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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 42 18
Rank change year-on-year -32 -24 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,344 2,393 7,941
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.59% 5.50% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.75% 17.10% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,034 2,028 6,873
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +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 15,896 13,992 32,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.54% 32.15% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 10,014 24,981
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 9 May 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 -22 2,161 £61,500 -5.38% 833
UK excluding London -30 1,605 £58,500 +1.74% 641
Work from Home -12 877 £57,500 -10.16% 447
London -19 601 £82,500 +10.00% 265
South East -6 484 £60,000 - 218
North of England -12 439 £60,000 +9.09% 162
Midlands -38 290 £60,000 +9.09% 89
North West +4 221 £60,000 +14.29% 90
East of England -27 171 £60,000 -9.37% 81
South West -14 160 £55,000 - 70
East Midlands +5 148 £60,000 +9.09% 48
West Midlands -53 142 £59,000 +7.27% 41
Yorkshire -32 137 £60,750 +4.92% 41
North East -22 81 £65,000 +13.04% 32
Scotland -56 36 £60,000 +27.66% 19
Wales -44 27 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Northern Ireland -29 8 £95,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 65 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.07%) CMS
3 20 (0.85%) IIS
4 12 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.38%) Confluence
6 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.17%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.17%) WordPress
7 3 (0.13%) Apache
7 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.085%) JBoss
8 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.085%) nginx
9 1 (0.043%) Appian
9 1 (0.043%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.21%) Simulink
4 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.085%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.043%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 34 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.085%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.043%) Endur
5 1 (0.043%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.043%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.043%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (44.33%) Azure
2 382 (16.30%) AWS
3 232 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
4 216 (9.22%) Power Platform
5 210 (8.96%) SaaS
6 137 (5.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 136 (5.80%) Serverless
8 112 (4.78%) PowerApps
9 110 (4.69%) Power Automate
10 93 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
11 88 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (3.58%) Azure Functions
12 84 (3.58%) GitHub
13 69 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (2.60%) GCP
15 50 (2.13%) Azure AKS
16 47 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 46 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (1.66%) GitHub Copilot
19 37 (1.58%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.60%) Broadband
2 12 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.43%) DNS
3 10 (0.43%) Ethernet
3 10 (0.43%) Internet
4 6 (0.26%) Intranet
5 5 (0.21%) Firewall
5 5 (0.21%) HTTP
6 4 (0.17%) LTE
6 4 (0.17%) Modbus
7 3 (0.13%) DHCP
7 3 (0.13%) Network Security
7 3 (0.13%) SSL
8 2 (0.085%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.085%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.085%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.085%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.085%) VPN
9 1 (0.043%) Profibus
9 1 (0.043%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (18.94%) SQL Server
2 152 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 129 (5.50%) Power BI
4 116 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 73 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 57 (2.43%) Relational Database
7 56 (2.39%) MySQL
8 50 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (0.64%) Redis
12 12 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.51%) Metadata
13 11 (0.47%) DB2
14 8 (0.34%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.26%) GIS
16 5 (0.21%) ClickHouse
16 5 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 161 (6.87%) Git
2 62 (2.65%) Selenium
3 55 (2.35%) JIRA
4 52 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 41 (1.75%) Postman
6 31 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.19%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.15%) SoapUI
9 26 (1.11%) GitLab
10 23 (0.98%) Jenkins
10 23 (0.98%) SpecFlow
11 21 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 20 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.60%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.55%) NUnit
15 12 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.34%) Moq
18 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
18 7 (0.30%) MSTest
General
1 458 (19.54%) Finance
2 348 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 124 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (3.07%) Manufacturing
5 60 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (2.52%) Public Sector
7 55 (2.35%) Law
8 51 (2.18%) Front Office
9 50 (2.13%) Banking
10 49 (2.09%) Games
11 45 (1.92%) Retail
12 44 (1.88%) Electronics
13 36 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 32 (1.37%) Legal
15 28 (1.19%) Automotive
16 25 (1.07%) Advertising
17 23 (0.98%) Marketing
18 16 (0.68%) Aviation
18 16 (0.68%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,236 (52.73%) Developer
2 509 (21.72%) Senior
3 479 (20.44%) Software Engineer
4 423 (18.05%) Software Developer
5 410 (17.49%) C# Developer
6 377 (16.08%) .NET Developer
7 257 (10.96%) Lead
8 256 (10.92%) Senior Developer
9 222 (9.47%) C# Software Engineer
10 173 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 166 (7.08%) C# Software Developer
12 163 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 161 (6.87%) C# .NET Developer
14 138 (5.89%) .NET Software Engineer
15 119 (5.08%) Graduate
16 104 (4.44%) Graduate Developer
17 101 (4.31%) Lead Developer
18 94 (4.01%) Graduate Software Developer
19 91 (3.88%) SQL Developer
20 87 (3.71%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,466 (62.54%) .NET
2 447 (19.07%) .NET Core
3 332 (14.16%) ASP.NET
4 273 (11.65%) React
5 220 (9.39%) HTML
6 219 (9.34%) CSS
7 189 (8.06%) .NET Framework
8 162 (6.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 157 (6.70%) AngularJS
10 140 (5.97%) REST
11 135 (5.76%) RESTful
12 124 (5.29%) Vue
13 123 (5.25%) Entity Framework
14 107 (4.56%) Blazor
15 105 (4.48%) Node.js
16 72 (3.07%) WPF
17 68 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
18 54 (2.30%) jQuery
19 51 (2.18%) Playwright
20 45 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.89%) Cloud Native
2 84 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 70 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 62 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.18%) Hedge funds
7 49 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 42 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.75%) Low-Code
11 30 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (0.98%) Legacy Code
13 23 (0.98%) Sports Betting
14 22 (0.94%) Management Information System
15 19 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
16 18 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 17 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.56%) Windows
2 87 (3.71%) Linux
3 20 (0.85%) Android
4 14 (0.60%) VMS
4 14 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.47%) Unix
7 2 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.085%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.085%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.085%) Solaris
7 2 (0.085%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.085%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (31.14%) Software Engineering
2 675 (28.80%) Agile
3 500 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 478 (20.39%) CI/CD
5 460 (19.62%) DevOps
6 307 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (11.95%) Microservices
8 277 (11.82%) Mentoring
9 253 (10.79%) Computer Science
10 249 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 232 (9.90%) AI
12 213 (9.09%) Test Automation
13 194 (8.28%) SDLC
14 143 (6.10%) Scrum
15 141 (6.02%) MVC
16 137 (5.84%) Business Intelligence
17 136 (5.80%) Containerisation
18 120 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 113 (4.82%) TDD
20 112 (4.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 733 (31.27%) SQL
2 471 (20.09%) JavaScript
3 392 (16.72%) Python
4 298 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 255 (10.88%) Java
6 242 (10.32%) C++
7 108 (4.61%) PHP
8 94 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.35%) C
10 39 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.37%) Bash
12 30 (1.28%) Bicep
12 30 (1.28%) Go
13 26 (1.11%) VB.NET
14 23 (0.98%) VBA
15 22 (0.94%) Scala
16 19 (0.81%) F#
16 19 (0.81%) Rust
17 17 (0.73%) Haskell
18 16 (0.68%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 338 (14.42%) Degree
2 166 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 121 (5.16%) Security Cleared
4 70 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.88%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.71%) ISTQB
7 39 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 22 (0.94%) PhD
10 18 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 16 (0.68%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.30%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.63%) QA
2 41 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.77%) GDPR
5 13 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 13 (0.55%) WCAG
6 12 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.47%) SLA
8 5 (0.21%) IEC 61131
9 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.085%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.085%) EMIR
10 2 (0.085%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.085%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 2 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 2 (0.085%) ITGC
11 1 (0.043%) HL7
11 1 (0.043%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.043%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 208 (8.87%) Docker
2 23 (0.98%) Firmware
3 15 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.34%) KVM
6 6 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.085%) vSphere
9 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 178 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.82%) Terraform
3 37 (1.58%) Grafana
4 12 (0.51%) Ansible
4 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.30%) Kibana
6 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.13%) Nmap
8 2 (0.085%) Control-M
8 2 (0.085%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.085%) MIIS
8 2 (0.085%) MOM
9 1 (0.043%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.043%) Nessus
9 1 (0.043%) Netcool
9 1 (0.043%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 512 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 45 (1.92%) Oracle
3 35 (1.49%) Google
4 25 (1.07%) Adobe
5 16 (0.68%) Facebook
6 15 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 14 (0.60%) VMware
8 11 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (0.47%) Databricks
8 11 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 11 (0.47%) Xamarin
9 8 (0.34%) iManage
10 7 (0.30%) SAP
11 6 (0.26%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.26%) Intapp
11 6 (0.26%) Splunk
11 6 (0.26%) YouTube
12 5 (0.21%) Aderant
12 5 (0.21%) Allen-Bradley
12 5 (0.21%) Blue Prism