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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 40 18
Rank change year-on-year -37 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,157 2,553 7,861
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.47% 6.10% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.02% 18.27% 24.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 2,158 6,854
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,250
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 15,390 13,977 32,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.64% 33.42% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,499 10,258 25,063
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,250 £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 £85,252 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% -2.73%

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 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 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 -37 1,979 £60,000 -7.69% 868
UK excluding London -42 1,479 £57,500 - 681
Work from Home -21 807 £59,000 -9.23% 458
London -24 547 £82,500 +10.00% 272
South East -25 430 £59,000 -1.67% 230
North of England -17 422 £61,500 +11.82% 164
Midlands -44 272 £57,500 +4.55% 91
North West -11 206 £60,000 +14.29% 100
South West -22 151 £55,000 -4.35% 88
Yorkshire -35 139 £61,500 +11.82% 39
East Midlands -27 137 £60,000 +9.09% 46
East of England -49 137 £55,000 -16.92% 78
West Midlands -58 135 £57,500 +4.55% 45
North East -18 77 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Scotland -58 45 £60,000 +33.33% 26
Wales -47 23 £42,250 -32.40% 19
Northern Ireland -38 9 £95,000 - 3
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 58 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.07%) CMS
3 20 (0.93%) IIS
4 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 5 (0.23%) NServiceBus
6 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.19%) Confluence
7 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.093%) nginx
8 2 (0.093%) WordPress
9 1 (0.046%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.046%) Apache
9 1 (0.046%) Appian
9 1 (0.046%) JBoss
9 1 (0.046%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.19%) Simulink
4 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 2 (0.093%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.093%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.093%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.046%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 947 (43.90%) Azure
2 363 (16.83%) AWS
3 213 (9.87%) SaaS
4 208 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 130 (6.03%) Serverless
7 123 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 101 (4.68%) Power Automate
9 100 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 89 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (3.62%) Azure Functions
12 72 (3.34%) GitHub
12 72 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
13 65 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (2.97%) GCP
15 46 (2.13%) Azure AKS
16 37 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 36 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
18 26 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
19 24 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.51%) Broadband
3 8 (0.37%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.32%) DNS
4 7 (0.32%) HTTP
4 7 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.28%) Intranet
6 5 (0.23%) Internet
7 4 (0.19%) LTE
7 4 (0.19%) Modbus
8 3 (0.14%) DHCP
8 3 (0.14%) Firewall
8 3 (0.14%) Network Security
9 2 (0.093%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.093%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.093%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.093%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.046%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.046%) Profibus
10 1 (0.046%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (20.03%) SQL Server
2 119 (5.52%) Power BI
3 82 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 61 (2.83%) MySQL
6 57 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 46 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 46 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (0.74%) Redis
11 15 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.51%) DB2
13 8 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.28%) Metadata
15 5 (0.23%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.19%) ClickHouse
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 138 (6.40%) Git
2 69 (3.20%) Selenium
3 61 (2.83%) Visual Studio
4 56 (2.60%) JIRA
5 41 (1.90%) Postman
6 32 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.30%) WebDriver
8 27 (1.25%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 24 (1.11%) Jenkins
10 18 (0.83%) GitLab
10 18 (0.83%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.65%) NUnit
12 14 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.42%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.32%) LabVIEW
15 7 (0.32%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 418 (19.38%) Finance
2 346 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 120 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (3.06%) Public Sector
5 65 (3.01%) Law
6 54 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 53 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (2.41%) Front Office
9 46 (2.13%) Banking
10 41 (1.90%) Games
10 41 (1.90%) Retail
11 32 (1.48%) Legal
12 30 (1.39%) Electronics
13 24 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.02%) Marketing
15 17 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 17 (0.79%) Military
16 15 (0.70%) Automotive
16 15 (0.70%) Aviation
17 13 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,116 (51.74%) Developer
2 483 (22.39%) Senior
3 422 (19.56%) Software Engineer
4 398 (18.45%) Software Developer
5 394 (18.27%) C# Developer
6 295 (13.68%) .NET Developer
7 248 (11.50%) Lead
8 242 (11.22%) Senior Developer
9 171 (7.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 165 (7.65%) C# Software Engineer
11 151 (7.00%) C# Software Developer
12 149 (6.91%) C# .NET Developer
13 142 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 124 (5.75%) .NET Software Engineer
15 112 (5.19%) Graduate
16 96 (4.45%) Lead Developer
17 94 (4.36%) Graduate Developer
18 87 (4.03%) SQL Developer
19 85 (3.94%) Graduate Software Developer
20 82 (3.80%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,333 (61.80%) .NET
2 379 (17.57%) .NET Core
3 256 (11.87%) ASP.NET
4 247 (11.45%) React
5 194 (8.99%) HTML
6 190 (8.81%) CSS
7 182 (8.44%) .NET Framework
8 134 (6.21%) AngularJS
8 134 (6.21%) REST
9 111 (5.15%) RESTful
10 90 (4.17%) Vue
11 86 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
12 81 (3.76%) Blazor
13 80 (3.71%) Entity Framework
14 78 (3.62%) Node.js
15 53 (2.46%) WPF
16 50 (2.32%) jQuery
17 48 (2.23%) Playwright
18 40 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
19 39 (1.81%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 122 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 78 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.20%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 46 (2.13%) Hedge funds
7 43 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (1.99%) Low-Code
8 41 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 36 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 27 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 22 (1.02%) Sports Betting
13 19 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
13 19 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (0.83%) Legacy Code
14 18 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.64%) Windows
2 78 (3.62%) Linux
3 17 (0.79%) Android
4 14 (0.65%) Unix
4 14 (0.65%) VMS
5 13 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.093%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.093%) Solaris
6 2 (0.093%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (31.66%) Software Engineering
2 610 (28.28%) Agile
3 435 (20.17%) DevOps
4 418 (19.38%) CI/CD
5 408 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 304 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
7 268 (12.42%) Mentoring
8 253 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 250 (11.59%) Microservices
10 225 (10.43%) Computer Science
11 190 (8.81%) Test Automation
12 177 (8.21%) AI
13 176 (8.16%) SDLC
14 146 (6.77%) MVC
15 136 (6.31%) Scrum
16 130 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (5.98%) Containerisation
18 107 (4.96%) Software Testing
19 103 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
20 102 (4.73%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 654 (30.32%) SQL
2 439 (20.35%) JavaScript
3 358 (16.60%) Python
4 270 (12.52%) TypeScript
5 247 (11.45%) Java
6 214 (9.92%) C++
7 104 (4.82%) PHP
8 87 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.55%) C
10 41 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.53%) Go
12 30 (1.39%) Bash
13 27 (1.25%) VB.NET
14 26 (1.21%) Bicep
15 23 (1.07%) VBA
16 18 (0.83%) Delphi
16 18 (0.83%) Rust
17 17 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.74%) Scala
19 14 (0.65%) F#
Qualifications
1 301 (13.95%) Degree
2 148 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 113 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 63 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 47 (2.18%) ISTQB
6 45 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 36 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.97%) PhD
12 20 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.46%) CREST Certified
17 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 6 (0.28%) HND
18 6 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (6.63%) QA
2 38 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 20 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.65%) GDPR
5 13 (0.60%) WCAG
6 11 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.42%) SLA
8 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.14%) EMIR
8 3 (0.14%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.093%) ITGC
10 1 (0.046%) HL7
10 1 (0.046%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 178 (8.25%) Docker
2 21 (0.97%) Firmware
3 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.37%) KVM
6 5 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.046%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.45%) Terraform
3 37 (1.72%) Grafana
4 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.32%) Kibana
7 5 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.14%) Nmap
9 2 (0.093%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.093%) MIIS
9 2 (0.093%) MOM
10 1 (0.046%) Control-M
10 1 (0.046%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.046%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.046%) Nessus
10 1 (0.046%) Netcool
10 1 (0.046%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 414 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 42 (1.95%) Oracle
3 30 (1.39%) Google
4 18 (0.83%) Adobe
5 14 (0.65%) Xamarin
6 13 (0.60%) VMware
7 12 (0.56%) Databricks
7 12 (0.56%) SAP
8 10 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.42%) OpenAI
9 9 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.32%) iManage
10 7 (0.32%) Palantir
10 7 (0.32%) Workday
11 6 (0.28%) Aderant
11 6 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.28%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.23%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.23%) Facebook
12 5 (0.23%) Salesforce