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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,120 9,727 17,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.20% 9.61% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.52% 22.24% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,848 7,200 10,465
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 £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 33,111 43,735 85,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.20% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,988 43,700
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £106,417 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.77% +6.00%

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 13 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 13 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 7,169 £58,000 -10.77% 1,753
UK excluding London +2 6,081 £55,000 -3.51% 1,292
Work from Home -2 3,678 £57,500 -5.74% 1,314
London -2 1,689 £77,500 - 583
North of England +13 1,566 £55,000 -4.35% 362
South East -3 1,552 £57,500 -4.17% 233
Midlands +29 1,028 £50,000 -9.09% 295
North West +18 909 £55,000 -4.35% 205
South West +4 729 £50,000 -9.09% 157
West Midlands +46 536 £52,500 -4.55% 180
East of England +6 529 £57,500 - 93
Yorkshire +12 498 £52,500 -8.70% 112
East Midlands +13 491 £50,000 -4.76% 114
Scotland -38 404 £55,000 +4.76% 99
Wales 0 192 £50,000 +11.11% 50
North East 0 159 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Northern Ireland -11 81 £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
2 184 (2.27%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 173 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 168 (2.07%) IIS
6 133 (1.64%) 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 (0.46%) Apache
12 24 (0.30%) 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 (0.099%) 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 (0.062%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.062%) 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 (2.07%) 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 (0.062%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.062%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.049%) Endur
8 4 (0.049%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 2 (0.025%) DELMIA
10 2 (0.025%) Magento
10 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.025%) SAP MII
10 2 (0.025%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4,169 (51.34%) Azure
2 1,447 (17.82%) AWS
3 1,017 (12.52%) Azure DevOps
4 532 (6.55%) Power Platform
5 405 (4.99%) Serverless
6 338 (4.16%) Dynamics 365
7 336 (4.14%) SaaS
8 298 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 257 (3.17%) Azure Functions
10 245 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 240 (2.96%) IBM Cloud
12 239 (2.94%) GCP
13 226 (2.78%) Power Automate
13 226 (2.78%) PowerApps
14 172 (2.12%) GitHub
15 166 (2.04%) Azure API Management
16 152 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
17 103 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 95 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
19 79 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.28%) 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 2,457 (30.26%) SQL Server
2 619 (7.62%) MongoDB
3 614 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 515 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 384 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 280 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 274 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
8 264 (3.25%) Power BI
9 256 (3.15%) MySQL
10 240 (2.96%) DB2
11 201 (2.48%) GIS
12 180 (2.22%) QGIS
13 144 (1.77%) Redis
14 142 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 125 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 76 (0.94%) 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
1 960 (11.82%) Git
2 609 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 335 (4.13%) JIRA
4 177 (2.18%) Selenium
5 156 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 134 (1.65%) NUnit
7 133 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 130 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 127 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 88 (1.08%) Postman
11 84 (1.03%) GitLab
12 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
13 77 (0.95%) Cypress.io
14 74 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
15 71 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 61 (0.75%) Moq
17 54 (0.67%) Jasmine
18 51 (0.63%) Subversion
19 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
20 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,380 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 1,131 (13.93%) Finance
3 478 (5.89%) Public Sector
4 431 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 388 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 293 (3.61%) Games
7 278 (3.42%) Marketing
8 246 (3.03%) Law
9 243 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 220 (2.71%) Retail
11 214 (2.64%) Front Office
12 213 (2.62%) Banking
13 161 (1.98%) Back Office
14 153 (1.88%) Electronics
15 124 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
16 115 (1.42%) Legal
17 101 (1.24%) Advertising
18 88 (1.08%) Telecoms
19 87 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
20 81 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,987 (61.42%) Developer
2 2,216 (27.29%) .NET Developer
3 1,669 (20.55%) Senior
4 1,371 (16.88%) C# Developer
5 1,326 (16.33%) Software Engineer
6 1,049 (12.92%) Software Developer
7 1,000 (12.32%) Senior Developer
8 834 (10.27%) C# .NET Developer
9 688 (8.47%) Lead
10 629 (7.75%) Full Stack Developer
11 468 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 340 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
13 336 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 313 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
15 282 (3.47%) Senior C# Developer
16 276 (3.40%) Architect
17 275 (3.39%) .NET Software Developer
18 270 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
19 250 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
19 250 (3.08%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,842 (71.95%) .NET
2 2,295 (28.26%) ASP.NET
3 2,122 (26.13%) .NET Core
4 1,962 (24.16%) AngularJS
5 1,882 (23.18%) HTML
6 1,852 (22.81%) React
7 1,812 (22.32%) CSS
8 1,505 (18.53%) .NET Framework
9 1,181 (14.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,115 (13.73%) Entity Framework
11 1,073 (13.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 972 (11.97%) Vue
13 696 (8.57%) RESTful
14 681 (8.39%) REST
15 675 (8.31%) Web Services
16 651 (8.02%) HTML5
17 595 (7.33%) Node.js
18 577 (7.11%) jQuery
19 555 (6.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 446 (5.49%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 405 (4.99%) Algorithms
2 395 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 329 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 246 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 246 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 220 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 209 (2.57%) Hedge funds
7 207 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 169 (2.08%) Derivative
9 165 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 164 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 160 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 160 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 120 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 113 (1.39%) Equities
14 112 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
15 111 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
16 108 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 106 (1.31%) Client/Server
18 98 (1.21%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 758 (9.33%) Windows
2 609 (7.50%) Linux
3 377 (4.64%) Android
4 324 (3.99%) Apple iOS
5 76 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (0.30%) 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 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (0.049%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,543 (43.63%) Agile
2 2,294 (28.25%) Software Engineering
3 2,292 (28.23%) Full Stack Development
4 1,998 (24.61%) DevOps
5 1,851 (22.80%) MVC
6 1,331 (16.39%) Microservices
7 1,152 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
8 968 (11.92%) Scrum
9 957 (11.79%) Computer Science
10 925 (11.39%) TDD
11 873 (10.75%) CI/CD
12 846 (10.42%) Web Development
13 816 (10.05%) OO
14 810 (9.98%) Design Patterns
15 720 (8.87%) Mentoring
16 606 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence
17 603 (7.43%) SOLID
18 598 (7.36%) Test Automation
19 546 (6.72%) OOP
20 530 (6.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,548 (43.69%) JavaScript
2 2,838 (34.95%) SQL
3 1,303 (16.05%) Python
4 1,169 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 834 (10.27%) Java
6 516 (6.35%) C++
7 419 (5.16%) C
8 366 (4.51%) T-SQL
9 306 (3.77%) PowerShell
10 229 (2.82%) VB.NET
11 199 (2.45%) VB
12 144 (1.77%) PHP
13 100 (1.23%) Go
14 74 (0.91%) XAML
15 63 (0.78%) Bash
16 62 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 59 (0.73%) Bicep
18 56 (0.69%) Ruby
19 44 (0.54%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,430 (17.61%) Degree
2 606 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 481 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 445 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 162 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 134 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 59 (0.73%) 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
1 470 (5.79%) QA
2 110 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.46%) GDPR
5 25 (0.31%) 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 (0.099%) MISRA
13 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
14 6 (0.074%) HL7
14 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.062%) JTAG
16 4 (0.049%) DICOM
16 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 4 (0.049%) NCSC
System Software
1 624 (7.68%) Docker
2 111 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.65%) Firmware
4 46 (0.57%) 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 (0.086%) 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
1 564 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 198 (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 (0.099%) 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 2,253 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.02%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.98%) IBM
4 189 (2.33%) ESRI
5 181 (2.23%) Google
6 168 (2.07%) Oracle
7 128 (1.58%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.18%) Facebook
9 68 (0.84%) YouTube
10 66 (0.81%) Sitecore
11 58 (0.71%) 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