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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 55 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -33 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,312 2,241 5,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.51% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.05% 15.69% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,844 1,861 4,699
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +9.32% -5.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,250
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 18,347 14,285 25,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 28.77% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13,045 9,453 18,225
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,625
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 £101,250
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 3,015 £60,000 -7.69% 959
UK excluding London +12 2,517 £57,500 - 691
Work from Home +7 1,500 £55,000 -12.00% 518
South East +17 722 £60,000 - 227
London -21 667 £82,500 +3.13% 373
North of England +38 625 £57,500 -4.17% 171
Midlands -5 403 £57,500 +4.55% 98
North West +49 298 £55,000 -4.35% 88
South West +24 292 £53,000 -3.64% 69
East of England +14 287 £60,000 - 78
West Midlands -20 214 £60,000 +4.35% 46
East Midlands +10 189 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire +20 181 £55,000 -15.38% 45
North East -7 146 £60,000 +4.35% 39
Northern Ireland +8 111 £50,000 -37.50% 23
Wales -54 45 £51,619 -1.68% 16
Scotland -15 34 £50,000 -22.48% 24

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 96 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.03%) IIS
3 33 (1.00%) CMS
4 23 (0.69%) Confluence
5 15 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.091%) DNN
12 3 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.091%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.091%) Kentico
12 3 (0.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 45 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.091%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.091%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.42%) 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 (0.091%) Magento
6 3 (0.091%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.091%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.060%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,646 (49.70%) Azure
2 557 (16.82%) AWS
3 446 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
4 314 (9.48%) Power Platform
5 265 (8.00%) SaaS
6 241 (7.28%) GitHub
7 186 (5.62%) Azure AI
8 185 (5.59%) Power Automate
9 167 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 163 (4.92%) Serverless
11 161 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
12 157 (4.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 149 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
14 130 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
15 119 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 107 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 100 (3.02%) Azure Functions
18 81 (2.45%) GCP
19 57 (1.72%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.87%) Internet
2 18 (0.54%) Broadband
2 18 (0.54%) DNS
3 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.39%) HTTP
5 10 (0.30%) Firewall
6 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
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 (0.091%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 572 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 513 (15.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.68%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.07%) Power BI
5 164 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 86 (2.60%) MySQL
7 85 (2.57%) NoSQL
8 73 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 65 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 29 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.85%) Redis
14 15 (0.45%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.42%) Db2
16 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.36%) Metadata
18 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 253 (7.64%) Git
2 72 (2.17%) JIRA
3 45 (1.36%) Selenium
4 43 (1.30%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.03%) GitLab
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.69%) Jenkins
8 21 (0.63%) Postman
8 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.60%) NUnit
10 19 (0.57%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 530 (16.00%) Finance
2 527 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 175 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (4.83%) Legal
5 116 (3.50%) Law
6 114 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 88 (2.66%) Games
8 80 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 80 (2.42%) Retail
9 78 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 72 (2.17%) Advertising
11 67 (2.02%) Marketing
12 56 (1.69%) Electronics
13 55 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 55 (1.66%) Banking
14 46 (1.39%) Front Office
15 39 (1.18%) Legal Technology
16 36 (1.09%) Automotive
17 24 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,789 (54.02%) Developer
2 804 (24.28%) .NET Developer
3 739 (22.31%) Senior
4 708 (21.38%) Software Engineer
5 426 (12.86%) Software Developer
6 396 (11.96%) C# Developer
7 360 (10.87%) Senior Developer
8 330 (9.96%) Lead
9 315 (9.51%) C# Software Engineer
10 244 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 173 (5.22%) C# Software Developer
13 169 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
14 155 (4.68%) Graduate
15 152 (4.59%) .NET Software Engineer
16 146 (4.41%) Lead Developer
17 112 (3.38%) Architect
18 110 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
20 104 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,143 (64.70%) .NET
2 771 (23.28%) .NET Core
3 762 (23.01%) ASP.NET
4 595 (17.96%) ASP.NET Core
5 478 (14.43%) React
6 390 (11.78%) CSS
7 378 (11.41%) HTML
8 324 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 313 (9.45%) RESTful
10 304 (9.18%) Blazor
11 292 (8.82%) Vue
12 289 (8.73%) Entity Framework
13 263 (7.94%) .NET Framework
14 262 (7.91%) Node.js
15 238 (7.19%) REST
16 222 (6.70%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.71%) ML.NET
18 121 (3.65%) WPF
19 120 (3.62%) LINQ
20 89 (2.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 153 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 136 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
4 126 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 92 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (2.57%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.57%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 38 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 31 (0.94%) AI Agents
15 30 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 29 (0.88%) Robotics
17 28 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.85%) Legacy Code
18 27 (0.82%) Low-Code
19 24 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 163 (4.92%) Windows
2 111 (3.35%) Linux
3 43 (1.30%) Android
4 37 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) VMS
7 8 (0.24%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (35.27%) Agile
2 1,072 (32.37%) Software Engineering
3 926 (27.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 804 (24.28%) CI/CD
5 779 (23.52%) DevOps
6 567 (17.12%) Microservices
7 520 (15.70%) AI
8 515 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
9 440 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 421 (12.71%) Mentoring
11 310 (9.36%) Test Automation
12 285 (8.61%) Computer Science
13 273 (8.24%) Machine Learning
14 269 (8.12%) SDLC
15 209 (6.31%) Scrum
16 205 (6.19%) Software Testing
17 201 (6.07%) Multithreading
18 199 (6.01%) OO
19 192 (5.80%) TDD
20 178 (5.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (37.11%) SQL
2 788 (23.79%) JavaScript
3 548 (16.55%) Python
4 526 (15.88%) TypeScript
5 337 (10.18%) C++
6 282 (8.51%) Java
7 148 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 142 (4.29%) PHP
9 75 (2.26%) C
10 67 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.45%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.42%) Bicep
13 42 (1.27%) Go
14 33 (1.00%) Bash
15 32 (0.97%) VBA
16 22 (0.66%) Rust
16 22 (0.66%) Scala
17 19 (0.57%) Delphi
17 19 (0.57%) F#
18 18 (0.54%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 407 (12.29%) Degree
2 197 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 129 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 97 (2.93%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.66%) PhD
9 19 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.091%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (8.91%) QA
2 55 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.85%) GDPR
5 20 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 10 (0.30%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) 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 (0.091%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.091%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.091%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.060%) NIST
13 1 (0.030%) EMIR
System Software
1 386 (11.65%) Docker
2 21 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.63%) Firmware
3 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.091%) vSphere
9 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 347 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 157 (4.74%) Terraform
3 34 (1.03%) Grafana
4 18 (0.54%) Ansible
5 16 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.091%) Control-M
9 3 (0.091%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.060%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,081 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.63%) Google
3 65 (1.96%) Facebook
4 48 (1.45%) Oracle
5 30 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.69%) Adobe
8 22 (0.66%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Apple
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Sony
10 17 (0.51%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.48%) Intapp
11 16 (0.48%) VMware
12 14 (0.42%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.36%) iManage
13 12 (0.36%) SAP
13 12 (0.36%) Splunk
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 9 (0.27%) Aderant