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) HTTP
7 6 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.19%) LAN
8 5 (0.19%) LTE
8 5 (0.19%) WAN
9 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 4 (0.15%) Modbus
10 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.11%) Network Security
10 3 (0.11%) RS-232
10 3 (0.11%) VPN
11 2 (0.075%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.075%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (18.01%) SQL Server
2 309 (11.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 260 (9.73%) MongoDB
4 133 (4.98%) Power BI
5 89 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 74 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.51%) MySQL
8 57 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 49 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.60%) Redis
13 11 (0.41%) Db2
13 11 (0.41%) Metadata
14 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.30%) GIS
16 7 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.22%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 185 (6.93%) Git
2 55 (2.06%) JIRA
3 48 (1.80%) Selenium
4 46 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 32 (1.20%) Postman
6 31 (1.16%) GitLab
7 23 (0.86%) SpecFlow
7 23 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.71%) WebDriver
10 17 (0.64%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.60%) SoapUI
12 14 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.49%) NUnit
14 12 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.37%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.34%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 8 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 483 (18.08%) Finance
2 374 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 141 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (3.59%) Manufacturing
5 66 (2.47%) Games
6 63 (2.36%) Retail
7 62 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.13%) Banking
9 56 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (2.06%) Electronics
11 48 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 46 (1.72%) Law
13 45 (1.68%) Front Office
14 41 (1.54%) Advertising
15 36 (1.35%) Marketing
16 34 (1.27%) Automotive
16 34 (1.27%) Legal
17 18 (0.67%) Investment Banking
18 13 (0.49%) Aviation
18 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,423 (53.28%) Developer
2 592 (22.16%) Software Engineer
3 562 (21.04%) .NET Developer
4 558 (20.89%) Senior
5 424 (15.87%) Software Developer
6 388 (14.53%) C# Developer
7 291 (10.89%) C# Software Engineer
8 268 (10.03%) Senior Developer
9 260 (9.73%) Lead
10 205 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 172 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (6.21%) C# .NET Developer
12 166 (6.21%) C# Software Developer
13 157 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
14 129 (4.83%) Graduate
15 117 (4.38%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.71%) Graduate Developer
17 96 (3.59%) .NET Software Developer
18 95 (3.56%) Azure Developer
18 95 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,726 (64.62%) .NET
2 587 (21.98%) .NET Core
3 506 (18.94%) ASP.NET
4 360 (13.48%) React
5 353 (13.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 287 (10.75%) CSS
7 276 (10.33%) HTML
8 228 (8.54%) AngularJS
9 205 (7.68%) RESTful
10 203 (7.60%) .NET Framework
11 201 (7.53%) Vue
12 197 (7.38%) Blazor
13 187 (7.00%) Entity Framework
14 179 (6.70%) REST
15 166 (6.21%) Node.js
16 137 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
17 94 (3.52%) WPF
18 84 (3.14%) ML.NET
19 72 (2.70%) LINQ
20 60 (2.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 162 (6.07%) Cloud Native
2 103 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
3 100 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 84 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 81 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (1.98%) Hedge funds
7 53 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 46 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 35 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 31 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 30 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 28 (1.05%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (0.90%) Management Information System
15 23 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
15 23 (0.86%) Legacy Code
16 22 (0.82%) Sports Betting
17 21 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 134 (5.02%) Windows
2 97 (3.63%) Linux
3 37 (1.39%) Android
4 26 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.45%) VMS
7 10 (0.37%) Unix
8 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.075%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.075%) Solaris
11 2 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (31.30%) Agile
2 825 (30.89%) Software Engineering
3 696 (26.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 585 (21.90%) CI/CD
5 563 (21.08%) DevOps
6 368 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
7 363 (13.59%) Microservices
8 360 (13.48%) AI
9 302 (11.31%) Mentoring
10 282 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 267 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 232 (8.69%) Test Automation
13 210 (7.86%) SDLC
14 185 (6.93%) Machine Learning
15 162 (6.07%) Scrum
16 149 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
17 148 (5.54%) Containerisation
18 145 (5.43%) TDD
19 132 (4.94%) Clean Code
19 132 (4.94%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 930 (34.82%) SQL
2 560 (20.97%) JavaScript
3 432 (16.17%) Python
4 359 (13.44%) TypeScript
5 312 (11.68%) C++
6 266 (9.96%) Java
7 113 (4.23%) PHP
8 94 (3.52%) PowerShell
9 67 (2.51%) C
10 49 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.35%) Bicep
12 35 (1.31%) Go
12 35 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 32 (1.20%) Bash
14 26 (0.97%) VBA
15 22 (0.82%) Rust
16 19 (0.71%) MATLAB
16 19 (0.71%) Scala
17 17 (0.64%) F#
17 17 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (14.15%) Degree
2 188 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 120 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 73 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.16%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.05%) PhD
10 21 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.50%) QA
2 45 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.79%) GDPR
5 13 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.45%) SLA
7 11 (0.41%) WCAG
8 5 (0.19%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.075%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.075%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.075%) ITGC
12 1 (0.037%) EMIR
12 1 (0.037%) NCSC
12 1 (0.037%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 274 (10.26%) Docker
2 29 (1.09%) Firmware
3 22 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) KVM
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 238 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.68%) Terraform
3 35 (1.31%) Grafana
4 15 (0.56%) Ansible
5 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.26%) Kibana
7 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.075%) MIIS
9 2 (0.075%) MOM
10 1 (0.037%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.037%) Nessus
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool
10 1 (0.037%) Nmap
Vendors
1 711 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 53 (1.98%) Google
3 43 (1.61%) Oracle
4 38 (1.42%) Facebook
5 23 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.82%) Adobe
7 18 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.64%) VMware
9 15 (0.56%) Xamarin
10 13 (0.49%) Apple
10 13 (0.49%) Databricks
11 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.41%) Sony
11 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
11 11 (0.41%) YouTube
12 9 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.34%) iManage
12 9 (0.34%) Splunk
13 7 (0.26%) Intapp
14 6 (0.22%) Dynatrace