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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,822 2,256 8,677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 5.00% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.66% 16.12% 25.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,863 7,310
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,498
25th Percentile £47,761 £49,875 £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 £80,000 £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 16,935 13,997 34,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.91% 31.01% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11,995 9,251 26,001
10th Percentile £37,000 £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 £111,250 £97,500
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 22 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 22 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 2,642 £60,000 -7.69% 610
UK excluding London 0 2,066 £57,500 -4.17% 554
Work from Home +1 1,136 £55,000 -15.38% 398
London -17 628 £82,500 +3.13% 184
South East +14 623 £58,500 -2.50% 174
North of England +30 549 £57,687 +0.32% 122
Midlands -12 356 £57,500 +4.55% 75
North West +56 276 £60,000 +9.09% 67
East of England -3 238 £60,000 -9.37% 64
South West +7 228 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands +21 181 £55,000 - 36
West Midlands -29 175 £58,250 +5.91% 39
Yorkshire +2 155 £55,000 -18.52% 25
North East -10 118 £60,000 +5.26% 32
Scotland -17 35 £55,000 -1.35% 21
Wales -43 33 £50,000 -24.24% 18
Northern Ireland -30 6 £65,000 -18.75% 38

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 74 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 28 (0.99%) CMS
2 28 (0.99%) IIS
3 17 (0.60%) Confluence
4 14 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (0.28%) WordPress
6 6 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.14%) Apache
8 4 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.071%) DNN
10 2 (0.071%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.071%) Immediacy CMS
10 2 (0.071%) Kentico
10 2 (0.071%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 33 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.071%) Shopify
4 2 (0.071%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.071%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.035%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.035%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (49.33%) Azure
2 477 (16.90%) AWS
3 369 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 207 (7.34%) SaaS
6 186 (6.59%) GitHub
7 150 (5.32%) Serverless
8 149 (5.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 134 (4.75%) Power Automate
10 132 (4.68%) PowerApps
11 126 (4.46%) Azure AI
12 120 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
13 116 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 96 (3.40%) Azure Functions
15 91 (3.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 90 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 90 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
17 66 (2.34%) GCP
18 56 (1.98%) Azure AKS
18 56 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.77%) Internet
2 19 (0.67%) Broadband
3 14 (0.50%) DNS
3 14 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.32%) Firewall
6 8 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.071%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (17.43%) SQL Server
2 393 (13.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 337 (11.94%) MongoDB
4 146 (5.17%) Power BI
5 118 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
6 77 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 72 (2.55%) MySQL
8 58 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 53 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 34 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.64%) Redis
13 12 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.43%) Db2
13 12 (0.43%) Metadata
14 11 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 203 (7.19%) Git
2 60 (2.13%) JIRA
3 46 (1.63%) Visual Studio
4 44 (1.56%) Selenium
5 35 (1.24%) GitLab
6 30 (1.06%) Postman
7 24 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.82%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.57%) Jenkins
12 15 (0.53%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.46%) NUnit
14 12 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.43%) SoapUI
15 11 (0.39%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 497 (17.61%) Finance
2 384 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 149 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (3.65%) Manufacturing
5 76 (2.69%) Games
6 67 (2.37%) Public Sector
6 67 (2.37%) Retail
7 57 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (1.98%) Electronics
9 54 (1.91%) Banking
10 53 (1.88%) Advertising
11 51 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 49 (1.74%) Front Office
13 47 (1.67%) Law
14 46 (1.63%) Marketing
15 37 (1.31%) Legal
16 34 (1.20%) Automotive
17 18 (0.64%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,536 (54.43%) Developer
2 650 (23.03%) .NET Developer
3 622 (22.04%) Software Engineer
4 573 (20.30%) Senior
5 430 (15.24%) Software Developer
6 387 (13.71%) C# Developer
7 299 (10.60%) C# Software Engineer
8 274 (9.71%) Senior Developer
9 268 (9.50%) Lead
10 220 (7.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 168 (5.95%) C# .NET Developer
11 168 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.85%) C# Software Developer
13 158 (5.60%) .NET Software Engineer
14 132 (4.68%) Graduate
15 124 (4.39%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.51%) Graduate Developer
17 95 (3.37%) .NET Software Developer
17 95 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 94 (3.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,846 (65.41%) .NET
2 676 (23.95%) .NET Core
3 600 (21.26%) ASP.NET
4 448 (15.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 395 (14.00%) React
6 323 (11.45%) CSS
7 311 (11.02%) HTML
8 265 (9.39%) AngularJS
9 240 (8.50%) RESTful
10 236 (8.36%) Vue
11 235 (8.33%) Blazor
12 220 (7.80%) Entity Framework
13 214 (7.58%) .NET Framework
14 200 (7.09%) Node.js
15 191 (6.77%) REST
16 170 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
17 115 (4.08%) ML.NET
18 100 (3.54%) WPF
19 91 (3.22%) LINQ
20 64 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 122 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
3 107 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.22%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 58 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.95%) Hedge funds
9 49 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 29 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.85%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 24 (0.85%) Sports Betting
14 23 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.03%) Windows
2 104 (3.69%) Linux
3 41 (1.45%) Android
4 26 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.43%) VMS
7 8 (0.28%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (32.85%) Agile
2 863 (30.58%) Software Engineering
3 783 (27.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 636 (22.54%) CI/CD
5 615 (21.79%) DevOps
6 409 (14.49%) AI
6 409 (14.49%) Microservices
7 390 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
8 312 (11.06%) Mentoring
9 298 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 275 (9.74%) Computer Science
11 234 (8.29%) Test Automation
12 226 (8.01%) SDLC
13 218 (7.73%) Machine Learning
14 178 (6.31%) Scrum
15 164 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
15 164 (5.81%) TDD
16 161 (5.71%) Multithreading
17 154 (5.46%) Containerisation
17 154 (5.46%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (36.82%) SQL
2 610 (21.62%) JavaScript
3 449 (15.91%) Python
4 399 (14.14%) TypeScript
5 326 (11.55%) C++
6 269 (9.53%) Java
7 118 (4.18%) PHP
8 97 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.52%) C
10 57 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.52%) Bicep
12 37 (1.31%) Go
13 36 (1.28%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.24%) Bash
15 29 (1.03%) VBA
16 23 (0.82%) Rust
17 19 (0.67%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.64%) Scala
19 17 (0.60%) Delphi
19 17 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 384 (13.61%) Degree
2 186 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (0.99%) ISTQB
7 28 (0.99%) PhD
8 20 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 6 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.49%) QA
2 48 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.74%) GDPR
5 16 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 13 (0.46%) WCAG
8 12 (0.43%) SLA
9 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.11%) NCSC
12 2 (0.071%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.071%) ITGC
13 1 (0.035%) EMIR
13 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 320 (11.34%) Docker
2 28 (0.99%) Firmware
3 21 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) KVM
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 283 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 136 (4.82%) Terraform
3 36 (1.28%) Grafana
4 16 (0.57%) Ansible
5 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.21%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.071%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.071%) MIIS
10 2 (0.071%) MOM
11 1 (0.035%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.035%) Nessus
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool
11 1 (0.035%) Nmap
Vendors
1 822 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.20%) Google
3 48 (1.70%) Facebook
4 46 (1.63%) Oracle
5 24 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.82%) Adobe
7 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.60%) VMware
9 16 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 15 (0.53%) Apple
10 15 (0.53%) Databricks
10 15 (0.53%) YouTube
11 13 (0.46%) Sony
11 13 (0.46%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.35%) Splunk
13 9 (0.32%) iManage
13 9 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.28%) IBM
14 8 (0.28%) SAP