C# Job Trends

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,870 3,489 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.80% 7.01% 9.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.91% 20.49% 24.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 2,308 6,150
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% +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 12,545 17,025 27,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.81% 34.21% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,968 10,143 22,774
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% -

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -43 1,714 £60,000 -7.69% 817
UK excluding London -51 1,254 £57,000 -0.87% 732
Work from Home -29 768 £60,000 -7.34% 538
London -20 501 £80,000 +6.67% 216
North of England -34 363 £62,500 +13.64% 191
South East -43 356 £55,000 -12.00% 246
Midlands -35 262 £52,500 -4.55% 106
North West -23 178 £62,500 +19.05% 115
East Midlands -23 132 £52,500 -4.55% 54
West Midlands -44 130 £52,500 -6.67% 52
Yorkshire -40 119 £61,500 +23.00% 47
South West -43 119 £55,000 - 68
East of England -68 91 £55,000 -16.93% 62
North East -13 66 £70,000 +14.29% 32
Scotland -81 45 £60,000 +33.33% 42
Wales -41 17 £43,750 -27.08% 25
Northern Ireland -23 9 £95,000 +61.70% 7
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 40 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.03%) IIS
3 18 (0.96%) CMS
4 10 (0.53%) Kinematics
5 8 (0.43%) Confluence
6 6 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.053%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.21%) Simulink
5 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.053%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.053%) Endur
5 1 (0.053%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 880 (47.06%) Azure
2 345 (18.45%) AWS
3 235 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (11.28%) SaaS
5 182 (9.73%) Power Platform
6 129 (6.90%) Serverless
7 105 (5.61%) Power Automate
8 96 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
9 92 (4.92%) PowerApps
10 88 (4.71%) GCP
11 86 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
12 73 (3.90%) Azure Functions
13 72 (3.85%) GitHub
14 52 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 52 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
15 41 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 37 (1.98%) Entra ID
17 33 (1.76%) Azure AKS
18 28 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
18 28 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (1.76%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 6 (0.32%) HTTP
3 6 (0.32%) Internet
4 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.053%) IPv6
8 1 (0.053%) SSL
8 1 (0.053%) VPN
8 1 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.87%) Power BI
3 82 (4.39%) Relational Database
4 69 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 62 (3.32%) MySQL
6 61 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 60 (3.21%) MongoDB
8 44 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 36 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.02%) Redis
13 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.37%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.27%) Big Data
16 5 (0.27%) GIS
16 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 130 (6.95%) Git
2 72 (3.85%) Selenium
3 69 (3.69%) Visual Studio
4 67 (3.58%) JIRA
5 47 (2.51%) Postman
6 37 (1.98%) WebDriver
7 36 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
8 30 (1.60%) SoapUI
9 29 (1.55%) Jenkins
10 22 (1.18%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.75%) GitLab
12 14 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.48%) LabVIEW
16 8 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.37%) JMeter
17 7 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
General
1 439 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 330 (17.65%) Finance
3 117 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (4.28%) Law
5 76 (4.06%) Public Sector
6 60 (3.21%) Retail
7 54 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (2.46%) Front Office
10 45 (2.41%) Banking
11 39 (2.09%) Electronics
12 31 (1.66%) Games
13 30 (1.60%) Legal
14 29 (1.55%) Marketing
15 17 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.91%) Military
16 16 (0.86%) Aviation
16 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 911 (48.72%) Developer
2 421 (22.51%) Senior
3 319 (17.06%) Software Engineer
4 268 (14.33%) Software Developer
5 260 (13.90%) C# Developer
6 236 (12.62%) .NET Developer
7 214 (11.44%) Senior Developer
8 203 (10.86%) Lead
9 146 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 109 (5.83%) C# Software Engineer
11 103 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 93 (4.97%) .NET Software Engineer
13 88 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
14 75 (4.01%) C# Software Developer
15 68 (3.64%) Lead Developer
16 66 (3.53%) Architect
17 65 (3.48%) Analyst
18 63 (3.37%) Support Engineer
19 62 (3.32%) Senior Software Developer
20 58 (3.10%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,138 (60.86%) .NET
2 321 (17.17%) .NET Core
3 270 (14.44%) React
4 229 (12.25%) ASP.NET
5 190 (10.16%) HTML
6 187 (10.00%) .NET Framework
7 171 (9.14%) CSS
8 164 (8.77%) AngularJS
9 137 (7.33%) REST
10 99 (5.29%) RESTful
11 89 (4.76%) Entity Framework
12 76 (4.06%) Vue
13 70 (3.74%) Blazor
14 59 (3.16%) ASP.NET MVC
15 54 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
16 52 (2.78%) Node.js
17 51 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
18 46 (2.46%) SOAP
18 46 (2.46%) WPF
19 42 (2.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 74 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (1.98%) Low-Code
9 35 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 32 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 25 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.96%) Derivative
14 18 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.86%) Robotics
16 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.80%) Sports Betting
17 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.08%) Windows
2 72 (3.85%) Linux
3 23 (1.23%) Android
4 17 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.86%) Unix
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.37%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.053%) AIX
11 1 (0.053%) Fedora
11 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (31.71%) Agile
2 581 (31.07%) Software Engineering
3 445 (23.80%) DevOps
4 417 (22.30%) CI/CD
5 379 (20.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 373 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
7 292 (15.61%) Mentoring
8 284 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 271 (14.49%) Microservices
10 197 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 159 (8.50%) AI
12 155 (8.29%) SDLC
13 153 (8.18%) Test Automation
14 146 (7.81%) Scrum
15 129 (6.90%) MVC
16 120 (6.42%) Containerisation
17 116 (6.20%) CRM
18 113 (6.04%) Migration
19 104 (5.56%) OO
20 102 (5.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 612 (32.73%) SQL
2 442 (23.64%) JavaScript
3 320 (17.11%) Python
4 237 (12.67%) Java
5 228 (12.19%) TypeScript
6 158 (8.45%) C++
7 104 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 68 (3.64%) PHP
9 57 (3.05%) C
10 43 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.44%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.28%) Bash
13 21 (1.12%) Go
13 21 (1.12%) Rust
14 20 (1.07%) Bicep
15 16 (0.86%) Delphi
16 14 (0.75%) VBA
17 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (15.24%) Degree
2 137 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (6.95%) Security Cleared
4 76 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 63 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.46%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 37 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 25 (1.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 22 (1.18%) DV Cleared
14 21 (1.12%) PhD
15 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.43%) ISEB
18 7 (0.37%) CREST Certified
19 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.47%) QA
2 37 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.07%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 11 (0.59%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
8 4 (0.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.053%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.053%) HL7
10 1 (0.053%) IFRS
10 1 (0.053%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.053%) ITGC
10 1 (0.053%) SOC 2
System Software
1 168 (8.98%) Docker
2 24 (1.28%) Firmware
3 23 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.59%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.053%) HDFS
8 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.053%) Squid
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.03%) Terraform
3 26 (1.39%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.11%) MOM
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.053%) Nessus
9 1 (0.053%) WMI
Vendors
1 405 (21.66%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.67%) Oracle
3 33 (1.76%) Google
4 21 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 17 (0.91%) Guidewire
5 17 (0.91%) SAP
6 13 (0.70%) Palantir
7 12 (0.64%) Sage
8 11 (0.59%) Databricks
9 10 (0.53%) VMware
10 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
11 8 (0.43%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.37%) Adobe
12 7 (0.37%) IBM
12 7 (0.37%) Infor
12 7 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.32%) DevExpress
13 6 (0.32%) Epicor