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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,127 9,991 17,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 9.63% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.43% 22.26% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,845 7,409 10,582
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.76% +10.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +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 33,269 44,878 84,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.74% 43.24% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 25,012 28,616 44,114
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,171
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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 3 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 3 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 +5 7,181 £58,000 -10.77% 1,691
UK excluding London +3 6,070 £55,000 - 1,269
Work from Home -1 3,686 £57,500 -4.17% 1,239
London -2 1,703 £77,500 - 539
North of England +10 1,550 £55,000 -4.35% 321
South East -3 1,549 £57,500 -4.17% 251
Midlands +29 1,035 £50,000 -9.09% 294
North West +18 900 £55,000 -4.35% 194
South West +4 735 £50,000 -9.09% 149
West Midlands +42 540 £52,500 -4.55% 180
East of England +5 527 £57,500 - 102
East Midlands +14 496 £50,000 -4.76% 114
Yorkshire +11 494 £52,500 -8.70% 92
Scotland -40 401 £55,000 +4.76% 99
Wales -2 193 £50,000 +11.11% 44
North East -4 156 £60,000 +9.09% 37
Northern Ireland -9 83 £55,000 +10.00% 25
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 (2.39%) ArcGIS
2 183 (2.25%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 178 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 169 (2.08%) IIS
6 140 (1.72%) Confluence
7 108 (1.33%) Umbraco
8 56 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 51 (0.63%) Kentico
9 51 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
10 40 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 36 (0.44%) Apache
12 23 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
14 17 (0.21%) NServiceBus
15 9 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
16 8 (0.098%) Apache Solr
16 8 (0.098%) nginx
17 7 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 94 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 5 (0.062%) Doxygen
6 5 (0.062%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.062%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.037%) Sketch
9 2 (0.025%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.025%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.012%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.012%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 168 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
3 25 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
6 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
8 5 (0.062%) BusinessWorks
8 5 (0.062%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.062%) Visualfiles
9 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.049%) Endur
9 4 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 3 (0.037%) Shopify
11 2 (0.025%) DELMIA
11 2 (0.025%) Magento
11 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.025%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,147 (51.03%) Azure
2 1,436 (17.67%) AWS
3 1,034 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 427 (5.25%) Serverless
6 338 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
7 334 (4.11%) SaaS
8 302 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 260 (3.20%) Azure Functions
10 249 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
11 247 (3.04%) GCP
12 240 (2.95%) IBM Cloud
13 223 (2.74%) PowerApps
14 219 (2.69%) Power Automate
15 174 (2.14%) GitHub
16 171 (2.10%) Azure API Management
17 153 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
18 106 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 93 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
20 84 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (2.24%) Internet
2 75 (0.92%) DNS
2 75 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 65 (0.80%) Firewall
4 35 (0.43%) DHCP
5 28 (0.34%) Modbus
6 27 (0.33%) Network Security
6 27 (0.33%) RS-232
6 27 (0.33%) SSL
7 23 (0.28%) HTTP
8 22 (0.27%) Ethernet
9 19 (0.23%) Wireless
10 17 (0.21%) VPN
11 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.18%) WAN
13 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (0.16%) Broadband
14 13 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
15 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
15 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,455 (30.21%) SQL Server
2 620 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 616 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 515 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 383 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 279 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 271 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 263 (3.24%) Power BI
9 257 (3.16%) MySQL
10 240 (2.95%) DB2
11 201 (2.47%) GIS
12 180 (2.21%) QGIS
13 146 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 144 (1.77%) Redis
15 125 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 76 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
17 64 (0.79%) DynamoDB
18 55 (0.68%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 29 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 982 (12.08%) Git
2 611 (7.52%) Visual Studio
3 342 (4.21%) JIRA
4 186 (2.29%) Selenium
5 157 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 137 (1.69%) NUnit
6 137 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 132 (1.62%) Bitbucket
8 130 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 96 (1.18%) Postman
10 85 (1.05%) GitLab
11 78 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
12 76 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
13 71 (0.87%) SpecFlow
14 61 (0.75%) Moq
15 53 (0.65%) Jasmine
16 51 (0.63%) Subversion
17 46 (0.57%) SoapUI
18 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,381 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (14.00%) Finance
3 478 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 422 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 381 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 296 (3.64%) Games
7 278 (3.42%) Marketing
8 245 (3.01%) Law
9 244 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 222 (2.73%) Retail
11 218 (2.68%) Banking
12 212 (2.61%) Front Office
13 158 (1.94%) Back Office
14 153 (1.88%) Electronics
15 131 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.44%) Legal
17 97 (1.19%) Advertising
18 91 (1.12%) Telecoms
19 86 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
20 79 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,976 (61.23%) Developer
2 2,200 (27.07%) .NET Developer
3 1,677 (20.63%) Senior
4 1,354 (16.66%) C# Developer
5 1,332 (16.39%) Software Engineer
6 1,045 (12.86%) Software Developer
7 1,007 (12.39%) Senior Developer
8 818 (10.07%) C# .NET Developer
9 689 (8.48%) Lead
10 633 (7.79%) Full Stack Developer
11 462 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 347 (4.27%) Senior .NET Developer
13 338 (4.16%) Lead Developer
14 313 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
15 282 (3.47%) .NET Software Developer
16 277 (3.41%) Senior C# Developer
17 273 (3.36%) Architect
18 265 (3.26%) C# Software Developer
19 251 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
20 249 (3.06%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,819 (71.60%) .NET
2 2,298 (28.28%) ASP.NET
3 2,116 (26.04%) .NET Core
4 1,943 (23.91%) AngularJS
5 1,883 (23.17%) HTML
6 1,865 (22.95%) React
7 1,810 (22.27%) CSS
8 1,498 (18.43%) .NET Framework
9 1,159 (14.26%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,101 (13.55%) Entity Framework
11 1,069 (13.15%) ASP.NET MVC
12 962 (11.84%) Vue
13 686 (8.44%) REST
14 684 (8.42%) RESTful
15 671 (8.26%) Web Services
16 644 (7.92%) HTML5
17 587 (7.22%) Node.js
18 575 (7.08%) jQuery
19 550 (6.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 447 (5.50%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 406 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 392 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
3 328 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 248 (3.05%) Blockchain
5 246 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 217 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 211 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 207 (2.55%) Hedge funds
9 169 (2.08%) Derivative
10 166 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 164 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 163 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
13 161 (1.98%) Cloud Native
14 120 (1.48%) e-Learning
15 115 (1.42%) Virtual Reality
16 114 (1.40%) Equities
17 113 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
18 110 (1.35%) Fixed Income
19 104 (1.28%) Client/Server
20 97 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 755 (9.29%) Windows
2 609 (7.49%) Linux
3 375 (4.61%) Android
4 325 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 76 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.32%) Unix
8 22 (0.27%) AIX
9 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.12%) VMS
13 9 (0.11%) Solaris
14 7 (0.086%) CentOS
15 5 (0.062%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.049%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,529 (43.42%) Agile
2 2,312 (28.45%) Software Engineering
3 2,264 (27.86%) Full Stack Development
4 2,025 (24.92%) DevOps
5 1,855 (22.83%) MVC
6 1,338 (16.46%) Microservices
7 1,166 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
8 961 (11.82%) Scrum
9 956 (11.76%) Computer Science
10 925 (11.38%) TDD
11 889 (10.94%) CI/CD
12 848 (10.43%) Web Development
13 844 (10.39%) Design Patterns
14 815 (10.03%) OO
15 748 (9.20%) Mentoring
16 607 (7.47%) SOLID
17 605 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
18 599 (7.37%) Test Automation
19 545 (6.71%) OOP
20 539 (6.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,535 (43.50%) JavaScript
2 2,855 (35.13%) SQL
3 1,321 (16.25%) Python
4 1,170 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 860 (10.58%) Java
6 515 (6.34%) C++
7 415 (5.11%) C
8 376 (4.63%) T-SQL
9 308 (3.79%) PowerShell
10 226 (2.78%) VB.NET
11 201 (2.47%) VB
12 149 (1.83%) PHP
13 103 (1.27%) Go
14 77 (0.95%) Ruby
15 76 (0.94%) XAML
16 65 (0.80%) Bash
17 61 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 60 (0.74%) Bicep
19 47 (0.58%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,432 (17.62%) Degree
2 604 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 481 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 447 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 165 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 141 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 58 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 51 (0.63%) PhD
11 46 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.36%) HNC
14 18 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 13 (0.16%) HND
18 11 (0.14%) MCSE
19 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
20 8 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (5.91%) QA
2 116 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 42 (0.52%) WCAG
4 37 (0.46%) GDPR
5 29 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 22 (0.27%) SLA
8 18 (0.22%) 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
12 8 (0.098%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
14 6 (0.074%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO 9000
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 4 (0.049%) JTAG
System Software
1 637 (7.84%) Docker
2 112 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 51 (0.63%) Firmware
4 45 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 40 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.21%) 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
Systems Management
1 573 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 203 (2.50%) Terraform
3 60 (0.74%) Ansible
4 36 (0.44%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 21 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
7 18 (0.22%) WSUS
8 15 (0.18%) Puppet
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.17%) SCOM
10 11 (0.14%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.098%) Packer
13 7 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.086%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.062%) Control-M
14 5 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.049%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,240 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.01%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.98%) IBM
4 189 (2.33%) ESRI
5 184 (2.26%) Google
6 166 (2.04%) Oracle
7 127 (1.56%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.18%) Facebook
9 67 (0.82%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 61 (0.75%) SAP
12 51 (0.63%) Apple
13 50 (0.62%) VMware
14 38 (0.47%) Optimizely
15 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
16 33 (0.41%) F5
16 33 (0.41%) Sony
16 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
17 32 (0.39%) Databricks
18 30 (0.37%) Cisco