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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 34 18
Rank change year-on-year -42 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,986 2,632 7,578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.54% 6.45% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.08% 19.07% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,729 2,217 6,716
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,795 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
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 14,109 13,804 31,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.07% 33.82% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,842 10,205 24,552
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,528
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,790 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.42% +3.31% -1.82%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -37 1,823 £60,000 -7.69% 931
UK excluding London -49 1,346 £57,500 - 764
Work from Home -26 782 £60,000 -6.25% 535
London -33 517 £80,000 +6.67% 269
North of England -35 390 £62,500 +19.05% 185
South East -35 383 £57,500 -4.17% 234
Midlands -39 261 £55,000 - 124
North West -35 186 £60,000 +17.90% 90
East Midlands -23 139 £55,000 - 54
South West -20 134 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Yorkshire -31 134 £65,000 +23.81% 60
West Midlands -48 122 £56,250 - 70
East of England -59 116 £55,000 -16.92% 101
North East -10 70 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Scotland -68 44 £60,000 +33.33% 30
Wales -48 18 £42,500 -34.62% 25
Northern Ireland -34 8 £95,000 +40.74% 6
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 52 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.21%) IIS
3 19 (0.96%) CMS
4 9 (0.45%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.25%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.20%) Kinematics
6 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.15%) Confluence
8 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.10%) nginx
9 1 (0.050%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.050%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.050%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.050%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.20%) Simulink
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.30%) Shopify
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.10%) Magento
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.050%) Endur
5 1 (0.050%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.050%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 884 (44.51%) Azure
2 344 (17.32%) AWS
3 217 (10.93%) SaaS
4 201 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
5 190 (9.57%) Power Platform
6 125 (6.29%) Serverless
7 107 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 94 (4.73%) Power Automate
9 92 (4.63%) PowerApps
10 90 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
11 76 (3.83%) Azure Functions
12 71 (3.58%) GitHub
13 70 (3.52%) GCP
14 62 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
16 42 (2.11%) Azure AKS
17 36 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
19 28 (1.41%) PaaS
20 23 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.55%) Broadband
4 6 (0.30%) Internet
5 5 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.20%) DNS
6 4 (0.20%) HTTP
6 4 (0.20%) Modbus
7 3 (0.15%) DHCP
7 3 (0.15%) Firewall
7 3 (0.15%) Intranet
7 3 (0.15%) LTE
8 2 (0.10%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.10%) Network Security
9 1 (0.050%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.050%) Profibus
9 1 (0.050%) SSL
9 1 (0.050%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (20.09%) SQL Server
2 114 (5.74%) Power BI
3 79 (3.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (3.63%) NoSQL
5 68 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 64 (3.22%) MySQL
7 52 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (0.91%) Redis
11 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.55%) DB2
13 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.30%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.20%) ClickHouse
16 4 (0.20%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 126 (6.34%) Git
2 68 (3.42%) Selenium
3 65 (3.27%) Visual Studio
4 51 (2.57%) JIRA
5 35 (1.76%) Postman
6 32 (1.61%) WebDriver
7 30 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 25 (1.26%) SoapUI
8 25 (1.26%) SpecFlow
9 24 (1.21%) Jenkins
10 18 (0.91%) TeamCity
11 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.81%) NUnit
13 12 (0.60%) GitLab
14 9 (0.45%) LabVIEW
15 8 (0.40%) Balsamiq
16 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
17 6 (0.30%) git-flow
17 6 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 6 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 384 (19.34%) Finance
2 368 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 123 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 75 (3.78%) Law
6 58 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 52 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (2.47%) Retail
9 46 (2.32%) Banking
10 42 (2.11%) Front Office
11 40 (2.01%) Games
12 37 (1.86%) Electronics
13 28 (1.41%) Legal
13 28 (1.41%) Marketing
14 17 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.86%) Military
15 15 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.70%) Aviation
17 11 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,016 (51.16%) Developer
2 444 (22.36%) Senior
3 368 (18.53%) Software Engineer
4 346 (17.42%) Software Developer
5 337 (16.97%) C# Developer
6 276 (13.90%) .NET Developer
7 236 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 211 (10.62%) Lead
9 167 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 129 (6.50%) C# Software Engineer
11 121 (6.09%) C# .NET Developer
12 120 (6.04%) C# Software Developer
13 114 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
14 108 (5.44%) .NET Software Engineer
15 83 (4.18%) Graduate
16 75 (3.78%) Senior Software Developer
17 72 (3.63%) Lead Developer
18 71 (3.58%) SQL Developer
19 68 (3.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 67 (3.37%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,241 (62.49%) .NET
2 373 (18.78%) .NET Core
3 260 (13.09%) React
4 248 (12.49%) ASP.NET
5 190 (9.57%) HTML
6 187 (9.42%) .NET Framework
6 187 (9.42%) CSS
7 141 (7.10%) AngularJS
8 131 (6.60%) REST
9 107 (5.39%) RESTful
10 89 (4.48%) Entity Framework
11 83 (4.18%) Vue
12 79 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
13 76 (3.83%) Blazor
14 65 (3.27%) Node.js
15 47 (2.37%) WPF
16 45 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
16 45 (2.27%) jQuery
17 43 (2.17%) XML
18 41 (2.06%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 75 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.12%) Product Ownership
4 55 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 41 (2.06%) Low-Code
8 40 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 37 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 34 (1.71%) Hedge funds
11 33 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.06%) Sports Betting
14 21 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 20 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
17 17 (0.86%) Client/Server
18 16 (0.81%) Public Cloud
19 15 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 95 (4.78%) Windows
2 71 (3.58%) Linux
3 17 (0.86%) Android
4 16 (0.81%) Unix
5 15 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.70%) VMS
7 10 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.10%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.10%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.10%) Solaris
8 2 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.050%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (32.07%) Software Engineering
2 592 (29.81%) Agile
3 424 (21.35%) DevOps
4 402 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
5 392 (19.74%) CI/CD
6 315 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
7 262 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 262 (13.19%) Mentoring
8 252 (12.69%) Microservices
9 208 (10.47%) Computer Science
10 179 (9.01%) AI
11 162 (8.16%) SDLC
12 152 (7.65%) Test Automation
13 139 (7.00%) MVC
14 128 (6.45%) Scrum
15 126 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
16 118 (5.94%) Containerisation
17 111 (5.59%) OO
18 98 (4.93%) Clean Code
18 98 (4.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 630 (31.72%) SQL
2 440 (22.16%) JavaScript
3 331 (16.67%) Python
4 252 (12.69%) TypeScript
5 224 (11.28%) Java
6 189 (9.52%) C++
7 79 (3.98%) PHP
8 76 (3.83%) PowerShell
9 53 (2.67%) C
10 43 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.66%) Go
12 26 (1.31%) VB.NET
13 25 (1.26%) Bash
14 21 (1.06%) Bicep
14 21 (1.06%) Rust
15 19 (0.96%) Delphi
16 17 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.86%) VBA
17 16 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.55%) F#
Qualifications
1 286 (14.40%) Degree
2 134 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (5.94%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.58%) SC Cleared
5 52 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 42 (2.11%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 26 (1.31%) PhD
11 24 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 22 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 20 (1.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 15 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.45%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.45%) ISEB
17 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.30%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.40%) QA
2 29 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.81%) GDPR
5 11 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 11 (0.55%) WCAG
6 9 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.40%) SLA
8 3 (0.15%) EMIR
9 2 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.10%) ITGC
10 1 (0.050%) HL7
10 1 (0.050%) IFRS
10 1 (0.050%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.050%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 173 (8.71%) Docker
2 21 (1.06%) Firmware
3 15 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.35%) KVM
6 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.33%) Terraform
3 37 (1.86%) Grafana
4 8 (0.40%) Ansible
4 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.35%) Kibana
6 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.15%) Nmap
7 2 (0.10%) MIIS
7 2 (0.10%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.050%) Control-M
8 1 (0.050%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.050%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.050%) Nessus
8 1 (0.050%) Netcool
Vendors
1 397 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.17%) Oracle
3 31 (1.56%) Google
4 18 (0.91%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.81%) SAP
6 13 (0.65%) Databricks
7 12 (0.60%) Adobe
7 12 (0.60%) Palantir
8 11 (0.55%) VMware
9 9 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 9 (0.45%) Sage
10 8 (0.40%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.40%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.35%) iManage
12 6 (0.30%) Facebook
12 6 (0.30%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.30%) IBM
12 6 (0.30%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.30%) Talend