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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 72 22
Rank change year-on-year +23 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,402 1,885 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.88% 3.82% 7.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.08% 14.76% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,836 1,575 3,481
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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 18,815 12,772 23,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 25.90% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13,284 8,206 14,000
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,126 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
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 30 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 30 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 3,105 £60,000 -4.00% 1,714
UK excluding London +32 2,628 £57,500 - 1,153
Work from Home +20 1,534 £57,500 -4.17% 896
South East +24 777 £60,000 - 260
London -22 650 £83,750 +4.69% 684
North of England +38 638 £57,500 -4.17% 282
Midlands -1 414 £60,000 +9.09% 175
East of England +36 316 £60,000 +9.09% 179
North West +57 305 £55,000 -12.00% 159
South West +26 286 £54,750 +4.29% 87
West Midlands -13 215 £62,500 +13.64% 87
East Midlands +21 199 £60,000 +9.09% 88
North East +6 174 £70,000 +30.23% 50
Yorkshire -2 159 £55,000 -8.18% 77
Northern Ireland -1 116 £50,000 -10.31% 61
Wales -57 44 £51,619 +6.43% 41
Scotland +20 42 £55,000 -14.73% 86

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
1 117 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.26%) IIS
3 32 (0.94%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 14 (0.41%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 9 (0.26%) nginx
8 8 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
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 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.029%) Revit
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 58 (1.70%) 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%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,645 (48.35%) Azure
2 595 (17.49%) AWS
3 490 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (10.44%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.67%) GitHub
6 254 (7.47%) SaaS
7 215 (6.32%) Power Automate
8 203 (5.97%) Serverless
9 194 (5.70%) Azure AI
10 189 (5.56%) PowerApps
11 173 (5.09%) GitHub Copilot
12 167 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
13 156 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
14 140 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
15 129 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 116 (3.41%) Azure Functions
18 91 (2.67%) GCP
19 53 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 22 (0.65%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.32%) VLAN
5 11 (0.32%) Wireless
6 10 (0.29%) Broadband
6 10 (0.29%) VPN
7 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (17.64%) SQL Server
2 502 (14.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.26%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.47%) Power BI
5 163 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.12%) NoSQL
7 98 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 87 (2.56%) MySQL
9 84 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.03%) Redis
12 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 20 (0.59%) Metadata
16 19 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 331 (9.73%) Git
2 77 (2.26%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.09%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Selenium
6 32 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 31 (0.91%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.68%) NUnit
10 21 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
14 9 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 581 (17.08%) Social Skills
2 509 (14.96%) Finance
3 206 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.41%) Legal
5 130 (3.82%) Manufacturing
6 128 (3.76%) Law
7 121 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.59%) Games
10 72 (2.12%) Retail
11 68 (2.00%) Advertising
12 67 (1.97%) Electronics
13 66 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 65 (1.91%) Marketing
15 53 (1.56%) Banking
16 43 (1.26%) Front Office
17 38 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.03%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,729 (50.82%) Developer
2 795 (23.37%) .NET Developer
3 775 (22.78%) Senior
4 756 (22.22%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.70%) Senior Developer
6 351 (10.32%) Software Developer
7 349 (10.26%) C# Software Engineer
8 341 (10.02%) Lead
9 336 (9.88%) C# Developer
10 249 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 171 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 156 (4.59%) C# .NET Developer
13 147 (4.32%) Lead Developer
14 138 (4.06%) .NET Software Engineer
15 130 (3.82%) Graduate
16 121 (3.56%) Architect
17 120 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 117 (3.44%) C# Software Developer
19 100 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
20 87 (2.56%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,180 (64.08%) .NET
2 752 (22.10%) ASP.NET
3 731 (21.49%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.40%) ASP.NET Core
5 518 (15.23%) React
6 380 (11.17%) HTML
7 377 (11.08%) CSS
8 333 (9.79%) AngularJS
9 331 (9.73%) RESTful
10 304 (8.94%) Entity Framework
11 301 (8.85%) Blazor
12 286 (8.41%) Vue
13 273 (8.02%) REST
14 272 (8.00%) .NET Framework
15 266 (7.82%) Node.js
16 221 (6.50%) ASP.NET Web API
17 170 (5.00%) Terraform
18 148 (4.35%) ML.NET
19 139 (4.09%) WPF
20 117 (3.44%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 229 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 176 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 156 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
4 141 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 104 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 83 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 60 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.65%) Onboarding
12 53 (1.56%) AI Agents
12 53 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 43 (1.26%) Hedge funds
14 40 (1.18%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 26 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
18 25 (0.73%) IoT
18 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.47%) Windows
2 114 (3.35%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (34.63%) Agile
2 1,173 (34.48%) Software Engineering
3 929 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 892 (26.22%) CI/CD
5 817 (24.02%) DevOps
6 603 (17.72%) AI
7 595 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (16.90%) Microservices
9 491 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 472 (13.87%) Mentoring
11 343 (10.08%) Test Automation
12 296 (8.70%) SDLC
13 273 (8.02%) Computer Science
14 265 (7.79%) Machine Learning
15 230 (6.76%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.32%) Scrum
17 210 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
18 206 (6.06%) OO
19 201 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
20 197 (5.79%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,212 (35.63%) SQL
2 837 (24.60%) JavaScript
3 584 (17.17%) Python
4 517 (15.20%) TypeScript
5 345 (10.14%) C++
6 300 (8.82%) Java
7 129 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 116 (3.41%) PHP
9 88 (2.59%) C
10 71 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.35%) Go
11 46 (1.35%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.32%) Bicep
13 36 (1.06%) VBA
14 30 (0.88%) Bash
15 23 (0.68%) Rust
16 22 (0.65%) Delphi
17 21 (0.62%) Ruby
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 16 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 405 (11.90%) Degree
2 183 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 163 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 122 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.59%) PhD
10 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.18%) OSCP
14 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.14%) QA
2 71 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 61 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.32%) GDPR
5 22 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.59%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 397 (11.67%) Docker
2 29 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.47%) Firmware
5 11 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.029%) HDFS
11 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 334 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.71%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) EnCase
8 5 (0.15%) FTK
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 2 (0.059%) Kibana
11 2 (0.059%) SQL Sentry
12 1 (0.029%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,133 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.67%) Google
3 62 (1.82%) Facebook
4 54 (1.59%) Oracle
5 35 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.76%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Adobe
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Talend