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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 29 17
Rank change year-on-year -46 -12 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,950 2,926 7,401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.61% 6.79% 8.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.37% 19.81% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,693 2,290 6,624
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,925 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £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 13,570 14,767 29,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.18% 34.25% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,532 10,351 24,184
10th Percentile £34,050 £37,500 £36,000
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 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,284 £54,000
% change year-on-year -2.28% +4.23% -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 16 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 16 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 -44 1,786 £60,000 -7.69% 870
UK excluding London -49 1,312 £57,500 - 709
Work from Home -27 777 £60,000 -4.00% 521
London -27 507 £80,000 +6.67% 270
North of England -32 382 £65,000 +23.81% 163
South East -38 376 £55,000 -12.00% 241
Midlands -40 258 £55,000 - 118
North West -34 184 £61,500 +20.85% 83
East Midlands -23 140 £52,750 -4.09% 50
South West -25 134 £55,000 -4.35% 75
Yorkshire -33 132 £65,000 +23.81% 49
West Midlands -57 118 £55,000 -4.35% 68
East of England -60 101 £55,000 -16.92% 75
North East -15 66 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Scotland -67 44 £60,000 +34.08% 31
Wales -49 17 £43,750 -32.69% 20
Northern Ireland -34 8 £95,000 +61.70% 4
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 50 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.54%) IIS
3 20 (1.03%) CMS
4 9 (0.46%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.31%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.26%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.21%) Confluence
8 3 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.10%) nginx
9 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.051%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.051%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.051%) Kentico
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.051%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (0.31%) Shopify
3 2 (0.10%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.10%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.051%) Endur
4 1 (0.051%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.051%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 879 (45.08%) Azure
2 328 (16.82%) AWS
3 223 (11.44%) SaaS
4 209 (10.72%) Azure DevOps
5 189 (9.69%) Power Platform
6 128 (6.56%) Serverless
7 102 (5.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 96 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 95 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
9 95 (4.87%) PowerApps
10 76 (3.90%) Azure Functions
11 74 (3.79%) GCP
12 70 (3.59%) GitHub
13 59 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
14 54 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 40 (2.05%) Azure AKS
16 35 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
18 27 (1.38%) Entra ID
19 25 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 10 (0.51%) Broadband
4 7 (0.36%) Internet
5 6 (0.31%) HTTP
6 5 (0.26%) DNS
7 4 (0.21%) DHCP
7 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.21%) Firewall
8 3 (0.15%) LTE
8 3 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.10%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.10%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.10%) Intranet
9 2 (0.10%) SAN
10 1 (0.051%) IPv6
10 1 (0.051%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.051%) SSL
10 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (19.90%) SQL Server
2 106 (5.44%) Power BI
3 75 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 73 (3.74%) NoSQL
5 71 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 69 (3.54%) MySQL
7 58 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 42 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.08%) Redis
11 20 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.51%) DB2
14 9 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.31%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 133 (6.82%) Git
2 70 (3.59%) Selenium
3 64 (3.28%) Visual Studio
4 57 (2.92%) JIRA
5 39 (2.00%) Postman
6 35 (1.79%) WebDriver
7 32 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.38%) Jenkins
8 27 (1.38%) SoapUI
9 24 (1.23%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.92%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 16 (0.82%) NUnit
12 14 (0.72%) GitLab
13 9 (0.46%) LabVIEW
14 7 (0.36%) Balsamiq
14 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.36%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 382 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 362 (18.56%) Finance
3 123 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (4.15%) Law
5 75 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 54 (2.77%) Retail
8 53 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (2.26%) Banking
10 41 (2.10%) Front Office
11 38 (1.95%) Electronics
11 38 (1.95%) Games
12 33 (1.69%) Marketing
13 29 (1.49%) Legal
14 17 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.87%) Military
15 16 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.72%) Aviation
17 10 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 982 (50.36%) Developer
2 433 (22.21%) Senior
3 349 (17.90%) Software Engineer
4 326 (16.72%) Software Developer
5 307 (15.74%) C# Developer
6 261 (13.38%) .NET Developer
7 233 (11.95%) Senior Developer
8 196 (10.05%) Lead
9 166 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 114 (5.85%) C# Software Engineer
11 110 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 109 (5.59%) C# .NET Developer
13 104 (5.33%) .NET Software Engineer
14 101 (5.18%) C# Software Developer
15 74 (3.79%) Graduate
16 72 (3.69%) Senior Software Developer
17 66 (3.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 64 (3.28%) Analyst
18 64 (3.28%) Architect
18 64 (3.28%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,212 (62.15%) .NET
2 357 (18.31%) .NET Core
3 256 (13.13%) React
4 240 (12.31%) ASP.NET
5 188 (9.64%) HTML
6 186 (9.54%) .NET Framework
7 176 (9.03%) CSS
8 142 (7.28%) AngularJS
9 130 (6.67%) REST
10 104 (5.33%) RESTful
11 90 (4.62%) Entity Framework
12 72 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
13 71 (3.64%) Vue
14 70 (3.59%) Blazor
15 63 (3.23%) Node.js
16 44 (2.26%) ASP.NET MVC
16 44 (2.26%) WPF
17 43 (2.21%) XML
18 42 (2.15%) Playwright
19 41 (2.10%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 120 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
5 52 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 44 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.00%) Low-Code
8 39 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 32 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.54%) Hedge funds
11 25 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 19 (0.97%) Sports Betting
14 18 (0.92%) Client/Server
15 17 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
16 15 (0.77%) Derivative
17 13 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.77%) Windows
2 69 (3.54%) Linux
3 22 (1.13%) Android
4 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 17 (0.87%) Unix
6 12 (0.62%) VMS
7 8 (0.41%) 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 (0.051%) Fedora
9 1 (0.051%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (32.05%) Software Engineering
2 593 (30.41%) Agile
3 438 (22.46%) DevOps
4 408 (20.92%) CI/CD
5 395 (20.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 328 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 263 (13.49%) Mentoring
9 255 (13.08%) Microservices
10 203 (10.41%) Computer Science
11 173 (8.87%) AI
12 158 (8.10%) SDLC
13 147 (7.54%) Test Automation
14 139 (7.13%) Scrum
15 125 (6.41%) MVC
16 122 (6.26%) Containerisation
17 120 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
18 106 (5.44%) OO
19 102 (5.23%) Migration
20 101 (5.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 628 (32.21%) SQL
2 436 (22.36%) JavaScript
3 311 (15.95%) Python
4 250 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 226 (11.59%) Java
6 167 (8.56%) C++
7 76 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 71 (3.64%) PHP
9 51 (2.62%) C
10 43 (2.21%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.59%) Go
12 29 (1.49%) VB.NET
13 23 (1.18%) Rust
14 22 (1.13%) Bash
15 18 (0.92%) VBA
16 17 (0.87%) Bicep
16 17 (0.87%) Delphi
17 16 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
17 16 (0.82%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 279 (14.31%) Degree
2 127 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 126 (6.46%) Security Cleared
4 77 (3.95%) SC Cleared
5 58 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 45 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 36 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 34 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 23 (1.18%) PhD
12 22 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 16 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.46%) ISEB
16 7 (0.36%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.31%) HND
17 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (8.41%) QA
2 31 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.92%) GDPR
5 11 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 11 (0.56%) WCAG
6 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.41%) SLA
7 3 (0.15%) EMIR
8 2 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.051%) HL7
9 1 (0.051%) IFRS
9 1 (0.051%) ITGC
System Software
1 176 (9.03%) Docker
2 19 (0.97%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.97%) Firmware
3 10 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.36%) KVM
5 6 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.10%) vSphere
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.051%) Squid
7 1 (0.051%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 83 (4.26%) Terraform
3 36 (1.85%) Grafana
4 10 (0.51%) Ansible
5 8 (0.41%) Kibana
5 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.15%) Nmap
7 2 (0.10%) Control-M
7 2 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.10%) MOM
7 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.051%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.051%) MIIS
8 1 (0.051%) Nessus
8 1 (0.051%) Netcool
8 1 (0.051%) WMI
Vendors
1 394 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.21%) Oracle
3 33 (1.69%) Google
4 22 (1.13%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.87%) SAP
6 14 (0.72%) Palantir
7 13 (0.67%) Databricks
8 12 (0.62%) Sage
8 12 (0.62%) VMware
9 11 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.46%) Guidewire
11 8 (0.41%) Adobe
11 8 (0.41%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.36%) iManage
12 7 (0.36%) Infor
12 7 (0.36%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.31%) Foundry
13 6 (0.31%) IBM
13 6 (0.31%) Talend