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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,828 2,255 8,650
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.99% 4.99% 7.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.65% 16.11% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 1,862 7,289
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,475
25th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £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 £77,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 16,983 14,001 34,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 31.00% 31.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,023 9,255 25,887
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £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 £98,474
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 0 2,646 £60,000 -7.69% 654
UK excluding London +2 2,072 £57,500 -4.17% 551
Work from Home +1 1,142 £55,000 -15.38% 394
London -18 628 £82,500 +3.13% 204
South East +17 623 £58,500 -2.50% 183
North of England +31 551 £57,500 - 130
Midlands -14 355 £57,500 +4.55% 70
North West +60 277 £60,000 +9.09% 67
East of England -3 240 £60,000 -9.37% 69
South West +10 229 £55,000 - 63
East Midlands +16 181 £55,000 - 33
West Midlands -34 174 £59,000 +7.27% 37
Yorkshire +1 156 £55,000 -18.52% 30
North East -8 118 £60,000 +5.26% 35
Scotland -14 36 £55,000 -1.35% 19
Wales -41 34 £50,000 -24.24% 15
Northern Ireland -31 6 £65,000 -18.75% 16

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 73 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.03%) CMS
2 29 (1.03%) IIS
3 17 (0.60%) Confluence
4 14 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (0.28%) WordPress
6 6 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.14%) Apache
8 4 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.071%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.071%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.071%) Immediacy CMS
10 2 (0.071%) Kentico
10 2 (0.071%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 39 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.071%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.071%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.035%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.035%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,397 (49.40%) Azure
2 478 (16.90%) AWS
3 372 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
4 249 (8.80%) Power Platform
5 206 (7.28%) SaaS
6 188 (6.65%) GitHub
7 151 (5.34%) Serverless
8 150 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 135 (4.77%) Power Automate
10 133 (4.70%) PowerApps
11 128 (4.53%) Azure AI
12 119 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
13 117 (4.14%) GitHub Copilot
14 97 (3.43%) Azure Functions
15 92 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
16 90 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 90 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
17 66 (2.33%) GCP
18 56 (1.98%) Azure AKS
18 56 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.77%) Internet
2 19 (0.67%) Broadband
3 14 (0.50%) DNS
3 14 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.32%) Firewall
6 8 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.071%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 396 (14.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 341 (12.06%) MongoDB
4 146 (5.16%) Power BI
5 118 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 72 (2.55%) MySQL
8 58 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 53 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 34 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (0.67%) Redis
13 12 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.42%) Db2
13 12 (0.42%) Metadata
14 11 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.25%) GIS
15 7 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
15 7 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 204 (7.21%) Git
2 60 (2.12%) JIRA
3 47 (1.66%) Visual Studio
4 44 (1.56%) Selenium
5 35 (1.24%) GitLab
6 30 (1.06%) Postman
7 24 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.81%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.57%) Jenkins
12 15 (0.53%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.46%) NUnit
14 12 (0.42%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.42%) SoapUI
15 11 (0.39%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 496 (17.54%) Finance
2 387 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 149 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 76 (2.69%) Games
6 67 (2.37%) Public Sector
6 67 (2.37%) Retail
7 58 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (1.98%) Electronics
9 54 (1.91%) Advertising
9 54 (1.91%) Banking
10 51 (1.80%) Aerospace
11 49 (1.73%) Front Office
12 47 (1.66%) Law
13 46 (1.63%) Marketing
14 37 (1.31%) Legal
15 34 (1.20%) Automotive
16 18 (0.64%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,540 (54.46%) Developer
2 653 (23.09%) .NET Developer
3 624 (22.07%) Software Engineer
4 575 (20.33%) Senior
5 429 (15.17%) Software Developer
6 386 (13.65%) C# Developer
7 300 (10.61%) C# Software Engineer
8 276 (9.76%) Senior Developer
9 268 (9.48%) Lead
10 220 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
11 168 (5.94%) C# .NET Developer
11 168 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.83%) C# Software Developer
13 160 (5.66%) .NET Software Engineer
14 132 (4.67%) Graduate
15 124 (4.38%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.50%) Graduate Developer
17 95 (3.36%) .NET Software Developer
17 95 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 94 (3.32%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,852 (65.49%) .NET
2 678 (23.97%) .NET Core
3 606 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 453 (16.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 396 (14.00%) React
6 325 (11.49%) CSS
7 313 (11.07%) HTML
8 266 (9.41%) AngularJS
9 241 (8.52%) RESTful
10 237 (8.38%) Vue
11 236 (8.35%) Blazor
12 222 (7.85%) Entity Framework
13 213 (7.53%) .NET Framework
14 201 (7.11%) Node.js
15 192 (6.79%) REST
16 170 (6.01%) ASP.NET Web API
17 117 (4.14%) ML.NET
18 100 (3.54%) WPF
19 92 (3.25%) LINQ
20 64 (2.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 106 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.22%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.94%) Hedge funds
9 49 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 29 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.85%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 24 (0.85%) Sports Betting
14 23 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.02%) Windows
2 105 (3.71%) Linux
3 41 (1.45%) Android
4 26 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.32%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (32.92%) Agile
2 866 (30.62%) Software Engineering
3 786 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 639 (22.60%) CI/CD
5 618 (21.85%) DevOps
6 412 (14.57%) AI
7 410 (14.50%) Microservices
8 391 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (10.96%) Mentoring
10 303 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (9.72%) Computer Science
12 233 (8.24%) Test Automation
13 228 (8.06%) SDLC
14 218 (7.71%) Machine Learning
15 181 (6.40%) Scrum
16 164 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
16 164 (5.80%) TDD
17 162 (5.73%) Multithreading
18 154 (5.45%) Containerisation
18 154 (5.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (36.95%) SQL
2 611 (21.61%) JavaScript
3 450 (15.91%) Python
4 401 (14.18%) TypeScript
5 326 (11.53%) C++
6 270 (9.55%) Java
7 118 (4.17%) PHP
8 97 (3.43%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.51%) C
10 57 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.49%) Bicep
12 37 (1.31%) Go
13 35 (1.24%) Bash
13 35 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 29 (1.03%) VBA
15 23 (0.81%) Rust
16 19 (0.67%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.64%) Scala
18 17 (0.60%) Delphi
18 17 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (13.58%) Degree
2 186 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (0.99%) ISTQB
7 28 (0.99%) PhD
8 20 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 6 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.18%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.48%) QA
2 48 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.74%) GDPR
5 17 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 13 (0.46%) WCAG
8 12 (0.42%) SLA
9 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.11%) NCSC
12 2 (0.071%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.071%) ITGC
13 1 (0.035%) EMIR
13 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 321 (11.35%) Docker
2 28 (0.99%) Firmware
3 21 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) KVM
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 284 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 138 (4.88%) Terraform
3 36 (1.27%) Grafana
4 16 (0.57%) Ansible
5 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.071%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.071%) MIIS
10 2 (0.071%) MOM
11 1 (0.035%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.035%) Nessus
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool
11 1 (0.035%) Nmap
Vendors
1 825 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.19%) Google
3 49 (1.73%) Facebook
4 46 (1.63%) Oracle
5 24 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.81%) Adobe
7 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.60%) VMware
9 16 (0.57%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.57%) YouTube
10 15 (0.53%) Apple
10 15 (0.53%) Databricks
11 13 (0.46%) Sony
11 13 (0.46%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.35%) Splunk
13 9 (0.32%) iManage
13 9 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.28%) IBM
14 8 (0.28%) SAP