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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 47 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -28 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,647 2,254 8,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.87% 5.10% 7.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.99% 16.13% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,326 1,860 7,109
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,198 £35,950
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 16,555 13,971 33,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.92% 31.60% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,594 9,186 25,567
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -3 2,478 £60,000 -7.69% 695
UK excluding London -4 1,898 £57,500 -2.54% 575
Work from Home -4 999 £55,000 -15.38% 507
London -16 621 £82,500 +3.13% 172
South East +12 581 £59,000 -1.67% 180
North of England +26 521 £60,000 +4.35% 158
Midlands -11 323 £57,500 +4.55% 76
North West +57 265 £60,000 +11.63% 96
East of England -10 207 £60,000 -9.37% 79
South West +3 205 £55,000 - 62
East Midlands +13 163 £55,000 - 33
West Midlands -31 160 £60,000 +9.09% 43
Yorkshire -10 146 £55,000 -18.52% 26
North East -9 110 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Scotland -26 29 £55,000 - 12
Wales -45 28 £50,000 -24.24% 13
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 11

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 69 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.02%) CMS
3 26 (0.98%) IIS
4 14 (0.53%) Confluence
5 13 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.26%) WordPress
8 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.076%) nginx
11 2 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.038%) DNN
12 1 (0.038%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.038%) Kentico
12 1 (0.038%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 33 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.076%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.076%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.076%) Shopify
4 2 (0.076%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.038%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.038%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.038%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.038%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,260 (47.60%) Azure
2 436 (16.47%) AWS
3 319 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.86%) SaaS
6 146 (5.52%) GitHub
6 146 (5.52%) Serverless
7 145 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
8 121 (4.57%) PowerApps
9 120 (4.53%) Power Automate
10 114 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
11 93 (3.51%) Azure Functions
12 87 (3.29%) Azure AI
13 86 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
14 82 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
15 80 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
16 72 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 64 (2.42%) GCP
18 54 (2.04%) Azure AKS
19 52 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.36%) Internet
2 16 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 15 (0.57%) Broadband
4 14 (0.53%) DNS
5 11 (0.42%) Firewall
6 10 (0.38%) Ethernet
7 8 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.23%) HTTP
9 5 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.19%) LAN
9 5 (0.19%) LTE
9 5 (0.19%) WAN
10 4 (0.15%) Intranet
10 4 (0.15%) Modbus
11 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.11%) Network Security
11 3 (0.11%) RS-232
11 3 (0.11%) VPN
12 2 (0.076%) FIX Connectivity
12 2 (0.076%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 483 (18.25%) SQL Server
2 287 (10.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 243 (9.18%) MongoDB
4 135 (5.10%) Power BI
5 79 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 66 (2.49%) MySQL
8 58 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 48 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.60%) Redis
13 12 (0.45%) Metadata
14 11 (0.42%) Db2
15 9 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (0.30%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.30%) GIS
17 6 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.23%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 184 (6.95%) Git
2 56 (2.12%) JIRA
3 51 (1.93%) Selenium
4 47 (1.78%) Visual Studio
5 35 (1.32%) Postman
6 30 (1.13%) GitLab
7 24 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 23 (0.87%) SpecFlow
8 23 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 22 (0.83%) WebDriver
10 20 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 19 (0.72%) SoapUI
12 18 (0.68%) Jenkins
13 14 (0.53%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.49%) NUnit
15 12 (0.45%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.34%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.34%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.30%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 479 (18.10%) Finance
2 376 (14.20%) Social Skills
3 137 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 64 (2.42%) Games
6 63 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 62 (2.34%) Retail
8 57 (2.15%) Banking
8 57 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.08%) Electronics
10 48 (1.81%) Law
11 47 (1.78%) Aerospace
12 44 (1.66%) Front Office
13 40 (1.51%) Advertising
14 35 (1.32%) Legal
15 33 (1.25%) Automotive
15 33 (1.25%) Marketing
16 17 (0.64%) Investment Banking
17 13 (0.49%) Aviation
18 12 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,403 (53.00%) Developer
2 582 (21.99%) Software Engineer
3 554 (20.93%) Senior
4 540 (20.40%) .NET Developer
5 428 (16.17%) Software Developer
6 389 (14.70%) C# Developer
7 286 (10.80%) C# Software Engineer
8 266 (10.05%) Senior Developer
9 263 (9.94%) Lead
10 202 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 173 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
12 166 (6.27%) C# Software Developer
13 165 (6.23%) C# .NET Developer
14 157 (5.93%) .NET Software Engineer
15 126 (4.76%) Graduate
16 118 (4.46%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.74%) Graduate Developer
18 96 (3.63%) .NET Software Developer
18 96 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 95 (3.59%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,704 (64.37%) .NET
2 568 (21.46%) .NET Core
3 487 (18.40%) ASP.NET
4 352 (13.30%) React
5 331 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 284 (10.73%) CSS
7 276 (10.43%) HTML
8 218 (8.24%) AngularJS
9 201 (7.59%) .NET Framework
10 193 (7.29%) RESTful
10 193 (7.29%) Vue
11 185 (6.99%) Blazor
12 181 (6.84%) Entity Framework
13 178 (6.72%) REST
14 157 (5.93%) Node.js
15 127 (4.80%) ASP.NET Web API
16 93 (3.51%) WPF
17 77 (2.91%) ML.NET
18 67 (2.53%) LINQ
19 60 (2.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 163 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 102 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 99 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 84 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 81 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 71 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.00%) Hedge funds
8 52 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 44 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 29 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 27 (1.02%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (0.91%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.91%) Management Information System
15 23 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
16 22 (0.83%) Sports Betting
17 21 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (5.02%) Windows
2 97 (3.66%) Linux
3 37 (1.40%) Android
4 26 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.45%) VMS
7 11 (0.42%) Unix
8 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.076%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.076%) Solaris
11 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (31.02%) Agile
2 815 (30.79%) Software Engineering
3 674 (25.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 581 (21.95%) CI/CD
5 556 (21.00%) DevOps
6 367 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
7 350 (13.22%) AI
8 349 (13.18%) Microservices
9 302 (11.41%) Mentoring
10 281 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 263 (9.94%) Computer Science
12 231 (8.73%) Test Automation
13 210 (7.93%) SDLC
14 179 (6.76%) Machine Learning
15 160 (6.04%) Scrum
16 152 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
17 149 (5.63%) Containerisation
18 140 (5.29%) TDD
19 133 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
20 130 (4.91%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 908 (34.30%) SQL
2 554 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 430 (16.24%) Python
4 350 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 309 (11.67%) C++
6 270 (10.20%) Java
7 110 (4.16%) PHP
8 95 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.49%) C
10 49 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.36%) Bicep
12 35 (1.32%) Go
13 34 (1.28%) VB.NET
14 32 (1.21%) Bash
15 24 (0.91%) VBA
16 21 (0.79%) Rust
17 20 (0.76%) Scala
18 18 (0.68%) MATLAB
19 17 (0.64%) F#
19 17 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 379 (14.32%) Degree
2 186 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 122 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 74 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 43 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.28%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.06%) PhD
10 23 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 11 (0.42%) DV Cleared
14 10 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 9 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
18 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
18 6 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (5.44%) QA
2 44 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 23 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.79%) GDPR
5 13 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 12 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.45%) SLA
6 12 (0.45%) WCAG
7 5 (0.19%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
8 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
9 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.076%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.076%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.076%) ITGC
11 1 (0.038%) EMIR
11 1 (0.038%) NCSC
11 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 267 (10.09%) Docker
2 29 (1.10%) Firmware
3 22 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) KVM
7 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 233 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.84%) Terraform
3 34 (1.28%) Grafana
4 15 (0.57%) Ansible
5 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.26%) Kibana
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.076%) MIIS
9 2 (0.076%) MOM
10 1 (0.038%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.038%) Nessus
10 1 (0.038%) Netcool
10 1 (0.038%) Nmap
Vendors
1 693 (26.18%) Microsoft
2 50 (1.89%) Google
3 44 (1.66%) Oracle
4 34 (1.28%) Facebook
5 23 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.83%) Adobe
7 18 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 18 (0.68%) VMware
8 15 (0.57%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.49%) Databricks
10 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.42%) YouTube
11 10 (0.38%) Apple
12 9 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.34%) iManage
13 8 (0.30%) Sony
13 8 (0.30%) Splunk
13 8 (0.30%) Yahoo!
14 7 (0.26%) Intapp
15 6 (0.23%) Dynatrace