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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -46 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,869 3,526 6,761
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.89% 6.90% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.33% 20.32% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 2,290 6,102
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,275
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,574 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.35% +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 12,191 17,354 27,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.83% 33.95% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 10,204 22,597
10th Percentile £33,350 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

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 5 February 2026.

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 5 February 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 -40 1,707 £60,000 -5.14% 914
UK excluding London -50 1,250 £55,574 -3.35% 763
Work from Home -27 789 £60,000 -2.31% 595
London -22 502 £80,000 +6.67% 280
North of England -34 364 £62,500 +13.64% 205
South East -44 347 £55,000 -12.00% 250
Midlands -35 262 £52,500 -4.55% 111
North West -18 181 £62,500 +15.74% 125
West Midlands -44 132 £52,500 -4.55% 53
East Midlands -22 130 £52,750 -4.09% 58
Yorkshire -37 117 £61,500 +23.00% 48
South West -40 117 £55,000 - 58
East of England -60 91 £55,000 -16.92% 77
North East -15 66 £70,000 +12.00% 33
Scotland -72 45 £60,000 +33.33% 42
Wales -33 22 £45,000 -25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -22 10 £78,750 +34.04% 10
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 40 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.98%) IIS
3 21 (1.12%) CMS
4 11 (0.59%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.48%) Confluence
6 8 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.054%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 48 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 897 (47.99%) Azure
2 348 (18.62%) AWS
3 236 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
4 218 (11.66%) SaaS
5 181 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 134 (7.17%) Serverless
7 104 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 98 (5.24%) Dynamics 365
9 91 (4.87%) GCP
10 90 (4.82%) PowerApps
11 84 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 75 (4.01%) GitHub
13 74 (3.96%) Azure Functions
14 54 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
15 51 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
16 43 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 36 (1.93%) Entra ID
18 31 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.55%) Azure AKS
20 26 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 6 (0.32%) HTTP
3 6 (0.32%) Internet
4 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.21%) Firewall
5 4 (0.21%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (19.80%) SQL Server
2 89 (4.76%) Power BI
3 84 (4.49%) Relational Database
4 69 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 68 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 68 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 68 (3.64%) MySQL
6 44 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.02%) Redis
12 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.32%) GIS
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.27%) Big Data
15 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 128 (6.85%) Git
2 76 (4.07%) Selenium
3 71 (3.80%) JIRA
4 68 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 50 (2.68%) Postman
6 39 (2.09%) WebDriver
7 38 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 32 (1.71%) SoapUI
9 31 (1.66%) Jenkins
10 21 (1.12%) SpecFlow
11 17 (0.91%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.80%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.70%) GitLab
13 13 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.48%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.43%) LabVIEW
17 7 (0.37%) Balsamiq
17 7 (0.37%) JMeter
17 7 (0.37%) PowerBuilder
General
1 453 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 323 (17.28%) Finance
3 115 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (4.39%) Law
5 74 (3.96%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.16%) Retail
7 55 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.62%) Front Office
9 44 (2.35%) Banking
10 37 (1.98%) Electronics
11 31 (1.66%) Legal
12 29 (1.55%) Marketing
13 28 (1.50%) Games
14 16 (0.86%) Aviation
14 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.80%) Military
15 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 919 (49.17%) Developer
2 420 (22.47%) Senior
3 307 (16.43%) Software Engineer
4 257 (13.75%) C# Developer
5 256 (13.70%) Software Developer
6 243 (13.00%) .NET Developer
7 216 (11.56%) Senior Developer
8 208 (11.13%) Lead
9 146 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 100 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (5.30%) C# Software Engineer
12 86 (4.60%) .NET Software Engineer
13 85 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
14 71 (3.80%) Lead Developer
15 69 (3.69%) C# Software Developer
16 67 (3.58%) Analyst
17 66 (3.53%) Architect
17 66 (3.53%) Support Engineer
18 62 (3.32%) Graduate
18 62 (3.32%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,142 (61.10%) .NET
2 326 (17.44%) .NET Core
3 276 (14.77%) React
4 236 (12.63%) ASP.NET
5 193 (10.33%) HTML
6 191 (10.22%) .NET Framework
7 174 (9.31%) CSS
8 170 (9.10%) AngularJS
9 139 (7.44%) REST
10 103 (5.51%) RESTful
11 94 (5.03%) Entity Framework
12 81 (4.33%) Vue
13 72 (3.85%) Blazor
14 68 (3.64%) ASP.NET MVC
15 57 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
16 56 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
16 56 (3.00%) Node.js
17 51 (2.73%) SOAP
18 46 (2.46%) WPF
19 43 (2.30%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.47%) Cloud Native
2 78 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 45 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 33 (1.77%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.12%) Hedge funds
14 19 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
15 18 (0.96%) Derivative
16 17 (0.91%) Robotics
17 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
17 15 (0.80%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 91 (4.87%) Windows
2 69 (3.69%) Linux
3 21 (1.12%) Android
4 15 (0.80%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) Fedora
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (32.53%) Agile
2 574 (30.71%) Software Engineering
3 450 (24.08%) DevOps
4 425 (22.74%) CI/CD
5 388 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
6 386 (20.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 301 (16.10%) Mentoring
8 293 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 280 (14.98%) Microservices
10 200 (10.70%) Computer Science
11 157 (8.40%) Test Automation
12 156 (8.35%) AI
13 150 (8.03%) SDLC
14 148 (7.92%) Scrum
15 140 (7.49%) MVC
16 118 (6.31%) CRM
17 116 (6.21%) Containerisation
18 114 (6.10%) Migration
19 110 (5.89%) OO
20 105 (5.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 624 (33.39%) SQL
2 451 (24.13%) JavaScript
3 317 (16.96%) Python
4 242 (12.95%) Java
5 227 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 153 (8.19%) C++
7 103 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 71 (3.80%) PHP
9 54 (2.89%) C
10 44 (2.35%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.44%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.28%) Bash
13 20 (1.07%) Go
14 19 (1.02%) Rust
15 18 (0.96%) Bicep
16 17 (0.91%) Delphi
17 15 (0.80%) VBA
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
19 10 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 285 (15.25%) Degree
2 139 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 75 (4.01%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.51%) ISTQB
8 40 (2.14%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 27 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.86%) PhD
14 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.43%) ISEB
16 7 (0.37%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.36%) QA
2 39 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.12%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.27%) SLA
9 4 (0.21%) SEPA
10 3 (0.16%) HL7
11 2 (0.11%) EMIR
11 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.054%) IFRS
12 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.054%) ITGC
12 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (8.67%) Docker
2 22 (1.18%) Firmware
3 21 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.14%) Terraform
3 26 (1.39%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) MOM
9 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.054%) Nessus
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 410 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 52 (2.78%) Oracle
3 33 (1.77%) Google
4 19 (1.02%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 17 (0.91%) SAP
7 13 (0.70%) Palantir
7 13 (0.70%) Sage
8 10 (0.54%) Databricks
8 10 (0.54%) VMware
9 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.37%) Adobe
11 7 (0.37%) IBM
11 7 (0.37%) Infor
12 6 (0.32%) Epicor
12 6 (0.32%) ESRI
12 6 (0.32%) Salesforce