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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,696 2,259 8,528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.89% 5.07% 7.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.24% 16.18% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,378 1,859 7,170
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £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 £78,750 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 16,604 13,965 34,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.82% 31.36% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,704 9,193 25,743
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,050 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
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 15 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 15 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 -1 2,525 £60,000 -7.69% 649
UK excluding London -1 1,946 £57,500 - 532
Work from Home -4 1,039 £55,000 -15.38% 421
London -19 623 £82,500 +3.13% 187
South East +11 591 £59,000 -1.67% 167
North of England +24 530 £60,000 +4.35% 144
Midlands -15 329 £57,500 +4.55% 66
North West +52 270 £60,000 +9.09% 83
East of England -8 222 £60,000 -9.37% 66
South West +4 211 £55,000 - 59
East Midlands +18 166 £55,000 - 28
West Midlands -33 163 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Yorkshire -5 150 £55,000 -15.38% 27
North East -12 110 £65,000 +14.04% 35
Scotland -26 30 £55,000 - 20
Wales -47 29 £50,000 -25.37% 12
Northern Ireland - 6 £65,000 - 13

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 70 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.00%) CMS
2 27 (1.00%) IIS
3 14 (0.52%) Confluence
4 13 (0.48%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.26%) WordPress
7 6 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) JBoss
10 3 (0.11%) nginx
11 2 (0.074%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.074%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.037%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.037%) Immediacy CMS
12 1 (0.037%) Kentico
12 1 (0.037%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 36 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.26%) Simulink
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.11%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.074%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Shopify
4 2 (0.074%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,297 (48.11%) Azure
2 445 (16.51%) AWS
3 332 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (8.64%) Power Platform
5 206 (7.64%) SaaS
6 159 (5.90%) GitHub
7 146 (5.42%) Serverless
8 145 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 122 (4.53%) PowerApps
10 121 (4.49%) Power Automate
11 115 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
12 103 (3.82%) Azure AI
13 93 (3.45%) Azure Functions
13 93 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
14 85 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
15 82 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 80 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 62 (2.30%) GCP
18 55 (2.04%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.48%) Internet
2 16 (0.59%) Broadband
2 16 (0.59%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.52%) DNS
4 11 (0.41%) Firewall
5 10 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.30%) DHCP
7 6 (0.22%) HTTP
7 6 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.19%) LAN
8 5 (0.19%) LTE
8 5 (0.19%) WAN
9 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 4 (0.15%) Modbus
10 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.11%) Network Security
10 3 (0.11%) RS-232
10 3 (0.11%) VPN
11 2 (0.074%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (17.88%) SQL Server
2 320 (11.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 269 (9.98%) MongoDB
4 135 (5.01%) Power BI
5 90 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
6 74 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.49%) MySQL
8 58 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 48 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 32 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.59%) Redis
13 11 (0.41%) Db2
13 11 (0.41%) Metadata
14 9 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.26%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.26%) GIS
16 6 (0.22%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 186 (6.90%) Git
2 55 (2.04%) JIRA
3 48 (1.78%) Selenium
4 46 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 32 (1.19%) Postman
6 31 (1.15%) GitLab
7 23 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 23 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 21 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 19 (0.70%) WebDriver
10 17 (0.63%) Jenkins
11 16 (0.59%) SoapUI
12 14 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.48%) NUnit
14 12 (0.45%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.37%) Claude Code
16 9 (0.33%) LabVIEW
17 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 8 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 484 (17.95%) Finance
2 375 (13.91%) Social Skills
3 142 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (3.60%) Manufacturing
5 66 (2.45%) Games
6 63 (2.34%) Retail
7 62 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.11%) Banking
9 55 (2.04%) Electronics
9 55 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.71%) Front Office
11 46 (1.71%) Law
12 44 (1.63%) Advertising
13 36 (1.34%) Marketing
14 34 (1.26%) Automotive
14 34 (1.26%) Legal
15 18 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.48%) Aviation
16 13 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,440 (53.41%) Developer
2 597 (22.14%) Software Engineer
3 572 (21.22%) .NET Developer
4 561 (20.81%) Senior
5 426 (15.80%) Software Developer
6 390 (14.47%) C# Developer
7 295 (10.94%) C# Software Engineer
8 270 (10.01%) Senior Developer
9 261 (9.68%) Lead
10 206 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 173 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 167 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
13 166 (6.16%) C# Software Developer
14 157 (5.82%) .NET Software Engineer
15 130 (4.82%) Graduate
16 118 (4.38%) Lead Developer
17 98 (3.64%) Graduate Developer
18 96 (3.56%) Azure Developer
18 96 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 95 (3.52%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,742 (64.61%) .NET
2 602 (22.33%) .NET Core
3 516 (19.14%) ASP.NET
4 364 (13.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 364 (13.50%) React
5 293 (10.87%) CSS
6 283 (10.50%) HTML
7 230 (8.53%) AngularJS
8 208 (7.72%) RESTful
9 204 (7.57%) .NET Framework
10 202 (7.49%) Blazor
10 202 (7.49%) Vue
11 188 (6.97%) Entity Framework
12 180 (6.68%) REST
13 167 (6.19%) Node.js
14 138 (5.12%) ASP.NET Web API
15 94 (3.49%) WPF
16 92 (3.41%) ML.NET
17 73 (2.71%) LINQ
18 61 (2.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 162 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 106 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
3 100 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 82 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 53 (1.97%) Hedge funds
9 46 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.30%) Low-Code
11 32 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 26 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 24 (0.89%) Sports Betting
16 23 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (0.85%) Legacy Code
17 22 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.97%) Windows
2 97 (3.60%) Linux
3 38 (1.41%) Android
4 26 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.45%) VMS
7 10 (0.37%) Unix
8 7 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.074%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.074%) Solaris
11 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (31.57%) Agile
2 830 (30.79%) Software Engineering
3 711 (26.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 592 (21.96%) CI/CD
5 570 (21.14%) DevOps
6 371 (13.76%) AI
7 369 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
8 365 (13.54%) Microservices
9 302 (11.20%) Mentoring
10 284 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 269 (9.98%) Computer Science
12 232 (8.61%) Test Automation
13 212 (7.86%) SDLC
14 194 (7.20%) Machine Learning
15 165 (6.12%) Scrum
16 151 (5.60%) Business Intelligence
17 149 (5.53%) Containerisation
18 147 (5.45%) TDD
19 136 (5.04%) OO
20 135 (5.01%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 945 (35.05%) SQL
2 567 (21.03%) JavaScript
3 434 (16.10%) Python
4 361 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 313 (11.61%) C++
6 267 (9.90%) Java
7 116 (4.30%) PHP
8 96 (3.56%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.52%) C
10 49 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.41%) Bicep
12 35 (1.30%) Go
12 35 (1.30%) VB.NET
13 34 (1.26%) Bash
14 27 (1.00%) VBA
15 22 (0.82%) Rust
16 19 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 19 (0.70%) Scala
17 17 (0.63%) F#
17 17 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 377 (13.98%) Degree
2 187 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 73 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 43 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 42 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 37 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.04%) PhD
10 21 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.37%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 10 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.53%) QA
2 45 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.78%) GDPR
5 14 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.45%) SLA
8 11 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.19%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 14443
10 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 7816
11 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.074%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.074%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.074%) ITGC
13 1 (0.037%) EMIR
13 1 (0.037%) NCSC
13 1 (0.037%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 281 (10.42%) Docker
2 29 (1.08%) Firmware
3 22 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) KVM
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 247 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 127 (4.71%) Terraform
3 35 (1.30%) Grafana
4 15 (0.56%) Ansible
5 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.26%) Kibana
7 5 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.11%) Control-M
8 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.074%) MIIS
9 2 (0.074%) MOM
10 1 (0.037%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.037%) Nessus
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool
10 1 (0.037%) Nmap
Vendors
1 725 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.00%) Google
3 43 (1.59%) Oracle
4 39 (1.45%) Facebook
5 23 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.82%) Adobe
7 18 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.63%) VMware
9 15 (0.56%) Xamarin
10 13 (0.48%) Apple
10 13 (0.48%) Databricks
11 12 (0.45%) YouTube
12 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.41%) Sony
12 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (0.33%) iManage
13 9 (0.33%) Splunk
14 7 (0.26%) Intapp
15 6 (0.22%) Dynatrace