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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 73 22
Rank change year-on-year +24 -51 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,338 1,873 5,183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 3.77% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.19% 14.64% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 1,571 3,426
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £80,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% +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 18,347 12,793 22,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.58% 25.76% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,020 8,190 13,763
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £84,982
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +20 3,042 £60,000 -4.00% 2,102
UK excluding London +34 2,585 £59,000 +2.61% 1,188
Work from Home +18 1,521 £57,500 -4.17% 968
South East +24 774 £60,000 - 290
London -26 633 £85,000 +6.25% 999
North of England +38 621 £57,500 -4.17% 307
Midlands +3 406 £60,000 +9.09% 185
East of England +36 304 £60,000 +9.09% 162
North West +53 295 £55,000 -12.00% 164
South West +28 280 £55,000 +4.76% 96
West Midlands -22 207 £61,250 +11.36% 98
East Midlands +15 199 £60,000 +9.09% 87
North East +10 173 £73,496 +33.63% 50
Yorkshire -2 153 £55,000 -8.33% 97
Northern Ireland +2 115 £35,000 -37.22% 43
Wales -56 45 £51,619 +6.43% 42
Scotland +7 43 £55,000 -14.73% 80

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
1 114 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.29%) IIS
3 28 (0.84%) CMS
3 28 (0.84%) Confluence
4 12 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.27%) nginx
5 9 (0.27%) WordPress
6 8 (0.24%) Apache
6 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.15%) JBoss
8 4 (0.12%) Kentico
8 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.090%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 34 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.090%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 58 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) RMDS
7 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,600 (47.93%) Azure
2 586 (17.56%) AWS
3 481 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
4 346 (10.37%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.82%) GitHub
6 251 (7.52%) SaaS
7 206 (6.17%) Power Automate
8 202 (6.05%) Serverless
9 195 (5.84%) Azure AI
10 180 (5.39%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
13 148 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
14 129 (3.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 127 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 116 (3.48%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.61%) GCP
19 54 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
20 46 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.86%) Internet
2 23 (0.69%) Firewall
3 19 (0.57%) DNS
4 17 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.48%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.090%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.090%) Intranet
11 3 (0.090%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 498 (14.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.57%) MongoDB
4 182 (5.45%) Power BI
5 162 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 99 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.64%) MySQL
9 82 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.02%) Redis
11 34 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.57%) Metadata
15 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.45%) Big Data
17 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 329 (9.86%) Git
2 80 (2.40%) JIRA
3 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.14%) GitLab
5 33 (0.99%) Claude Code
6 32 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 32 (0.96%) Selenium
7 24 (0.72%) NUnit
7 24 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.45%) Postman
10 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.33%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
14 8 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 588 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 497 (14.89%) Finance
3 203 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.51%) Legal
5 129 (3.86%) Manufacturing
6 127 (3.80%) Law
7 116 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (3.12%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.61%) Games
10 71 (2.13%) Retail
11 68 (2.04%) Electronics
12 67 (2.01%) Advertising
13 64 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.89%) Marketing
15 54 (1.62%) Banking
16 42 (1.26%) Front Office
17 38 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 33 (0.99%) Automotive
19 26 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
20 21 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,676 (50.21%) Developer
2 784 (23.49%) .NET Developer
3 768 (23.01%) Senior
4 742 (22.23%) Software Engineer
5 359 (10.75%) Senior Developer
6 341 (10.22%) C# Software Engineer
7 332 (9.95%) Software Developer
8 320 (9.59%) Lead
9 314 (9.41%) C# Developer
10 246 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 165 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 142 (4.25%) C# .NET Developer
13 136 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
14 134 (4.01%) Lead Developer
15 126 (3.77%) Architect
16 123 (3.68%) Graduate
17 122 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 111 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
19 101 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
20 86 (2.58%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,162 (64.77%) .NET
2 743 (22.26%) ASP.NET
3 717 (21.48%) .NET Core
4 587 (17.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 514 (15.40%) React
6 368 (11.02%) CSS
6 368 (11.02%) HTML
7 330 (9.89%) AngularJS
7 330 (9.89%) RESTful
8 304 (9.11%) Entity Framework
9 300 (8.99%) Blazor
10 279 (8.36%) Vue
11 274 (8.21%) REST
12 269 (8.06%) Node.js
13 268 (8.03%) .NET Framework
14 223 (6.68%) ASP.NET Web API
15 167 (5.00%) Terraform
16 148 (4.43%) ML.NET
17 138 (4.13%) WPF
18 117 (3.51%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 232 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
7 78 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 60 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 56 (1.68%) Mobile App
11 55 (1.65%) AI Agents
12 54 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 53 (1.59%) Management Information System
14 43 (1.29%) Robotics
15 39 (1.17%) Hedge funds
16 31 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
18 26 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
18 26 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 26 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 182 (5.45%) Windows
2 111 (3.33%) Linux
3 42 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 41 (1.23%) Android
5 11 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.24%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) Solaris
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (34.81%) Agile
2 1,157 (34.66%) Software Engineering
3 919 (27.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 884 (26.48%) CI/CD
5 808 (24.21%) DevOps
6 605 (18.12%) AI
7 598 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 570 (17.08%) Microservices
9 481 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 468 (14.02%) Mentoring
11 332 (9.95%) Test Automation
12 289 (8.66%) SDLC
13 265 (7.94%) Computer Science
14 263 (7.88%) Machine Learning
15 219 (6.56%) Software Testing
16 210 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
17 209 (6.26%) Scrum
18 207 (6.20%) OO
19 196 (5.87%) Software Architecture
20 195 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (36.01%) SQL
2 824 (24.69%) JavaScript
3 581 (17.41%) Python
4 506 (15.16%) TypeScript
5 340 (10.19%) C++
6 289 (8.66%) Java
7 122 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.33%) PHP
9 86 (2.58%) C
10 75 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 50 (1.50%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.41%) Go
13 44 (1.32%) Bicep
14 32 (0.96%) VBA
15 27 (0.81%) Bash
16 24 (0.72%) Rust
17 23 (0.69%) Delphi
18 21 (0.63%) Ruby
19 18 (0.54%) Scala
20 17 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 393 (11.77%) Degree
2 174 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 162 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.65%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.53%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.63%) PhD
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.18%) OSCP
14 5 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Member
15 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (9.08%) QA
2 62 (1.86%) Accessibility
2 62 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 45 (1.35%) GDPR
4 23 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.54%) WCAG
6 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 5 (0.15%) NIST
9 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 4 (0.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.090%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.090%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.090%) PSD2
11 2 (0.060%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 395 (11.83%) Docker
2 30 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.090%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 331 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (0.78%) Grafana
3 19 (0.57%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) EnCase
5 7 (0.21%) FTK
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 3 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
9 2 (0.060%) Bosun
9 2 (0.060%) Kibana
10 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,124 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.70%) Google
3 62 (1.86%) Facebook
4 54 (1.62%) Oracle
5 35 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 27 (0.81%) VMware
8 22 (0.66%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Apple
10 17 (0.51%) HP
10 17 (0.51%) Intapp
11 16 (0.48%) Foundry
11 16 (0.48%) Sony
11 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.42%) Adobe
12 14 (0.42%) SAP
13 13 (0.39%) Aderant
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
14 11 (0.33%) Talend