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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 51 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 -32 0
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,930 2,282 8,323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.05% 4.94% 7.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.99% 16.25% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,605 1,888 6,991
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 £80,063 £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 17,242 14,043 33,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 30.37% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 12,251 9,299 25,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £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 £77,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +3 2,737 £60,000 -7.69% 692
UK excluding London +3 2,160 £57,500 -4.17% 603
Work from Home +1 1,229 £55,000 -15.38% 397
South East +14 651 £59,500 -0.83% 204
London -17 636 £82,500 +3.13% 202
North of England +26 568 £57,500 -4.01% 138
Midlands -14 368 £56,250 +2.27% 86
North West +48 283 £57,500 +4.55% 66
East of England 0 254 £60,000 -9.37% 73
South West +7 239 £55,000 - 65
East Midlands +19 186 £55,000 - 37
West Midlands -27 182 £58,250 +5.91% 49
Yorkshire +4 157 £55,000 -19.71% 39
North East -6 128 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Wales -32 41 £51,619 -20.59% 19
Scotland -11 35 £55,000 -12.00% 20
Northern Ireland -26 6 £65,000 -18.75% 14

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 79 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.06%) CMS
3 30 (1.02%) IIS
4 17 (0.58%) Confluence
5 15 (0.51%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.31%) WordPress
7 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.17%) nginx
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.14%) Apache
10 4 (0.14%) JBoss
10 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.10%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.10%) DNN
11 3 (0.10%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.10%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.10%) Kentico
11 3 (0.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 41 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.24%) Simulink
4 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.10%) Magento
3 3 (0.10%) Shopify
4 2 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.068%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (0.068%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.034%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.034%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,486 (50.72%) Azure
2 504 (17.20%) AWS
3 405 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
4 267 (9.11%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.10%) GitHub
6 206 (7.03%) SaaS
7 158 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 153 (5.22%) Azure AI
8 153 (5.22%) Serverless
9 150 (5.12%) Power Automate
10 145 (4.95%) PowerApps
11 135 (4.61%) GitHub Copilot
12 123 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
13 103 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 100 (3.41%) Azure Functions
14 100 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
15 99 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 68 (2.32%) GCP
17 56 (1.91%) Azure AKS
17 56 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.95%) Internet
2 19 (0.65%) Broadband
3 14 (0.48%) DNS
3 14 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 9 (0.31%) Firewall
6 8 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.24%) HTTP
8 6 (0.20%) DHCP
9 5 (0.17%) LAN
9 5 (0.17%) LTE
9 5 (0.17%) VPN
9 5 (0.17%) WAN
10 4 (0.14%) Intranet
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) Network Security
11 3 (0.10%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.10%) RS-232
11 3 (0.10%) SSL
12 2 (0.068%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (16.93%) SQL Server
2 464 (15.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 403 (13.75%) MongoDB
4 156 (5.32%) Power BI
5 143 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.49%) MySQL
8 60 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 54 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 38 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (0.72%) Redis
13 16 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.44%) Db2
15 12 (0.41%) Metadata
16 11 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
18 8 (0.27%) DynamoDB
18 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 7 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 208 (7.10%) Git
2 58 (1.98%) JIRA
3 44 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.40%) Selenium
5 35 (1.19%) GitLab
6 28 (0.96%) Postman
7 24 (0.82%) SpecFlow
7 24 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.61%) Jenkins
10 13 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.44%) NUnit
10 13 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 12 (0.41%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.31%) SoapUI
13 8 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 517 (17.65%) Finance
2 403 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 153 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (3.58%) Manufacturing
5 82 (2.80%) Games
6 72 (2.46%) Retail
7 69 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 63 (2.15%) Advertising
9 59 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 56 (1.91%) Electronics
11 55 (1.88%) Banking
12 54 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 53 (1.81%) Marketing
14 50 (1.71%) Law
15 49 (1.67%) Front Office
16 40 (1.37%) Legal
17 34 (1.16%) Automotive
18 18 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 15 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,610 (54.95%) Developer
2 723 (24.68%) .NET Developer
3 651 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 581 (19.83%) Senior
5 425 (14.51%) Software Developer
6 381 (13.00%) C# Developer
7 311 (10.61%) C# Software Engineer
8 274 (9.35%) Lead
9 273 (9.32%) Senior Developer
10 229 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 167 (5.70%) C# .NET Developer
11 167 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 165 (5.63%) C# Software Developer
13 160 (5.46%) .NET Software Engineer
14 138 (4.71%) Graduate
15 128 (4.37%) Lead Developer
16 99 (3.38%) Graduate Developer
17 95 (3.24%) Azure Developer
18 94 (3.21%) .NET Software Developer
19 93 (3.17%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,920 (65.53%) .NET
2 737 (25.15%) .NET Core
3 672 (22.94%) ASP.NET
4 522 (17.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 432 (14.74%) React
6 347 (11.84%) CSS
7 333 (11.37%) HTML
8 292 (9.97%) AngularJS
9 269 (9.18%) RESTful
10 266 (9.08%) Blazor
11 262 (8.94%) Vue
12 244 (8.33%) Entity Framework
13 227 (7.75%) Node.js
14 219 (7.47%) .NET Framework
15 200 (6.83%) REST
16 195 (6.66%) ASP.NET Web API
17 140 (4.78%) ML.NET
18 108 (3.69%) LINQ
19 102 (3.48%) WPF
20 66 (2.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 134 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
3 110 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 76 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 56 (1.91%) Hedge funds
9 50 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.26%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 35 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.82%) Legacy Code
16 23 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 23 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (0.78%) Robotics
16 23 (0.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 144 (4.91%) Windows
2 107 (3.65%) Linux
3 44 (1.50%) Android
4 26 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.41%) VMS
7 9 (0.31%) Unix
8 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.068%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (34.03%) Agile
2 897 (30.61%) Software Engineering
3 852 (29.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 678 (23.14%) CI/CD
5 659 (22.49%) DevOps
6 445 (15.19%) AI
7 439 (14.98%) Microservices
8 409 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
9 316 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 308 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 274 (9.35%) Computer Science
12 241 (8.23%) Machine Learning
13 235 (8.02%) Test Automation
14 230 (7.85%) SDLC
15 193 (6.59%) Scrum
16 187 (6.38%) Multithreading
17 180 (6.14%) TDD
18 174 (5.94%) Business Intelligence
19 167 (5.70%) OO
20 155 (5.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,121 (38.26%) SQL
2 651 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 455 (15.53%) Python
4 428 (14.61%) TypeScript
5 335 (11.43%) C++
6 268 (9.15%) Java
7 123 (4.20%) PHP
8 98 (3.34%) PowerShell
9 73 (2.49%) C
10 58 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.43%) Bicep
12 39 (1.33%) Go
13 36 (1.23%) VB.NET
14 35 (1.19%) Bash
15 29 (0.99%) VBA
16 23 (0.78%) Rust
17 20 (0.68%) Scala
18 19 (0.65%) MATLAB
19 18 (0.61%) F#
20 17 (0.58%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 386 (13.17%) Degree
2 185 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 129 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 79 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 44 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 43 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.96%) PhD
9 25 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 18 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.38%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
16 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.17%) CREST Certified
17 5 (0.17%) GPEN
17 5 (0.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (5.39%) QA
2 48 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 27 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.78%) GDPR
5 20 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.41%) SLA
8 11 (0.38%) WCAG
9 5 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.17%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.10%) NCSC
12 2 (0.068%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.068%) ITGC
13 1 (0.034%) EMIR
13 1 (0.034%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 345 (11.77%) Docker
2 28 (0.96%) Firmware
3 22 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 11 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.20%) KVM
6 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 308 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 140 (4.78%) Terraform
3 36 (1.23%) Grafana
4 17 (0.58%) Ansible
5 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.17%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.10%) Control-M
9 3 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.068%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.068%) MIIS
10 2 (0.068%) MOM
11 1 (0.034%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.034%) Nessus
11 1 (0.034%) Netcool
11 1 (0.034%) Nmap
Vendors
1 912 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.42%) Google
3 58 (1.98%) Facebook
4 45 (1.54%) Oracle
5 24 (0.82%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.78%) Adobe
7 19 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 19 (0.65%) YouTube
8 18 (0.61%) Apple
9 17 (0.58%) VMware
10 16 (0.55%) Sony
10 16 (0.55%) Xamarin
10 16 (0.55%) Yahoo!
11 14 (0.48%) Databricks
12 11 (0.38%) Intapp
13 10 (0.34%) iManage
13 10 (0.34%) Splunk
14 9 (0.31%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (0.27%) IBM