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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 46 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 -28 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,438 2,376 7,925
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.67% 5.43% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.15% 16.96% 24.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,974 6,848
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +4.55% -3.51%

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 16,089 14,013 32,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 32.02% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,034 9,712 24,888
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -18 2,253 £60,000 -7.69% 824
UK excluding London -23 1,698 £58,500 +1.74% 653
Work from Home -9 924 £57,500 -11.54% 865
London -18 601 £82,500 +10.00% 247
South East +3 524 £60,000 - 219
North of England -2 460 £60,000 +9.09% 174
Midlands -35 299 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North West +31 235 £60,000 +14.29% 97
East of England -13 184 £60,000 -9.37% 80
South West -11 168 £55,000 - 68
East Midlands +1 151 £55,000 - 45
West Midlands -51 148 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Yorkshire -28 139 £60,000 - 40
North East -17 86 £65,000 +13.04% 38
Scotland -44 37 £60,000 +33.33% 20
Wales -37 27 £45,000 -30.77% 19
Northern Ireland -34 7 £95,000 - 5
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 67 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.03%) IIS
3 24 (0.98%) CMS
4 11 (0.45%) Confluence
4 11 (0.45%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.16%) Apache
6 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.16%) WordPress
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.12%) JBoss
8 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.082%) nginx
9 1 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.041%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.041%) Appian
9 1 (0.041%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.082%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.082%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.082%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.041%) Endur
5 1 (0.041%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Shopify
5 1 (0.041%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (45.53%) Azure
2 393 (16.12%) AWS
3 266 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (8.98%) Power Platform
5 209 (8.57%) SaaS
6 141 (5.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 134 (5.50%) Serverless
8 111 (4.55%) PowerApps
9 109 (4.47%) Power Automate
10 108 (4.43%) GitHub
11 93 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
12 92 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
13 85 (3.49%) Azure Functions
14 72 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 61 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 61 (2.50%) GCP
16 58 (2.38%) Azure AI
17 54 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
18 51 (2.09%) Azure AKS
19 50 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.82%) Internet
2 14 (0.57%) Broadband
2 14 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.45%) DNS
4 10 (0.41%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.29%) Firewall
6 6 (0.25%) HTTP
6 6 (0.25%) Intranet
7 5 (0.21%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) DHCP
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.082%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.082%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.082%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.082%) SSL
11 1 (0.041%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 203 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 165 (6.77%) MongoDB
4 129 (5.29%) Power BI
5 72 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 61 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.42%) MySQL
8 50 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 49 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (0.62%) Redis
12 11 (0.45%) DB2
12 11 (0.45%) Metadata
13 9 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.29%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.25%) GIS
16 4 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
16 4 (0.16%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 175 (7.18%) Git
2 61 (2.50%) Selenium
3 58 (2.38%) JIRA
4 56 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 42 (1.72%) Postman
6 31 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
7 29 (1.19%) GitLab
8 28 (1.15%) WebDriver
9 27 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 23 (0.94%) Jenkins
10 23 (0.94%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 19 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.53%) NUnit
15 9 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.33%) Moq
17 7 (0.29%) MSTest
17 7 (0.29%) Yeoman
General
1 475 (19.48%) Finance
2 354 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 127 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (3.04%) Manufacturing
5 67 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (2.26%) Games
8 53 (2.17%) Banking
9 51 (2.09%) Retail
10 50 (2.05%) Front Office
10 50 (2.05%) Law
11 45 (1.85%) Electronics
12 39 (1.60%) Aerospace
13 33 (1.35%) Legal
14 30 (1.23%) Automotive
15 27 (1.11%) Advertising
16 25 (1.03%) Marketing
17 16 (0.66%) Aviation
18 15 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,294 (53.08%) Developer
2 524 (21.49%) Senior
3 507 (20.80%) Software Engineer
4 428 (17.56%) Software Developer
5 426 (17.47%) .NET Developer
6 414 (16.98%) C# Developer
7 261 (10.71%) Lead
8 260 (10.66%) Senior Developer
9 239 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
10 174 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
11 173 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 172 (7.05%) C# Software Developer
13 164 (6.73%) C# .NET Developer
14 148 (6.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 120 (4.92%) Graduate
16 104 (4.27%) Lead Developer
17 103 (4.22%) Graduate Developer
18 94 (3.86%) Graduate Software Developer
19 92 (3.77%) .NET Software Developer
20 91 (3.73%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,550 (63.58%) .NET
2 494 (20.26%) .NET Core
3 390 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 293 (12.02%) React
5 239 (9.80%) CSS
5 239 (9.80%) HTML
6 223 (9.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 194 (7.96%) .NET Framework
8 171 (7.01%) AngularJS
9 158 (6.48%) RESTful
10 147 (6.03%) REST
11 144 (5.91%) Entity Framework
12 142 (5.82%) Vue
13 135 (5.54%) Blazor
14 126 (5.17%) Node.js
15 88 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
16 74 (3.04%) WPF
17 56 (2.30%) jQuery
18 53 (2.17%) Playwright
19 50 (2.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 86 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
4 75 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 65 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (2.13%) Hedge funds
8 47 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.93%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 29 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (0.98%) Legacy Code
13 23 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
13 23 (0.94%) Management Information System
13 23 (0.94%) Sports Betting
14 19 (0.78%) Onboarding
14 19 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 116 (4.76%) Windows
2 92 (3.77%) Linux
3 26 (1.07%) Android
4 18 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.57%) VMS
6 13 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.49%) Unix
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.082%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.082%) Solaris
9 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (30.93%) Software Engineering
2 723 (29.66%) Agile
3 561 (23.01%) Full-Stack Development
4 515 (21.12%) CI/CD
5 497 (20.39%) DevOps
6 322 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 300 (12.31%) Microservices
8 282 (11.57%) Mentoring
9 270 (11.07%) AI
10 259 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 256 (10.50%) Computer Science
12 222 (9.11%) Test Automation
13 199 (8.16%) SDLC
14 150 (6.15%) Scrum
15 137 (5.62%) Machine Learning
16 136 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
16 136 (5.58%) Containerisation
17 135 (5.54%) MVC
18 123 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
19 119 (4.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 792 (32.49%) SQL
2 502 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 404 (16.57%) Python
4 310 (12.72%) TypeScript
5 264 (10.83%) C++
5 264 (10.83%) Java
6 108 (4.43%) PHP
7 94 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.42%) C
9 40 (1.64%) T-SQL
10 31 (1.27%) Bash
10 31 (1.27%) Bicep
11 29 (1.19%) Go
12 26 (1.07%) VB.NET
13 23 (0.94%) VBA
14 21 (0.86%) Scala
15 19 (0.78%) F#
15 19 (0.78%) Rust
16 17 (0.70%) Haskell
17 16 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 351 (14.40%) Degree
2 171 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (5.09%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 40 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.98%) PhD
11 18 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 16 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.57%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.25%) CREST Certified
19 6 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.50%) QA
2 42 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.57%) ISO 9001
5 14 (0.57%) WCAG
6 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 2 (0.082%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.082%) EMIR
10 2 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.082%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.082%) ITGC
11 1 (0.041%) HL7
11 1 (0.041%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 228 (9.35%) Docker
2 23 (0.94%) Firmware
3 17 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.29%) KVM
6 6 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.082%) vSphere
9 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 198 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.88%) Terraform
3 36 (1.48%) Grafana
4 11 (0.45%) Ansible
4 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.29%) Kibana
6 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.082%) Control-M
7 2 (0.082%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.082%) MIIS
7 2 (0.082%) MOM
7 2 (0.082%) Nmap
8 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.041%) Nessus
8 1 (0.041%) Netcool
8 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 573 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.89%) Oracle
3 44 (1.80%) Google
4 26 (1.07%) Adobe
5 20 (0.82%) Facebook
6 16 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 14 (0.57%) VMware
8 12 (0.49%) Xamarin
9 11 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.45%) Databricks
9 11 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.37%) iManage
11 8 (0.33%) Apple
11 8 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.29%) Intapp
12 7 (0.29%) Splunk
13 6 (0.25%) Aderant
13 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.25%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.25%) YouTube