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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 67 22
Rank change year-on-year +21 -45 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,402 1,917 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.98% 3.88% 6.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.33% 14.66% 22.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,865 1,594 3,764
10th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,000 £81,250 £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% -

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 18,557 13,072 24,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 26.48% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 8,425 15,033
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 16 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 16 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 +19 3,115 £60,000 -4.00% 2,529
UK excluding London +26 2,625 £57,500 - 1,434
Work from Home +20 1,525 £55,000 -8.33% 1,224
South East +31 770 £60,000 - 380
London -17 661 £85,000 +6.25% 1,281
North of England +39 635 £57,500 -4.17% 347
Midlands +5 420 £60,000 +9.09% 205
East of England +33 324 £60,000 +9.09% 206
North West +56 301 £55,000 -12.00% 183
South West +32 283 £54,250 +3.33% 119
West Midlands -10 220 £62,500 +13.64% 107
East Midlands +21 200 £60,000 +9.09% 98
North East +1 173 £65,000 +10.64% 75
Yorkshire +2 161 £55,000 -8.18% 92
Northern Ireland +9 116 £50,000 -10.31% 41
Wales -61 43 £51,810 +6.82% 43
Scotland 0 36 £55,000 -14.73% 113

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
1 115 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.23%) IIS
3 30 (0.88%) CMS
4 24 (0.71%) Confluence
5 13 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.24%) Apache
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.21%) nginx
9 6 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Kentico
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%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 39 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.088%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.088%) Simulink
5 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 56 (1.65%) 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%) Endur
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 1,663 (48.88%) Azure
2 599 (17.61%) AWS
3 489 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
4 355 (10.44%) Power Platform
5 254 (7.47%) GitHub
6 251 (7.38%) SaaS
7 214 (6.29%) Power Automate
8 195 (5.73%) Serverless
9 191 (5.61%) PowerApps
10 190 (5.58%) Azure AI
11 168 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
12 166 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 154 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
13 154 (4.53%) Dynamics 365
14 132 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 124 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 114 (3.35%) Azure Functions
17 87 (2.56%) GCP
18 49 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
19 48 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.82%) Internet
2 20 (0.59%) DNS
2 20 (0.59%) Firewall
3 17 (0.50%) HTTP
4 16 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.29%) Broadband
6 9 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.26%) VLAN
6 9 (0.26%) Wireless
7 8 (0.24%) VPN
8 6 (0.18%) BGP
8 6 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.18%) IPsec
8 6 (0.18%) SNMP
9 5 (0.15%) DHCP
9 5 (0.15%) Intranet
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.088%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 599 (17.61%) SQL Server
2 511 (15.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 453 (13.32%) MongoDB
4 192 (5.64%) Power BI
5 164 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
6 104 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 90 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.35%) MySQL
9 77 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 34 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 31 (0.91%) Redis
14 25 (0.73%) DynamoDB
15 21 (0.62%) Metadata
16 17 (0.50%) Spark SQL
17 16 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.47%) Data Lake
18 14 (0.41%) Big Data
19 13 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 316 (9.29%) Git
2 73 (2.15%) JIRA
3 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 36 (1.06%) Selenium
5 34 (1.00%) GitLab
6 29 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 26 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 25 (0.73%) Claude Code
9 22 (0.65%) NUnit
9 22 (0.65%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.53%) Postman
11 12 (0.35%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.26%) Subversion
15 7 (0.21%) Eclipse
15 7 (0.21%) Moq
15 7 (0.21%) MSI
General
1 580 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 520 (15.29%) Finance
3 194 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (5.35%) Legal
5 127 (3.73%) Manufacturing
6 122 (3.59%) Law
7 114 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 90 (2.65%) Games
10 74 (2.18%) Retail
11 68 (2.00%) Advertising
12 67 (1.97%) Electronics
13 65 (1.91%) Marketing
14 62 (1.82%) Aerospace
15 56 (1.65%) Banking
16 47 (1.38%) Front Office
17 40 (1.18%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.06%) Automotive
19 27 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,767 (51.94%) Developer
2 801 (23.54%) .NET Developer
3 758 (22.28%) Senior
4 743 (21.84%) Software Engineer
5 373 (10.96%) Software Developer
6 364 (10.70%) C# Developer
7 357 (10.49%) Senior Developer
8 356 (10.46%) Lead
9 340 (9.99%) C# Software Engineer
10 248 (7.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 175 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 163 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
13 158 (4.64%) Lead Developer
14 140 (4.12%) Graduate
15 137 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
16 136 (4.00%) C# Software Developer
17 120 (3.53%) Architect
18 116 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 105 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
20 88 (2.59%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,175 (63.93%) .NET
2 759 (22.31%) ASP.NET
3 743 (21.84%) .NET Core
4 595 (17.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 504 (14.81%) React
6 397 (11.67%) CSS
7 393 (11.55%) HTML
8 329 (9.67%) RESTful
9 327 (9.61%) AngularJS
10 304 (8.94%) Blazor
11 301 (8.85%) Entity Framework
12 292 (8.58%) Vue
13 269 (7.91%) .NET Framework
14 257 (7.55%) REST
15 256 (7.52%) Node.js
16 219 (6.44%) ASP.NET Web API
17 168 (4.94%) Terraform
18 149 (4.38%) ML.NET
19 143 (4.20%) WPF
20 116 (3.41%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 166 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 153 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 133 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 132 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 106 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 91 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 60 (1.76%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.73%) Mobile App
10 54 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 52 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 52 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 45 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 34 (1.00%) Robotics
15 31 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 26 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 25 (0.73%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 182 (5.35%) Windows
2 114 (3.35%) Linux
3 42 (1.23%) Android
4 41 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.21%) Unix
8 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.059%) VMS
11 1 (0.029%) CentOS
11 1 (0.029%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (34.80%) Agile
2 1,143 (33.60%) Software Engineering
3 931 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 867 (25.49%) CI/CD
5 807 (23.72%) DevOps
6 573 (16.84%) Microservices
6 573 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
7 564 (16.58%) AI
8 481 (14.14%) Mentoring
9 479 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 331 (9.73%) Test Automation
11 293 (8.61%) SDLC
12 283 (8.32%) Computer Science
13 271 (7.97%) Machine Learning
14 224 (6.58%) Software Testing
15 216 (6.35%) Scrum
16 210 (6.17%) OO
17 208 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
18 199 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
19 192 (5.64%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,224 (35.98%) SQL
2 841 (24.72%) JavaScript
3 580 (17.05%) Python
4 520 (15.29%) TypeScript
5 357 (10.49%) C++
6 305 (8.97%) Java
7 137 (4.03%) PowerShell
8 125 (3.67%) PHP
9 86 (2.53%) C
10 67 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.41%) Bicep
12 44 (1.29%) Go
13 42 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 38 (1.12%) VBA
15 33 (0.97%) Bash
16 23 (0.68%) Delphi
16 23 (0.68%) Ruby
16 23 (0.68%) Rust
17 18 (0.53%) Scala
18 15 (0.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 419 (12.32%) Degree
2 192 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 149 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 112 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 50 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 42 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 22 (0.65%) PhD
9 18 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.18%) OSCP
15 5 (0.15%) CREST Certified
16 4 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (9.11%) QA
2 68 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 42 (1.23%) GDPR
5 21 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.53%) WCAG
7 9 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.21%) NCSC
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%) NIST
10 4 (0.12%) SLA
11 3 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.088%) MIL-STD-1553
11 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.088%) PSD2
System Software
1 386 (11.35%) Docker
2 26 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) Firmware
5 12 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.088%) vSphere
10 1 (0.029%) HDFS
10 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 335 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.68%) Grafana
3 18 (0.53%) Ansible
4 17 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Control-M
9 3 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.088%) EnCase
9 3 (0.088%) FTK
10 2 (0.059%) Bosun
11 1 (0.029%) logstash
11 1 (0.029%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,131 (33.25%) Microsoft
2 89 (2.62%) Google
3 63 (1.85%) Facebook
4 50 (1.47%) Oracle
5 32 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.73%) Salesforce
7 24 (0.71%) VMware
8 22 (0.65%) YouTube
9 20 (0.59%) Adobe
10 18 (0.53%) Apple
11 17 (0.50%) Sony
11 17 (0.50%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.47%) Databricks
12 16 (0.47%) HP
13 15 (0.44%) Intapp
14 14 (0.41%) Foundry
15 12 (0.35%) Aderant
15 12 (0.35%) SAP
16 11 (0.32%) IBM
16 11 (0.32%) Talend