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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -50 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,843 4,414 4,552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.27% 7.11% 9.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.92% 21.28% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 2,970 4,060
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,467 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,579 20,744 20,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.53% 33.39% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,450 12,486 17,013
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -46 1,684 £60,000 - 1,474
UK excluding London -55 1,214 £57,500 +4.55% 1,401
Work from Home -21 844 £60,000 +4.35% 1,026
London -22 523 £80,000 +6.67% 279
North of England -35 342 £60,000 +13.74% 346
South East -43 339 £60,000 - 426
Midlands -42 259 £55,000 +4.76% 223
North West -28 171 £62,500 +19.05% 193
West Midlands -41 139 £57,500 +4.96% 117
Yorkshire -32 126 £57,500 +15.00% 110
East Midlands -19 120 £50,000 -4.76% 99
South West -54 103 £55,000 +10.00% 130
East of England -60 99 £55,000 -2.22% 151
North East -23 47 £50,000 -18.37% 44
Scotland -78 43 £60,000 +30.43% 90
Wales -28 31 £48,000 -1.03% 37
Northern Ireland -14 8 £80,000 +23.08% 21
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 52 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.55%) IIS
3 33 (1.79%) CMS
4 19 (1.03%) Kinematics
5 17 (0.92%) Confluence
6 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.33%) nginx
9 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 14 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.16%) OrCAD
5 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite
4 5 (0.27%) Shopify
5 4 (0.22%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.054%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.054%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.054%) Sage 1000
7 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 929 (50.41%) Azure
2 357 (19.37%) AWS
3 247 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (11.29%) SaaS
5 168 (9.12%) Power Platform
6 129 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
7 119 (6.46%) Serverless
8 114 (6.19%) Power Automate
9 103 (5.59%) GitHub
10 97 (5.26%) PowerApps
11 93 (5.05%) GCP
12 72 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 67 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 62 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 60 (3.26%) Azure Functions
16 54 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
18 34 (1.84%) Entra ID
19 26 (1.41%) Azure AKS
19 26 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
2 10 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.49%) HTTP
4 8 (0.43%) DNS
5 7 (0.38%) Internet
6 5 (0.27%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.27%) SAN
7 4 (0.22%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) Modbus
7 4 (0.22%) MQTT
7 4 (0.22%) WPA
8 3 (0.16%) Firewall
8 3 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SMTP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.054%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (21.65%) SQL Server
2 94 (5.10%) Relational Database
3 88 (4.77%) MongoDB
4 82 (4.45%) MySQL
5 80 (4.34%) Power BI
6 76 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 73 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 39 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (1.30%) Redis
14 16 (0.87%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
17 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 155 (8.41%) Git
2 79 (4.29%) JIRA
3 73 (3.96%) Selenium
4 51 (2.77%) Visual Studio
5 45 (2.44%) Postman
6 39 (2.12%) Jenkins
7 36 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 29 (1.57%) WebDriver
9 23 (1.25%) SoapUI
10 19 (1.03%) SpecFlow
10 19 (1.03%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 18 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 16 (0.87%) GitLab
13 14 (0.76%) NUnit
14 10 (0.54%) JMeter
14 10 (0.54%) MSTest
15 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
General
1 501 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 308 (16.71%) Finance
3 115 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (5.21%) Law
5 79 (4.29%) Retail
6 77 (4.18%) Public Sector
7 60 (3.26%) Front Office
8 59 (3.20%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (2.22%) Banking
11 39 (2.12%) Electronics
11 39 (2.12%) Legal
12 34 (1.84%) Back Office
13 30 (1.63%) Marketing
14 24 (1.30%) Games
15 22 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.14%) Billing
17 14 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 926 (50.24%) Developer
2 404 (21.92%) Senior
3 259 (14.05%) Software Engineer
4 238 (12.91%) C# Developer
5 235 (12.75%) .NET Developer
6 229 (12.43%) Lead
7 219 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 214 (11.61%) Software Developer
9 142 (7.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 91 (4.94%) Architect
11 80 (4.34%) Analyst
12 77 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
13 72 (3.91%) Graduate
14 68 (3.69%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
16 65 (3.53%) C# Software Developer
17 63 (3.42%) Support Engineer
18 59 (3.20%) .NET Software Engineer
19 58 (3.15%) Graduate Developer
20 57 (3.09%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,096 (59.47%) .NET
2 305 (16.55%) React
3 302 (16.39%) .NET Core
4 257 (13.94%) ASP.NET
5 220 (11.94%) HTML
6 216 (11.72%) .NET Framework
6 216 (11.72%) AngularJS
7 215 (11.67%) CSS
8 145 (7.87%) REST
9 138 (7.49%) RESTful
10 119 (6.46%) Entity Framework
11 95 (5.15%) Vue
12 94 (5.10%) Blazor
13 86 (4.67%) ASP.NET MVC
14 75 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
15 69 (3.74%) Node.js
16 66 (3.58%) Web Services
17 53 (2.88%) SOAP
18 52 (2.82%) XML
19 51 (2.77%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 151 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 79 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.06%) Mobile App
10 28 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 24 (1.30%) Robotics
12 18 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 18 (0.98%) IoT
13 17 (0.92%) Client/Server
13 17 (0.92%) Derivative
13 17 (0.92%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.81%) Operational Technology
14 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 90 (4.88%) Windows
2 56 (3.04%) Linux
3 17 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.87%) Android
5 14 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.71%) Unix
7 4 (0.22%) VMS
8 3 (0.16%) Solaris
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 1 (0.054%) AIX
10 1 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.054%) Fedora
10 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (36.08%) Agile
2 536 (29.08%) Software Engineering
3 517 (28.05%) DevOps
4 470 (25.50%) CI/CD
5 431 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
6 378 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 332 (18.01%) Mentoring
8 319 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 315 (17.09%) Microservices
10 215 (11.67%) Computer Science
11 193 (10.47%) Test Automation
12 171 (9.28%) MVC
13 164 (8.90%) Scrum
14 147 (7.98%) SDLC
15 139 (7.54%) AI
16 130 (7.05%) Containerisation
17 128 (6.95%) Migration
18 127 (6.89%) User Experience
19 124 (6.73%) CRM
20 123 (6.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 675 (36.63%) SQL
2 474 (25.72%) JavaScript
3 309 (16.77%) Python
4 261 (14.16%) Java
5 237 (12.86%) TypeScript
6 136 (7.38%) C++
7 106 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 84 (4.56%) PHP
9 56 (3.04%) C
10 48 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 39 (2.12%) VB.NET
12 22 (1.19%) Bicep
13 20 (1.09%) Go
14 19 (1.03%) Bash
15 16 (0.87%) Delphi
15 16 (0.87%) Rust
15 16 (0.87%) VBA
16 11 (0.60%) VB
17 9 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 308 (16.71%) Degree
2 163 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 89 (4.83%) Security Cleared
4 64 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 60 (3.26%) SC Cleared
6 49 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 38 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 37 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 27 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 21 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.60%) PhD
15 10 (0.54%) HND
16 8 (0.43%) ISEB
17 6 (0.33%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 5 (0.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (9.77%) QA
2 34 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.63%) GDPR
4 18 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (0.87%) ISO 9001
6 15 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.43%) WCAG
8 5 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.27%) NIST
9 4 (0.22%) HL7
9 4 (0.22%) SEPA
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
11 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.054%) COBIT
12 1 (0.054%) EMIR
12 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.054%) IFRS
12 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 182 (9.88%) Docker
2 20 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.65%) Firmware
5 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 1 (0.054%) HDFS
9 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 155 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 93 (5.05%) Terraform
3 23 (1.25%) Grafana
4 13 (0.71%) Ansible
5 10 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.33%) Control-M
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.22%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.054%) Kibana
11 1 (0.054%) Nmap
11 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 457 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.88%) Oracle
3 35 (1.90%) Guidewire
4 24 (1.30%) Google
5 18 (0.98%) Sage
6 17 (0.92%) Xamarin
7 16 (0.87%) Databricks
8 15 (0.81%) VMware
9 14 (0.76%) SAP
10 12 (0.65%) Infor
10 12 (0.65%) Palantir
11 11 (0.60%) Dynatrace
11 11 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 10 (0.54%) DevExpress
12 10 (0.54%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
14 8 (0.43%) YouTube
15 7 (0.38%) Facebook
15 7 (0.38%) Talend