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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -44 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,904 4,867 4,717
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.58% 7.08% 9.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.12% 22.05% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 3,256 4,198
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,744 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -

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 11,812 22,075 21,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 32.11% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,568 13,279 17,480
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £105,000
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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -42 1,738 £60,000 - 1,468
UK excluding London -52 1,244 £57,000 +3.64% 1,072
Work from Home -23 867 £60,000 +4.35% 986
London -27 546 £80,000 +6.67% 528
North of England -36 347 £60,000 +14.29% 302
South East -49 342 £57,500 -4.17% 304
Midlands -25 270 £55,000 +2.44% 140
North West -27 176 £62,500 +19.05% 193
West Midlands -27 149 £57,500 +4.75% 85
Yorkshire -28 125 £55,000 +10.00% 65
East Midlands -11 121 £51,000 +2.00% 53
East of England -56 110 £55,000 -4.35% 123
South West -61 100 £55,000 +10.00% 113
North East -17 48 £50,000 -16.67% 45
Scotland -81 42 £60,000 +20.00% 59
Wales -25 34 £48,500 -7.62% 34
Northern Ireland -11 6 £62,500 -3.85% 20
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 60 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.78%) IIS
3 39 (2.05%) CMS
4 20 (1.05%) Kinematics
5 18 (0.95%) Confluence
6 12 (0.63%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.21%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.11%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.053%) Kentico
12 1 (0.053%) MetaMask
Applications
1 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.16%) OrCAD
4 3 (0.16%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 72 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.42%) Shopify
4 7 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 7 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.16%) Magento
7 3 (0.16%) Sage 1000
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.053%) Endur
9 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.053%) ION Anvil
9 1 (0.053%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.053%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 956 (50.21%) Azure
2 364 (19.12%) AWS
3 257 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
4 200 (10.50%) SaaS
5 183 (9.61%) Power Platform
6 153 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
7 124 (6.51%) Power Automate
8 115 (6.04%) Serverless
9 113 (5.93%) PowerApps
10 109 (5.72%) GitHub
11 101 (5.30%) GCP
12 70 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 64 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
14 62 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
15 61 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 61 (3.20%) Azure Functions
16 42 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (1.73%) Entra ID
18 29 (1.52%) PaaS
19 24 (1.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.05%) Remote Desktop
2 11 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.42%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.42%) HTTP
3 8 (0.42%) Internet
4 7 (0.37%) DNS
4 7 (0.37%) Modbus
4 7 (0.37%) WPA
5 6 (0.32%) MQTT
5 6 (0.32%) SAN
6 4 (0.21%) DHCP
6 4 (0.21%) Firewall
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) FTP
8 2 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.11%) SMTP
8 2 (0.11%) SSH
8 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.053%) IPv6
9 1 (0.053%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (23.37%) SQL Server
2 98 (5.15%) MySQL
2 98 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 93 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 86 (4.52%) Power BI
5 78 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 75 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 48 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 47 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 41 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
10 26 (1.37%) Redis
11 24 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (0.84%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
15 7 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.32%) KDB
16 6 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 185 (9.72%) Git
2 85 (4.46%) JIRA
3 67 (3.52%) Selenium
4 51 (2.68%) Visual Studio
5 40 (2.10%) Postman
6 39 (2.05%) Jenkins
7 30 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 27 (1.42%) TeamCity
9 25 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 23 (1.21%) WebDriver
11 20 (1.05%) NUnit
12 19 (1.00%) GitLab
13 18 (0.95%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.84%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.63%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.53%) JMeter
18 9 (0.47%) MSTest
18 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
19 8 (0.42%) Artifactory
General
1 555 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 311 (16.33%) Finance
3 128 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (6.20%) Law
5 94 (4.94%) Retail
6 82 (4.31%) Public Sector
7 77 (4.04%) Front Office
8 72 (3.78%) Manufacturing
9 62 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 57 (2.99%) Banking
11 44 (2.31%) Legal
12 42 (2.21%) Electronics
13 35 (1.84%) Back Office
14 33 (1.73%) Games
15 30 (1.58%) Marketing
16 26 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
17 23 (1.21%) Billing
18 22 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.74%) Telecoms
20 13 (0.68%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 988 (51.89%) Developer
2 422 (22.16%) Senior
3 246 (12.92%) Software Engineer
4 241 (12.66%) C# Developer
4 241 (12.66%) Lead
5 240 (12.61%) .NET Developer
6 231 (12.13%) Senior Developer
7 193 (10.14%) Software Developer
8 156 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 96 (5.04%) Architect
10 88 (4.62%) Analyst
11 76 (3.99%) Lead Developer
12 73 (3.83%) Graduate
13 72 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
14 64 (3.36%) Support Engineer
15 63 (3.31%) C# .NET Developer
16 60 (3.15%) Graduate Developer
17 58 (3.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 55 (2.89%) .NET Software Engineer
19 54 (2.84%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,149 (60.35%) .NET
2 317 (16.65%) React
3 299 (15.70%) .NET Core
4 284 (14.92%) ASP.NET
5 253 (13.29%) CSS
6 244 (12.82%) HTML
7 235 (12.34%) .NET Framework
8 233 (12.24%) AngularJS
9 161 (8.46%) RESTful
10 153 (8.04%) REST
11 130 (6.83%) Entity Framework
12 107 (5.62%) Vue
13 100 (5.25%) Blazor
14 85 (4.46%) ASP.NET MVC
15 79 (4.15%) Web Services
16 74 (3.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 63 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
17 63 (3.31%) Node.js
18 62 (3.26%) HTML5
19 60 (3.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 151 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
6 44 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 43 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (2.10%) Mobile App
10 30 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (1.31%) Robotics
12 22 (1.16%) Derivative
12 22 (1.16%) IoT
13 20 (1.05%) Operational Technology
14 18 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.89%) Client/Server
16 15 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
17 14 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.04%) Windows
2 59 (3.10%) Linux
3 22 (1.16%) Android
4 20 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.74%) Unix
7 3 (0.16%) Solaris
7 3 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.053%) AIX
9 1 (0.053%) Fedora
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (36.03%) Agile
2 539 (28.31%) DevOps
3 509 (26.73%) Software Engineering
4 494 (25.95%) CI/CD
5 471 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 389 (20.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 336 (17.65%) Microservices
8 333 (17.49%) Mentoring
9 327 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (12.08%) Computer Science
11 193 (10.14%) MVC
12 191 (10.03%) Test Automation
13 171 (8.98%) Scrum
14 151 (7.93%) SDLC
15 140 (7.35%) AI
15 140 (7.35%) Containerisation
16 139 (7.30%) CRM
17 134 (7.04%) Clean Code
18 133 (6.99%) User Experience
19 132 (6.93%) OO
Programming Languages
1 721 (37.87%) SQL
2 510 (26.79%) JavaScript
3 329 (17.28%) Python
4 287 (15.07%) Java
5 235 (12.34%) TypeScript
6 159 (8.35%) C++
7 108 (5.67%) PowerShell
8 87 (4.57%) PHP
9 60 (3.15%) C
10 55 (2.89%) T-SQL
11 52 (2.73%) VB.NET
12 23 (1.21%) Bicep
13 20 (1.05%) Go
14 18 (0.95%) Bash
14 18 (0.95%) VBA
15 16 (0.84%) Rust
16 15 (0.79%) Delphi
17 12 (0.63%) VB
18 10 (0.53%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 335 (17.59%) Degree
2 183 (9.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 64 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (3.26%) SC Cleared
6 47 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.68%) ISTQB
9 31 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 12 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.63%) HND
15 10 (0.53%) PhD
16 8 (0.42%) ISEB
17 7 (0.37%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.37%) HNC
18 6 (0.32%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (9.66%) QA
2 33 (1.73%) Accessibility
2 33 (1.73%) GDPR
3 19 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (0.84%) ISO 9001
5 15 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.37%) NIST
7 7 (0.37%) WCAG
8 4 (0.21%) HL7
8 4 (0.21%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) EMIR
9 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 2 (0.11%) ITGC
10 2 (0.11%) MiFID
10 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.053%) COBIT
11 1 (0.053%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.053%) IFRS
11 1 (0.053%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 199 (10.45%) Docker
2 21 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.68%) Firmware
5 10 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.053%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 170 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.73%) Terraform
3 21 (1.10%) Grafana
4 14 (0.74%) Ansible
5 10 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.37%) Control-M
7 6 (0.32%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.11%) Kibana
10 2 (0.11%) Nagios
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.053%) Nmap
11 1 (0.053%) WMI
Vendors
1 478 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.05%) Oracle
3 38 (2.00%) Guidewire
4 29 (1.52%) Google
5 22 (1.16%) Xamarin
6 20 (1.05%) Sage
7 18 (0.95%) Databricks
8 17 (0.89%) VMware
9 15 (0.79%) SAP
10 14 (0.74%) DevExpress
11 12 (0.63%) Infor
11 12 (0.63%) Palantir
12 11 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.53%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.53%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.53%) Siemens
14 9 (0.47%) Rockwell
14 9 (0.47%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.42%) YouTube