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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 57 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -36 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,397 2,115 5,792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.24% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.35% 15.37% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,894 1,748 4,483
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 £78,750 £82,500 £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 18,516 13,765 25,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.60% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,147 9,018 17,418
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £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 £81,250
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 21 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 21 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 3,102 £60,000 -4.00% 732
UK excluding London +21 2,605 £57,500 - 609
Work from Home +9 1,535 £55,000 -8.33% 417
South East +21 749 £60,000 - 205
London -22 665 £82,500 +3.13% 227
North of England +41 639 £57,500 -4.17% 154
Midlands 0 415 £60,000 +9.09% 86
East of England +26 314 £60,000 +9.09% 77
North West +40 301 £55,000 -6.78% 83
South West +26 297 £52,500 - 61
West Midlands -12 216 £60,000 +4.35% 37
East Midlands +15 199 £55,000 - 48
Yorkshire +10 180 £55,000 -8.33% 31
North East 0 158 £65,000 +13.04% 42
Northern Ireland +9 116 £50,000 -10.31% 5
Wales -47 46 £51,619 +3.24% 16
Scotland -6 31 £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 99 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.09%) IIS
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
4 24 (0.71%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) 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 (1.30%) 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 1,685 (49.60%) Azure
2 578 (17.02%) AWS
3 472 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
4 325 (9.57%) Power Platform
5 264 (7.77%) SaaS
6 252 (7.42%) GitHub
7 198 (5.83%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.68%) Azure AI
9 174 (5.12%) PowerApps
10 171 (5.03%) Serverless
11 169 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 159 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 154 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
14 136 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
15 130 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 116 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 105 (3.09%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.59%) GCP
19 51 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (1.47%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 594 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 459 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 173 (5.09%) Power BI
5 168 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
6 95 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 89 (2.62%) MySQL
8 81 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 72 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.09%) 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%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 10 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 293 (8.63%) Git
2 72 (2.12%) JIRA
3 43 (1.27%) Selenium
3 43 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.00%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.74%) TeamCity
6 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.71%) NUnit
8 22 (0.65%) Postman
9 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.47%) SpecFlow
11 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.24%) Subversion
13 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
General
1 561 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 531 (15.63%) Finance
3 186 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (5.18%) Legal
5 124 (3.65%) Law
6 118 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 100 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (2.62%) Games
9 80 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 79 (2.33%) Retail
11 71 (2.09%) Advertising
12 70 (2.06%) Marketing
13 60 (1.77%) Electronics
14 58 (1.71%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.62%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 41 (1.21%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,801 (53.02%) Developer
2 801 (23.58%) .NET Developer
3 753 (22.17%) Senior
4 738 (21.73%) Software Engineer
5 417 (12.28%) Software Developer
6 386 (11.36%) C# Developer
7 360 (10.60%) Senior Developer
8 358 (10.54%) Lead
9 328 (9.66%) C# Software Engineer
10 248 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 180 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.77%) C# Software Developer
13 161 (4.74%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (4.65%) Lead Developer
15 157 (4.62%) Graduate
16 143 (4.21%) .NET Software Engineer
17 118 (3.47%) Architect
18 115 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
20 104 (3.06%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,175 (64.03%) .NET
2 779 (22.93%) ASP.NET
3 776 (22.84%) .NET Core
4 603 (17.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 497 (14.63%) React
6 398 (11.72%) CSS
7 393 (11.57%) HTML
8 328 (9.66%) AngularJS
9 325 (9.57%) RESTful
10 313 (9.21%) Blazor
11 300 (8.83%) Entity Framework
12 296 (8.71%) Vue
13 272 (8.01%) .NET Framework
14 267 (7.86%) Node.js
15 250 (7.36%) REST
16 222 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.83%) Terraform
18 156 (4.59%) ML.NET
19 135 (3.97%) WPF
20 119 (3.50%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
3 153 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 99 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 49 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.38%) Hedge funds
12 44 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.18%) AI Agents
14 37 (1.09%) 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 (0.77%) Fixed Income
19 24 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.95%) Windows
2 117 (3.44%) Linux
3 41 (1.21%) Android
4 37 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) 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 1,199 (35.30%) Agile
2 1,132 (33.32%) Software Engineering
3 938 (27.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 840 (24.73%) CI/CD
5 811 (23.87%) DevOps
6 585 (17.22%) Microservices
7 557 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
8 537 (15.81%) AI
9 460 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 452 (13.31%) Mentoring
11 323 (9.51%) Test Automation
12 288 (8.48%) SDLC
13 285 (8.39%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.15%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.54%) Software Testing
16 218 (6.42%) Scrum
17 211 (6.21%) OO
18 199 (5.86%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.59%) Software Architecture
20 188 (5.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (36.18%) SQL
2 816 (24.02%) JavaScript
3 567 (16.69%) Python
4 529 (15.57%) TypeScript
5 334 (9.83%) C++
6 293 (8.63%) Java
7 145 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.15%) PHP
9 82 (2.41%) C
10 68 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.38%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.06%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 24 (0.71%) Rust
17 22 (0.65%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 413 (12.16%) Degree
2 193 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 145 (4.27%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 27 (0.79%) 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 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.12%) ISEB
15 4 (0.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 314 (9.24%) QA
2 60 (1.77%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 399 (11.75%) 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 (0.24%) 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
1 349 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 34 (1.00%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) 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 1,109 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.62%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 50 (1.47%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) 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