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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 41 18
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,179 2,524 7,882
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 5.99% 8.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.04% 18.13% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 2,137 6,857
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,250
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 15,520 13,919 32,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 33.05% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10,545 10,217 25,054
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,495 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,565 £53,635
% change year-on-year +3.48% +3.60% -2.48%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -34 2,004 £61,500 -5.38% 743
UK excluding London -43 1,487 £57,500 - 600
Work from Home -22 808 £60,000 -7.69% 621
London -23 559 £82,500 +10.00% 234
South East -22 440 £60,000 - 219
North of England -15 417 £60,000 +9.09% 139
Midlands -44 273 £57,500 +4.55% 86
North West -16 206 £60,000 +14.29% 89
South West -26 151 £55,000 -2.22% 59
East of England -49 144 £60,000 -9.37% 66
East Midlands -27 140 £55,000 - 38
Yorkshire -35 137 £62,000 +7.08% 29
West Midlands -56 133 £57,500 +4.55% 48
North East -26 74 £70,000 +21.74% 21
Scotland -64 40 £60,000 +30.43% 18
Wales -45 23 £41,750 -33.20% 16
Northern Ireland -34 9 £95,000 - 13
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 63 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.10%) CMS
3 20 (0.92%) IIS
4 11 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.28%) Confluence
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.092%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.092%) JBoss
8 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.092%) nginx
8 2 (0.092%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Apache
9 1 (0.046%) Appian
9 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Simulink
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
2 3 (0.14%) Shopify
3 2 (0.092%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 940 (43.14%) Azure
2 361 (16.57%) AWS
3 213 (9.78%) SaaS
4 209 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 202 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (5.83%) Serverless
7 125 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 107 (4.91%) PowerApps
9 106 (4.86%) Power Automate
10 88 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (3.58%) Azure Functions
11 78 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
12 67 (3.07%) GitHub
13 62 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (2.80%) GCP
15 47 (2.16%) Azure AKS
16 38 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.50%) Broadband
3 9 (0.41%) DNS
4 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.37%) HTTP
5 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) Intranet
7 5 (0.23%) Internet
8 4 (0.18%) Firewall
8 4 (0.18%) LTE
8 4 (0.18%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) Network Security
10 2 (0.092%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.092%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.092%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.092%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.092%) SSL
10 2 (0.092%) VPN
11 1 (0.046%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (19.83%) SQL Server
2 126 (5.78%) Power BI
3 85 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 59 (2.71%) MySQL
6 54 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 47 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.69%) Redis
13 13 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.50%) DB2
15 7 (0.32%) Metadata
15 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.18%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 146 (6.70%) Git
2 66 (3.03%) Selenium
3 57 (2.62%) Visual Studio
4 52 (2.39%) JIRA
5 41 (1.88%) Postman
6 32 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.28%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.24%) SoapUI
9 24 (1.10%) SpecFlow
10 23 (1.06%) GitLab
11 22 (1.01%) Jenkins
12 21 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
13 17 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.55%) NUnit
15 11 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 426 (19.55%) Finance
2 339 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 121 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (2.98%) Public Sector
5 63 (2.89%) Law
6 59 (2.71%) Manufacturing
7 54 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (2.34%) Front Office
9 46 (2.11%) Banking
10 44 (2.02%) Retail
11 40 (1.84%) Games
12 32 (1.47%) Electronics
12 32 (1.47%) Legal
13 24 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.96%) Marketing
15 17 (0.78%) Automotive
16 15 (0.69%) Advertising
16 15 (0.69%) Aviation
16 15 (0.69%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,126 (51.68%) Developer
2 494 (22.67%) Senior
3 439 (20.15%) Software Engineer
4 407 (18.68%) Software Developer
5 400 (18.36%) C# Developer
6 294 (13.49%) .NET Developer
7 247 (11.34%) Senior Developer
8 242 (11.11%) Lead
9 186 (8.54%) C# Software Engineer
10 167 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 156 (7.16%) C# Software Developer
12 151 (6.93%) C# .NET Developer
13 149 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 129 (5.92%) .NET Software Engineer
15 117 (5.37%) Graduate
16 101 (4.64%) Graduate Developer
17 96 (4.41%) Lead Developer
18 91 (4.18%) Graduate Software Developer
19 89 (4.08%) SQL Developer
20 83 (3.81%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,337 (61.36%) .NET
2 380 (17.44%) .NET Core
3 252 (11.56%) ASP.NET
4 245 (11.24%) React
5 192 (8.81%) HTML
6 188 (8.63%) CSS
7 180 (8.26%) .NET Framework
8 133 (6.10%) REST
9 131 (6.01%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.05%) RESTful
11 91 (4.18%) Vue
12 85 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
13 82 (3.76%) Node.js
14 81 (3.72%) Entity Framework
15 80 (3.67%) Blazor
16 55 (2.52%) WPF
17 52 (2.39%) Playwright
18 51 (2.34%) jQuery
19 43 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
20 39 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 78 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.11%) Hedge funds
7 44 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 41 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 40 (1.84%) Mobile App
11 28 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 27 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 22 (1.01%) Sports Betting
15 21 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
16 20 (0.92%) Management Information System
17 19 (0.87%) Legacy Code
17 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
18 18 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
19 17 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 103 (4.73%) Windows
2 82 (3.76%) Linux
3 18 (0.83%) Android
4 14 (0.64%) Unix
4 14 (0.64%) VMS
4 14 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.092%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.092%) Solaris
6 2 (0.092%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (31.90%) Software Engineering
2 610 (27.99%) Agile
3 432 (19.83%) DevOps
4 424 (19.46%) CI/CD
5 414 (19.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 302 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (12.07%) Mentoring
8 254 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 247 (11.34%) Microservices
10 236 (10.83%) Computer Science
11 195 (8.95%) Test Automation
12 181 (8.31%) AI
13 179 (8.21%) SDLC
14 147 (6.75%) MVC
15 138 (6.33%) Scrum
16 136 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (5.92%) Containerisation
18 107 (4.91%) Software Testing
19 104 (4.77%) Infrastructure as Code
20 103 (4.73%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 658 (30.20%) SQL
2 440 (20.19%) JavaScript
3 366 (16.80%) Python
4 270 (12.39%) TypeScript
5 243 (11.15%) Java
6 220 (10.10%) C++
7 108 (4.96%) PHP
8 90 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 49 (2.25%) C
10 41 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.47%) Go
12 29 (1.33%) Bash
13 27 (1.24%) Bicep
13 27 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 24 (1.10%) VBA
15 19 (0.87%) Scala
16 18 (0.83%) Rust
17 17 (0.78%) Delphi
17 17 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.73%) F#
Qualifications
1 311 (14.27%) Degree
2 157 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.12%) SC Cleared
5 44 (2.02%) ISTQB
5 44 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.96%) PhD
10 19 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (6.52%) QA
2 38 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.69%) GDPR
5 13 (0.60%) WCAG
6 12 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 10 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
8 3 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.092%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.092%) ITGC
10 1 (0.046%) HL7
10 1 (0.046%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.046%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 181 (8.31%) Docker
2 21 (0.96%) Firmware
3 15 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 101 (4.64%) Terraform
3 36 (1.65%) Grafana
4 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 6 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.092%) MIIS
9 2 (0.092%) MOM
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 419 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 43 (1.97%) Oracle
3 31 (1.42%) Google
4 23 (1.06%) Adobe
5 13 (0.60%) Xamarin
6 12 (0.55%) Databricks
6 12 (0.55%) VMware
7 11 (0.50%) SAP
7 11 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.32%) iManage
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir
10 6 (0.28%) Aderant
10 6 (0.28%) Workday
11 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Intapp
11 5 (0.23%) MuleSoft