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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,826 3,694 4,824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.06% 6.81% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.76% 20.15% 23.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 2,386 4,307
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £39,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,586 18,335 20,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 33.78% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,493 10,719 17,015
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 7 January 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 -41 1,673 £60,000 - 890
UK excluding London -46 1,220 £57,500 +4.55% 778
Work from Home -22 799 £60,000 - 565
London -19 504 £80,000 +6.67% 207
North of England -26 360 £62,500 +19.05% 179
South East -47 333 £57,500 -8.00% 276
Midlands -33 263 £55,000 - 93
North West -21 175 £62,500 +18.48% 103
West Midlands -35 143 £57,500 +4.55% 42
Yorkshire -27 121 £61,500 +23.00% 43
East Midlands -19 120 £52,250 -5.00% 51
South West -48 109 £55,000 - 76
East of England -54 86 £55,000 - 97
North East -8 66 £65,000 - 33
Scotland -73 45 £60,000 +33.33% 39
Wales -23 27 £48,000 -4.00% 29
Northern Ireland -13 7 £78,750 +16.67% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 42 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.19%) IIS
3 24 (1.31%) CMS
4 15 (0.82%) Kinematics
5 14 (0.77%) Confluence
6 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.055%) Kentico
Applications
1 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 4 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.055%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 896 (49.07%) Azure
2 343 (18.78%) AWS
3 229 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
4 204 (11.17%) SaaS
5 164 (8.98%) Power Platform
6 124 (6.79%) Serverless
7 110 (6.02%) Power Automate
8 109 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (5.04%) PowerApps
10 84 (4.60%) GCP
10 84 (4.60%) GitHub
11 71 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 61 (3.34%) Azure Functions
13 55 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
14 49 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 48 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
16 33 (1.81%) Entra ID
17 30 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
18 28 (1.53%) Azure AKS
19 26 (1.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.55%) DNS
4 9 (0.49%) HTTP
5 6 (0.33%) DHCP
5 6 (0.33%) Internet
6 4 (0.22%) Firewall
6 4 (0.22%) SAN
7 3 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.16%) FIX Connectivity
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) FTP
8 2 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.11%) SMTP
8 2 (0.11%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.055%) Broadband
9 1 (0.055%) IPv6
9 1 (0.055%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.055%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 88 (4.82%) Relational Database
3 81 (4.44%) MySQL
4 78 (4.27%) Power BI
5 74 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 74 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 66 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 38 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.20%) Redis
12 11 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 136 (7.45%) Git
2 87 (4.76%) Selenium
3 86 (4.71%) JIRA
4 63 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 55 (3.01%) Postman
6 44 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 42 (2.30%) WebDriver
8 38 (2.08%) Jenkins
9 37 (2.03%) SoapUI
10 18 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.99%) SpecFlow
11 15 (0.82%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.77%) GitLab
12 14 (0.77%) NUnit
13 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.49%) MSTest
14 8 (0.44%) JMeter
14 8 (0.44%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
General
1 485 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 308 (16.87%) Finance
3 112 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (4.60%) Law
5 78 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.83%) Retail
7 51 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (2.63%) Front Office
10 39 (2.14%) Banking
10 39 (2.14%) Legal
11 37 (2.03%) Electronics
12 30 (1.64%) Marketing
13 26 (1.42%) Games
14 18 (0.99%) Back Office
14 18 (0.99%) Billing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 900 (49.29%) Developer
2 415 (22.73%) Senior
3 268 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 240 (13.14%) C# Developer
5 231 (12.65%) .NET Developer
6 228 (12.49%) Software Developer
7 221 (12.10%) Senior Developer
8 216 (11.83%) Lead
9 143 (7.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 84 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 75 (4.11%) Analyst
12 73 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
13 70 (3.83%) .NET Software Engineer
13 70 (3.83%) Architect
13 70 (3.83%) C# Software Engineer
14 69 (3.78%) Support Engineer
15 68 (3.72%) Lead Developer
16 66 (3.61%) Graduate
17 65 (3.56%) C# Software Developer
17 65 (3.56%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,103 (60.41%) .NET
2 301 (16.48%) .NET Core
3 282 (15.44%) React
4 241 (13.20%) ASP.NET
5 212 (11.61%) HTML
6 206 (11.28%) .NET Framework
7 193 (10.57%) AngularJS
8 189 (10.35%) CSS
9 141 (7.72%) REST
10 121 (6.63%) RESTful
11 105 (5.75%) Entity Framework
12 89 (4.87%) Vue
13 82 (4.49%) Blazor
14 76 (4.16%) ASP.NET MVC
15 66 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
16 64 (3.50%) SOAP
17 60 (3.29%) Node.js
18 54 (2.96%) Web Services
19 46 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
19 46 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 142 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 96 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 75 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 41 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.08%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.10%) Robotics
13 19 (1.04%) Client/Server
14 17 (0.93%) Derivative
15 15 (0.82%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 14 (0.77%) Hedge funds
17 12 (0.66%) Virtual Team
18 11 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.71%) Windows
2 56 (3.07%) Linux
3 20 (1.10%) Android
4 14 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.77%) Unix
4 14 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.27%) Solaris
6 4 (0.22%) VMS
7 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.055%) AIX
9 1 (0.055%) Fedora
9 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (33.95%) Agile
2 528 (28.92%) Software Engineering
3 459 (25.14%) DevOps
4 435 (23.82%) CI/CD
5 411 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
6 380 (20.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 327 (17.91%) Mentoring
8 313 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 289 (15.83%) Microservices
10 209 (11.45%) Computer Science
11 175 (9.58%) Test Automation
12 166 (9.09%) Scrum
13 150 (8.21%) MVC
14 145 (7.94%) SDLC
15 140 (7.67%) AI
16 130 (7.12%) Migration
17 122 (6.68%) CRM
18 119 (6.52%) OO
19 117 (6.41%) Containerisation
20 110 (6.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 640 (35.05%) SQL
2 441 (24.15%) JavaScript
3 298 (16.32%) Python
4 258 (14.13%) Java
5 231 (12.65%) TypeScript
6 136 (7.45%) C++
7 103 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 76 (4.16%) PHP
9 48 (2.63%) C
10 47 (2.57%) T-SQL
11 32 (1.75%) VB.NET
12 21 (1.15%) Bash
13 17 (0.93%) Bicep
13 17 (0.93%) Delphi
14 15 (0.82%) Go
14 15 (0.82%) VBA
15 13 (0.71%) Rust
16 10 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.55%) Scala
17 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 296 (16.21%) Degree
2 154 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 106 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 67 (3.67%) SC Cleared
6 53 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 52 (2.85%) ISTQB
8 40 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 29 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.04%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.55%) PhD
16 8 (0.44%) ISEB
17 7 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 6 (0.33%) MCP
19 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (9.97%) QA
2 39 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.26%) GDPR
4 16 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.66%) ISO 9001
5 12 (0.66%) WCAG
6 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.22%) HL7
7 4 (0.22%) SEPA
8 3 (0.16%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.055%) COBIT
10 1 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.055%) IFRS
10 1 (0.055%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (8.32%) Docker
2 21 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.88%) Firmware
4 10 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.22%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) HDFS
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Squid
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.87%) Terraform
3 25 (1.37%) Grafana
4 12 (0.66%) Ansible
5 6 (0.33%) Kibana
5 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.22%) Control-M
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) Nagios
9 2 (0.11%) Nmap
10 1 (0.055%) WMI
Vendors
1 426 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 52 (2.85%) Oracle
3 28 (1.53%) Guidewire
4 27 (1.48%) Google
5 18 (0.99%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.93%) Sage
7 15 (0.82%) SAP
8 13 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 13 (0.71%) Palantir
9 12 (0.66%) Databricks
10 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.49%) Infor
11 9 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.49%) VMware
12 8 (0.44%) Dataiku
12 8 (0.44%) DevExpress
13 7 (0.38%) Adobe
13 7 (0.38%) Foundry
13 7 (0.38%) Talend