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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,782 2,259 8,667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.96% 5.03% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.52% 16.17% 25.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,461 1,864 7,306
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,750 £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 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 16,841 13,971 34,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.89% 31.13% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,911 9,215 25,983
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -1 2,603 £60,000 -7.69% 621
UK excluding London +2 2,027 £57,500 -4.17% 564
Work from Home 0 1,104 £55,000 -15.38% 405
London -19 626 £82,500 +3.13% 186
South East +12 614 £59,250 -1.25% 176
North of England +32 541 £59,000 +2.61% 123
Midlands -10 352 £57,500 +4.55% 72
North West +56 272 £60,000 +9.09% 66
East of England -7 229 £60,000 -9.37% 69
South West +10 221 £55,000 - 60
East Midlands +15 179 £55,000 - 33
West Midlands -32 173 £59,000 +7.27% 39
Yorkshire -5 154 £55,000 -18.52% 25
North East -9 115 £60,000 +5.26% 34
Scotland -20 35 £55,000 -1.35% 20
Wales -46 31 £50,000 -24.24% 15
Northern Ireland -26 6 £65,000 -18.75% 43

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 73 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 27 (0.97%) CMS
2 27 (0.97%) IIS
3 17 (0.61%) Confluence
4 13 (0.47%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
5 8 (0.29%) WordPress
6 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.14%) Apache
8 4 (0.14%) JBoss
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
9 2 (0.072%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.072%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.036%) DNN
10 1 (0.036%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.036%) Immediacy CMS
10 1 (0.036%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 32 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.072%) Shopify
4 2 (0.072%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.072%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.036%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.036%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.036%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,359 (48.85%) Azure
2 470 (16.89%) AWS
3 357 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.48%) SaaS
6 177 (6.36%) GitHub
7 148 (5.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 148 (5.32%) Serverless
8 131 (4.71%) Power Automate
9 129 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 118 (4.24%) Azure AI
10 118 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
11 108 (3.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 95 (3.41%) Azure Functions
13 90 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
14 89 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
15 87 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 66 (2.37%) GCP
17 56 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
18 55 (1.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.69%) Internet
2 19 (0.68%) Broadband
3 14 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.47%) DNS
5 10 (0.36%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.32%) Firewall
7 7 (0.25%) HTTP
7 7 (0.25%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.22%) DHCP
9 5 (0.18%) LAN
9 5 (0.18%) LTE
9 5 (0.18%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
10 4 (0.14%) VPN
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) SSL
12 2 (0.072%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 369 (13.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 316 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 143 (5.14%) Power BI
5 111 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
6 77 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 71 (2.55%) MySQL
8 57 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 53 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.65%) Redis
13 12 (0.43%) Db2
13 12 (0.43%) Metadata
14 11 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 199 (7.15%) Git
2 60 (2.16%) JIRA
3 46 (1.65%) Visual Studio
4 44 (1.58%) Selenium
5 35 (1.26%) GitLab
6 29 (1.04%) Postman
7 24 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.83%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.75%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (0.58%) Jenkins
12 15 (0.54%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.47%) NUnit
14 12 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.43%) SoapUI
15 11 (0.40%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 8 (0.29%) Yeoman
General
1 492 (17.69%) Finance
2 383 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 147 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (3.67%) Manufacturing
5 74 (2.66%) Games
6 67 (2.41%) Retail
7 66 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.05%) Electronics
8 57 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (1.94%) Banking
10 51 (1.83%) Advertising
11 50 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 49 (1.76%) Front Office
13 47 (1.69%) Law
14 43 (1.55%) Marketing
15 37 (1.33%) Legal
16 34 (1.22%) Automotive
17 18 (0.65%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,503 (54.03%) Developer
2 623 (22.39%) .NET Developer
3 620 (22.29%) Software Engineer
4 572 (20.56%) Senior
5 427 (15.35%) Software Developer
6 386 (13.87%) C# Developer
7 300 (10.78%) C# Software Engineer
8 272 (9.78%) Senior Developer
9 266 (9.56%) Lead
10 219 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
13 165 (5.93%) C# Software Developer
14 158 (5.68%) .NET Software Engineer
15 133 (4.78%) Graduate
16 123 (4.42%) Lead Developer
17 100 (3.59%) Graduate Developer
18 95 (3.41%) .NET Software Developer
18 95 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 94 (3.38%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,813 (65.17%) .NET
2 650 (23.36%) .NET Core
3 575 (20.67%) ASP.NET
4 422 (15.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 386 (13.87%) React
6 312 (11.21%) CSS
7 299 (10.75%) HTML
8 253 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 230 (8.27%) RESTful
10 228 (8.20%) Blazor
11 225 (8.09%) Vue
12 209 (7.51%) .NET Framework
12 209 (7.51%) Entity Framework
13 192 (6.90%) Node.js
14 189 (6.79%) REST
15 160 (5.75%) ASP.NET Web API
16 107 (3.85%) ML.NET
17 100 (3.59%) WPF
18 86 (3.09%) LINQ
19 62 (2.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 173 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 119 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
3 107 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 90 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 89 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 57 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 55 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 49 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 34 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 34 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 34 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 29 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (0.86%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.86%) Management Information System
13 24 (0.86%) Sports Betting
14 23 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (0.79%) Robotics
16 21 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 140 (5.03%) Windows
2 103 (3.70%) Linux
3 40 (1.44%) Android
4 26 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.43%) VMS
7 8 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 902 (32.42%) Agile
2 859 (30.88%) Software Engineering
3 759 (27.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 626 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 603 (21.68%) DevOps
6 399 (14.34%) Microservices
7 397 (14.27%) AI
8 382 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (11.14%) Mentoring
10 295 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (9.88%) Computer Science
12 234 (8.41%) Test Automation
13 222 (7.98%) SDLC
14 208 (7.48%) Machine Learning
15 173 (6.22%) Scrum
16 161 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
17 160 (5.75%) TDD
18 153 (5.50%) Containerisation
19 152 (5.46%) Multithreading
20 147 (5.28%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (36.05%) SQL
2 596 (21.42%) JavaScript
3 444 (15.96%) Python
4 385 (13.84%) TypeScript
5 324 (11.65%) C++
6 266 (9.56%) Java
7 117 (4.21%) PHP
8 95 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 71 (2.55%) C
10 53 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.51%) Bicep
12 37 (1.33%) Go
13 35 (1.26%) VB.NET
14 34 (1.22%) Bash
15 29 (1.04%) VBA
16 23 (0.83%) Rust
17 19 (0.68%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.65%) Scala
19 17 (0.61%) PL/SQL
20 16 (0.58%) F#
Qualifications
1 384 (13.80%) Degree
2 187 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.58%) Azure Certification
5 44 (1.58%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 28 (1.01%) PhD
8 20 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (0.36%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.46%) QA
2 48 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.75%) GDPR
5 14 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 14 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.47%) WCAG
7 12 (0.43%) SLA
8 5 (0.18%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.072%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.072%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.072%) ITGC
12 1 (0.036%) EMIR
12 1 (0.036%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (11.18%) Docker
2 29 (1.04%) Firmware
3 21 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.22%) KVM
6 6 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 273 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 135 (4.85%) Terraform
3 36 (1.29%) Grafana
4 16 (0.58%) Ansible
5 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.22%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.11%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.072%) MIIS
10 2 (0.072%) MOM
11 1 (0.036%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.036%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.036%) Nessus
11 1 (0.036%) Netcool
11 1 (0.036%) Nmap
Vendors
1 789 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 60 (2.16%) Google
3 46 (1.65%) Facebook
4 45 (1.62%) Oracle
5 24 (0.86%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.83%) Adobe
7 18 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.61%) VMware
9 15 (0.54%) Databricks
9 15 (0.54%) Xamarin
9 15 (0.54%) YouTube
10 14 (0.50%) Apple
11 12 (0.43%) Sony
11 12 (0.43%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.36%) Splunk
13 9 (0.32%) iManage
13 9 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.25%) IBM
15 7 (0.25%) Intapp