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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 56 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -34 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,359 2,201 5,873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.21% 4.44% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.25% 15.55% 23.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 1,825 4,657
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 £77,500 £82,500 £72,433
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 18,401 14,152 25,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.59% 28.54% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,097 9,306 18,067
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,750
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 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 6 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 6 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 3,063 £60,000 -7.69% 1,161
UK excluding London +14 2,558 £57,500 - 762
Work from Home +5 1,518 £55,000 -12.00% 595
South East +16 730 £60,000 - 244
London -21 671 £82,500 +3.13% 507
North of England +37 634 £57,500 -4.17% 190
Midlands -4 405 £57,500 +4.55% 104
East of England +21 306 £60,000 - 95
North West +46 303 £55,000 -4.35% 107
South West +22 296 £52,500 -2.78% 71
West Midlands -12 215 £60,000 +4.35% 43
East Midlands +21 190 £55,000 - 61
Yorkshire +20 182 £55,000 -15.38% 44
North East -3 149 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Northern Ireland +9 110 £50,000 -37.50% 25
Wales -45 46 £51,619 -1.68% 18
Scotland +2 33 £50,000 -22.48% 30

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 (2.86%) 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 45 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Simulink
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 49 (1.46%) 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 (0.060%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.060%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.060%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.060%) 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 1,667 (49.63%) Azure
2 560 (16.67%) AWS
3 451 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 316 (9.41%) Power Platform
5 261 (7.77%) SaaS
6 245 (7.29%) GitHub
7 189 (5.63%) Power Automate
8 188 (5.60%) Azure AI
9 168 (5.00%) PowerApps
10 167 (4.97%) Serverless
11 164 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 158 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 147 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
14 133 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
15 123 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 108 (3.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 102 (3.04%) Azure Functions
18 84 (2.50%) GCP
19 56 (1.67%) Azure AKS
20 53 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.85%) Internet
2 18 (0.54%) Broadband
2 18 (0.54%) DNS
3 15 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.42%) HTTP
5 10 (0.30%) Firewall
6 9 (0.27%) 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
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) SNMP
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%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.089%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 515 (15.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 454 (13.52%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.00%) Power BI
5 165 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
6 90 (2.68%) MySQL
7 87 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 79 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 67 (1.99%) 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 16 (0.48%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.39%) Db2
15 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.36%) Metadata
17 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 263 (7.83%) Git
2 73 (2.17%) JIRA
3 45 (1.34%) Selenium
4 42 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.01%) GitLab
6 26 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 25 (0.74%) Jenkins
8 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.63%) Postman
10 20 (0.60%) NUnit
11 19 (0.57%) SpecFlow
12 17 (0.51%) Claude Code
13 15 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) Bitbucket
16 7 (0.21%) Moq
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 543 (16.17%) Finance
2 540 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 179 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (4.82%) Legal
5 118 (3.51%) Law
6 116 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 89 (2.65%) Games
8 85 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 81 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 81 (2.41%) Retail
10 72 (2.14%) Advertising
11 69 (2.05%) Marketing
12 59 (1.76%) Electronics
13 57 (1.70%) Aerospace
14 55 (1.64%) Banking
15 47 (1.40%) Front Office
16 40 (1.19%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.07%) Automotive
18 25 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,807 (53.80%) Developer
2 806 (24.00%) .NET Developer
3 746 (22.21%) Senior
4 721 (21.46%) Software Engineer
5 433 (12.89%) Software Developer
6 395 (11.76%) C# Developer
7 361 (10.75%) Senior Developer
8 339 (10.09%) Lead
9 319 (9.50%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.39%) Full-Stack Developer
12 170 (5.06%) C# Software Developer
13 165 (4.91%) C# .NET Developer
14 160 (4.76%) Graduate
15 149 (4.44%) .NET Software Engineer
15 149 (4.44%) Lead Developer
16 112 (3.33%) Architect
17 110 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 107 (3.19%) Graduate Developer
19 104 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,165 (64.45%) .NET
2 780 (23.22%) .NET Core
3 768 (22.86%) ASP.NET
4 595 (17.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 485 (14.44%) React
6 393 (11.70%) CSS
7 383 (11.40%) HTML
8 326 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 317 (9.44%) RESTful
10 306 (9.11%) Blazor
11 292 (8.69%) Entity Framework
11 292 (8.69%) Vue
12 265 (7.89%) .NET Framework
13 264 (7.86%) Node.js
14 249 (7.41%) REST
15 223 (6.64%) ASP.NET Web API
16 156 (4.64%) ML.NET
17 128 (3.81%) WPF
18 119 (3.54%) LINQ
19 90 (2.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 220 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 106 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 93 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 57 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.52%) Hedge funds
10 50 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.10%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 32 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 31 (0.92%) Robotics
17 29 (0.86%) Legacy Code
18 28 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
19 26 (0.77%) Low-Code
20 24 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 167 (4.97%) Windows
2 115 (3.42%) Linux
3 42 (1.25%) Android
4 37 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.48%) 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 1,180 (35.13%) Agile
2 1,095 (32.60%) Software Engineering
3 930 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 817 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 787 (23.43%) DevOps
6 571 (17.00%) Microservices
7 529 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
8 527 (15.69%) AI
9 448 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 425 (12.65%) Mentoring
11 315 (9.38%) Test Automation
12 290 (8.63%) Computer Science
13 280 (8.34%) SDLC
14 269 (8.01%) Machine Learning
15 214 (6.37%) Scrum
16 209 (6.22%) Software Testing
17 208 (6.19%) OO
18 201 (5.98%) Multithreading
19 192 (5.72%) TDD
20 178 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,234 (36.74%) SQL
2 797 (23.73%) JavaScript
3 550 (16.37%) Python
4 528 (15.72%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.18%) C++
6 292 (8.69%) Java
7 146 (4.35%) PHP
7 146 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 78 (2.32%) C
9 67 (1.99%) T-SQL
10 47 (1.40%) Bicep
11 46 (1.37%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.31%) Go
13 33 (0.98%) Bash
13 33 (0.98%) VBA
14 25 (0.74%) Rust
15 21 (0.63%) Scala
16 20 (0.60%) Delphi
17 19 (0.57%) Ruby
18 18 (0.54%) F#
Qualifications
1 411 (12.24%) Degree
2 198 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 136 (4.05%) Security Cleared
4 102 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 38 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.63%) PhD
9 19 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.51%) DV Cleared
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
1 300 (8.93%) QA
2 57 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 31 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.86%) GDPR
5 20 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
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%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.060%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.060%) MIL-STD-1553
12 2 (0.060%) NIST
System Software
1 394 (11.73%) Docker
2 21 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.63%) Firmware
3 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.15%) KVM
7 3 (0.089%) vSphere
8 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 348 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.70%) Terraform
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 18 (0.54%) Ansible
5 16 (0.48%) 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 (0.060%) MIIS
11 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,089 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.56%) Google
3 65 (1.94%) Facebook
4 49 (1.46%) Oracle
5 31 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 19 (0.57%) Apple
9 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 17 (0.51%) Intapp
10 17 (0.51%) Sony
10 17 (0.51%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.48%) VMware
12 13 (0.39%) iManage
13 12 (0.36%) SAP
13 12 (0.36%) Splunk
13 12 (0.36%) Xamarin
14 11 (0.33%) IBM
15 10 (0.30%) Aderant