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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 66 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -44 -3
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,410 1,934 5,529
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.04% 3.90% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.26% 14.72% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,895 1,600 4,031
10th Percentile £38,863 £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 £79,375 £82,500 £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% -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 18,675 13,142 24,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.67% 26.51% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,304 8,503 15,973
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £111,250 £105,000
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 7 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 7 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 +14 3,117 £60,000 -4.00% 1,882
UK excluding London +29 2,631 £57,500 - 1,062
Work from Home +16 1,537 £55,000 -8.33% 891
South East +36 771 £60,000 - 281
London -15 656 £85,000 +6.25% 1,008
North of England +35 639 £57,500 -4.17% 261
Midlands +4 414 £60,000 +9.09% 141
East of England +32 324 £60,000 +9.09% 150
North West +59 301 £55,000 -8.33% 129
South West +31 290 £53,500 +1.90% 109
West Midlands -8 216 £60,000 +9.09% 64
East Midlands +22 198 £57,500 +4.55% 76
North East -4 172 £65,000 +13.04% 67
Yorkshire 0 166 £55,000 -8.33% 67
Northern Ireland +7 116 £50,000 -10.31% 40
Wales -47 46 £51,619 +3.24% 25
Scotland -7 33 £52,500 -18.60% 75

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
1 112 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 31 (0.91%) CMS
4 23 (0.67%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.23%) 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 17 (0.50%) 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 55 (1.61%) 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%) 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 1,672 (49.03%) Azure
2 591 (17.33%) AWS
3 487 (14.28%) Azure DevOps
4 348 (10.21%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.33%) GitHub
5 250 (7.33%) SaaS
6 209 (6.13%) Power Automate
7 196 (5.75%) Azure AI
8 190 (5.57%) PowerApps
9 189 (5.54%) Serverless
10 169 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
11 162 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
12 156 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 149 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
14 127 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
15 120 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 109 (3.20%) Azure Functions
17 87 (2.55%) GCP
18 50 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
19 45 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (1.85%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
3 18 (0.53%) Broadband
4 17 (0.50%) Firewall
4 17 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.23%) VPN
8 7 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.18%) BGP
9 6 (0.18%) IPsec
9 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 6 (0.18%) VLAN
9 6 (0.18%) Wireless
10 5 (0.15%) DHCP
10 5 (0.15%) LAN
10 5 (0.15%) WAN
11 4 (0.12%) Intranet
11 4 (0.12%) Network Security
12 3 (0.088%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 595 (17.45%) SQL Server
2 524 (15.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 462 (13.55%) MongoDB
4 190 (5.57%) Power BI
5 167 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
6 98 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 82 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 81 (2.38%) MySQL
9 77 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (0.79%) Redis
14 23 (0.67%) DynamoDB
15 19 (0.56%) Metadata
16 16 (0.47%) Spark SQL
17 15 (0.44%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
19 13 (0.38%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 308 (9.03%) Git
2 70 (2.05%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 40 (1.17%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 25 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 23 (0.67%) NUnit
8 23 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 21 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.62%) Postman
10 13 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.38%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.23%) Subversion
14 7 (0.21%) Jasmine
14 7 (0.21%) MSI
14 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 570 (16.72%) Social Skills
2 520 (15.25%) Finance
3 193 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (5.19%) Legal
5 122 (3.58%) Manufacturing
6 121 (3.55%) Law
7 109 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 97 (2.84%) Public Sector
9 94 (2.76%) Games
10 74 (2.17%) Retail
11 71 (2.08%) Advertising
12 68 (1.99%) Marketing
13 66 (1.94%) Electronics
14 60 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 52 (1.52%) Banking
16 45 (1.32%) Front Office
17 39 (1.14%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,778 (52.14%) Developer
2 805 (23.61%) .NET Developer
3 747 (21.91%) Senior
4 738 (21.64%) Software Engineer
5 386 (11.32%) Software Developer
6 370 (10.85%) C# Developer
7 357 (10.47%) Lead
8 353 (10.35%) Senior Developer
9 329 (9.65%) C# Software Engineer
10 246 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 178 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 162 (4.75%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.63%) Lead Developer
14 147 (4.31%) Graduate
15 144 (4.22%) C# Software Developer
16 135 (3.96%) .NET Software Engineer
17 120 (3.52%) Architect
18 117 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 107 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
20 92 (2.70%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,184 (64.05%) .NET
2 780 (22.87%) ASP.NET
3 762 (22.35%) .NET Core
4 608 (17.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 499 (14.63%) React
6 399 (11.70%) CSS
7 396 (11.61%) HTML
8 334 (9.79%) RESTful
9 328 (9.62%) AngularJS
10 311 (9.12%) Blazor
11 305 (8.94%) Entity Framework
12 299 (8.77%) Vue
13 268 (7.86%) .NET Framework
14 265 (7.77%) Node.js
15 249 (7.30%) REST
16 223 (6.54%) ASP.NET Web API
17 164 (4.81%) Terraform
18 156 (4.57%) ML.NET
19 146 (4.28%) WPF
20 118 (3.46%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 161 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
4 132 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 129 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 106 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 58 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 56 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 50 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 49 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 46 (1.35%) Hedge funds
13 45 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 44 (1.29%) AI Agents
15 33 (0.97%) Robotics
16 29 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 26 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
18 25 (0.73%) Legacy Code
19 24 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 179 (5.25%) Windows
2 115 (3.37%) Linux
3 41 (1.20%) Android
4 39 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.18%) Unix
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 (35.13%) Agile
2 1,140 (33.43%) Software Engineering
3 948 (27.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 854 (25.04%) CI/CD
5 809 (23.72%) DevOps
6 580 (17.01%) Microservices
7 574 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
8 547 (16.04%) AI
9 472 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 472 (13.84%) Mentoring
10 327 (9.59%) Test Automation
11 291 (8.53%) SDLC
12 278 (8.15%) Computer Science
13 276 (8.09%) Machine Learning
14 221 (6.48%) Software Testing
15 216 (6.33%) Scrum
16 209 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
17 207 (6.07%) OO
18 195 (5.72%) Multithreading
19 190 (5.57%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,238 (36.30%) SQL
2 840 (24.63%) JavaScript
3 573 (16.80%) Python
4 529 (15.51%) TypeScript
5 349 (10.23%) C++
6 303 (8.89%) Java
7 141 (4.13%) PowerShell
8 131 (3.84%) PHP
9 84 (2.46%) C
10 68 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.35%) Go
12 44 (1.29%) Bicep
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.11%) VBA
15 34 (1.00%) Bash
16 24 (0.70%) Rust
17 23 (0.67%) Delphi
17 23 (0.67%) Ruby
18 21 (0.62%) Scala
19 17 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 419 (12.29%) Degree
2 189 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 147 (4.31%) Security Cleared
4 110 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.29%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 21 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
17 4 (0.12%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (9.12%) QA
2 67 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.17%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.47%) WCAG
7 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (0.21%) NCSC
8 6 (0.18%) ISO 9001
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%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) NIST
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (11.44%) Docker
2 23 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.53%) Firmware
4 16 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 341 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (0.97%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 16 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.23%) 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 1,131 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.61%) Google
3 65 (1.91%) Facebook
4 51 (1.50%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 24 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.65%) Adobe
7 22 (0.65%) YouTube
8 21 (0.62%) VMware
9 18 (0.53%) Apple
10 17 (0.50%) Sony
10 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 15 (0.44%) HP
12 15 (0.44%) Intapp
13 14 (0.41%) Foundry
14 12 (0.35%) Aderant
14 12 (0.35%) SAP
15 11 (0.32%) IBM
15 11 (0.32%) Splunk