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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,758 2,265 8,651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.94% 5.05% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.44% 16.21% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 1,869 7,289
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,750 £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 £78,125 £80,000 £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 16,777 13,975 34,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 31.16% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,850 9,210 25,980
10th Percentile £37,225 £35,000 £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 £110,125 £98,474
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 19 June 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 19 June 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 0 2,582 £60,000 -7.69% 616
UK excluding London 0 2,007 £57,500 -4.17% 528
Work from Home -2 1,088 £55,000 -15.38% 370
London -20 624 £82,500 +3.13% 188
South East +13 602 £58,500 -0.43% 173
North of England +31 541 £59,000 +2.61% 122
Midlands -13 350 £56,250 +2.27% 71
North West +53 272 £60,000 +9.09% 67
East of England -6 227 £60,000 -9.37% 69
South West +13 218 £55,000 - 61
East Midlands +15 177 £55,000 - 31
West Midlands -26 173 £57,500 +4.55% 40
Yorkshire -7 154 £55,000 -18.52% 24
North East -3 115 £62,500 +9.65% 33
Scotland -21 34 £55,000 - 20
Wales -46 31 £50,000 -24.24% 15
Northern Ireland -25 6 £65,000 -18.75% 13

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 73 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 27 (0.98%) CMS
3 24 (0.87%) IIS
4 16 (0.58%) Confluence
5 13 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.25%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) JBoss
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.073%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.036%) DNN
13 1 (0.036%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.036%) Immediacy CMS
13 1 (0.036%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.073%) Shopify
4 2 (0.073%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.073%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.036%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.036%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (48.55%) Azure
2 460 (16.68%) AWS
3 352 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (8.74%) Power Platform
5 207 (7.51%) SaaS
6 170 (6.16%) GitHub
7 148 (5.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 146 (5.29%) Serverless
9 129 (4.68%) Power Automate
10 128 (4.64%) PowerApps
11 118 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
12 115 (4.17%) Azure AI
13 102 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 95 (3.44%) Azure Functions
15 88 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
16 87 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 83 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 63 (2.28%) GCP
19 54 (1.96%) Azure AKS
19 54 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.63%) Internet
2 18 (0.65%) Broadband
3 14 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.47%) DNS
5 10 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.33%) Firewall
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
7 7 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.22%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 4 (0.15%) Modbus
10 4 (0.15%) VPN
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.073%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 485 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 354 (12.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 303 (10.99%) MongoDB
4 140 (5.08%) Power BI
5 102 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 74 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 69 (2.50%) MySQL
8 57 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 52 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.65%) Redis
13 12 (0.44%) Db2
13 12 (0.44%) Metadata
14 11 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.25%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.25%) GIS
17 6 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 193 (7.00%) Git
2 57 (2.07%) JIRA
3 46 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 45 (1.63%) Selenium
5 34 (1.23%) GitLab
6 30 (1.09%) Postman
7 24 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.83%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.58%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.58%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.47%) NUnit
12 13 (0.47%) SoapUI
13 12 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.36%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.33%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.29%) Yeoman
General
1 485 (17.59%) Finance
2 374 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 145 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (3.63%) Manufacturing
5 68 (2.47%) Games
6 65 (2.36%) Retail
7 64 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.07%) Electronics
9 56 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (1.99%) Banking
11 50 (1.81%) Advertising
11 50 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 48 (1.74%) Front Office
13 47 (1.70%) Law
14 42 (1.52%) Marketing
15 37 (1.34%) Legal
16 34 (1.23%) Automotive
17 18 (0.65%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,487 (53.92%) Developer
2 613 (22.23%) Software Engineer
3 607 (22.01%) .NET Developer
4 566 (20.52%) Senior
5 430 (15.59%) Software Developer
6 386 (14.00%) C# Developer
7 299 (10.84%) C# Software Engineer
8 273 (9.90%) Senior Developer
9 267 (9.68%) Lead
10 212 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (6.02%) C# .NET Developer
13 165 (5.98%) C# Software Developer
14 158 (5.73%) .NET Software Engineer
15 132 (4.79%) Graduate
16 122 (4.42%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.59%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.44%) .NET Software Developer
19 94 (3.41%) Azure Developer
20 93 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,789 (64.87%) .NET
2 636 (23.06%) .NET Core
3 558 (20.23%) ASP.NET
4 406 (14.72%) ASP.NET Core
5 379 (13.74%) React
6 310 (11.24%) CSS
7 298 (10.80%) HTML
8 243 (8.81%) AngularJS
9 222 (8.05%) Blazor
10 221 (8.01%) RESTful
11 215 (7.80%) Vue
12 205 (7.43%) .NET Framework
12 205 (7.43%) Entity Framework
13 187 (6.78%) REST
14 182 (6.60%) Node.js
15 153 (5.55%) ASP.NET Web API
16 104 (3.77%) ML.NET
17 99 (3.59%) WPF
18 82 (2.97%) LINQ
19 62 (2.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 116 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
3 103 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 88 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 86 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.99%) Hedge funds
9 48 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 33 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (0.87%) Legacy Code
12 24 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 24 (0.87%) Sports Betting
13 23 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 22 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (0.80%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 137 (4.97%) Windows
2 101 (3.66%) Linux
3 40 (1.45%) Android
4 24 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.44%) VMS
7 8 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.073%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 890 (32.27%) Agile
2 849 (30.78%) Software Engineering
3 744 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 619 (22.44%) CI/CD
5 593 (21.50%) DevOps
6 391 (14.18%) AI
7 384 (13.92%) Microservices
8 377 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
9 309 (11.20%) Mentoring
10 290 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (9.90%) Computer Science
12 232 (8.41%) Test Automation
13 218 (7.90%) SDLC
14 205 (7.43%) Machine Learning
15 170 (6.16%) Scrum
16 158 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
17 156 (5.66%) TDD
18 151 (5.47%) Containerisation
19 147 (5.33%) Multithreading
20 141 (5.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 983 (35.64%) SQL
2 586 (21.25%) JavaScript
3 442 (16.03%) Python
4 374 (13.56%) TypeScript
5 322 (11.68%) C++
6 267 (9.68%) Java
7 116 (4.21%) PHP
8 95 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 70 (2.54%) C
10 52 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.49%) Bicep
12 38 (1.38%) Go
13 34 (1.23%) Bash
14 33 (1.20%) VB.NET
15 29 (1.05%) VBA
16 23 (0.83%) Rust
17 19 (0.69%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.65%) Scala
19 17 (0.62%) PL/SQL
20 16 (0.58%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 382 (13.85%) Degree
2 186 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 123 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.02%) PhD
9 20 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (0.36%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.40%) QA
2 47 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.76%) GDPR
5 14 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.47%) WCAG
7 12 (0.44%) SLA
8 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.073%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.073%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.073%) ITGC
12 1 (0.036%) EMIR
12 1 (0.036%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 302 (10.95%) Docker
2 29 (1.05%) Firmware
3 20 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.22%) KVM
6 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 265 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 134 (4.86%) Terraform
3 35 (1.27%) Grafana
4 16 (0.58%) Ansible
5 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.22%) Kibana
6 6 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.073%) MIIS
9 2 (0.073%) MOM
10 1 (0.036%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.036%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.036%) Nessus
10 1 (0.036%) Netcool
10 1 (0.036%) Nmap
Vendors
1 771 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 57 (2.07%) Google
3 45 (1.63%) Facebook
4 44 (1.60%) Oracle
5 23 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.80%) Adobe
7 18 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 16 (0.58%) VMware
9 15 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.51%) Apple
10 14 (0.51%) Databricks
10 14 (0.51%) YouTube
11 12 (0.44%) Sony
11 12 (0.44%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.36%) Splunk
13 9 (0.33%) iManage
13 9 (0.33%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.25%) IBM
15 7 (0.25%) Intapp