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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 41 18
Rank change year-on-year -35 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,196 2,503 7,884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 5.94% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.09% 18.08% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 2,117 6,843
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +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 15,589 13,847 32,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 32.87% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,598 10,169 25,009
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,440 £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 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,635
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.54% -2.48%

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 27 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 27 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 -32 2,019 £62,500 -3.85% 739
UK excluding London -40 1,499 £58,500 +1.74% 588
Work from Home -22 806 £60,000 -7.69% 628
London -22 562 £82,500 +10.00% 238
South East -19 444 £60,000 - 220
North of England -13 419 £60,000 +9.09% 135
Midlands -45 274 £58,250 +5.91% 83
North West -9 208 £60,000 +14.29% 86
South West -25 152 £55,000 -2.22% 60
East of England -52 148 £60,000 -9.37% 64
East Midlands -27 140 £57,500 +4.55% 38
Yorkshire -39 137 £62,000 +3.68% 29
West Midlands -56 134 £58,250 +5.91% 45
North East -25 74 £70,000 +21.74% 20
Scotland -65 39 £60,000 +23.71% 17
Wales -45 24 £41,500 -36.15% 15
Northern Ireland -37 9 £95,000 - 10
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 63 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.05%) CMS
3 20 (0.91%) IIS
4 11 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.27%) Confluence
6 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.091%) JBoss
8 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.091%) nginx
8 2 (0.091%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.046%) Apache
9 1 (0.046%) Appian
9 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Simulink
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.091%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.091%) Shopify
4 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 944 (42.99%) Azure
2 361 (16.44%) AWS
3 210 (9.56%) SaaS
4 206 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 201 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (5.78%) Serverless
7 125 (5.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 106 (4.83%) PowerApps
9 104 (4.74%) Power Automate
10 88 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (3.55%) Azure Functions
11 78 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
12 67 (3.05%) GitHub
13 62 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (2.78%) GCP
15 47 (2.14%) Azure AKS
16 38 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.59%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.50%) Broadband
3 10 (0.46%) DNS
4 8 (0.36%) Ethernet
4 8 (0.36%) HTTP
5 6 (0.27%) Intranet
6 5 (0.23%) Internet
7 4 (0.18%) Firewall
7 4 (0.18%) LTE
7 4 (0.18%) Modbus
7 4 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
8 3 (0.14%) SSL
9 2 (0.091%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.091%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.091%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.091%) VPN
10 1 (0.046%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 124 (5.65%) Power BI
3 85 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 59 (2.69%) MySQL
6 53 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 47 (2.14%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.68%) Redis
13 13 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.50%) DB2
15 7 (0.32%) Metadata
15 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.18%) DynamoDB
17 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 146 (6.65%) Git
2 66 (3.01%) Selenium
3 57 (2.60%) Visual Studio
4 52 (2.37%) JIRA
5 41 (1.87%) Postman
6 32 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.28%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.23%) SoapUI
9 24 (1.09%) SpecFlow
10 23 (1.05%) GitLab
11 22 (1.00%) Jenkins
12 21 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
13 17 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.77%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.55%) NUnit
15 11 (0.50%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.36%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 428 (19.49%) Finance
2 335 (15.26%) Social Skills
3 118 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (2.96%) Public Sector
5 62 (2.82%) Law
5 62 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 55 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (2.37%) Front Office
8 46 (2.09%) Banking
9 42 (1.91%) Retail
10 40 (1.82%) Games
11 34 (1.55%) Electronics
12 31 (1.41%) Legal
13 25 (1.14%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.96%) Marketing
15 18 (0.82%) Automotive
16 15 (0.68%) Advertising
16 15 (0.68%) Aviation
16 15 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,133 (51.59%) Developer
2 501 (22.81%) Senior
3 451 (20.54%) Software Engineer
4 409 (18.62%) Software Developer
5 403 (18.35%) C# Developer
6 297 (13.52%) .NET Developer
7 248 (11.29%) Senior Developer
8 243 (11.07%) Lead
9 194 (8.83%) C# Software Engineer
10 167 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 156 (7.10%) C# Software Developer
11 156 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 154 (7.01%) C# .NET Developer
13 131 (5.97%) .NET Software Engineer
14 118 (5.37%) Graduate
15 102 (4.64%) Graduate Developer
16 96 (4.37%) Lead Developer
17 92 (4.19%) Graduate Software Developer
18 89 (4.05%) SQL Developer
19 85 (3.87%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,349 (61.43%) .NET
2 380 (17.30%) .NET Core
3 254 (11.57%) ASP.NET
4 246 (11.20%) React
5 192 (8.74%) HTML
6 188 (8.56%) CSS
7 181 (8.24%) .NET Framework
8 132 (6.01%) REST
9 131 (5.97%) AngularJS
10 109 (4.96%) RESTful
11 91 (4.14%) Vue
12 87 (3.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 83 (3.78%) Node.js
14 82 (3.73%) Entity Framework
15 81 (3.69%) Blazor
16 59 (2.69%) WPF
17 52 (2.37%) Playwright
18 51 (2.32%) jQuery
19 42 (1.91%) HTML5 Canvas
20 39 (1.78%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 79 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.14%) Hedge funds
7 44 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 40 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 40 (1.82%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.00%) Sports Betting
13 21 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
13 21 (0.96%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.87%) Legacy Code
14 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 104 (4.74%) Windows
2 82 (3.73%) Linux
3 18 (0.82%) Android
4 14 (0.64%) VMS
4 14 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.091%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.091%) Solaris
6 2 (0.091%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (32.06%) Software Engineering
2 608 (27.69%) Agile
3 432 (19.67%) DevOps
4 424 (19.31%) CI/CD
5 416 (18.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 295 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
7 260 (11.84%) Mentoring
8 250 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 248 (11.29%) Microservices
10 237 (10.79%) Computer Science
11 195 (8.88%) Test Automation
12 182 (8.29%) AI
13 179 (8.15%) SDLC
14 147 (6.69%) MVC
15 138 (6.28%) Scrum
16 134 (6.10%) Business Intelligence
17 128 (5.83%) Containerisation
18 107 (4.87%) Software Testing
19 104 (4.74%) Analytics
19 104 (4.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 656 (29.87%) SQL
2 438 (19.95%) JavaScript
3 364 (16.58%) Python
4 270 (12.30%) TypeScript
5 242 (11.02%) Java
6 223 (10.15%) C++
7 109 (4.96%) PHP
8 90 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 49 (2.23%) C
10 41 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.50%) Go
12 29 (1.32%) Bash
13 27 (1.23%) Bicep
13 27 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 25 (1.14%) VBA
15 20 (0.91%) Scala
16 18 (0.82%) Rust
17 17 (0.77%) Delphi
17 17 (0.77%) F#
18 15 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 314 (14.30%) Degree
2 159 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (5.42%) Security Cleared
4 69 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 44 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 44 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 21 (0.96%) PhD
10 19 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 17 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.41%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 6 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (6.33%) QA
2 38 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.64%) GDPR
5 13 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 13 (0.59%) WCAG
6 11 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
8 3 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.091%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.091%) ITGC
10 1 (0.046%) HL7
10 1 (0.046%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 180 (8.20%) Docker
2 21 (0.96%) Firmware
3 15 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 100 (4.55%) Terraform
3 36 (1.64%) Grafana
4 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 6 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.091%) MIIS
9 2 (0.091%) MOM
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 418 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.91%) Oracle
3 31 (1.41%) Google
4 23 (1.05%) Adobe
5 13 (0.59%) Xamarin
6 12 (0.55%) Databricks
6 12 (0.55%) VMware
7 11 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 10 (0.46%) SAP
9 7 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.32%) iManage
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir
10 6 (0.27%) Aderant
11 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Intapp
11 5 (0.23%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.23%) Workday