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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +19 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,416 1,889 5,410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.94% 3.85% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.22% 14.55% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,868 1,574 3,724
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
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 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 18,747 12,982 23,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.14% 26.43% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13,231 8,387 14,929
10th Percentile £38,920 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 3,127 £60,000 -4.00% 2,506
UK excluding London +29 2,638 £57,500 - 1,389
Work from Home +19 1,528 £55,000 -8.33% 1,207
South East +31 778 £60,000 - 362
London -16 659 £85,000 +6.25% 1,288
North of England +34 635 £57,500 -4.17% 354
Midlands -2 417 £60,000 +9.09% 195
East of England +30 326 £60,000 +9.09% 207
North West +51 301 £55,000 -12.00% 192
South West +34 287 £54,250 +3.33% 110
West Midlands -22 219 £62,500 +13.64% 95
East Midlands +20 198 £60,000 +9.09% 100
North East +2 175 £67,153 +16.79% 70
Yorkshire -4 159 £55,000 -8.33% 95
Northern Ireland +2 116 £50,000 -10.31% 41
Wales -55 43 £51,619 +6.43% 36
Scotland +11 38 £55,000 -14.73% 99

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
1 120 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,658 (48.54%) Azure
2 596 (17.45%) AWS
3 491 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
4 358 (10.48%) Power Platform
5 257 (7.52%) GitHub
6 247 (7.23%) SaaS
7 216 (6.32%) Power Automate
8 199 (5.83%) Serverless
9 193 (5.65%) Azure AI
10 191 (5.59%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 168 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
14 152 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 131 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 124 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 116 (3.40%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.61%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 49 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
5 10 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.29%) VLAN
5 10 (0.29%) Wireless
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (17.62%) SQL Server
2 506 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.23%) MongoDB
4 190 (5.56%) Power BI
5 164 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 93 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 84 (2.46%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (0.94%) Redis
11 32 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 25 (0.73%) DynamoDB
14 21 (0.61%) Metadata
15 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Big Data
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 320 (9.37%) Git
2 74 (2.17%) JIRA
3 46 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.02%) GitLab
4 35 (1.02%) Selenium
5 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 28 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 26 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.70%) NUnit
9 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.56%) Postman
11 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.26%) Subversion
14 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.23%) Moq
14 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 582 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 515 (15.08%) Finance
3 198 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.36%) Legal
5 129 (3.78%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.69%) Law
7 118 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.02%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.66%) Games
10 72 (2.11%) Retail
11 68 (1.99%) Advertising
12 67 (1.96%) Electronics
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 63 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,760 (51.52%) Developer
2 800 (23.42%) .NET Developer
3 768 (22.48%) Senior
4 761 (22.28%) Software Engineer
5 362 (10.60%) Senior Developer
5 362 (10.60%) Software Developer
6 355 (10.39%) C# Developer
7 349 (10.22%) C# Software Engineer
8 348 (10.19%) Lead
9 252 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 176 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 162 (4.74%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (4.54%) Lead Developer
13 136 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
14 135 (3.95%) Graduate
15 126 (3.69%) C# Software Developer
16 120 (3.51%) Architect
17 115 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 104 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
19 89 (2.61%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,182 (63.88%) .NET
2 757 (22.16%) ASP.NET
3 737 (21.57%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 511 (14.96%) React
6 389 (11.39%) CSS
6 389 (11.39%) HTML
7 331 (9.69%) AngularJS
8 330 (9.66%) RESTful
9 304 (8.90%) Blazor
10 301 (8.81%) Entity Framework
11 289 (8.46%) Vue
12 270 (7.90%) .NET Framework
13 268 (7.85%) REST
14 260 (7.61%) Node.js
15 221 (6.47%) ASP.NET Web API
16 169 (4.95%) Terraform
17 148 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 145 (4.24%) WPF
19 116 (3.40%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
4 137 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 107 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 54 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 36 (1.05%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
17 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 26 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 26 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.42%) Windows
2 114 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (34.60%) Agile
2 1,164 (34.07%) Software Engineering
3 935 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 879 (25.73%) CI/CD
5 815 (23.86%) DevOps
6 589 (17.24%) AI
7 584 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 573 (16.77%) Microservices
9 479 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 479 (14.02%) Mentoring
10 336 (9.84%) Test Automation
11 292 (8.55%) SDLC
12 279 (8.17%) Computer Science
13 269 (7.87%) Machine Learning
14 228 (6.67%) Software Testing
15 215 (6.29%) Scrum
16 208 (6.09%) OO
17 205 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
18 204 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
19 195 (5.71%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,220 (35.71%) SQL
2 847 (24.80%) JavaScript
3 586 (17.15%) Python
4 523 (15.31%) TypeScript
5 354 (10.36%) C++
6 301 (8.81%) Java
7 131 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 121 (3.54%) PHP
9 87 (2.55%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.43%) Bicep
12 45 (1.32%) Go
13 43 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 31 (0.91%) Bash
16 23 (0.67%) Delphi
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
18 21 (0.61%) Rust
19 18 (0.53%) Scala
20 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 417 (12.21%) Degree
2 192 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 154 (4.51%) Security Cleared
4 116 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.64%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
16 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.16%) QA
2 71 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.59%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) 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
10 4 (0.12%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 390 (11.42%) Docker
2 27 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.53%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 334 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.67%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,134 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.58%) Google
3 62 (1.81%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 27 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Adobe
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.41%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk