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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 54 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -33 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,277 2,248 6,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.56% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.02% 15.76% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 1,864 5,030
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 18,187 14,265 26,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.77% 28.91% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,933 9,435 19,251
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 30 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 30 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 +8 2,985 £60,000 -7.69% 909
UK excluding London +8 2,486 £57,500 - 682
Work from Home +5 1,487 £55,000 -12.00% 511
South East +19 714 £60,000 - 219
London -20 663 £82,500 +3.13% 328
North of England +35 617 £57,000 -5.00% 175
Midlands -9 396 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North West +45 294 £55,000 -2.22% 96
South West +21 288 £52,500 -4.55% 73
East of England +11 288 £60,000 - 90
West Midlands -17 209 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East Midlands +12 187 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire +22 179 £55,000 -15.38% 43
North East -4 144 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Northern Ireland +10 106 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Wales -50 45 £51,619 -1.68% 21
Scotland -12 34 £50,000 -22.48% 19

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 95 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (1.01%) CMS
4 22 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.27%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.092%) DNN
12 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.092%) Kentico
12 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
6 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.092%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.24%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.092%) Magento
6 3 (0.092%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.061%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.061%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.061%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.061%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.031%) Eikon
8 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.031%) RMDS
8 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,636 (49.92%) Azure
2 554 (16.91%) AWS
3 442 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
4 309 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.93%) SaaS
6 239 (7.29%) GitHub
7 183 (5.58%) Azure AI
8 179 (5.46%) Power Automate
9 165 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 161 (4.91%) Serverless
11 159 (4.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 155 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
14 124 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
15 118 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
16 107 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 97 (2.96%) Azure Functions
18 78 (2.38%) GCP
19 56 (1.71%) Azure AKS
20 54 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.89%) Internet
2 18 (0.55%) Broadband
2 18 (0.55%) DNS
3 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.27%) Firewall
6 8 (0.24%) VPN
7 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) DHCP
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) LTE
10 4 (0.12%) Modbus
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
10 4 (0.12%) SNMP
11 3 (0.092%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (17.12%) SQL Server
2 511 (15.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.76%) MongoDB
4 169 (5.16%) Power BI
5 164 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 85 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 83 (2.53%) MySQL
8 68 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 62 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (0.76%) Redis
14 15 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.43%) Db2
16 13 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.37%) Metadata
18 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 245 (7.48%) Git
2 71 (2.17%) JIRA
3 44 (1.34%) Selenium
4 41 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.04%) GitLab
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.70%) Jenkins
8 22 (0.67%) Postman
9 21 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.61%) SpecFlow
11 18 (0.55%) NUnit
12 16 (0.49%) Claude Code
13 15 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.21%) Moq
16 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 529 (16.14%) Finance
2 521 (15.90%) Social Skills
3 171 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (4.70%) Legal
5 114 (3.48%) Law
6 113 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 86 (2.62%) Games
8 79 (2.41%) Retail
9 78 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 75 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 71 (2.17%) Advertising
12 65 (1.98%) Marketing
13 57 (1.74%) Electronics
14 56 (1.71%) Banking
15 54 (1.65%) Aerospace
16 46 (1.40%) Front Office
17 39 (1.19%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.10%) Automotive
19 23 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,773 (54.10%) Developer
2 799 (24.38%) .NET Developer
3 722 (22.03%) Senior
4 700 (21.36%) Software Engineer
5 427 (13.03%) Software Developer
6 389 (11.87%) C# Developer
7 349 (10.65%) Senior Developer
8 322 (9.83%) Lead
9 315 (9.61%) C# Software Engineer
10 242 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 183 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
12 171 (5.22%) C# Software Developer
13 169 (5.16%) C# .NET Developer
14 152 (4.64%) .NET Software Engineer
14 152 (4.64%) Graduate
15 142 (4.33%) Lead Developer
16 110 (3.36%) Architect
17 108 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 103 (3.14%) Graduate Developer
19 102 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,124 (64.82%) .NET
2 766 (23.38%) .NET Core
3 757 (23.10%) ASP.NET
4 591 (18.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 472 (14.40%) React
6 386 (11.78%) CSS
7 374 (11.41%) HTML
8 322 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 306 (9.34%) RESTful
10 302 (9.22%) Blazor
11 287 (8.76%) Vue
12 285 (8.70%) Entity Framework
13 259 (7.90%) Node.js
14 258 (7.87%) .NET Framework
15 236 (7.20%) REST
16 221 (6.74%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.70%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.66%) LINQ
19 118 (3.60%) WPF
20 90 (2.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 214 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
3 134 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
4 126 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 89 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 30 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 30 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (0.92%) Robotics
15 27 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
15 27 (0.82%) Legacy Code
16 25 (0.76%) Low-Code
17 24 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 161 (4.91%) Windows
2 111 (3.39%) Linux
3 42 (1.28%) Android
4 37 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.031%) CentOS
11 1 (0.031%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (35.25%) Agile
2 1,053 (32.13%) Software Engineering
3 922 (28.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 794 (24.23%) CI/CD
5 766 (23.38%) DevOps
6 562 (17.15%) Microservices
7 519 (15.84%) AI
8 507 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 432 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 413 (12.60%) Mentoring
11 303 (9.25%) Test Automation
12 280 (8.54%) Computer Science
13 271 (8.27%) Machine Learning
14 262 (8.00%) SDLC
15 207 (6.32%) Scrum
16 200 (6.10%) Multithreading
16 200 (6.10%) Software Testing
17 194 (5.92%) OO
18 191 (5.83%) TDD
19 179 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,221 (37.26%) SQL
2 779 (23.77%) JavaScript
3 546 (16.66%) Python
4 516 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 337 (10.28%) C++
6 284 (8.67%) Java
7 146 (4.46%) PowerShell
8 140 (4.27%) PHP
9 76 (2.32%) C
10 66 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.40%) Bicep
12 45 (1.37%) VB.NET
13 41 (1.25%) Go
14 33 (1.01%) Bash
15 32 (0.98%) VBA
16 22 (0.67%) Rust
16 22 (0.67%) Scala
17 19 (0.58%) Delphi
17 19 (0.58%) F#
18 18 (0.55%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 400 (12.21%) Degree
2 194 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 127 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 94 (2.87%) SC Cleared
5 38 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.70%) PhD
9 19 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.46%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.12%) ISEB
19 3 (0.092%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (8.70%) QA
2 54 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.85%) GDPR
5 19 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.34%) SLA
6 11 (0.34%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.18%) 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
11 3 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.092%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.092%) PSD2
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.031%) EMIR
13 1 (0.031%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 380 (11.60%) Docker
2 22 (0.67%) Firmware
3 20 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.092%) vSphere
10 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 343 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 154 (4.70%) Terraform
3 34 (1.04%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.092%) Control-M
9 3 (0.092%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.061%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,068 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.62%) Google
3 64 (1.95%) Facebook
4 49 (1.50%) Oracle
5 30 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.70%) Adobe
8 22 (0.67%) YouTube
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
9 19 (0.58%) Databricks
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.49%) Intapp
11 16 (0.49%) VMware
12 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.37%) iManage
13 12 (0.37%) Splunk
14 11 (0.34%) IBM
14 11 (0.34%) SAP
15 9 (0.27%) ServiceNow