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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 74 22
Rank change year-on-year +24 -52 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,316 1,867 5,107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.81% 3.75% 7.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 14.61% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,754 1,563 3,370
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,930 £47,500 £46,250
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 £80,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 18,350 12,783 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 25.68% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 8,186 13,630
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.21% -2.67%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +19 3,023 £60,000 -4.00% 2,225
UK excluding London +35 2,572 £60,000 +4.35% 1,241
Work from Home +21 1,513 £57,500 -4.17% 1,022
South East +28 763 £60,000 - 297
London -27 625 £85,000 +6.25% 1,076
North of England +39 624 £57,500 -4.17% 319
Midlands +3 405 £60,000 +9.09% 195
East of England +35 305 £60,000 +9.09% 176
North West +53 296 £55,000 -12.00% 166
South West +27 277 £55,000 +4.76% 101
West Midlands -14 206 £61,250 +11.36% 103
East Midlands +13 199 £60,000 +9.09% 92
North East +8 175 £73,496 +39.99% 55
Yorkshire -3 153 £55,000 -4.35% 102
Northern Ireland +1 114 £35,000 -37.22% 47
Wales -56 45 £51,619 +6.43% 41
Scotland +19 42 £55,000 -13.39% 81

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
1 114 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.27%) IIS
3 27 (0.81%) CMS
3 27 (0.81%) Confluence
4 11 (0.33%) Umbraco
5 9 (0.27%) nginx
5 9 (0.27%) WordPress
6 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
6 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.21%) Apache
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.15%) JBoss
9 4 (0.12%) Kentico
9 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.090%) DNN
10 3 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.090%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 33 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.090%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.030%) Revit
Business Applications
1 58 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.060%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.030%) Eikon
7 1 (0.030%) Endur
7 1 (0.030%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.030%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,587 (47.86%) Azure
2 581 (17.52%) AWS
3 476 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
4 345 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.87%) GitHub
6 249 (7.51%) SaaS
7 205 (6.18%) Power Automate
8 200 (6.03%) Serverless
9 195 (5.88%) Azure AI
10 179 (5.40%) PowerApps
11 173 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 167 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
13 147 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
14 129 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
15 127 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 119 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.47%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.62%) GCP
19 56 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
20 45 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.87%) Internet
2 23 (0.69%) Firewall
3 19 (0.57%) DNS
4 17 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.48%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 10 (0.30%) Broadband
7 10 (0.30%) VPN
8 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.090%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.090%) Intranet
11 3 (0.090%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 590 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 497 (14.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.63%) MongoDB
4 181 (5.46%) Power BI
5 162 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 99 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.56%) MySQL
9 82 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.03%) Redis
11 34 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.57%) Metadata
15 17 (0.51%) Data Lake
15 17 (0.51%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.45%) Big Data
17 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 324 (9.77%) Git
2 75 (2.26%) JIRA
3 45 (1.36%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.06%) GitLab
5 33 (1.00%) Claude Code
6 31 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 30 (0.90%) Selenium
8 24 (0.72%) NUnit
9 21 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 14 (0.42%) Postman
11 12 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.30%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.24%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.24%) Moq
14 8 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 580 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 487 (14.69%) Finance
3 200 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.55%) Legal
5 131 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 127 (3.83%) Law
7 112 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 87 (2.62%) Games
10 70 (2.11%) Retail
11 68 (2.05%) Electronics
12 66 (1.99%) Advertising
13 64 (1.93%) Aerospace
14 63 (1.90%) Marketing
15 54 (1.63%) Banking
16 41 (1.24%) Front Office
17 38 (1.15%) Legal Technology
18 32 (0.97%) Automotive
19 25 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
20 21 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,663 (50.15%) Developer
2 780 (23.52%) .NET Developer
3 763 (23.01%) Senior
4 739 (22.29%) Software Engineer
5 358 (10.80%) Senior Developer
6 343 (10.34%) C# Software Engineer
7 328 (9.89%) Software Developer
8 318 (9.59%) Lead
9 306 (9.23%) C# Developer
10 245 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 162 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 140 (4.22%) C# .NET Developer
13 137 (4.13%) .NET Software Engineer
14 135 (4.07%) Lead Developer
15 126 (3.80%) Architect
16 121 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 118 (3.56%) Graduate
18 106 (3.20%) C# Software Developer
19 101 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
20 87 (2.62%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,151 (64.87%) .NET
2 739 (22.29%) ASP.NET
3 714 (21.53%) .NET Core
4 587 (17.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 512 (15.44%) React
6 365 (11.01%) HTML
7 362 (10.92%) CSS
8 331 (9.98%) RESTful
9 329 (9.92%) AngularJS
10 302 (9.11%) Entity Framework
11 299 (9.02%) Blazor
12 276 (8.32%) Vue
13 273 (8.23%) REST
14 268 (8.08%) Node.js
15 266 (8.02%) .NET Framework
16 221 (6.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 165 (4.98%) Terraform
18 148 (4.46%) ML.NET
19 138 (4.16%) WPF
20 117 (3.53%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 232 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 179 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
4 141 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
5 133 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 104 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 63 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 56 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 55 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 54 (1.63%) Onboarding
13 52 (1.57%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.33%) Robotics
15 39 (1.18%) Hedge funds
16 32 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
18 26 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
18 26 (0.78%) IoT
19 25 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 178 (5.37%) Windows
2 109 (3.29%) Linux
3 40 (1.21%) Android
3 40 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.030%) CentOS
9 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.030%) Solaris
9 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,154 (34.80%) Software Engineering
2 1,150 (34.68%) Agile
3 916 (27.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 877 (26.45%) CI/CD
5 799 (24.10%) DevOps
6 607 (18.31%) AI
7 596 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 571 (17.22%) Microservices
9 479 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 467 (14.08%) Mentoring
11 325 (9.80%) Test Automation
12 286 (8.62%) SDLC
13 265 (7.99%) Machine Learning
14 256 (7.72%) Computer Science
15 212 (6.39%) Software Testing
16 211 (6.36%) Technical Leadership
17 204 (6.15%) OO
18 203 (6.12%) Scrum
19 194 (5.85%) Business Intelligence
19 194 (5.85%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (36.04%) SQL
2 820 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 577 (17.40%) Python
4 503 (15.17%) TypeScript
5 329 (9.92%) C++
6 281 (8.47%) Java
7 122 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 107 (3.23%) PHP
9 85 (2.56%) C
10 75 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 47 (1.42%) Go
13 43 (1.30%) Bicep
14 30 (0.90%) VBA
15 27 (0.81%) Bash
16 24 (0.72%) Rust
17 23 (0.69%) Delphi
18 21 (0.63%) Ruby
19 18 (0.54%) Scala
20 17 (0.51%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 383 (11.55%) Degree
2 168 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 158 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 118 (3.56%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.66%) PhD
9 21 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Member
16 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (9.05%) QA
2 63 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 61 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 45 (1.36%) GDPR
5 23 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.54%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.090%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.090%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.090%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 395 (11.91%) Docker
2 29 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.090%) vSphere
10 2 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 331 (9.98%) Kubernetes
2 26 (0.78%) Grafana
3 19 (0.57%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.21%) EnCase
5 7 (0.21%) FTK
5 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
9 3 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.090%) SQL Sentry
10 2 (0.060%) Bosun
10 2 (0.060%) Kibana
11 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,119 (33.75%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.71%) Google
3 62 (1.87%) Facebook
4 54 (1.63%) Oracle
5 35 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.78%) VMware
8 22 (0.66%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Apple
10 17 (0.51%) Foundry
10 17 (0.51%) HP
10 17 (0.51%) Intapp
11 16 (0.48%) Sony
11 16 (0.48%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.42%) Adobe
12 14 (0.42%) SAP
13 13 (0.39%) Aderant
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
14 11 (0.33%) Talend