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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 72 22
Rank change year-on-year +23 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,398 1,896 5,276
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 3.83% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.17% 14.77% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,828 1,584 3,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,663 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 18,701 12,833 23,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.86% 25.94% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,269 8,249 14,060
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +19 3,100 £60,000 -4.00% 2,406
UK excluding London +34 2,625 £57,500 - 1,520
Work from Home +20 1,532 £57,500 -4.17% 1,200
South East +26 777 £60,000 - 388
London -20 649 £82,500 +3.13% 1,067
North of England +35 633 £57,500 -4.17% 375
Midlands +5 413 £60,000 +9.09% 237
East of England +36 316 £60,000 +9.09% 220
North West +51 303 £55,000 -12.00% 204
South West +30 286 £54,250 +3.33% 121
West Midlands -19 213 £62,500 +13.64% 114
East Midlands +23 200 £60,000 +9.09% 123
North East +5 174 £70,000 +30.23% 69
Yorkshire -3 156 £55,000 -8.03% 107
Northern Ireland -1 116 £50,000 -10.31% 46
Wales -55 44 £51,619 +6.43% 52
Scotland +17 43 £55,000 -14.73% 100

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
1 117 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.27%) IIS
3 32 (0.94%) CMS
4 25 (0.74%) Confluence
5 14 (0.41%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 9 (0.26%) nginx
8 8 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.029%) Revit
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 59 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,643 (48.35%) Azure
2 593 (17.45%) AWS
3 487 (14.33%) Azure DevOps
4 357 (10.51%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.71%) GitHub
6 252 (7.42%) SaaS
7 215 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 203 (5.97%) Serverless
9 194 (5.71%) Azure AI
10 189 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 173 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 168 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
14 138 (4.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 129 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 116 (3.41%) Azure Functions
18 91 (2.68%) GCP
19 53 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 22 (0.65%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.32%) VLAN
5 11 (0.32%) Wireless
6 10 (0.29%) Broadband
6 10 (0.29%) VPN
7 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 3 (0.088%) RS-232
11 3 (0.088%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 502 (14.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.27%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.47%) Power BI
5 163 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.12%) NoSQL
7 96 (2.83%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.56%) MySQL
9 83 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.03%) Redis
12 33 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.59%) Metadata
16 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 330 (9.71%) Git
2 77 (2.27%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.12%) GitLab
5 33 (0.97%) Selenium
6 32 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 31 (0.91%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.68%) NUnit
10 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
14 9 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 580 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 509 (14.98%) Finance
3 206 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.39%) Legal
5 130 (3.83%) Manufacturing
6 127 (3.74%) Law
7 121 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.56%) Games
10 72 (2.12%) Retail
11 68 (2.00%) Advertising
11 68 (2.00%) Electronics
12 66 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 65 (1.91%) Marketing
14 53 (1.56%) Banking
15 43 (1.27%) Front Office
16 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.03%) Automotive
18 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
19 20 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,724 (50.74%) Developer
2 794 (23.37%) .NET Developer
3 775 (22.81%) Senior
4 757 (22.28%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 349 (10.27%) Software Developer
7 348 (10.24%) C# Software Engineer
8 337 (9.92%) Lead
9 334 (9.83%) C# Developer
10 250 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 155 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
13 145 (4.27%) Lead Developer
14 137 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
15 130 (3.83%) Graduate
16 122 (3.59%) Architect
17 119 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 115 (3.38%) C# Software Developer
19 99 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
20 87 (2.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,175 (64.01%) .NET
2 751 (22.10%) ASP.NET
3 730 (21.48%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 518 (15.24%) React
6 378 (11.12%) HTML
7 375 (11.04%) CSS
8 333 (9.80%) AngularJS
9 332 (9.77%) RESTful
10 304 (8.95%) Entity Framework
11 300 (8.83%) Blazor
12 283 (8.33%) Vue
13 274 (8.06%) REST
14 271 (7.98%) .NET Framework
15 266 (7.83%) Node.js
16 221 (6.50%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.00%) Terraform
18 148 (4.36%) ML.NET
19 138 (4.06%) WPF
20 117 (3.44%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 177 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
3 156 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
4 142 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.80%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 59 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 55 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 53 (1.56%) AI Agents
11 53 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 43 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 40 (1.18%) Robotics
14 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 27 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
17 25 (0.74%) IoT
17 25 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.44%) Windows
2 114 (3.35%) Linux
3 42 (1.24%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,177 (34.64%) Agile
2 1,174 (34.55%) Software Engineering
3 924 (27.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 890 (26.19%) CI/CD
5 812 (23.90%) DevOps
6 604 (17.78%) AI
7 598 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
8 572 (16.83%) Microservices
9 488 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 475 (13.98%) Mentoring
11 340 (10.01%) Test Automation
12 295 (8.68%) SDLC
13 274 (8.06%) Computer Science
14 265 (7.80%) Machine Learning
15 229 (6.74%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.33%) Scrum
17 211 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
18 206 (6.06%) OO
19 201 (5.92%) Business Intelligence
20 197 (5.80%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,214 (35.73%) SQL
2 838 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 586 (17.25%) Python
4 517 (15.21%) TypeScript
5 346 (10.18%) C++
6 298 (8.77%) Java
7 129 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 116 (3.41%) PHP
9 89 (2.62%) C
10 71 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.35%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.32%) Bicep
12 45 (1.32%) Go
13 36 (1.06%) VBA
14 30 (0.88%) Bash
15 24 (0.71%) Rust
16 22 (0.65%) Delphi
17 21 (0.62%) Ruby
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 405 (11.92%) Degree
2 184 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.59%) PhD
10 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.18%) OSCP
14 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (9.01%) QA
2 70 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.32%) GDPR
5 22 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.56%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 399 (11.74%) Docker
2 29 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.44%) Firmware
5 11 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.029%) HDFS
11 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 335 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.74%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) EnCase
8 5 (0.15%) FTK
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 2 (0.059%) Kibana
11 2 (0.059%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.029%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,135 (33.40%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.68%) Google
3 62 (1.82%) Facebook
4 54 (1.59%) Oracle
5 36 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.77%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Talend