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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 46 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,425 2,339 7,916
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.67% 5.39% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.16% 16.65% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,110 1,984 6,847
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £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 £79,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%

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 16,000 14,052 32,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.64% 32.36% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,955 9,820 24,889
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,195
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 £110,000 £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 14 May 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 14 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 -19 2,236 £60,000 -7.69% 808
UK excluding London -20 1,689 £57,500 - 648
Work from Home -6 931 £57,500 -11.54% 452
London -19 596 £82,500 +10.00% 240
South East +3 517 £60,000 - 217
North of England +6 459 £60,000 +9.09% 171
Midlands -38 295 £60,000 +9.09% 86
North West +30 233 £60,000 +14.29% 98
East of England -17 183 £60,000 -9.37% 79
South West -4 168 £55,000 - 64
East Midlands 0 149 £60,000 +9.09% 47
West Midlands -50 146 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Yorkshire -30 141 £60,000 +0.33% 37
North East -13 85 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Scotland -45 38 £60,000 +23.71% 24
Wales -36 30 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Northern Ireland -31 7 £95,000 - 5
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 67 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.03%) CMS
3 24 (0.99%) IIS
4 12 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 11 (0.45%) Confluence
6 6 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.16%) Apache
7 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.16%) WordPress
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.082%) nginx
10 1 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.041%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.041%) Appian
10 1 (0.041%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.21%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.082%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.041%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 36 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.082%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.041%) Endur
5 1 (0.041%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.041%) Shopify
5 1 (0.041%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,106 (45.61%) Azure
2 393 (16.21%) AWS
3 268 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (9.03%) Power Platform
5 213 (8.78%) SaaS
6 141 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 137 (5.65%) Serverless
8 114 (4.70%) PowerApps
9 111 (4.58%) Power Automate
10 104 (4.29%) GitHub
11 95 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
13 86 (3.55%) Azure Functions
14 71 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 61 (2.52%) GCP
16 60 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 57 (2.35%) Azure AI
18 54 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
19 50 (2.06%) Azure AKS
19 50 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.82%) Internet
2 14 (0.58%) Broadband
2 14 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.45%) DNS
4 10 (0.41%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.29%) Firewall
6 6 (0.25%) HTTP
6 6 (0.25%) Intranet
7 5 (0.21%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) DHCP
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) SSL
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.082%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.082%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.082%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.082%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.041%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (18.56%) SQL Server
2 203 (8.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 160 (6.60%) MongoDB
4 128 (5.28%) Power BI
5 74 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 61 (2.52%) Relational Database
7 57 (2.35%) MySQL
8 49 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
8 49 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.58%) Redis
12 12 (0.49%) Metadata
13 11 (0.45%) DB2
14 9 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.33%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.25%) GIS
17 5 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
18 4 (0.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 173 (7.13%) Git
2 61 (2.52%) Selenium
3 60 (2.47%) JIRA
4 55 (2.27%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.69%) Postman
6 31 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 29 (1.20%) GitLab
8 28 (1.15%) WebDriver
9 27 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 24 (0.99%) Jenkins
11 23 (0.95%) SpecFlow
12 22 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
13 20 (0.82%) TeamCity
14 14 (0.58%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.54%) NUnit
16 12 (0.49%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.37%) LabVIEW
18 8 (0.33%) Bitbucket
18 8 (0.33%) Moq
19 7 (0.29%) MSTest
General
1 474 (19.55%) Finance
2 355 (14.64%) Social Skills
3 127 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (3.01%) Manufacturing
5 67 (2.76%) Public Sector
6 61 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (2.31%) Games
8 55 (2.27%) Law
9 53 (2.19%) Banking
10 51 (2.10%) Retail
11 50 (2.06%) Front Office
12 45 (1.86%) Electronics
13 37 (1.53%) Aerospace
14 33 (1.36%) Legal
15 29 (1.20%) Automotive
16 27 (1.11%) Advertising
17 25 (1.03%) Marketing
18 15 (0.62%) Aviation
18 15 (0.62%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,297 (53.48%) Developer
2 526 (21.69%) Senior
3 493 (20.33%) Software Engineer
4 428 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 425 (17.53%) .NET Developer
6 416 (17.15%) C# Developer
7 266 (10.97%) Senior Developer
8 257 (10.60%) Lead
9 230 (9.48%) C# Software Engineer
10 172 (7.09%) C# Software Developer
10 172 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 168 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 164 (6.76%) C# .NET Developer
13 142 (5.86%) .NET Software Engineer
14 121 (4.99%) Graduate
15 104 (4.29%) Graduate Developer
16 102 (4.21%) Lead Developer
17 94 (3.88%) Graduate Software Developer
18 92 (3.79%) .NET Software Developer
19 91 (3.75%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,542 (63.59%) .NET
2 498 (20.54%) .NET Core
3 385 (15.88%) ASP.NET
4 293 (12.08%) React
5 238 (9.81%) HTML
6 237 (9.77%) CSS
7 219 (9.03%) ASP.NET Core
8 191 (7.88%) .NET Framework
9 172 (7.09%) AngularJS
10 157 (6.47%) RESTful
11 147 (6.06%) REST
12 141 (5.81%) Vue
13 139 (5.73%) Entity Framework
14 132 (5.44%) Blazor
15 126 (5.20%) Node.js
16 84 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web API
17 74 (3.05%) WPF
18 55 (2.27%) jQuery
19 52 (2.14%) Playwright
20 50 (2.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 143 (5.90%) Cloud Native
2 83 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
4 73 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 66 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (2.14%) Hedge funds
8 47 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 47 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 30 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (0.95%) Legacy Code
12 23 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 23 (0.95%) Sports Betting
13 22 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
14 21 (0.87%) Onboarding
15 19 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 116 (4.78%) Windows
2 92 (3.79%) Linux
3 26 (1.07%) Android
4 18 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.58%) VMS
6 13 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.49%) Unix
8 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.082%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.082%) Solaris
9 2 (0.082%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (30.60%) Software Engineering
2 720 (29.69%) Agile
3 559 (23.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 512 (21.11%) CI/CD
5 495 (20.41%) DevOps
6 320 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
7 296 (12.21%) Microservices
8 283 (11.67%) Mentoring
9 259 (10.68%) AI
9 259 (10.68%) Computer Science
10 258 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 221 (9.11%) Test Automation
12 200 (8.25%) SDLC
13 151 (6.23%) Scrum
14 136 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
15 135 (5.57%) Containerisation
15 135 (5.57%) MVC
16 133 (5.48%) Machine Learning
17 122 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 119 (4.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 795 (32.78%) SQL
2 499 (20.58%) JavaScript
3 399 (16.45%) Python
4 304 (12.54%) TypeScript
5 263 (10.85%) Java
6 256 (10.56%) C++
7 108 (4.45%) PHP
8 96 (3.96%) PowerShell
9 56 (2.31%) C
10 41 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.32%) Bicep
12 31 (1.28%) Bash
13 29 (1.20%) Go
14 27 (1.11%) VB.NET
15 23 (0.95%) VBA
16 22 (0.91%) Scala
17 19 (0.78%) F#
17 19 (0.78%) Rust
18 17 (0.70%) Haskell
19 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 346 (14.27%) Degree
2 169 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (5.11%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.93%) SC Cleared
5 45 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 39 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 22 (0.91%) PhD
11 18 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (0.58%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.25%) CREST Certified
18 6 (0.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.40%) QA
2 43 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 14 (0.58%) WCAG
6 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.082%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.082%) EMIR
10 2 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.082%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 2 (0.082%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 2 (0.082%) ITGC
11 1 (0.041%) HL7
11 1 (0.041%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 228 (9.40%) Docker
2 23 (0.95%) Firmware
3 17 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.29%) KVM
6 6 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 194 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 118 (4.87%) Terraform
3 37 (1.53%) Grafana
4 13 (0.54%) Ansible
5 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.29%) Kibana
7 6 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.082%) MIIS
9 2 (0.082%) MOM
9 2 (0.082%) Nmap
10 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.041%) Nessus
10 1 (0.041%) Netcool
10 1 (0.041%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 572 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.90%) Oracle
3 43 (1.77%) Google
4 26 (1.07%) Adobe
5 20 (0.82%) Facebook
6 16 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 15 (0.62%) VMware
8 12 (0.49%) Databricks
8 12 (0.49%) Xamarin
9 11 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (0.45%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.37%) iManage
11 8 (0.33%) Apple
11 8 (0.33%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.29%) Intapp
12 7 (0.29%) Splunk
13 6 (0.25%) Aderant
13 6 (0.25%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.25%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.25%) YouTube