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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 51 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,833 2,266 8,563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 5.00% 7.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.62% 16.15% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,513 1,871 7,227
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £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 £77,500 £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 17,050 14,031 34,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.95% 30.96% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,090 9,275 25,736
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 £98,750
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 25 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 25 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 2,650 £60,000 -7.69% 617
UK excluding London +2 2,072 £57,500 -4.17% 543
Work from Home +1 1,145 £55,000 -15.38% 379
London -17 633 £82,500 +3.13% 175
South East +15 620 £59,000 -1.67% 186
North of England +35 551 £57,687 -2.23% 125
Midlands -13 353 £57,500 +4.55% 73
North West +49 281 £60,000 +9.09% 63
East of England -1 244 £60,000 -9.37% 66
South West +7 229 £55,000 - 63
East Midlands +11 180 £55,000 - 34
West Midlands -32 173 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Yorkshire +3 153 £55,000 -19.71% 31
North East -11 117 £60,000 +5.26% 34
Scotland -20 36 £55,000 -2.65% 19
Wales -42 35 £50,810 -23.02% 17
Northern Ireland -30 6 £65,000 -18.75% 9

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 76 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.02%) CMS
2 29 (1.02%) IIS
3 17 (0.60%) Confluence
4 14 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (0.28%) WordPress
6 6 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.14%) Apache
8 4 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
9 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.071%) DNN
10 2 (0.071%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.071%) Immediacy CMS
10 2 (0.071%) Kentico
10 2 (0.071%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 5 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.071%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 36 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.071%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.071%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.071%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.071%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.035%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.035%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.035%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.035%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.035%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,400 (49.42%) Azure
2 478 (16.87%) AWS
3 375 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 203 (7.17%) SaaS
6 187 (6.60%) GitHub
7 155 (5.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 149 (5.26%) Serverless
9 141 (4.98%) Power Automate
10 137 (4.84%) PowerApps
11 130 (4.59%) Azure AI
12 119 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
13 116 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
14 98 (3.46%) Azure Functions
15 96 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
16 94 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
17 90 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 66 (2.33%) GCP
19 56 (1.98%) Azure AKS
20 55 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.76%) Internet
2 19 (0.67%) Broadband
3 14 (0.49%) DNS
3 14 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.32%) Firewall
6 8 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
8 6 (0.21%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) VPN
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.071%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 395 (13.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 340 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 149 (5.26%) Power BI
5 118 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 78 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 71 (2.51%) MySQL
8 58 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (0.67%) Redis
13 12 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.42%) Db2
13 12 (0.42%) Metadata
14 11 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.25%) GIS
15 7 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 203 (7.17%) Git
2 57 (2.01%) JIRA
3 46 (1.62%) Visual Studio
4 42 (1.48%) Selenium
5 35 (1.24%) GitLab
6 29 (1.02%) Postman
7 24 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 24 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.56%) Jenkins
10 14 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 13 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.46%) NUnit
11 13 (0.46%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.35%) SoapUI
14 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
14 8 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 498 (17.58%) Finance
2 391 (13.80%) Social Skills
3 150 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 76 (2.68%) Games
6 67 (2.36%) Public Sector
6 67 (2.36%) Retail
7 58 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (1.98%) Electronics
9 55 (1.94%) Advertising
10 54 (1.91%) Banking
11 51 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 49 (1.73%) Front Office
13 48 (1.69%) Law
14 46 (1.62%) Marketing
15 38 (1.34%) Legal
16 34 (1.20%) Automotive
17 18 (0.64%) Investment Banking
18 15 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,539 (54.32%) Developer
2 650 (22.94%) .NET Developer
3 632 (22.31%) Software Engineer
4 578 (20.40%) Senior
5 428 (15.11%) Software Developer
6 385 (13.59%) C# Developer
7 302 (10.66%) C# Software Engineer
8 275 (9.71%) Senior Developer
9 270 (9.53%) Lead
10 224 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 167 (5.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (5.86%) C# .NET Developer
13 165 (5.82%) C# Software Developer
14 159 (5.61%) .NET Software Engineer
15 133 (4.69%) Graduate
16 126 (4.45%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.49%) Graduate Developer
18 94 (3.32%) .NET Software Developer
18 94 (3.32%) Azure Developer
19 93 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,847 (65.20%) .NET
2 680 (24.00%) .NET Core
3 605 (21.36%) ASP.NET
4 452 (15.95%) ASP.NET Core
5 400 (14.12%) React
6 324 (11.44%) CSS
7 311 (10.98%) HTML
8 268 (9.46%) AngularJS
9 242 (8.54%) RESTful
10 238 (8.40%) Vue
11 236 (8.33%) Blazor
12 221 (7.80%) Entity Framework
13 213 (7.52%) .NET Framework
14 202 (7.13%) Node.js
15 196 (6.92%) REST
16 170 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
17 117 (4.13%) ML.NET
18 100 (3.53%) WPF
19 92 (3.25%) LINQ
20 66 (2.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 120 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 109 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 93 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 37 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 37 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 35 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 26 (0.92%) Management Information System
14 24 (0.85%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.85%) Sports Betting
15 23 (0.81%) AI Agents
15 23 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
16 22 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.98%) Windows
2 105 (3.71%) Linux
3 41 (1.45%) Android
4 26 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.42%) VMS
7 9 (0.32%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (33.04%) Agile
2 874 (30.85%) Software Engineering
3 783 (27.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 650 (22.94%) CI/CD
5 624 (22.03%) DevOps
6 414 (14.61%) AI
7 413 (14.58%) Microservices
8 397 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 314 (11.08%) Mentoring
10 303 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (9.64%) Computer Science
12 236 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 227 (8.01%) SDLC
14 218 (7.70%) Machine Learning
15 179 (6.32%) Scrum
16 167 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
17 166 (5.86%) TDD
18 162 (5.72%) Multithreading
19 154 (5.44%) Containerisation
19 154 (5.44%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (36.78%) SQL
2 613 (21.64%) JavaScript
3 449 (15.85%) Python
4 398 (14.05%) TypeScript
5 327 (11.54%) C++
6 266 (9.39%) Java
7 118 (4.17%) PHP
8 96 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.51%) C
10 56 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.48%) Bicep
12 38 (1.34%) Go
13 35 (1.24%) Bash
13 35 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 29 (1.02%) VBA
15 23 (0.81%) Rust
16 19 (0.67%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.64%) Scala
18 17 (0.60%) Delphi
18 17 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (13.59%) Degree
2 185 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 122 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (0.99%) PhD
8 26 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 18 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.18%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.18%) GXPN
14 5 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.47%) QA
2 48 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 25 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.81%) GDPR
5 19 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.42%) SLA
7 12 (0.42%) WCAG
8 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.071%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.071%) ITGC
12 1 (0.035%) EMIR
12 1 (0.035%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 323 (11.40%) Docker
2 28 (0.99%) Firmware
3 21 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.21%) KVM
6 6 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 286 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.94%) Terraform
3 35 (1.24%) Grafana
4 16 (0.56%) Ansible
5 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.071%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.071%) MIIS
10 2 (0.071%) MOM
11 1 (0.035%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.035%) Nessus
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool
11 1 (0.035%) Nmap
Vendors
1 832 (29.37%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.19%) Google
3 49 (1.73%) Facebook
4 45 (1.59%) Oracle
5 24 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.81%) Adobe
7 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.60%) VMware
9 16 (0.56%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.56%) YouTube
10 15 (0.53%) Apple
10 15 (0.53%) Databricks
11 13 (0.46%) Sony
11 13 (0.46%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.35%) iManage
12 10 (0.35%) Splunk
13 9 (0.32%) Intapp
13 9 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.28%) IBM