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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,115 9,637 17,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.19% 9.60% 11.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.50% 22.22% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,841 7,126 10,475
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 33,118 43,362 86,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.44% 43.21% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24,897 27,723 43,724
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%

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 14 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 14 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 7,161 £58,000 -10.77% 1,746
UK excluding London +3 6,079 £55,000 -3.51% 1,291
Work from Home -2 3,673 £57,500 -6.50% 1,341
London -2 1,687 £77,500 - 571
North of England +13 1,571 £55,000 -4.35% 375
South East -3 1,547 £57,500 -4.17% 234
Midlands +32 1,028 £50,000 -9.09% 291
North West +19 909 £55,000 -4.35% 216
South West +6 725 £50,000 -9.09% 156
West Midlands +42 536 £52,500 -4.55% 176
East of England +6 529 £57,500 - 88
Yorkshire +14 502 £52,500 -8.70% 112
East Midlands +13 491 £50,000 -4.76% 113
Scotland -38 405 £55,000 +4.76% 96
Wales +1 192 £50,000 +11.11% 50
North East -1 160 £60,000 +9.09% 51
Northern Ireland -11 82 £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 (2.39%) ArcGIS
2 184 (2.27%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 172 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 168 (2.07%) IIS
6 132 (1.63%) 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 (0.51%) Headless CMS
11 37 (0.46%) Apache
12 25 (0.31%) 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 60 (0.74%) 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%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.012%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.012%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 164 (2.02%) 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%) Infor LN
10 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
10 2 (0.025%) Shopify
10 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 4,164 (51.31%) Azure
2 1,450 (17.87%) AWS
3 1,015 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
4 533 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 405 (4.99%) Serverless
6 335 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
6 335 (4.13%) SaaS
7 296 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 256 (3.15%) Azure Functions
9 245 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
10 240 (2.96%) GCP
10 240 (2.96%) IBM Cloud
11 225 (2.77%) Power Automate
11 225 (2.77%) PowerApps
12 171 (2.11%) GitHub
13 165 (2.03%) Azure API Management
14 153 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
15 102 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 96 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
17 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 (0.35%) Modbus
8 27 (0.33%) RS-232
8 27 (0.33%) SSL
9 23 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 23 (0.28%) HTTP
10 18 (0.22%) Wireless
11 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
11 16 (0.20%) VPN
12 14 (0.17%) Broadband
12 14 (0.17%) Mobile Broadband
12 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.16%) WAN
14 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
14 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,460 (30.31%) SQL Server
2 619 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 615 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 516 (6.36%) NoSQL
5 387 (4.77%) Relational Database
6 280 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 274 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
8 266 (3.28%) Power BI
9 256 (3.15%) MySQL
10 240 (2.96%) DB2
11 201 (2.48%) GIS
12 180 (2.22%) QGIS
13 143 (1.76%) Redis
14 141 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 125 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 77 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
17 62 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 58 (0.71%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 31 (0.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 957 (11.79%) Git
2 608 (7.49%) Visual Studio
3 332 (4.09%) JIRA
4 177 (2.18%) Selenium
5 156 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 134 (1.65%) NUnit
7 132 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 130 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 126 (1.55%) Bitbucket
10 88 (1.08%) Postman
11 84 (1.04%) GitLab
12 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
13 77 (0.95%) Cypress.io
14 74 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
15 72 (0.89%) SpecFlow
16 61 (0.75%) Moq
17 54 (0.67%) Jasmine
18 50 (0.62%) Subversion
19 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
20 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,381 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 1,132 (13.95%) Finance
3 478 (5.89%) Public Sector
4 432 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 391 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 293 (3.61%) Games
7 280 (3.45%) Marketing
8 247 (3.04%) Law
9 243 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 223 (2.75%) Retail
11 215 (2.65%) Banking
11 215 (2.65%) Front Office
12 161 (1.98%) Back Office
13 153 (1.89%) Electronics
14 123 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 115 (1.42%) Legal
16 101 (1.24%) Advertising
17 88 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 87 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
19 81 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,983 (61.40%) Developer
2 2,218 (27.33%) .NET Developer
3 1,667 (20.54%) Senior
4 1,375 (16.94%) C# Developer
5 1,323 (16.30%) Software Engineer
6 1,048 (12.91%) Software Developer
7 998 (12.30%) Senior Developer
8 838 (10.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 686 (8.45%) Lead
10 629 (7.75%) Full Stack Developer
11 466 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 339 (4.18%) Senior .NET Developer
13 334 (4.12%) Lead Developer
14 313 (3.86%) Senior Software Developer
15 282 (3.48%) Senior C# Developer
16 277 (3.41%) .NET Software Developer
17 276 (3.40%) Architect
18 271 (3.34%) C# Software Developer
19 250 (3.08%) .NET Software Engineer
19 250 (3.08%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,841 (71.98%) .NET
2 2,295 (28.28%) ASP.NET
3 2,118 (26.10%) .NET Core
4 1,963 (24.19%) AngularJS
5 1,883 (23.20%) HTML
6 1,852 (22.82%) React
7 1,816 (22.38%) CSS
8 1,503 (18.52%) .NET Framework
9 1,181 (14.55%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,115 (13.74%) Entity Framework
11 1,073 (13.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 972 (11.98%) Vue
13 698 (8.60%) RESTful
14 680 (8.38%) REST
15 672 (8.28%) Web Services
16 651 (8.02%) HTML5
17 596 (7.34%) Node.js
18 578 (7.12%) jQuery
19 556 (6.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 445 (5.48%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 404 (4.98%) Algorithms
2 394 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
3 328 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 246 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 246 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 220 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 211 (2.60%) Hedge funds
7 206 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 170 (2.09%) Derivative
9 164 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
9 164 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 161 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 160 (1.97%) Cloud Native
12 120 (1.48%) e-Learning
13 113 (1.39%) Equities
14 112 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
15 110 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
16 108 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 106 (1.31%) Client/Server
18 99 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 756 (9.32%) Windows
2 608 (7.49%) Linux
3 377 (4.65%) Android
4 324 (3.99%) Apple iOS
5 75 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (0.28%) 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 3,538 (43.60%) Agile
2 2,298 (28.32%) Full Stack Development
3 2,295 (28.28%) Software Engineering
4 2,002 (24.67%) DevOps
5 1,851 (22.81%) MVC
6 1,334 (16.44%) Microservices
7 1,152 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
8 968 (11.93%) Scrum
9 957 (11.79%) Computer Science
10 927 (11.42%) TDD
11 871 (10.73%) CI/CD
12 847 (10.44%) Web Development
13 814 (10.03%) OO
14 809 (9.97%) Design Patterns
15 719 (8.86%) Mentoring
16 608 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
17 603 (7.43%) SOLID
17 603 (7.43%) Test Automation
18 543 (6.69%) OOP
19 527 (6.49%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,550 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 2,832 (34.90%) SQL
3 1,306 (16.09%) Python
4 1,170 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 839 (10.34%) Java
6 518 (6.38%) C++
7 419 (5.16%) C
8 365 (4.50%) T-SQL
9 305 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 230 (2.83%) VB.NET
11 199 (2.45%) VB
12 144 (1.77%) PHP
13 101 (1.24%) Go
14 74 (0.91%) XAML
15 63 (0.78%) Bash
16 62 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 59 (0.73%) Bicep
18 55 (0.68%) Ruby
19 44 (0.54%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,427 (17.58%) Degree
2 605 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 480 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 443 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 161 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 132 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 59 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 50 (0.62%) PhD
11 48 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.35%) HNC
14 22 (0.27%) 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%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (5.80%) QA
2 111 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.46%) GDPR
5 24 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 23 (0.28%) SLA
7 16 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.18%) WAI
9 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 14 (0.17%) PMO
10 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.099%) MISRA
12 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
13 6 (0.074%) HL7
13 6 (0.074%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.062%) JTAG
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 4 (0.049%) NCSC
System Software
1 623 (7.68%) Docker
2 110 (1.36%) 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
1 563 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 197 (2.43%) 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 2,247 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.02%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.98%) IBM
4 189 (2.33%) ESRI
5 184 (2.27%) Google
6 170 (2.09%) Oracle
7 128 (1.58%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.18%) Facebook
9 68 (0.84%) YouTube
10 66 (0.81%) Sitecore
11 59 (0.73%) 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%) Databricks
15 33 (0.41%) F5
15 33 (0.41%) Sony
15 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
16 29 (0.36%) Cisco