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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,834 3,590 5,519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.00% 6.79% 9.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.62% 20.18% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,605 2,290 4,933
10th Percentile £35,850 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 11,744 17,793 23,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.20% 33.64% 38.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 10,354 18,896
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,500 £46,916
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,300 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 January 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 20 January 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 -43 1,673 £60,000 - 1,122
UK excluding London -47 1,230 £57,500 +4.55% 1,030
Work from Home -25 773 £60,000 - 589
London -20 492 £80,000 +6.67% 245
North of England -29 366 £62,500 +13.64% 236
South East -43 335 £55,000 -12.00% 335
Midlands -32 259 £55,000 - 127
North West -20 184 £62,500 +19.05% 138
West Midlands -34 135 £55,000 - 49
East Midlands -24 124 £52,750 -4.09% 76
Yorkshire -36 115 £61,500 +23.00% 62
South West -44 113 £55,000 - 113
East of England -56 88 £55,000 -2.22% 131
North East -8 69 £70,000 +7.69% 37
Scotland -77 45 £60,000 +33.33% 48
Wales -27 26 £47,500 -20.83% 49
Northern Ireland -13 8 £95,000 +61.70% 12
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 (2.18%) IIS
2 39 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.20%) CMS
4 13 (0.71%) Confluence
4 13 (0.71%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.16%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.11%) nginx
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.055%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.055%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.055%) Simulink
6 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 49 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 3 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.055%) Endur
6 1 (0.055%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.055%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 887 (48.36%) Azure
2 349 (19.03%) AWS
3 235 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
4 205 (11.18%) SaaS
5 171 (9.32%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.20%) Serverless
7 109 (5.94%) Power Automate
8 103 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
9 94 (5.13%) PowerApps
10 88 (4.80%) GCP
11 83 (4.53%) GitHub
12 79 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 68 (3.71%) Azure Functions
14 56 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 35 (1.91%) Entra ID
18 32 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (1.53%) Azure AKS
19 28 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.49%) DNS
4 8 (0.44%) HTTP
5 6 (0.33%) Internet
6 5 (0.27%) DHCP
7 4 (0.22%) Firewall
7 4 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.11%) Broadband
9 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SMTP
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VLAN
10 1 (0.055%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.055%) LTE
10 1 (0.055%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (19.96%) SQL Server
2 84 (4.58%) Relational Database
3 80 (4.36%) Power BI
4 77 (4.20%) MySQL
5 75 (4.09%) MongoDB
6 72 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 69 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 44 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 36 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 24 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.20%) Redis
12 21 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 131 (7.14%) Git
2 83 (4.53%) Selenium
3 81 (4.42%) JIRA
4 69 (3.76%) Visual Studio
5 55 (3.00%) Postman
6 41 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 41 (2.24%) WebDriver
7 38 (2.07%) Jenkins
8 35 (1.91%) SoapUI
9 23 (1.25%) SpecFlow
10 18 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.71%) NUnit
13 12 (0.65%) GitLab
14 11 (0.60%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.55%) JMeter
16 9 (0.49%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
18 6 (0.33%) LabVIEW
18 6 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 464 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 307 (16.74%) Finance
3 110 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (4.53%) Law
5 76 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.54%) Retail
7 54 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 47 (2.56%) Front Office
10 39 (2.13%) Banking
11 35 (1.91%) Electronics
12 34 (1.85%) Legal
13 30 (1.64%) Marketing
14 27 (1.47%) Games
15 16 (0.87%) Billing
15 16 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.76%) Aviation
18 12 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 898 (48.96%) Developer
2 420 (22.90%) Senior
3 295 (16.09%) Software Engineer
4 242 (13.20%) Software Developer
5 239 (13.03%) C# Developer
6 238 (12.98%) .NET Developer
7 219 (11.94%) Senior Developer
8 211 (11.50%) Lead
9 140 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 95 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (4.91%) C# Software Engineer
12 82 (4.47%) .NET Software Engineer
13 77 (4.20%) C# .NET Developer
14 72 (3.93%) Analyst
14 72 (3.93%) Lead Developer
15 66 (3.60%) Senior Software Developer
15 66 (3.60%) Support Engineer
16 64 (3.49%) Architect
16 64 (3.49%) C# Software Developer
16 64 (3.49%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,118 (60.96%) .NET
2 315 (17.18%) .NET Core
3 279 (15.21%) React
4 244 (13.30%) ASP.NET
5 200 (10.91%) HTML
6 193 (10.52%) .NET Framework
7 179 (9.76%) CSS
8 178 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 143 (7.80%) REST
10 115 (6.27%) RESTful
11 96 (5.23%) Entity Framework
12 86 (4.69%) Vue
13 78 (4.25%) Blazor
14 71 (3.87%) ASP.NET MVC
15 60 (3.27%) SOAP
16 58 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
17 57 (3.11%) Node.js
18 55 (3.00%) ASP.NET Core
19 47 (2.56%) Web Services
20 45 (2.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 135 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 86 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 31 (1.69%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 18 (0.98%) Derivative
12 18 (0.98%) Robotics
13 17 (0.93%) Hedge funds
13 17 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 15 (0.82%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.76%) IoT
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 88 (4.80%) Windows
2 64 (3.49%) Linux
3 20 (1.09%) Android
4 15 (0.82%) Unix
5 13 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.27%) VMS
7 4 (0.22%) Solaris
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
8 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.055%) AIX
9 1 (0.055%) Fedora
9 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (33.53%) Agile
2 549 (29.93%) Software Engineering
3 453 (24.70%) DevOps
4 436 (23.77%) CI/CD
5 401 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 378 (20.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 310 (16.90%) Mentoring
8 304 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 285 (15.54%) Microservices
10 207 (11.29%) Computer Science
11 159 (8.67%) Test Automation
12 154 (8.40%) Scrum
13 147 (8.02%) SDLC
14 145 (7.91%) AI
15 142 (7.74%) MVC
16 127 (6.92%) Migration
17 120 (6.54%) OO
18 119 (6.49%) CRM
19 117 (6.38%) Containerisation
20 107 (5.83%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 627 (34.19%) SQL
2 440 (23.99%) JavaScript
3 305 (16.63%) Python
4 251 (13.69%) Java
5 231 (12.60%) TypeScript
6 140 (7.63%) C++
7 102 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.98%) PHP
9 47 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 46 (2.51%) C
11 27 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 22 (1.20%) Bash
13 18 (0.98%) Bicep
14 17 (0.93%) Delphi
14 17 (0.93%) Go
15 16 (0.87%) Rust
16 13 (0.71%) VBA
17 12 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.55%) Scala
19 8 (0.44%) XAML
Qualifications
1 287 (15.65%) Degree
2 148 (8.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 120 (6.54%) Security Cleared
4 72 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 51 (2.78%) ISTQB
8 41 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 29 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 26 (1.42%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.09%) DV Cleared
14 17 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.65%) PhD
16 9 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 8 (0.44%) ISEB
18 6 (0.33%) CREST Certified
19 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
20 4 (0.22%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.65%) QA
2 41 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.15%) GDPR
4 17 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.71%) WCAG
6 9 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) HL7
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) SLA
11 1 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.055%) IFRS
11 1 (0.055%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (8.89%) Docker
2 20 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.98%) Firmware
4 10 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.33%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.055%) HDFS
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) Squid
8 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.40%) Terraform
3 26 (1.42%) Grafana
4 14 (0.76%) Ansible
5 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.38%) Kibana
7 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 1 (0.055%) WMI
Vendors
1 419 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.89%) Oracle
3 29 (1.58%) Google
4 24 (1.31%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.98%) Xamarin
6 15 (0.82%) Sage
6 15 (0.82%) SAP
7 13 (0.71%) Dynatrace
7 13 (0.71%) Palantir
8 11 (0.60%) Databricks
9 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.55%) VMware
10 8 (0.44%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.38%) Adobe
11 7 (0.38%) IBM
11 7 (0.38%) Infor
11 7 (0.38%) Talend
12 6 (0.33%) Epicor