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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 57 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,393 2,045 5,629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.08% 4.11% 6.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.36% 15.13% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 1,692 4,170
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,063 £81,250 £72,483
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,125 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.65%

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 18,480 13,519 24,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.79% 27.17% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,179 8,839 16,455
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,675
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +9 3,102 £60,000 -4.00% 1,838
UK excluding London +24 2,618 £57,500 - 1,069
Work from Home +9 1,536 £55,000 -8.33% 949
South East +26 762 £60,000 +2.13% 288
London -23 651 £85,000 +6.25% 972
North of England +41 638 £56,500 -5.83% 260
Midlands -1 413 £60,000 +9.09% 140
East of England +28 322 £60,000 +9.09% 149
North West +49 298 £55,000 -8.33% 131
South West +30 292 £53,500 +1.90% 110
West Midlands -10 218 £60,000 +4.35% 56
East Midlands +17 195 £55,000 - 83
North East 0 171 £65,000 +13.04% 70
Yorkshire -4 169 £55,000 -8.33% 61
Northern Ireland +1 116 £50,000 -10.31% 42
Wales -48 46 £51,619 +3.24% 30
Scotland -4 31 £52,500 -18.60% 70

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
1 107 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.21%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) 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
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 55 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.29%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,666 (49.10%) Azure
2 590 (17.39%) AWS
3 485 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 343 (10.11%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.37%) GitHub
6 249 (7.34%) SaaS
7 207 (6.10%) Power Automate
8 195 (5.75%) Azure AI
9 188 (5.54%) Serverless
10 185 (5.45%) PowerApps
11 169 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
12 159 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
13 155 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 146 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
15 127 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 120 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 108 (3.18%) Azure Functions
18 86 (2.53%) GCP
19 50 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
20 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.86%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) Firewall
5 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) VLAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 5 (0.15%) Wireless
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 523 (15.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 462 (13.62%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.48%) Power BI
5 167 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
6 98 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 81 (2.39%) MySQL
8 80 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 76 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.80%) Redis
14 23 (0.68%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.56%) Metadata
16 16 (0.47%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.38%) Data Lake
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
19 12 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 303 (8.93%) Git
2 71 (2.09%) JIRA
3 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.21%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.71%) NUnit
9 23 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.62%) Postman
11 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.24%) Subversion
14 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.21%) MSI
15 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 566 (16.68%) Social Skills
2 521 (15.36%) Finance
3 193 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.16%) Legal
5 120 (3.54%) Law
5 120 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 106 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 94 (2.77%) Games
9 74 (2.18%) Retail
10 71 (2.09%) Advertising
11 68 (2.00%) Marketing
12 63 (1.86%) Electronics
13 59 (1.74%) Aerospace
14 51 (1.50%) Banking
15 45 (1.33%) Front Office
16 39 (1.15%) Legal Technology
17 36 (1.06%) Automotive
18 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,770 (52.17%) Developer
2 803 (23.67%) .NET Developer
3 747 (22.02%) Senior
4 737 (21.72%) Software Engineer
5 390 (11.49%) Software Developer
6 371 (10.93%) C# Developer
7 355 (10.46%) Lead
8 351 (10.34%) Senior Developer
9 327 (9.64%) C# Software Engineer
10 247 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 176 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.77%) C# .NET Developer
13 157 (4.63%) Lead Developer
14 150 (4.42%) Graduate
15 149 (4.39%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.54%) Architect
18 116 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 107 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
20 95 (2.80%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,171 (63.98%) .NET
2 776 (22.87%) ASP.NET
3 760 (22.40%) .NET Core
4 606 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 495 (14.59%) React
6 394 (11.61%) CSS
7 391 (11.52%) HTML
8 332 (9.78%) RESTful
9 324 (9.55%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.14%) Blazor
11 301 (8.87%) Entity Framework
12 296 (8.72%) Vue
13 265 (7.81%) Node.js
14 263 (7.75%) .NET Framework
15 245 (7.22%) REST
16 223 (6.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.83%) Terraform
18 156 (4.60%) ML.NET
19 145 (4.27%) WPF
20 118 (3.48%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 159 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
3 152 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 130 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 129 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 58 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.36%) Hedge funds
13 44 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 44 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 33 (0.97%) Robotics
15 28 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.74%) Legacy Code
18 24 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 177 (5.22%) Windows
2 116 (3.42%) Linux
3 41 (1.21%) Android
4 38 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) VMS
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (35.40%) Agile
2 1,139 (33.57%) Software Engineering
3 943 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 856 (25.23%) CI/CD
5 809 (23.84%) DevOps
6 578 (17.04%) Microservices
7 567 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
8 542 (15.97%) AI
9 470 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 469 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 327 (9.64%) Test Automation
12 289 (8.52%) SDLC
13 282 (8.31%) Computer Science
14 275 (8.10%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.51%) Software Testing
16 216 (6.37%) Scrum
17 206 (6.07%) OO
18 205 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
19 196 (5.78%) Multithreading
20 190 (5.60%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (36.31%) SQL
2 832 (24.52%) JavaScript
3 571 (16.83%) Python
4 527 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 347 (10.23%) C++
6 301 (8.87%) Java
7 140 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 134 (3.95%) PHP
9 83 (2.45%) C
10 67 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.36%) Go
12 44 (1.30%) Bicep
13 42 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 37 (1.09%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 25 (0.74%) Rust
17 23 (0.68%) Ruby
18 22 (0.65%) Delphi
19 21 (0.62%) Scala
20 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 418 (12.32%) Degree
2 190 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.18%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.17%) QA
2 67 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.18%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.47%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 4 (0.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.088%) NIST
10 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (11.49%) Docker
2 22 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 341 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,125 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.59%) Google
3 65 (1.92%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) Adobe
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 20 (0.59%) VMware
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 14 (0.41%) Intapp
13 13 (0.38%) Foundry
13 13 (0.38%) HP
14 12 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.32%) IBM
15 11 (0.32%) Splunk
16 10 (0.29%) iManage