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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,414 1,927 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.01% 3.88% 6.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.26% 14.67% 22.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 1,598 3,851
10th Percentile £38,772 £37,500 £36,750
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 £78,750 £81,250 £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% -2.34%

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 18,697 13,140 24,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 26.45% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,324 8,484 15,406
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 11 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 11 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 3,122 £60,000 -4.00% 1,015
UK excluding London +27 2,633 £57,500 - 719
Work from Home +18 1,537 £55,000 -8.33% 768
South East +28 774 £60,000 - 196
London -17 659 £85,000 +6.25% 413
North of England +42 636 £57,000 -5.00% 166
Midlands +2 421 £60,000 +9.09% 106
East of England +29 320 £60,000 +9.09% 110
North West +57 302 £55,000 -10.93% 85
South West +36 289 £53,500 +2.88% 83
West Midlands -14 220 £62,500 +13.64% 46
East Midlands +14 201 £60,000 +9.09% 59
North East +2 172 £65,000 +13.04% 39
Yorkshire -3 162 £55,000 -8.18% 44
Northern Ireland +8 116 £50,000 -10.31% 21
Wales -52 46 £51,619 +3.24% 18
Scotland -1 33 £52,500 -18.60% 36

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
1 115 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 55 (1.61%) 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 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) 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 1,676 (49.09%) Azure
2 598 (17.52%) AWS
3 488 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 254 (7.44%) GitHub
6 252 (7.38%) SaaS
7 214 (6.27%) Power Automate
8 197 (5.77%) Azure AI
9 194 (5.68%) Serverless
10 192 (5.62%) PowerApps
11 171 (5.01%) GitHub Copilot
12 165 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
13 154 (4.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 153 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
15 127 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 113 (3.31%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.61%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
20 46 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Firewall
4 17 (0.50%) Broadband
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VLAN
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
7 8 (0.23%) Wireless
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (17.55%) SQL Server
2 525 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 463 (13.56%) MongoDB
4 191 (5.59%) Power BI
5 167 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 102 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 84 (2.46%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.34%) MySQL
9 76 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.79%) Redis
14 23 (0.67%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.56%) Metadata
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.44%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
19 13 (0.38%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 311 (9.11%) Git
2 73 (2.14%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 40 (1.17%) Selenium
5 33 (0.97%) GitLab
6 28 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.64%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.59%) Postman
11 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 577 (16.90%) Social Skills
2 517 (15.14%) Finance
3 195 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (5.30%) Legal
5 124 (3.63%) Law
6 123 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 115 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 101 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 93 (2.72%) Games
10 76 (2.23%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 69 (2.02%) Marketing
13 66 (1.93%) Electronics
14 60 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 53 (1.55%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,776 (52.02%) Developer
2 805 (23.58%) .NET Developer
3 750 (21.97%) Senior
4 736 (21.56%) Software Engineer
5 383 (11.22%) Software Developer
6 366 (10.72%) C# Developer
7 357 (10.46%) Lead
8 352 (10.31%) Senior Developer
9 328 (9.61%) C# Software Engineer
10 245 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.75%) C# .NET Developer
13 160 (4.69%) Lead Developer
14 145 (4.25%) Graduate
15 140 (4.10%) C# Software Developer
16 134 (3.93%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.51%) Architect
18 116 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 106 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
20 90 (2.64%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,189 (64.12%) .NET
2 780 (22.85%) ASP.NET
3 758 (22.20%) .NET Core
4 607 (17.78%) ASP.NET Core
5 503 (14.73%) React
6 397 (11.63%) CSS
7 394 (11.54%) HTML
8 333 (9.75%) RESTful
9 331 (9.70%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.08%) Blazor
11 304 (8.90%) Entity Framework
12 300 (8.79%) Vue
13 266 (7.79%) .NET Framework
14 265 (7.76%) Node.js
15 252 (7.38%) REST
16 223 (6.53%) ASP.NET Web API
17 165 (4.83%) Terraform
18 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
19 145 (4.25%) WPF
20 118 (3.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 162 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 132 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 131 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 106 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 90 (2.64%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 57 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 51 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 50 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
13 45 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 33 (0.97%) Robotics
15 30 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 26 (0.76%) Low-Code
18 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 179 (5.24%) Windows
2 113 (3.31%) Linux
3 43 (1.26%) Android
4 40 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) VMS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (35.06%) Agile
2 1,142 (33.45%) Software Engineering
3 947 (27.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 863 (25.28%) CI/CD
5 810 (23.73%) DevOps
6 579 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
7 578 (16.93%) Microservices
8 560 (16.40%) AI
9 479 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 478 (14.00%) Mentoring
11 331 (9.70%) Test Automation
12 294 (8.61%) SDLC
13 279 (8.17%) Computer Science
14 278 (8.14%) Machine Learning
15 222 (6.50%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.33%) Scrum
17 209 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
18 207 (6.06%) OO
19 195 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
20 194 (5.68%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1,241 (36.35%) SQL
2 845 (24.75%) JavaScript
3 574 (16.81%) Python
4 529 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 350 (10.25%) C++
6 305 (8.93%) Java
7 140 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 128 (3.75%) PHP
9 84 (2.46%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.32%) Bicep
12 44 (1.29%) Go
13 41 (1.20%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 24 (0.70%) Ruby
17 23 (0.67%) Rust
18 22 (0.64%) Delphi
19 19 (0.56%) Scala
20 15 (0.44%) F#
Qualifications
1 421 (12.33%) Degree
2 191 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 148 (4.34%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.28%) SC Cleared
5 46 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 21 (0.62%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.11%) QA
2 70 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 56 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 42 (1.23%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.53%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
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
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 389 (11.39%) Docker
2 25 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
3 18 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.088%) vSphere
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 340 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 30 (0.88%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.088%) Control-M
8 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) Bosun
9 2 (0.059%) EnCase
9 2 (0.059%) FTK
9 2 (0.059%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,138 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.90%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.67%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 21 (0.62%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
13 15 (0.44%) HP
13 15 (0.44%) Intapp
14 14 (0.41%) Foundry
15 12 (0.35%) Aderant
15 12 (0.35%) SAP
16 11 (0.32%) IBM
17 10 (0.29%) iManage