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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 57 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,403 2,062 5,656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.10% 4.12% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.40% 15.17% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,892 1,705 4,195
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 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.53%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -2.65%

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 18,498 13,590 24,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 27.18% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,184 8,888 16,590
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
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 1 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 1 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 +11 3,108 £60,000 -4.00% 1,796
UK excluding London +23 2,615 £57,500 - 1,061
Work from Home +9 1,538 £55,000 -8.33% 904
South East +23 761 £60,000 +2.13% 288
London -19 660 £84,750 +5.94% 931
North of England +40 638 £57,500 -4.17% 269
Midlands -1 411 £60,000 +9.09% 132
East of England +32 322 £60,000 +9.09% 141
North West +47 296 £55,000 -8.33% 142
South West +32 292 £53,500 +1.90% 105
West Midlands -10 216 £60,000 +4.35% 52
East Midlands +20 195 £55,000 - 79
Yorkshire +2 173 £55,000 -8.33% 62
North East 0 169 £65,000 +13.04% 67
Northern Ireland +4 116 £50,000 -10.31% 48
Wales -54 46 £51,619 +3.24% 30
Scotland -18 31 £52,500 -18.60% 66

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
1 104 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 39 (1.15%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 23 (0.68%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.21%) 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 13 (0.38%) 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 54 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.29%) 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 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Magento
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) RMDS
7 1 (0.029%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,674 (49.19%) Azure
2 585 (17.19%) AWS
3 482 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
4 340 (9.99%) Power Platform
5 255 (7.49%) SaaS
6 250 (7.35%) GitHub
7 208 (6.11%) Power Automate
8 195 (5.73%) Azure AI
9 187 (5.50%) PowerApps
10 179 (5.26%) Serverless
11 169 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
12 160 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 147 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
15 128 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 118 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 107 (3.14%) Azure Functions
18 87 (2.56%) GCP
19 50 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
20 45 (1.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
3 18 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) Firewall
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) 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%) VLAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 5 (0.15%) Wireless
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Modbus
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (17.37%) SQL Server
2 522 (15.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 461 (13.55%) MongoDB
4 184 (5.41%) Power BI
5 168 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
6 97 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 84 (2.47%) MySQL
8 79 (2.32%) Relational Database
9 78 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 28 (0.82%) Redis
13 21 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.50%) Metadata
15 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.41%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.35%) Big Data
18 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 302 (8.87%) Git
2 72 (2.12%) JIRA
3 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio
4 42 (1.23%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 30 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 24 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.68%) NUnit
10 21 (0.62%) Postman
11 20 (0.59%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.24%) Subversion
15 8 (0.24%) Yeoman
16 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 562 (16.51%) Social Skills
2 532 (15.63%) Finance
3 190 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (5.14%) Legal
5 121 (3.56%) Law
6 119 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 104 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 93 (2.73%) Games
9 87 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 74 (2.17%) Retail
11 71 (2.09%) Advertising
12 68 (2.00%) Marketing
13 62 (1.82%) Electronics
14 59 (1.73%) Aerospace
15 53 (1.56%) Banking
16 46 (1.35%) Front Office
17 39 (1.15%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 28 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,781 (52.34%) Developer
2 803 (23.60%) .NET Developer
3 749 (22.01%) Senior
4 740 (21.75%) Software Engineer
5 398 (11.70%) Software Developer
6 378 (11.11%) C# Developer
7 355 (10.43%) Lead
8 353 (10.37%) Senior Developer
9 329 (9.67%) C# Software Engineer
10 246 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
11 174 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.64%) Lead Developer
14 154 (4.53%) C# Software Developer
14 154 (4.53%) Graduate
15 137 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
16 123 (3.61%) Architect
17 115 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 105 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
19 99 (2.91%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,178 (64.00%) .NET
2 779 (22.89%) ASP.NET
3 762 (22.39%) .NET Core
4 607 (17.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 499 (14.66%) React
6 393 (11.55%) CSS
7 387 (11.37%) HTML
8 330 (9.70%) RESTful
9 321 (9.43%) AngularJS
10 309 (9.08%) Blazor
11 301 (8.85%) Entity Framework
12 295 (8.67%) Vue
13 267 (7.85%) Node.js
14 266 (7.82%) .NET Framework
15 249 (7.32%) REST
16 223 (6.55%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.82%) Terraform
18 156 (4.58%) ML.NET
19 143 (4.20%) WPF
20 119 (3.50%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 157 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
3 152 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
4 130 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 128 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 103 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 47 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
13 43 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 42 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 33 (0.97%) Robotics
16 28 (0.82%) Data Structures
16 28 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
18 26 (0.76%) Fixed Income
18 26 (0.76%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 176 (5.17%) Windows
2 117 (3.44%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 38 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Unix
6 7 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) VMS
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (35.20%) Agile
2 1,144 (33.62%) Software Engineering
3 938 (27.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 848 (24.92%) CI/CD
5 811 (23.83%) DevOps
6 581 (17.07%) Microservices
7 567 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
8 547 (16.07%) AI
9 465 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 462 (13.58%) Mentoring
11 328 (9.64%) Test Automation
12 290 (8.52%) SDLC
13 283 (8.32%) Computer Science
14 279 (8.20%) Machine Learning
15 221 (6.49%) Software Testing
16 217 (6.38%) Scrum
17 207 (6.08%) OO
18 197 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
18 197 (5.79%) Multithreading
19 192 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,236 (36.32%) SQL
2 821 (24.13%) JavaScript
3 572 (16.81%) Python
4 526 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 345 (10.14%) C++
6 299 (8.79%) Java
7 142 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 138 (4.06%) PHP
9 83 (2.44%) C
10 68 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Go
12 45 (1.32%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 37 (1.09%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 26 (0.76%) Rust
17 23 (0.68%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Delphi
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 417 (12.25%) Degree
2 194 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 144 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.26%) Azure Certification
5 43 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (0.65%) PhD
8 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.15%) OSCP
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (9.17%) QA
2 65 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 44 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 36 (1.06%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.41%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
8 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
9 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 4 (0.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
10 3 (0.088%) NIST
10 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 392 (11.52%) Docker
2 23 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) 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
1 342 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) 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 (0.059%) MIIS
9 1 (0.029%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1,128 (33.15%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.62%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 50 (1.47%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.68%) Adobe
6 23 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 20 (0.59%) VMware
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) Databricks
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.41%) Intapp
12 13 (0.38%) Foundry
13 12 (0.35%) HP
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk
15 10 (0.29%) Xamarin