C# Job Trends

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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -43 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,918 4,678 4,690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.61% 6.96% 9.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.94% 21.81% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 3,085 4,179
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -

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 12,032 21,446 21,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.92% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8,638 12,721 17,353
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -42 1,750 £60,000 - 1,571
UK excluding London -54 1,250 £55,498 +0.91% 1,128
Work from Home -22 879 £60,000 +4.35% 990
London -27 551 £80,000 +6.67% 600
North of England -34 349 £60,000 +14.29% 304
South East -46 347 £57,500 -4.17% 320
Midlands -25 268 £55,000 +0.20% 155
North West -27 178 £62,500 +25.00% 193
West Midlands -27 151 £56,250 +2.27% 95
Yorkshire -27 125 £55,000 +10.00% 73
East Midlands -15 117 £50,000 -4.76% 60
East of England -52 112 £55,000 -4.35% 125
South West -62 98 £55,000 +10.00% 115
North East -21 48 £50,000 -16.67% 39
Scotland -77 44 £60,000 +20.00% 69
Wales -26 33 £48,500 -11.82% 38
Northern Ireland -13 6 £62,500 -3.85% 26

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 59 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.02%) IIS
3 41 (2.14%) CMS
4 21 (1.09%) Kinematics
5 19 (0.99%) Confluence
6 14 (0.73%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.052%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.052%) Kentico
12 1 (0.052%) MetaMask
Applications
1 17 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (0.21%) OrCAD
3 4 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.052%) Blender
6 1 (0.052%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.052%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.052%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.052%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.052%) Revit
6 1 (0.052%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 74 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.42%) Shopify
4 7 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 7 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.16%) Magento
7 3 (0.16%) Sage 1000
8 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.052%) Endur
9 1 (0.052%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.052%) ION Anvil
9 1 (0.052%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.052%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 965 (50.31%) Azure
2 366 (19.08%) AWS
3 260 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 202 (10.53%) SaaS
5 187 (9.75%) Power Platform
6 156 (8.13%) Dynamics 365
7 125 (6.52%) Power Automate
8 117 (6.10%) GitHub
9 115 (6.00%) PowerApps
9 115 (6.00%) Serverless
10 102 (5.32%) GCP
11 71 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 66 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 62 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 62 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
14 61 (3.18%) Azure Functions
15 42 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (1.72%) Entra ID
17 29 (1.51%) PaaS
18 25 (1.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.03%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (0.57%) Internet
2 11 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.42%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.42%) HTTP
4 7 (0.36%) DNS
4 7 (0.36%) Modbus
4 7 (0.36%) WPA
5 6 (0.31%) MQTT
5 6 (0.31%) SAN
6 4 (0.21%) DHCP
6 4 (0.21%) Firewall
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.10%) FTP
8 2 (0.10%) NAS
8 2 (0.10%) SMTP
8 2 (0.10%) SSH
8 2 (0.10%) VLAN
9 1 (0.052%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.052%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (23.36%) SQL Server
2 100 (5.21%) MySQL
3 99 (5.16%) Relational Database
4 95 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 88 (4.59%) Power BI
6 77 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 75 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 47 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 46 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
11 43 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.36%) Redis
13 24 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
14 17 (0.89%) DynamoDB
15 14 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (0.47%) KDB
16 9 (0.47%) Kdb+
17 8 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
18 7 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
18 7 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 191 (9.96%) Git
2 90 (4.69%) JIRA
3 66 (3.44%) Selenium
4 53 (2.76%) Visual Studio
5 41 (2.14%) Postman
6 38 (1.98%) Jenkins
7 31 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 28 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 27 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (1.20%) WebDriver
11 21 (1.09%) NUnit
12 19 (0.99%) GitLab
13 18 (0.94%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.83%) SoapUI
16 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.52%) JMeter
18 9 (0.47%) MSTest
18 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
19 8 (0.42%) MSBuild
General
1 563 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 316 (16.48%) Finance
3 131 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (6.41%) Law
5 95 (4.95%) Retail
6 81 (4.22%) Front Office
7 80 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 71 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 65 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 61 (3.18%) Banking
11 47 (2.45%) Legal
12 44 (2.29%) Electronics
13 39 (2.03%) Back Office
14 30 (1.56%) Games
14 30 (1.56%) Marketing
15 26 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.20%) Billing
17 22 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.73%) Advertising
19 13 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 992 (51.72%) Developer
2 415 (21.64%) Senior
3 248 (12.93%) Software Engineer
4 246 (12.83%) .NET Developer
5 244 (12.72%) Lead
6 236 (12.30%) C# Developer
7 225 (11.73%) Senior Developer
8 190 (9.91%) Software Developer
9 161 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 99 (5.16%) Architect
11 89 (4.64%) Analyst
12 76 (3.96%) Lead Developer
13 74 (3.86%) Graduate
14 71 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
15 67 (3.49%) C# .NET Developer
16 64 (3.34%) Support Engineer
17 61 (3.18%) Graduate Developer
18 60 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
19 53 (2.76%) .NET Software Engineer
20 52 (2.71%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,152 (60.06%) .NET
2 325 (16.94%) React
3 296 (15.43%) .NET Core
4 288 (15.02%) ASP.NET
5 260 (13.56%) CSS
6 252 (13.14%) HTML
7 239 (12.46%) .NET Framework
8 234 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 163 (8.50%) RESTful
10 157 (8.19%) REST
11 131 (6.83%) Entity Framework
12 109 (5.68%) Vue
13 97 (5.06%) Blazor
14 84 (4.38%) ASP.NET MVC
15 81 (4.22%) Web Services
16 74 (3.86%) ASP.NET Web API
17 64 (3.34%) ASP.NET Core
17 64 (3.34%) HTML5
17 64 (3.34%) Node.js
18 63 (3.28%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 122 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 44 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 41 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 40 (2.09%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 26 (1.36%) Robotics
11 25 (1.30%) IoT
12 22 (1.15%) Derivative
13 20 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.94%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.94%) Client/Server
16 15 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
17 14 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 98 (5.11%) Windows
2 59 (3.08%) Linux
3 22 (1.15%) Android
4 21 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.73%) Unix
7 3 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.16%) Solaris
7 3 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.10%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.052%) AIX
9 1 (0.052%) Fedora
9 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (36.60%) Agile
2 545 (28.42%) DevOps
3 506 (26.38%) Software Engineering
4 499 (26.02%) CI/CD
5 477 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
6 395 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 340 (17.73%) Microservices
8 336 (17.52%) Mentoring
9 334 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 236 (12.30%) Computer Science
11 196 (10.22%) MVC
12 192 (10.01%) Test Automation
13 172 (8.97%) Scrum
14 150 (7.82%) SDLC
15 141 (7.35%) AI
15 141 (7.35%) CRM
16 138 (7.19%) Clean Code
16 138 (7.19%) Containerisation
17 135 (7.04%) OO
18 133 (6.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 733 (38.22%) SQL
2 512 (26.69%) JavaScript
3 334 (17.41%) Python
4 295 (15.38%) Java
5 238 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 164 (8.55%) C++
7 108 (5.63%) PowerShell
8 87 (4.54%) PHP
9 64 (3.34%) C
10 52 (2.71%) T-SQL
10 52 (2.71%) VB.NET
11 23 (1.20%) Bicep
12 20 (1.04%) Go
13 18 (0.94%) Bash
13 18 (0.94%) VBA
14 16 (0.83%) Rust
15 14 (0.73%) Delphi
16 13 (0.68%) VB
17 10 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 343 (17.88%) Degree
2 189 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 88 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 63 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 60 (3.13%) SC Cleared
6 47 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 33 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 30 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (0.89%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 12 (0.63%) HND
13 11 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.52%) PhD
15 8 (0.42%) ISEB
16 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.36%) HNC
17 6 (0.31%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.70%) QA
2 35 (1.82%) GDPR
3 34 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 15 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.36%) NIST
9 6 (0.31%) WCAG
10 4 (0.21%) HL7
10 4 (0.21%) SEPA
11 3 (0.16%) EMIR
11 3 (0.16%) SLA
12 2 (0.10%) ITGC
12 2 (0.10%) MiFID
12 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.052%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.052%) IFRS
13 1 (0.052%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.052%) SOC 2
System Software
1 199 (10.38%) Docker
2 21 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.68%) Firmware
5 10 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 1 (0.052%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 168 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.74%) Terraform
3 22 (1.15%) Grafana
4 14 (0.73%) Ansible
5 10 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.36%) Control-M
7 6 (0.31%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.10%) Kibana
10 2 (0.10%) Nagios
10 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.052%) Nmap
11 1 (0.052%) WMI
Vendors
1 486 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.08%) Oracle
3 39 (2.03%) Guidewire
4 30 (1.56%) Google
5 22 (1.15%) Xamarin
6 20 (1.04%) Sage
7 19 (0.99%) Databricks
7 19 (0.99%) VMware
8 14 (0.73%) DevExpress
8 14 (0.73%) SAP
9 12 (0.63%) Infor
10 11 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 11 (0.57%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.57%) Palantir
10 11 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.52%) Siemens
12 9 (0.47%) Rockwell
12 9 (0.47%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.42%) YouTube