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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -37 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,412 2,087 5,833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.14% 4.18% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.42% 15.26% 23.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,907 1,723 4,461
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £80,000 £81,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 18,520 13,676 25,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.02% 27.39% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13,186 8,953 17,344
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,373 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 25 August 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 August 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 +11 3,118 £60,000 -4.00% 750
UK excluding London +24 2,620 £57,500 - 622
Work from Home +10 1,536 £55,000 -8.33% 439
South East +22 756 £60,000 +2.13% 197
London -18 665 £83,500 +4.38% 247
North of England +38 644 £57,500 -4.17% 145
Midlands +2 415 £60,000 +9.09% 93
East of England +32 320 £60,000 +9.09% 78
North West +46 301 £55,000 -8.33% 76
South West +29 294 £53,500 +1.90% 80
West Midlands -13 217 £60,000 +4.35% 41
East Midlands +15 198 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire +6 181 £55,000 -8.33% 33
North East +1 162 £65,000 +13.04% 38
Northern Ireland +10 116 £50,000 -10.31% 6
Wales -57 46 £51,619 +3.24% 18
Scotland -14 31 £50,000 -22.78% 19

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 99 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.08%) IIS
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) 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 44 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) 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 50 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.26%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Magento
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,680 (49.24%) Azure
2 579 (16.97%) AWS
3 476 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 326 (9.55%) Power Platform
5 266 (7.80%) SaaS
6 251 (7.36%) GitHub
7 199 (5.83%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.66%) Azure AI
9 176 (5.16%) PowerApps
10 171 (5.01%) Serverless
11 169 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 157 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 156 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
14 138 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
15 128 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
16 116 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 104 (3.05%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.55%) GCP
19 51 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (1.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 14 (0.41%) Firewall
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
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%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 518 (15.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 458 (13.42%) MongoDB
4 174 (5.10%) Power BI
5 168 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 96 (2.81%) NoSQL
7 88 (2.58%) MySQL
8 81 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 73 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 33 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.85%) Redis
14 19 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.44%) Metadata
16 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
18 11 (0.32%) Data Lake
18 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 294 (8.62%) Git
2 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 43 (1.26%) Selenium
3 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 33 (0.97%) GitLab
5 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) Postman
10 18 (0.53%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.44%) SpecFlow
12 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 558 (16.35%) Social Skills
2 531 (15.56%) Finance
3 186 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.13%) Legal
5 123 (3.60%) Law
6 120 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 100 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 91 (2.67%) Games
9 78 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 77 (2.26%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 62 (1.82%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 48 (1.41%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,795 (52.61%) Developer
2 800 (23.45%) .NET Developer
3 754 (22.10%) Senior
4 743 (21.78%) Software Engineer
5 413 (12.10%) Software Developer
6 386 (11.31%) C# Developer
7 360 (10.55%) Lead
8 359 (10.52%) Senior Developer
9 332 (9.73%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
11 180 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.75%) C# Software Developer
13 161 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (4.63%) Lead Developer
15 156 (4.57%) Graduate
16 143 (4.19%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.52%) Architect
18 117 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
20 103 (3.02%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,180 (63.89%) .NET
2 777 (22.77%) ASP.NET
3 771 (22.60%) .NET Core
4 605 (17.73%) ASP.NET Core
5 499 (14.62%) React
6 394 (11.55%) CSS
7 388 (11.37%) HTML
8 327 (9.58%) AngularJS
9 325 (9.53%) RESTful
10 310 (9.09%) Blazor
11 299 (8.76%) Entity Framework
12 296 (8.68%) Vue
13 271 (7.94%) .NET Framework
14 269 (7.88%) Node.js
15 250 (7.33%) REST
16 222 (6.51%) ASP.NET Web API
17 161 (4.72%) Terraform
18 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
19 140 (4.10%) WPF
20 119 (3.49%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
3 153 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
5 124 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 100 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 49 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.38%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 41 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 32 (0.94%) Robotics
16 31 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 28 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.82%) Legacy Code
18 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
19 25 (0.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 171 (5.01%) Windows
2 117 (3.43%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 37 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.23%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.12%) VMS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (35.08%) Agile
2 1,145 (33.56%) Software Engineering
3 942 (27.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 838 (24.56%) CI/CD
5 810 (23.74%) DevOps
6 586 (17.17%) Microservices
7 561 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
8 543 (15.91%) AI
9 463 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (13.31%) Mentoring
11 328 (9.61%) Test Automation
12 291 (8.53%) SDLC
13 284 (8.32%) Computer Science
14 277 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 223 (6.54%) Software Testing
16 217 (6.36%) Scrum
17 209 (6.13%) OO
18 199 (5.83%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.57%) Software Architecture
20 188 (5.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (35.96%) SQL
2 811 (23.77%) JavaScript
3 566 (16.59%) Python
4 528 (15.47%) TypeScript
5 337 (9.88%) C++
6 292 (8.56%) Java
7 144 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 140 (4.10%) PHP
9 83 (2.43%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.06%) VBA
15 35 (1.03%) Bash
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 412 (12.08%) Degree
2 193 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (4.22%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
9 18 (0.53%) PhD
10 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (9.26%) QA
2 61 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 32 (0.94%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.35%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) SLA
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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
1 394 (11.55%) Docker
2 21 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 13 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 345 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,113 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 50 (1.47%) Oracle
5 33 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.67%) Adobe
6 23 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.64%) YouTube
8 18 (0.53%) Apple
8 18 (0.53%) Databricks
8 18 (0.53%) VMware
9 17 (0.50%) Sony
9 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.44%) Intapp
11 12 (0.35%) Foundry
11 12 (0.35%) SAP
12 11 (0.32%) IBM
12 11 (0.32%) iManage
12 11 (0.32%) Splunk
13 10 (0.29%) Aderant