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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 50 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -31 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,022 2,335 8,107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.10% 4.87% 7.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.30% 16.30% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 1,930 6,794
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £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 £77,500 £80,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 17,468 14,328 33,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 29.86% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,425 9,537 24,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,440 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +1 2,807 £60,000 -7.69% 869
UK excluding London +3 2,242 £57,500 -4.17% 714
Work from Home +2 1,302 £55,000 -15.38% 531
South East +16 672 £60,000 - 221
London -15 641 £82,500 +3.13% 273
North of England +32 577 £57,500 -4.17% 181
Midlands -8 377 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North West +45 289 £57,500 +4.55% 88
East of England +3 267 £60,000 -9.37% 92
South West +14 250 £55,000 - 72
East Midlands +15 191 £55,000 - 40
West Midlands -24 186 £60,000 +9.09% 56
Yorkshire +7 157 £55,000 -19.41% 49
North East -3 131 £60,000 +4.35% 47
Wales -40 42 £51,619 -20.59% 19
Scotland -18 33 £55,000 -12.00% 30
Northern Ireland -23 26 £65,000 -18.75% 23

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 81 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.06%) IIS
3 31 (1.03%) CMS
4 18 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.30%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.20%) nginx
8 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.17%) Apache
9 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.099%) DNN
11 3 (0.099%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.099%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.099%) Kentico
11 3 (0.099%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 5 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.099%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.066%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
2 5 (0.17%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.099%) Magento
4 3 (0.099%) Shopify
5 2 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.066%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.066%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.033%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.033%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.033%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,548 (51.22%) Azure
2 522 (17.27%) AWS
3 423 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 279 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 218 (7.21%) GitHub
5 218 (7.21%) SaaS
6 172 (5.69%) Azure AI
7 161 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 160 (5.29%) Serverless
9 156 (5.16%) Power Automate
10 151 (5.00%) PowerApps
11 146 (4.83%) GitHub Copilot
12 127 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
13 110 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 104 (3.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 104 (3.44%) Azure Functions
14 104 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
15 73 (2.42%) GCP
16 57 (1.89%) Azure AKS
17 56 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.99%) Internet
2 19 (0.63%) Broadband
3 16 (0.53%) DNS
4 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.33%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.30%) Firewall
7 8 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) VPN
9 6 (0.20%) DHCP
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) LTE
10 5 (0.17%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) BGP
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) IPsec
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.099%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.099%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (16.55%) SQL Server
2 499 (16.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 434 (14.36%) MongoDB
4 161 (5.33%) Power BI
5 156 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
6 81 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.42%) MySQL
8 60 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.69%) Redis
13 17 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.43%) Db2
15 12 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.40%) Metadata
16 11 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 9 (0.30%) Big Data
19 8 (0.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 210 (6.95%) Git
2 57 (1.89%) JIRA
3 41 (1.36%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.16%) GitLab
4 35 (1.16%) Selenium
5 26 (0.86%) Postman
6 25 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 23 (0.76%) SpecFlow
8 21 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.60%) Jenkins
10 14 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.43%) Claude Code
11 13 (0.43%) NUnit
12 12 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.30%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 527 (17.44%) Finance
2 419 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 155 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (3.54%) Manufacturing
5 85 (2.81%) Games
6 74 (2.45%) Retail
7 72 (2.38%) Law
8 71 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 68 (2.25%) Advertising
10 62 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (2.05%) Legal
11 60 (1.99%) Marketing
12 56 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 56 (1.85%) Electronics
13 54 (1.79%) Banking
14 49 (1.62%) Front Office
15 35 (1.16%) Automotive
16 22 (0.73%) Legal Technology
17 19 (0.63%) Military
18 18 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,664 (55.06%) Developer
2 767 (25.38%) .NET Developer
3 669 (22.14%) Software Engineer
4 616 (20.38%) Senior
5 419 (13.86%) Software Developer
6 382 (12.64%) C# Developer
7 316 (10.46%) C# Software Engineer
8 290 (9.60%) Lead
9 286 (9.46%) Senior Developer
10 237 (7.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (5.59%) C# .NET Developer
12 168 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 165 (5.46%) C# Software Developer
14 155 (5.13%) .NET Software Engineer
15 143 (4.73%) Graduate
16 135 (4.47%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.28%) Graduate Developer
18 96 (3.18%) Azure Developer
18 96 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
19 94 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,981 (65.55%) .NET
2 765 (25.31%) .NET Core
3 709 (23.46%) ASP.NET
4 561 (18.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 455 (15.06%) React
6 363 (12.01%) CSS
7 346 (11.45%) HTML
8 305 (10.09%) AngularJS
9 283 (9.36%) Blazor
9 283 (9.36%) RESTful
10 274 (9.07%) Vue
11 255 (8.44%) Entity Framework
12 246 (8.14%) Node.js
13 225 (7.45%) .NET Framework
14 207 (6.85%) ASP.NET Web API
15 204 (6.75%) REST
16 153 (5.06%) ML.NET
17 116 (3.84%) LINQ
18 106 (3.51%) WPF
19 71 (2.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 193 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 140 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.85%) Hedge funds
9 51 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 45 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 41 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (0.89%) Management Information System
16 25 (0.83%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.79%) Legacy Code
17 24 (0.79%) Robotics
18 23 (0.76%) Sports Betting
19 22 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.83%) Windows
2 111 (3.67%) Linux
3 43 (1.42%) Android
4 28 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.40%) VMS
7 9 (0.30%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.099%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.066%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,049 (34.71%) Agile
2 944 (31.24%) Software Engineering
3 890 (29.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 713 (23.59%) CI/CD
5 692 (22.90%) DevOps
6 474 (15.68%) Microservices
7 464 (15.35%) AI
8 421 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
9 335 (11.09%) Mentoring
10 327 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 276 (9.13%) Computer Science
12 260 (8.60%) Machine Learning
13 246 (8.14%) Test Automation
14 231 (7.64%) SDLC
15 198 (6.55%) Multithreading
16 197 (6.52%) Scrum
17 188 (6.22%) TDD
18 180 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
19 178 (5.89%) OO
20 157 (5.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (38.52%) SQL
2 688 (22.77%) JavaScript
3 474 (15.68%) Python
4 454 (15.02%) TypeScript
5 340 (11.25%) C++
6 270 (8.93%) Java
7 129 (4.27%) PHP
8 108 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 77 (2.55%) C
10 59 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.42%) Bicep
12 39 (1.29%) Go
13 37 (1.22%) VB.NET
14 36 (1.19%) Bash
15 30 (0.99%) VBA
16 24 (0.79%) Rust
17 20 (0.66%) Scala
18 19 (0.63%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.60%) F#
20 17 (0.56%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 389 (12.87%) Degree
2 185 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (4.30%) Security Cleared
4 82 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.93%) PhD
9 22 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 16 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.43%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.17%) CREST Certified
16 5 (0.17%) GPEN
16 5 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (6.02%) QA
2 48 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 24 (0.79%) GDPR
5 21 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.40%) SLA
8 11 (0.36%) WCAG
9 5 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.17%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
10 4 (0.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.066%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.066%) ITGC
13 1 (0.033%) EMIR
13 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 365 (12.08%) Docker
2 28 (0.93%) Firmware
3 22 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.20%) KVM
8 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.099%) vSphere
10 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 326 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 145 (4.80%) Terraform
3 36 (1.19%) Grafana
4 18 (0.60%) Ansible
5 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.099%) Control-M
7 3 (0.099%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.099%) Kibana
8 2 (0.066%) MIIS
8 2 (0.066%) MOM
9 1 (0.033%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.033%) Nessus
9 1 (0.033%) Netcool
9 1 (0.033%) Nmap
Vendors
1 969 (32.06%) Microsoft
2 76 (2.51%) Google
3 62 (2.05%) Facebook
4 47 (1.56%) Oracle
5 25 (0.83%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.76%) Adobe
7 20 (0.66%) YouTube
8 19 (0.63%) Apple
8 19 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 17 (0.56%) Sony
9 17 (0.56%) VMware
9 17 (0.56%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 14 (0.46%) Databricks
12 12 (0.40%) Intapp
13 11 (0.36%) Splunk
14 10 (0.33%) IBM
14 10 (0.33%) iManage
14 10 (0.33%) SAP
15 9 (0.30%) ServiceNow