C# Job Trends

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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 27 17
Rank change year-on-year -47 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,867 3,305 6,820
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.69% 6.97% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.43% 20.21% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 2,280 6,138
10th Percentile £37,275 £40,000 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,631 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.51% +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 12,941 16,357 27,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.62% 34.50% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 10,038 22,756
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,378 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

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 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 25 February 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 -43 1,712 £60,000 -7.69% 847
UK excluding London -48 1,254 £56,631 -1.51% 728
Work from Home -30 753 £60,000 -7.69% 484
London -23 499 £80,000 +6.67% 252
South East -45 369 £55,000 -12.00% 247
North of England -31 358 £65,000 +23.81% 190
Midlands -38 257 £52,500 -4.55% 99
North West -31 175 £62,500 +22.81% 110
East Midlands -25 132 £53,000 -3.64% 46
West Midlands -49 125 £51,250 -10.87% 53
South West -40 120 £55,000 -4.35% 79
Yorkshire -40 117 £65,000 +30.00% 52
East of England -70 88 £55,000 -16.93% 62
North East -8 66 £70,000 +16.67% 31
Scotland -80 45 £60,000 +34.83% 39
Wales -48 16 £45,000 -25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -31 9 £95,000 +61.70% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 43 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.87%) IIS
3 18 (0.96%) CMS
4 9 (0.48%) Kinematics
5 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.27%) Confluence
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.27%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.054%) Endur
6 1 (0.054%) Magento
6 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 865 (46.33%) Azure
2 337 (18.05%) AWS
3 224 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 216 (11.57%) SaaS
5 190 (10.18%) Power Platform
6 128 (6.86%) Serverless
7 103 (5.52%) Power Automate
8 100 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
9 93 (4.98%) PowerApps
10 92 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 82 (4.39%) GCP
12 74 (3.96%) Azure Functions
13 67 (3.59%) GitHub
14 53 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
14 53 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
15 39 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 34 (1.82%) Azure AKS
16 34 (1.82%) Entra ID
17 30 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
18 27 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.66%) Remote Desktop
2 12 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.37%) DNS
4 6 (0.32%) DHCP
4 6 (0.32%) HTTP
4 6 (0.32%) Internet
5 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Broadband
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.054%) IPv6
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (19.34%) SQL Server
2 95 (5.09%) Power BI
3 78 (4.18%) Relational Database
4 72 (3.86%) NoSQL
5 58 (3.11%) MySQL
6 56 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 54 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.07%) Redis
13 15 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.32%) DB2
17 5 (0.27%) GIS
18 4 (0.21%) Big Data
18 4 (0.21%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (6.80%) Git
2 70 (3.75%) Selenium
3 63 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 60 (3.21%) JIRA
5 43 (2.30%) Postman
6 36 (1.93%) WebDriver
7 33 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 29 (1.55%) Jenkins
9 28 (1.50%) SoapUI
10 24 (1.29%) SpecFlow
11 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.75%) GitLab
12 14 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 9 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.48%) LabVIEW
15 7 (0.37%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.37%) JMeter
15 7 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
15 7 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 415 (22.23%) Social Skills
2 332 (17.78%) Finance
3 117 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (4.55%) Law
5 79 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.16%) Retail
7 57 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (2.41%) Banking
10 39 (2.09%) Electronics
11 38 (2.04%) Front Office
12 33 (1.77%) Games
13 31 (1.66%) Legal
14 28 (1.50%) Marketing
15 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.91%) Military
16 16 (0.86%) Aviation
16 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 918 (49.17%) Developer
2 418 (22.39%) Senior
3 325 (17.41%) Software Engineer
4 287 (15.37%) Software Developer
5 272 (14.57%) C# Developer
6 235 (12.59%) .NET Developer
7 217 (11.62%) Senior Developer
8 193 (10.34%) Lead
9 154 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 110 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
11 105 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 98 (5.25%) .NET Software Engineer
13 92 (4.93%) C# .NET Developer
14 83 (4.45%) C# Software Developer
15 66 (3.54%) Analyst
16 64 (3.43%) Lead Developer
17 63 (3.37%) Architect
17 63 (3.37%) Senior Software Developer
18 61 (3.27%) Support Engineer
19 60 (3.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,140 (61.06%) .NET
2 321 (17.19%) .NET Core
3 258 (13.82%) React
4 216 (11.57%) ASP.NET
5 185 (9.91%) HTML
6 176 (9.43%) .NET Framework
7 168 (9.00%) CSS
8 150 (8.03%) AngularJS
9 133 (7.12%) REST
10 95 (5.09%) RESTful
11 85 (4.55%) Entity Framework
12 69 (3.70%) Vue
13 68 (3.64%) Blazor
14 53 (2.84%) ASP.NET Core
15 52 (2.79%) Node.js
16 48 (2.57%) ASP.NET MVC
17 44 (2.36%) ASP.NET Web API
17 44 (2.36%) XML
18 43 (2.30%) WPF
19 42 (2.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 66 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 51 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 42 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.14%) Low-Code
9 35 (1.87%) Mobile App
10 33 (1.77%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.39%) Hedge funds
13 24 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
16 16 (0.86%) Derivative
16 16 (0.86%) Sports Betting
17 15 (0.80%) Robotics
18 14 (0.75%) AI Agents
19 13 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 89 (4.77%) Windows
2 67 (3.59%) Linux
3 23 (1.23%) Android
4 18 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.80%) Unix
6 10 (0.54%) VMS
7 9 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.054%) Fedora
10 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (31.33%) Software Engineering
2 577 (30.91%) Agile
3 435 (23.30%) DevOps
4 411 (22.01%) CI/CD
5 374 (20.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 353 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
7 282 (15.10%) Mentoring
8 278 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 261 (13.98%) Microservices
10 194 (10.39%) Computer Science
11 162 (8.68%) AI
12 158 (8.46%) SDLC
13 147 (7.87%) Test Automation
14 143 (7.66%) Scrum
15 122 (6.53%) Containerisation
15 122 (6.53%) MVC
16 112 (6.00%) Migration
17 110 (5.89%) CRM
18 106 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (5.41%) OO
Programming Languages
1 605 (32.40%) SQL
2 438 (23.46%) JavaScript
3 315 (16.87%) Python
4 237 (12.69%) TypeScript
5 235 (12.59%) Java
6 156 (8.36%) C++
7 95 (5.09%) PowerShell
8 63 (3.37%) PHP
9 54 (2.89%) C
10 42 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.55%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.23%) Go
13 22 (1.18%) Bash
13 22 (1.18%) Rust
14 17 (0.91%) Delphi
15 16 (0.86%) Bicep
16 15 (0.80%) VBA
17 14 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
18 13 (0.70%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 281 (15.05%) Degree
2 132 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 132 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 79 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.41%) ISTQB
7 39 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 35 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 21 (1.12%) PhD
14 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.43%) ISEB
17 7 (0.37%) CREST Certified
18 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (9.21%) QA
2 34 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.02%) GDPR
4 18 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.37%) SLA
9 3 (0.16%) SEPA
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.054%) HL7
11 1 (0.054%) IFRS
11 1 (0.054%) ITGC
11 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 174 (9.32%) Docker
2 24 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.02%) Firmware
4 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
8 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 88 (4.71%) Terraform
3 27 (1.45%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) MOM
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) Netcool
9 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 397 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 48 (2.57%) Oracle
3 31 (1.66%) Google
4 21 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.91%) SAP
6 14 (0.75%) Guidewire
6 14 (0.75%) Palantir
7 12 (0.64%) Sage
8 11 (0.59%) Databricks
8 11 (0.59%) VMware
9 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.37%) Adobe
11 7 (0.37%) IBM
11 7 (0.37%) Infor
12 6 (0.32%) Epicor
12 6 (0.32%) Foundry
12 6 (0.32%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.32%) ServiceNow