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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 49 18
Rank change year-on-year -19 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,498 2,133 8,015
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.69% 5.01% 8.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.37% 16.11% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 1,750 6,914
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,813 £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 £72,433
90th Percentile £97,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -1.79%

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 16,249 13,241 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.51% 31.11% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 8,910 25,001
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 £111,250 £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 26 May 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 26 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 -13 2,325 £60,000 -7.69% 779
UK excluding London -18 1,755 £57,500 -4.17% 628
Work from Home -6 913 £57,500 -11.54% 481
London -11 609 £82,500 +6.45% 229
South East +10 549 £60,000 - 183
North of England +18 472 £60,000 +6.67% 175
Midlands -30 307 £60,000 +9.09% 82
North West +42 243 £60,000 +17.90% 110
East of England -17 188 £60,000 -9.37% 74
South West -3 180 £55,000 - 73
West Midlands -50 154 £60,000 +9.09% 38
East Midlands +4 153 £55,000 - 44
Yorkshire -16 138 £55,000 -19.41% 29
North East -10 91 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Scotland -38 31 £60,000 +20.00% 20
Wales -40 25 £50,000 -29.58% 12
Northern Ireland -34 7 £80,000 - 20

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 66 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.12%) IIS
3 26 (1.04%) CMS
4 12 (0.48%) Confluence
5 11 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.24%) WordPress
8 4 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.080%) nginx
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.040%) Appian
11 1 (0.040%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.040%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.080%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.080%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.080%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.040%) Endur
5 1 (0.040%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,137 (45.52%) Azure
2 405 (16.21%) AWS
3 273 (10.93%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 211 (8.45%) SaaS
6 145 (5.80%) Serverless
7 144 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 117 (4.68%) GitHub
9 111 (4.44%) PowerApps
10 110 (4.40%) Power Automate
11 99 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
12 90 (3.60%) Azure Functions
13 87 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
14 73 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
15 64 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 63 (2.52%) GCP
17 57 (2.28%) GitHub Copilot
18 56 (2.24%) Azure AI
19 53 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
20 51 (2.04%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (0.84%) Internet
2 15 (0.60%) Broadband
2 15 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.44%) DNS
4 10 (0.40%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.32%) Firewall
6 6 (0.24%) HTTP
7 5 (0.20%) DHCP
7 5 (0.20%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) Intranet
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.080%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.080%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.080%) RS-232
10 2 (0.080%) SSL
10 2 (0.080%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (18.65%) SQL Server
2 202 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 168 (6.73%) MongoDB
4 130 (5.20%) Power BI
5 72 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 58 (2.32%) MySQL
8 48 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 48 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (0.68%) Redis
12 11 (0.44%) DB2
12 11 (0.44%) Metadata
13 8 (0.32%) GIS
14 7 (0.28%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 180 (7.21%) Git
2 59 (2.36%) JIRA
3 57 (2.28%) Selenium
4 54 (2.16%) Visual Studio
5 43 (1.72%) Postman
6 32 (1.28%) GitLab
7 30 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.08%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.08%) WebDriver
9 23 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
10 22 (0.88%) SpecFlow
11 21 (0.84%) Jenkins
12 19 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.52%) NUnit
15 10 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.32%) Yeoman
17 7 (0.28%) MSTest
General
1 472 (18.90%) Finance
2 364 (14.57%) Social Skills
3 130 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 65 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 57 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (2.24%) Retail
8 55 (2.20%) Electronics
9 54 (2.16%) Banking
10 53 (2.12%) Games
11 49 (1.96%) Front Office
12 48 (1.92%) Law
13 40 (1.60%) Aerospace
14 32 (1.28%) Legal
15 31 (1.24%) Automotive
16 27 (1.08%) Advertising
17 25 (1.00%) Marketing
18 15 (0.60%) Aviation
18 15 (0.60%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,302 (52.12%) Developer
2 541 (21.66%) Software Engineer
3 535 (21.42%) Senior
4 435 (17.41%) .NET Developer
5 425 (17.01%) Software Developer
6 401 (16.05%) C# Developer
7 265 (10.61%) Lead
8 263 (10.53%) C# Software Engineer
9 256 (10.25%) Senior Developer
10 188 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 176 (7.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 172 (6.89%) C# Software Developer
13 167 (6.69%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (6.33%) .NET Software Engineer
15 119 (4.76%) Graduate
16 106 (4.24%) Lead Developer
17 102 (4.08%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.80%) .NET Software Developer
19 93 (3.72%) Azure Developer
19 93 (3.72%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,584 (63.41%) .NET
2 489 (19.58%) .NET Core
3 392 (15.69%) ASP.NET
4 296 (11.85%) React
5 244 (9.77%) CSS
5 244 (9.77%) HTML
6 232 (9.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 191 (7.65%) .NET Framework
8 178 (7.13%) AngularJS
9 161 (6.45%) RESTful
10 158 (6.33%) REST
11 152 (6.08%) Vue
12 147 (5.88%) Entity Framework
13 145 (5.80%) Blazor
14 126 (5.04%) Node.js
15 94 (3.76%) ASP.NET Web API
16 83 (3.32%) WPF
17 54 (2.16%) jQuery
17 54 (2.16%) JSON
18 52 (2.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 151 (6.04%) Cloud Native
2 89 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
4 75 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 48 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 23 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 23 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 23 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (0.92%) Sports Betting
13 22 (0.88%) Legacy Code
14 20 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.92%) Windows
2 95 (3.80%) Linux
3 31 (1.24%) Android
4 20 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.52%) VMS
7 12 (0.48%) Unix
8 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.080%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.080%) Solaris
11 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (31.10%) Software Engineering
2 731 (29.26%) Agile
3 572 (22.90%) Full-Stack Development
4 532 (21.30%) CI/CD
5 507 (20.30%) DevOps
6 345 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (12.25%) Microservices
8 291 (11.65%) Mentoring
9 285 (11.41%) AI
10 268 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 262 (10.49%) Computer Science
12 228 (9.13%) Test Automation
13 207 (8.29%) SDLC
14 148 (5.92%) Scrum
15 141 (5.64%) Containerisation
15 141 (5.64%) Machine Learning
16 138 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
17 126 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 125 (5.00%) MVC
19 122 (4.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 800 (32.03%) SQL
2 515 (20.62%) JavaScript
3 417 (16.69%) Python
4 312 (12.49%) TypeScript
5 283 (11.33%) C++
6 268 (10.73%) Java
7 105 (4.20%) PHP
8 96 (3.84%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.60%) C
10 40 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.36%) Bash
12 33 (1.32%) Bicep
13 30 (1.20%) Go
14 29 (1.16%) VB.NET
15 23 (0.92%) VBA
16 21 (0.84%) Scala
17 20 (0.80%) Rust
18 19 (0.76%) F#
19 17 (0.68%) Haskell
20 16 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 373 (14.93%) Degree
2 182 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 128 (5.12%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 39 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.96%) PhD
11 18 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 13 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 13 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.24%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.44%) QA
2 43 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.76%) GDPR
5 14 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.48%) WCAG
8 11 (0.44%) SLA
9 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.080%) EMIR
12 2 (0.080%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.080%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.080%) ITGC
13 1 (0.040%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 239 (9.57%) Docker
2 28 (1.12%) Firmware
3 18 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.28%) KVM
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.080%) vSphere
9 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 201 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.88%) Terraform
3 37 (1.48%) Grafana
4 11 (0.44%) Ansible
4 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.28%) Kibana
6 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.080%) Control-M
7 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.080%) MIIS
7 2 (0.080%) MOM
7 2 (0.080%) Nmap
7 2 (0.080%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.040%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.040%) Nessus
8 1 (0.040%) Netcool
Vendors
1 581 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.84%) Google
2 46 (1.84%) Oracle
3 24 (0.96%) Adobe
4 22 (0.88%) Facebook
5 19 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 15 (0.60%) Salesforce
6 15 (0.60%) VMware
7 13 (0.52%) Xamarin
8 11 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (0.44%) Databricks
8 11 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 9 (0.36%) iManage
9 9 (0.36%) Splunk
10 8 (0.32%) Apple
11 7 (0.28%) Intapp
12 6 (0.24%) Aderant
12 6 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.24%) Sony
12 6 (0.24%) YouTube