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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 56 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -34 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,376 2,145 5,853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 4.31% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.25% 15.31% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,887 1,771 4,593
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 £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 18,503 14,008 25,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 28.13% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,140 9,185 17,818
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £84,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -

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 12 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 12 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 3,081 £60,000 -4.00% 1,901
UK excluding London +21 2,572 £57,500 - 1,079
Work from Home +7 1,525 £55,000 -8.33% 898
South East +17 725 £60,000 +2.13% 325
London -14 676 £82,500 +3.13% 982
North of England +38 636 £57,500 -4.17% 283
Midlands +5 412 £58,250 +5.91% 130
East of England +29 312 £60,000 +9.09% 139
North West +46 301 £55,000 -4.35% 149
South West +33 300 £52,500 -0.47% 98
West Midlands -13 218 £60,000 +4.35% 52
East Midlands +14 194 £55,000 - 78
Yorkshire +20 181 £55,000 -10.20% 70
North East -2 154 £65,000 +13.04% 66
Northern Ireland +8 110 £50,000 -10.31% 30
Wales -46 46 £51,619 -0.73% 28
Scotland -7 33 £50,000 -22.78% 59

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 98 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.04%) IIS
3 33 (0.98%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) 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
10 5 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.089%) DNN
12 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Kentico
12 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 44 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.089%) Simulink
6 3 (0.089%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 48 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 8 (0.24%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.089%) Magento
6 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.059%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.030%) Eikon
8 1 (0.030%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.030%) RMDS
8 1 (0.030%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,680 (49.76%) Azure
2 573 (16.97%) AWS
3 456 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 321 (9.51%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.76%) SaaS
6 249 (7.38%) GitHub
7 193 (5.72%) Power Automate
8 192 (5.69%) Azure AI
9 170 (5.04%) Serverless
10 169 (5.01%) PowerApps
11 167 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 161 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 150 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
14 135 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
15 125 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 111 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 104 (3.08%) Azure Functions
18 86 (2.55%) GCP
19 53 (1.57%) Azure AKS
20 51 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.84%) Internet
2 21 (0.62%) DNS
3 19 (0.56%) Broadband
4 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.50%) HTTP
6 11 (0.33%) Firewall
7 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) DHCP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
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 (0.089%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.089%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 516 (15.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 455 (13.48%) MongoDB
4 169 (5.01%) Power BI
5 165 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
6 94 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 92 (2.73%) MySQL
8 80 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 69 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (0.86%) Redis
14 17 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.39%) Metadata
16 12 (0.36%) Db2
17 11 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 275 (8.15%) Git
2 73 (2.16%) JIRA
3 44 (1.30%) Selenium
4 42 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.01%) GitLab
6 30 (0.89%) Jenkins
7 26 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.68%) NUnit
10 22 (0.65%) Postman
11 18 (0.53%) SpecFlow
12 17 (0.50%) Claude Code
13 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.30%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.24%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) Moq
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 544 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 540 (16.00%) Finance
3 181 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (4.86%) Legal
5 124 (3.67%) Law
6 116 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 93 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 88 (2.61%) Games
9 82 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 80 (2.37%) Retail
11 71 (2.10%) Advertising
12 69 (2.04%) Marketing
13 57 (1.69%) Banking
13 57 (1.69%) Electronics
14 55 (1.63%) Aerospace
15 47 (1.39%) Front Office
16 40 (1.18%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.07%) Automotive
18 26 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,808 (53.55%) Developer
2 803 (23.79%) .NET Developer
3 749 (22.19%) Senior
4 726 (21.50%) Software Engineer
5 425 (12.59%) Software Developer
6 393 (11.64%) C# Developer
7 362 (10.72%) Senior Developer
8 346 (10.25%) Lead
9 320 (9.48%) C# Software Engineer
10 249 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 168 (4.98%) C# Software Developer
13 164 (4.86%) C# .NET Developer
14 161 (4.77%) Graduate
15 154 (4.56%) Lead Developer
16 146 (4.32%) .NET Software Engineer
17 114 (3.38%) Architect
18 112 (3.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 108 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
19 108 (3.20%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,164 (64.10%) .NET
2 781 (23.13%) .NET Core
3 770 (22.81%) ASP.NET
4 600 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 494 (14.63%) React
6 398 (11.79%) CSS
7 388 (11.49%) HTML
8 328 (9.72%) AngularJS
9 321 (9.51%) RESTful
10 306 (9.06%) Blazor
11 297 (8.80%) Entity Framework
12 295 (8.74%) Vue
13 267 (7.91%) .NET Framework
13 267 (7.91%) Node.js
14 250 (7.41%) REST
15 222 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
16 156 (4.62%) ML.NET
17 129 (3.82%) WPF
18 119 (3.52%) LINQ
19 87 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 154 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
3 147 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 131 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 110 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 95 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 86 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 50 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 50 (1.48%) Hedge funds
10 48 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 40 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 36 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 35 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 31 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (0.92%) Robotics
15 29 (0.86%) Legacy Code
16 28 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
17 24 (0.71%) Fixed Income
17 24 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 168 (4.98%) Windows
2 117 (3.47%) Linux
3 41 (1.21%) Android
4 36 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.27%) Unix
7 7 (0.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.030%) CentOS
11 1 (0.030%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (35.43%) Agile
2 1,111 (32.91%) Software Engineering
3 936 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 826 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 790 (23.40%) DevOps
6 575 (17.03%) Microservices
7 538 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 535 (15.85%) AI
9 452 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 439 (13.00%) Mentoring
11 317 (9.39%) Test Automation
12 293 (8.68%) Computer Science
13 286 (8.47%) SDLC
14 272 (8.06%) Machine Learning
15 218 (6.46%) Scrum
16 213 (6.31%) Software Testing
17 212 (6.28%) OO
18 202 (5.98%) Multithreading
19 192 (5.69%) TDD
20 181 (5.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,240 (36.73%) SQL
2 809 (23.96%) JavaScript
3 560 (16.59%) Python
4 533 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 342 (10.13%) C++
6 301 (8.92%) Java
7 146 (4.32%) PHP
8 145 (4.30%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.37%) C
10 67 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.39%) Go
12 45 (1.33%) Bicep
13 44 (1.30%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.04%) Bash
15 34 (1.01%) VBA
16 25 (0.74%) Rust
17 22 (0.65%) Scala
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Ruby
19 18 (0.53%) F#
Qualifications
1 413 (12.23%) Degree
2 198 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 142 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 106 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 38 (1.13%) Master's Degree
7 28 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 18 (0.53%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.50%) PhD
11 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.12%) ISEB
16 4 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 3 (0.089%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (9.00%) QA
2 57 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 32 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 30 (0.89%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.36%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) SLA
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
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 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.089%) NIST
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.059%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 403 (11.94%) Docker
2 19 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.56%) Firmware
3 13 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.089%) vSphere
9 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 352 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 163 (4.83%) Terraform
3 34 (1.01%) Grafana
4 19 (0.56%) Ansible
5 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.089%) Control-M
8 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.059%) MIIS
10 1 (0.030%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.030%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,097 (32.49%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.64%) Google
3 65 (1.93%) Facebook
4 51 (1.51%) Oracle
5 33 (0.98%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 23 (0.68%) Adobe
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 20 (0.59%) Databricks
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Intapp
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) VMware
13 13 (0.39%) iManage
14 12 (0.36%) SAP
14 12 (0.36%) Splunk
15 11 (0.33%) Aderant
15 11 (0.33%) Foundry
15 11 (0.33%) IBM