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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,394 9,005 18,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.98% 9.50% 11.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.73% 22.46% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,004 6,837 10,430
10th Percentile £36,120 £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 £71,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 £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 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +3 7,402 £57,500 -11.54% 1,694
UK excluding London +3 6,352 £55,000 - 1,254
Work from Home 0 3,804 £57,500 -4.17% 1,110
London -4 1,680 £77,500 - 547
North of England +13 1,668 £55,000 - 332
South East -2 1,612 £57,500 -4.17% 250
Midlands +28 1,108 £50,000 -9.09% 279
North West +18 950 £52,500 -8.70% 198
South West +7 732 £51,000 -7.27% 142
West Midlands +39 571 £52,500 -4.55% 173
Yorkshire +10 539 £52,500 -8.70% 90
East Midlands +9 535 £50,000 -4.76% 104
East of England +9 529 £57,500 - 118
Scotland -33 417 £55,000 +4.76% 87
Wales +2 206 £50,000 +11.11% 43
North East +7 179 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Northern Ireland -13 79 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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
1 200 (2.38%) CMS
2 195 (2.32%) ArcGIS
3 182 (2.17%) GeoServer
4 164 (1.95%) IIS
5 160 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 120 (1.43%) Confluence
7 105 (1.25%) Umbraco
8 57 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 56 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
10 50 (0.60%) Kentico
11 41 (0.49%) Headless CMS
12 38 (0.45%) Apache
13 22 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
13 22 (0.26%) Apache Spark
14 19 (0.23%) NServiceBus
15 17 (0.20%) EPiServer
16 10 (0.12%) Apache Solr
16 10 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
17 7 (0.083%) Mendix
17 7 (0.083%) nginx
Applications
1 89 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.14%) Simulink
6 10 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.060%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.060%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.060%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.036%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.036%) Sketch
8 3 (0.036%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.024%) Revit
9 2 (0.024%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.012%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.012%) Blender
10 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 163 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
3 25 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
7 6 (0.071%) SAP PLM
8 5 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.060%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.048%) Endur
9 4 (0.048%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.048%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.036%) Maximo
11 2 (0.024%) DELMIA
11 2 (0.024%) Magento
11 2 (0.024%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.024%) SAP MII
11 2 (0.024%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,288 (51.08%) Azure
2 1,483 (17.67%) AWS
3 1,023 (12.19%) Azure DevOps
4 534 (6.36%) Power Platform
5 407 (4.85%) Serverless
6 351 (4.18%) SaaS
7 342 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
8 295 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.05%) Azure Functions
10 248 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 240 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
12 235 (2.80%) Power Automate
13 233 (2.78%) PowerApps
14 226 (2.69%) GCP
15 169 (2.01%) GitHub
16 159 (1.89%) Azure API Management
17 150 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
18 98 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
18 98 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 81 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 188 (2.24%) Internet
2 75 (0.89%) DNS
3 72 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 67 (0.80%) Firewall
5 36 (0.43%) DHCP
6 30 (0.36%) Network Security
7 29 (0.35%) Modbus
8 27 (0.32%) SSL
9 26 (0.31%) RS-232
10 25 (0.30%) Ethernet
11 23 (0.27%) HTTP
12 17 (0.20%) Wireless
13 16 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
14 15 (0.18%) Broadband
14 15 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
15 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
16 13 (0.15%) VPN
17 11 (0.13%) Bluetooth
18 10 (0.12%) CTI
19 9 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,506 (29.85%) SQL Server
2 616 (7.34%) MongoDB
3 607 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 512 (6.10%) NoSQL
5 392 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 274 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 271 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 265 (3.16%) Power BI
9 248 (2.95%) MySQL
10 240 (2.86%) DB2
11 201 (2.39%) GIS
12 180 (2.14%) QGIS
13 144 (1.72%) Redis
14 139 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 123 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 70 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
17 63 (0.75%) DynamoDB
18 54 (0.64%) Big Data
19 44 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 29 (0.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 970 (11.56%) Git
2 616 (7.34%) Visual Studio
3 324 (3.86%) JIRA
4 170 (2.03%) Selenium
5 158 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 145 (1.73%) NUnit
7 137 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 136 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 112 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 93 (1.11%) GitLab
11 83 (0.99%) Sourcetree
12 82 (0.98%) Postman
13 80 (0.95%) SpecFlow
14 79 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
15 72 (0.86%) Moq
16 70 (0.83%) Cypress.io
17 55 (0.66%) Jasmine
18 50 (0.60%) Subversion
19 44 (0.52%) MSTest
19 44 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 1,417 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 1,139 (13.57%) Finance
3 490 (5.84%) Public Sector
4 436 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 397 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 293 (3.49%) Games
7 290 (3.45%) Marketing
8 246 (2.93%) Law
9 243 (2.89%) Manufacturing
10 220 (2.62%) Retail
11 202 (2.41%) Front Office
12 201 (2.39%) Banking
13 159 (1.89%) Back Office
14 151 (1.80%) Electronics
15 120 (1.43%) Legal
16 110 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 106 (1.26%) Advertising
18 96 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
19 85 (1.01%) Tech for Good
20 82 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5,219 (62.18%) Developer
2 2,363 (28.15%) .NET Developer
3 1,724 (20.54%) Senior
4 1,502 (17.89%) C# Developer
5 1,393 (16.60%) Software Engineer
6 1,118 (13.32%) Software Developer
7 1,056 (12.58%) Senior Developer
8 922 (10.98%) C# .NET Developer
9 692 (8.24%) Lead
10 669 (7.97%) Full Stack Developer
11 485 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 375 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
13 335 (3.99%) Lead Developer
14 324 (3.86%) Senior Software Developer
15 317 (3.78%) C# Software Developer
16 311 (3.71%) Senior C# Developer
17 303 (3.61%) .NET Software Developer
18 272 (3.24%) Azure Developer
19 269 (3.20%) Architect
20 253 (3.01%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6,078 (72.41%) .NET
2 2,343 (27.91%) ASP.NET
3 2,162 (25.76%) .NET Core
4 2,039 (24.29%) AngularJS
5 1,904 (22.68%) HTML
6 1,876 (22.35%) React
7 1,844 (21.97%) CSS
8 1,557 (18.55%) .NET Framework
9 1,231 (14.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,160 (13.82%) Entity Framework
11 1,082 (12.89%) ASP.NET MVC
12 998 (11.89%) Vue
13 736 (8.77%) RESTful
14 680 (8.10%) REST
15 679 (8.09%) Web Services
16 660 (7.86%) HTML5
17 603 (7.18%) Node.js
18 592 (7.05%) jQuery
19 563 (6.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 462 (5.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 409 (4.87%) Algorithms
2 393 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
3 330 (3.93%) Data Structures
4 245 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 244 (2.91%) Blockchain
6 227 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 205 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 199 (2.37%) Hedge funds
9 164 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 163 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 162 (1.93%) Derivative
12 161 (1.92%) Cloud Native
13 159 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 121 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 112 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
16 110 (1.31%) Equities
17 108 (1.29%) Client/Server
18 107 (1.27%) Onboarding
19 105 (1.25%) Fixed Income
20 98 (1.17%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 761 (9.07%) Windows
2 609 (7.26%) Linux
3 376 (4.48%) Android
4 320 (3.81%) Apple iOS
5 73 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (0.26%) AIX
8 20 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.20%) Unix
10 15 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (0.13%) VMS
13 10 (0.12%) Solaris
14 7 (0.083%) CentOS
15 6 (0.071%) FreeRTOS
15 6 (0.071%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.060%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,623 (43.16%) Agile
2 2,436 (29.02%) Full Stack Development
3 2,358 (28.09%) Software Engineering
4 2,012 (23.97%) DevOps
5 1,874 (22.33%) MVC
6 1,370 (16.32%) Microservices
7 1,180 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 979 (11.66%) Computer Science
9 971 (11.57%) Scrum
10 960 (11.44%) TDD
11 907 (10.81%) CI/CD
12 845 (10.07%) Web Development
13 822 (9.79%) OO
14 806 (9.60%) Design Patterns
15 741 (8.83%) Mentoring
16 630 (7.51%) SOLID
17 606 (7.22%) Artificial Intelligence
18 594 (7.08%) Test Automation
19 550 (6.55%) Unit Testing
20 545 (6.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,607 (42.97%) JavaScript
2 2,869 (34.18%) SQL
3 1,300 (15.49%) Python
4 1,184 (14.11%) TypeScript
5 832 (9.91%) Java
6 544 (6.48%) C++
7 434 (5.17%) C
8 369 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 306 (3.65%) PowerShell
10 245 (2.92%) VB.NET
11 202 (2.41%) VB
12 135 (1.61%) PHP
13 97 (1.16%) Go
14 78 (0.93%) XAML
15 63 (0.75%) Bash
15 63 (0.75%) MATLAB
16 60 (0.71%) Bicep
17 48 (0.57%) Ruby
18 47 (0.56%) XPath
19 42 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,446 (17.23%) Degree
2 614 (7.31%) Security Cleared
3 481 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 436 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 166 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 120 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 114 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 65 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 62 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 54 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 54 (0.64%) PhD
11 32 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.33%) HNC
13 23 (0.27%) ISTQB
14 18 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.14%) HND
16 12 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
18 9 (0.11%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (5.37%) QA
2 108 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 37 (0.44%) GDPR
4 36 (0.43%) WCAG
5 25 (0.30%) SLA
6 21 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
7 14 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.15%) PMO
8 13 (0.15%) WAI
9 12 (0.14%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 8 (0.095%) MISRA
12 7 (0.083%) IEC 61131
13 6 (0.071%) HL7
14 5 (0.060%) JTAG
14 5 (0.060%) MiFID
15 4 (0.048%) DICOM
15 4 (0.048%) NCSC
15 4 (0.048%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 598 (7.12%) Docker
2 110 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 54 (0.64%) Firmware
4 46 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 43 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.11%) KVM
9 7 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.083%) vSphere
10 6 (0.071%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.048%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.036%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.024%) Ceph
13 2 (0.024%) HDFS
14 1 (0.012%) NFS
Systems Management
1 548 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 189 (2.25%) Terraform
3 64 (0.76%) Ansible
4 35 (0.42%) Grafana
5 29 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 27 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.27%) SCCM
7 23 (0.27%) WSUS
8 21 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.20%) SCOM
10 15 (0.18%) Puppet
11 12 (0.14%) MIIS
12 8 (0.095%) Kibana
12 8 (0.095%) Packer
13 4 (0.048%) Istio
14 3 (0.036%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.036%) logstash
14 3 (0.036%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.036%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 2,257 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 245 (2.92%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.88%) IBM
4 190 (2.26%) ESRI
5 187 (2.23%) Google
6 173 (2.06%) Oracle
7 133 (1.58%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.14%) Facebook
9 69 (0.82%) Sitecore
9 69 (0.82%) YouTube
10 54 (0.64%) SAP
11 51 (0.61%) Apple
11 51 (0.61%) VMware
12 40 (0.48%) Optimizely
13 35 (0.42%) Adobe
13 35 (0.42%) DevExpress
14 33 (0.39%) F5
14 33 (0.39%) Sony
14 33 (0.39%) Yahoo!
15 27 (0.32%) Salesforce