The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C# over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

C#
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank567
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads211142076615134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.42 %17.02 %15.89 %
As % of the Programming Languages category32.47 %32.38 %31.23 %
Number of salaries quoted192341850813394
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£72,500£77,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
650266412748463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.65 %52.55 %50.90 %
Number of salaries quoted573265558941223
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

C#
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C# within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

C# Demand Trend

C#
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C# within the UK.

C# Salary Trend

C#
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C# over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

C# Salary Histogram

C#
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+120109£40,000-
LondonDown-17526£50,000-9.09 %
South EastUp+44722£40,000+6.66 %
East of EnglandNo change02024£40,000+6.66 %
North WestNo change01796£34,500+6.15 %
City of LondonDown-31715£52,500-16.00 %
SurreyUp+21454£45,000+7.14 %
South WestUp+11186£35,000+7.69 %
BerkshireUp+31185£40,000+14.28 %
YorkshireNo change01139£33,000+1.53 %
ManchesterNo change0964£34,500+6.15 %
East MidlandsUp+3855£35,000+1.44 %
West MidlandsUp+3791£35,000+12.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-1786£40,000+6.66 %
West YorkshireUp+1732£33,000+1.53 %
HampshireNo change0689£37,500+7.14 %
ScotlandUp+4579£35,000-6.66 %
CambridgeDown-1579£39,000+8.33 %
LeedsNo change0547£34,000+4.61 %
ReadingUp+5518£40,000+8.95 %
CheshireUp+1478£33,000+4.76 %
BristolUp+2378£35,000+2.94 %
HertfordshireUp+1372£40,500+1.25 %
NottinghamshireUp+3364£35,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+2355£37,500+4.16 %
EssexUp+3350£37,500+7.14 %
OxfordshireDown-2308£38,000-5.00 %
NottinghamUp+3303£35,000-1.40 %
GloucestershireUp+3294£37,500+7.14 %
EdinburghUp+3276£35,000-6.66 %

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C#.

133888 (82.08 %).NET
221973 (53.22 %)SQL Server
321373 (51.77 %)ASP.NET
416256 (39.38 %)SQL
511231 (27.20 %)JavaScript
69930 (24.05 %)Microsoft
79464 (22.92 %)CSS
89282 (22.48 %)HTML
98558 (20.73 %)Finance
107786 (18.86 %)XML
117774 (18.83 %)MVC
127679 (18.60 %)WCF
137151 (17.32 %)Degree
147026 (17.02 %)Java
156938 (16.81 %)Windows
166570 (15.91 %)SQL Server 2008
176518 (15.79 %)OO
186396 (15.49 %)C++
196187 (14.99 %)Agile Software Development
206069 (14.70 %)Web Services
216035 (14.62 %)TDD
225806 (14.06 %)VB.NET
235693 (13.79 %)jQuery
245466 (13.24 %)WPF
255448 (13.20 %)Visual Studio
265191 (12.57 %).NET Framework
274981 (12.06 %)Ajax
284944 (11.98 %)Scrum
294718 (11.43 %)ASP.NET MVC
304293 (10.40 %)SharePoint

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
133888 (82.08 %).NET
221373 (51.77 %)ASP.NET
39464 (22.92 %)CSS
49282 (22.48 %)HTML
57786 (18.86 %)XML
67679 (18.60 %)WCF
76069 (14.70 %)Web Services
85693 (13.79 %)jQuery
95466 (13.24 %)WPF
105191 (12.57 %).NET Framework
114981 (12.06 %)Ajax
124718 (11.43 %)ASP.NET MVC
133974 (9.626 %)WinForms
143078 (7.455 %)LINQ
152751 (6.663 %)NHibernate
162735 (6.625 %)Silverlight
172367 (5.733 %)XSLT
181928 (4.670 %)ASP
191826 (4.423 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
201818 (4.404 %)XHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14293 (10.40 %)SharePoint
21996 (4.835 %)IIS
31655 (4.009 %)CMS
41376 (3.333 %)SharePoint 2010
51042 (2.524 %)SharePoint Server
6953 (2.308 %)BizTalk Server
7736 (1.783 %)Umbraco
8406 (0.983 %)Sitecore CMS
9354 (0.857 %)Apache
10199 (0.482 %)MSMQ
11179 (0.434 %)Tomcat
12144 (0.349 %)WebLogic
13143 (0.346 %)DotNetNuke
14125 (0.303 %)ESB
15114 (0.276 %)RabbitMQ
16113 (0.274 %)TIBCO EMS
17112 (0.271 %)SAS
18111 (0.269 %)Oracle Coherence
19110 (0.266 %)Drupal
19110 (0.266 %)Kentico
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14004 (9.698 %)MS Excel
2607 (1.470 %)MS Office
3340 (0.824 %)Photoshop
4323 (0.782 %)MS Visio
5295 (0.715 %)MATLAB
6179 (0.434 %)InfoPath
7127 (0.308 %)MS Project
855 (0.133 %)Fireworks
954 (0.131 %)MS PowerPoint
1053 (0.128 %)Spreadsheet
1146 (0.111 %)Adobe Illustrator
1228 (0.068 %)Simulink
1325 (0.061 %)DOC1
1422 (0.053 %)Office 365
1517 (0.041 %)PrintSoft PReS
1614 (0.034 %)XMetaL
1614 (0.034 %)Acrobat
1710 (0.024 %)Windchill
1710 (0.024 %)InDesign
1710 (0.024 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1921 (2.231 %)Dynamics CRM
299 (0.240 %)Dynamics AX
395 (0.230 %)Dynamics NAV
466 (0.160 %)RMDS
561 (0.148 %)Google Analytics
658 (0.140 %)Summit
745 (0.109 %)SAP ERP
835 (0.085 %)Pivotal CRM
927 (0.065 %)WebTrends
1023 (0.056 %)Tridion
1115 (0.036 %)Exstream
1115 (0.036 %)Front Arena
1115 (0.036 %)Dynamics GP
1214 (0.034 %)Visualfiles
1214 (0.034 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1312 (0.029 %)SAP Business One
1312 (0.029 %)SAP HCM
1411 (0.027 %)BusinessWorks
1510 (0.024 %)SalesLogix
1510 (0.024 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11405 (3.403 %)Internet
2623 (1.509 %)Intranet
3570 (1.381 %)HTTP
4538 (1.303 %)TCP/IP
5191 (0.463 %)DNS
6186 (0.451 %)Extranet
7176 (0.426 %)Broadband
8156 (0.378 %)GSM
9128 (0.310 %)UMTS
10113 (0.274 %)Wireless
11111 (0.269 %)FTP
12106 (0.257 %)SSL
1398 (0.237 %)SAN
1492 (0.223 %)Firewall
1582 (0.199 %)DHCP
1679 (0.191 %)WAN
1774 (0.179 %)GPRS
1873 (0.177 %)VoIP
1970 (0.170 %)LAN
2067 (0.162 %)3G
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
121973 (53.22 %)SQL Server
26570 (15.91 %)SQL Server 2008
34223 (10.23 %)SQL Server 2005
42413 (5.845 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
52213 (5.360 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61131 (2.739 %)MySQL
7883 (2.139 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
8818 (1.981 %)Data Warehouse
9704 (1.705 %)SQL Server 2000
10666 (1.613 %)RDBMS
11468 (1.134 %)ETL
12455 (1.102 %)Crystal Reports
13338 (0.819 %)OLAP
14308 (0.746 %)Oracle 8/8i
15295 (0.715 %)Oracle 10g
16287 (0.695 %)DTS
17233 (0.564 %)Oracle 11g
18230 (0.557 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
18230 (0.557 %)GIS
19222 (0.538 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15448 (13.20 %)Visual Studio
22754 (6.671 %)NUnit
32038 (4.936 %)Team Foundation Server
41969 (4.769 %)Subversion
51712 (4.147 %)Rhino Mocks
6918 (2.224 %)Selenium
7650 (1.574 %)Moq
8445 (1.078 %)VSS/SourceSafe
9373 (0.903 %)TeamCity
10356 (0.862 %)Cucumber
11346 (0.838 %)Eclipse
11346 (0.838 %)Git (software)
12279 (0.676 %)JIRA
13262 (0.635 %)Maven
14258 (0.625 %)MSBuild
15255 (0.618 %)CruiseControl
16234 (0.567 %)MSTest
17230 (0.557 %)QuickTest Pro
18228 (0.552 %)Ant
19206 (0.499 %)FitNesse
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18558 (20.73 %)Finance
22744 (6.646 %)Banking
31747 (4.232 %)Front Office
41254 (3.037 %)Telecoms
51216 (2.945 %)Investment Banking
61065 (2.580 %)Games
71058 (2.563 %)Marketing
81033 (2.502 %)Retail
9611 (1.480 %)Advertising
10599 (1.451 %)Back Office
11518 (1.255 %)Law
12421 (1.020 %)Music
13351 (0.850 %)Legal
14325 (0.787 %)Financial Institution
15289 (0.700 %)Publishing
16256 (0.620 %)Manufacturing
17251 (0.608 %)Electronics
18157 (0.380 %)Pharmaceutical
19151 (0.366 %)Automotive
20119 (0.288 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
131302 (75.82 %)Developer
214080 (34.10 %).NET Developer
311982 (29.02 %)C# Developer
47603 (18.42 %)C# .NET Developer
54750 (11.51 %)ASP.NET Developer
64447 (10.77 %)Senior Developer
74066 (9.849 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
83926 (9.510 %)Web Developer
93835 (9.289 %)Software Developer
102557 (6.194 %)Software Engineer
112332 (5.649 %)Analyst
121988 (4.815 %)Senior .NET Developer
131638 (3.968 %)Junior
141580 (3.827 %)Senior C# Developer
151465 (3.549 %)Junior Developer
161409 (3.413 %)Programmer
171400 (3.391 %).NET Web Developer
181316 (3.188 %)Graduate
191300 (3.149 %)SQL Developer
201125 (2.725 %)Applications Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13195 (7.739 %)Computer Science
21689 (4.091 %)Mathematics
31193 (2.890 %)N-Tier
41143 (2.769 %)Hedge funds
51104 (2.674 %)Derivative
6755 (1.829 %)Open Source
7615 (1.490 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
8604 (1.463 %)Client/Server
9582 (1.410 %)Fixed Income
10537 (1.301 %)iPhone
11525 (1.272 %)Physics
12435 (1.054 %)Equities
13410 (0.993 %)SaaS
14358 (0.867 %)Inversion of Control
15333 (0.807 %)Digital Media
16328 (0.794 %)Equity Derivative
17324 (0.785 %)Blackberry
18322 (0.780 %)Social Media
19300 (0.727 %)Management Information System
20291 (0.705 %)Embedded Systems
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16938 (16.81 %)Windows
21617 (3.917 %)Linux
31308 (3.168 %)UNIX
4864 (2.093 %)Android
5590 (1.429 %)Windows Server 2003
6500 (1.211 %)Windows Server 2008
7494 (1.197 %)Apple iOS
8222 (0.538 %)Windows 7
9208 (0.504 %)Windows Mobile
9208 (0.504 %)Windows XP
10146 (0.354 %)Windows Vista
11135 (0.327 %)Solaris
12120 (0.291 %)Windows CE
1396 (0.233 %)Mac OS X
1474 (0.179 %)Windows Phone 7
1558 (0.140 %)Windows 2000
1657 (0.138 %)Mac OS
1754 (0.131 %)VxWorks
1850 (0.121 %)LynxOS
1943 (0.104 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17774 (18.83 %)MVC
26518 (15.79 %)OO
36187 (14.99 %)Agile Software Development
46035 (14.62 %)TDD
54944 (11.98 %)Scrum
63573 (8.654 %)Web Development
72790 (6.758 %)E-Commerce
82177 (5.273 %)Web Application Development
92078 (5.033 %)Unit Testing
101762 (4.268 %)BDD
111722 (4.171 %)CRM
111722 (4.171 %)Multithreading
121580 (3.827 %)Software Engineering
131467 (3.553 %)UML
141436 (3.478 %)Continuous Integration
151421 (3.442 %)Project Management
161420 (3.440 %)OOP
171323 (3.205 %)Business Intelligence
181082 (2.621 %)SOA
191042 (2.524 %)Kanban
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116256 (39.38 %)SQL
211231 (27.20 %)JavaScript
37026 (17.02 %)Java
46396 (15.49 %)C++
55806 (14.06 %)VB.NET
64073 (9.866 %)T-SQL
73108 (7.528 %)VB
82052 (4.970 %)C
91557 (3.771 %)Python
101421 (3.442 %)PHP
111074 (2.601 %)Perl
121021 (2.473 %)VB6
13982 (2.379 %)VBA
14910 (2.204 %)Ruby
15905 (2.192 %)PL/SQL
16589 (1.427 %)Delphi
17565 (1.369 %)VBScript
18415 (1.005 %)F#
19413 (1.000 %)VC++
20368 (0.891 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17151 (17.32 %)Degree
22819 (6.828 %)Microsoft Certification
31971 (4.774 %)MCSD
41967 (4.764 %)MCP
51955 (4.735 %)MCTS
61884 (4.563 %)MCAD
7690 (1.671 %)Security Cleared
8424 (1.027 %)ISEB
9325 (0.787 %)SC Cleared
10322 (0.780 %)PhD
11179 (0.434 %)DV Cleared
12165 (0.400 %)MCPD
13157 (0.380 %)ISTQB
1474 (0.179 %)HND
1572 (0.174 %)ITIL Certification
1666 (0.160 %)MCITP
1755 (0.133 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1851 (0.124 %)CFA
1949 (0.119 %)MCSE
2044 (0.107 %)HNC
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11810 (4.384 %)QA
2184 (0.446 %)ISO 9001
3161 (0.390 %)SLA
476 (0.184 %)WAI
550 (0.121 %)WCAG
647 (0.114 %)Data Quality
746 (0.111 %)DO-178B
845 (0.109 %)HL7
932 (0.078 %)ISO/IEC 27001
1029 (0.070 %)ISO 9000
1029 (0.070 %)TickIT
1121 (0.051 %)GAMP
1121 (0.051 %)PCI DSS
1215 (0.036 %)COBIT
138 (0.019 %)PAS 78
146 (0.015 %)Basel III
155 (0.012 %)IEC 61508
155 (0.012 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
164 (0.010 %)JTAG
164 (0.010 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1410 (0.993 %)Active Directory
2119 (0.288 %)VMware Infrastructure
383 (0.201 %)vSphere
459 (0.143 %)VMware ESX
539 (0.094 %)Hyper-V
632 (0.078 %)XenServer
729 (0.070 %)Xen
817 (0.041 %)Terminal Services
817 (0.041 %)Samba
916 (0.039 %)XenDesktop
1013 (0.031 %)XenApp
1112 (0.029 %)Dovecot
129 (0.022 %)UAG
129 (0.022 %)VMware ESXi
137 (0.017 %)Oracle RAC
143 (0.007 %)Oracle RMAN
143 (0.007 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
143 (0.007 %)Nmap
152 (0.005 %)VMware Workstation
152 (0.005 %)VMware GSX
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1108 (0.262 %)SCCM
2107 (0.259 %)HP Quality Center
368 (0.165 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
462 (0.150 %)WMI
541 (0.099 %)NetBackup
631 (0.075 %)SCOM
726 (0.063 %)Backup Exec
726 (0.063 %)Control-M
824 (0.058 %)OpenView
919 (0.046 %)MOM
1017 (0.041 %)Puppet
1115 (0.036 %)SCVMM
128 (0.019 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
137 (0.017 %)Norton AntiVirus
137 (0.017 %)WSUS
146 (0.015 %)BMC PATROL
155 (0.012 %)Splunk
155 (0.012 %)Cisco CUCM
155 (0.012 %)OpenView Configuration Management
155 (0.012 %)Nagios
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19930 (24.05 %)Microsoft
23842 (9.306 %)Oracle
3534 (1.293 %)Sitecore
4372 (0.901 %)Sybase
5365 (0.884 %)TIBCO
6311 (0.753 %)Google
7276 (0.669 %)EPiServer
8253 (0.613 %)JBoss
9244 (0.591 %)IBM
10241 (0.584 %)SAP
11226 (0.547 %)VMware
12219 (0.530 %)Business Objects
13212 (0.514 %)Salesforce.com
14208 (0.504 %)HP
15206 (0.499 %)Adobe
16199 (0.482 %)Citrix
17183 (0.443 %)Bloomberg
18158 (0.383 %)DataSynapse
19151 (0.366 %)Telerik
19151 (0.366 %)Reuters