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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 42 18
Rank change year-on-year -33 -24 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,225 2,442 7,888
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 5.74% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.23% 17.74% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,923 2,070 6,836
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 15,641 13,766 32,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.31% 32.38% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,647 10,074 25,002
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 3 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 3 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 -32 2,044 £62,500 -3.85% 821
UK excluding London -38 1,512 £59,000 +2.61% 622
Work from Home -18 819 £60,000 -7.69% 449
London -20 578 £82,500 +10.00% 276
South East -19 450 £60,000 - 218
North of England -18 417 £61,500 +11.82% 157
Midlands -43 277 £60,000 +9.09% 81
North West -5 211 £60,000 +15.67% 94
East of England -41 157 £60,000 -9.37% 74
South West -24 148 £55,000 - 65
East Midlands -11 142 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Yorkshire -36 135 £62,500 +4.17% 38
West Midlands -51 135 £60,000 +9.09% 45
North East -21 71 £70,000 +21.74% 25
Scotland -69 37 £60,000 +23.71% 23
Wales -43 27 £42,000 -35.38% 16
Northern Ireland -28 9 £95,000 - 4
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 64 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 22 (0.99%) CMS
3 19 (0.85%) IIS
4 11 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.36%) Confluence
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.090%) JBoss
8 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.090%) nginx
8 2 (0.090%) WordPress
9 1 (0.045%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.045%) Apache
9 1 (0.045%) Appian
9 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Simulink
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.090%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.13%) Magento
3 2 (0.090%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.090%) Shopify
4 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.045%) Endur
4 1 (0.045%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.045%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 956 (42.97%) Azure
2 372 (16.72%) AWS
3 213 (9.57%) SaaS
4 208 (9.35%) Power Platform
5 203 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (5.84%) Azure Logic Apps
6 130 (5.84%) Serverless
7 106 (4.76%) PowerApps
8 105 (4.72%) Power Automate
9 86 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
10 83 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
11 79 (3.55%) Azure Functions
12 65 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
13 63 (2.83%) GitHub
14 60 (2.70%) GCP
15 47 (2.11%) Azure AKS
16 41 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
17 34 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 33 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
19 25 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.67%) Broadband
2 12 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.45%) DNS
3 10 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.31%) HTTP
5 6 (0.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.18%) Firewall
6 4 (0.18%) Internet
6 4 (0.18%) LTE
6 4 (0.18%) Modbus
6 4 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.13%) DHCP
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) SSL
8 2 (0.090%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.090%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.090%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.090%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.090%) VPN
9 1 (0.045%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (19.73%) SQL Server
2 128 (5.75%) Power BI
3 91 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 59 (2.65%) MySQL
6 55 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 52 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 47 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (0.63%) Redis
13 12 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.54%) Metadata
14 11 (0.49%) DB2
15 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.22%) ClickHouse
16 5 (0.22%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 144 (6.47%) Git
2 63 (2.83%) Selenium
3 54 (2.43%) JIRA
3 54 (2.43%) Visual Studio
4 40 (1.80%) Postman
5 31 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 28 (1.26%) WebDriver
7 27 (1.21%) SoapUI
8 23 (1.03%) SpecFlow
9 22 (0.99%) GitLab
10 21 (0.94%) Jenkins
10 21 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
11 18 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.67%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.58%) NUnit
14 10 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.36%) Moq
17 7 (0.31%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 442 (19.87%) Finance
2 343 (15.42%) Social Skills
3 127 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (3.01%) Manufacturing
5 61 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (2.52%) Law
8 52 (2.34%) Front Office
9 46 (2.07%) Banking
10 45 (2.02%) Retail
11 40 (1.80%) Games
12 38 (1.71%) Electronics
13 33 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 31 (1.39%) Legal
15 26 (1.17%) Automotive
16 19 (0.85%) Marketing
17 17 (0.76%) Advertising
18 15 (0.67%) Aviation
18 15 (0.67%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,143 (51.37%) Developer
2 499 (22.43%) Senior
3 463 (20.81%) Software Engineer
4 421 (18.92%) Software Developer
5 409 (18.38%) C# Developer
6 303 (13.62%) .NET Developer
7 248 (11.15%) Senior Developer
8 247 (11.10%) Lead
9 205 (9.21%) C# Software Engineer
10 167 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 165 (7.42%) C# Software Developer
12 157 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 156 (7.01%) C# .NET Developer
14 135 (6.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 121 (5.44%) Graduate
16 106 (4.76%) Graduate Developer
17 100 (4.49%) Lead Developer
18 97 (4.36%) Graduate Software Developer
19 95 (4.27%) SQL Developer
20 84 (3.78%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,363 (61.26%) .NET
2 383 (17.21%) .NET Core
3 258 (11.60%) ASP.NET
4 245 (11.01%) React
5 190 (8.54%) CSS
5 190 (8.54%) HTML
6 182 (8.18%) .NET Framework
7 134 (6.02%) REST
8 128 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 113 (5.08%) RESTful
10 94 (4.22%) Vue
11 93 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
12 88 (3.96%) Entity Framework
13 86 (3.87%) Node.js
14 85 (3.82%) Blazor
15 65 (2.92%) WPF
16 56 (2.52%) jQuery
17 51 (2.29%) Playwright
18 44 (1.98%) HTML5 Canvas
19 43 (1.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 132 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 83 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 51 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.16%) Hedge funds
7 47 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 41 (1.84%) Low-Code
10 39 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.99%) Sports Betting
14 21 (0.94%) Legacy Code
14 21 (0.94%) Management Information System
15 19 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
16 18 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.58%) Windows
2 85 (3.82%) Linux
3 17 (0.76%) Android
4 14 (0.63%) VMS
4 14 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.54%) Unix
6 11 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.090%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.090%) Solaris
7 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.090%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (32.09%) Software Engineering
2 615 (27.64%) Agile
3 439 (19.73%) CI/CD
4 430 (19.33%) DevOps
5 422 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 299 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
7 268 (12.04%) Mentoring
8 254 (11.42%) Microservices
9 251 (11.28%) Computer Science
9 251 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (9.21%) Test Automation
11 192 (8.63%) AI
12 179 (8.04%) SDLC
13 146 (6.56%) MVC
14 135 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
15 133 (5.98%) Scrum
16 131 (5.89%) Containerisation
17 115 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (4.81%) Technical Leadership
19 106 (4.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 670 (30.11%) SQL
2 438 (19.69%) JavaScript
3 380 (17.08%) Python
4 274 (12.31%) TypeScript
5 253 (11.37%) Java
6 232 (10.43%) C++
7 114 (5.12%) PHP
8 92 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 49 (2.20%) C
10 40 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.39%) Go
12 30 (1.35%) Bash
13 27 (1.21%) Bicep
13 27 (1.21%) VB.NET
14 23 (1.03%) VBA
15 20 (0.90%) Scala
16 19 (0.85%) Rust
17 17 (0.76%) Delphi
17 17 (0.76%) F#
18 15 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 327 (14.70%) Degree
2 166 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 45 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 45 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 41 (1.84%) ISTQB
7 38 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 22 (0.99%) PhD
10 20 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.36%) CREST Certified
17 7 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.16%) QA
2 40 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) GDPR
5 13 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 13 (0.58%) WCAG
6 12 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.13%) EMIR
10 2 (0.090%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.090%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.090%) ITGC
11 1 (0.045%) HL7
11 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 1 (0.045%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 183 (8.22%) Docker
2 22 (0.99%) Firmware
3 15 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.36%) KVM
6 5 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.045%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 157 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 105 (4.72%) Terraform
3 37 (1.66%) Grafana
4 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.49%) Ansible
6 7 (0.31%) Kibana
7 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.13%) Nmap
9 2 (0.090%) MIIS
9 2 (0.090%) MOM
10 1 (0.045%) Control-M
10 1 (0.045%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.045%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.045%) Nessus
10 1 (0.045%) Netcool
10 1 (0.045%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 429 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 44 (1.98%) Oracle
3 31 (1.39%) Google
4 25 (1.12%) Adobe
5 13 (0.58%) VMware
6 12 (0.54%) Databricks
6 12 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 11 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (0.49%) ServiceNow
7 11 (0.49%) Xamarin
8 8 (0.36%) SAP
9 7 (0.31%) iManage
10 6 (0.27%) Aderant
10 6 (0.27%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.27%) Facebook
11 5 (0.22%) Allen-Bradley
11 5 (0.22%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.22%) Intapp
11 5 (0.22%) Palantir
11 5 (0.22%) Workday