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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,197 9,474 18,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.12% 9.62% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.60% 22.23% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,895 6,978 10,449
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 £81,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £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 23 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 23 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 7,236 £57,500 -11.54% 1,948
UK excluding London +3 6,164 £55,000 -2.65% 1,508
Work from Home -2 3,698 £57,500 -6.50% 1,467
London -3 1,677 £77,500 - 746
North of England +15 1,607 £55,000 -4.35% 363
South East -2 1,573 £57,500 -4.17% 471
Midlands +27 1,057 £50,000 -9.09% 287
North West +19 921 £55,000 -4.35% 200
South West +9 724 £51,000 -7.27% 139
West Midlands +44 551 £52,500 -4.55% 168
East of England +5 525 £55,000 -4.35% 117
Yorkshire +14 520 £52,500 -8.70% 110
East Midlands +13 504 £50,000 -4.76% 116
Scotland -38 405 £55,000 +4.76% 98
Wales +2 195 £50,000 +11.11% 43
North East -1 166 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Northern Ireland -12 77 £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
1 195 (2.38%) ArcGIS
2 190 (2.32%) CMS
3 182 (2.22%) GeoServer
4 167 (2.04%) IIS
5 166 (2.03%) SharePoint
6 125 (1.52%) Confluence
7 105 (1.28%) Umbraco
8 57 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 53 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
10 50 (0.61%) Kentico
11 41 (0.50%) Headless CMS
12 37 (0.45%) Apache
13 23 (0.28%) Apache Spark
14 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
15 19 (0.23%) NServiceBus
16 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
17 10 (0.12%) Apache Solr
17 10 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
18 7 (0.085%) Mendix
18 7 (0.085%) nginx
Applications
1 92 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 8 (0.098%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.061%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.061%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.061%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.037%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.037%) Sketch
8 3 (0.037%) 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
1 164 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.40%) SDL Web 8
3 26 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
6 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.073%) SAP PLM
8 5 (0.061%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.061%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.049%) Endur
9 4 (0.049%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.037%) BusinessWorks
10 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 3 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.024%) DELMIA
11 2 (0.024%) Infor LN
11 2 (0.024%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.024%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 4,217 (51.45%) Azure
2 1,462 (17.84%) AWS
3 1,014 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 533 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 406 (4.95%) Serverless
6 336 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
7 334 (4.07%) SaaS
8 293 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 257 (3.14%) Azure Functions
10 243 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 240 (2.93%) IBM Cloud
12 232 (2.83%) GCP
13 228 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 227 (2.77%) PowerApps
15 169 (2.06%) GitHub
16 161 (1.96%) Azure API Management
17 148 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
18 101 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 99 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
20 79 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.27%) Internet
2 75 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 74 (0.90%) DNS
4 65 (0.79%) Firewall
5 34 (0.41%) DHCP
6 28 (0.34%) Network Security
7 27 (0.33%) Modbus
7 27 (0.33%) SSL
8 26 (0.32%) RS-232
9 23 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 23 (0.28%) HTTP
10 18 (0.22%) Wireless
11 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.18%) Broadband
12 15 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
13 14 (0.17%) VPN
13 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (0.13%) WAN
15 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
15 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,488 (30.35%) SQL Server
2 617 (7.53%) MongoDB
3 608 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
4 519 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 388 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 275 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 274 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 268 (3.27%) Power BI
9 250 (3.05%) MySQL
10 240 (2.93%) DB2
11 202 (2.46%) GIS
12 180 (2.20%) QGIS
13 145 (1.77%) Redis
14 139 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 126 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 75 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
17 63 (0.77%) DynamoDB
18 54 (0.66%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 30 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 968 (11.81%) Git
2 618 (7.54%) Visual Studio
3 330 (4.03%) JIRA
4 173 (2.11%) Selenium
5 160 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 144 (1.76%) NUnit
7 134 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 130 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 119 (1.45%) Bitbucket
10 88 (1.07%) GitLab
11 83 (1.01%) Postman
12 80 (0.98%) Sourcetree
13 74 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
13 74 (0.90%) SpecFlow
14 73 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 67 (0.82%) Moq
16 56 (0.68%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.61%) Subversion
18 45 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
19 43 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 1,395 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 1,135 (13.85%) Finance
3 484 (5.90%) Public Sector
4 429 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 392 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 291 (3.55%) Games
7 284 (3.46%) Marketing
8 247 (3.01%) Law
9 239 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 218 (2.66%) Retail
11 212 (2.59%) Banking
12 210 (2.56%) Front Office
13 159 (1.94%) Back Office
14 150 (1.83%) Electronics
15 120 (1.46%) Legal
16 117 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 101 (1.23%) Advertising
18 91 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
19 85 (1.04%) Telecoms
20 82 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5,073 (61.89%) Developer
2 2,275 (27.75%) .NET Developer
3 1,687 (20.58%) Senior
4 1,423 (17.36%) C# Developer
5 1,348 (16.45%) Software Engineer
6 1,072 (13.08%) Software Developer
7 1,024 (12.49%) Senior Developer
8 868 (10.59%) C# .NET Developer
9 682 (8.32%) Lead
10 652 (7.95%) Full Stack Developer
11 473 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 356 (4.34%) Senior .NET Developer
13 334 (4.07%) Lead Developer
14 320 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
15 294 (3.59%) Senior C# Developer
16 293 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
17 288 (3.51%) .NET Software Developer
18 274 (3.34%) Architect
19 264 (3.22%) Azure Developer
20 254 (3.10%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,935 (72.40%) .NET
2 2,317 (28.27%) ASP.NET
3 2,133 (26.02%) .NET Core
4 1,996 (24.35%) AngularJS
5 1,889 (23.05%) HTML
6 1,871 (22.83%) React
7 1,829 (22.31%) CSS
8 1,535 (18.73%) .NET Framework
9 1,210 (14.76%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,142 (13.93%) Entity Framework
11 1,082 (13.20%) ASP.NET MVC
12 989 (12.07%) Vue
13 721 (8.80%) RESTful
14 679 (8.28%) REST
15 678 (8.27%) Web Services
16 653 (7.97%) HTML5
17 599 (7.31%) Node.js
18 585 (7.14%) jQuery
19 560 (6.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 453 (5.53%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 409 (4.99%) Algorithms
2 396 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
3 331 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 245 (2.99%) Blockchain
4 245 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 218 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 206 (2.51%) Hedge funds
6 206 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 166 (2.03%) Derivative
8 165 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 163 (1.99%) Cloud Native
10 162 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 161 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 120 (1.46%) e-Learning
13 114 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 111 (1.35%) Equities
15 108 (1.32%) Client/Server
16 106 (1.29%) Fixed Income
17 104 (1.27%) Onboarding
18 101 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 758 (9.25%) Windows
2 605 (7.38%) Linux
3 378 (4.61%) Android
4 324 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 74 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (0.27%) AIX
8 20 (0.24%) Unix
9 18 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 11 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.12%) Solaris
14 10 (0.12%) VMS
15 6 (0.073%) CentOS
15 6 (0.073%) FreeRTOS
16 5 (0.061%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.061%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,582 (43.70%) Agile
2 2,361 (28.80%) Full Stack Development
3 2,310 (28.18%) Software Engineering
4 2,004 (24.45%) DevOps
5 1,860 (22.69%) MVC
6 1,354 (16.52%) Microservices
7 1,160 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
8 972 (11.86%) Computer Science
9 964 (11.76%) Scrum
10 945 (11.53%) TDD
11 896 (10.93%) CI/CD
12 842 (10.27%) Web Development
13 813 (9.92%) OO
14 804 (9.81%) Design Patterns
15 729 (8.89%) Mentoring
16 613 (7.48%) SOLID
17 609 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence
18 598 (7.30%) Test Automation
19 541 (6.60%) OOP
20 539 (6.58%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,575 (43.61%) JavaScript
2 2,834 (34.57%) SQL
3 1,295 (15.80%) Python
4 1,185 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 833 (10.16%) Java
6 522 (6.37%) C++
7 420 (5.12%) C
8 373 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 307 (3.75%) PowerShell
10 231 (2.82%) VB.NET
11 196 (2.39%) VB
12 139 (1.70%) PHP
13 101 (1.23%) Go
14 76 (0.93%) XAML
15 63 (0.77%) MATLAB
16 60 (0.73%) Bash
17 58 (0.71%) Bicep
18 53 (0.65%) Ruby
19 44 (0.54%) XPath
20 43 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,434 (17.49%) Degree
2 606 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 484 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 438 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 165 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 127 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 111 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 64 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 61 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 53 (0.65%) PhD
11 51 (0.62%) DV Cleared
12 32 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.33%) HNC
14 22 (0.27%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.15%) HND
17 11 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
18 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 455 (5.55%) QA
2 113 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.45%) GDPR
5 25 (0.30%) SLA
6 22 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 15 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.18%) WAI
9 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
10 13 (0.16%) PMO
11 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.085%) IEC 61131
12 7 (0.085%) MISRA
13 6 (0.073%) HL7
14 5 (0.061%) JTAG
14 5 (0.061%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 4 (0.049%) MiFID
System Software
1 615 (7.50%) Docker
2 108 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.65%) Firmware
4 46 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.11%) KVM
10 7 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.085%) vSphere
11 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.024%) Ceph
13 2 (0.024%) HDFS
13 2 (0.024%) NFS
13 2 (0.024%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 557 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 192 (2.34%) Terraform
3 66 (0.81%) Ansible
4 37 (0.45%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 29 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.24%) SCCM
8 20 (0.24%) WSUS
9 15 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (0.18%) Puppet
9 15 (0.18%) SCOM
10 12 (0.15%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.098%) Packer
13 6 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.049%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.049%) Istio
14 4 (0.049%) Stealthwatch
15 3 (0.037%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,248 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 245 (2.99%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.95%) IBM
4 190 (2.32%) ESRI
5 184 (2.24%) Google
6 169 (2.06%) Oracle
7 132 (1.61%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.18%) Facebook
9 69 (0.84%) YouTube
10 66 (0.81%) Sitecore
11 58 (0.71%) SAP
12 51 (0.62%) Apple
12 51 (0.62%) VMware
13 40 (0.49%) Optimizely
14 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
15 33 (0.40%) F5
15 33 (0.40%) Sony
15 33 (0.40%) Yahoo!
16 32 (0.39%) Adobe
17 28 (0.34%) Databricks