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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 -37 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,419 2,078 5,836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.13% 4.15% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.40% 15.21% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,911 1,717 4,451
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -7.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £88,750
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 18,578 13,660 25,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.98% 27.29% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 13,230 8,945 17,313
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +11 3,125 £60,000 -4.00% 506
UK excluding London +23 2,630 £57,500 - 413
Work from Home +9 1,545 £55,000 -8.33% 287
South East +24 759 £60,000 +4.35% 100
London -17 663 £82,500 +3.13% 152
North of England +38 649 £57,500 -4.17% 111
Midlands -2 418 £60,000 +9.09% 70
East of England +29 320 £60,000 +9.09% 50
North West +51 302 £55,000 -8.33% 59
South West +25 293 £53,500 +1.90% 56
West Midlands -13 219 £60,000 +4.35% 27
East Midlands +22 199 £55,000 - 42
Yorkshire +9 181 £55,000 -8.33% 23
North East +1 166 £65,000 +13.04% 30
Northern Ireland +9 116 £50,000 -10.31% 8
Wales -53 46 £51,619 +3.24% 12
Scotland -10 31 £50,000 -22.48% 16

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
1 100 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.11%) IIS
3 33 (0.97%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 15 (0.44%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.20%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.088%) DNN
12 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.088%) Kentico
12 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 42 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.088%) Simulink
6 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 53 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.29%) Carpe Diem
4 5 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.058%) Magento
7 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.029%) Eikon
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.029%) RMDS
8 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,678 (49.08%) Azure
2 584 (17.08%) AWS
3 480 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
4 335 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 262 (7.66%) SaaS
6 251 (7.34%) GitHub
7 204 (5.97%) Power Automate
8 193 (5.64%) Azure AI
9 180 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 177 (5.18%) Serverless
11 169 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
12 158 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 156 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
14 143 (4.18%) Dynamics 365
15 129 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 106 (3.10%) Azure Functions
18 88 (2.57%) GCP
19 51 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
20 48 (1.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.84%) Internet
2 20 (0.58%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 14 (0.41%) Firewall
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
8 7 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (0.088%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (17.37%) SQL Server
2 521 (15.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 459 (13.42%) MongoDB
4 181 (5.29%) Power BI
5 168 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
6 98 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 86 (2.52%) MySQL
8 78 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 76 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.82%) Redis
13 21 (0.61%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.50%) Metadata
15 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.35%) Data Lake
18 11 (0.32%) Big Data
18 11 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 299 (8.75%) Git
2 72 (2.11%) JIRA
3 43 (1.26%) Selenium
3 43 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 33 (0.97%) GitLab
5 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 24 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
9 22 (0.64%) Postman
10 20 (0.58%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.44%) SpecFlow
12 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.23%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 560 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 531 (15.53%) Finance
3 192 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.12%) Legal
5 123 (3.60%) Law
6 120 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 104 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (2.69%) Games
9 85 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 77 (2.25%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 70 (2.05%) Marketing
13 62 (1.81%) Electronics
14 58 (1.70%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 44 (1.29%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 28 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,793 (52.44%) Developer
2 801 (23.43%) .NET Developer
3 759 (22.20%) Senior
4 746 (21.82%) Software Engineer
5 411 (12.02%) Software Developer
6 387 (11.32%) C# Developer
7 359 (10.50%) Lead
7 359 (10.50%) Senior Developer
8 332 (9.71%) C# Software Engineer
9 248 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 176 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 163 (4.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 161 (4.71%) C# Software Developer
13 158 (4.62%) Lead Developer
14 156 (4.56%) Graduate
15 144 (4.21%) .NET Software Engineer
16 120 (3.51%) Architect
17 117 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 107 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
19 103 (3.01%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,188 (64.00%) .NET
2 777 (22.73%) ASP.NET
3 766 (22.40%) .NET Core
4 605 (17.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 500 (14.62%) React
6 393 (11.49%) CSS
7 387 (11.32%) HTML
8 327 (9.56%) RESTful
9 325 (9.51%) AngularJS
10 310 (9.07%) Blazor
11 298 (8.72%) Entity Framework
12 295 (8.63%) Vue
13 269 (7.87%) .NET Framework
14 267 (7.81%) Node.js
15 253 (7.40%) REST
16 223 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.80%) Terraform
18 156 (4.56%) ML.NET
19 140 (4.09%) WPF
20 119 (3.48%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.55%) Cloud Native
2 156 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 129 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 126 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 102 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.57%) Virtual Team
8 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 49 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 45 (1.32%) Hedge funds
11 45 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 40 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 33 (0.97%) Robotics
15 28 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 28 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
16 27 (0.79%) Legacy Code
17 26 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 172 (5.03%) Windows
2 117 (3.42%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 36 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.12%) VMS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.029%) CentOS
10 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,202 (35.16%) Agile
2 1,147 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 941 (27.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 847 (24.77%) CI/CD
5 811 (23.72%) DevOps
6 586 (17.14%) Microservices
7 563 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
8 543 (15.88%) AI
9 468 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 461 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 328 (9.59%) Test Automation
12 292 (8.54%) SDLC
13 285 (8.34%) Computer Science
14 278 (8.13%) Machine Learning
15 223 (6.52%) Software Testing
16 219 (6.41%) Scrum
17 205 (6.00%) OO
18 197 (5.76%) Multithreading
19 191 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
19 191 (5.59%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (36.21%) SQL
2 816 (23.87%) JavaScript
3 567 (16.58%) Python
4 528 (15.44%) TypeScript
5 341 (9.97%) C++
6 298 (8.72%) Java
7 144 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 140 (4.09%) PHP
9 83 (2.43%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.40%) Go
12 46 (1.35%) Bicep
13 43 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.02%) Bash
15 34 (0.99%) VBA
16 25 (0.73%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.61%) Delphi
18 21 (0.61%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 415 (12.14%) Degree
2 191 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 143 (4.18%) Security Cleared
4 107 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.26%) Azure Certification
6 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 316 (9.24%) QA
2 63 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.05%) GDPR
5 21 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.41%) WCAG
7 7 (0.20%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) SLA
9 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
9 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
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
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 394 (11.52%) Docker
2 21 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 13 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 345 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
6 6 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.088%) Control-M
7 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.058%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,117 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.63%) Google
3 65 (1.90%) Facebook
4 50 (1.46%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.67%) Adobe
6 23 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.64%) YouTube
8 18 (0.53%) Apple
8 18 (0.53%) VMware
9 17 (0.50%) Databricks
9 17 (0.50%) Sony
9 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.41%) Intapp
11 13 (0.38%) Foundry
12 12 (0.35%) SAP
13 11 (0.32%) IBM
13 11 (0.32%) Splunk
14 10 (0.29%) Aderant
14 10 (0.29%) Xamarin