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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -46 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 1,866 3,545 6,827
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.91% 6.90% 9.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.41% 20.34% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 2,249 6,163
10th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £36,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 12,109 17,432 27,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.86% 33.91% 37.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 10,064 22,849
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,653
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 £55,000 £55,000

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 3 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 3 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 -42 1,705 £60,000 -4.00% 870
UK excluding London -50 1,251 £55,000 -4.35% 740
Work from Home -26 789 £60,000 - 566
London -21 499 £80,000 +6.67% 267
North of England -33 366 £62,500 +13.64% 191
South East -43 346 £55,000 -12.00% 245
Midlands -32 261 £52,500 -4.55% 108
North West -19 182 £62,500 +15.74% 115
West Midlands -41 132 £52,500 -4.55% 48
East Midlands -21 129 £52,500 -4.55% 60
Yorkshire -36 118 £60,000 +20.00% 43
South West -41 118 £55,000 - 62
East of England -59 93 £55,000 -16.92% 71
North East -9 66 £70,000 +12.00% 34
Scotland -80 44 £60,000 +33.33% 44
Wales -32 22 £45,000 -25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -20 9 £78,750 +34.04% 9
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 39 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.04%) IIS
3 22 (1.18%) CMS
4 12 (0.64%) Kinematics
5 9 (0.48%) Confluence
5 9 (0.48%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.054%) Apache Solr
11 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 48 (2.57%) 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%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 893 (47.86%) Azure
2 346 (18.54%) AWS
3 235 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (11.52%) SaaS
5 180 (9.65%) Power Platform
6 132 (7.07%) Serverless
7 104 (5.57%) Power Automate
8 99 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (4.82%) GCP
9 90 (4.82%) PowerApps
10 82 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 76 (4.07%) GitHub
12 72 (3.86%) Azure Functions
13 54 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 50 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
15 44 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 36 (1.93%) Entra ID
17 32 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
18 29 (1.55%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.38%) DNS
3 7 (0.38%) HTTP
4 6 (0.32%) Internet
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
6 4 (0.21%) Firewall
6 4 (0.21%) SAN
7 3 (0.16%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.11%) Broadband
8 2 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.11%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.11%) NAS
8 2 (0.11%) VLAN
9 1 (0.054%) FTP
9 1 (0.054%) Hyperconnected
9 1 (0.054%) LTE
9 1 (0.054%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.054%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (19.88%) SQL Server
2 87 (4.66%) Power BI
3 84 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 72 (3.86%) MySQL
5 69 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 69 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 66 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 43 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 36 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.07%) Redis
13 11 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.48%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.32%) GIS
15 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.27%) Big Data
16 5 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 128 (6.86%) Git
2 77 (4.13%) Selenium
3 72 (3.86%) JIRA
4 67 (3.59%) Visual Studio
5 50 (2.68%) Postman
6 39 (2.09%) WebDriver
7 37 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
8 33 (1.77%) Jenkins
9 32 (1.71%) SoapUI
10 21 (1.13%) SpecFlow
11 17 (0.91%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 14 (0.75%) GitLab
14 13 (0.70%) NUnit
15 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.48%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.43%) LabVIEW
18 7 (0.38%) Balsamiq
18 7 (0.38%) JMeter
18 7 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
General
1 458 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 327 (17.52%) Finance
3 115 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (4.34%) Law
5 73 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 59 (3.16%) Retail
7 56 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 54 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 49 (2.63%) Front Office
10 45 (2.41%) Banking
11 38 (2.04%) Electronics
12 31 (1.66%) Legal
13 29 (1.55%) Marketing
14 28 (1.50%) Games
15 16 (0.86%) Aviation
15 16 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.80%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.80%) Military
17 13 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 916 (49.09%) Developer
2 417 (22.35%) Senior
3 307 (16.45%) Software Engineer
4 253 (13.56%) C# Developer
5 251 (13.45%) Software Developer
6 239 (12.81%) .NET Developer
7 213 (11.41%) Senior Developer
8 207 (11.09%) Lead
9 147 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 100 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
11 99 (5.31%) C# Software Engineer
12 87 (4.66%) .NET Software Engineer
13 82 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
14 70 (3.75%) Lead Developer
15 67 (3.59%) Analyst
15 67 (3.59%) C# Software Developer
16 65 (3.48%) Architect
16 65 (3.48%) Graduate
16 65 (3.48%) Support Engineer
17 60 (3.22%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,135 (60.83%) .NET
2 324 (17.36%) .NET Core
3 274 (14.68%) React
4 236 (12.65%) ASP.NET
5 192 (10.29%) HTML
6 188 (10.08%) .NET Framework
7 175 (9.38%) CSS
8 170 (9.11%) AngularJS
9 138 (7.40%) REST
10 103 (5.52%) RESTful
11 91 (4.88%) Entity Framework
12 81 (4.34%) Vue
13 70 (3.75%) Blazor
14 67 (3.59%) ASP.NET MVC
15 56 (3.00%) Node.js
16 55 (2.95%) ASP.NET Web API
17 54 (2.89%) ASP.NET Core
18 51 (2.73%) SOAP
19 46 (2.47%) jQuery
19 46 (2.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 121 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 79 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 49 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 44 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.77%) Low-Code
11 32 (1.71%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (1.02%) Hedge funds
13 19 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 18 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 18 (0.96%) Derivative
14 18 (0.96%) Robotics
15 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.80%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.04%) Windows
2 72 (3.86%) Linux
3 21 (1.13%) Android
4 15 (0.80%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.11%) Nucleus RTOS
10 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.054%) AIX
11 1 (0.054%) Fedora
11 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (32.48%) Agile
2 570 (30.55%) Software Engineering
3 450 (24.12%) DevOps
4 424 (22.72%) CI/CD
5 394 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
6 385 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 298 (15.97%) Mentoring
8 297 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 278 (14.90%) Microservices
10 205 (10.99%) Computer Science
11 159 (8.52%) Test Automation
12 154 (8.25%) AI
13 150 (8.04%) SDLC
14 148 (7.93%) Scrum
15 140 (7.50%) MVC
16 118 (6.32%) Containerisation
16 118 (6.32%) CRM
17 116 (6.22%) Migration
18 115 (6.16%) OO
19 105 (5.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 623 (33.39%) SQL
2 449 (24.06%) JavaScript
3 318 (17.04%) Python
4 247 (13.24%) Java
5 225 (12.06%) TypeScript
6 157 (8.41%) C++
7 102 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.91%) PHP
9 55 (2.95%) C
10 44 (2.36%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.39%) VB.NET
12 25 (1.34%) Bash
13 20 (1.07%) Go
14 19 (1.02%) Rust
15 18 (0.96%) Bicep
16 17 (0.91%) Delphi
17 15 (0.80%) VBA
18 11 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.54%) PL/SQL
20 9 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 289 (15.49%) Degree
2 144 (7.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 125 (6.70%) Security Cleared
4 75 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 65 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.52%) ISTQB
8 41 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 27 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.13%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.86%) PhD
14 9 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.43%) ISEB
16 7 (0.38%) CREST Certified
17 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.49%) QA
2 40 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.13%) GDPR
4 17 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.64%) WCAG
6 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.27%) SLA
9 4 (0.21%) SEPA
10 3 (0.16%) HL7
11 2 (0.11%) EMIR
11 2 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.054%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.054%) IFRS
12 1 (0.054%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.054%) ITGC
12 1 (0.054%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (8.68%) 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
1 141 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.20%) Terraform
3 27 (1.45%) Grafana
4 14 (0.75%) Ansible
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.43%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) Nmap
9 2 (0.11%) Control-M
9 2 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.11%) MOM
9 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.054%) Nagios
10 1 (0.054%) Nessus
10 1 (0.054%) WMI
Vendors
1 406 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.84%) Oracle
3 31 (1.66%) Google
4 20 (1.07%) Guidewire
5 18 (0.96%) Xamarin
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%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.43%) Dataiku
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