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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 64 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -42 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,385 1,915 5,488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.07% 3.90% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.32% 14.69% 22.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,879 1,584 4,034
10th Percentile £38,772 £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 £78,750 £82,500 £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% -2.68%

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 18,482 13,035 24,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 26.57% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,182 8,419 16,033
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 4 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 4 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 +14 3,095 £60,000 -4.00% 1,847
UK excluding London +30 2,612 £57,500 - 1,068
Work from Home +16 1,530 £55,000 -8.33% 1,081
South East +32 761 £60,000 - 282
London -17 651 £85,000 +6.25% 972
North of England +35 637 £57,500 -4.17% 261
Midlands +7 412 £60,000 +9.09% 140
East of England +33 321 £60,000 +9.09% 160
North West +60 299 £55,000 -8.33% 130
South West +30 290 £53,500 +1.90% 111
West Midlands -6 216 £60,000 +9.09% 59
East Midlands +20 196 £55,000 - 80
North East -1 172 £65,000 +13.04% 69
Yorkshire +1 166 £55,000 -8.33% 65
Northern Ireland +2 116 £50,000 -10.31% 40
Wales -54 46 £51,619 +3.24% 28
Scotland -7 31 £52,500 -18.60% 69

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
1 108 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.21%) IIS
3 31 (0.92%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.089%) DNN
12 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.089%) Simulink
6 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 55 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.38%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Magento
7 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) RMDS
7 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,661 (49.07%) Azure
2 589 (17.40%) AWS
3 484 (14.30%) Azure DevOps
4 344 (10.16%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.39%) GitHub
6 248 (7.33%) SaaS
7 208 (6.14%) Power Automate
8 196 (5.79%) Azure AI
9 189 (5.58%) Serverless
10 186 (5.49%) PowerApps
11 169 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
12 159 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
13 154 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 146 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
15 126 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 109 (3.22%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.57%) GCP
19 50 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
20 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.86%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) Firewall
5 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) VLAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 5 (0.15%) Wireless
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (17.40%) SQL Server
2 524 (15.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 462 (13.65%) MongoDB
4 187 (5.52%) Power BI
5 167 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
6 98 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 81 (2.39%) MySQL
8 80 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 76 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.80%) Redis
14 23 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.56%) Metadata
16 16 (0.47%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.38%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
19 12 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 304 (8.98%) Git
2 70 (2.07%) JIRA
3 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 40 (1.18%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 29 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.68%) NUnit
8 23 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.62%) Postman
10 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.24%) Subversion
14 7 (0.21%) Moq
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 566 (16.72%) Social Skills
2 514 (15.18%) Finance
3 193 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (5.20%) Legal
5 120 (3.55%) Law
5 120 (3.55%) Manufacturing
6 106 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 93 (2.75%) Games
9 74 (2.19%) Retail
10 71 (2.10%) Advertising
11 68 (2.01%) Marketing
12 63 (1.86%) Electronics
13 60 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 51 (1.51%) Banking
15 45 (1.33%) Front Office
16 39 (1.15%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.06%) Automotive
18 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,766 (52.17%) Developer
2 801 (23.66%) .NET Developer
3 744 (21.98%) Senior
4 736 (21.74%) Software Engineer
5 384 (11.34%) Software Developer
6 366 (10.81%) C# Developer
7 354 (10.46%) Lead
8 350 (10.34%) Senior Developer
9 327 (9.66%) C# Software Engineer
10 246 (7.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 160 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 157 (4.64%) Lead Developer
14 147 (4.34%) Graduate
15 144 (4.25%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.99%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.55%) Architect
18 116 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 106 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
20 92 (2.72%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,166 (63.99%) .NET
2 776 (22.92%) ASP.NET
3 760 (22.45%) .NET Core
4 605 (17.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 495 (14.62%) React
6 395 (11.67%) CSS
7 392 (11.58%) HTML
8 332 (9.81%) RESTful
9 326 (9.63%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.16%) Blazor
11 301 (8.89%) Entity Framework
12 298 (8.80%) Vue
13 265 (7.83%) Node.js
14 264 (7.80%) .NET Framework
15 246 (7.27%) REST
16 223 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.84%) Terraform
18 156 (4.61%) ML.NET
19 144 (4.25%) WPF
20 118 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 159 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (4.52%) Greenfield Project
4 131 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 127 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.36%) Hedge funds
13 44 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 44 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 33 (0.97%) Robotics
15 28 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.74%) Legacy Code
18 24 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.23%) Windows
2 115 (3.40%) Linux
3 41 (1.21%) Android
4 38 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
8 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.089%) VMS
8 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.030%) CentOS
9 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (35.36%) Agile
2 1,136 (33.56%) Software Engineering
3 944 (27.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 852 (25.17%) CI/CD
5 806 (23.81%) DevOps
6 578 (17.08%) Microservices
7 569 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 543 (16.04%) AI
9 470 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 469 (13.86%) Mentoring
11 325 (9.60%) Test Automation
12 290 (8.57%) SDLC
13 277 (8.18%) Computer Science
14 275 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.53%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.38%) Scrum
17 206 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
17 206 (6.09%) OO
18 195 (5.76%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.61%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,230 (36.34%) SQL
2 834 (24.64%) JavaScript
3 572 (16.90%) Python
4 527 (15.57%) TypeScript
5 347 (10.25%) C++
6 302 (8.92%) Java
7 140 (4.14%) PowerShell
8 131 (3.87%) PHP
9 83 (2.45%) C
10 67 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.36%) Go
12 44 (1.30%) Bicep
13 42 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.12%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 24 (0.71%) Rust
17 23 (0.68%) Ruby
18 22 (0.65%) Delphi
19 21 (0.62%) Scala
20 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 416 (12.29%) Degree
2 189 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 146 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 109 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 21 (0.62%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (9.16%) QA
2 67 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.18%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.47%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 4 (0.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.089%) NIST
10 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.089%) PSD2
System Software
1 389 (11.49%) Docker
2 22 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) 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 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 341 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.089%) Control-M
7 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,125 (33.23%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.63%) Google
3 65 (1.92%) Facebook
4 51 (1.51%) Oracle
5 32 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) Adobe
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 20 (0.59%) VMware
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 14 (0.41%) Foundry
14 13 (0.38%) HP
15 12 (0.35%) SAP
16 11 (0.32%) Aderant
16 11 (0.32%) IBM
16 11 (0.32%) Splunk