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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 57 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,370 2,170 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.35% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.16% 15.36% 23.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,880 1,797 4,596
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -7.20%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £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 18,557 14,128 25,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 28.30% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 9,283 17,846
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,565 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% - -

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +11 3,074 £60,000 -4.00% 1,725
UK excluding London +18 2,568 £57,500 - 995
Work from Home +6 1,531 £55,000 -8.71% 818
South East +21 728 £60,000 - 306
London -18 672 £82,500 +3.13% 873
North of England +43 638 £57,500 -4.17% 253
Midlands +2 413 £57,500 +4.55% 119
East of England +22 307 £60,000 +4.35% 134
North West +45 304 £55,000 -4.35% 136
South West +28 295 £52,500 -0.94% 89
West Midlands -11 219 £60,000 +4.35% 49
East Midlands +16 194 £55,000 - 70
Yorkshire +16 181 £55,000 -12.00% 61
North East -4 153 £65,000 +13.04% 58
Northern Ireland +8 110 £50,000 -10.31% 29
Wales -44 46 £51,619 -1.21% 24
Scotland -11 33 £50,000 -22.48% 57

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 96 (2.85%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (0.98%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 15 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.089%) DNN
12 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 44 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.089%) Simulink
6 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 49 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.27%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.089%) Magento
6 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.059%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (49.70%) Azure
2 571 (16.94%) AWS
3 453 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
4 317 (9.41%) Power Platform
5 264 (7.83%) SaaS
6 246 (7.30%) GitHub
7 191 (5.67%) Azure AI
8 190 (5.64%) Power Automate
9 170 (5.04%) Serverless
10 167 (4.96%) PowerApps
11 165 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 160 (4.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
14 134 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
15 123 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
16 110 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 104 (3.09%) Azure Functions
18 86 (2.55%) GCP
19 54 (1.60%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.84%) Internet
2 19 (0.56%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) DNS
4 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.42%) HTTP
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) DHCP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.089%) LTE
12 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 593 (17.60%) SQL Server
2 516 (15.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (13.50%) MongoDB
4 169 (5.01%) Power BI
5 165 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 91 (2.70%) MySQL
7 90 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 79 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 43 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 29 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (0.83%) Redis
14 17 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.39%) Db2
15 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.39%) Metadata
16 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 274 (8.13%) Git
2 73 (2.17%) JIRA
3 44 (1.31%) Selenium
4 41 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.01%) GitLab
6 29 (0.86%) Jenkins
7 26 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 22 (0.65%) Postman
8 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.59%) NUnit
10 18 (0.53%) SpecFlow
11 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 543 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 542 (16.08%) Finance
3 179 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (4.84%) Legal
5 122 (3.62%) Law
6 116 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 93 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 91 (2.70%) Games
9 82 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 80 (2.37%) Retail
11 72 (2.14%) Advertising
12 70 (2.08%) Marketing
13 57 (1.69%) Electronics
14 55 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 55 (1.63%) Banking
15 47 (1.39%) Front Office
16 40 (1.19%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.07%) Automotive
18 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,802 (53.47%) Developer
2 805 (23.89%) .NET Developer
3 752 (22.31%) Senior
4 724 (21.48%) Software Engineer
5 428 (12.70%) Software Developer
6 392 (11.63%) C# Developer
7 363 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 347 (10.30%) Lead
9 319 (9.47%) C# Software Engineer
10 248 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 179 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 169 (5.01%) C# Software Developer
13 164 (4.87%) C# .NET Developer
14 159 (4.72%) Graduate
15 153 (4.54%) Lead Developer
16 148 (4.39%) .NET Software Engineer
17 114 (3.38%) Architect
18 112 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 108 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
20 107 (3.18%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,168 (64.33%) .NET
2 782 (23.20%) .NET Core
3 771 (22.88%) ASP.NET
4 599 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 491 (14.57%) React
6 395 (11.72%) CSS
7 385 (11.42%) HTML
8 325 (9.64%) AngularJS
9 318 (9.44%) RESTful
10 306 (9.08%) Blazor
11 293 (8.69%) Entity Framework
11 293 (8.69%) Vue
12 265 (7.86%) Node.js
13 264 (7.83%) .NET Framework
14 245 (7.27%) REST
15 223 (6.62%) ASP.NET Web API
16 156 (4.63%) ML.NET
17 128 (3.80%) WPF
18 119 (3.53%) LINQ
19 88 (2.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 155 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
3 144 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 108 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 95 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 86 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 50 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 50 (1.48%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.10%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 31 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (0.92%) Robotics
15 29 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
15 29 (0.86%) Legacy Code
16 24 (0.71%) Fixed Income
17 23 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.99%) Windows
2 117 (3.47%) Linux
3 41 (1.22%) Android
4 37 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) Unix
7 8 (0.24%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (35.43%) Agile
2 1,106 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 931 (27.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 822 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 791 (23.47%) DevOps
6 574 (17.03%) Microservices
7 530 (15.73%) AI
7 530 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
8 454 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 432 (12.82%) Mentoring
10 317 (9.41%) Test Automation
11 292 (8.66%) Computer Science
12 284 (8.43%) SDLC
13 270 (8.01%) Machine Learning
14 219 (6.50%) Scrum
15 211 (6.26%) OO
16 210 (6.23%) Software Testing
17 201 (5.96%) Multithreading
18 193 (5.73%) TDD
19 181 (5.37%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (36.74%) SQL
2 807 (23.95%) JavaScript
3 554 (16.44%) Python
4 530 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.15%) C++
6 299 (8.87%) Java
7 147 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 146 (4.33%) PHP
9 80 (2.37%) C
10 67 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.39%) Bicep
12 46 (1.36%) Go
12 46 (1.36%) VB.NET
13 34 (1.01%) Bash
14 33 (0.98%) VBA
15 26 (0.77%) Rust
16 22 (0.65%) Scala
17 21 (0.62%) Ruby
18 20 (0.59%) Delphi
19 18 (0.53%) F#
Qualifications
1 414 (12.28%) Degree
2 198 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 143 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 106 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 20 (0.59%) PhD
10 19 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
18 3 (0.089%) CREST Certified
18 3 (0.089%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (8.96%) QA
2 57 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 32 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.89%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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
11 3 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.089%) NIST
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.059%) MISRA C
System Software
1 402 (11.93%) Docker
2 21 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.56%) Firmware
4 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.089%) vSphere
9 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 355 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 160 (4.75%) Terraform
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 18 (0.53%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.089%) Control-M
9 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.059%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,093 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.93%) Facebook
4 51 (1.51%) Oracle
5 32 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Apple
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Intapp
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) VMware
12 13 (0.39%) iManage
13 12 (0.36%) SAP
13 12 (0.36%) Splunk
14 11 (0.33%) Foundry
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 10 (0.30%) Xamarin