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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,867 3,495 6,765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.81% 7.01% 9.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.95% 20.50% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,628 2,315 6,117
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,316 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +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 12,488 17,049 27,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.77% 34.20% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 8,924 10,172 22,653
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,867 £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 £83,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -43 1,712 £60,000 -7.69% 839
UK excluding London -50 1,253 £56,316 -2.06% 744
Work from Home -28 771 £60,000 -7.34% 524
London -19 500 £80,000 +6.67% 239
North of England -37 362 £62,500 +13.64% 195
South East -45 356 £55,000 -12.00% 242
Midlands -38 262 £52,500 -4.55% 105
North West -26 178 £62,500 +17.92% 120
East Midlands -22 132 £52,500 -4.55% 56
West Midlands -49 130 £51,250 -8.89% 49
South West -39 119 £55,000 - 73
Yorkshire -40 118 £61,500 +23.00% 46
East of England -72 91 £55,000 -16.93% 61
North East -13 66 £70,000 +14.29% 32
Scotland -78 44 £60,000 +33.33% 50
Wales -41 18 £42,500 -29.17% 25
Northern Ireland -22 9 £95,000 +61.70% 9
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 40 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.04%) IIS
3 18 (0.96%) CMS
4 10 (0.54%) Kinematics
5 8 (0.43%) Confluence
6 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 882 (47.24%) Azure
2 348 (18.64%) AWS
3 237 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (11.30%) SaaS
5 183 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 130 (6.96%) Serverless
7 106 (5.68%) Power Automate
8 97 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (4.93%) PowerApps
10 91 (4.87%) GCP
11 85 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 74 (3.96%) Azure Functions
13 73 (3.91%) GitHub
14 52 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
15 51 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 41 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (1.98%) Entra ID
18 33 (1.77%) Azure AKS
19 29 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
20 28 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.77%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 6 (0.32%) HTTP
3 6 (0.32%) Internet
4 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (19.60%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.87%) Power BI
3 82 (4.39%) Relational Database
4 68 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 61 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (3.27%) MySQL
6 60 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 43 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 36 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.02%) Redis
12 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.37%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.27%) Big Data
15 5 (0.27%) GIS
15 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 130 (6.96%) Git
2 72 (3.86%) Selenium
3 69 (3.70%) Visual Studio
4 67 (3.59%) JIRA
5 47 (2.52%) Postman
6 37 (1.98%) WebDriver
7 36 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 30 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 29 (1.55%) Jenkins
10 22 (1.18%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) GitLab
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.48%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.37%) JMeter
17 7 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
General
1 441 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 327 (17.51%) Finance
3 117 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (4.28%) Law
5 75 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 60 (3.21%) Retail
7 53 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.46%) Front Office
9 45 (2.41%) Banking
10 38 (2.04%) Electronics
11 31 (1.66%) Games
12 30 (1.61%) Legal
12 30 (1.61%) Marketing
13 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 17 (0.91%) Military
14 16 (0.86%) Aviation
14 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 911 (48.79%) Developer
2 420 (22.50%) Senior
3 315 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 266 (14.25%) Software Developer
5 259 (13.87%) C# Developer
6 238 (12.75%) .NET Developer
7 215 (11.52%) Senior Developer
8 202 (10.82%) Lead
9 149 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 107 (5.73%) C# Software Engineer
11 101 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (4.87%) .NET Software Engineer
13 88 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
14 75 (4.02%) C# Software Developer
15 68 (3.64%) Architect
15 68 (3.64%) Lead Developer
16 65 (3.48%) Analyst
17 63 (3.37%) Senior Software Developer
17 63 (3.37%) Support Engineer
18 58 (3.11%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,139 (61.01%) .NET
2 323 (17.30%) .NET Core
3 272 (14.57%) React
4 230 (12.32%) ASP.NET
5 189 (10.12%) HTML
6 188 (10.07%) .NET Framework
7 170 (9.11%) CSS
8 165 (8.84%) AngularJS
9 136 (7.28%) REST
10 101 (5.41%) RESTful
11 89 (4.77%) Entity Framework
12 76 (4.07%) Vue
13 71 (3.80%) Blazor
14 60 (3.21%) ASP.NET MVC
15 56 (3.00%) ASP.NET Core
16 53 (2.84%) Node.js
17 51 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
18 46 (2.46%) SOAP
18 46 (2.46%) WPF
19 43 (2.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 68 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (1.98%) Low-Code
9 34 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 32 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (1.23%) Hedge funds
14 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.96%) Derivative
14 18 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.86%) Robotics
16 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.80%) Sports Betting
17 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.14%) Windows
2 71 (3.80%) Linux
3 23 (1.23%) Android
4 17 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.80%) Unix
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.37%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) Fedora
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (31.60%) Agile
2 579 (31.01%) Software Engineering
3 450 (24.10%) DevOps
4 420 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 381 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 372 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
7 291 (15.59%) Mentoring
8 283 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 274 (14.68%) Microservices
10 195 (10.44%) Computer Science
11 158 (8.46%) AI
12 155 (8.30%) SDLC
13 154 (8.25%) Test Automation
14 143 (7.66%) Scrum
15 130 (6.96%) MVC
16 121 (6.48%) Containerisation
17 116 (6.21%) CRM
18 113 (6.05%) Migration
19 104 (5.57%) OO
19 104 (5.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 610 (32.67%) SQL
2 444 (23.78%) JavaScript
3 318 (17.03%) Python
4 236 (12.64%) Java
5 230 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 156 (8.36%) C++
7 104 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 67 (3.59%) PHP
9 56 (3.00%) C
10 44 (2.36%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.50%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.29%) Bash
13 22 (1.18%) Go
14 20 (1.07%) Bicep
14 20 (1.07%) Rust
15 16 (0.86%) Delphi
16 14 (0.75%) VBA
17 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (15.21%) Degree
2 137 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (6.96%) Security Cleared
4 76 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.46%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 36 (1.93%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) DV Cleared
14 21 (1.12%) PhD
15 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.43%) ISEB
18 7 (0.37%) CREST Certified
19 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.48%) QA
2 37 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.07%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
8 4 (0.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.054%) HL7
10 1 (0.054%) IFRS
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.054%) ITGC
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 167 (8.94%) Docker
2 23 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.23%) Firmware
3 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.32%) KVM
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.054%) HDFS
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Squid
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.03%) Terraform
3 26 (1.39%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.11%) MOM
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 408 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.68%) Oracle
3 33 (1.77%) Google
4 21 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.91%) Guidewire
5 17 (0.91%) SAP
6 13 (0.70%) Palantir
7 12 (0.64%) Sage
8 10 (0.54%) Databricks
8 10 (0.54%) VMware
9 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.37%) Adobe
11 7 (0.37%) IBM
11 7 (0.37%) Infor
11 7 (0.37%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.32%) Epicor
12 6 (0.32%) Salesforce