Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 14 December 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 14 December 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

C#
UK > UK excluding London
6 months to
14 Dec 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing C# 13,535 16,296 19,726
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.06% 18.37% 19.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.17% 33.99% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,628 14,158 17,713
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £27,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £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 39,607 47,946 56,940
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 52.85% 54.05% 56.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,489 39,552 48,103
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £27,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,312 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.32% +2.62% +5.26%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +2 4,806 £47,500 +5.56% 814
North of England 0 2,943 £45,000 - 802
Midlands 0 1,938 £43,000 +1.18% 490
South West 0 1,729 £45,000 +5.88% 309
North West 0 1,603 £45,000 - 432
Yorkshire 0 1,171 £45,000 +5.88% 302
West Midlands +2 1,070 £45,000 +5.88% 262
East of England -1 979 £50,000 +5.26% 288
East Midlands +1 865 £42,500 +1.19% 227
Scotland 0 746 £44,000 -2.22% 166
Wales -3 267 £42,500 +6.25% 67
North East -7 171 £45,000 +3.45% 68
Northern Ireland -2 136 £45,000 +16.88% 43
Channel Islands +12 6 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £56,500 -
C#
UK

For the 6 months to 14 December 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 10,128 (74.83%) .NET
2 6,261 (46.26%) JavaScript
3 6,063 (44.79%) Agile Software Development
4 5,289 (39.08%) SQL
5 4,935 (36.46%) ASP.NET
6 4,640 (34.28%) SQL Server
7 4,506 (33.29%) MVC
8 4,026 (29.75%) HTML
9 3,801 (28.08%) Azure
10 3,693 (27.28%) CSS
11 3,242 (23.95%) Microsoft
12 3,063 (22.63%) AngularJS
13 2,623 (19.38%) Software Engineering
14 2,431 (17.96%) ASP.NET MVC
15 2,349 (17.36%) .NET Framework
16 2,159 (15.95%) Scrum
17 2,090 (15.44%) Java
18 2,063 (15.24%) .NET Core
19 1,936 (14.30%) jQuery
20 1,914 (14.14%) Degree
21 1,894 (13.99%) TDD
22 1,819 (13.44%) ASP.NET Web API
23 1,767 (13.06%) Test Automation
24 1,663 (12.29%) DevOps
25 1,653 (12.21%) Git (software)
26 1,627 (12.02%) Web Services
27 1,439 (10.63%) Finance
28 1,410 (10.42%) C++
29 1,384 (10.23%) Web Development
30 1,359 (10.04%) AWS

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
1 368 (2.72%) IIS
2 328 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 297 (2.19%) CMS
4 209 (1.54%) Confluence
5 188 (1.39%) Umbraco
6 134 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 94 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
8 91 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
9 65 (0.48%) WordPress
10 54 (0.40%) Apache Spark
10 54 (0.40%) EPiServer
11 46 (0.34%) Apache
12 45 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
13 41 (0.30%) NServiceBus
14 37 (0.27%) JBoss
15 24 (0.18%) Drupal
15 24 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
16 22 (0.16%) Kentico
16 22 (0.16%) nginx
17 20 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 84 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 22 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 21 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.13%) InfoPath
6 18 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.096%) Photoshop
8 12 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 11 (0.081%) Simulink
10 10 (0.074%) S-PLUS
11 9 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
12 6 (0.044%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.037%) 3ds Max
14 2 (0.015%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.015%) CINEMA 4D
14 2 (0.015%) LightWave 3D
14 2 (0.015%) Maya
14 2 (0.015%) MODO
15 1 (0.007%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 313 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
3 39 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 29 (0.21%) WebTrends
5 14 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 13 (0.096%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
8 9 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
8 9 (0.066%) Visualfiles
9 8 (0.059%) Adobe Campaign
10 7 (0.052%) Elite 3E
11 6 (0.044%) Magento
12 4 (0.030%) Distributed Ledger
12 4 (0.030%) Oracle Financials
13 3 (0.022%) Raiser's Edge
13 3 (0.022%) Summit
14 2 (0.015%) Dynamics GP
14 2 (0.015%) GoldMine
14 2 (0.015%) Infor CRM
14 2 (0.015%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 3,801 (28.08%) Azure
2 1,359 (10.04%) AWS
3 561 (4.14%) SaaS
4 272 (2.01%) Serverless
5 229 (1.69%) GitHub
6 219 (1.62%) PaaS
7 218 (1.61%) Power Platform
8 217 (1.60%) GCP
9 209 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 103 (0.76%) Azure Functions
11 102 (0.75%) Office 365
12 82 (0.61%) IaaS
13 75 (0.55%) npm
14 74 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
15 63 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
16 54 (0.40%) Slack
17 47 (0.35%) Azure Active Directory
18 39 (0.29%) PowerApps
19 32 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
20 27 (0.20%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 182 (1.34%) Internet
2 120 (0.89%) HTTP
3 65 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 62 (0.46%) Firewall
5 50 (0.37%) Intranet
6 30 (0.22%) DNS
7 24 (0.18%) RS-485
7 24 (0.18%) VoIP
8 23 (0.17%) RS-232
9 21 (0.16%) HTTPS
10 17 (0.13%) Wireshark
11 16 (0.12%) Network Security
12 15 (0.11%) FTP
13 14 (0.10%) SNMP
14 13 (0.096%) CTI
14 13 (0.096%) SSL
15 11 (0.081%) Ethernet
15 11 (0.081%) Extranet
15 11 (0.081%) MPLS
15 11 (0.081%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4,640 (34.28%) SQL Server
2 525 (3.88%) Relational Database
3 510 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 498 (3.68%) MySQL
5 424 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 400 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 317 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 232 (1.71%) Big Data
9 230 (1.70%) SQL Server 2016
10 217 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
11 191 (1.41%) Power BI
12 184 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 173 (1.28%) SQL Server 2012
14 139 (1.03%) SQL Server 2008
15 138 (1.02%) RDBMS
16 97 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
17 89 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 88 (0.65%) Cosmos DB
19 82 (0.61%) GIS
20 68 (0.50%) SQL Server 2014
Development Applications
1 1,653 (12.21%) Git (software)
2 1,323 (9.77%) Visual Studio
3 917 (6.78%) Selenium
4 831 (6.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 568 (4.20%) JIRA
6 447 (3.30%) Jenkins
7 422 (3.12%) SpecFlow
8 326 (2.41%) NUnit
9 306 (2.26%) WebDriver
10 276 (2.04%) Visual Studio Team System
11 263 (1.94%) Subversion
12 262 (1.94%) TeamCity
13 253 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
14 237 (1.75%) Cucumber
15 177 (1.31%) SoapUI
16 167 (1.23%) Bitbucket
17 164 (1.21%) Postman
18 109 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 98 (0.72%) JMeter
20 92 (0.68%) MSTest
General
1 1,439 (10.63%) Finance
2 553 (4.09%) Retail
3 401 (2.96%) Marketing
4 318 (2.35%) Manufacturing
5 317 (2.34%) Public Sector
6 279 (2.06%) Games
7 213 (1.57%) Electronics
8 197 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 153 (1.13%) Automotive
10 136 (1.00%) Legal
11 114 (0.84%) Banking
12 111 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 92 (0.68%) Law
14 80 (0.59%) Military
15 67 (0.50%) Advertising
16 44 (0.33%) Financial Institution
17 39 (0.29%) Back Office
18 28 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 26 (0.19%) Publishing
20 23 (0.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9,350 (69.08%) Developer
2 4,077 (30.12%) .NET Developer
3 3,473 (25.66%) C# Developer
4 2,535 (18.73%) Software Developer
5 1,933 (14.28%) C# .NET Developer
6 1,761 (13.01%) Senior Developer
7 1,607 (11.87%) Software Engineer
8 853 (6.30%) C# Software Developer
9 777 (5.74%) Full Stack Developer
9 777 (5.74%) Senior .NET Developer
10 766 (5.66%) .NET Software Developer
11 761 (5.62%) Junior
12 639 (4.72%) ASP.NET Developer
13 636 (4.70%) Web Developer
14 625 (4.62%) Junior Developer
15 584 (4.31%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 551 (4.07%) Senior C# Developer
17 509 (3.76%) C# Software Engineer
18 494 (3.65%) Graduate
19 491 (3.63%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10,128 (74.83%) .NET
2 4,935 (36.46%) ASP.NET
3 4,026 (29.75%) HTML
4 3,693 (27.28%) CSS
5 3,063 (22.63%) AngularJS
6 2,431 (17.96%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2,349 (17.36%) .NET Framework
8 2,063 (15.24%) .NET Core
9 1,936 (14.30%) jQuery
10 1,819 (13.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 1,627 (12.02%) Web Services
12 1,306 (9.65%) React
13 1,177 (8.70%) Entity Framework
14 1,111 (8.21%) HTML5
15 1,097 (8.10%) REST
16 1,015 (7.50%) WCF
17 922 (6.81%) RESTful
18 902 (6.66%) XML
19 833 (6.15%) Node.js
20 796 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1,084 (8.01%) Greenfield Project
2 680 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
3 535 (3.95%) User Experience
4 500 (3.69%) Mobile App
5 464 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
6 399 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 268 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 132 (0.98%) Robotics
9 114 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 110 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 109 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 87 (0.64%) Public Cloud
13 78 (0.58%) Cloud Native
13 78 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
14 77 (0.57%) NHS
15 74 (0.55%) Client/Server
16 70 (0.52%) Cyberthreat
17 68 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
18 65 (0.48%) Driving Licence
19 50 (0.37%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1,294 (9.56%) Windows
2 530 (3.92%) Linux
3 400 (2.96%) Android
4 340 (2.51%) Apple iOS
5 152 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 100 (0.74%) Unix
7 65 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 37 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 33 (0.24%) Windows 7
10 28 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
11 22 (0.16%) VMS
12 19 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (0.13%) Windows 8
14 13 (0.096%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.089%) CentOS
16 9 (0.066%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.059%) Mac OS X
18 7 (0.052%) tvOS
18 7 (0.052%) Windows XP
19 6 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,063 (44.79%) Agile Software Development
2 4,506 (33.29%) MVC
3 2,623 (19.38%) Software Engineering
4 2,159 (15.95%) Scrum
5 1,894 (13.99%) TDD
6 1,767 (13.06%) Test Automation
7 1,663 (12.29%) DevOps
8 1,384 (10.23%) Web Development
9 1,355 (10.01%) Problem-Solving
10 1,263 (9.33%) Computer Science
11 1,154 (8.53%) SDLC
12 1,130 (8.35%) Continuous Integration
13 1,124 (8.30%) Microservices
14 1,095 (8.09%) OO
15 1,075 (7.94%) Unit Testing
16 941 (6.95%) Mentoring
17 837 (6.18%) BDD
18 721 (5.33%) SOLID
19 604 (4.46%) OOP
20 544 (4.02%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6,261 (46.26%) JavaScript
2 5,289 (39.08%) SQL
3 2,090 (15.44%) Java
4 1,410 (10.42%) C++
5 1,208 (8.93%) Python
6 1,035 (7.65%) T-SQL
7 858 (6.34%) VB.NET
8 827 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 543 (4.01%) C
10 424 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 410 (3.03%) PHP
12 339 (2.50%) VB
13 234 (1.73%) Ruby
14 122 (0.90%) R
15 109 (0.81%) ES6
15 109 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 105 (0.78%) Scala
17 100 (0.74%) VBScript
18 93 (0.69%) Shell Script
19 90 (0.66%) Bash Shell
Qualifications
1 1,914 (14.14%) Degree
2 698 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 369 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 179 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 172 (1.27%) ISTQB
5 172 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 142 (1.05%) ISEB
7 135 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 106 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 60 (0.44%) HND
10 51 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 43 (0.32%) PhD
12 30 (0.22%) MCP
13 29 (0.21%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.21%) PMI Certification
15 27 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 18 (0.13%) AWS Certification
16 18 (0.13%) MCSD
17 17 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.12%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 761 (5.62%) QA
2 82 (0.61%) GDPR
3 37 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (0.21%) DICOM
4 28 (0.21%) SLA
5 27 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.13%) ISO 9001
7 12 (0.089%) Basel II
7 12 (0.089%) IFRS
7 12 (0.089%) IFRS 9
8 11 (0.081%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.081%) WCAG
9 8 (0.059%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.052%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.044%) IEC 61508
11 6 (0.044%) MISRA
12 5 (0.037%) PMO
13 4 (0.030%) COBIT
14 3 (0.022%) ISO 26262
15 2 (0.015%) JTAG
System Software
1 771 (5.70%) Docker
2 98 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 74 (0.55%) Firmware
4 38 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 15 (0.11%) LXC
9 10 (0.074%) vSphere
10 5 (0.037%) ACF2
10 5 (0.037%) IAG
10 5 (0.037%) ISA Server
10 5 (0.037%) RACF
11 2 (0.015%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.007%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.007%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.007%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 424 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 88 (0.65%) Puppet
3 83 (0.61%) Ansible
4 75 (0.55%) Opscode Chef
5 59 (0.44%) Terraform
6 33 (0.24%) Kibana
7 20 (0.15%) Tivoli
8 14 (0.10%) MIIS
9 13 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
9 13 (0.096%) logstash
10 12 (0.089%) Grafana
11 11 (0.081%) BMC PATROL
12 10 (0.074%) Cisco CUCM
12 10 (0.074%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.059%) cPanel
13 8 (0.059%) Plesk
13 8 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.044%) Mesos
15 5 (0.037%) Nagios
16 4 (0.030%) Salt
Vendors
1 3,242 (23.95%) Microsoft
2 492 (3.64%) Oracle
3 349 (2.58%) Xamarin
4 207 (1.53%) Google
5 193 (1.43%) SAP
6 158 (1.17%) Sitecore
7 119 (0.88%) IBM
8 108 (0.80%) Sage
9 106 (0.78%) Salesforce.com
10 77 (0.57%) Atlassian
11 54 (0.40%) Apple
12 44 (0.33%) VMware
13 36 (0.27%) Tableau
14 33 (0.24%) UiPath
15 30 (0.22%) Freescale
15 30 (0.22%) Renesas
16 29 (0.21%) HP
16 29 (0.21%) Telerik
17 28 (0.21%) RedGate
18 27 (0.20%) Perforce