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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 50 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,733 2,261 8,646
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.92% 5.06% 7.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.35% 16.19% 25.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,417 1,868 7,288
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 16,716 13,966 34,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 31.23% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,809 9,201 25,948
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 0 2,558 £60,000 -7.69% 782
UK excluding London -1 1,984 £57,500 -4.17% 677
Work from Home -2 1,061 £55,000 -15.38% 487
London -21 621 £82,500 +3.13% 252
South East +10 594 £59,000 -1.67% 198
North of England +29 537 £59,000 +2.61% 156
Midlands -15 344 £57,500 +4.55% 79
North West +57 274 £60,000 +9.09% 88
East of England -9 226 £60,000 -9.37% 77
South West +8 216 £55,000 - 74
East Midlands +10 174 £55,000 - 38
West Midlands -30 170 £59,500 +8.18% 41
Yorkshire -6 149 £55,000 -18.52% 32
North East -9 114 £65,000 +14.04% 38
Scotland -22 32 £55,000 - 27
Wales -44 31 £50,000 -25.37% 17
Northern Ireland -27 6 £65,000 -18.75% 64

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 71 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 27 (0.99%) CMS
3 23 (0.84%) IIS
4 16 (0.59%) Confluence
5 13 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.26%) WordPress
8 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) JBoss
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.037%) DNN
13 1 (0.037%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.037%) Immediacy CMS
13 1 (0.037%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.073%) Shopify
4 2 (0.073%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,319 (48.26%) Azure
2 455 (16.65%) AWS
3 343 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (8.64%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.61%) SaaS
6 163 (5.96%) GitHub
7 148 (5.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 144 (5.27%) Serverless
9 124 (4.54%) Power Automate
9 124 (4.54%) PowerApps
10 116 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
11 107 (3.92%) Azure AI
12 97 (3.55%) GitHub Copilot
13 95 (3.48%) Azure Functions
14 88 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
15 86 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
16 82 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 63 (2.31%) GCP
18 55 (2.01%) Azure AKS
19 54 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.43%) Internet
2 18 (0.66%) Broadband
3 14 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.44%) DNS
5 10 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.33%) Firewall
7 7 (0.26%) HTTP
8 6 (0.22%) DHCP
8 6 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 4 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
11 3 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.073%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 485 (17.75%) SQL Server
2 336 (12.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 283 (10.35%) MongoDB
4 136 (4.98%) Power BI
5 96 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
6 72 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 69 (2.52%) MySQL
8 57 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 51 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.66%) Redis
13 12 (0.44%) Db2
13 12 (0.44%) Metadata
14 11 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.26%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.26%) GIS
17 6 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 191 (6.99%) Git
2 57 (2.09%) JIRA
3 46 (1.68%) Visual Studio
4 45 (1.65%) Selenium
5 34 (1.24%) GitLab
6 29 (1.06%) Postman
7 24 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.84%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.59%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.59%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.48%) NUnit
12 13 (0.48%) SoapUI
13 12 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.37%) Claude Code
15 9 (0.33%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.29%) Yeoman
General
1 482 (17.64%) Finance
2 370 (13.54%) Social Skills
3 145 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (3.59%) Manufacturing
5 67 (2.45%) Games
6 64 (2.34%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.34%) Retail
7 56 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (2.01%) Banking
8 55 (2.01%) Electronics
9 48 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 48 (1.76%) Front Office
10 47 (1.72%) Advertising
11 46 (1.68%) Law
12 40 (1.46%) Marketing
13 35 (1.28%) Legal
14 34 (1.24%) Automotive
15 18 (0.66%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,472 (53.86%) Developer
2 607 (22.21%) Software Engineer
3 585 (21.41%) .NET Developer
4 565 (20.67%) Senior
5 434 (15.88%) Software Developer
6 389 (14.23%) C# Developer
7 298 (10.90%) C# Software Engineer
8 274 (10.03%) Senior Developer
9 268 (9.81%) Lead
10 210 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 172 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (6.11%) C# .NET Developer
13 166 (6.07%) C# Software Developer
14 157 (5.74%) .NET Software Engineer
15 132 (4.83%) Graduate
16 124 (4.54%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.62%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.48%) .NET Software Developer
18 95 (3.48%) Azure Developer
19 94 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,767 (64.65%) .NET
2 621 (22.72%) .NET Core
3 538 (19.69%) ASP.NET
4 383 (14.01%) ASP.NET Core
5 369 (13.50%) React
6 302 (11.05%) CSS
7 290 (10.61%) HTML
8 234 (8.56%) AngularJS
9 214 (7.83%) RESTful
10 211 (7.72%) Blazor
11 206 (7.54%) Vue
12 205 (7.50%) .NET Framework
13 196 (7.17%) Entity Framework
14 186 (6.81%) REST
15 175 (6.40%) Node.js
16 144 (5.27%) ASP.NET Web API
17 96 (3.51%) ML.NET
18 95 (3.48%) WPF
19 77 (2.82%) LINQ
20 62 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 170 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
3 104 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 88 (3.22%) Product Ownership
5 82 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 55 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 54 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 48 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 33 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 32 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 32 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 24 (0.88%) Sports Betting
14 23 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
14 23 (0.84%) Legacy Code
15 22 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.94%) Windows
2 99 (3.62%) Linux
3 38 (1.39%) Android
4 24 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.44%) VMS
7 8 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.073%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (32.05%) Agile
2 844 (30.88%) Software Engineering
3 728 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 608 (22.25%) CI/CD
5 584 (21.37%) DevOps
6 380 (13.90%) AI
7 377 (13.79%) Microservices
8 372 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (11.34%) Mentoring
10 291 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 270 (9.88%) Computer Science
12 231 (8.45%) Test Automation
13 217 (7.94%) SDLC
14 196 (7.17%) Machine Learning
15 167 (6.11%) Scrum
16 153 (5.60%) Containerisation
16 153 (5.60%) TDD
17 152 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
18 140 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (5.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 962 (35.20%) SQL
2 575 (21.04%) JavaScript
3 437 (15.99%) Python
4 366 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 320 (11.71%) C++
6 266 (9.73%) Java
7 116 (4.24%) PHP
8 94 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 69 (2.52%) C
10 50 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 41 (1.50%) Bicep
12 37 (1.35%) Go
13 34 (1.24%) Bash
14 33 (1.21%) VB.NET
15 29 (1.06%) VBA
16 23 (0.84%) Rust
17 19 (0.70%) MATLAB
17 19 (0.70%) Scala
18 17 (0.62%) F#
18 17 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 378 (13.83%) Degree
2 186 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 122 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 43 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.02%) PhD
10 20 (0.73%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.42%) QA
2 47 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.80%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.77%) GDPR
5 14 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.48%) WCAG
7 12 (0.44%) SLA
8 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.073%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.073%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.073%) ITGC
12 1 (0.037%) EMIR
12 1 (0.037%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 296 (10.83%) Docker
2 29 (1.06%) Firmware
3 20 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.22%) KVM
6 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 260 (9.51%) Kubernetes
2 133 (4.87%) Terraform
3 35 (1.28%) Grafana
4 16 (0.59%) Ansible
5 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.22%) Kibana
6 6 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.073%) MIIS
9 2 (0.073%) MOM
10 1 (0.037%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.037%) Nessus
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool
10 1 (0.037%) Nmap
Vendors
1 746 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 54 (1.98%) Google
3 43 (1.57%) Oracle
4 42 (1.54%) Facebook
5 23 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.80%) Adobe
7 18 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 16 (0.59%) VMware
9 15 (0.55%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.51%) Databricks
11 13 (0.48%) Apple
11 13 (0.48%) YouTube
12 11 (0.40%) Sony
12 11 (0.40%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.37%) Splunk
14 9 (0.33%) iManage
14 9 (0.33%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.26%) Intapp
17 6 (0.22%) IBM