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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +17 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,421 1,910 5,397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.92% 3.87% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.19% 14.68% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,861 1,592 3,630
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 18,805 13,011 23,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.04% 26.34% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 13,318 8,397 14,599
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,523 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +16 3,127 £60,000 -4.00% 2,168
UK excluding London +30 2,634 £57,500 - 1,353
Work from Home +21 1,533 £55,500 -7.50% 1,111
South East +28 774 £60,000 - 356
London -18 663 £85,000 +6.25% 975
North of England +37 639 £57,500 -4.17% 320
Midlands -2 412 £60,000 +9.09% 187
East of England +35 324 £60,000 +9.09% 213
North West +54 306 £55,000 -12.00% 180
South West +27 288 £54,000 +2.86% 103
West Midlands -21 214 £62,500 +13.64% 90
East Midlands +17 198 £60,000 +9.09% 97
North East +2 174 £70,000 +24.44% 52
Yorkshire -5 159 £55,000 -8.33% 90
Northern Ireland -3 116 £50,000 -10.31% 63
Wales -53 43 £51,619 +6.43% 38
Scotland +8 40 £52,500 -18.60% 93

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
1 117 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 39 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.029%) Revit
6 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,653 (48.32%) Azure
2 596 (17.42%) AWS
3 489 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (10.38%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.60%) GitHub
6 250 (7.31%) SaaS
7 215 (6.28%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.85%) Serverless
9 193 (5.64%) Azure AI
10 190 (5.55%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
12 165 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
14 147 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
15 130 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 122 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.33%) Azure Functions
18 90 (2.63%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 48 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.58%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
5 10 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.29%) VLAN
5 10 (0.29%) Wireless
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (17.48%) SQL Server
2 503 (14.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.18%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.44%) Power BI
5 163 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 94 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 86 (2.51%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.99%) Redis
12 32 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 28 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.61%) Metadata
16 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 326 (9.53%) Git
2 76 (2.22%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.05%) GitLab
5 34 (0.99%) Selenium
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 29 (0.85%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.23%) Moq
15 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 583 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 521 (15.23%) Finance
3 201 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (5.32%) Legal
5 130 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 125 (3.65%) Law
7 122 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 89 (2.60%) Games
10 73 (2.13%) Retail
11 69 (2.02%) Electronics
12 68 (1.99%) Advertising
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 63 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.61%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.02%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,753 (51.24%) Developer
2 799 (23.36%) .NET Developer
3 774 (22.62%) Senior
4 762 (22.27%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 358 (10.46%) Software Developer
7 353 (10.32%) C# Developer
8 350 (10.23%) C# Software Engineer
9 347 (10.14%) Lead
10 253 (7.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
13 152 (4.44%) Lead Developer
14 139 (4.06%) .NET Software Engineer
15 134 (3.92%) Graduate
16 123 (3.60%) C# Software Developer
17 121 (3.54%) Architect
18 120 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 101 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
20 89 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,185 (63.87%) .NET
2 754 (22.04%) ASP.NET
3 736 (21.51%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 518 (15.14%) React
6 386 (11.28%) CSS
6 386 (11.28%) HTML
7 333 (9.73%) AngularJS
8 332 (9.70%) RESTful
9 302 (8.83%) Blazor
10 300 (8.77%) Entity Framework
11 289 (8.45%) Vue
12 271 (7.92%) .NET Framework
13 269 (7.86%) REST
14 260 (7.60%) Node.js
15 220 (6.43%) ASP.NET Web API
16 168 (4.91%) Terraform
17 148 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 143 (4.18%) WPF
19 116 (3.39%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 174 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
4 140 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 104 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 56 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 52 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 46 (1.34%) Hedge funds
15 36 (1.05%) Robotics
16 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 28 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 25 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
18 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.44%) Windows
2 113 (3.30%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 40 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (34.58%) Agile
2 1,172 (34.26%) Software Engineering
3 937 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 889 (25.99%) CI/CD
5 815 (23.82%) DevOps
6 598 (17.48%) AI
7 587 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
8 574 (16.78%) Microservices
9 485 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 484 (14.15%) Mentoring
11 339 (9.91%) Test Automation
12 295 (8.62%) SDLC
13 281 (8.21%) Computer Science
14 266 (7.78%) Machine Learning
15 227 (6.64%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.31%) Scrum
17 208 (6.08%) OO
18 206 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
19 201 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
20 195 (5.70%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,222 (35.72%) SQL
2 846 (24.73%) JavaScript
3 591 (17.28%) Python
4 521 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 352 (10.29%) C++
6 305 (8.92%) Java
7 131 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 120 (3.51%) PHP
9 90 (2.63%) C
10 71 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.37%) Bicep
11 47 (1.37%) Go
12 45 (1.32%) VB.NET
13 37 (1.08%) VBA
14 31 (0.91%) Bash
15 23 (0.67%) Rust
16 22 (0.64%) Delphi
16 22 (0.64%) Ruby
17 18 (0.53%) Scala
18 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 415 (12.13%) Degree
2 189 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 160 (4.68%) Security Cleared
4 119 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.20%) OSCP
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.09%) QA
2 71 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 22 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.58%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.058%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 393 (11.49%) Docker
2 28 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.53%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 334 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.70%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.058%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 1,130 (33.03%) Microsoft
2 91 (2.66%) Google
3 62 (1.81%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 28 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 17 (0.50%) Adobe
9 17 (0.50%) Apple
9 17 (0.50%) Databricks
9 17 (0.50%) HP
10 16 (0.47%) Foundry
10 16 (0.47%) Sony
10 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
11 13 (0.38%) Intapp
12 12 (0.35%) Aderant
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.32%) IBM
13 11 (0.32%) Splunk