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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 49 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,173 2,330 6,885
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.17% 4.74% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.89% 16.21% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,757 1,932 5,674
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
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 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £89,625
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 17,736 14,375 29,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.73% 29.22% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,537 21,441
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,309 £35,500
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +2 2,889 £60,000 -7.69% 682
UK excluding London +7 2,391 £57,500 -4.17% 512
Work from Home +1 1,422 £55,000 -15.38% 337
South East +14 689 £60,000 - 179
London -16 649 £82,500 +3.13% 244
North of England +38 595 £56,500 -4.88% 131
Midlands -7 394 £55,000 - 68
North West +49 286 £56,250 +2.27% 59
East of England +5 274 £60,000 -9.37% 72
South West +19 267 £52,500 -4.55% 53
West Midlands -16 205 £60,000 +9.09% 35
East Midlands +16 189 £55,000 - 33
Yorkshire +13 168 £55,000 -15.38% 39
North East -3 141 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Northern Ireland +3 94 £61,250 -23.44% 5
Wales -42 47 £51,810 -17.10% 13
Scotland -14 33 £50,000 -22.48% 13

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 87 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.10%) IIS
3 33 (1.04%) CMS
4 19 (0.60%) Confluence
5 15 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.28%) WordPress
7 8 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.22%) nginx
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.16%) Apache
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) JBoss
11 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.095%) DNN
12 3 (0.095%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.095%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.095%) Kentico
12 3 (0.095%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.19%) Simulink
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.095%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.063%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 47 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.095%) Magento
6 2 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.063%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.063%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.032%) Eikon
7 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.032%) RMDS
7 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,588 (50.05%) Azure
2 525 (16.55%) AWS
3 421 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 290 (9.14%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.88%) SaaS
6 228 (7.19%) GitHub
7 179 (5.64%) Azure AI
8 166 (5.23%) Power Automate
9 162 (5.11%) Serverless
10 158 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 158 (4.98%) PowerApps
11 155 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 134 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
13 115 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 113 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
15 102 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 99 (3.12%) Azure Functions
17 70 (2.21%) GCP
18 56 (1.76%) Azure AKS
19 53 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.95%) Internet
2 18 (0.57%) Broadband
2 18 (0.57%) DNS
3 15 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.25%) Firewall
5 8 (0.25%) VPN
6 7 (0.22%) HTTP
6 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.19%) BGP
7 6 (0.19%) DHCP
7 6 (0.19%) IPsec
8 5 (0.16%) LAN
8 5 (0.16%) WAN
9 4 (0.13%) Intranet
9 4 (0.13%) LTE
9 4 (0.13%) Modbus
9 4 (0.13%) Network Security
10 3 (0.095%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.095%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 525 (16.55%) SQL Server
2 512 (16.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 448 (14.12%) MongoDB
4 164 (5.17%) Power BI
5 161 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.62%) NoSQL
7 75 (2.36%) MySQL
8 59 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 56 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 41 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.72%) Redis
13 21 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.44%) Db2
15 13 (0.41%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.38%) Metadata
17 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (0.35%) Big Data
17 11 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 219 (6.90%) Git
2 65 (2.05%) JIRA
3 40 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 38 (1.20%) Selenium
5 35 (1.10%) GitLab
6 26 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 22 (0.69%) Postman
8 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 16 (0.50%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.38%) NUnit
13 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
15 7 (0.22%) Moq
15 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 525 (16.55%) Finance
2 480 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 160 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (4.35%) Legal
5 108 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 105 (3.31%) Law
7 86 (2.71%) Games
8 77 (2.43%) Retail
9 71 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.17%) Advertising
11 64 (2.02%) Marketing
12 60 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 59 (1.86%) Banking
14 57 (1.80%) Electronics
15 51 (1.61%) Aerospace
16 49 (1.54%) Front Office
17 38 (1.20%) Legal Technology
18 35 (1.10%) Automotive
19 20 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
20 18 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,740 (54.84%) Developer
2 787 (24.80%) .NET Developer
3 701 (22.09%) Senior
4 678 (21.37%) Software Engineer
5 418 (13.17%) Software Developer
6 384 (12.10%) C# Developer
7 336 (10.59%) Senior Developer
8 310 (9.77%) C# Software Engineer
9 303 (9.55%) Lead
10 238 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
11 181 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (5.26%) C# Software Developer
13 166 (5.23%) C# .NET Developer
14 150 (4.73%) .NET Software Engineer
15 149 (4.70%) Graduate
16 137 (4.32%) Lead Developer
17 101 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
17 101 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 101 (3.18%) Graduate Developer
18 97 (3.06%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,060 (64.92%) .NET
2 759 (23.92%) .NET Core
3 732 (23.07%) ASP.NET
4 582 (18.34%) ASP.NET Core
5 449 (14.15%) React
6 373 (11.76%) CSS
7 359 (11.31%) HTML
8 309 (9.74%) AngularJS
9 294 (9.27%) RESTful
10 291 (9.17%) Blazor
11 281 (8.86%) Vue
12 271 (8.54%) Entity Framework
13 256 (8.07%) Node.js
14 240 (7.56%) .NET Framework
15 215 (6.78%) ASP.NET Web API
16 214 (6.74%) REST
17 154 (4.85%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.78%) LINQ
19 110 (3.47%) WPF
20 84 (2.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 149 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
3 120 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 77 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 53 (1.67%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 46 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (0.88%) Management Information System
15 27 (0.85%) AI Agents
15 27 (0.85%) Robotics
16 26 (0.82%) Low-Code
17 25 (0.79%) Legacy Code
18 24 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
19 22 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 152 (4.79%) Windows
2 108 (3.40%) Linux
3 42 (1.32%) Android
4 34 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.35%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.063%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (35.14%) Agile
2 1,009 (31.80%) Software Engineering
3 914 (28.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 761 (23.98%) CI/CD
5 729 (22.98%) DevOps
6 535 (16.86%) Microservices
7 491 (15.47%) AI
8 477 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
9 405 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 385 (12.13%) Mentoring
11 289 (9.11%) Test Automation
12 273 (8.60%) Computer Science
13 265 (8.35%) Machine Learning
14 244 (7.69%) SDLC
15 204 (6.43%) Scrum
16 199 (6.27%) Multithreading
17 187 (5.89%) Software Testing
18 184 (5.80%) TDD
19 179 (5.64%) OO
20 177 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,192 (37.57%) SQL
2 741 (23.35%) JavaScript
3 521 (16.42%) Python
4 493 (15.54%) TypeScript
5 338 (10.65%) C++
6 270 (8.51%) Java
7 141 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 137 (4.32%) PHP
9 77 (2.43%) C
10 59 (1.86%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.45%) Bicep
12 41 (1.29%) VB.NET
13 38 (1.20%) Go
14 34 (1.07%) Bash
15 32 (1.01%) VBA
16 23 (0.72%) Rust
17 22 (0.69%) Scala
18 20 (0.63%) F#
19 19 (0.60%) Haskell
20 18 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 387 (12.20%) Degree
2 183 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 117 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 41 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (0.79%) PhD
9 19 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.16%) GPEN
17 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (8.29%) QA
2 51 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 27 (0.85%) GDPR
5 21 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.38%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) WCAG
8 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
10 5 (0.16%) NCSC
11 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
12 3 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.063%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.063%) ITGC
13 2 (0.063%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.063%) PSD2
14 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 369 (11.63%) Docker
2 24 (0.76%) Firmware
3 20 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.16%) KVM
8 3 (0.095%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 333 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 147 (4.63%) Terraform
3 36 (1.13%) Grafana
4 17 (0.54%) Ansible
5 14 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.095%) Control-M
9 3 (0.095%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.063%) MIIS
10 2 (0.063%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Kibana
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,021 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.68%) Google
3 64 (2.02%) Facebook
4 47 (1.48%) Oracle
5 27 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.72%) Adobe
7 22 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.69%) YouTube
8 19 (0.60%) Apple
9 17 (0.54%) Sony
9 17 (0.54%) Yahoo!
10 16 (0.50%) Databricks
10 16 (0.50%) VMware
11 15 (0.47%) Xamarin
12 14 (0.44%) Intapp
13 12 (0.38%) SAP
13 12 (0.38%) Splunk
14 11 (0.35%) IBM
15 10 (0.32%) iManage
16 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow