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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,083 10,096 17,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 9.70% 11.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.41% 22.32% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,825 7,484 10,587
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 33,114 45,223 82,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.75% 43.47% 53.61%
Number of salaries quoted 24,936 28,811 44,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 7,144 £58,500 -10.00% 1,819
UK excluding London +2 6,030 £55,000 - 1,356
Work from Home -1 3,676 £57,500 -4.17% 1,139
London -2 1,701 £77,500 - 581
North of England +11 1,542 £55,000 -4.35% 347
South East -4 1,537 £57,500 -4.17% 294
Midlands +29 1,026 £50,000 -9.09% 279
North West +18 903 £55,000 -4.35% 210
South West +3 728 £50,000 -9.09% 164
West Midlands +44 536 £52,500 -4.55% 170
East of England +4 529 £57,500 - 134
East Midlands +11 491 £50,000 -4.76% 109
Yorkshire +9 486 £52,500 -8.70% 93
Scotland -41 393 £55,000 +4.76% 95
Wales -3 195 £50,000 +11.11% 51
North East -6 153 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Northern Ireland -10 83 £55,000 +10.00% 23
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 (2.40%) ArcGIS
2 184 (2.28%) CMS
3 183 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 182 (2.25%) GeoServer
5 172 (2.13%) IIS
6 140 (1.73%) Confluence
7 111 (1.37%) 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 (0.45%) Apache
12 24 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
15 15 (0.19%) NServiceBus
16 9 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
17 8 (0.099%) Apache Solr
17 8 (0.099%) nginx
18 7 (0.087%) Mendix
Applications
1 94 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (0.79%) 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
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.049%) OrCAD
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%) Blender
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%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 168 (2.08%) 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%) BusinessWorks
7 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
7 6 (0.074%) Visualfiles
8 5 (0.062%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.062%) SAP ERP
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%) Infor LN
11 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,117 (50.93%) Azure
2 1,427 (17.65%) AWS
3 1,028 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
4 524 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 420 (5.20%) Serverless
6 334 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
7 324 (4.01%) SaaS
8 300 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.17%) Azure Functions
10 254 (3.14%) GCP
11 243 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
12 225 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
13 213 (2.64%) PowerApps
14 209 (2.59%) Power Automate
15 173 (2.14%) GitHub
16 166 (2.05%) Azure API Management
17 149 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
18 107 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 92 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
20 83 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (2.23%) Internet
2 75 (0.93%) DNS
3 74 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 66 (0.82%) Firewall
5 35 (0.43%) DHCP
6 27 (0.33%) Modbus
6 27 (0.33%) SSL
7 26 (0.32%) Network Security
7 26 (0.32%) RS-232
8 23 (0.28%) HTTP
9 21 (0.26%) Ethernet
10 20 (0.25%) Wireless
11 17 (0.21%) VPN
12 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.19%) WAN
14 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.16%) Broadband
15 13 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
16 10 (0.12%) CTI
17 9 (0.11%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,452 (30.34%) SQL Server
2 605 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 601 (7.44%) MongoDB
4 496 (6.14%) NoSQL
5 376 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 280 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 270 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 256 (3.17%) Power BI
9 251 (3.11%) MySQL
10 225 (2.78%) DB2
11 201 (2.49%) GIS
12 180 (2.23%) QGIS
13 147 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 144 (1.78%) Redis
15 122 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 78 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
17 64 (0.79%) DynamoDB
18 55 (0.68%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 32 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 978 (12.10%) Git
2 606 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 340 (4.21%) JIRA
4 187 (2.31%) Selenium
5 156 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 139 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 135 (1.67%) NUnit
8 133 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 132 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 100 (1.24%) Postman
11 85 (1.05%) GitLab
12 79 (0.98%) Cypress.io
13 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
14 74 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
14 74 (0.92%) SpecFlow
15 60 (0.74%) Moq
16 53 (0.66%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.62%) Subversion
18 48 (0.59%) SoapUI
19 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,376 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (14.08%) Finance
3 458 (5.67%) Public Sector
4 425 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 365 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 297 (3.67%) Games
7 274 (3.39%) Marketing
8 243 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 238 (2.94%) Law
10 223 (2.76%) Retail
11 217 (2.68%) Banking
12 213 (2.64%) Front Office
13 155 (1.92%) Back Office
14 150 (1.86%) Electronics
15 132 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 118 (1.46%) Legal
17 98 (1.21%) Advertising
18 91 (1.13%) Telecoms
19 84 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
20 79 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,949 (61.23%) Developer
2 2,199 (27.21%) .NET Developer
3 1,666 (20.61%) Senior
4 1,346 (16.65%) C# Developer
5 1,323 (16.37%) Software Engineer
6 1,032 (12.77%) Software Developer
7 1,001 (12.38%) Senior Developer
8 817 (10.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 679 (8.40%) Lead
10 626 (7.74%) Full Stack Developer
11 456 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 348 (4.31%) Senior .NET Developer
13 332 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 306 (3.79%) Senior Software Developer
15 281 (3.48%) .NET Software Developer
16 275 (3.40%) Architect
17 269 (3.33%) Senior C# Developer
18 259 (3.20%) C# Software Developer
19 250 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
20 245 (3.03%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,772 (71.41%) .NET
2 2,281 (28.22%) ASP.NET
3 2,105 (26.04%) .NET Core
4 1,926 (23.83%) AngularJS
5 1,863 (23.05%) HTML
6 1,853 (22.92%) React
7 1,788 (22.12%) CSS
8 1,476 (18.26%) .NET Framework
9 1,150 (14.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,083 (13.40%) Entity Framework
11 1,068 (13.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 949 (11.74%) Vue
13 682 (8.44%) RESTful
14 672 (8.31%) REST
15 650 (8.04%) Web Services
16 644 (7.97%) HTML5
17 582 (7.20%) Node.js
18 561 (6.94%) jQuery
19 535 (6.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 447 (5.53%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 395 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
2 390 (4.82%) Algorithms
3 312 (3.86%) Data Structures
4 233 (2.88%) Blockchain
5 231 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 217 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 210 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 208 (2.57%) Hedge funds
9 171 (2.12%) Derivative
10 170 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 164 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
12 163 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
13 158 (1.95%) Cloud Native
14 119 (1.47%) Equities
15 115 (1.42%) Fixed Income
15 115 (1.42%) Virtual Reality
16 113 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
17 111 (1.37%) e-Learning
18 103 (1.27%) Client/Server
19 96 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 738 (9.13%) Windows
2 591 (7.31%) Linux
3 357 (4.42%) Android
4 308 (3.81%) Apple iOS
5 77 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.33%) 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%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.12%) VMS
13 9 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (0.11%) Solaris
14 7 (0.087%) CentOS
15 5 (0.062%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.049%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,496 (43.25%) Agile
2 2,297 (28.42%) Software Engineering
3 2,237 (27.68%) Full Stack Development
4 2,018 (24.97%) DevOps
5 1,837 (22.73%) MVC
6 1,328 (16.43%) Microservices
7 1,159 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
8 956 (11.83%) Scrum
9 944 (11.68%) Computer Science
10 919 (11.37%) TDD
11 882 (10.91%) CI/CD
12 833 (10.31%) Web Development
13 824 (10.19%) Design Patterns
14 793 (9.81%) OO
15 739 (9.14%) Mentoring
16 590 (7.30%) Test Automation
17 588 (7.27%) SOLID
18 583 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 528 (6.53%) Unit Testing
20 524 (6.48%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,523 (43.59%) JavaScript
2 2,834 (35.06%) SQL
3 1,312 (16.23%) Python
4 1,171 (14.49%) TypeScript
5 847 (10.48%) Java
6 507 (6.27%) C++
7 412 (5.10%) C
8 376 (4.65%) T-SQL
9 307 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 222 (2.75%) VB.NET
11 195 (2.41%) VB
12 147 (1.82%) PHP
13 103 (1.27%) Go
14 74 (0.92%) Ruby
15 73 (0.90%) XAML
16 65 (0.80%) Bash
17 61 (0.75%) Bicep
17 61 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.57%) VBA
19 44 (0.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,416 (17.52%) Degree
2 597 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 478 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 442 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 166 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 141 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 109 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 58 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 50 (0.62%) PhD
11 46 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 30 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.36%) HNC
14 18 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 18 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.16%) HND
17 11 (0.14%) MCSE
18 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.099%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (5.94%) QA
2 117 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 41 (0.51%) 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 19 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.19%) PMO
9 15 (0.19%) WAI
10 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.099%) MISRA
12 8 (0.099%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.087%) 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
1 634 (7.84%) Docker
2 112 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 49 (0.61%) Firmware
4 45 (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 (0.099%) KVM
10 7 (0.087%) 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
1 574 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 202 (2.50%) Terraform
3 60 (0.74%) Ansible
4 35 (0.43%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 20 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
7 18 (0.22%) WSUS
8 15 (0.19%) Puppet
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.17%) SCOM
10 11 (0.14%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.099%) Packer
13 7 (0.087%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.087%) Stealthwatch
14 6 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.062%) Control-M
16 4 (0.049%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,229 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 230 (2.85%) Red Hat
3 227 (2.81%) IBM
4 189 (2.34%) ESRI
5 183 (2.26%) Google
6 162 (2.00%) Oracle
7 125 (1.55%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.19%) Facebook
9 67 (0.83%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 60 (0.74%) SAP
12 51 (0.63%) Apple
13 50 (0.62%) VMware
14 37 (0.46%) Optimizely
15 36 (0.45%) Databricks
16 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
17 33 (0.41%) F5
17 33 (0.41%) Sony
17 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
18 30 (0.37%) Cisco