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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 67 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -45 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,425 1,917 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 3.88% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.30% 14.66% 22.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,879 1,594 3,764
10th Percentile £39,950 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
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 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 18,717 13,072 24,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.29% 26.48% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13,273 8,425 15,033
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +18 3,135 £60,000 -4.00% 2,299
UK excluding London +28 2,638 £57,500 - 1,311
Work from Home +20 1,540 £55,000 -8.33% 1,112
South East +31 772 £60,000 - 338
London -17 669 £85,000 +6.25% 1,137
North of England +41 639 £57,500 -4.17% 329
Midlands +2 422 £60,000 +9.09% 190
East of England +33 325 £60,000 +9.09% 191
North West +54 304 £55,000 -12.00% 176
South West +30 285 £54,500 +3.81% 109
West Midlands -13 220 £62,500 +13.64% 95
East Midlands +19 202 £60,000 +9.09% 95
North East +1 174 £65,000 +10.64% 74
Yorkshire -2 161 £55,000 -8.18% 81
Northern Ireland +9 116 £50,000 -10.31% 42
Wales -57 44 £51,619 +6.43% 39
Scotland -4 37 £55,000 -14.73% 92

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
1 118 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.26%) IIS
3 30 (0.88%) CMS
4 24 (0.70%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 56 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (48.91%) Azure
2 603 (17.61%) AWS
3 492 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
4 360 (10.51%) Power Platform
5 256 (7.47%) GitHub
6 253 (7.39%) SaaS
7 216 (6.31%) Power Automate
8 197 (5.75%) Serverless
9 193 (5.64%) PowerApps
10 192 (5.61%) Azure AI
11 170 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
12 168 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
13 155 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
14 154 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
16 124 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.33%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.60%) GCP
19 49 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 20 (0.58%) DNS
2 20 (0.58%) Firewall
3 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.26%) VLAN
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
6 9 (0.26%) Wireless
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 4 (0.12%) Network Security
10 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 609 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 511 (14.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.23%) MongoDB
4 195 (5.69%) Power BI
5 164 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.12%) NoSQL
7 92 (2.69%) Relational Database
8 83 (2.42%) MySQL
9 81 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (0.93%) Redis
12 32 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 25 (0.73%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.61%) Metadata
15 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Big Data
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 318 (9.28%) Git
2 73 (2.13%) JIRA
3 45 (1.31%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.05%) Selenium
5 35 (1.02%) GitLab
6 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 27 (0.79%) Claude Code
8 26 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 22 (0.64%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.55%) Postman
11 12 (0.35%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.20%) Moq
16 7 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 588 (17.17%) Social Skills
2 524 (15.30%) Finance
3 202 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.34%) Legal
5 128 (3.74%) Manufacturing
6 124 (3.62%) Law
7 116 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.66%) Games
10 74 (2.16%) Retail
11 68 (1.99%) Advertising
12 67 (1.96%) Electronics
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 62 (1.81%) Aerospace
15 57 (1.66%) Banking
16 47 (1.37%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,776 (51.85%) Developer
2 804 (23.47%) .NET Developer
3 766 (22.36%) Senior
4 748 (21.84%) Software Engineer
5 375 (10.95%) Software Developer
6 366 (10.69%) C# Developer
7 360 (10.51%) Senior Developer
8 356 (10.39%) Lead
9 340 (9.93%) C# Software Engineer
10 249 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 176 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 164 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.61%) Lead Developer
14 141 (4.12%) Graduate
15 137 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
16 136 (3.97%) C# Software Developer
17 120 (3.50%) Architect
18 116 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 106 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
20 88 (2.57%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,191 (63.97%) .NET
2 760 (22.19%) ASP.NET
3 744 (21.72%) .NET Core
4 595 (17.37%) ASP.NET Core
5 512 (14.95%) React
6 400 (11.68%) CSS
7 396 (11.56%) HTML
8 332 (9.69%) RESTful
9 330 (9.64%) AngularJS
10 304 (8.88%) Blazor
11 301 (8.79%) Entity Framework
12 294 (8.58%) Vue
13 271 (7.91%) .NET Framework
14 265 (7.74%) REST
15 258 (7.53%) Node.js
16 220 (6.42%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (4.96%) Terraform
18 149 (4.35%) ML.NET
19 143 (4.18%) WPF
20 116 (3.39%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 220 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 169 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
4 134 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 134 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 106 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 91 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 61 (1.78%) Algorithms
8 59 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 53 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 53 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 51 (1.49%) AI Agents
12 45 (1.31%) Hedge funds
13 34 (0.99%) Robotics
14 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
16 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
17 24 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.40%) Windows
2 115 (3.36%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.20%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.058%) VMS
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (34.69%) Agile
2 1,154 (33.69%) Software Engineering
3 937 (27.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 875 (25.55%) CI/CD
5 817 (23.85%) DevOps
6 585 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
7 580 (16.93%) AI
8 576 (16.82%) Microservices
9 485 (14.16%) Mentoring
10 482 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 336 (9.81%) Test Automation
12 295 (8.61%) SDLC
13 287 (8.38%) Computer Science
14 273 (7.97%) Machine Learning
15 226 (6.60%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.31%) Scrum
17 213 (6.22%) OO
18 210 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
19 201 (5.87%) Technical Leadership
20 195 (5.69%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (36.00%) SQL
2 851 (24.85%) JavaScript
3 588 (17.17%) Python
4 523 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 359 (10.48%) C++
6 308 (8.99%) Java
7 137 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 127 (3.71%) PHP
9 87 (2.54%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.40%) Bicep
12 44 (1.28%) Go
12 44 (1.28%) VB.NET
13 38 (1.11%) VBA
14 33 (0.96%) Bash
15 23 (0.67%) Delphi
15 23 (0.67%) Ruby
15 23 (0.67%) Rust
16 18 (0.53%) Scala
17 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 422 (12.32%) Degree
2 195 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 151 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 114 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 50 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.64%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.14%) QA
2 68 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 42 (1.23%) GDPR
5 22 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.53%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
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
10 4 (0.12%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 389 (11.36%) Docker
2 26 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
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%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 336 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.67%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.058%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,142 (33.34%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.60%) Google
3 63 (1.84%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 33 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 26 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.70%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 20 (0.58%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) HP
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 16 (0.47%) Foundry
13 15 (0.44%) Intapp
14 12 (0.35%) Aderant
14 12 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.32%) IBM
15 11 (0.32%) Talend