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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +17 -44 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,415 1,912 5,369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.92% 3.88% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.13% 14.67% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 1,594 3,604
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 £80,250 £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 18,839 13,029 23,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.10% 26.45% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 13,310 8,426 14,516
10th Percentile £39,000 £33,644 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,886 £46,250 £47,500
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 24 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 24 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 +17 3,122 £60,000 -4.00% 2,171
UK excluding London +29 2,633 £57,500 - 1,370
Work from Home +20 1,533 £55,500 -7.50% 1,096
South East +25 774 £60,000 - 353
London -16 660 £85,000 +6.25% 983
North of England +38 636 £57,500 -4.17% 326
Midlands -2 413 £60,000 +9.09% 192
East of England +31 325 £60,000 +9.09% 204
North West +50 305 £55,000 -12.00% 184
South West +25 289 £53,750 +2.38% 110
West Midlands -21 215 £62,500 +13.64% 98
East Midlands +18 198 £60,000 +9.09% 94
North East +1 173 £69,653 +18.56% 53
Yorkshire -4 158 £55,000 -8.33% 91
Northern Ireland 0 116 £50,000 -10.31% 67
Wales -60 43 £51,619 +6.43% 38
Scotland +2 39 £55,000 -14.73% 99

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
1 118 (3.46%) 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 39 (1.14%) 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 1 (0.029%) Revit
6 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 57 (1.67%) 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 (0.059%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.059%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.059%) 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 1,653 (48.40%) Azure
2 595 (17.42%) AWS
3 489 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (10.40%) Power Platform
5 260 (7.61%) GitHub
6 248 (7.26%) SaaS
7 216 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 200 (5.86%) Serverless
9 193 (5.65%) Azure AI
10 191 (5.59%) PowerApps
11 172 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
13 157 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
14 148 (4.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 130 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 122 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 114 (3.34%) Azure Functions
18 89 (2.61%) GCP
19 50 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
20 48 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 21 (0.61%) Firewall
3 20 (0.59%) 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
1 597 (17.48%) SQL Server
2 504 (14.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 451 (13.21%) MongoDB
4 186 (5.45%) Power BI
5 163 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
6 105 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 94 (2.75%) Relational Database
8 85 (2.49%) MySQL
9 80 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (0.97%) Redis
12 31 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 27 (0.79%) DynamoDB
13 27 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.61%) Metadata
15 18 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
16 17 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.41%) Big Data
18 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 324 (9.49%) Git
2 75 (2.20%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.05%) GitLab
5 34 (1.00%) Selenium
6 31 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 29 (0.85%) Claude Code
8 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (0.67%) NUnit
10 21 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
15 8 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.23%) Moq
15 8 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 582 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 520 (15.23%) Finance
3 199 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (5.33%) Legal
5 130 (3.81%) Manufacturing
6 125 (3.66%) Law
7 121 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.02%) Public Sector
9 89 (2.61%) Games
10 73 (2.14%) Retail
11 69 (2.02%) Electronics
12 68 (1.99%) Advertising
13 65 (1.90%) Marketing
14 63 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 55 (1.61%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.02%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 20 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,753 (51.33%) Developer
2 799 (23.40%) .NET Developer
3 772 (22.61%) Senior
4 761 (22.28%) Software Engineer
5 362 (10.60%) Senior Developer
6 358 (10.48%) Software Developer
7 353 (10.34%) C# Developer
8 350 (10.25%) C# Software Engineer
9 347 (10.16%) Lead
10 253 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 177 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.77%) C# .NET Developer
13 152 (4.45%) Lead Developer
14 139 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 134 (3.92%) Graduate
16 125 (3.66%) C# Software Developer
17 121 (3.54%) Architect
18 119 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 101 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
20 89 (2.61%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,181 (63.87%) .NET
2 754 (22.08%) ASP.NET
3 737 (21.58%) .NET Core
4 591 (17.31%) ASP.NET Core
5 517 (15.14%) React
6 388 (11.36%) CSS
6 388 (11.36%) HTML
7 332 (9.72%) AngularJS
8 331 (9.69%) RESTful
9 302 (8.84%) Blazor
10 300 (8.78%) Entity Framework
11 291 (8.52%) Vue
12 270 (7.91%) .NET Framework
13 268 (7.85%) REST
14 259 (7.58%) Node.js
15 220 (6.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 167 (4.89%) Terraform
17 148 (4.33%) ML.NET
18 144 (4.22%) WPF
19 116 (3.40%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 173 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
3 155 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
4 140 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 134 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 105 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 61 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 56 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.55%) AI Agents
12 53 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 36 (1.05%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 27 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 25 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 25 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 185 (5.42%) Windows
2 114 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 40 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.20%) Unix
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.029%) CentOS
9 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (34.64%) Agile
2 1,172 (34.32%) Software Engineering
3 936 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 887 (25.97%) CI/CD
5 815 (23.87%) DevOps
6 597 (17.48%) AI
7 587 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (16.84%) Microservices
9 485 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 485 (14.20%) Mentoring
10 338 (9.90%) Test Automation
11 296 (8.67%) SDLC
12 281 (8.23%) Computer Science
13 267 (7.82%) Machine Learning
14 226 (6.62%) Software Testing
15 216 (6.33%) Scrum
16 207 (6.06%) OO
17 206 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
18 201 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
19 196 (5.74%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,221 (35.75%) SQL
2 847 (24.80%) JavaScript
3 588 (17.22%) Python
4 521 (15.26%) TypeScript
5 352 (10.31%) C++
6 304 (8.90%) Java
7 132 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 120 (3.51%) PHP
9 89 (2.61%) C
10 70 (2.05%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.38%) Bicep
12 45 (1.32%) Go
13 44 (1.29%) VB.NET
14 37 (1.08%) VBA
15 31 (0.91%) Bash
16 23 (0.67%) Rust
17 22 (0.64%) Delphi
17 22 (0.64%) Ruby
18 18 (0.53%) Scala
19 15 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 415 (12.15%) Degree
2 189 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 160 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 119 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 41 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 19 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 19 (0.56%) PhD
10 15 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (0.20%) OSCP
13 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
15 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.11%) QA
2 71 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.29%) GDPR
5 22 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.59%) 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
9 5 (0.15%) NIST
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%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
12 2 (0.059%) MISRA C
System Software
1 392 (11.48%) Docker
2 28 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) 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
1 333 (9.75%) Kubernetes
2 24 (0.70%) Grafana
3 19 (0.56%) 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 (0.059%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) Kibana
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,130 (33.09%) Microsoft
2 90 (2.64%) Google
3 62 (1.82%) 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 18 (0.53%) Adobe
10 17 (0.50%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) HP
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
11 16 (0.47%) Foundry
11 16 (0.47%) Sony
11 16 (0.47%) Yahoo!
12 13 (0.38%) Intapp
13 12 (0.35%) Aderant
13 12 (0.35%) SAP
14 11 (0.32%) IBM
14 11 (0.32%) Splunk