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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 54 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -33 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,257 2,248 6,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.56% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.05% 15.76% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,806 1,864 5,030
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 18,046 14,265 26,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.74% 28.91% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12,843 9,435 19,251
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £45,000
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 £100,000
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 2,965 £60,000 -7.69% 839
UK excluding London +8 2,468 £57,500 - 632
Work from Home +5 1,474 £55,000 -12.00% 470
South East +18 706 £60,000 - 217
London -21 661 £82,500 +3.13% 305
North of England +34 614 £56,500 -5.83% 156
Midlands -7 392 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North West +44 292 £55,000 -2.22% 80
South West +21 287 £52,500 -4.55% 55
East of England +12 286 £60,000 - 88
West Midlands -18 205 £60,000 +4.35% 43
East Midlands +13 187 £55,000 - 53
Yorkshire +22 178 £55,000 -15.38% 39
North East -4 144 £60,000 +4.35% 38
Northern Ireland +9 106 £57,500 -28.13% 5
Wales -46 45 £51,619 -1.68% 18
Scotland -13 34 £50,000 -22.48% 19

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 95 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (1.01%) CMS
4 22 (0.68%) Confluence
5 15 (0.46%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) 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 (0.092%) DNN
12 3 (0.092%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.092%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.092%) Kentico
12 3 (0.092%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
6 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.092%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.25%) 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 (0.092%) Magento
6 3 (0.092%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.061%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.061%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.061%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.061%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.031%) Eikon
8 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.031%) RMDS
8 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,629 (50.02%) Azure
2 549 (16.86%) AWS
3 437 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 307 (9.43%) Power Platform
5 259 (7.95%) SaaS
6 236 (7.25%) GitHub
7 183 (5.62%) Azure AI
8 178 (5.47%) Power Automate
9 165 (5.07%) PowerApps
10 160 (4.91%) Serverless
11 158 (4.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 154 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
14 122 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
15 117 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 104 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 96 (2.95%) Azure Functions
18 77 (2.36%) GCP
19 56 (1.72%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.90%) Internet
2 18 (0.55%) Broadband
2 18 (0.55%) DNS
3 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.28%) Firewall
6 8 (0.25%) 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 (0.092%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (17.04%) SQL Server
2 511 (15.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.85%) MongoDB
4 169 (5.19%) Power BI
5 163 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 85 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 82 (2.52%) MySQL
8 64 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 61 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (0.77%) Redis
14 15 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.43%) Db2
16 13 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.37%) Metadata
18 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 239 (7.34%) Git
2 71 (2.18%) JIRA
3 43 (1.32%) Selenium
4 41 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.04%) GitLab
6 25 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.68%) Postman
8 21 (0.64%) Jenkins
8 21 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.49%) NUnit
11 13 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 527 (16.18%) Finance
2 516 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 170 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (4.70%) Legal
5 113 (3.47%) Law
6 112 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 86 (2.64%) Games
8 79 (2.43%) Retail
9 77 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 70 (2.15%) Advertising
12 65 (2.00%) Marketing
13 57 (1.75%) Electronics
14 56 (1.72%) Banking
15 54 (1.66%) Aerospace
16 45 (1.38%) Front Office
17 39 (1.20%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.11%) Automotive
19 22 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,763 (54.13%) Developer
2 795 (24.41%) .NET Developer
3 720 (22.11%) Senior
4 697 (21.40%) Software Engineer
5 424 (13.02%) Software Developer
6 384 (11.79%) C# Developer
7 348 (10.68%) Senior Developer
8 315 (9.67%) C# Software Engineer
8 315 (9.67%) Lead
9 241 (7.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 181 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 169 (5.19%) C# Software Developer
12 167 (5.13%) C# .NET Developer
13 151 (4.64%) .NET Software Engineer
13 151 (4.64%) Graduate
14 140 (4.30%) Lead Developer
15 109 (3.35%) Architect
16 108 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 103 (3.16%) Graduate Developer
18 102 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,112 (64.84%) .NET
2 761 (23.37%) .NET Core
3 755 (23.18%) ASP.NET
4 590 (18.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 468 (14.37%) React
6 386 (11.85%) CSS
7 374 (11.48%) HTML
8 319 (9.79%) AngularJS
9 302 (9.27%) RESTful
10 300 (9.21%) Blazor
11 286 (8.78%) Vue
12 280 (8.60%) Entity Framework
13 259 (7.95%) Node.js
14 253 (7.77%) .NET Framework
15 233 (7.15%) REST
16 221 (6.79%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.73%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.68%) LINQ
19 116 (3.56%) WPF
20 90 (2.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 213 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 152 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 133 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 125 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 86 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.52%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.60%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 30 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 30 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (0.92%) Robotics
15 27 (0.83%) Legacy Code
16 26 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.77%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 159 (4.88%) Windows
2 110 (3.38%) Linux
3 41 (1.26%) Android
4 37 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) VMS
7 8 (0.25%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.031%) CentOS
11 1 (0.031%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (35.34%) Agile
2 1,047 (32.15%) Software Engineering
3 919 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 789 (24.22%) CI/CD
5 760 (23.33%) DevOps
6 556 (17.07%) Microservices
7 518 (15.90%) AI
8 504 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
9 429 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 408 (12.53%) Mentoring
11 299 (9.18%) Test Automation
12 280 (8.60%) Computer Science
13 271 (8.32%) Machine Learning
14 257 (7.89%) SDLC
15 206 (6.32%) Scrum
16 200 (6.14%) Multithreading
17 199 (6.11%) Software Testing
18 191 (5.86%) OO
19 190 (5.83%) TDD
20 179 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,216 (37.33%) SQL
2 777 (23.86%) JavaScript
3 545 (16.73%) Python
4 513 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 336 (10.32%) C++
6 279 (8.57%) Java
7 146 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 139 (4.27%) PHP
9 75 (2.30%) C
10 65 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.41%) Bicep
12 45 (1.38%) VB.NET
13 41 (1.26%) Go
14 33 (1.01%) Bash
15 32 (0.98%) VBA
16 22 (0.68%) Rust
16 22 (0.68%) Scala
17 19 (0.58%) Delphi
17 19 (0.58%) F#
18 18 (0.55%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 398 (12.22%) Degree
2 194 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 91 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 38 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.71%) PhD
9 19 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.43%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
18 3 (0.092%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (8.57%) QA
2 54 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 28 (0.86%) GDPR
5 19 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.34%) SLA
6 11 (0.34%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.18%) 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 (0.092%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.092%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.092%) PSD2
12 2 (0.061%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.031%) ITGC
13 1 (0.031%) NIST
System Software
1 375 (11.51%) Docker
2 22 (0.68%) Firmware
3 20 (0.61%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.092%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 341 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 154 (4.73%) Terraform
3 34 (1.04%) Grafana
4 18 (0.55%) Ansible
5 16 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.092%) Control-M
9 3 (0.092%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.061%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,064 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.61%) Google
3 64 (1.96%) Facebook
4 49 (1.50%) Oracle
5 30 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.71%) Adobe
8 22 (0.68%) YouTube
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
9 19 (0.58%) Databricks
10 17 (0.52%) Sony
10 17 (0.52%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.49%) Intapp
11 16 (0.49%) VMware
12 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.37%) iManage
13 12 (0.37%) Splunk
14 11 (0.34%) IBM
14 11 (0.34%) SAP
15 9 (0.28%) Aderant