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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 68 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,423 1,890 5,261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.93% 3.86% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.16% 14.60% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,869 1,576 3,594
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,739 £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 £80,000 £80,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
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 18,845 12,949 23,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.15% 26.44% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,326 8,349 14,448
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £46,250 £47,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 23 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 23 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 +20 3,130 £60,000 -4.00% 1,871
UK excluding London +29 2,641 £57,500 - 1,268
Work from Home +21 1,532 £55,500 -7.50% 986
South East +32 778 £60,000 - 318
London -16 659 £85,000 +6.25% 756
North of England +34 638 £57,500 -4.17% 315
Midlands -4 416 £60,000 +9.09% 185
East of England +33 326 £60,000 +9.09% 188
North West +54 304 £55,000 -12.00% 177
South West +30 288 £54,250 +3.33% 107
West Midlands -19 217 £62,500 +13.64% 94
East Midlands +20 199 £60,000 +9.09% 91
North East +1 175 £67,153 +14.30% 53
Yorkshire -8 159 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Northern Ireland 0 116 £50,000 -10.31% 46
Wales -61 43 £51,619 +6.43% 37
Scotland +8 38 £55,000 -14.73% 92

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
1 119 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.029%) Revit
Business Applications
1 57 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) 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 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,658 (48.44%) Azure
2 597 (17.44%) AWS
3 490 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 358 (10.46%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.60%) GitHub
6 248 (7.25%) SaaS
7 216 (6.31%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.84%) Serverless
9 193 (5.64%) Azure AI
10 191 (5.58%) PowerApps
11 173 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
12 167 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
14 151 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 132 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 123 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 115 (3.36%) Azure Functions
18 90 (2.63%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 49 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.58%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
5 10 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.29%) VLAN
5 10 (0.29%) Wireless
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 600 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 506 (14.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 452 (13.20%) MongoDB
4 189 (5.52%) Power BI
5 163 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 96 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.48%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (0.96%) Redis
12 32 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.61%) Metadata
16 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 324 (9.47%) Git
2 74 (2.16%) JIRA
3 45 (1.31%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.02%) GitLab
5 34 (0.99%) Selenium
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 29 (0.85%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.23%) Moq
15 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 585 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 520 (15.19%) Finance
3 199 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.35%) Legal
5 130 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.68%) Law
7 121 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.66%) Games
10 73 (2.13%) Retail
11 69 (2.02%) Electronics
12 68 (1.99%) Advertising
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 64 (1.87%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 45 (1.31%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,757 (51.33%) Developer
2 800 (23.37%) .NET Developer
3 771 (22.52%) Senior
4 762 (22.26%) Software Engineer
5 361 (10.55%) Senior Developer
6 359 (10.49%) Software Developer
7 353 (10.31%) C# Developer
8 351 (10.25%) C# Software Engineer
9 348 (10.17%) Lead
10 252 (7.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 154 (4.50%) Lead Developer
14 137 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
15 134 (3.91%) Graduate
16 125 (3.65%) C# Software Developer
17 121 (3.53%) Architect
18 116 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 104 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
20 89 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,186 (63.86%) .NET
2 757 (22.12%) ASP.NET
3 739 (21.59%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 515 (15.05%) React
6 388 (11.34%) CSS
6 388 (11.34%) HTML
7 332 (9.70%) AngularJS
8 331 (9.67%) RESTful
9 304 (8.88%) Blazor
10 301 (8.79%) Entity Framework
11 293 (8.56%) Vue
12 271 (7.92%) .NET Framework
13 267 (7.80%) REST
14 259 (7.57%) Node.js
15 221 (6.46%) ASP.NET Web API
16 169 (4.94%) Terraform
17 148 (4.32%) ML.NET
18 145 (4.24%) WPF
19 116 (3.39%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 225 (6.57%) Cloud Native
2 172 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
4 139 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 107 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 62 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 54 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 54 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.34%) Hedge funds
13 36 (1.05%) Robotics
14 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 27 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (5.43%) Windows
2 116 (3.39%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,186 (34.65%) Agile
2 1,170 (34.18%) Software Engineering
3 936 (27.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 884 (25.83%) CI/CD
5 816 (23.84%) DevOps
6 595 (17.38%) AI
7 587 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (16.80%) Microservices
9 484 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 484 (14.14%) Mentoring
10 337 (9.85%) Test Automation
11 296 (8.65%) SDLC
12 279 (8.15%) Computer Science
13 269 (7.86%) Machine Learning
14 228 (6.66%) Software Testing
15 215 (6.28%) Scrum
16 208 (6.08%) OO
17 206 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
18 204 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
19 196 (5.73%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,223 (35.73%) SQL
2 850 (24.83%) JavaScript
3 590 (17.24%) Python
4 523 (15.28%) TypeScript
5 355 (10.37%) C++
6 303 (8.85%) Java
7 133 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 120 (3.51%) PHP
9 88 (2.57%) C
10 70 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.40%) Bicep
12 45 (1.31%) Go
13 44 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 31 (0.91%) Bash
16 23 (0.67%) Delphi
16 23 (0.67%) Rust
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 15 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 416 (12.15%) Degree
2 191 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 160 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 119 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 52 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 22 (0.64%) PhD
10 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.14%) QA
2 71 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.58%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.12%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.058%) MISRA C
System Software
1 392 (11.45%) Docker
2 28 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.53%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 336 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.67%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.058%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,135 (33.16%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.60%) Google
3 62 (1.81%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 27 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 18 (0.53%) Adobe
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 14 (0.41%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk