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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -34 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,361 2,190 5,848
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.20% 4.42% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.20% 15.49% 23.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,878 1,816 4,630
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -7.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 18,470 14,138 25,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.50% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,121 9,294 17,967
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +10 3,065 £60,000 -5.51% 1,146
UK excluding London +17 2,560 £57,500 - 749
Work from Home +6 1,526 £55,000 -12.00% 598
South East +18 727 £60,000 - 251
London -20 671 £82,500 +3.13% 504
North of England +35 634 £57,500 -4.17% 178
Midlands +1 408 £57,500 +4.55% 101
East of England +22 308 £60,000 - 91
North West +46 304 £55,000 -4.35% 102
South West +28 296 £52,500 -2.78% 69
West Midlands -16 218 £60,000 +4.35% 42
East Midlands +15 190 £55,000 - 59
Yorkshire +21 180 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North East -3 150 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Northern Ireland +10 110 £50,000 -10.31% 22
Wales -54 46 £51,619 -1.68% 19
Scotland -6 33 £50,000 -22.78% 30

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 96 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (0.98%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 15 (0.45%) 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
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 44 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 49 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.27%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.089%) Magento
6 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.060%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,668 (49.63%) Azure
2 567 (16.87%) AWS
3 451 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 315 (9.37%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.74%) SaaS
6 245 (7.29%) GitHub
7 189 (5.62%) Azure AI
8 188 (5.59%) Power Automate
9 168 (5.00%) Serverless
10 166 (4.94%) PowerApps
11 164 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 158 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
14 132 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
15 123 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 109 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 102 (3.03%) Azure Functions
18 85 (2.53%) GCP
19 54 (1.61%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.84%) Internet
2 19 (0.57%) Broadband
3 18 (0.54%) DNS
4 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.42%) HTTP
6 10 (0.30%) Firewall
7 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.24%) VPN
9 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) DHCP
10 6 (0.18%) IPsec
10 6 (0.18%) SNMP
11 5 (0.15%) LAN
11 5 (0.15%) WAN
12 4 (0.12%) Intranet
12 4 (0.12%) Modbus
12 4 (0.12%) Network Security
13 3 (0.089%) LTE
13 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 590 (17.55%) SQL Server
2 516 (15.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (13.54%) MongoDB
4 169 (5.03%) Power BI
5 165 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
6 90 (2.68%) MySQL
7 89 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 78 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 68 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.83%) Redis
14 17 (0.51%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.39%) Db2
15 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.39%) Metadata
16 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 268 (7.97%) Git
2 73 (2.17%) JIRA
3 44 (1.31%) Selenium
4 41 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.01%) GitLab
6 29 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 26 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 22 (0.65%) Postman
8 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.60%) NUnit
10 18 (0.54%) SpecFlow
11 17 (0.51%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 543 (16.16%) Finance
2 542 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 177 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (4.85%) Legal
5 120 (3.57%) Law
6 116 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 90 (2.68%) Games
8 88 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 80 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 79 (2.35%) Retail
11 72 (2.14%) Advertising
12 69 (2.05%) Marketing
13 59 (1.76%) Electronics
14 57 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 56 (1.67%) Banking
16 47 (1.40%) Front Office
17 40 (1.19%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.07%) Automotive
19 25 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,801 (53.59%) Developer
2 806 (23.98%) .NET Developer
3 748 (22.26%) Senior
4 723 (21.51%) Software Engineer
5 429 (12.76%) Software Developer
6 392 (11.66%) C# Developer
7 361 (10.74%) Senior Developer
8 343 (10.21%) Lead
9 320 (9.52%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 169 (5.03%) C# Software Developer
13 165 (4.91%) C# .NET Developer
14 160 (4.76%) Graduate
15 151 (4.49%) Lead Developer
16 148 (4.40%) .NET Software Engineer
17 112 (3.33%) Architect
18 111 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 107 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
19 107 (3.18%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (64.39%) .NET
2 780 (23.21%) .NET Core
3 769 (22.88%) ASP.NET
4 596 (17.73%) ASP.NET Core
5 487 (14.49%) React
6 395 (11.75%) CSS
7 385 (11.45%) HTML
8 326 (9.70%) AngularJS
9 318 (9.46%) RESTful
10 306 (9.10%) Blazor
11 292 (8.69%) Vue
12 291 (8.66%) Entity Framework
13 264 (7.85%) Node.js
14 263 (7.83%) .NET Framework
15 246 (7.32%) REST
16 223 (6.63%) ASP.NET Web API
17 156 (4.64%) ML.NET
18 128 (3.81%) WPF
19 119 (3.54%) LINQ
20 88 (2.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 107 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 94 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 50 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 31 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 31 (0.92%) Robotics
16 29 (0.86%) Legacy Code
17 28 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
18 24 (0.71%) Fixed Income
19 23 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.97%) Windows
2 116 (3.45%) Linux
3 41 (1.22%) Android
4 37 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) Unix
7 8 (0.24%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (35.41%) Agile
2 1,103 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 932 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 820 (24.40%) CI/CD
5 788 (23.45%) DevOps
6 573 (17.05%) Microservices
7 527 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
8 526 (15.65%) AI
9 450 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 429 (12.76%) Mentoring
11 316 (9.40%) Test Automation
12 291 (8.66%) Computer Science
13 281 (8.36%) SDLC
14 269 (8.00%) Machine Learning
15 218 (6.49%) Scrum
16 210 (6.25%) OO
16 210 (6.25%) Software Testing
17 201 (5.98%) Multithreading
18 194 (5.77%) TDD
19 179 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (36.69%) SQL
2 802 (23.86%) JavaScript
3 553 (16.45%) Python
4 529 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 345 (10.26%) C++
6 295 (8.78%) Java
7 146 (4.34%) PHP
7 146 (4.34%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.47%) C
9 67 (1.99%) T-SQL
10 47 (1.40%) Bicep
11 46 (1.37%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.31%) Go
13 33 (0.98%) Bash
13 33 (0.98%) VBA
14 25 (0.74%) Rust
15 21 (0.62%) Scala
16 20 (0.60%) Delphi
16 20 (0.60%) Ruby
17 18 (0.54%) F#
Qualifications
1 414 (12.32%) Degree
2 198 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 141 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 103 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 21 (0.62%) PhD
9 19 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
17 3 (0.089%) GXPN
17 3 (0.089%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (8.90%) QA
2 57 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 32 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.89%) GDPR
5 20 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) 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
11 3 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.060%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.060%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 399 (11.87%) Docker
2 21 (0.62%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.62%) Firmware
3 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.15%) KVM
7 3 (0.089%) vSphere
8 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 353 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.73%) Terraform
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 18 (0.54%) Ansible
5 16 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.089%) Control-M
9 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.060%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,088 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.59%) Google
3 65 (1.93%) Facebook
4 51 (1.52%) Oracle
5 31 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Apple
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Intapp
10 17 (0.51%) Sony
10 17 (0.51%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.48%) VMware
12 13 (0.39%) iManage
13 12 (0.36%) SAP
13 12 (0.36%) Splunk
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
14 11 (0.33%) Xamarin
15 10 (0.30%) Foundry