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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 39 18
Rank change year-on-year -38 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,140 2,550 7,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.47% 6.13% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.98% 18.43% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,857 2,155 6,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,851 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 15,307 13,838 32,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.66% 33.25% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 10,418 10,227 25,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,939 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,266 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +2.78% -1.82%

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 April 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 18 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 April 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 -38 1,963 £60,000 -7.69% 842
UK excluding London -44 1,469 £57,500 - 668
Work from Home -25 805 £58,000 -10.77% 445
London -27 541 £82,500 +10.00% 263
South East -26 428 £59,000 -1.67% 223
North of England -23 417 £62,500 +13.64% 154
Midlands -42 271 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West -12 202 £60,000 +14.29% 92
South West -23 149 £55,000 -4.35% 91
Yorkshire -35 140 £61,500 +11.82% 35
East Midlands -24 137 £55,000 - 47
East of England -54 137 £55,000 -16.92% 77
West Midlands -55 134 £57,500 +4.55% 43
North East -16 75 £70,000 +21.74% 28
Scotland -63 45 £60,000 +33.33% 28
Wales -44 23 £42,250 -32.40% 21
Northern Ireland -37 9 £95,000 - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 58 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.07%) CMS
3 20 (0.93%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.19%) Confluence
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.093%) nginx
8 2 (0.093%) WordPress
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.047%) Apache
9 1 (0.047%) Appian
9 1 (0.047%) JBoss
9 1 (0.047%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.19%) Simulink
4 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.23%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 2 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.093%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Endur
5 1 (0.047%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.047%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 941 (43.97%) Azure
2 360 (16.82%) AWS
3 215 (10.05%) SaaS
4 207 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
5 203 (9.49%) Power Platform
6 129 (6.03%) Serverless
7 121 (5.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 102 (4.77%) Power Automate
9 100 (4.67%) PowerApps
10 88 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (3.64%) Azure Functions
12 73 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
13 72 (3.36%) GitHub
14 64 (2.99%) GCP
15 62 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
16 45 (2.10%) Azure AKS
17 36 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 36 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
18 26 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.51%) Broadband
3 10 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (0.33%) DNS
4 7 (0.33%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.33%) HTTP
5 6 (0.28%) Intranet
6 5 (0.23%) Internet
7 4 (0.19%) LTE
7 4 (0.19%) Modbus
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 3 (0.14%) Firewall
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
9 2 (0.093%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.093%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.047%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.047%) Profibus
10 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (20.05%) SQL Server
2 119 (5.56%) Power BI
3 82 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 61 (2.85%) MySQL
6 58 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 46 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 46 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (0.75%) Redis
11 15 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.51%) DB2
13 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.28%) Metadata
15 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.19%) ClickHouse
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 138 (6.45%) Git
2 69 (3.22%) Selenium
3 61 (2.85%) Visual Studio
4 56 (2.62%) JIRA
5 41 (1.92%) Postman
6 32 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.31%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.26%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.26%) SpecFlow
9 24 (1.12%) Jenkins
10 18 (0.84%) GitLab
10 18 (0.84%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.65%) NUnit
12 14 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.42%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.33%) LabVIEW
15 7 (0.33%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 416 (19.44%) Finance
2 350 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 123 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 66 (3.08%) Law
6 58 (2.71%) Manufacturing
7 53 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (2.29%) Front Office
9 45 (2.10%) Banking
10 43 (2.01%) Retail
11 40 (1.87%) Games
12 32 (1.50%) Legal
13 31 (1.45%) Electronics
14 23 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.07%) Marketing
15 17 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.79%) Military
16 15 (0.70%) Aviation
17 14 (0.65%) Telecoms
18 13 (0.61%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,101 (51.45%) Developer
2 479 (22.38%) Senior
3 416 (19.44%) Software Engineer
4 390 (18.22%) C# Developer
4 390 (18.22%) Software Developer
5 296 (13.83%) .NET Developer
6 245 (11.45%) Lead
7 241 (11.26%) Senior Developer
8 168 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 161 (7.52%) C# Software Engineer
10 150 (7.01%) C# Software Developer
11 149 (6.96%) C# .NET Developer
12 140 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 123 (5.75%) .NET Software Engineer
14 109 (5.09%) Graduate
15 93 (4.35%) Lead Developer
16 91 (4.25%) Graduate Developer
17 87 (4.07%) SQL Developer
18 82 (3.83%) Graduate Software Developer
19 81 (3.79%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,321 (61.73%) .NET
2 376 (17.57%) .NET Core
3 255 (11.92%) ASP.NET
4 245 (11.45%) React
5 195 (9.11%) HTML
6 191 (8.93%) CSS
7 181 (8.46%) .NET Framework
8 135 (6.31%) REST
9 133 (6.21%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.19%) RESTful
11 89 (4.16%) Vue
12 85 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 81 (3.79%) Blazor
14 80 (3.74%) Entity Framework
15 77 (3.60%) Node.js
16 53 (2.48%) WPF
17 50 (2.34%) jQuery
18 47 (2.20%) Playwright
19 40 (1.87%) ASP.NET MVC
19 40 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.51%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.01%) Hedge funds
6 43 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.01%) Low-Code
7 41 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 30 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 22 (1.03%) Sports Betting
13 19 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 18 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.84%) Legacy Code
14 18 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.67%) Windows
2 79 (3.69%) Linux
3 17 (0.79%) Android
4 15 (0.70%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) VMS
6 13 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.093%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.093%) Solaris
7 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (31.73%) Software Engineering
2 607 (28.36%) Agile
3 431 (20.14%) DevOps
4 415 (19.39%) CI/CD
5 403 (18.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 306 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
7 268 (12.52%) Mentoring
8 256 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 248 (11.59%) Microservices
10 223 (10.42%) Computer Science
11 185 (8.64%) Test Automation
12 176 (8.22%) SDLC
13 175 (8.18%) AI
14 146 (6.82%) MVC
15 134 (6.26%) Scrum
16 131 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
17 128 (5.98%) Containerisation
18 104 (4.86%) Software Testing
19 102 (4.77%) Clean Code
19 102 (4.77%) OO
Programming Languages
1 656 (30.65%) SQL
2 437 (20.42%) JavaScript
3 357 (16.68%) Python
4 267 (12.48%) TypeScript
5 248 (11.59%) Java
6 213 (9.95%) C++
7 102 (4.77%) PHP
8 86 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 54 (2.52%) C
10 40 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.54%) Go
12 29 (1.36%) Bash
13 27 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 25 (1.17%) Bicep
15 22 (1.03%) VBA
16 18 (0.84%) Delphi
16 18 (0.84%) Rust
17 17 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.70%) Scala
19 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 298 (13.93%) Degree
2 145 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 114 (5.33%) Security Cleared
4 64 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 47 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 45 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.45%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.98%) PhD
12 20 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (0.89%) DV Cleared
14 18 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 10 (0.47%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.28%) HND
19 6 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.78%) QA
2 38 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.70%) GDPR
5 13 (0.61%) WCAG
6 11 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.42%) SLA
8 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
9 2 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.093%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.093%) ITGC
10 1 (0.047%) HL7
10 1 (0.047%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 178 (8.32%) Docker
2 21 (0.98%) Firmware
3 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 150 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 95 (4.44%) Terraform
3 37 (1.73%) Grafana
4 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.33%) Kibana
7 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.093%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.093%) MIIS
9 2 (0.093%) MOM
10 1 (0.047%) Control-M
10 1 (0.047%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.047%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.047%) Nessus
10 1 (0.047%) Netcool
10 1 (0.047%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 412 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.01%) Oracle
3 30 (1.40%) Google
4 18 (0.84%) Adobe
5 14 (0.65%) SAP
5 14 (0.65%) Xamarin
6 13 (0.61%) VMware
7 12 (0.56%) Databricks
8 10 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.37%) Palantir
11 7 (0.33%) iManage
11 7 (0.33%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.33%) Workday
12 6 (0.28%) Aderant
12 6 (0.28%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
13 5 (0.23%) IFS
13 5 (0.23%) Intapp