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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,414 2,110 5,798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.22% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.35% 15.37% 23.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,907 1,744 4,479
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £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 18,605 13,731 25,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 27.49% 30.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,201 9,004 17,370
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,075 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 23 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 23 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 +9 3,119 £60,000 -4.00% 663
UK excluding London +18 2,617 £57,500 - 556
Work from Home +8 1,541 £55,000 -8.33% 356
South East +22 755 £60,000 - 177
London -17 670 £84,500 +5.63% 215
North of England +34 643 £57,500 -4.17% 134
Midlands -1 413 £60,000 +9.09% 86
East of England +29 317 £60,000 +9.09% 65
North West +47 303 £55,000 -8.33% 69
South West +30 298 £52,500 - 67
West Midlands -8 215 £60,000 +4.35% 35
East Midlands +13 198 £55,000 - 50
Yorkshire +7 180 £55,000 -8.33% 29
North East 0 160 £65,000 +13.04% 38
Northern Ireland +9 116 £50,000 -10.31% 5
Wales -50 46 £51,619 +3.24% 14
Scotland -11 31 £50,000 -22.78% 21

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
1 100 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) IIS
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
4 24 (0.70%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 44 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 50 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Magento
7 2 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,691 (49.53%) Azure
2 579 (16.96%) AWS
3 476 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
4 326 (9.55%) Power Platform
5 267 (7.82%) SaaS
6 252 (7.38%) GitHub
7 198 (5.80%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.65%) Azure AI
9 175 (5.13%) PowerApps
10 172 (5.04%) Serverless
11 169 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 159 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
13 155 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
14 137 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
15 130 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 117 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 106 (3.10%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.58%) GCP
19 51 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (1.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 21 (0.62%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Broadband
4 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.50%) HTTP
6 13 (0.38%) Firewall
7 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.23%) VPN
9 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) DHCP
10 6 (0.18%) IPsec
10 6 (0.18%) SNMP
11 5 (0.15%) LAN
11 5 (0.15%) WAN
12 4 (0.12%) Intranet
12 4 (0.12%) Modbus
12 4 (0.12%) Network Security
13 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.088%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (17.52%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 460 (13.47%) MongoDB
4 174 (5.10%) Power BI
5 168 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 96 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 90 (2.64%) MySQL
8 81 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 73 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 33 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.85%) Redis
14 19 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.44%) Metadata
16 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
18 11 (0.32%) Data Lake
18 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 298 (8.73%) Git
2 73 (2.14%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Selenium
4 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.70%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) Postman
10 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.47%) SpecFlow
12 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 564 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 534 (15.64%) Finance
3 186 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (5.16%) Legal
5 124 (3.63%) Law
6 119 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 101 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (2.64%) Games
9 80 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 79 (2.31%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 61 (1.79%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.61%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 41 (1.20%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,801 (52.75%) Developer
2 800 (23.43%) .NET Developer
3 754 (22.09%) Senior
4 742 (21.73%) Software Engineer
5 414 (12.13%) Software Developer
6 386 (11.31%) C# Developer
7 361 (10.57%) Senior Developer
8 359 (10.52%) Lead
9 331 (9.70%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 180 (5.27%) Full-Stack Developer
12 161 (4.72%) C# Software Developer
13 160 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (4.63%) Lead Developer
15 157 (4.60%) Graduate
16 143 (4.19%) .NET Software Engineer
17 119 (3.49%) Architect
18 116 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
20 104 (3.05%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,180 (63.85%) .NET
2 780 (22.85%) ASP.NET
3 776 (22.73%) .NET Core
4 604 (17.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 502 (14.70%) React
6 398 (11.66%) CSS
7 393 (11.51%) HTML
8 327 (9.58%) AngularJS
8 327 (9.58%) RESTful
9 312 (9.14%) Blazor
10 300 (8.79%) Entity Framework
11 298 (8.73%) Vue
12 272 (7.97%) .NET Framework
13 271 (7.94%) Node.js
14 251 (7.35%) REST
15 222 (6.50%) ASP.NET Web API
16 164 (4.80%) Terraform
17 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
18 138 (4.04%) WPF
19 119 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
3 153 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 123 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 99 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 60 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.38%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 32 (0.94%) Robotics
16 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 28 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.82%) Legacy Code
18 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
19 25 (0.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.98%) Windows
2 117 (3.43%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,204 (35.27%) Agile
2 1,139 (33.36%) Software Engineering
3 939 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 845 (24.75%) CI/CD
5 817 (23.93%) DevOps
6 588 (17.22%) Microservices
7 562 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
8 540 (15.82%) AI
9 466 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (13.30%) Mentoring
11 327 (9.58%) Test Automation
12 291 (8.52%) SDLC
13 287 (8.41%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.11%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.50%) Software Testing
16 218 (6.39%) Scrum
17 211 (6.18%) OO
18 199 (5.83%) Multithreading
19 191 (5.59%) Software Architecture
20 190 (5.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (36.00%) SQL
2 817 (23.93%) JavaScript
3 570 (16.70%) Python
4 530 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 337 (9.87%) C++
6 295 (8.64%) Java
7 145 (4.25%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.13%) PHP
9 83 (2.43%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.44%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.05%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 416 (12.19%) Degree
2 194 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 147 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 18 (0.53%) PhD
10 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (9.29%) QA
2 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 33 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.94%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.35%) WCAG
7 8 (0.23%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 400 (11.72%) Docker
2 21 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.088%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 349 (10.22%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.00%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.029%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,115 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.90%) Facebook
4 51 (1.49%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.67%) Adobe
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
9 18 (0.53%) Databricks
9 18 (0.53%) VMware
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) Intapp
12 12 (0.35%) Foundry
12 12 (0.35%) iManage
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
12 12 (0.35%) Splunk
13 11 (0.32%) Aderant
13 11 (0.32%) IBM