Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 May 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

C#
UK > UK excluding London
6 months to
22 May 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 6 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 14,501 19,742 18,935
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.67% 19.99% 19.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.09% 35.30% 35.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,243 17,751 17,269
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -2.44%
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £27,500
90th Percentile £64,000 £61,250 £59,800
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43,825 55,919 54,052
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.39% 56.63% 55.50%
Number of salaries quoted 35,165 47,073 45,797
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
Median salary % change year-on-year - +7.14% +5.00%
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +2.37%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C# as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2019.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
South East +1 4,981 £45,000 - 607
North of England -1 3,191 £44,000 +3.53% 612
Midlands 0 1,965 £42,500 +1.19% 473
South West -1 1,806 £45,000 +5.88% 272
North West -1 1,608 £45,000 +5.88% 310
Yorkshire -1 1,312 £43,000 +1.18% 251
East of England -3 1,188 £48,000 +6.67% 236
West Midlands -2 1,096 £42,500 - 254
Scotland -1 881 £44,314 +4.27% 92
East Midlands -1 864 £40,000 - 218
North East -1 272 £40,000 -5.88% 52
Wales -2 251 £40,000 - 44
Northern Ireland +4 242 £41,500 +12.93% 33
Isle of Man +4 11 £55,000 +36.65% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £63,750 - 2
C#
UK

For the 6 months to 22 May 2019, IT jobs citing C# also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for C#.

1 10,843 (74.77%) .NET
2 6,867 (47.36%) Agile Software Development
3 6,744 (46.51%) JavaScript
4 5,855 (40.38%) SQL
5 5,774 (39.82%) ASP.NET
6 5,444 (37.54%) MVC
7 5,299 (36.54%) SQL Server
8 4,657 (32.12%) HTML
9 4,142 (28.56%) CSS
10 3,835 (26.45%) Microsoft
11 3,509 (24.20%) Software Engineering
12 3,357 (23.15%) Microsoft Azure
13 3,165 (21.83%) AngularJS
14 2,943 (20.30%) ASP.NET MVC
15 2,628 (18.12%) Java
16 2,412 (16.63%) TDD
16 2,412 (16.63%) .NET Framework
17 2,279 (15.72%) Degree
18 2,222 (15.32%) Scrum
19 2,169 (14.96%) jQuery
20 2,053 (14.16%) C++
21 1,977 (13.63%) Test Automation
22 1,967 (13.56%) Git (software)
23 1,896 (13.07%) ASP.NET Web API
24 1,729 (11.92%) Visual Studio
25 1,727 (11.91%) Finance
26 1,711 (11.80%) Web Services
27 1,617 (11.15%) OO
28 1,533 (10.57%) .NET Core
29 1,502 (10.36%) Problem-Solving

C#
Co-occurring IT Skills in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 458 (3.16%) IIS
2 369 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 288 (1.99%) CMS
4 258 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
5 254 (1.75%) Umbraco
6 177 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
7 151 (1.04%) Confluence
8 102 (0.70%) Apache
9 79 (0.54%) NServiceBus
9 79 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
10 54 (0.37%) EPiServer
10 54 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
11 52 (0.36%) Apache Spark
12 45 (0.31%) JBoss
12 45 (0.31%) Kentico
13 43 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 43 (0.30%) WebSphere
14 34 (0.23%) nginx
15 33 (0.23%) WordPress
16 27 (0.19%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 115 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 18 (0.12%) Fireworks
6 17 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 16 (0.11%) GNU Octave
8 7 (0.048%) InfoPath
8 7 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.048%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.048%) Sketch
8 7 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.034%) HipChat
9 5 (0.034%) InVision
9 5 (0.034%) PrintSoft PReS
10 4 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.028%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.028%) GIMP
10 4 (0.028%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 254 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 41 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 38 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 30 (0.21%) Summit
5 18 (0.12%) Magento
6 14 (0.097%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
8 9 (0.062%) nopCommerce
9 7 (0.048%) Sage CRM
9 7 (0.048%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.048%) SAP FI
9 7 (0.048%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.048%) SAP IS-U
10 6 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
10 6 (0.041%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.034%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.034%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.028%) SAP MII
12 4 (0.028%) SAP VC
13 3 (0.021%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3,357 (23.15%) Microsoft Azure
2 1,451 (10.01%) Amazon AWS
3 552 (3.81%) SaaS
4 221 (1.52%) Google Cloud Platform
5 208 (1.43%) Serverless
6 175 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 160 (1.10%) Office 365
8 152 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
9 150 (1.03%) PaaS
10 141 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
11 140 (0.97%) GitHub
12 108 (0.74%) npm
13 76 (0.52%) Azure Functions
14 71 (0.49%) IaaS
15 67 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 58 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
17 48 (0.33%) NuGet
18 39 (0.27%) IBM Cloud
18 39 (0.27%) PowerApps
19 35 (0.24%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 244 (1.68%) Internet
2 133 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 121 (0.83%) Broadband
4 105 (0.72%) HTTP
5 68 (0.47%) RS-485
6 65 (0.45%) Modbus
7 55 (0.38%) Firewall
8 51 (0.35%) DNS
9 40 (0.28%) Intranet
10 29 (0.20%) Bluetooth
11 26 (0.18%) Ethernet
11 26 (0.18%) VoIP
12 23 (0.16%) RIP
13 22 (0.15%) SMTP
13 22 (0.15%) VPN
14 21 (0.14%) FTP
14 21 (0.14%) HTTPS
15 20 (0.14%) Network Security
16 17 (0.12%) CTI
17 16 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5,299 (36.54%) SQL Server
2 631 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 597 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 553 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 551 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 520 (3.59%) MySQL
7 393 (2.71%) MongoDB
8 373 (2.57%) Big Data
9 304 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
10 247 (1.70%) SQL Server 2016
11 243 (1.68%) SQL Server 2008
12 183 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 176 (1.21%) SQL Server 2012
14 167 (1.15%) RDBMS
15 164 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
16 157 (1.08%) Redis
17 144 (0.99%) Power BI
18 135 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 118 (0.81%) Amazon DynamoDB
20 111 (0.77%) SQL Server 2014
Development Applications
1 1,967 (13.56%) Git (software)
2 1,729 (11.92%) Visual Studio
3 1,127 (7.77%) Team Foundation Server
4 932 (6.43%) Selenium
5 683 (4.71%) JIRA
6 511 (3.52%) Jenkins
7 475 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 403 (2.78%) NUnit
9 383 (2.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 349 (2.41%) Subversion
11 338 (2.33%) SpecFlow
12 306 (2.11%) WebDriver
13 279 (1.92%) Visual Studio Team System
14 270 (1.86%) Cucumber
15 232 (1.60%) SoapUI
16 153 (1.06%) gulp
17 144 (0.99%) Bitbucket
18 143 (0.99%) MSTest
19 141 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 137 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 1,727 (11.91%) Finance
2 509 (3.51%) Marketing
3 498 (3.43%) Retail
4 427 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 302 (2.08%) Telecoms
6 295 (2.03%) Games
7 209 (1.44%) Electronics
8 124 (0.86%) Banking
9 112 (0.77%) Legal
10 103 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 100 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 82 (0.57%) Automotive
13 80 (0.55%) Advertising
14 64 (0.44%) Military
15 55 (0.38%) Law
16 41 (0.28%) Back Office
17 39 (0.27%) Publishing
18 32 (0.22%) Financial Institution
19 29 (0.20%) Billing
20 21 (0.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9,839 (67.85%) Developer
2 4,621 (31.87%) .NET Developer
3 4,057 (27.98%) C# Developer
4 2,933 (20.23%) Software Developer
5 2,433 (16.78%) C# .NET Developer
6 1,839 (12.68%) Software Engineer
7 1,691 (11.66%) Senior Developer
8 1,129 (7.79%) C# Software Developer
9 993 (6.85%) .NET Software Developer
10 937 (6.46%) ASP.NET Developer
11 847 (5.84%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 826 (5.70%) Senior .NET Developer
13 753 (5.19%) Junior
14 709 (4.89%) Full Stack Developer
15 683 (4.71%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
16 639 (4.41%) Senior C# Developer
17 631 (4.35%) Junior Developer
18 629 (4.34%) SQL Developer
19 546 (3.77%) Graduate
20 541 (3.73%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10,843 (74.77%) .NET
2 5,774 (39.82%) ASP.NET
3 4,657 (32.12%) HTML
4 4,142 (28.56%) CSS
5 3,165 (21.83%) AngularJS
6 2,943 (20.30%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2,412 (16.63%) .NET Framework
8 2,169 (14.96%) jQuery
9 1,896 (13.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,711 (11.80%) Web Services
11 1,533 (10.57%) .NET Core
12 1,331 (9.18%) HTML5
13 1,274 (8.79%) React
14 1,251 (8.63%) WCF
15 1,193 (8.23%) Entity Framework
16 1,172 (8.08%) XML
17 1,013 (6.99%) RESTful
18 937 (6.46%) REST
19 874 (6.03%) WPF
20 821 (5.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1,098 (7.57%) Greenfield Project
2 880 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
3 549 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
4 485 (3.34%) User Experience
5 449 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 426 (2.94%) Fintech
7 398 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 358 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 256 (1.77%) Robotics
10 103 (0.71%) Internet of Things
11 100 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
12 97 (0.67%) Management Information System
13 89 (0.61%) Driving Licence
14 85 (0.59%) Client/Server
15 72 (0.50%) N-Tier
16 68 (0.47%) Public Cloud
17 65 (0.45%) Data Centre
17 65 (0.45%) Virtual Team
18 64 (0.44%) Life Science
19 63 (0.43%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1,468 (10.12%) Windows
2 854 (5.89%) Linux
3 539 (3.72%) Android
4 421 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 218 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 136 (0.94%) Unix
7 59 (0.41%) FreeRTOS
8 52 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 48 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 48 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 39 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 31 (0.21%) Windows 8
12 29 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 16 (0.11%) Windows Phone
15 15 (0.10%) Windows Mobile
16 14 (0.097%) Solaris
17 12 (0.083%) Ubuntu
18 11 (0.076%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.055%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,867 (47.36%) Agile Software Development
2 5,444 (37.54%) MVC
3 3,509 (24.20%) Software Engineering
4 2,412 (16.63%) TDD
5 2,222 (15.32%) Scrum
6 1,977 (13.63%) Test Automation
7 1,617 (11.15%) OO
8 1,502 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
9 1,448 (9.99%) DevOps
10 1,437 (9.91%) SDLC
11 1,411 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
12 1,380 (9.52%) Web Development
13 1,298 (8.95%) Unit Testing
14 1,116 (7.70%) Computer Science
15 1,083 (7.47%) Mentoring
16 1,015 (7.00%) BDD
17 961 (6.63%) Microservices
18 764 (5.27%) OOP
19 761 (5.25%) SOLID
20 689 (4.75%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 6,744 (46.51%) JavaScript
2 5,855 (40.38%) SQL
3 2,628 (18.12%) Java
4 2,053 (14.16%) C++
5 1,434 (9.89%) Python
6 1,213 (8.36%) T-SQL
7 777 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 776 (5.35%) C
9 762 (5.25%) VB.NET
10 479 (3.30%) PHP
11 455 (3.14%) Ruby
12 450 (3.10%) PowerShell
13 397 (2.74%) VB
14 203 (1.40%) PL/SQL
15 186 (1.28%) R
16 159 (1.10%) MATLAB
17 154 (1.06%) Objective-C
18 152 (1.05%) Go
19 145 (1.00%) ES6
20 142 (0.98%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2,279 (15.72%) Degree
2 564 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 525 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 384 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 240 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 233 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 172 (1.19%) PhD
8 157 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
9 143 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 123 (0.85%) ISEB
11 76 (0.52%) HND
12 62 (0.43%) Master's Degree
13 47 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 40 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 30 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 26 (0.18%) DBS Check
17 23 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.15%) MCSD
19 19 (0.13%) MCP
20 16 (0.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 946 (6.52%) QA
2 66 (0.46%) GDPR
3 39 (0.27%) Data Quality
3 39 (0.27%) SLA
4 31 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (0.19%) ISO 9001
6 26 (0.18%) DICOM
7 22 (0.15%) PMO
8 20 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.11%) HL7
10 11 (0.076%) ISO 13485
11 10 (0.069%) GAMP
12 9 (0.062%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 9 (0.062%) MISRA
13 7 (0.048%) IEC 62304
13 7 (0.048%) ISAE 3402
13 7 (0.048%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.048%) ISO 31000
13 7 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 7 (0.048%) WAI
System Software
1 760 (5.24%) Docker
2 120 (0.83%) Firmware
3 119 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 61 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 49 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.11%) vSphere
7 15 (0.10%) LXC
8 13 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.076%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 7 (0.048%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.021%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.021%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.014%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.007%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.007%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.007%) Postfix
13 1 (0.007%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.007%) Xen
Systems Management
1 335 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 169 (1.17%) Ansible
3 117 (0.81%) Puppet
4 115 (0.79%) Terraform
5 106 (0.73%) Opscode Chef
6 72 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
7 32 (0.22%) Kibana
8 29 (0.20%) Salt
9 26 (0.18%) logstash
10 21 (0.14%) CA Service Virtualization
11 19 (0.13%) Grafana
11 19 (0.13%) Rancher
12 17 (0.12%) SCOM
13 15 (0.10%) HP ALM
14 12 (0.083%) Tivoli
15 10 (0.069%) Control-M
16 9 (0.062%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
17 8 (0.055%) Business Desktop Deployment
17 8 (0.055%) Nessus
18 7 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3,835 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 637 (4.39%) Oracle
3 461 (3.18%) Xamarin
4 342 (2.36%) Google
5 196 (1.35%) SAP
6 148 (1.02%) Sitecore
7 124 (0.86%) IBM
8 76 (0.52%) VMware
9 75 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 71 (0.49%) Salesforce.com
11 65 (0.45%) Pega
12 60 (0.41%) Tableau
13 52 (0.36%) HP
14 51 (0.35%) Cisco
15 45 (0.31%) DevExpress
16 42 (0.29%) Facebook
17 40 (0.28%) Sage
18 35 (0.24%) Apple
19 34 (0.23%) Blue Prism
20 33 (0.23%) CA