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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 57 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -36 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,409 2,113 5,793
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.23% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.38% 15.33% 23.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,905 1,745 4,510
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 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -5.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 18,548 13,784 25,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.25% 27.62% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,164 9,048 17,496
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,175 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £80,063
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 20 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 20 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 +10 3,112 £60,000 -4.00% 752
UK excluding London +22 2,609 £57,500 - 619
Work from Home +10 1,538 £55,000 -8.33% 424
South East +21 749 £60,000 +2.13% 207
London -17 672 £82,500 +3.13% 237
North of England +39 637 £57,500 -4.17% 163
Midlands +1 417 £60,000 +9.09% 84
East of England +29 314 £60,000 +9.09% 79
North West +45 301 £55,000 -4.35% 83
South West +27 300 £53,000 +0.95% 58
West Midlands -11 218 £60,000 +4.35% 35
East Midlands +16 199 £55,000 - 48
Yorkshire +14 180 £55,000 -8.33% 34
North East -1 156 £65,000 +8.33% 48
Northern Ireland +10 116 £50,000 -10.31% 4
Wales -54 46 £51,619 +3.24% 16
Scotland -19 32 £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 99 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) 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
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (1.47%) 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 (49.60%) Azure
2 579 (16.98%) AWS
3 471 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
4 326 (9.56%) Power Platform
5 269 (7.89%) SaaS
6 252 (7.39%) GitHub
7 199 (5.84%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 175 (5.13%) PowerApps
10 172 (5.05%) Serverless
11 169 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
12 160 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 154 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
14 137 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
15 130 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 116 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 106 (3.11%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.58%) GCP
19 52 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
20 51 (1.50%) 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 12 (0.35%) 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%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 597 (17.51%) SQL Server
2 517 (15.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 458 (13.44%) MongoDB
4 173 (5.07%) Power BI
5 168 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 89 (2.61%) MySQL
8 81 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 71 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 32 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.85%) Redis
14 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.41%) Metadata
16 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 10 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 293 (8.59%) Git
2 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Selenium
3 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.00%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) NUnit
8 22 (0.65%) Postman
9 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.50%) SpecFlow
10 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.23%) Subversion
12 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
13 7 (0.21%) Moq
General
1 562 (16.49%) Social Skills
2 535 (15.69%) Finance
3 186 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (5.10%) Legal
5 124 (3.64%) Law
6 118 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 100 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 90 (2.64%) Games
9 81 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 79 (2.32%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 60 (1.76%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.61%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.09%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,811 (53.12%) Developer
2 803 (23.56%) .NET Developer
3 754 (22.12%) Senior
4 740 (21.71%) Software Engineer
5 423 (12.41%) Software Developer
6 389 (11.41%) C# Developer
7 361 (10.59%) Senior Developer
8 359 (10.53%) Lead
9 328 (9.62%) C# Software Engineer
10 250 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.78%) C# Software Developer
13 162 (4.75%) C# .NET Developer
14 159 (4.66%) Lead Developer
15 158 (4.63%) Graduate
16 145 (4.25%) .NET Software Engineer
17 118 (3.46%) Architect
18 115 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 107 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
20 105 (3.08%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,182 (64.01%) .NET
2 780 (22.88%) .NET Core
3 779 (22.85%) ASP.NET
4 603 (17.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 496 (14.55%) React
6 400 (11.73%) CSS
7 395 (11.59%) HTML
8 331 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 326 (9.56%) RESTful
10 314 (9.21%) Blazor
11 301 (8.83%) Entity Framework
12 297 (8.71%) Vue
13 274 (8.04%) .NET Framework
14 267 (7.83%) Node.js
15 255 (7.48%) REST
16 222 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.81%) Terraform
18 156 (4.58%) ML.NET
19 135 (3.96%) WPF
20 119 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.60%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 151 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
4 133 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 98 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.41%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 44 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 40 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 37 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 32 (0.94%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 28 (0.82%) Legacy Code
17 27 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
18 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
19 24 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.93%) Windows
2 118 (3.46%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.15%) VMS
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (35.23%) Agile
2 1,131 (33.18%) Software Engineering
3 940 (27.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 841 (24.67%) CI/CD
5 812 (23.82%) DevOps
6 587 (17.22%) Microservices
7 559 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
8 536 (15.72%) AI
9 462 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 451 (13.23%) Mentoring
11 324 (9.50%) Test Automation
12 287 (8.42%) SDLC
13 286 (8.39%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.13%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.51%) Software Testing
16 220 (6.45%) Scrum
17 211 (6.19%) OO
18 200 (5.87%) Multithreading
19 189 (5.54%) Software Architecture
20 188 (5.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (36.14%) SQL
2 818 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 568 (16.66%) Python
4 533 (15.64%) TypeScript
5 336 (9.86%) C++
6 296 (8.68%) Java
7 146 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 142 (4.17%) PHP
9 82 (2.41%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.06%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 25 (0.73%) Rust
17 22 (0.65%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 414 (12.14%) Degree
2 193 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
16 4 (0.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (9.33%) QA
2 60 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 33 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 31 (0.91%) 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%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 401 (11.76%) Docker
2 20 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 350 (10.27%) 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 1,108 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.67%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
9 18 (0.53%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) VMware
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