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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 49 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,085 2,359 7,858
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.16% 4.84% 7.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.51% 16.34% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,697 1,945 6,554
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,761 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 17,618 14,438 32,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.03% 29.63% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,514 9,618 24,412
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £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 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,784
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.39% -0.39%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 0 2,835 £60,000 -7.69% 768
UK excluding London +3 2,293 £57,500 -4.17% 681
Work from Home +1 1,362 £55,000 -15.38% 500
South East +20 677 £60,000 - 214
London -18 651 £82,500 +3.13% 218
North of England +31 574 £57,500 -4.17% 165
Midlands -8 386 £55,000 - 87
North West +51 283 £57,500 +4.55% 85
East of England +2 264 £60,000 -9.37% 90
South West +12 260 £55,000 - 69
West Midlands -21 194 £60,000 +9.09% 44
East Midlands +16 192 £55,000 - 42
Yorkshire +3 160 £55,000 -19.12% 42
North East -4 131 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Northern Ireland -9 56 £65,000 -18.75% 21
Wales -38 45 £51,619 -20.59% 20
Scotland -25 33 £55,000 -12.00% 35

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 84 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.04%) IIS
3 31 (1.00%) CMS
4 18 (0.58%) Confluence
5 15 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.19%) nginx
8 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.16%) Apache
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.097%) DNN
11 3 (0.097%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.097%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.097%) Kentico
11 3 (0.097%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.097%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.097%) Magento
4 3 (0.097%) Shopify
5 2 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.065%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.065%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,571 (50.92%) Azure
2 534 (17.31%) AWS
3 427 (13.84%) Azure DevOps
4 285 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 231 (7.49%) SaaS
6 228 (7.39%) GitHub
7 176 (5.71%) Azure AI
8 166 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 166 (5.38%) Serverless
9 158 (5.12%) Power Automate
10 152 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
10 152 (4.93%) PowerApps
11 131 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
12 114 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 105 (3.40%) Azure Functions
13 105 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
14 104 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 77 (2.50%) GCP
16 56 (1.82%) Azure AKS
17 54 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.01%) Internet
2 19 (0.62%) Broadband
3 17 (0.55%) DNS
4 15 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.29%) Firewall
7 8 (0.26%) VPN
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.19%) DHCP
10 5 (0.16%) BGP
10 5 (0.16%) IPsec
10 5 (0.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) LTE
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.097%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.097%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (16.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 504 (16.34%) SQL Server
3 448 (14.52%) MongoDB
4 162 (5.25%) Power BI
5 160 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
6 82 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.37%) MySQL
8 60 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.68%) Redis
13 18 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.42%) Db2
15 12 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.39%) Metadata
16 11 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.32%) Big Data
17 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 213 (6.90%) Git
2 58 (1.88%) JIRA
3 40 (1.30%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.20%) Selenium
5 35 (1.13%) GitLab
6 26 (0.84%) Postman
7 25 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 22 (0.71%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.58%) Jenkins
11 14 (0.45%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.45%) NUnit
12 12 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.29%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 535 (17.34%) Finance
2 441 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 156 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (3.44%) Manufacturing
5 105 (3.40%) Law
6 94 (3.05%) Legal
7 88 (2.85%) Games
8 78 (2.53%) Retail
9 71 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.27%) Advertising
11 63 (2.04%) Marketing
12 62 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.88%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.85%) Banking
14 57 (1.85%) Electronics
15 49 (1.59%) Front Office
16 38 (1.23%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.13%) Automotive
18 20 (0.65%) Military
19 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,697 (55.01%) Developer
2 784 (25.41%) .NET Developer
3 667 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 651 (21.10%) Senior
5 413 (13.39%) Software Developer
6 379 (12.29%) C# Developer
7 311 (10.08%) C# Software Engineer
8 305 (9.89%) Senior Developer
9 294 (9.53%) Lead
10 238 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 173 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (5.38%) C# .NET Developer
13 163 (5.28%) C# Software Developer
14 154 (4.99%) .NET Software Engineer
15 144 (4.67%) Graduate
16 134 (4.34%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.18%) Architect
18 98 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
19 94 (3.05%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,013 (65.25%) .NET
2 772 (25.02%) .NET Core
3 725 (23.50%) ASP.NET
4 577 (18.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 456 (14.78%) React
6 370 (11.99%) CSS
7 353 (11.44%) HTML
8 311 (10.08%) AngularJS
9 291 (9.43%) RESTful
10 289 (9.37%) Blazor
11 281 (9.11%) Vue
12 267 (8.65%) Entity Framework
13 254 (8.23%) Node.js
14 233 (7.55%) .NET Framework
15 213 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
16 208 (6.74%) REST
17 156 (5.06%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.89%) LINQ
19 106 (3.44%) WPF
20 78 (2.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 148 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
3 115 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.78%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 42 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.04%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (0.88%) Management Information System
16 26 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.78%) Legacy Code
17 24 (0.78%) Robotics
18 23 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
18 23 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.76%) Windows
2 112 (3.63%) Linux
3 42 (1.36%) Android
4 30 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.065%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (35.30%) Agile
2 975 (31.60%) Software Engineering
3 907 (29.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 745 (24.15%) CI/CD
5 715 (23.18%) DevOps
6 503 (16.30%) Microservices
7 477 (15.46%) AI
8 446 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
9 360 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 358 (11.60%) Mentoring
11 277 (8.98%) Computer Science
12 269 (8.72%) Test Automation
13 266 (8.62%) Machine Learning
14 233 (7.55%) SDLC
15 202 (6.55%) Multithreading
16 199 (6.45%) Scrum
17 189 (6.13%) TDD
18 179 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
18 179 (5.80%) OO
19 161 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,177 (38.15%) SQL
2 718 (23.27%) JavaScript
3 501 (16.24%) Python
4 476 (15.43%) TypeScript
5 342 (11.09%) C++
6 277 (8.98%) Java
7 130 (4.21%) PHP
8 121 (3.92%) PowerShell
9 79 (2.56%) C
10 58 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.39%) Bicep
12 39 (1.26%) Go
13 38 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.13%) Bash
15 30 (0.97%) VBA
16 24 (0.78%) Rust
17 21 (0.68%) Scala
18 19 (0.62%) F#
18 19 (0.62%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.58%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 390 (12.64%) Degree
2 185 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 126 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.43%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.91%) PhD
9 22 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.16%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.16%) GPEN
16 5 (0.16%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (7.03%) QA
2 49 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.84%) GDPR
5 21 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.39%) SLA
8 11 (0.36%) WCAG
9 5 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.065%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.065%) ITGC
12 2 (0.065%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.065%) PSD2
13 1 (0.032%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 371 (12.03%) Docker
2 27 (0.88%) Firmware
3 22 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.23%) KVM
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.097%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 330 (10.70%) Kubernetes
2 147 (4.76%) Terraform
3 38 (1.23%) Grafana
4 18 (0.58%) Ansible
5 12 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.097%) Control-M
9 3 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.065%) Kibana
10 2 (0.065%) MIIS
10 2 (0.065%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
11 1 (0.032%) Nmap
Vendors
1 999 (32.38%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.76%) Google
3 65 (2.11%) Facebook
4 48 (1.56%) Oracle
5 26 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.75%) Adobe
7 21 (0.68%) YouTube
8 20 (0.65%) Apple
8 20 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 18 (0.58%) Sony
9 18 (0.58%) VMware
9 18 (0.58%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.52%) Databricks
11 15 (0.49%) Xamarin
12 13 (0.42%) Intapp
13 11 (0.36%) IBM
13 11 (0.36%) SAP
13 11 (0.36%) Splunk
14 10 (0.32%) iManage
15 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow