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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 50 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 -30 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,069 2,335 7,984
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.85% 7.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.48% 16.27% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,685 1,929 6,677
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
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 £80,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 17,559 14,353 32,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.01% 29.82% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 12,476 9,554 24,537
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £35,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 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 8 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 2,820 £60,000 -7.69% 851
UK excluding London +3 2,286 £57,500 -4.17% 772
Work from Home +2 1,359 £55,000 -15.38% 655
South East +18 678 £60,000 - 226
London -12 643 £82,500 +3.13% 224
North of England +32 571 £57,500 -4.17% 203
Midlands -11 382 £55,000 - 100
North West +45 282 £57,500 +4.55% 105
East of England +2 266 £60,000 -9.37% 95
South West +21 257 £55,000 - 73
West Midlands -16 192 £59,500 +8.18% 53
East Midlands +13 190 £55,000 - 46
Yorkshire +5 160 £55,000 -19.12% 56
North East -2 129 £60,000 +4.35% 44
Northern Ireland -9 56 £65,000 -18.75% 29
Wales -39 45 £51,619 -20.59% 21
Scotland -22 33 £55,000 -12.00% 42

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 83 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.04%) IIS
3 31 (1.01%) CMS
4 18 (0.59%) Confluence
5 15 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.20%) nginx
8 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.16%) Apache
9 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.098%) DNN
11 3 (0.098%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.098%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.098%) Kentico
11 3 (0.098%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.098%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (0.20%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.098%) Magento
4 3 (0.098%) Shopify
5 2 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.065%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.065%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.033%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.033%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.033%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,566 (51.03%) Azure
2 529 (17.24%) AWS
3 428 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 282 (9.19%) Power Platform
5 230 (7.49%) SaaS
6 226 (7.36%) GitHub
7 179 (5.83%) Azure AI
8 162 (5.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 161 (5.25%) Serverless
10 157 (5.12%) Power Automate
11 152 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
11 152 (4.95%) PowerApps
12 129 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
13 111 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 105 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
15 104 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 103 (3.36%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.48%) GCP
18 56 (1.82%) Azure AKS
19 55 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.05%) Internet
2 19 (0.62%) Broadband
3 16 (0.52%) DNS
4 15 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.33%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.29%) Firewall
7 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) VPN
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 5 (0.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) LTE
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) BGP
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) IPsec
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.098%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.098%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (16.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 499 (16.26%) SQL Server
3 452 (14.73%) MongoDB
4 162 (5.28%) Power BI
5 161 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
6 80 (2.61%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.38%) MySQL
8 60 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.68%) Redis
13 18 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.42%) Db2
15 12 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.39%) Metadata
16 11 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 9 (0.29%) Big Data
18 9 (0.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 212 (6.91%) Git
2 58 (1.89%) JIRA
3 41 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.17%) Selenium
5 35 (1.14%) GitLab
6 26 (0.85%) Postman
7 25 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.59%) Jenkins
11 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.42%) NUnit
13 12 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
15 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 533 (17.37%) Finance
2 434 (14.14%) Social Skills
3 155 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 104 (3.39%) Law
6 94 (3.06%) Legal
7 88 (2.87%) Games
8 78 (2.54%) Retail
9 71 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.28%) Advertising
11 62 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 62 (2.02%) Marketing
12 57 (1.86%) Aerospace
12 57 (1.86%) Banking
12 57 (1.86%) Electronics
13 49 (1.60%) Front Office
14 38 (1.24%) Legal Technology
15 35 (1.14%) Automotive
16 19 (0.62%) Military
17 18 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,696 (55.26%) Developer
2 785 (25.58%) .NET Developer
3 662 (21.57%) Software Engineer
4 645 (21.02%) Senior
5 413 (13.46%) Software Developer
6 377 (12.28%) C# Developer
7 310 (10.10%) C# Software Engineer
8 303 (9.87%) Senior Developer
9 290 (9.45%) Lead
10 234 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 171 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.38%) C# .NET Developer
13 163 (5.31%) C# Software Developer
14 153 (4.99%) .NET Software Engineer
15 144 (4.69%) Graduate
16 132 (4.30%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.23%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
19 95 (3.10%) Architect
20 93 (3.03%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,005 (65.33%) .NET
2 776 (25.29%) .NET Core
3 725 (23.62%) ASP.NET
4 580 (18.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 459 (14.96%) React
6 370 (12.06%) CSS
7 353 (11.50%) HTML
8 311 (10.13%) AngularJS
9 291 (9.48%) Blazor
10 290 (9.45%) RESTful
11 281 (9.16%) Vue
12 264 (8.60%) Entity Framework
13 252 (8.21%) Node.js
14 229 (7.46%) .NET Framework
15 214 (6.97%) ASP.NET Web API
16 206 (6.71%) REST
17 159 (5.18%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.91%) LINQ
19 106 (3.45%) WPF
20 74 (2.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 194 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 147 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
3 115 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 103 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 94 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (1.96%) Mobile App
7 60 (1.96%) Virtual Team
8 55 (1.79%) Hedge funds
9 51 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 41 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 31 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (0.88%) Management Information System
15 25 (0.81%) AI Agents
16 24 (0.78%) Legacy Code
16 24 (0.78%) Robotics
17 23 (0.75%) Sports Betting
18 22 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 145 (4.72%) Windows
2 110 (3.58%) Linux
3 43 (1.40%) Android
4 29 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.065%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,083 (35.29%) Agile
2 967 (31.51%) Software Engineering
3 908 (29.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 740 (24.11%) CI/CD
5 716 (23.33%) DevOps
6 501 (16.32%) Microservices
7 475 (15.48%) AI
8 440 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
9 360 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 355 (11.57%) Mentoring
11 276 (8.99%) Computer Science
12 267 (8.70%) Machine Learning
13 264 (8.60%) Test Automation
14 233 (7.59%) SDLC
15 204 (6.65%) Multithreading
16 199 (6.48%) Scrum
17 189 (6.16%) TDD
18 179 (5.83%) Business Intelligence
18 179 (5.83%) OO
19 158 (5.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (38.42%) SQL
2 717 (23.36%) JavaScript
3 495 (16.13%) Python
4 476 (15.51%) TypeScript
5 341 (11.11%) C++
6 274 (8.93%) Java
7 129 (4.20%) PHP
8 121 (3.94%) PowerShell
9 77 (2.51%) C
10 58 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.40%) Bicep
12 39 (1.27%) Go
13 38 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.14%) Bash
15 30 (0.98%) VBA
16 24 (0.78%) Rust
17 21 (0.68%) Scala
18 19 (0.62%) F#
18 19 (0.62%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.59%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 389 (12.68%) Degree
2 185 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.91%) PhD
9 22 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.16%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.16%) GPEN
15 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (7.01%) QA
2 48 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.85%) GDPR
5 21 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.39%) SLA
8 11 (0.36%) WCAG
9 5 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.098%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.065%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.065%) ITGC
12 2 (0.065%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.065%) PSD2
13 1 (0.033%) EMIR
System Software
1 372 (12.12%) Docker
2 27 (0.88%) Firmware
3 22 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.20%) KVM
8 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 331 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.76%) Terraform
3 37 (1.21%) Grafana
4 18 (0.59%) Ansible
5 12 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.098%) Control-M
8 3 (0.098%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.065%) Kibana
9 2 (0.065%) MIIS
9 2 (0.065%) MOM
10 1 (0.033%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.033%) Nessus
10 1 (0.033%) Netcool
10 1 (0.033%) Nmap
Vendors
1 994 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.70%) Google
3 65 (2.12%) Facebook
4 47 (1.53%) Oracle
5 26 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.75%) Adobe
7 21 (0.68%) YouTube
8 20 (0.65%) Apple
8 20 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.59%) Sony
9 18 (0.59%) Yahoo!
10 17 (0.55%) VMware
11 16 (0.52%) Databricks
12 15 (0.49%) Xamarin
13 13 (0.42%) Intapp
14 11 (0.36%) Splunk
15 10 (0.33%) IBM
15 10 (0.33%) iManage
15 10 (0.33%) SAP
16 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow