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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 68 22
Rank change year-on-year +21 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,424 1,896 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.95% 3.85% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.23% 14.53% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,876 1,577 3,747
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
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 £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £90,000
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 18,783 13,053 24,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.16% 26.48% 30.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,281 8,437 15,009
10th Percentile £38,920 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 20 September 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 September 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 +18 3,134 £60,000 -4.00% 2,186
UK excluding London +28 2,643 £57,500 - 1,231
Work from Home +20 1,536 £55,000 -8.33% 1,044
South East +31 776 £60,000 - 324
London -17 663 £85,000 +6.25% 1,089
North of England +32 639 £57,500 -4.17% 308
Midlands -1 419 £60,000 +9.09% 169
East of England +31 326 £60,000 +9.09% 188
North West +57 302 £55,000 -12.00% 163
South West +35 287 £54,250 +3.33% 107
West Midlands -19 221 £62,500 +13.64% 86
East Midlands +23 198 £60,000 +9.09% 83
North East +4 176 £65,000 +13.04% 64
Yorkshire -4 161 £55,000 -8.33% 83
Northern Ireland +3 116 £50,000 -10.31% 37
Wales -51 44 £51,619 +6.43% 33
Scotland +10 38 £55,000 -14.73% 81

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
1 121 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 25 (0.73%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) Apache
7 8 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.23%) nginx
7 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.15%) JBoss
10 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.088%) DNN
11 3 (0.088%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.088%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.088%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.41%) Elite 3E
3 11 (0.32%) Carpe Diem
4 4 (0.12%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.12%) Shopify
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.058%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.058%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,665 (48.63%) Azure
2 598 (17.46%) AWS
3 493 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
4 361 (10.54%) Power Platform
5 259 (7.56%) GitHub
6 251 (7.33%) SaaS
7 217 (6.34%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.84%) Serverless
9 194 (5.67%) Azure AI
10 192 (5.61%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
12 169 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
14 154 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 131 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
16 124 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 117 (3.42%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.60%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.81%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.58%) DNS
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 17 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
5 10 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 10 (0.29%) VLAN
5 10 (0.29%) Wireless
6 9 (0.26%) VPN
7 6 (0.18%) BGP
7 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.18%) IPsec
7 6 (0.18%) SNMP
8 5 (0.15%) DHCP
8 5 (0.15%) Intranet
8 5 (0.15%) LAN
8 5 (0.15%) WAN
9 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.088%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 606 (17.70%) SQL Server
2 510 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.23%) MongoDB
4 193 (5.64%) Power BI
5 164 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
6 106 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 93 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 84 (2.45%) MySQL
9 81 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (0.93%) Redis
13 31 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 25 (0.73%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.61%) Metadata
16 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
17 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 320 (9.35%) Git
2 74 (2.16%) JIRA
3 48 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.05%) Selenium
5 35 (1.02%) GitLab
6 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 28 (0.82%) Claude Code
8 26 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 24 (0.70%) NUnit
10 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.55%) Postman
12 12 (0.35%) SpecFlow
13 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.26%) Subversion
16 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
16 8 (0.23%) Moq
16 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 584 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 514 (15.01%) Finance
3 200 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (5.37%) Legal
5 129 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 126 (3.68%) Law
7 118 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 91 (2.66%) Games
10 72 (2.10%) Retail
11 68 (1.99%) Advertising
12 67 (1.96%) Electronics
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 63 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 54 (1.58%) Banking
16 45 (1.31%) Front Office
17 40 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.05%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,767 (51.61%) Developer
2 805 (23.51%) .NET Developer
3 770 (22.49%) Senior
4 760 (22.20%) Software Engineer
5 364 (10.63%) Software Developer
6 363 (10.60%) Senior Developer
7 360 (10.51%) C# Developer
8 350 (10.22%) C# Software Engineer
9 347 (10.13%) Lead
10 251 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 178 (5.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (4.85%) C# .NET Developer
13 155 (4.53%) Lead Developer
14 138 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
15 136 (3.97%) Graduate
16 131 (3.83%) C# Software Developer
17 120 (3.50%) Architect
18 116 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
20 89 (2.60%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,189 (63.93%) .NET
2 758 (22.14%) ASP.NET
3 739 (21.58%) .NET Core
4 593 (17.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 512 (14.95%) React
6 394 (11.51%) CSS
6 394 (11.51%) HTML
7 332 (9.70%) RESTful
8 331 (9.67%) AngularJS
9 305 (8.91%) Blazor
10 301 (8.79%) Entity Framework
11 292 (8.53%) Vue
12 271 (7.91%) .NET Framework
13 268 (7.83%) REST
14 260 (7.59%) Node.js
15 221 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
16 169 (4.94%) Terraform
17 149 (4.35%) ML.NET
18 145 (4.23%) WPF
19 116 (3.39%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 173 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
3 154 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 137 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 107 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.78%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.66%) Onboarding
11 54 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 54 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 53 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 46 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 36 (1.05%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 26 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
17 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 26 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 187 (5.46%) Windows
2 114 (3.33%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
3 42 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.20%) Unix
6 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.058%) VMS
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,185 (34.61%) Agile
2 1,164 (34.00%) Software Engineering
3 938 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 880 (25.70%) CI/CD
5 818 (23.89%) DevOps
6 589 (17.20%) AI
7 584 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
8 576 (16.82%) Microservices
9 485 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 481 (14.05%) Mentoring
11 338 (9.87%) Test Automation
12 295 (8.62%) SDLC
13 280 (8.18%) Computer Science
14 272 (7.94%) Machine Learning
15 228 (6.66%) Software Testing
16 215 (6.28%) Scrum
17 209 (6.10%) OO
18 208 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
19 205 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
20 195 (5.70%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,228 (35.86%) SQL
2 850 (24.82%) JavaScript
3 587 (17.14%) Python
4 523 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 354 (10.34%) C++
6 301 (8.79%) Java
7 134 (3.91%) PowerShell
8 122 (3.56%) PHP
9 87 (2.54%) C
10 69 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 49 (1.43%) Bicep
12 45 (1.31%) Go
13 44 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 31 (0.91%) Bash
16 23 (0.67%) Delphi
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
18 21 (0.61%) Rust
19 18 (0.53%) Scala
20 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 417 (12.18%) Degree
2 192 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 154 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 116 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.64%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 14 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
16 4 (0.12%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.14%) QA
2 71 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 22 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.58%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.20%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
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%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.058%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 391 (11.42%) Docker
2 27 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.53%) Firmware
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%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 334 (9.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.67%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
8 4 (0.12%) EnCase
8 4 (0.12%) FTK
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.058%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,140 (33.29%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.60%) Google
3 63 (1.84%) Facebook
4 52 (1.52%) Oracle
5 35 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 27 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 25 (0.73%) VMware
8 22 (0.64%) YouTube
9 19 (0.55%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) HP
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 16 (0.47%) Foundry
13 15 (0.44%) Intapp
14 12 (0.35%) Aderant
14 12 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.32%) IBM
15 11 (0.32%) Splunk