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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 50 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,188 2,332 6,882
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.74% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.92% 16.22% 23.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 1,936 5,664
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
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 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 17,792 14,377 29,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.76% 29.24% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,757 9,545 21,410
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,250 £35,525
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 22 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 22 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 +3 2,893 £60,000 -7.69% 755
UK excluding London +8 2,407 £57,500 -4.17% 559
Work from Home +3 1,439 £55,000 -15.38% 394
South East +17 694 £60,000 - 188
London -22 649 £82,500 +3.13% 269
North of England +38 594 £57,500 -3.85% 148
Midlands -9 394 £55,000 - 79
North West +46 284 £55,000 - 70
South West +13 271 £52,500 -4.55% 55
East of England +4 271 £60,000 -9.37% 77
West Midlands -15 204 £60,000 +9.09% 39
East Midlands +10 190 £55,000 - 40
Yorkshire +10 168 £55,000 -15.38% 42
North East -4 142 £60,000 +4.35% 39
Northern Ireland +9 104 £61,250 -23.44% 6
Wales -44 47 £51,810 -13.65% 12
Scotland -9 34 £50,000 -22.48% 14

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 88 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.10%) IIS
3 33 (1.04%) CMS
4 19 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.094%) DNN
12 3 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.094%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.094%) Kentico
12 3 (0.094%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.16%) Simulink
6 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.094%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.094%) Magento
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.063%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.063%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.031%) Eikon
7 1 (0.031%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.031%) RMDS
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,594 (50.00%) Azure
2 528 (16.56%) AWS
3 423 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 289 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 254 (7.97%) SaaS
6 228 (7.15%) GitHub
7 180 (5.65%) Azure AI
8 167 (5.24%) Power Automate
9 160 (5.02%) Serverless
10 159 (4.99%) PowerApps
11 158 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 155 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
13 135 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
14 116 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 113 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
16 103 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 98 (3.07%) Azure Functions
18 72 (2.26%) GCP
19 56 (1.76%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.94%) Internet
2 18 (0.56%) Broadband
2 18 (0.56%) DNS
3 15 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.25%) Firewall
4 8 (0.25%) VPN
5 7 (0.22%) HTTP
5 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.19%) BGP
6 6 (0.19%) DHCP
6 6 (0.19%) IPsec
7 5 (0.16%) LAN
7 5 (0.16%) WAN
8 4 (0.13%) Intranet
8 4 (0.13%) LTE
8 4 (0.13%) Modbus
8 4 (0.13%) Network Security
9 3 (0.094%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.094%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 526 (16.50%) SQL Server
2 511 (16.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 448 (14.05%) MongoDB
4 164 (5.14%) Power BI
5 162 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 74 (2.32%) MySQL
8 58 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 57 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 39 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.72%) Redis
13 21 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.41%) Db2
14 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.38%) Metadata
16 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.35%) Big Data
16 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 222 (6.96%) Git
2 65 (2.04%) JIRA
3 40 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 39 (1.22%) Selenium
5 36 (1.13%) GitLab
6 26 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.69%) Postman
8 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 17 (0.53%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.38%) NUnit
14 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.22%) Moq
16 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.19%) MSTest
General
1 524 (16.44%) Finance
2 488 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 160 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (4.71%) Legal
5 107 (3.36%) Manufacturing
6 106 (3.32%) Law
7 86 (2.70%) Games
8 79 (2.48%) Retail
9 71 (2.23%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.20%) Advertising
11 64 (2.01%) Marketing
12 61 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 60 (1.88%) Banking
14 56 (1.76%) Electronics
15 53 (1.66%) Aerospace
16 49 (1.54%) Front Office
17 38 (1.19%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.13%) Automotive
19 20 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,745 (54.74%) Developer
2 789 (24.75%) .NET Developer
3 711 (22.30%) Senior
4 681 (21.36%) Software Engineer
5 416 (13.05%) Software Developer
6 383 (12.01%) C# Developer
7 342 (10.73%) Senior Developer
8 309 (9.69%) C# Software Engineer
9 307 (9.63%) Lead
10 238 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (5.21%) C# .NET Developer
12 166 (5.21%) C# Software Developer
13 150 (4.71%) .NET Software Engineer
13 150 (4.71%) Graduate
14 137 (4.30%) Lead Developer
15 101 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
15 101 (3.17%) Graduate Developer
16 100 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 97 (3.04%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,064 (64.74%) .NET
2 759 (23.81%) .NET Core
3 733 (22.99%) ASP.NET
4 582 (18.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 449 (14.08%) React
6 372 (11.67%) CSS
7 358 (11.23%) HTML
8 310 (9.72%) AngularJS
9 296 (9.28%) RESTful
10 292 (9.16%) Blazor
11 283 (8.88%) Vue
12 271 (8.50%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.03%) Node.js
14 241 (7.56%) .NET Framework
15 217 (6.81%) REST
16 215 (6.74%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.83%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.76%) LINQ
19 111 (3.48%) WPF
20 84 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 202 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 149 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 119 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 81 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 78 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 57 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.66%) Hedge funds
10 50 (1.57%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.88%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.85%) AI Agents
15 27 (0.85%) Robotics
16 26 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 25 (0.78%) Legacy Code
18 24 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
19 22 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.77%) Windows
2 109 (3.42%) Linux
3 42 (1.32%) Android
4 34 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.35%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (35.38%) Agile
2 1,019 (31.96%) Software Engineering
3 913 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 770 (24.15%) CI/CD
5 736 (23.09%) DevOps
6 544 (17.06%) Microservices
7 492 (15.43%) AI
8 481 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 418 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 393 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 295 (9.25%) Test Automation
12 273 (8.56%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.31%) Machine Learning
14 246 (7.72%) SDLC
15 204 (6.40%) Scrum
16 199 (6.24%) Multithreading
17 196 (6.15%) Software Testing
18 184 (5.77%) TDD
19 180 (5.65%) OO
20 176 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (37.36%) SQL
2 747 (23.43%) JavaScript
3 528 (16.56%) Python
4 499 (15.65%) TypeScript
5 339 (10.63%) C++
6 271 (8.50%) Java
7 145 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 138 (4.33%) PHP
9 76 (2.38%) C
10 58 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.44%) Bicep
12 41 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 37 (1.16%) Go
14 34 (1.07%) Bash
15 32 (1.00%) VBA
16 22 (0.69%) Rust
16 22 (0.69%) Scala
17 20 (0.63%) F#
18 19 (0.60%) Haskell
19 18 (0.56%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 387 (12.14%) Degree
2 185 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 117 (3.67%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.54%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (0.75%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) GXPN
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (8.63%) QA
2 51 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 28 (0.88%) GDPR
4 21 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.38%) SLA
6 11 (0.35%) WCAG
7 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.16%) NCSC
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.094%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.094%) PSD2
12 2 (0.063%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.063%) ITGC
13 1 (0.031%) EMIR
System Software
1 369 (11.57%) Docker
2 23 (0.72%) Firmware
3 20 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.094%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 334 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.58%) Terraform
3 36 (1.13%) Grafana
4 17 (0.53%) Ansible
5 15 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.094%) Control-M
9 3 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.063%) MIIS
10 2 (0.063%) MOM
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,022 (32.06%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.67%) Google
3 64 (2.01%) Facebook
4 47 (1.47%) Oracle
5 28 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.72%) Adobe
6 23 (0.72%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 17 (0.53%) Databricks
9 17 (0.53%) Sony
9 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) VMware
11 15 (0.47%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.44%) Intapp
13 13 (0.41%) SAP
14 12 (0.38%) Splunk
15 11 (0.35%) IBM
16 10 (0.31%) iManage
17 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow