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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 40 18
Rank change year-on-year -37 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,161 2,532 7,877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.45% 6.04% 8.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.93% 18.13% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 2,142 6,849
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,758 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +9.13% -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 15,514 13,966 32,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.62% 33.31% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,536 10,257 25,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -37 1,986 £61,500 -5.38% 798
UK excluding London -40 1,478 £57,500 - 659
Work from Home -23 807 £60,000 -7.69% 470
London -23 553 £82,500 +10.00% 249
South East -23 435 £60,000 - 238
North of England -15 416 £61,500 +11.82% 135
Midlands -45 270 £57,500 +4.55% 88
North West -13 204 £60,000 +14.29% 86
South West -26 150 £52,500 -6.67% 77
East of England -54 142 £60,000 -9.37% 83
East Midlands -27 137 £55,000 - 42
Yorkshire -32 137 £62,500 +13.64% 26
West Midlands -57 133 £57,500 +4.55% 46
North East -23 75 £70,000 +21.74% 24
Scotland -62 43 £60,000 +27.66% 21
Wales -40 23 £41,750 -33.20% 17
Northern Ireland -36 9 £95,000 - 15
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 62 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.11%) 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%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.093%) Anypoint
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 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.19%) Simulink
3 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
2 3 (0.14%) Shopify
3 2 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.093%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
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
4 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 936 (43.31%) Azure
2 359 (16.61%) AWS
3 213 (9.86%) SaaS
4 206 (9.53%) Power Platform
5 203 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
6 128 (5.92%) Serverless
7 124 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 105 (4.86%) PowerApps
9 104 (4.81%) Power Automate
10 87 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
11 77 (3.56%) Azure Functions
12 75 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.19%) GitHub
14 63 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
14 63 (2.92%) GCP
15 48 (2.22%) Azure AKS
16 37 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.51%) Broadband
3 8 (0.37%) DNS
3 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.37%) 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
2 123 (5.69%) Power BI
3 85 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 60 (2.78%) MySQL
6 54 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 47 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 45 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.69%) Redis
13 14 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.51%) DB2
15 7 (0.32%) Metadata
15 7 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
17 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 145 (6.71%) Git
2 67 (3.10%) Selenium
3 58 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 54 (2.50%) JIRA
5 41 (1.90%) Postman
6 32 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.30%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.25%) SoapUI
9 25 (1.16%) SpecFlow
10 22 (1.02%) GitLab
10 22 (1.02%) Jenkins
11 19 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
12 17 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 16 (0.74%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.56%) NUnit
15 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
18 6 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 420 (19.44%) Finance
2 340 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 117 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.05%) Public Sector
5 63 (2.92%) Law
6 56 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 53 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (2.36%) Front Office
9 46 (2.13%) Banking
10 42 (1.94%) Retail
11 40 (1.85%) Games
12 31 (1.43%) Legal
13 30 (1.39%) Electronics
14 23 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 21 (0.97%) Marketing
16 16 (0.74%) Automotive
16 16 (0.74%) Investment Banking
17 15 (0.69%) Advertising
17 15 (0.69%) Aviation
17 15 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,120 (51.83%) Developer
2 489 (22.63%) Senior
3 424 (19.62%) Software Engineer
4 403 (18.65%) Software Developer
5 396 (18.32%) C# Developer
6 294 (13.60%) .NET Developer
7 247 (11.43%) Senior Developer
8 244 (11.29%) Lead
9 172 (7.96%) C# Software Engineer
10 167 (7.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 153 (7.08%) C# Software Developer
12 149 (6.89%) C# .NET Developer
13 145 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 125 (5.78%) .NET Software Engineer
15 114 (5.28%) Graduate
16 98 (4.53%) Graduate Developer
17 96 (4.44%) Lead Developer
18 88 (4.07%) Graduate Software Developer
18 88 (4.07%) SQL Developer
19 83 (3.84%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,332 (61.64%) .NET
2 382 (17.68%) .NET Core
3 252 (11.66%) ASP.NET
4 245 (11.34%) React
5 192 (8.88%) HTML
6 188 (8.70%) CSS
7 180 (8.33%) .NET Framework
8 132 (6.11%) REST
9 131 (6.06%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.14%) RESTful
11 90 (4.16%) Vue
12 84 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
13 81 (3.75%) Node.js
14 80 (3.70%) Entity Framework
15 78 (3.61%) Blazor
16 54 (2.50%) WPF
17 50 (2.31%) Playwright
18 49 (2.27%) jQuery
19 43 (1.99%) HTML5 Canvas
20 40 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.74%) Cloud Native
2 79 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (3.29%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.13%) Hedge funds
7 44 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.94%) Low-Code
9 40 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.25%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (1.02%) Sports Betting
14 20 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
15 19 (0.88%) Legacy Code
15 19 (0.88%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.83%) Management Information System
16 18 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 17 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.72%) Windows
2 80 (3.70%) Linux
3 17 (0.79%) Android
4 14 (0.65%) Unix
4 14 (0.65%) VMS
4 14 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.093%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.093%) Solaris
6 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (31.61%) Software Engineering
2 606 (28.04%) Agile
3 433 (20.04%) DevOps
4 422 (19.53%) CI/CD
5 410 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 298 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 264 (12.22%) Mentoring
8 250 (11.57%) Microservices
9 249 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 235 (10.87%) Computer Science
11 195 (9.02%) Test Automation
12 181 (8.38%) AI
13 176 (8.14%) SDLC
14 145 (6.71%) MVC
15 136 (6.29%) Scrum
16 133 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
17 130 (6.02%) Containerisation
18 107 (4.95%) Software Testing
19 104 (4.81%) Infrastructure as Code
20 103 (4.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 649 (30.03%) SQL
2 440 (20.36%) JavaScript
3 360 (16.66%) Python
4 273 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 246 (11.38%) Java
6 215 (9.95%) C++
7 104 (4.81%) PHP
8 90 (4.16%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.41%) C
10 42 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.43%) Go
12 29 (1.34%) Bash
13 27 (1.25%) Bicep
14 26 (1.20%) VB.NET
15 23 (1.06%) VBA
16 18 (0.83%) Rust
16 18 (0.83%) Scala
17 17 (0.79%) Delphi
17 17 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.69%) F#
Qualifications
1 310 (14.35%) Degree
2 155 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 116 (5.37%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 45 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 44 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 21 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (0.97%) PhD
11 19 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 17 (0.79%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.42%) CREST Certified
17 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.28%) HND
18 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (6.71%) QA
2 38 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.83%) 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
1 181 (8.38%) Docker
2 21 (0.97%) Firmware
3 15 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.32%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.58%) Terraform
3 36 (1.67%) Grafana
4 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.46%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 6 (0.28%) 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 Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 416 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 43 (1.99%) Oracle
3 30 (1.39%) Google
4 23 (1.06%) Adobe
5 14 (0.65%) Xamarin
6 12 (0.56%) Databricks
6 12 (0.56%) VMware
7 11 (0.51%) SAP
7 11 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (0.46%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.32%) iManage
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir
10 6 (0.28%) Aderant
10 6 (0.28%) Workday
11 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
11 5 (0.23%) Facebook
11 5 (0.23%) Intapp
11 5 (0.23%) MuleSoft