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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,162 9,778 17,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.23% 9.63% 11.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.56% 22.25% 20.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,874 7,250 10,474
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 £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 33,235 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,988 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 8 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 8 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 7,204 £58,000 -10.77% 1,701
UK excluding London +2 6,101 £55,000 - 1,261
Work from Home -1 3,698 £57,500 -4.17% 1,269
London -3 1,708 £77,500 - 565
North of England +10 1,565 £55,000 -4.35% 330
South East -4 1,549 £57,500 -4.17% 231
Midlands +31 1,040 £50,000 -9.09% 288
North West +19 908 £55,000 -4.35% 194
South West +5 733 £50,000 -9.09% 159
West Midlands +45 542 £52,500 -4.55% 174
East of England +6 529 £57,500 - 93
Yorkshire +13 498 £52,500 -8.70% 101
East Midlands +15 497 £50,000 -4.76% 114
Scotland -37 407 £55,000 +4.76% 107
Wales -1 193 £50,000 +11.11% 48
North East -2 159 £60,000 +9.09% 37
Northern Ireland -9 85 £55,000 +10.00% 24
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 (2.38%) ArcGIS
2 185 (2.27%) CMS
3 182 (2.23%) GeoServer
4 173 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 169 (2.07%) IIS
6 138 (1.69%) Confluence
7 108 (1.32%) Umbraco
8 56 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 51 (0.62%) Kentico
9 51 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
10 40 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 37 (0.45%) Apache
12 24 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) nginx
17 7 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 94 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 6 (0.074%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.061%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.061%) 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
1 169 (2.07%) 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 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.061%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.061%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.061%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.049%) Endur
8 4 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.037%) Maximo
9 3 (0.037%) Shopify
10 2 (0.025%) Infor LN
10 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.025%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 4,177 (51.18%) Azure
2 1,446 (17.72%) AWS
3 1,026 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
4 532 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 422 (5.17%) Serverless
6 339 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
7 338 (4.14%) SaaS
8 300 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.14%) Azure Functions
10 246 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 241 (2.95%) GCP
12 240 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
13 224 (2.74%) PowerApps
14 223 (2.73%) Power Automate
15 170 (2.08%) GitHub
16 169 (2.07%) Azure API Management
17 152 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
18 105 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 94 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
20 80 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.28%) Internet
2 75 (0.92%) DNS
2 75 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 64 (0.78%) Firewall
4 35 (0.43%) DHCP
5 29 (0.36%) Network Security
6 28 (0.34%) Modbus
7 27 (0.33%) RS-232
7 27 (0.33%) SSL
8 23 (0.28%) HTTP
9 22 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 18 (0.22%) Wireless
11 17 (0.21%) VPN
12 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
13 14 (0.17%) Broadband
13 14 (0.17%) Mobile Broadband
13 14 (0.17%) WAN
13 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
14 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,471 (30.27%) SQL Server
2 618 (7.57%) MongoDB
3 614 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
4 515 (6.31%) NoSQL
5 386 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 283 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 273 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 263 (3.22%) Power BI
9 257 (3.15%) MySQL
10 240 (2.94%) DB2
11 201 (2.46%) GIS
12 180 (2.21%) QGIS
13 145 (1.78%) Redis
14 144 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 125 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 76 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
17 62 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 59 (0.72%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 30 (0.37%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 982 (12.03%) Git
2 615 (7.53%) Visual Studio
3 341 (4.18%) JIRA
4 180 (2.21%) Selenium
5 156 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 135 (1.65%) TeamCity
7 134 (1.64%) NUnit
8 132 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 131 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 92 (1.13%) Postman
11 84 (1.03%) GitLab
12 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
13 76 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 75 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
15 71 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 62 (0.76%) Moq
17 53 (0.65%) Jasmine
18 51 (0.62%) Subversion
19 45 (0.55%) SoapUI
20 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,378 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 1,136 (13.92%) Finance
3 475 (5.82%) Public Sector
4 429 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 386 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 299 (3.66%) Games
7 278 (3.41%) Marketing
8 247 (3.03%) Law
9 243 (2.98%) Manufacturing
10 223 (2.73%) Retail
11 217 (2.66%) Front Office
12 215 (2.63%) Banking
13 160 (1.96%) Back Office
14 154 (1.89%) Electronics
15 129 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 117 (1.43%) Legal
17 100 (1.23%) Advertising
18 89 (1.09%) Telecoms
19 86 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
20 82 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5,003 (61.30%) Developer
2 2,226 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 1,673 (20.50%) Senior
4 1,371 (16.80%) C# Developer
5 1,343 (16.45%) Software Engineer
6 1,049 (12.85%) Software Developer
7 998 (12.23%) Senior Developer
8 832 (10.19%) C# .NET Developer
9 690 (8.45%) Lead
10 631 (7.73%) Full Stack Developer
11 468 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 342 (4.19%) Senior .NET Developer
13 338 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 312 (3.82%) Senior Software Developer
15 280 (3.43%) .NET Software Developer
16 277 (3.39%) Architect
16 277 (3.39%) Senior C# Developer
17 266 (3.26%) C# Software Developer
18 252 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
19 250 (3.06%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,860 (71.80%) .NET
2 2,309 (28.29%) ASP.NET
3 2,129 (26.08%) .NET Core
4 1,966 (24.09%) AngularJS
5 1,888 (23.13%) HTML
6 1,873 (22.95%) React
7 1,816 (22.25%) CSS
8 1,514 (18.55%) .NET Framework
9 1,183 (14.49%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,117 (13.69%) Entity Framework
11 1,078 (13.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 971 (11.90%) Vue
13 695 (8.52%) RESTful
14 687 (8.42%) REST
15 679 (8.32%) Web Services
16 653 (8.00%) HTML5
17 595 (7.29%) Node.js
18 577 (7.07%) jQuery
19 555 (6.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 451 (5.53%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 406 (4.97%) Algorithms
2 396 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 329 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 247 (3.03%) Blockchain
5 246 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 221 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 212 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 206 (2.52%) Mobile App
9 171 (2.10%) Derivative
10 166 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 163 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 161 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 158 (1.94%) Cloud Native
14 120 (1.47%) e-Learning
15 115 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
16 114 (1.40%) Equities
17 112 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
18 110 (1.35%) Fixed Income
19 105 (1.29%) Client/Server
20 99 (1.21%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 756 (9.26%) Windows
2 611 (7.49%) Linux
3 376 (4.61%) Android
4 324 (3.97%) Apple iOS
5 76 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (0.29%) Unix
8 22 (0.27%) AIX
9 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.12%) Solaris
13 10 (0.12%) VMS
14 7 (0.086%) CentOS
15 6 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
16 5 (0.061%) Windows Mobile
17 4 (0.049%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,547 (43.46%) Agile
2 2,323 (28.46%) Software Engineering
3 2,293 (28.09%) Full Stack Development
4 2,013 (24.66%) DevOps
5 1,858 (22.76%) MVC
6 1,359 (16.65%) Microservices
7 1,170 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
8 972 (11.91%) Scrum
9 950 (11.64%) Computer Science
10 932 (11.42%) TDD
11 874 (10.71%) CI/CD
12 848 (10.39%) Web Development
13 838 (10.27%) Design Patterns
14 820 (10.05%) OO
15 745 (9.13%) Mentoring
16 608 (7.45%) SOLID
17 605 (7.41%) Test Automation
18 602 (7.38%) Artificial Intelligence
19 547 (6.70%) Unit Testing
20 545 (6.68%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,552 (43.52%) JavaScript
2 2,854 (34.97%) SQL
3 1,321 (16.18%) Python
4 1,173 (14.37%) TypeScript
5 860 (10.54%) Java
6 514 (6.30%) C++
7 416 (5.10%) C
8 369 (4.52%) T-SQL
9 308 (3.77%) PowerShell
10 228 (2.79%) VB.NET
11 199 (2.44%) VB
12 145 (1.78%) PHP
13 101 (1.24%) Go
14 76 (0.93%) Ruby
15 75 (0.92%) XAML
16 64 (0.78%) Bash
17 61 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 59 (0.72%) Bicep
19 44 (0.54%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,427 (17.48%) Degree
2 606 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 480 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 447 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 163 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 138 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 110 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 59 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 50 (0.61%) PhD
11 46 (0.56%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.36%) HNC
14 19 (0.23%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (0.16%) HND
17 11 (0.13%) MCSE
18 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (5.81%) QA
2 112 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.45%) GDPR
5 29 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 23 (0.28%) SLA
7 17 (0.21%) 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 (0.098%) MISRA
11 8 (0.098%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
13 6 (0.074%) HL7
14 5 (0.061%) JTAG
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO 9000
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 626 (7.67%) Docker
2 113 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 54 (0.66%) Firmware
4 45 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.098%) 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
Systems Management
1 565 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 199 (2.44%) Terraform
3 61 (0.75%) Ansible
4 38 (0.47%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 23 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
7 18 (0.22%) WSUS
8 15 (0.18%) Puppet
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.17%) SCOM
10 11 (0.13%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.098%) Packer
13 7 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.086%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.049%) Functional Safety
15 4 (0.049%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,258 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.00%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.96%) IBM
4 189 (2.32%) ESRI
5 180 (2.21%) Google
6 168 (2.06%) Oracle
7 127 (1.56%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.19%) Facebook
9 68 (0.83%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 59 (0.72%) SAP
12 51 (0.62%) Apple
13 50 (0.61%) VMware
14 39 (0.48%) Optimizely
15 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
16 33 (0.40%) F5
16 33 (0.40%) Sony
16 33 (0.40%) Yahoo!
17 32 (0.39%) Databricks
18 30 (0.37%) Cisco