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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 40 18
Rank change year-on-year -36 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,161 2,554 7,836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.46% 6.11% 8.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.95% 18.26% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 2,158 6,830
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,825 £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 £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,250
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 15,496 13,986 32,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.67% 33.43% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,519 10,263 24,963
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,171 £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 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 21 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 21 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 -39 1,984 £60,000 -7.69% 823
UK excluding London -39 1,480 £57,500 - 655
Work from Home -24 809 £59,500 -8.46% 452
London -25 548 £82,500 +10.00% 265
South East -26 433 £59,000 -1.67% 229
North of England -19 422 £61,500 +11.82% 140
Midlands -45 272 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West -13 205 £60,000 +14.29% 89
South West -24 149 £55,000 -4.35% 81
Yorkshire -31 140 £61,500 +11.82% 29
East of England -51 139 £60,000 -9.37% 76
East Midlands -31 137 £57,500 +4.55% 43
West Midlands -53 135 £57,500 +4.55% 47
North East -16 77 £70,000 +21.74% 23
Scotland -59 44 £60,000 +33.33% 23
Wales -49 22 £42,000 -32.80% 17
Northern Ireland -39 9 £95,000 - 17
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 60 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.06%) CMS
3 21 (0.97%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.23%) Confluence
5 5 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.093%) JBoss
8 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.093%) nginx
8 2 (0.093%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Apache
9 1 (0.046%) Appian
9 1 (0.046%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Simulink
3 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) 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 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 943 (43.64%) Azure
2 364 (16.84%) AWS
3 211 (9.76%) SaaS
4 208 (9.63%) Power Platform
5 206 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (5.88%) Serverless
7 122 (5.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 104 (4.81%) Power Automate
9 103 (4.77%) PowerApps
10 90 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
11 75 (3.47%) Azure Functions
12 73 (3.38%) GitHub
12 73 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
13 63 (2.92%) GCP
14 62 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
15 46 (2.13%) Azure AKS
16 36 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.51%) Broadband
3 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.32%) DNS
4 7 (0.32%) HTTP
4 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.28%) Intranet
6 5 (0.23%) Internet
7 4 (0.19%) Firewall
7 4 (0.19%) LTE
7 4 (0.19%) Modbus
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
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
9 2 (0.093%) VPN
10 1 (0.046%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.046%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (19.90%) SQL Server
2 122 (5.65%) Power BI
3 83 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 71 (3.29%) NoSQL
5 62 (2.87%) MySQL
6 57 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 47 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 47 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (0.74%) Redis
11 15 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.51%) DB2
13 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.32%) Metadata
15 5 (0.23%) ClickHouse
15 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 140 (6.48%) Git
2 68 (3.15%) Selenium
3 59 (2.73%) Visual Studio
4 55 (2.55%) JIRA
5 41 (1.90%) Postman
6 32 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.30%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.25%) SoapUI
9 26 (1.20%) SpecFlow
10 23 (1.06%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.88%) GitLab
12 17 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 16 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
14 15 (0.69%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.60%) NUnit
16 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.42%) Balsamiq
18 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
18 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
19 6 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 419 (19.39%) Finance
2 346 (16.01%) Social Skills
3 119 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.05%) Public Sector
5 65 (3.01%) Law
6 55 (2.55%) Manufacturing
7 54 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (2.41%) Front Office
9 46 (2.13%) Banking
10 42 (1.94%) Retail
11 41 (1.90%) Games
12 32 (1.48%) Legal
13 30 (1.39%) Electronics
14 23 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 21 (0.97%) Marketing
16 17 (0.79%) Investment Banking
17 16 (0.74%) Military
18 15 (0.69%) Automotive
18 15 (0.69%) Aviation
19 13 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,114 (51.55%) Developer
2 487 (22.54%) Senior
3 428 (19.81%) Software Engineer
4 398 (18.42%) Software Developer
5 394 (18.23%) C# Developer
6 293 (13.56%) .NET Developer
7 246 (11.38%) Lead
8 242 (11.20%) Senior Developer
9 170 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 169 (7.82%) C# Software Engineer
11 151 (6.99%) C# Software Developer
12 148 (6.85%) C# .NET Developer
13 144 (6.66%) Senior Software Engineer
14 125 (5.78%) .NET Software Engineer
15 114 (5.28%) Graduate
16 97 (4.49%) Lead Developer
17 94 (4.35%) Graduate Developer
18 87 (4.03%) SQL Developer
19 85 (3.93%) Graduate Software Developer
20 82 (3.79%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,331 (61.59%) .NET
2 379 (17.54%) .NET Core
3 257 (11.89%) ASP.NET
4 246 (11.38%) React
5 194 (8.98%) HTML
6 190 (8.79%) CSS
7 179 (8.28%) .NET Framework
8 134 (6.20%) AngularJS
9 133 (6.15%) REST
10 110 (5.09%) RESTful
11 90 (4.16%) Vue
12 86 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
13 81 (3.75%) Node.js
14 80 (3.70%) Blazor
15 79 (3.66%) Entity Framework
16 53 (2.45%) WPF
17 50 (2.31%) jQuery
18 48 (2.22%) Playwright
19 41 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
20 40 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.74%) Cloud Native
2 80 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.13%) Hedge funds
7 43 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (1.99%) Low-Code
8 39 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 38 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 22 (1.02%) Sports Betting
13 19 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
13 19 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.83%) Legacy Code
14 18 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.63%) Windows
2 79 (3.66%) Linux
3 17 (0.79%) Android
4 15 (0.69%) Unix
5 14 (0.65%) VMS
5 14 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.60%) Apple iOS
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 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (31.88%) Software Engineering
2 608 (28.14%) Agile
3 436 (20.18%) DevOps
4 420 (19.44%) CI/CD
5 408 (18.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 303 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 267 (12.36%) Mentoring
8 250 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 249 (11.52%) Microservices
10 230 (10.64%) Computer Science
11 191 (8.84%) Test Automation
12 180 (8.33%) AI
13 177 (8.19%) SDLC
14 145 (6.71%) MVC
15 136 (6.29%) Scrum
16 132 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (5.97%) Containerisation
18 106 (4.91%) Software Testing
19 105 (4.86%) Technical Leadership
20 103 (4.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 653 (30.22%) SQL
2 443 (20.50%) JavaScript
3 359 (16.61%) Python
4 271 (12.54%) TypeScript
5 248 (11.48%) Java
6 215 (9.95%) C++
7 105 (4.86%) PHP
8 89 (4.12%) PowerShell
9 53 (2.45%) C
10 41 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.53%) Go
12 30 (1.39%) Bash
13 27 (1.25%) VB.NET
14 26 (1.20%) Bicep
15 23 (1.06%) VBA
16 18 (0.83%) Delphi
16 18 (0.83%) Rust
16 18 (0.83%) Scala
17 17 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.69%) F#
Qualifications
1 306 (14.16%) Degree
2 152 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 65 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 46 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 45 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.97%) PhD
12 20 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 17 (0.79%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 10 (0.46%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 6 (0.28%) HND
19 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.66%) QA
2 38 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.65%) GDPR
5 13 (0.60%) 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
8 3 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.093%) ITGC
10 1 (0.046%) HL7
10 1 (0.046%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 179 (8.28%) Docker
2 21 (0.97%) Firmware
3 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.44%) Terraform
3 36 (1.67%) Grafana
4 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.093%) MIIS
9 2 (0.093%) MOM
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.046%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 415 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.94%) Oracle
3 30 (1.39%) Google
4 21 (0.97%) Adobe
5 14 (0.65%) Xamarin
6 12 (0.56%) Databricks
6 12 (0.56%) SAP
6 12 (0.56%) VMware
7 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 9 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.32%) iManage
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir
9 7 (0.32%) Workday
10 6 (0.28%) Aderant
10 6 (0.28%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Intapp