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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 54 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -33 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 3,232 2,272 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.19% 4.60% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.92% 15.79% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,792 1,882 5,172
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18,034 14,390 27,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.80% 29.11% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12,842 9,549 19,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 27 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 27 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 +6 2,937 £60,000 -7.69% 789
UK excluding London +10 2,448 £57,500 - 589
Work from Home +7 1,464 £55,000 -12.00% 453
South East +19 699 £60,000 - 199
London -23 652 £82,500 +3.13% 287
North of England +35 608 £56,500 -5.68% 154
Midlands -8 394 £57,500 +4.55% 76
North West +42 289 £55,000 - 72
South West +21 283 £52,500 -4.55% 61
East of England +12 281 £60,000 - 86
West Midlands -20 205 £60,000 +9.09% 40
East Midlands +11 189 £55,000 - 36
Yorkshire +18 175 £55,000 -15.38% 42
North East -6 144 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Northern Ireland +9 106 £57,500 -28.13% 4
Wales -45 45 £51,619 -6.15% 16
Scotland -14 34 £50,000 -22.48% 17

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 94 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.08%) IIS
3 33 (1.02%) CMS
4 21 (0.65%) Confluence
5 15 (0.46%) 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%) Apache
9 6 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.093%) DNN
12 3 (0.093%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.093%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.093%) Kentico
12 3 (0.093%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 46 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Simulink
6 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.093%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.093%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
2 7 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.15%) Shopify
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.093%) Magento
6 2 (0.062%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.062%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.062%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.062%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 2 (0.062%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.031%) Eikon
7 1 (0.031%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.031%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.031%) RMDS
7 1 (0.031%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,614 (49.94%) Azure
2 543 (16.80%) AWS
3 434 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
4 299 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 256 (7.92%) SaaS
6 235 (7.27%) GitHub
7 182 (5.63%) Azure AI
8 174 (5.38%) Power Automate
9 164 (5.07%) PowerApps
10 158 (4.89%) GitHub Copilot
10 158 (4.89%) Serverless
11 153 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 141 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
13 118 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
14 117 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
15 104 (3.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 96 (2.97%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.35%) GCP
18 57 (1.76%) Azure AKS
19 53 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.92%) Internet
2 18 (0.56%) Broadband
2 18 (0.56%) DNS
3 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.28%) Firewall
6 8 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.25%) VPN
7 7 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.19%) BGP
8 6 (0.19%) DHCP
8 6 (0.19%) IPsec
9 5 (0.15%) LAN
9 5 (0.15%) WAN
10 4 (0.12%) Intranet
10 4 (0.12%) LTE
10 4 (0.12%) Modbus
10 4 (0.12%) Network Security
11 3 (0.093%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.093%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 549 (16.99%) SQL Server
2 510 (15.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 449 (13.89%) MongoDB
4 168 (5.20%) Power BI
5 163 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
6 83 (2.57%) MySQL
7 82 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 65 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 63 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 43 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 42 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.74%) Redis
13 23 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (0.40%) Db2
14 13 (0.40%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.37%) Metadata
16 11 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 237 (7.33%) Git
2 69 (2.13%) JIRA
3 41 (1.27%) Selenium
3 41 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 34 (1.05%) GitLab
5 25 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 22 (0.68%) Postman
7 21 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 21 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 19 (0.59%) SpecFlow
9 16 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 15 (0.46%) NUnit
11 13 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.25%) Yeoman
14 7 (0.22%) Moq
14 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.19%) Jasmine
15 6 (0.19%) MSTest
General
1 524 (16.21%) Finance
2 504 (15.59%) Social Skills
3 166 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (4.70%) Legal
5 112 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 109 (3.37%) Law
7 86 (2.66%) Games
8 79 (2.44%) Retail
9 77 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 70 (2.17%) Advertising
11 68 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 65 (2.01%) Marketing
13 57 (1.76%) Electronics
14 56 (1.73%) Banking
15 55 (1.70%) Aerospace
16 46 (1.42%) Front Office
17 38 (1.18%) Legal Technology
18 36 (1.11%) Automotive
19 22 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
20 19 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,761 (54.49%) Developer
2 795 (24.60%) .NET Developer
3 722 (22.34%) Senior
4 693 (21.44%) Software Engineer
5 426 (13.18%) Software Developer
6 384 (11.88%) C# Developer
7 349 (10.80%) Senior Developer
8 314 (9.72%) C# Software Engineer
9 310 (9.59%) Lead
10 241 (7.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 180 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 167 (5.17%) C# Software Developer
13 152 (4.70%) Graduate
14 151 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
15 139 (4.30%) Lead Developer
16 105 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 103 (3.19%) Graduate Developer
18 102 (3.16%) Architect
18 102 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,100 (64.98%) .NET
2 765 (23.67%) .NET Core
3 750 (23.21%) ASP.NET
4 587 (18.16%) ASP.NET Core
5 464 (14.36%) React
6 388 (12.00%) CSS
7 374 (11.57%) HTML
8 318 (9.84%) AngularJS
9 299 (9.25%) RESTful
10 297 (9.19%) Blazor
11 285 (8.82%) Vue
12 281 (8.69%) Entity Framework
13 258 (7.98%) Node.js
14 254 (7.86%) .NET Framework
15 229 (7.09%) REST
16 220 (6.81%) ASP.NET Web API
17 154 (4.76%) ML.NET
18 120 (3.71%) LINQ
19 116 (3.59%) WPF
20 89 (2.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 210 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 151 (4.67%) Greenfield Project
3 124 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 123 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 83 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 81 (2.51%) Virtual Team
8 56 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.61%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 48 (1.49%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 33 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 30 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 30 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 29 (0.90%) Robotics
16 26 (0.80%) Legacy Code
17 25 (0.77%) Low-Code
18 24 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
19 23 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 158 (4.89%) Windows
2 108 (3.34%) Linux
3 42 (1.30%) Android
4 36 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.31%) VMS
7 7 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.22%) Unix
8 4 (0.12%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.062%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.031%) CentOS
11 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,144 (35.40%) Agile
2 1,038 (32.12%) Software Engineering
3 916 (28.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 781 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 750 (23.21%) DevOps
6 551 (17.05%) Microservices
7 502 (15.53%) AI
8 489 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
9 429 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 401 (12.41%) Mentoring
11 297 (9.19%) Test Automation
12 280 (8.66%) Computer Science
13 267 (8.26%) Machine Learning
14 254 (7.86%) SDLC
15 205 (6.34%) Scrum
16 199 (6.16%) Multithreading
17 197 (6.10%) Software Testing
18 191 (5.91%) OO
19 190 (5.88%) TDD
20 178 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,203 (37.22%) SQL
2 764 (23.64%) JavaScript
3 531 (16.43%) Python
4 507 (15.69%) TypeScript
5 341 (10.55%) C++
6 276 (8.54%) Java
7 144 (4.46%) PowerShell
8 139 (4.30%) PHP
9 78 (2.41%) C
10 62 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.42%) Bicep
12 45 (1.39%) VB.NET
13 40 (1.24%) Go
14 33 (1.02%) Bash
14 33 (1.02%) VBA
15 22 (0.68%) Scala
16 21 (0.65%) Rust
17 20 (0.62%) F#
18 19 (0.59%) Delphi
18 19 (0.59%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 400 (12.38%) Degree
2 194 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 122 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 88 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 40 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 30 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.71%) PhD
9 19 (0.59%) ISTQB
10 17 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.40%) DV Cleared
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.15%) GPEN
16 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (8.57%) QA
2 52 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 29 (0.90%) GDPR
4 28 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 20 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.34%) SLA
6 11 (0.34%) WCAG
7 9 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.19%) NCSC
9 5 (0.15%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.12%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.093%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.093%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.093%) PSD2
12 2 (0.062%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.031%) EMIR
13 1 (0.031%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 375 (11.60%) Docker
2 23 (0.71%) Firmware
3 21 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 10 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.15%) KVM
8 3 (0.093%) vSphere
9 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 340 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 152 (4.70%) Terraform
3 34 (1.05%) Grafana
4 18 (0.56%) Ansible
5 16 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.093%) Control-M
9 3 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.062%) MIIS
11 1 (0.031%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.031%) MOM
11 1 (0.031%) Nessus
11 1 (0.031%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1,049 (32.46%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.60%) Google
3 64 (1.98%) Facebook
4 50 (1.55%) Oracle
5 29 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.71%) Adobe
6 23 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 22 (0.68%) YouTube
8 19 (0.59%) Apple
9 18 (0.56%) Databricks
10 17 (0.53%) Sony
10 17 (0.53%) Yahoo!
11 16 (0.50%) VMware
12 14 (0.43%) Intapp
12 14 (0.43%) Xamarin
13 12 (0.37%) SAP
13 12 (0.37%) Splunk
14 11 (0.34%) IBM
15 10 (0.31%) iManage
16 9 (0.28%) ServiceNow