C# Job Trends

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -45 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,860 3,516 6,796
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.86% 6.89% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.18% 20.30% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,626 2,279 6,136
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,375
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 £77,500 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,498 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.48% +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 12,250 17,316 27,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.85% 33.93% 37.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8,808 10,184 22,729
10th Percentile £33,338 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +2.74% -

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 February 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 6 February 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 -41 1,699 £60,000 -5.51% 903
UK excluding London -51 1,246 £55,498 -3.48% 760
Work from Home -26 786 £60,000 -4.00% 569
London -23 499 £80,000 +6.67% 276
North of England -32 361 £62,500 +13.64% 205
South East -46 347 £55,000 -12.00% 246
Midlands -34 261 £52,500 -4.55% 115
North West -22 177 £62,500 +17.92% 126
West Midlands -42 131 £52,500 -4.55% 54
East Midlands -25 130 £52,750 -4.09% 61
Yorkshire -32 118 £60,750 +21.50% 48
South West -40 118 £55,000 - 64
East of England -65 90 £55,000 -16.92% 72
North East -15 66 £70,000 +12.00% 33
Scotland -78 45 £60,000 +33.33% 41
Wales -31 22 £45,000 -25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -21 10 £78,750 +34.04% 8
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 41 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.99%) IIS
3 18 (0.97%) CMS
4 11 (0.59%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.48%) Confluence
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.054%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.16%) Simulink
5 2 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.054%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.054%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.054%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 46 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.27%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.11%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.054%) Endur
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 897 (48.23%) Azure
2 345 (18.55%) AWS
3 236 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (11.67%) SaaS
5 180 (9.68%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.10%) Serverless
7 105 (5.65%) Power Automate
8 97 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
9 91 (4.89%) GCP
9 91 (4.89%) PowerApps
10 84 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (3.98%) Azure Functions
11 74 (3.98%) GitHub
12 54 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 36 (1.94%) Entra ID
16 30 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (1.56%) Azure AKS
18 26 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.32%) DNS
3 6 (0.32%) HTTP
3 6 (0.32%) Internet
4 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.22%) Firewall
5 4 (0.22%) SAN
6 3 (0.16%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.16%) Intranet
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.11%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) NAS
7 2 (0.11%) VLAN
8 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (19.62%) SQL Server
2 90 (4.84%) Power BI
3 84 (4.52%) Relational Database
4 68 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 68 (3.66%) MySQL
4 68 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 66 (3.55%) MongoDB
6 44 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 35 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.02%) Redis
12 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.38%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.32%) GIS
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.27%) Big Data
15 5 (0.27%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 128 (6.88%) Git
2 74 (3.98%) Selenium
3 71 (3.82%) JIRA
4 68 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 50 (2.69%) Postman
6 38 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 38 (2.04%) WebDriver
7 32 (1.72%) SoapUI
8 31 (1.67%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.13%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.70%) GitLab
12 13 (0.70%) NUnit
13 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.48%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.43%) LabVIEW
16 7 (0.38%) Balsamiq
16 7 (0.38%) JMeter
16 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
General
1 448 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 320 (17.20%) Finance
3 113 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (4.41%) Law
5 74 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.12%) Retail
7 56 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 55 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 48 (2.58%) Front Office
10 44 (2.37%) Banking
11 37 (1.99%) Electronics
12 31 (1.67%) Legal
13 29 (1.56%) Marketing
14 28 (1.51%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Aviation
15 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.81%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.81%) Military
16 15 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 918 (49.35%) Developer
2 417 (22.42%) Senior
3 307 (16.51%) Software Engineer
4 258 (13.87%) C# Developer
4 258 (13.87%) Software Developer
5 242 (13.01%) .NET Developer
6 215 (11.56%) Senior Developer
7 205 (11.02%) Lead
8 147 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 101 (5.43%) C# Software Engineer
10 99 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 87 (4.68%) .NET Software Engineer
12 86 (4.62%) C# .NET Developer
13 72 (3.87%) C# Software Developer
14 70 (3.76%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.60%) Analyst
16 66 (3.55%) Architect
17 64 (3.44%) Support Engineer
18 62 (3.33%) Graduate
19 61 (3.28%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,138 (61.18%) .NET
2 324 (17.42%) .NET Core
3 275 (14.78%) React
4 237 (12.74%) ASP.NET
5 193 (10.38%) HTML
6 191 (10.27%) .NET Framework
7 174 (9.35%) CSS
8 171 (9.19%) AngularJS
9 136 (7.31%) REST
10 103 (5.54%) RESTful
11 94 (5.05%) Entity Framework
12 82 (4.41%) Vue
13 72 (3.87%) Blazor
14 66 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
15 57 (3.06%) ASP.NET Core
16 56 (3.01%) Node.js
17 55 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
18 48 (2.58%) SOAP
19 46 (2.47%) WPF
20 41 (2.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 78 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 43 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.83%) Low-Code
8 34 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 34 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 25 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.13%) Hedge funds
12 18 (0.97%) Client/Server
12 18 (0.97%) Derivative
12 18 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 17 (0.91%) Robotics
14 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.00%) Windows
2 69 (3.71%) Linux
3 23 (1.24%) Android
4 15 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.81%) Unix
5 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.22%) Solaris
8 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
9 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.054%) AIX
10 1 (0.054%) Fedora
10 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (32.53%) Agile
2 574 (30.86%) Software Engineering
3 450 (24.19%) DevOps
4 424 (22.80%) CI/CD
5 388 (20.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 385 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 299 (16.08%) Mentoring
8 290 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 277 (14.89%) Microservices
10 200 (10.75%) Computer Science
11 156 (8.39%) AI
12 155 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 152 (8.17%) SDLC
14 148 (7.96%) Scrum
15 138 (7.42%) MVC
16 116 (6.24%) Containerisation
17 115 (6.18%) CRM
18 113 (6.08%) Migration
19 110 (5.91%) OO
20 104 (5.59%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 621 (33.39%) SQL
2 451 (24.25%) JavaScript
3 316 (16.99%) Python
4 239 (12.85%) Java
5 228 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 153 (8.23%) C++
7 102 (5.48%) PowerShell
8 71 (3.82%) PHP
9 54 (2.90%) C
10 44 (2.37%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.40%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.29%) Bash
13 20 (1.08%) Go
14 19 (1.02%) Rust
15 18 (0.97%) Bicep
16 17 (0.91%) Delphi
17 15 (0.81%) VBA
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
19 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (15.32%) Degree
2 140 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 124 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 75 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 66 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.85%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.77%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.91%) PhD
14 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.43%) ISEB
17 7 (0.38%) CREST Certified
18 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 5 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (9.35%) QA
2 38 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.65%) WCAG
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) SEPA
8 4 (0.22%) SLA
9 2 (0.11%) EMIR
9 2 (0.11%) HL7
9 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.054%) IFRS
10 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.054%) ITGC
10 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 161 (8.66%) Docker
2 22 (1.18%) Firmware
3 21 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.32%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.054%) HDFS
8 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.054%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 95 (5.11%) Terraform
3 26 (1.40%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) Nmap
8 2 (0.11%) Control-M
8 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.11%) MOM
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.054%) Nessus
9 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 409 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 52 (2.80%) Oracle
3 33 (1.77%) Google
4 20 (1.08%) Xamarin
5 19 (1.02%) Guidewire
6 17 (0.91%) SAP
7 13 (0.70%) Palantir
7 13 (0.70%) Sage
8 10 (0.54%) Databricks
8 10 (0.54%) VMware
9 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
10 8 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.38%) Adobe
11 7 (0.38%) IBM
11 7 (0.38%) Infor
12 6 (0.32%) Epicor
12 6 (0.32%) ESRI
12 6 (0.32%) Salesforce