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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,407 2,097 5,792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.21% 6.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.35% 15.31% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,903 1,733 4,482
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 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -6.40%
75th Percentile £79,125 £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 18,566 13,699 25,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 27.49% 30.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13,177 8,963 17,409
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £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 £80,000
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 22 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 22 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 +9 3,112 £60,000 -4.00% 1,468
UK excluding London +20 2,612 £57,500 - 910
Work from Home +9 1,539 £55,000 -8.33% 691
South East +22 752 £60,000 - 280
London -19 668 £83,500 +4.38% 719
North of England +39 641 £57,500 -4.17% 228
Midlands -1 413 £60,000 +9.09% 114
East of England +25 317 £60,000 +9.09% 122
North West +48 302 £55,000 -8.33% 114
South West +25 298 £52,500 - 98
West Midlands -8 215 £60,000 +4.35% 50
East Midlands +18 198 £55,000 - 63
Yorkshire +10 180 £55,000 -8.33% 52
North East +3 159 £65,000 +13.04% 64
Northern Ireland +4 116 £50,000 -10.31% 15
Wales -48 46 £51,619 +3.24% 24
Scotland -8 31 £50,000 -22.78% 46

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 (0.70%) 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
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 (1.29%) 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 1,690 (49.60%) Azure
2 579 (16.99%) AWS
3 475 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
4 325 (9.54%) Power Platform
5 265 (7.78%) SaaS
6 252 (7.40%) GitHub
7 198 (5.81%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 174 (5.11%) PowerApps
10 172 (5.05%) Serverless
11 169 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
12 159 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 154 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
14 136 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
15 130 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
16 117 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 106 (3.11%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.58%) 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 (0.23%) 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
1 596 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 460 (13.50%) MongoDB
4 173 (5.08%) Power BI
5 168 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
6 96 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 90 (2.64%) MySQL
8 81 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 72 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) 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
1 297 (8.72%) Git
2 73 (2.14%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Selenium
4 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.70%) NUnit
9 22 (0.65%) Postman
10 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.47%) SpecFlow
12 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 564 (16.55%) Social Skills
2 533 (15.64%) Finance
3 186 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (5.17%) Legal
5 124 (3.64%) Law
6 119 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 100 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 89 (2.61%) Games
9 80 (2.35%) Public Sector
10 79 (2.32%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 61 (1.79%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.61%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 41 (1.20%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,800 (52.83%) Developer
2 800 (23.48%) .NET Developer
3 754 (22.13%) Senior
4 741 (21.75%) Software Engineer
5 414 (12.15%) Software Developer
6 386 (11.33%) C# Developer
7 361 (10.60%) Senior Developer
8 359 (10.54%) Lead
9 330 (9.69%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 180 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 161 (4.73%) C# Software Developer
13 160 (4.70%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (4.64%) Lead Developer
15 157 (4.61%) Graduate
16 143 (4.20%) .NET Software Engineer
17 119 (3.49%) Architect
18 116 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
20 104 (3.05%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,176 (63.87%) .NET
2 780 (22.89%) ASP.NET
3 776 (22.78%) .NET Core
4 604 (17.73%) ASP.NET Core
5 501 (14.71%) React
6 398 (11.68%) CSS
7 393 (11.54%) HTML
8 327 (9.60%) AngularJS
8 327 (9.60%) RESTful
9 312 (9.16%) Blazor
10 300 (8.81%) Entity Framework
11 297 (8.72%) Vue
12 272 (7.98%) .NET Framework
13 269 (7.90%) Node.js
14 251 (7.37%) REST
15 222 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
16 164 (4.81%) Terraform
17 156 (4.58%) ML.NET
18 138 (4.05%) WPF
19 119 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
3 153 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 123 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 99 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.38%) Hedge funds
12 44 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 40 (1.17%) 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 (0.76%) Fixed Income
19 25 (0.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 169 (4.96%) Windows
2 117 (3.43%) 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%) 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 1,204 (35.34%) Agile
2 1,138 (33.40%) Software Engineering
3 938 (27.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 845 (24.80%) CI/CD
5 816 (23.95%) DevOps
6 588 (17.26%) Microservices
7 560 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 538 (15.79%) AI
9 466 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 327 (9.60%) Test Automation
12 291 (8.54%) SDLC
13 287 (8.42%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.13%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.52%) Software Testing
16 218 (6.40%) Scrum
17 211 (6.19%) OO
18 199 (5.84%) Multithreading
19 191 (5.61%) Software Architecture
20 190 (5.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (36.07%) SQL
2 817 (23.98%) JavaScript
3 569 (16.70%) Python
4 530 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 336 (9.86%) C++
6 294 (8.63%) Java
7 145 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 141 (4.14%) PHP
9 82 (2.41%) C
10 68 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.44%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.06%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 22 (0.65%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 415 (12.18%) Degree
2 194 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 28 (0.82%) 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 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.23%) 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
1 317 (9.30%) QA
2 61 (1.79%) 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 (0.23%) 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%) 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
1 400 (11.74%) 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
1 349 (10.24%) 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 1,113 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) 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