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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 49 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,557 2,162 8,075
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.74% 5.04% 8.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.54% 16.15% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 1,776 6,952
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,813 £49,625 £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 £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,900 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% +8.91% -

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 16,456 13,389 32,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 31.23% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,442 9,005 25,064
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £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 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,924
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.00% -1.96%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -14 2,391 £60,000 -7.69% 735
UK excluding London -17 1,812 £57,500 -4.01% 617
Work from Home -5 941 £57,500 -11.54% 409
London -15 616 £82,500 +6.45% 209
South East +8 567 £60,000 - 181
North of England +13 491 £60,000 +6.67% 167
Midlands -24 312 £57,500 +4.55% 82
North West +48 253 £60,000 +17.90% 102
East of England -11 194 £60,000 -9.37% 79
South West 0 191 £55,000 - 69
East Midlands +7 157 £55,000 - 43
West Midlands -47 155 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Yorkshire -22 140 £55,000 -19.12% 30
North East -6 98 £65,000 +13.04% 36
Scotland -42 29 £58,750 +14.08% 19
Wales -43 25 £50,000 -33.33% 12
Northern Ireland - 7 £80,000 - 20

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 67 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.10%) CMS
2 28 (1.10%) IIS
3 13 (0.51%) Confluence
4 12 (0.47%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.23%) WordPress
7 4 (0.16%) Apache
7 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.16%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.12%) JBoss
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.078%) nginx
10 1 (0.039%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.039%) Appian
10 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.23%) Simulink
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.078%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.078%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 35 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
4 2 (0.078%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.078%) Shopify
4 2 (0.078%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.039%) Endur
5 1 (0.039%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.039%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (46.27%) Azure
2 415 (16.23%) AWS
3 297 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (8.96%) Power Platform
5 217 (8.49%) SaaS
6 146 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 145 (5.67%) Serverless
8 127 (4.97%) GitHub
9 113 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 112 (4.38%) Power Automate
11 104 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
12 93 (3.64%) Azure Functions
13 89 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
14 76 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 69 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 67 (2.62%) Azure AI
17 65 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
18 63 (2.46%) GCP
19 54 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (2.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (0.98%) Internet
2 17 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 15 (0.59%) Broadband
4 13 (0.51%) DNS
5 10 (0.39%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.39%) Firewall
6 7 (0.27%) DHCP
6 7 (0.27%) HTTP
7 5 (0.20%) LTE
8 4 (0.16%) Intranet
8 4 (0.16%) LAN
8 4 (0.16%) Modbus
8 4 (0.16%) WAN
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.12%) Network Security
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.078%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.078%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (18.69%) SQL Server
2 232 (9.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 193 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 132 (5.16%) Power BI
5 76 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 62 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.31%) MySQL
8 58 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 49 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 35 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.63%) Redis
13 11 (0.43%) DB2
13 11 (0.43%) Metadata
14 8 (0.31%) GIS
15 7 (0.27%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 182 (7.12%) Git
2 57 (2.23%) JIRA
3 54 (2.11%) Selenium
3 54 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.60%) Postman
5 32 (1.25%) GitLab
6 28 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (0.98%) SoapUI
7 25 (0.98%) WebDriver
8 23 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
9 22 (0.86%) SpecFlow
10 21 (0.82%) Jenkins
11 18 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 14 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.51%) NUnit
14 10 (0.39%) LabVIEW
15 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.31%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 472 (18.46%) Finance
2 374 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 136 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.44%) Manufacturing
5 64 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 57 (2.23%) Electronics
6 57 (2.23%) Games
6 57 (2.23%) Retail
7 56 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (2.15%) Banking
9 48 (1.88%) Front Office
9 48 (1.88%) Law
10 45 (1.76%) Aerospace
11 33 (1.29%) Automotive
11 33 (1.29%) Legal
12 32 (1.25%) Advertising
13 28 (1.10%) Marketing
14 15 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.55%) Aviation
16 12 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,350 (52.80%) Developer
2 546 (21.35%) Software Engineer
3 544 (21.27%) Senior
4 476 (18.62%) .NET Developer
5 433 (16.93%) Software Developer
6 396 (15.49%) C# Developer
7 266 (10.40%) C# Software Engineer
8 265 (10.36%) Lead
9 263 (10.29%) Senior Developer
10 191 (7.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 175 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 170 (6.65%) C# Software Developer
13 169 (6.61%) C# .NET Developer
14 158 (6.18%) .NET Software Engineer
15 115 (4.50%) Graduate
16 110 (4.30%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.87%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.83%) .NET Software Developer
19 94 (3.68%) Azure Developer
20 93 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,641 (64.18%) .NET
2 518 (20.26%) .NET Core
3 427 (16.70%) ASP.NET
4 318 (12.44%) React
5 266 (10.40%) ASP.NET Core
6 262 (10.25%) CSS
6 262 (10.25%) HTML
7 197 (7.70%) .NET Framework
8 191 (7.47%) AngularJS
9 173 (6.77%) RESTful
10 168 (6.57%) Vue
11 163 (6.37%) REST
12 161 (6.30%) Entity Framework
13 158 (6.18%) Blazor
14 139 (5.44%) Node.js
15 106 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
16 86 (3.36%) WPF
17 59 (2.31%) ML.NET
18 56 (2.19%) JSON
19 55 (2.15%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 95 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
4 79 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 74 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 65 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 50 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 45 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.56%) Low-Code
11 28 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 25 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 23 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
13 23 (0.90%) Legacy Code
13 23 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 23 (0.90%) Onboarding
13 23 (0.90%) Sports Betting
14 21 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 127 (4.97%) Windows
2 97 (3.79%) Linux
3 33 (1.29%) Android
4 24 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.51%) VMS
7 12 (0.47%) Unix
8 5 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.078%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.078%) Solaris
11 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (30.62%) Software Engineering
2 762 (29.80%) Agile
3 609 (23.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 553 (21.63%) CI/CD
5 528 (20.65%) DevOps
6 359 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
7 319 (12.48%) Microservices
8 311 (12.16%) AI
9 291 (11.38%) Mentoring
10 277 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 258 (10.09%) Computer Science
12 232 (9.07%) Test Automation
13 213 (8.33%) SDLC
14 158 (6.18%) Machine Learning
15 153 (5.98%) Scrum
16 145 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
16 145 (5.67%) Containerisation
17 129 (5.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 129 (5.04%) MVC
18 125 (4.89%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 837 (32.73%) SQL
2 537 (21.00%) JavaScript
3 432 (16.89%) Python
4 328 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 291 (11.38%) C++
6 267 (10.44%) Java
7 102 (3.99%) PHP
8 96 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.54%) C
10 45 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.37%) Bicep
12 34 (1.33%) Bash
13 31 (1.21%) Go
14 30 (1.17%) VB.NET
15 23 (0.90%) VBA
16 20 (0.78%) Rust
16 20 (0.78%) Scala
17 17 (0.66%) F#
18 16 (0.63%) Haskell
18 16 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 374 (14.63%) Degree
2 181 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 126 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 76 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 43 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.45%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.06%) PhD
10 25 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 12 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.23%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.44%) QA
2 43 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.47%) WCAG
8 11 (0.43%) SLA
9 5 (0.20%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.078%) EMIR
12 2 (0.078%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.078%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.078%) ITGC
13 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 245 (9.58%) Docker
2 29 (1.13%) Firmware
3 20 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) KVM
7 4 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.078%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 211 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.89%) Terraform
3 35 (1.37%) Grafana
4 12 (0.47%) Ansible
5 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.27%) Kibana
7 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.078%) Control-M
8 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.078%) MIIS
8 2 (0.078%) MOM
8 2 (0.078%) Nmap
8 2 (0.078%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.039%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.039%) Nessus
9 1 (0.039%) Netcool
Vendors
1 625 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 48 (1.88%) Google
3 46 (1.80%) Oracle
4 26 (1.02%) Facebook
5 23 (0.90%) Adobe
6 20 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 16 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 16 (0.63%) VMware
8 14 (0.55%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.47%) Databricks
10 11 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.35%) Apple
11 9 (0.35%) iManage
11 9 (0.35%) Splunk
12 8 (0.31%) YouTube
13 7 (0.27%) Intapp
13 7 (0.27%) Sony
13 7 (0.27%) Yahoo!
14 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace