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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 51 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -30 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,191 2,307 6,673
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.70% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.86% 16.07% 23.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,762 1,917 5,470
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,650 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £71,049
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 17,870 14,359 28,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.78% 29.25% 30.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12,751 9,529 20,688
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 24 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 24 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 +5 2,897 £60,000 -7.69% 725
UK excluding London +8 2,413 £57,500 -4.17% 551
Work from Home +2 1,438 £55,000 -12.70% 390
South East +19 693 £60,000 - 171
London -20 647 £82,500 +3.13% 266
North of England +35 597 £56,500 -5.83% 147
Midlands -10 393 £57,500 +4.55% 75
North West +44 285 £55,000 - 79
East of England +10 275 £60,000 -9.23% 74
South West +19 273 £52,500 -4.55% 60
West Midlands -24 205 £60,000 +9.09% 38
East Midlands +10 188 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire +11 169 £55,000 -15.38% 32
North East -1 143 £60,000 +2.13% 38
Northern Ireland +8 105 £61,250 -23.44% 9
Wales -44 45 £51,619 -13.97% 16
Scotland -11 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 94 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.10%) IIS
3 33 (1.03%) CMS
4 20 (0.63%) Confluence
5 15 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.094%) DNN
12 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.094%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Kentico
12 3 (0.094%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.16%) Simulink
6 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.094%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.094%) Magento
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.063%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.063%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.031%) Eikon
7 1 (0.031%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.031%) RMDS
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,598 (50.08%) Azure
2 528 (16.55%) AWS
3 430 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 293 (9.18%) Power Platform
5 252 (7.90%) SaaS
6 231 (7.24%) GitHub
7 181 (5.67%) Azure AI
8 171 (5.36%) Power Automate
9 162 (5.08%) PowerApps
10 157 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 157 (4.92%) Serverless
11 155 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 138 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
13 116 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 115 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
15 105 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 96 (3.01%) Azure Functions
17 74 (2.32%) GCP
18 56 (1.75%) Azure AKS
19 53 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.94%) Internet
2 18 (0.56%) Broadband
2 18 (0.56%) DNS
3 15 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.25%) Firewall
4 8 (0.25%) HTTP
4 8 (0.25%) VPN
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.19%) BGP
6 6 (0.19%) DHCP
6 6 (0.19%) IPsec
7 5 (0.16%) LAN
7 5 (0.16%) WAN
8 4 (0.13%) Intranet
8 4 (0.13%) LTE
8 4 (0.13%) Modbus
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.094%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.094%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (16.80%) SQL Server
2 511 (16.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 448 (14.04%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.26%) Power BI
5 163 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 77 (2.41%) MySQL
8 61 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 59 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 42 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (0.75%) Redis
12 22 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.41%) Db2
13 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.38%) Metadata
15 11 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 231 (7.24%) Git
2 67 (2.10%) JIRA
3 41 (1.28%) Visual Studio
4 39 (1.22%) Selenium
5 35 (1.10%) GitLab
6 26 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.69%) Postman
8 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.56%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.38%) NUnit
14 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.22%) Moq
16 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.19%) MSTest
17 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 520 (16.30%) Finance
2 497 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 162 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (4.73%) Legal
5 109 (3.42%) Law
6 108 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 86 (2.70%) Games
8 79 (2.48%) Retail
9 74 (2.32%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.19%) Advertising
11 66 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 64 (2.01%) Marketing
13 56 (1.75%) Electronics
14 55 (1.72%) Banking
15 54 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 47 (1.47%) Front Office
17 38 (1.19%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.13%) Automotive
19 21 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,750 (54.84%) Developer
2 793 (24.85%) .NET Developer
3 713 (22.34%) Senior
4 681 (21.34%) Software Engineer
5 420 (13.16%) Software Developer
6 383 (12.00%) C# Developer
7 345 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 309 (9.68%) C# Software Engineer
8 309 (9.68%) Lead
9 238 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 179 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 168 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 166 (5.20%) C# Software Developer
13 151 (4.73%) Graduate
14 149 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
15 139 (4.36%) Lead Developer
16 102 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 102 (3.20%) Graduate Developer
17 101 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
18 98 (3.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,073 (64.96%) .NET
2 762 (23.88%) .NET Core
3 739 (23.16%) ASP.NET
4 584 (18.30%) ASP.NET Core
5 457 (14.32%) React
6 381 (11.94%) CSS
7 367 (11.50%) HTML
8 312 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 297 (9.31%) RESTful
10 292 (9.15%) Blazor
11 284 (8.90%) Vue
12 276 (8.65%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.02%) Node.js
14 244 (7.65%) .NET Framework
15 223 (6.99%) REST
16 216 (6.77%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.83%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.76%) LINQ
19 113 (3.54%) WPF
20 85 (2.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 205 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
3 121 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 80 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 56 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 47 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 37 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (0.94%) Management Information System
14 28 (0.88%) Robotics
15 27 (0.85%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.81%) Legacy Code
17 25 (0.78%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
19 23 (0.72%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 154 (4.83%) Windows
2 107 (3.35%) Linux
3 41 (1.28%) Android
4 34 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,131 (35.44%) Agile
2 1,020 (31.96%) Software Engineering
3 911 (28.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 772 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 738 (23.13%) DevOps
6 546 (17.11%) Microservices
7 496 (15.54%) AI
8 483 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
9 422 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 395 (12.38%) Mentoring
11 297 (9.31%) Test Automation
12 274 (8.59%) Computer Science
13 264 (8.27%) Machine Learning
14 248 (7.77%) SDLC
15 204 (6.39%) Scrum
16 200 (6.27%) Multithreading
17 196 (6.14%) Software Testing
18 187 (5.86%) TDD
19 184 (5.77%) OO
20 178 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (37.29%) SQL
2 753 (23.60%) JavaScript
3 523 (16.39%) Python
4 502 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 339 (10.62%) C++
6 272 (8.52%) Java
7 145 (4.54%) PowerShell
8 139 (4.36%) PHP
9 76 (2.38%) C
10 60 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.47%) Bicep
12 43 (1.35%) VB.NET
13 37 (1.16%) Go
14 34 (1.07%) Bash
15 33 (1.03%) VBA
16 22 (0.69%) Scala
17 21 (0.66%) Rust
18 20 (0.63%) F#
19 19 (0.60%) Haskell
20 18 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 391 (12.25%) Degree
2 187 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 86 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.72%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.16%) GPEN
16 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (8.62%) QA
2 52 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 28 (0.88%) GDPR
4 19 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.34%) SLA
5 11 (0.34%) WCAG
6 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.19%) NCSC
8 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.094%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.094%) PSD2
11 2 (0.063%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.031%) EMIR
12 1 (0.031%) ITGC
System Software
1 369 (11.56%) Docker
2 23 (0.72%) Firmware
3 20 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.094%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 336 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 147 (4.61%) Terraform
3 35 (1.10%) Grafana
4 17 (0.53%) Ansible
5 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.094%) Control-M
9 3 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.063%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) MOM
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,032 (32.34%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.66%) Google
3 64 (2.01%) Facebook
4 48 (1.50%) Oracle
5 28 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.72%) Adobe
6 23 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 18 (0.56%) Databricks
10 17 (0.53%) Sony
10 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.50%) VMware
12 14 (0.44%) Intapp
12 14 (0.44%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.34%) IBM
15 10 (0.31%) iManage
16 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow