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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 72 22
Rank change year-on-year +24 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,371 1,884 5,251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.85% 3.79% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.16% 14.66% 22.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,796 1,576 3,480
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +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 18,562 12,854 22,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 25.84% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 13,129 8,245 13,955
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +18 3,075 £60,000 -4.00% 2,682
UK excluding London +33 2,607 £58,500 +1.74% 1,818
Work from Home +19 1,527 £57,500 -4.17% 1,562
South East +28 779 £60,000 - 427
London -23 642 £85,000 +6.25% 1,113
North of England +36 630 £57,500 -4.17% 431
Midlands +4 405 £60,000 +9.09% 281
East of England +39 311 £60,000 +9.09% 263
North West +50 300 £55,000 -12.00% 222
South West +30 283 £54,500 +3.81% 171
West Midlands -18 204 £61,250 +11.36% 134
East Midlands +13 201 £60,000 +9.09% 147
North East +8 175 £75,000 +30.43% 81
Yorkshire -8 155 £55,000 -6.22% 133
Northern Ireland 0 115 £35,000 -37.22% 49
Wales -55 44 £51,619 +6.43% 73
Scotland +6 43 £55,000 -14.73% 150

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
1 115 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.31%) IIS
3 30 (0.89%) CMS
4 27 (0.80%) Confluence
5 13 (0.39%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 9 (0.27%) nginx
8 8 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.089%) DNN
11 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 36 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 61 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.42%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,620 (48.06%) Azure
2 588 (17.44%) AWS
3 484 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
4 351 (10.41%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.77%) GitHub
6 250 (7.42%) SaaS
7 209 (6.20%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.93%) Serverless
9 194 (5.75%) Azure AI
10 183 (5.43%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
13 151 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
14 134 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 127 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.38%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.58%) GCP
19 53 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
20 45 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.84%) Internet
2 22 (0.65%) Firewall
3 19 (0.56%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.47%) HTTP
6 11 (0.33%) VLAN
6 11 (0.33%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.089%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.089%) Intranet
11 3 (0.089%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 603 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 501 (14.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.41%) MongoDB
4 184 (5.46%) Power BI
5 163 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 99 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.61%) MySQL
9 84 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.01%) Redis
11 34 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.59%) Metadata
15 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.42%) Big Data
18 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 330 (9.79%) Git
2 79 (2.34%) JIRA
3 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.10%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 32 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.92%) Selenium
7 24 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.68%) NUnit
9 20 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.44%) Postman
11 11 (0.33%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
13 9 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 587 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 505 (14.98%) Finance
3 208 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.43%) Legal
5 130 (3.86%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.74%) Law
7 116 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 102 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.58%) Games
10 72 (2.14%) Retail
11 69 (2.05%) Electronics
12 67 (1.99%) Advertising
13 64 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 64 (1.90%) Marketing
14 55 (1.63%) Banking
15 42 (1.25%) Front Office
16 37 (1.10%) Legal Technology
17 33 (0.98%) Automotive
18 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
19 20 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,703 (50.52%) Developer
2 793 (23.52%) .NET Developer
3 777 (23.05%) Senior
4 755 (22.40%) Software Engineer
5 362 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 348 (10.32%) C# Software Engineer
7 339 (10.06%) Software Developer
8 330 (9.79%) Lead
9 328 (9.73%) C# Developer
10 252 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 167 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 153 (4.54%) C# .NET Developer
13 142 (4.21%) Lead Developer
14 138 (4.09%) .NET Software Engineer
15 126 (3.74%) Graduate
16 122 (3.62%) Architect
17 121 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 114 (3.38%) C# Software Developer
19 101 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
20 89 (2.64%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,171 (64.40%) .NET
2 751 (22.28%) ASP.NET
3 724 (21.48%) .NET Core
4 590 (17.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 516 (15.31%) React
6 376 (11.15%) HTML
7 374 (11.09%) CSS
8 332 (9.85%) RESTful
9 330 (9.79%) AngularJS
10 304 (9.02%) Entity Framework
11 298 (8.84%) Blazor
12 281 (8.34%) Vue
13 268 (7.95%) .NET Framework
13 268 (7.95%) Node.js
13 268 (7.95%) REST
14 222 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
15 167 (4.95%) Terraform
16 148 (4.39%) ML.NET
17 138 (4.09%) WPF
18 117 (3.47%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 229 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 177 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 142 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 104 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 58 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 55 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.60%) Onboarding
13 52 (1.54%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.28%) Hedge funds
15 41 (1.22%) Robotics
16 30 (0.89%) Data Structures
17 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
18 26 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
19 25 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 181 (5.37%) Windows
2 112 (3.32%) Linux
3 42 (1.25%) Android
4 41 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (34.68%) Software Engineering
2 1,168 (34.65%) Agile
3 924 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 882 (26.16%) CI/CD
5 809 (24.00%) DevOps
6 608 (18.04%) AI
7 601 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
8 570 (16.91%) Microservices
9 485 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 473 (14.03%) Mentoring
11 331 (9.82%) Test Automation
12 286 (8.48%) SDLC
13 266 (7.89%) Computer Science
14 265 (7.86%) Machine Learning
15 223 (6.62%) Software Testing
16 212 (6.29%) Scrum
16 212 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
17 207 (6.14%) OO
18 199 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
19 196 (5.81%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,207 (35.81%) SQL
2 832 (24.68%) JavaScript
3 582 (17.26%) Python
4 510 (15.13%) TypeScript
5 344 (10.20%) C++
6 290 (8.60%) Java
7 125 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.29%) PHP
9 87 (2.58%) C
10 73 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.33%) Go
13 44 (1.31%) Bicep
14 34 (1.01%) VBA
15 28 (0.83%) Bash
16 23 (0.68%) Delphi
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 21 (0.62%) Ruby
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 397 (11.78%) Degree
2 178 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 123 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.59%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Member
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (8.99%) QA
2 65 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 63 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.33%) GDPR
5 22 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.56%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) MISRA C
System Software
1 396 (11.75%) Docker
2 29 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 335 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.74%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) EnCase
6 6 (0.18%) FTK
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.089%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.059%) Bosun
9 2 (0.059%) Kibana
10 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,123 (33.31%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.67%) Google
3 62 (1.84%) Facebook
4 55 (1.63%) Oracle
5 36 (1.07%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.77%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 13 (0.39%) SAP
14 12 (0.36%) Aderant
15 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 11 (0.33%) Splunk