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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,316 9,356 18,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.05% 9.63% 11.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.69% 22.42% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,963 6,873 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 £71,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 33,687 41,724 90,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.62% 42.94% 54.23%
Number of salaries quoted 25,114 26,852 43,374
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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +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 29 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 29 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 +3 7,335 £57,500 -11.54% 1,743
UK excluding London +3 6,285 £55,000 - 1,289
Work from Home 0 3,764 £57,500 -4.17% 1,342
London -3 1,671 £77,500 - 552
North of England +13 1,639 £55,000 - 369
South East -3 1,596 £57,500 -4.17% 239
Midlands +26 1,094 £50,000 -9.09% 292
North West +18 934 £53,334 -6.43% 219
South West +9 730 £50,000 -9.09% 143
West Midlands +42 563 £52,500 -4.55% 177
Yorkshire +14 532 £52,500 -8.70% 104
East of England +6 531 £57,500 - 118
East Midlands +8 529 £50,000 -4.76% 114
Scotland -35 414 £55,000 +4.76% 91
Wales +2 200 £50,000 +11.11% 41
North East 0 173 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Northern Ireland -11 80 £55,000 +10.00% 26
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
1 197 (2.37%) CMS
2 195 (2.34%) ArcGIS
3 182 (2.19%) GeoServer
4 164 (1.97%) IIS
5 162 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 123 (1.48%) Confluence
7 103 (1.24%) Umbraco
8 59 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 55 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
10 50 (0.60%) Kentico
11 41 (0.49%) Headless CMS
12 37 (0.44%) 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 (0.084%) Mendix
17 7 (0.084%) nginx
Applications
1 90 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.32%) 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 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.42%) SDL Web 8
3 26 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.11%) Epicor Tropos
7 6 (0.072%) 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%) Magento
11 2 (0.024%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.024%) SAP Business ByDesign
11 2 (0.024%) SAP MII
11 2 (0.024%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4,271 (51.36%) Azure
2 1,472 (17.70%) AWS
3 1,026 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
4 537 (6.46%) Power Platform
5 407 (4.89%) Serverless
6 344 (4.14%) SaaS
7 341 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
8 296 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.08%) Azure Functions
10 247 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 240 (2.89%) IBM Cloud
12 234 (2.81%) Power Automate
13 233 (2.80%) PowerApps
14 226 (2.72%) GCP
15 170 (2.04%) GitHub
16 160 (1.92%) Azure API Management
17 151 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
18 100 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 98 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
20 81 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 189 (2.27%) Internet
2 75 (0.90%) DNS
3 74 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 68 (0.82%) Firewall
5 36 (0.43%) DHCP
6 31 (0.37%) Network Security
7 27 (0.32%) Modbus
7 27 (0.32%) SSL
8 26 (0.31%) RS-232
9 24 (0.29%) Ethernet
10 23 (0.28%) HTTP
11 18 (0.22%) Wireless
12 16 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.18%) Broadband
13 15 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
14 14 (0.17%) VPN
14 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.13%) WAN
16 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
16 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,497 (30.03%) SQL Server
2 615 (7.40%) MongoDB
3 607 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 517 (6.22%) NoSQL
5 391 (4.70%) Relational Database
6 274 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
7 273 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 265 (3.19%) Power BI
9 244 (2.93%) MySQL
10 240 (2.89%) DB2
11 201 (2.42%) GIS
12 180 (2.16%) QGIS
13 144 (1.73%) Redis
14 135 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 123 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 72 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
17 63 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 54 (0.65%) Big Data
19 44 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 30 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 975 (11.72%) Git
2 623 (7.49%) Visual Studio
3 329 (3.96%) JIRA
4 171 (2.06%) Selenium
5 157 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 143 (1.72%) NUnit
7 136 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 135 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 116 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 90 (1.08%) GitLab
11 82 (0.99%) Postman
11 82 (0.99%) Sourcetree
12 78 (0.94%) SpecFlow
13 77 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
14 72 (0.87%) Cypress.io
14 72 (0.87%) Moq
15 56 (0.67%) Jasmine
16 50 (0.60%) Subversion
17 45 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
18 44 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 1,411 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 1,137 (13.67%) Finance
3 488 (5.87%) Public Sector
4 433 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 397 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 295 (3.55%) Games
7 287 (3.45%) Marketing
8 250 (3.01%) Law
9 238 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 218 (2.62%) Retail
11 206 (2.48%) Banking
11 206 (2.48%) Front Office
12 160 (1.92%) Back Office
13 148 (1.78%) Electronics
14 120 (1.44%) Legal
15 115 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
16 104 (1.25%) Advertising
17 96 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
18 83 (1.00%) Tech for Good
19 82 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5,167 (62.13%) Developer
2 2,324 (27.95%) .NET Developer
3 1,712 (20.59%) Senior
4 1,478 (17.77%) C# Developer
5 1,376 (16.55%) Software Engineer
6 1,105 (13.29%) Software Developer
7 1,044 (12.55%) Senior Developer
8 902 (10.85%) C# .NET Developer
9 694 (8.35%) Lead
10 666 (8.01%) Full Stack Developer
11 480 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 366 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
13 334 (4.02%) Lead Developer
14 325 (3.91%) Senior Software Developer
15 313 (3.76%) C# Software Developer
16 307 (3.69%) Senior C# Developer
17 303 (3.64%) .NET Software Developer
18 273 (3.28%) Azure Developer
19 269 (3.23%) Architect
20 255 (3.07%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6,018 (72.37%) .NET
2 2,331 (28.03%) ASP.NET
3 2,155 (25.91%) .NET Core
4 2,027 (24.37%) AngularJS
5 1,902 (22.87%) HTML
6 1,874 (22.53%) React
7 1,843 (22.16%) CSS
8 1,551 (18.65%) .NET Framework
9 1,220 (14.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,157 (13.91%) Entity Framework
11 1,082 (13.01%) ASP.NET MVC
12 992 (11.93%) Vue
13 733 (8.81%) RESTful
14 683 (8.21%) Web Services
15 679 (8.16%) REST
16 660 (7.94%) HTML5
17 604 (7.26%) Node.js
18 593 (7.13%) jQuery
19 561 (6.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 461 (5.54%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 411 (4.94%) Algorithms
2 394 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
3 331 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 245 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 244 (2.93%) Blockchain
6 225 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 205 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 203 (2.44%) Hedge funds
9 165 (1.98%) Derivative
10 163 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 163 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 162 (1.95%) Cloud Native
12 160 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 120 (1.44%) e-Learning
14 113 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 111 (1.33%) Equities
16 109 (1.31%) Client/Server
17 106 (1.27%) Fixed Income
18 103 (1.24%) Onboarding
19 98 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 760 (9.14%) Windows
2 607 (7.30%) Linux
3 375 (4.51%) Android
4 320 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 74 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (0.26%) AIX
8 20 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (0.22%) Unix
10 15 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 11 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 11 (0.13%) VMS
14 10 (0.12%) Solaris
15 7 (0.084%) CentOS
16 6 (0.072%) FreeRTOS
16 6 (0.072%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.060%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,608 (43.39%) Agile
2 2,410 (28.98%) Full Stack Development
3 2,345 (28.20%) Software Engineering
4 2,018 (24.27%) DevOps
5 1,869 (22.47%) MVC
6 1,356 (16.31%) Microservices
7 1,168 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
8 980 (11.78%) Computer Science
9 972 (11.69%) Scrum
10 956 (11.50%) TDD
11 906 (10.89%) CI/CD
12 845 (10.16%) Web Development
13 817 (9.82%) OO
14 806 (9.69%) Design Patterns
15 735 (8.84%) Mentoring
16 625 (7.52%) SOLID
17 611 (7.35%) Artificial Intelligence
18 596 (7.17%) Test Automation
19 548 (6.59%) Unit Testing
20 541 (6.51%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,600 (43.29%) JavaScript
2 2,851 (34.28%) SQL
3 1,294 (15.56%) Python
4 1,188 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 830 (9.98%) Java
6 532 (6.40%) C++
7 425 (5.11%) C
8 369 (4.44%) T-SQL
9 310 (3.73%) PowerShell
10 238 (2.86%) VB.NET
11 200 (2.41%) VB
12 137 (1.65%) PHP
13 98 (1.18%) Go
14 76 (0.91%) XAML
15 64 (0.77%) Bash
16 63 (0.76%) MATLAB
17 58 (0.70%) Bicep
18 49 (0.59%) Ruby
19 46 (0.55%) XPath
20 43 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,446 (17.39%) Degree
2 618 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 485 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 442 (5.32%) SC Cleared
5 164 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 124 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 112 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 65 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 62 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 54 (0.65%) DV Cleared
11 53 (0.64%) PhD
12 32 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.32%) HNC
14 23 (0.28%) ISTQB
15 18 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 17 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (0.14%) HND
18 11 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
20 9 (0.11%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (5.39%) QA
2 109 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 38 (0.46%) WCAG
4 37 (0.44%) GDPR
5 24 (0.29%) SLA
6 21 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 14 (0.17%) WAI
9 13 (0.16%) PMO
10 12 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.084%) IEC 61131
11 7 (0.084%) MISRA
12 6 (0.072%) HL7
13 5 (0.060%) JTAG
13 5 (0.060%) MiFID
14 4 (0.048%) DICOM
14 4 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 4 (0.048%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 602 (7.24%) Docker
2 111 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.64%) Firmware
4 47 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 43 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.11%) KVM
9 7 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.084%) vSphere
10 6 (0.072%) 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
1 554 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 191 (2.30%) Terraform
3 65 (0.78%) Ansible
4 35 (0.42%) Grafana
5 30 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 27 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.28%) SCCM
7 23 (0.28%) 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 (0.096%) Kibana
12 8 (0.096%) Packer
13 4 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.048%) Istio
13 4 (0.048%) Stealthwatch
14 3 (0.036%) Control-M
14 3 (0.036%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2,257 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 245 (2.95%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.91%) IBM
4 190 (2.28%) ESRI
5 187 (2.25%) Google
6 170 (2.04%) Oracle
7 132 (1.59%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.17%) Facebook
9 69 (0.83%) YouTube
10 68 (0.82%) Sitecore
11 53 (0.64%) SAP
12 52 (0.63%) VMware
13 51 (0.61%) Apple
14 40 (0.48%) Optimizely
15 35 (0.42%) DevExpress
16 34 (0.41%) Adobe
17 33 (0.40%) F5
17 33 (0.40%) Sony
17 33 (0.40%) Yahoo!
18 27 (0.32%) Databricks