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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 77 22
Rank change year-on-year +28 -55 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,358 1,858 5,172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 3.75% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.10% 14.58% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 1,556 3,416
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
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 18,549 12,744 22,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 25.72% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 13,095 8,148 13,719
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +20 3,063 £60,000 -4.00% 2,306
UK excluding London +32 2,601 £59,000 +2.61% 1,428
Work from Home +22 1,528 £57,500 -4.17% 1,233
South East +28 779 £60,000 - 359
London -27 636 £85,000 +6.25% 1,030
North of England +38 626 £57,500 -4.17% 362
Midlands +2 405 £60,000 +9.09% 214
East of England +40 309 £60,000 +9.09% 203
North West +47 298 £55,000 -12.00% 190
South West +27 283 £54,500 +3.81% 118
West Midlands -19 206 £62,500 +13.64% 115
East Midlands +17 199 £60,000 +9.09% 99
North East +8 173 £75,000 +36.36% 69
Yorkshire -2 155 £55,000 -8.03% 108
Northern Ireland -4 115 £35,000 -37.22% 49
Wales -48 44 £51,619 +6.43% 56
Scotland +6 43 £55,000 -14.73% 86

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
1 115 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.31%) IIS
3 29 (0.86%) CMS
4 27 (0.80%) Confluence
5 12 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.27%) nginx
6 9 (0.27%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) Apache
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
9 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.089%) DNN
10 3 (0.089%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 35 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 60 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.060%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,616 (48.12%) Azure
2 589 (17.54%) AWS
3 483 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
4 349 (10.39%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.77%) GitHub
6 252 (7.50%) SaaS
7 210 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 199 (5.93%) Serverless
9 194 (5.78%) Azure AI
10 184 (5.48%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
13 150 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
14 132 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
15 126 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.39%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.62%) GCP
19 53 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
20 45 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.85%) Internet
2 23 (0.68%) Firewall
3 19 (0.57%) DNS
4 17 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.48%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.089%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.089%) Intranet
11 3 (0.089%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 605 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 501 (14.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 182 (5.42%) Power BI
5 163 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 99 (2.95%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.59%) MySQL
9 84 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.01%) Redis
11 34 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.60%) Metadata
15 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.45%) Big Data
18 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 331 (9.86%) Git
2 79 (2.35%) JIRA
3 46 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.10%) GitLab
5 32 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 32 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 31 (0.92%) Selenium
7 24 (0.71%) NUnit
7 24 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.45%) Postman
10 11 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
12 9 (0.27%) Subversion
12 9 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
13 8 (0.24%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 589 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 500 (14.89%) Finance
3 207 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (5.42%) Legal
5 130 (3.87%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.75%) Law
7 116 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.07%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.59%) Games
10 71 (2.11%) Retail
11 68 (2.03%) Electronics
12 67 (2.00%) Advertising
13 65 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.88%) Marketing
15 53 (1.58%) Banking
16 42 (1.25%) Front Office
17 38 (1.13%) Legal Technology
18 34 (1.01%) Automotive
19 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
20 21 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,692 (50.39%) Developer
2 791 (23.56%) .NET Developer
3 770 (22.93%) Senior
4 752 (22.39%) Software Engineer
5 360 (10.72%) Senior Developer
6 346 (10.30%) C# Software Engineer
7 334 (9.95%) Software Developer
8 327 (9.74%) Lead
9 321 (9.56%) C# Developer
10 249 (7.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 167 (4.97%) Full-Stack Developer
12 149 (4.44%) C# .NET Developer
13 139 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 138 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
15 124 (3.69%) Architect
15 124 (3.69%) Graduate
16 121 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 112 (3.34%) C# Software Developer
18 100 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
19 87 (2.59%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,169 (64.59%) .NET
2 750 (22.33%) ASP.NET
3 724 (21.56%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.60%) ASP.NET Core
5 517 (15.40%) React
6 373 (11.11%) CSS
6 373 (11.11%) HTML
7 331 (9.86%) AngularJS
8 330 (9.83%) RESTful
9 305 (9.08%) Entity Framework
10 298 (8.87%) Blazor
11 280 (8.34%) Vue
12 271 (8.07%) Node.js
12 271 (8.07%) REST
13 268 (7.98%) .NET Framework
14 222 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web API
15 167 (4.97%) Terraform
16 148 (4.41%) ML.NET
17 138 (4.11%) WPF
18 117 (3.48%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 230 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 79 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 55 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 52 (1.55%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.28%) Robotics
15 41 (1.22%) Hedge funds
16 31 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 26 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
19 26 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 183 (5.45%) Windows
2 112 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.25%) Android
3 42 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.030%) CentOS
9 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (34.72%) Agile
1 1,166 (34.72%) Software Engineering
2 923 (27.49%) Full-Stack Development
3 884 (26.33%) CI/CD
4 808 (24.06%) DevOps
5 603 (17.96%) AI
6 600 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 572 (17.03%) Microservices
8 487 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 471 (14.03%) Mentoring
10 330 (9.83%) Test Automation
11 289 (8.61%) SDLC
12 266 (7.92%) Computer Science
13 265 (7.89%) Machine Learning
14 222 (6.61%) Software Testing
15 212 (6.31%) Technical Leadership
16 210 (6.25%) Scrum
17 207 (6.16%) OO
18 197 (5.87%) Business Intelligence
18 197 (5.87%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,208 (35.97%) SQL
2 828 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 580 (17.27%) Python
4 510 (15.19%) TypeScript
5 339 (10.10%) C++
6 290 (8.64%) Java
7 125 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.31%) PHP
9 87 (2.59%) C
10 72 (2.14%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.49%) VB.NET
12 46 (1.37%) Go
13 44 (1.31%) Bicep
14 33 (0.98%) VBA
15 28 (0.83%) Bash
16 23 (0.68%) Delphi
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 21 (0.63%) Ruby
18 18 (0.54%) Scala
19 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 395 (11.76%) Degree
2 176 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 123 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.63%) PhD
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Member
16 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (9.02%) QA
2 64 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 61 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.34%) GDPR
5 22 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.57%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 397 (11.82%) Docker
2 30 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 333 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.74%) Grafana
3 19 (0.57%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) EnCase
6 6 (0.18%) FTK
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.089%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.060%) Bosun
9 2 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,125 (33.50%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.68%) Google
3 62 (1.85%) Facebook
4 55 (1.64%) Oracle
5 35 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 27 (0.80%) VMware
8 22 (0.66%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Apple
10 17 (0.51%) HP
11 16 (0.48%) Adobe
11 16 (0.48%) Foundry
11 16 (0.48%) Intapp
11 16 (0.48%) Sony
11 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 13 (0.39%) Aderant
12 13 (0.39%) SAP
13 11 (0.33%) IBM
13 11 (0.33%) Splunk