C#
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,143 9,729 17,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.21% 9.63% 11.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.54% 22.25% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,870 7,219 10,413
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,813 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

C# is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK

C#
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C#.

Salary trend for C# in the UK

C#
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +4 7,191 £58,000 -10.77% 1,630
UK excluding London +2 6,096 £55,000 -3.51% 1,214
Work from Home -2 3,689 £57,500 -6.50% 1,259
London -3 1,698 £77,500 - 532
North of England +13 1,567 £55,000 -4.35% 328
South East -5 1,555 £57,500 -4.17% 221
Midlands +25 1,031 £50,000 -9.09% 272
North West +17 910 £55,000 -4.35% 190
South West +5 734 £50,000 -9.09% 153
West Midlands +45 537 £52,500 -4.55% 165
East of England +7 530 £57,500 - 96
Yorkshire +12 498 £52,500 -8.70% 102
East Midlands +13 493 £50,000 -4.76% 107
Scotland -40 406 £55,000 +4.76% 100
Wales 0 192 £50,000 +11.11% 44
North East -2 159 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Northern Ireland -12 81 £55,000 +12.82% 22
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 - 1

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 194 (2.38%) ArcGIS
2 184 (2.26%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 174 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 168 (2.06%) IIS
6 137 (1.68%) Confluence
7 108 (1.33%) Umbraco
8 55 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 52 (0.64%) Kentico
9 52 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
10 41 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 37 (0.45%) Apache
12 24 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
14 17 (0.21%) NServiceBus
15 9 (0.11%) Apache Solr
15 9 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
16 8 (0.098%) nginx
17 7 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 95 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 7 (0.086%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.061%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.061%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.037%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.037%) Sketch
10 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.025%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.012%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.012%) Revit
11 1 (0.012%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 168 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 27 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
3 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
7 5 (0.061%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.061%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.049%) Endur
8 4 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.049%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 2 (0.025%) DELMIA
10 2 (0.025%) Magento
10 2 (0.025%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.025%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.025%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,178 (51.31%) Azure
2 1,449 (17.79%) AWS
3 1,023 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
4 532 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 404 (4.96%) Serverless
6 338 (4.15%) SaaS
7 337 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
8 298 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.14%) Azure Functions
10 245 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 241 (2.96%) GCP
12 240 (2.95%) IBM Cloud
13 226 (2.78%) Power Automate
13 226 (2.78%) PowerApps
14 172 (2.11%) GitHub
15 167 (2.05%) Azure API Management
16 153 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
17 104 (1.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 95 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
19 79 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.27%) Internet
2 77 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 74 (0.91%) DNS
4 64 (0.79%) Firewall
5 34 (0.42%) DHCP
6 29 (0.36%) Network Security
7 28 (0.34%) Modbus
8 27 (0.33%) RS-232
8 27 (0.33%) SSL
9 23 (0.28%) Ethernet
10 22 (0.27%) HTTP
11 18 (0.22%) Wireless
12 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
12 16 (0.20%) VPN
13 14 (0.17%) Broadband
13 14 (0.17%) Mobile Broadband
13 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.16%) WAN
15 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
15 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,466 (30.28%) SQL Server
2 619 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 614 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
4 515 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 387 (4.75%) Relational Database
6 280 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 274 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 265 (3.25%) Power BI
9 255 (3.13%) MySQL
10 240 (2.95%) DB2
11 201 (2.47%) GIS
12 180 (2.21%) QGIS
13 144 (1.77%) Redis
14 142 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 125 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 76 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
17 62 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 58 (0.71%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 30 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 966 (11.86%) Git
2 614 (7.54%) Visual Studio
3 339 (4.16%) JIRA
4 179 (2.20%) Selenium
5 157 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 134 (1.65%) NUnit
6 134 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 131 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 130 (1.60%) Bitbucket
9 89 (1.09%) Postman
10 85 (1.04%) GitLab
11 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
12 77 (0.95%) Cypress.io
13 74 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
14 72 (0.88%) SpecFlow
15 62 (0.76%) Moq
16 54 (0.66%) Jasmine
17 51 (0.63%) Subversion
18 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
19 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,380 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 1,133 (13.91%) Finance
3 479 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 431 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 390 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 297 (3.65%) Games
7 278 (3.41%) Marketing
8 246 (3.02%) Law
9 244 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 221 (2.71%) Retail
11 215 (2.64%) Front Office
12 214 (2.63%) Banking
13 161 (1.98%) Back Office
14 154 (1.89%) Electronics
15 127 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
16 115 (1.41%) Legal
17 101 (1.24%) Advertising
18 89 (1.09%) Telecoms
19 87 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
20 82 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5,003 (61.44%) Developer
2 2,218 (27.24%) .NET Developer
3 1,672 (20.53%) Senior
4 1,377 (16.91%) C# Developer
5 1,329 (16.32%) Software Engineer
6 1,051 (12.91%) Software Developer
7 1,000 (12.28%) Senior Developer
8 834 (10.24%) C# .NET Developer
9 693 (8.51%) Lead
10 632 (7.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 469 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 340 (4.18%) Lead Developer
12 340 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
13 313 (3.84%) Senior Software Developer
14 283 (3.48%) Senior C# Developer
15 277 (3.40%) Architect
16 276 (3.39%) .NET Software Developer
17 270 (3.32%) C# Software Developer
18 250 (3.07%) .NET Software Engineer
18 250 (3.07%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,859 (71.95%) .NET
2 2,304 (28.29%) ASP.NET
3 2,130 (26.16%) .NET Core
4 1,965 (24.13%) AngularJS
5 1,892 (23.23%) HTML
6 1,854 (22.77%) React
7 1,821 (22.36%) CSS
8 1,515 (18.60%) .NET Framework
9 1,182 (14.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,117 (13.72%) Entity Framework
11 1,078 (13.24%) ASP.NET MVC
12 972 (11.94%) Vue
13 697 (8.56%) RESTful
14 684 (8.40%) REST
15 676 (8.30%) Web Services
16 653 (8.02%) HTML5
17 595 (7.31%) Node.js
18 578 (7.10%) jQuery
19 555 (6.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 448 (5.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 405 (4.97%) Algorithms
2 396 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 329 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 247 (3.03%) Blockchain
5 246 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 221 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 210 (2.58%) Hedge funds
8 207 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 169 (2.08%) Derivative
10 165 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 165 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 160 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 160 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 120 (1.47%) e-Learning
13 114 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
14 113 (1.39%) Equities
15 112 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
16 108 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 106 (1.30%) Client/Server
18 99 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 759 (9.32%) Windows
2 610 (7.49%) Linux
3 377 (4.63%) Android
4 324 (3.98%) Apple iOS
5 76 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (0.29%) Unix
8 22 (0.27%) AIX
9 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 11 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.12%) Solaris
14 10 (0.12%) VMS
15 7 (0.086%) CentOS
16 6 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.061%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.049%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,552 (43.62%) Agile
2 2,306 (28.32%) Software Engineering
3 2,297 (28.21%) Full Stack Development
4 2,008 (24.66%) DevOps
5 1,856 (22.79%) MVC
6 1,336 (16.41%) Microservices
7 1,151 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
8 972 (11.94%) Scrum
9 956 (11.74%) Computer Science
10 929 (11.41%) TDD
11 877 (10.77%) CI/CD
12 848 (10.41%) Web Development
13 818 (10.05%) OO
14 817 (10.03%) Design Patterns
15 724 (8.89%) Mentoring
16 609 (7.48%) SOLID
17 606 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
18 601 (7.38%) Test Automation
19 545 (6.69%) OOP
20 531 (6.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,555 (43.66%) JavaScript
2 2,848 (34.97%) SQL
3 1,303 (16.00%) Python
4 1,173 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 838 (10.29%) Java
6 519 (6.37%) C++
7 420 (5.16%) C
8 369 (4.53%) T-SQL
9 306 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 229 (2.81%) VB.NET
11 199 (2.44%) VB
12 144 (1.77%) PHP
13 100 (1.23%) Go
14 74 (0.91%) XAML
15 63 (0.77%) Bash
16 62 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 59 (0.72%) Bicep
18 56 (0.69%) Ruby
19 44 (0.54%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,432 (17.59%) Degree
2 609 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 480 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 448 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 163 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 137 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 59 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 51 (0.63%) PhD
11 47 (0.58%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.34%) HNC
14 19 (0.23%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (0.16%) HND
17 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (0.12%) MCSE
18 9 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (5.78%) QA
2 111 (1.36%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.45%) GDPR
5 28 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 22 (0.27%) SLA
8 16 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.18%) WAI
10 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
10 14 (0.17%) PMO
11 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.098%) MISRA
13 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
13 7 (0.086%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.074%) HL7
15 5 (0.061%) JTAG
16 4 (0.049%) DICOM
16 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 4 (0.049%) NCSC
System Software
1 626 (7.69%) Docker
2 111 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.65%) Firmware
4 46 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.098%) KVM
10 7 (0.086%) vSphere
11 6 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.025%) Ceph
13 2 (0.025%) HDFS
13 2 (0.025%) NFS
14 1 (0.012%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 566 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 199 (2.44%) Terraform
3 62 (0.76%) Ansible
4 38 (0.47%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 29 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 23 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.22%) SCCM
8 18 (0.22%) WSUS
9 15 (0.18%) Puppet
10 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.17%) SCOM
11 11 (0.14%) MIIS
12 10 (0.12%) Kibana
13 8 (0.098%) Packer
14 6 (0.074%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.074%) Stealthwatch
15 4 (0.049%) Functional Safety
15 4 (0.049%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,261 (27.77%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.01%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.97%) IBM
4 189 (2.32%) ESRI
5 182 (2.24%) Google
6 168 (2.06%) Oracle
7 128 (1.57%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.18%) Facebook
9 68 (0.84%) YouTube
10 66 (0.81%) Sitecore
11 59 (0.72%) SAP
12 51 (0.63%) Apple
12 51 (0.63%) VMware
13 40 (0.49%) Optimizely
14 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
15 33 (0.41%) F5
15 33 (0.41%) Sony
15 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
16 32 (0.39%) Databricks
17 29 (0.36%) Cisco