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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 51 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,934 2,298 8,305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.04% 4.93% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.97% 16.28% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 1,901 6,975
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 17,290 14,118 33,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 30.30% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12,304 9,362 25,216
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,260 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +2 2,742 £60,000 -7.69% 868
UK excluding London +3 2,162 £57,500 -4.17% 707
Work from Home +1 1,231 £55,000 -15.38% 515
South East +12 647 £60,000 - 218
London -18 638 £82,500 +3.13% 268
North of England +34 568 £57,500 -4.01% 181
Midlands -11 369 £57,500 +4.55% 97
North West +48 285 £57,687 +4.88% 88
East of England 0 255 £60,000 -9.37% 83
South West +9 244 £55,000 - 74
East Midlands +16 188 £55,000 - 41
West Midlands -33 181 £59,000 +7.27% 56
Yorkshire -4 155 £55,000 -19.71% 48
North East -6 128 £60,000 +4.35% 48
Wales -40 41 £51,619 -20.59% 25
Scotland -13 34 £52,500 -16.00% 29
Northern Ireland -25 6 £65,000 -18.75% 17

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 79 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.06%) CMS
3 30 (1.02%) IIS
4 18 (0.61%) Confluence
5 15 (0.51%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.31%) WordPress
7 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.17%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) Apache
10 4 (0.14%) JBoss
10 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.10%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.10%) DNN
11 3 (0.10%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.10%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.10%) Kentico
11 3 (0.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.24%) Simulink
4 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.10%) Magento
3 3 (0.10%) Shopify
4 2 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.068%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.068%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.034%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.034%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,492 (50.85%) Azure
2 504 (17.18%) AWS
3 406 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
4 269 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 207 (7.06%) GitHub
6 205 (6.99%) SaaS
7 158 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 156 (5.32%) Azure AI
9 152 (5.18%) Serverless
10 151 (5.15%) Power Automate
11 147 (5.01%) PowerApps
12 135 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
13 123 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
14 103 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 103 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
15 102 (3.48%) Azure Functions
16 98 (3.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 69 (2.35%) GCP
18 57 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
19 55 (1.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.94%) Internet
2 19 (0.65%) Broadband
3 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.48%) DNS
5 10 (0.34%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.31%) Firewall
7 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
8 7 (0.24%) HTTP
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) LTE
10 5 (0.17%) VPN
10 5 (0.17%) WAN
11 4 (0.14%) Intranet
11 4 (0.14%) Modbus
11 4 (0.14%) Network Security
12 3 (0.10%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.10%) RS-232
12 3 (0.10%) SSL
13 2 (0.068%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (16.84%) SQL Server
2 464 (15.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 404 (13.77%) MongoDB
4 157 (5.35%) Power BI
5 143 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
6 78 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.49%) MySQL
8 60 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.72%) Redis
12 16 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.44%) Db2
14 12 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.41%) Metadata
15 9 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
15 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 8 (0.27%) DynamoDB
17 7 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 208 (7.09%) Git
2 57 (1.94%) JIRA
3 42 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.23%) Selenium
5 35 (1.19%) GitLab
6 26 (0.89%) Postman
7 24 (0.82%) SpecFlow
7 24 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.61%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.44%) NUnit
11 12 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.34%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 517 (17.62%) Finance
2 399 (13.60%) Social Skills
3 152 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (3.58%) Manufacturing
5 81 (2.76%) Games
6 71 (2.42%) Retail
7 69 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 63 (2.15%) Advertising
9 60 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.91%) Electronics
11 55 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 55 (1.87%) Banking
12 53 (1.81%) Marketing
13 50 (1.70%) Law
14 49 (1.67%) Front Office
15 40 (1.36%) Legal
16 35 (1.19%) Automotive
17 18 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (0.61%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,613 (54.98%) Developer
2 727 (24.78%) .NET Developer
3 653 (22.26%) Software Engineer
4 582 (19.84%) Senior
5 424 (14.45%) Software Developer
6 379 (12.92%) C# Developer
7 312 (10.63%) C# Software Engineer
8 280 (9.54%) Lead
9 272 (9.27%) Senior Developer
10 230 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 168 (5.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (5.69%) C# .NET Developer
13 165 (5.62%) C# Software Developer
14 159 (5.42%) .NET Software Engineer
15 138 (4.70%) Graduate
16 131 (4.46%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.37%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.24%) Azure Developer
19 94 (3.20%) .NET Software Developer
20 92 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,925 (65.61%) .NET
2 740 (25.22%) .NET Core
3 673 (22.94%) ASP.NET
4 524 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 431 (14.69%) React
6 350 (11.93%) CSS
7 334 (11.38%) HTML
8 293 (9.99%) AngularJS
9 269 (9.17%) RESTful
10 266 (9.07%) Blazor
11 263 (8.96%) Vue
12 243 (8.28%) Entity Framework
13 227 (7.74%) Node.js
14 219 (7.46%) .NET Framework
15 203 (6.92%) REST
16 195 (6.65%) ASP.NET Web API
17 141 (4.81%) ML.NET
18 108 (3.68%) LINQ
19 104 (3.54%) WPF
20 67 (2.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 187 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 135 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
3 111 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.91%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 39 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.82%) Legacy Code
16 23 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 23 (0.78%) Robotics
16 23 (0.78%) Sports Betting
17 22 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.94%) Windows
2 108 (3.68%) Linux
3 44 (1.50%) Android
4 27 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Unix
8 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.068%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (34.01%) Agile
2 901 (30.71%) Software Engineering
3 855 (29.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 679 (23.14%) CI/CD
5 659 (22.46%) DevOps
6 447 (15.24%) AI
7 442 (15.06%) Microservices
8 406 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
9 315 (10.74%) Mentoring
10 303 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 272 (9.27%) Computer Science
12 243 (8.28%) Machine Learning
13 233 (7.94%) Test Automation
14 231 (7.87%) SDLC
15 191 (6.51%) Scrum
16 187 (6.37%) Multithreading
17 180 (6.13%) TDD
18 174 (5.93%) Business Intelligence
19 167 (5.69%) OO
20 155 (5.28%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (38.10%) SQL
2 650 (22.15%) JavaScript
3 455 (15.51%) Python
4 429 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 335 (11.42%) C++
6 266 (9.07%) Java
7 122 (4.16%) PHP
8 98 (3.34%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.49%) C
10 59 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.47%) Bicep
12 39 (1.33%) Go
13 36 (1.23%) Bash
13 36 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 30 (1.02%) VBA
15 24 (0.82%) Rust
16 20 (0.68%) Scala
17 19 (0.65%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.61%) F#
19 17 (0.58%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 382 (13.02%) Degree
2 184 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.95%) PhD
9 22 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.17%) CREST Certified
17 5 (0.17%) GPEN
17 5 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.25%) QA
2 49 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.78%) GDPR
5 20 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.41%) SLA
8 11 (0.37%) WCAG
9 5 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.17%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.14%) NCSC
11 3 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.068%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.068%) ITGC
13 1 (0.034%) EMIR
13 1 (0.034%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 348 (11.86%) Docker
2 28 (0.95%) Firmware
3 22 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.20%) KVM
7 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 310 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.84%) Terraform
3 37 (1.26%) Grafana
4 18 (0.61%) Ansible
5 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.17%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.10%) Control-M
9 3 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.068%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.068%) MIIS
10 2 (0.068%) MOM
11 1 (0.034%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.034%) Nessus
11 1 (0.034%) Netcool
11 1 (0.034%) Nmap
Vendors
1 916 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.45%) Google
3 58 (1.98%) Facebook
4 45 (1.53%) Oracle
5 25 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.78%) Adobe
7 19 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.65%) YouTube
8 18 (0.61%) Apple
9 17 (0.58%) VMware
10 16 (0.55%) Sony
10 16 (0.55%) Yahoo!
11 15 (0.51%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.48%) Databricks
13 11 (0.37%) Intapp
13 11 (0.37%) Splunk
14 10 (0.34%) iManage
15 9 (0.31%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.27%) IBM
16 8 (0.27%) SAP