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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 73 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -50 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,376 1,861 4,988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.84% 3.78% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.19% 14.90% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,781 1,560 3,282
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £36,738
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 18,559 12,494 22,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.64% 25.40% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 13,136 8,117 13,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £109,500
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +17 3,077 £60,130 -3.79% 1,818
UK excluding London +31 2,623 £60,000 +4.35% 1,047
Work from Home +20 1,533 £57,500 -4.17% 872
South East +25 767 £60,000 - 258
North of England +39 641 £59,000 -1.67% 288
London -30 637 £85,000 +6.25% 853
Midlands -1 413 £60,000 +9.09% 154
East of England +33 310 £60,000 +9.09% 137
North West +54 298 £55,000 -12.00% 144
South West +36 283 £55,000 +4.76% 84
West Midlands -18 213 £62,500 +13.64% 90
East Midlands +13 200 £60,000 +9.09% 64
North East +5 184 £75,000 +46.34% 57
Yorkshire -1 159 £55,000 -6.38% 91
Northern Ireland +2 114 £35,000 -37.22% 40
Scotland +26 49 £55,000 -13.39% 68
Wales -49 49 £53,171 +9.63% 38

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
1 123 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.24%) IIS
3 29 (0.86%) Confluence
4 27 (0.80%) CMS
5 11 (0.33%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.30%) nginx
7 9 (0.27%) WordPress
8 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.21%) Apache
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.089%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.089%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.089%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 33 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
5 5 (0.15%) Stateflow
6 3 (0.089%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.059%) Revit
8 1 (0.030%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 58 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.50%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
4 6 (0.18%) SAP Business One
5 5 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.12%) Shopify
7 3 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.089%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
8 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.030%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.030%) Eikon
9 1 (0.030%) Endur
9 1 (0.030%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,613 (47.78%) Azure
2 583 (17.27%) AWS
3 494 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
4 361 (10.69%) Power Platform
5 268 (7.94%) GitHub
6 252 (7.46%) SaaS
7 218 (6.46%) Power Automate
8 207 (6.13%) Serverless
9 198 (5.86%) Azure AI
10 192 (5.69%) PowerApps
11 178 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
12 175 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
13 157 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
14 131 (3.88%) Azure Logic Apps
15 125 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 123 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 121 (3.58%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.61%) GCP
19 64 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
20 47 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 64 (1.90%) Internet
2 23 (0.68%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) DNS
4 19 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.47%) HTTP
6 12 (0.36%) VLAN
6 12 (0.36%) Wireless
7 11 (0.33%) VPN
8 10 (0.30%) Broadband
9 8 (0.24%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
11 6 (0.18%) BGP
11 6 (0.18%) IPsec
11 6 (0.18%) SNMP
12 5 (0.15%) DHCP
12 5 (0.15%) LAN
12 5 (0.15%) WAN
13 3 (0.089%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.089%) Intranet
13 3 (0.089%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (17.83%) SQL Server
2 504 (14.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 456 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 188 (5.57%) Power BI
5 164 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
6 107 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 103 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 86 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 85 (2.52%) MySQL
10 43 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 35 (1.04%) Redis
12 34 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (0.80%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.62%) Metadata
16 20 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (0.53%) Data Lake
18 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
19 15 (0.44%) Big Data
20 13 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 334 (9.89%) Git
2 78 (2.31%) JIRA
3 48 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.07%) GitLab
5 35 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 33 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 29 (0.86%) Selenium
8 25 (0.74%) NUnit
9 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
11 15 (0.44%) Postman
12 13 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.30%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.27%) Eclipse
14 9 (0.27%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.27%) Subversion
14 9 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.24%) Moq
15 8 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 613 (18.16%) Social Skills
2 497 (14.72%) Finance
3 208 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (5.51%) Legal
5 134 (3.97%) Law
6 133 (3.94%) Manufacturing
7 115 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 109 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 88 (2.61%) Games
10 70 (2.07%) Retail
11 68 (2.01%) Electronics
12 65 (1.93%) Marketing
13 64 (1.90%) Advertising
14 63 (1.87%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.60%) Banking
16 41 (1.21%) Front Office
16 41 (1.21%) Legal Technology
17 31 (0.92%) Automotive
18 27 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
19 22 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,690 (50.06%) Developer
2 793 (23.49%) Senior
3 789 (23.37%) .NET Developer
4 737 (21.83%) Software Engineer
5 384 (11.37%) Senior Developer
6 341 (10.10%) C# Software Engineer
7 337 (9.98%) Software Developer
8 316 (9.36%) Lead
9 296 (8.77%) C# Developer
10 243 (7.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 165 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 149 (4.41%) Architect
13 142 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
14 136 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
15 132 (3.91%) Lead Developer
16 126 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 107 (3.17%) Graduate
18 101 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
19 97 (2.87%) C# Software Developer
20 89 (2.64%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,218 (65.70%) .NET
2 747 (22.13%) ASP.NET
3 718 (21.27%) .NET Core
4 592 (17.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 520 (15.40%) React
6 370 (10.96%) HTML
7 367 (10.87%) CSS
8 336 (9.95%) AngularJS
9 334 (9.89%) RESTful
10 305 (9.03%) Entity Framework
11 302 (8.95%) Blazor
12 284 (8.41%) REST
13 277 (8.20%) Vue
14 273 (8.09%) .NET Framework
15 269 (7.97%) Node.js
16 224 (6.64%) ASP.NET Web API
17 168 (4.98%) Terraform
18 149 (4.41%) ML.NET
19 138 (4.09%) WPF
20 118 (3.50%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 231 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 183 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
3 159 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
4 141 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
5 140 (4.15%) Product Ownership
6 107 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 64 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 58 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 55 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 55 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 54 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 44 (1.30%) Robotics
14 36 (1.07%) Hedge funds
15 33 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
17 28 (0.83%) IoT
18 27 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 25 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 183 (5.42%) Windows
2 112 (3.32%) Linux
3 40 (1.18%) Android
3 40 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.30%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) macOS
8 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.059%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.030%) CentOS
10 1 (0.030%) Solaris
10 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (34.54%) Software Engineering
2 1,161 (34.39%) Agile
3 922 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 900 (26.66%) CI/CD
5 821 (24.32%) DevOps
6 622 (18.42%) AI
7 610 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
8 579 (17.15%) Microservices
9 487 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 478 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 332 (9.83%) Test Automation
12 294 (8.71%) SDLC
13 270 (8.00%) Machine Learning
14 249 (7.38%) Computer Science
15 235 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
16 209 (6.19%) OO
17 208 (6.16%) Software Testing
18 202 (5.98%) Scrum
19 201 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
20 196 (5.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,200 (35.55%) SQL
2 837 (24.79%) JavaScript
3 588 (17.42%) Python
4 506 (14.99%) TypeScript
5 331 (9.80%) C++
6 288 (8.53%) Java
7 125 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 98 (2.90%) PHP
9 85 (2.52%) C
10 78 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.42%) Go
11 48 (1.42%) VB.NET
12 46 (1.36%) Bicep
13 31 (0.92%) VBA
14 26 (0.77%) Bash
15 25 (0.74%) Rust
16 23 (0.68%) Delphi
17 22 (0.65%) Ruby
18 17 (0.50%) MATLAB
18 17 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 378 (11.20%) Degree
2 175 (5.18%) Security Cleared
3 163 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 132 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 57 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 45 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 16 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.21%) OSCP
16 5 (0.15%) CHECK Team Member
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.12%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (8.92%) QA
2 63 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 45 (1.33%) GDPR
5 23 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.53%) WCAG
7 9 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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%) SLA
11 3 (0.089%) IEC 61131
11 3 (0.089%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.089%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.089%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) SOC 2
System Software
1 399 (11.82%) Docker
2 32 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.41%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) 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 (0.089%) vSphere
10 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.030%) HDFS
11 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 334 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 27 (0.80%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) Ansible
4 18 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) EnCase
5 8 (0.24%) FTK
6 7 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.12%) Control-M
10 3 (0.089%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.089%) Kibana
10 3 (0.089%) SQL Sentry
11 2 (0.059%) Bosun
12 1 (0.030%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,165 (34.51%) Microsoft
2 92 (2.73%) Google
3 62 (1.84%) Facebook
4 56 (1.66%) Oracle
5 36 (1.07%) OpenAI
6 31 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 26 (0.77%) VMware
8 23 (0.68%) YouTube
9 19 (0.56%) Databricks
9 19 (0.56%) Intapp
10 18 (0.53%) Foundry
11 17 (0.50%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) HP
12 16 (0.47%) SAP
12 16 (0.47%) Sony
12 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
13 15 (0.44%) Aderant
14 14 (0.41%) Adobe
15 12 (0.36%) iManage
16 11 (0.33%) Talend