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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 49 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,088 2,357 7,813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.15% 4.82% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.52% 16.35% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,701 1,945 6,510
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,761 £48,750 £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 £80,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £88,750
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 17,623 14,419 32,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.00% 29.46% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,522 9,595 24,220
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 10 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 10 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 2,837 £60,000 -7.69% 786
UK excluding London +3 2,294 £57,500 -4.17% 685
Work from Home +2 1,360 £55,000 -15.38% 459
South East +18 676 £60,000 - 223
London -18 651 £82,500 +3.13% 225
North of England +31 572 £57,500 -2.54% 175
Midlands -6 390 £55,000 - 85
North West +46 280 £57,500 +4.55% 88
East of England +5 263 £60,000 -9.37% 93
South West +19 262 £54,500 -0.91% 65
West Midlands -17 199 £60,000 +9.09% 46
East Midlands +14 191 £55,000 - 39
Yorkshire +3 160 £55,000 -18.52% 48
North East -8 132 £60,000 +4.35% 41
Northern Ireland -9 55 £61,250 -23.44% 21
Wales -36 46 £51,619 -20.59% 18
Scotland -21 32 £52,500 -16.00% 27

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 84 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.07%) IIS
3 31 (1.00%) CMS
4 18 (0.58%) Confluence
5 15 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.29%) WordPress
7 8 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 6 (0.19%) nginx
8 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.16%) Apache
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.13%) JBoss
10 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.097%) DNN
11 3 (0.097%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.097%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.097%) Kentico
11 3 (0.097%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 43 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) Simulink
4 5 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.097%) Stateflow
7 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.065%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 44 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.19%) Carpe Diem
2 6 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.097%) Magento
4 3 (0.097%) Shopify
5 2 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.065%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.065%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.032%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.032%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.032%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,565 (50.68%) Azure
2 529 (17.13%) AWS
3 421 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
4 285 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 233 (7.55%) SaaS
6 228 (7.38%) GitHub
7 175 (5.67%) Azure AI
8 166 (5.38%) Serverless
9 165 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 160 (5.18%) Power Automate
11 154 (4.99%) PowerApps
12 153 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
13 132 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
14 114 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 105 (3.40%) Azure Functions
15 105 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
16 103 (3.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 75 (2.43%) GCP
18 56 (1.81%) Azure AKS
19 54 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.01%) Internet
2 19 (0.62%) Broadband
3 17 (0.55%) DNS
4 14 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 9 (0.29%) Firewall
7 8 (0.26%) VPN
8 7 (0.23%) HTTP
8 7 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.19%) DHCP
10 5 (0.16%) BGP
10 5 (0.16%) IPsec
10 5 (0.16%) LAN
10 5 (0.16%) LTE
10 5 (0.16%) WAN
11 4 (0.13%) Intranet
11 4 (0.13%) Modbus
11 4 (0.13%) Network Security
12 3 (0.097%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.097%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (16.48%) Azure SQL Database
1 509 (16.48%) SQL Server
2 445 (14.41%) MongoDB
3 163 (5.28%) Power BI
4 159 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
5 81 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 73 (2.36%) MySQL
7 60 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 54 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.68%) Redis
12 19 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (0.45%) Db2
14 12 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
14 12 (0.39%) Metadata
15 11 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.32%) Big Data
16 10 (0.32%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 213 (6.90%) Git
2 59 (1.91%) JIRA
3 40 (1.30%) Visual Studio
4 35 (1.13%) GitLab
4 35 (1.13%) Selenium
5 25 (0.81%) Postman
5 25 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 24 (0.78%) SpecFlow
7 22 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.55%) Jenkins
9 15 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 14 (0.45%) NUnit
11 12 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.26%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.23%) Moq
General
1 535 (17.33%) Finance
2 440 (14.25%) Social Skills
3 155 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (3.43%) Manufacturing
5 105 (3.40%) Law
6 94 (3.04%) Legal
7 88 (2.85%) Games
8 79 (2.56%) Retail
9 71 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.27%) Advertising
11 63 (2.04%) Marketing
12 59 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.88%) Aerospace
14 57 (1.85%) Banking
14 57 (1.85%) Electronics
15 48 (1.55%) Front Office
16 38 (1.23%) Legal Technology
17 35 (1.13%) Automotive
18 20 (0.65%) Military
19 18 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,693 (54.83%) Developer
2 783 (25.36%) .NET Developer
3 668 (21.63%) Software Engineer
4 653 (21.15%) Senior
5 413 (13.37%) Software Developer
6 379 (12.27%) C# Developer
7 309 (10.01%) C# Software Engineer
8 306 (9.91%) Senior Developer
9 293 (9.49%) Lead
10 238 (7.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 175 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
13 163 (5.28%) C# Software Developer
14 153 (4.95%) .NET Software Engineer
15 145 (4.70%) Graduate
16 134 (4.34%) Lead Developer
17 99 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
17 99 (3.21%) Graduate Developer
18 98 (3.17%) Architect
19 94 (3.04%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,014 (65.22%) .NET
2 768 (24.87%) .NET Core
3 725 (23.48%) ASP.NET
4 574 (18.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 448 (14.51%) React
6 371 (12.01%) CSS
7 352 (11.40%) HTML
8 307 (9.94%) AngularJS
9 289 (9.36%) RESTful
10 286 (9.26%) Blazor
11 280 (9.07%) Vue
12 267 (8.65%) Entity Framework
13 253 (8.19%) Node.js
14 237 (7.67%) .NET Framework
15 213 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
16 210 (6.80%) REST
17 154 (4.99%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.89%) LINQ
19 106 (3.43%) WPF
20 80 (2.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 196 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 148 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
3 116 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 97 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 59 (1.91%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.78%) Hedge funds
10 51 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 42 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 27 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 26 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 24 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
17 24 (0.78%) Legacy Code
17 24 (0.78%) Robotics
18 23 (0.74%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 150 (4.86%) Windows
2 111 (3.59%) Linux
3 42 (1.36%) Android
4 33 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.39%) VMS
7 9 (0.29%) Unix
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.065%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (35.17%) Agile
2 975 (31.57%) Software Engineering
3 901 (29.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 738 (23.90%) CI/CD
5 706 (22.86%) DevOps
6 501 (16.22%) Microservices
7 475 (15.38%) AI
8 446 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 359 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 354 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 277 (8.97%) Computer Science
12 270 (8.74%) Test Automation
13 264 (8.55%) Machine Learning
14 233 (7.55%) SDLC
15 199 (6.44%) Multithreading
16 198 (6.41%) Scrum
17 187 (6.06%) TDD
18 180 (5.83%) Business Intelligence
19 176 (5.70%) OO
20 160 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,175 (38.05%) SQL
2 716 (23.19%) JavaScript
3 501 (16.22%) Python
4 476 (15.41%) TypeScript
5 344 (11.14%) C++
6 276 (8.94%) Java
7 129 (4.18%) PHP
8 122 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 78 (2.53%) C
10 59 (1.91%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.39%) Bicep
12 39 (1.26%) Go
12 39 (1.26%) VB.NET
13 35 (1.13%) Bash
14 30 (0.97%) VBA
15 24 (0.78%) Rust
16 22 (0.71%) Scala
17 20 (0.65%) F#
18 19 (0.62%) Haskell
18 19 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 389 (12.60%) Degree
2 184 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 127 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.62%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 31 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (0.91%) PhD
9 21 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 19 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.39%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.16%) GPEN
16 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (7.06%) QA
2 49 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 26 (0.84%) GDPR
5 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.39%) SLA
8 11 (0.36%) WCAG
9 6 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.16%) IEC 61131
11 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 14443
11 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 4 (0.13%) NCSC
12 3 (0.097%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.065%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.065%) ITGC
13 2 (0.065%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.065%) PSD2
14 1 (0.032%) EMIR
System Software
1 369 (11.95%) Docker
2 27 (0.87%) Firmware
3 22 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.23%) KVM
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.097%) vSphere
9 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 329 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.73%) Terraform
3 38 (1.23%) Grafana
4 18 (0.58%) Ansible
5 12 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.097%) Control-M
9 3 (0.097%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.065%) Kibana
10 2 (0.065%) MIIS
10 2 (0.065%) MOM
11 1 (0.032%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.032%) Nessus
11 1 (0.032%) Netcool
11 1 (0.032%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,001 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.75%) Google
3 64 (2.07%) Facebook
4 48 (1.55%) Oracle
5 26 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.74%) Adobe
7 21 (0.68%) YouTube
8 20 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 19 (0.62%) Apple
10 18 (0.58%) VMware
11 17 (0.55%) Sony
11 17 (0.55%) Yahoo!
12 16 (0.52%) Databricks
13 15 (0.49%) Xamarin
14 13 (0.42%) Intapp
15 11 (0.36%) IBM
15 11 (0.36%) SAP
15 11 (0.36%) Splunk
16 10 (0.32%) iManage
17 9 (0.29%) ServiceNow