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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 56 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,405 2,126 5,788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.25% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.29% 15.30% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,900 1,758 4,535
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 £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 18,617 13,892 25,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.42% 27.77% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,173 9,121 17,625
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +11 3,106 £60,000 -4.00% 1,173
UK excluding London +20 2,597 £57,500 - 800
Work from Home +10 1,542 £55,000 -8.33% 629
South East +18 739 £60,000 - 253
London -17 677 £82,500 +3.13% 520
North of England +35 638 £57,500 -4.17% 189
Midlands -2 413 £60,000 +9.09% 109
East of England +27 313 £60,000 +9.09% 101
South West +27 303 £52,500 - 66
North West +47 300 £55,000 -6.78% 107
West Midlands -15 218 £60,000 +4.35% 43
East Midlands +17 195 £55,000 - 66
Yorkshire +16 183 £55,000 -8.33% 41
North East -6 155 £65,000 +8.33% 43
Northern Ireland +9 115 £50,000 -10.31% 47
Wales -53 46 £51,619 -0.73% 20
Scotland -15 32 £50,000 -22.78% 30

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 23 (0.68%) 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 43 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) 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 49 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.29%) Elite 3E
3 8 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Magento
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
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 1,694 (49.75%) Azure
2 580 (17.03%) AWS
3 466 (13.69%) Azure DevOps
4 325 (9.54%) Power Platform
5 266 (7.81%) SaaS
6 252 (7.40%) GitHub
7 196 (5.76%) Power Automate
8 194 (5.70%) Azure AI
9 172 (5.05%) PowerApps
9 172 (5.05%) Serverless
10 169 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 159 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 153 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 138 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
14 128 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 115 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 106 (3.11%) Azure Functions
17 87 (2.56%) GCP
18 53 (1.56%) Azure AKS
19 52 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) 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
1 606 (17.80%) SQL Server
2 517 (15.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 457 (13.42%) MongoDB
4 172 (5.05%) Power BI
5 167 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 94 (2.76%) MySQL
6 94 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 82 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 71 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 31 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (0.85%) Redis
13 18 (0.53%) DynamoDB
14 14 (0.41%) Metadata
15 13 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.32%) Db2
16 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 287 (8.43%) Git
2 74 (2.17%) JIRA
3 43 (1.26%) Selenium
3 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.00%) GitLab
5 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.68%) NUnit
9 22 (0.65%) Postman
10 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.50%) SpecFlow
11 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.23%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 561 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 540 (15.86%) Finance
3 183 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (5.08%) Legal
5 127 (3.73%) Law
6 115 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 99 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (2.56%) Games
9 84 (2.47%) Public Sector
10 81 (2.38%) Retail
11 71 (2.09%) Advertising
12 69 (2.03%) Marketing
13 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.67%) Electronics
15 56 (1.64%) Banking
16 47 (1.38%) Front Office
17 41 (1.20%) Legal Technology
18 37 (1.09%) Automotive
19 26 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,814 (53.27%) Developer
2 806 (23.67%) .NET Developer
3 759 (22.29%) Senior
4 734 (21.56%) Software Engineer
5 425 (12.48%) Software Developer
6 393 (11.54%) C# Developer
7 364 (10.69%) Senior Developer
8 354 (10.40%) Lead
9 324 (9.52%) C# Software Engineer
10 251 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (4.90%) C# Software Developer
13 163 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
14 162 (4.76%) Graduate
15 158 (4.64%) Lead Developer
16 147 (4.32%) .NET Software Engineer
17 117 (3.44%) Architect
18 113 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 109 (3.20%) Graduate Developer
20 108 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,185 (64.17%) .NET
2 786 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 775 (22.76%) ASP.NET
4 601 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
5 498 (14.63%) React
6 401 (11.78%) CSS
7 392 (11.51%) HTML
8 332 (9.75%) AngularJS
9 323 (9.49%) RESTful
10 311 (9.13%) Blazor
11 300 (8.81%) Entity Framework
12 297 (8.72%) Vue
13 272 (7.99%) .NET Framework
14 268 (7.87%) Node.js
15 252 (7.40%) REST
16 222 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.58%) ML.NET
18 130 (3.82%) WPF
19 119 (3.49%) LINQ
20 87 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
3 150 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 132 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 116 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 98 (2.88%) 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 43 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 37 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 32 (0.94%) Robotics
14 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
15 29 (0.85%) Legacy Code
16 25 (0.73%) Fixed Income
17 24 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 170 (4.99%) Windows
2 119 (3.49%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.26%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) 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 1,204 (35.36%) Agile
2 1,130 (33.19%) Software Engineering
3 937 (27.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 840 (24.67%) CI/CD
5 810 (23.79%) DevOps
6 584 (17.15%) Microservices
7 553 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
8 538 (15.80%) AI
9 464 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 451 (13.25%) Mentoring
11 320 (9.40%) Test Automation
12 294 (8.63%) Computer Science
13 291 (8.55%) SDLC
14 277 (8.14%) Machine Learning
15 220 (6.46%) Scrum
16 219 (6.43%) Software Testing
17 216 (6.34%) OO
18 201 (5.90%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.58%) TDD
20 186 (5.46%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,239 (36.39%) SQL
2 816 (23.96%) JavaScript
3 566 (16.62%) Python
4 533 (15.65%) TypeScript
5 341 (10.01%) C++
6 302 (8.87%) Java
7 147 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 145 (4.26%) PHP
9 82 (2.41%) C
10 68 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 44 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.03%) Bash
14 35 (1.03%) VBA
15 26 (0.76%) Rust
16 22 (0.65%) Delphi
16 22 (0.65%) Ruby
16 22 (0.65%) Scala
17 18 (0.53%) F#
Qualifications
1 418 (12.28%) Degree
2 200 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 28 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 19 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 19 (0.56%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
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
1 315 (9.25%) QA
2 59 (1.73%) 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 9 (0.26%) 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
1 403 (11.84%) 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
1 351 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 165 (4.85%) Terraform
3 34 (1.00%) Grafana
4 19 (0.56%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.088%) Control-M
8 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) MIIS
10 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.029%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,110 (32.60%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 52 (1.53%) Oracle
5 35 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Intapp
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) VMware
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 13 (0.38%) iManage
13 12 (0.35%) Foundry
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 12 (0.35%) Splunk
14 11 (0.32%) Aderant
14 11 (0.32%) IBM