Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 September 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 23 September 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

C#
UK > UK excluding London
6 months to
23 Sep 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 6 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing C# 13,662 17,889 18,942
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.95% 19.21% 19.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.34% 34.79% 34.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,658 15,896 17,079
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +8.43% +3.75%
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,750 £27,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

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 42,240 51,422 54,767
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 52.42% 55.21% 56.23%
Number of salaries quoted 34,019 43,121 46,197
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.88% +4.94%
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +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 23 September 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 23 September 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 0 4,735 £45,000 - 751
North of England -1 2,993 £45,000 +2.27% 768
Midlands 0 1,993 £43,000 +1.18% 550
South West 0 1,836 £45,000 +5.88% 409
North West +1 1,580 £45,000 - 425
Yorkshire +1 1,209 £44,000 +3.53% 292
West Midlands 0 1,076 £45,000 +5.88% 293
East of England -2 985 £50,000 +11.11% 302
East Midlands 0 904 £42,500 +6.25% 253
Scotland -2 801 £42,500 -5.56% 183
Wales -2 231 £40,000 - 82
North East -3 206 £44,000 -2.22% 51
Northern Ireland -3 98 £37,500 - 37
Isle of Man +7 8 £45,000 +16.13%
Channel Islands +13 7 £50,000 +17.65%
C#
UK

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 10,139 (74.21%) .NET
2 6,298 (46.10%) Agile Software Development
3 6,091 (44.58%) JavaScript
4 5,526 (40.45%) SQL
5 5,022 (36.76%) ASP.NET
6 4,600 (33.67%) SQL Server
7 4,406 (32.25%) MVC
8 3,964 (29.01%) HTML
9 3,622 (26.51%) Azure
10 3,538 (25.90%) CSS
11 3,363 (24.62%) Microsoft
12 2,984 (21.84%) Software Engineering
13 2,819 (20.63%) AngularJS
14 2,318 (16.97%) Java
15 2,233 (16.34%) ASP.NET MVC
16 2,229 (16.32%) Degree
17 2,209 (16.17%) .NET Framework
18 2,136 (15.63%) Scrum
19 1,959 (14.34%) jQuery
20 1,938 (14.19%) Test Automation
21 1,888 (13.82%) TDD
22 1,827 (13.37%) Git (software)
23 1,761 (12.89%) .NET Core
24 1,696 (12.41%) DevOps
25 1,688 (12.36%) C++
26 1,585 (11.60%) ASP.NET Web API
27 1,579 (11.56%) Web Services
28 1,467 (10.74%) Visual Studio
29 1,464 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
30 1,443 (10.56%) 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
1 382 (2.80%) IIS
2 312 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 295 (2.16%) CMS
4 229 (1.68%) Umbraco
5 186 (1.36%) Confluence
6 149 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 131 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
8 97 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
9 79 (0.58%) Apache Spark
9 79 (0.58%) NServiceBus
10 70 (0.51%) WordPress
11 44 (0.32%) Apache
11 44 (0.32%) JBoss
12 40 (0.29%) EPiServer
12 40 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 38 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
14 33 (0.24%) nginx
15 31 (0.23%) WebSphere
16 29 (0.21%) Drupal
16 29 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 91 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 22 (0.16%) Photoshop
5 16 (0.12%) S-PLUS
6 13 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
7 11 (0.081%) InfoPath
8 10 (0.073%) Simulink
9 9 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 7 (0.051%) MS Visio
11 6 (0.044%) Fireworks
11 6 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
11 6 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.029%) GNU Octave
12 4 (0.029%) Moqups
12 4 (0.029%) Stateflow
13 3 (0.022%) 3ds Max
14 2 (0.015%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.015%) PrintSoft PReS
15 1 (0.007%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 305 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 27 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 23 (0.17%) WebTrends
5 19 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 17 (0.12%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.095%) Summit
8 10 (0.073%) SAP SD
9 9 (0.066%) Magento
10 8 (0.059%) nopCommerce
10 8 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
10 8 (0.059%) SDL Web 8
11 7 (0.051%) Sage CRM
12 6 (0.044%) Visualfiles
13 4 (0.029%) Maximo
13 4 (0.029%) SAP Business One
14 3 (0.022%) Raiser's Edge
14 3 (0.022%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 3 (0.022%) Unit4 Business World
15 2 (0.015%) Infor CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,622 (26.51%) Azure
2 1,443 (10.56%) AWS
3 542 (3.97%) SaaS
4 296 (2.17%) Serverless
5 284 (2.08%) GCP
6 208 (1.52%) Power Platform
7 197 (1.44%) PaaS
8 181 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 167 (1.22%) GitHub
10 127 (0.93%) Office 365
11 122 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
12 104 (0.76%) Azure Functions
13 100 (0.73%) npm
14 82 (0.60%) IaaS
15 73 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
16 46 (0.34%) Azure Active Directory
16 46 (0.34%) Slack
17 42 (0.31%) NuGet
18 38 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
18 38 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 165 (1.21%) Internet
2 142 (1.04%) HTTP
3 105 (0.77%) Broadband
4 86 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 58 (0.42%) Firewall
6 38 (0.28%) HTTPS
6 38 (0.28%) Intranet
7 37 (0.27%) VoIP
8 34 (0.25%) RS-485
9 30 (0.22%) FTP
9 30 (0.22%) RS-232
10 27 (0.20%) CTI
11 24 (0.18%) SMTP
12 23 (0.17%) DNS
13 22 (0.16%) Ethernet
14 21 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 19 (0.14%) Network Security
16 16 (0.12%) SSL
16 16 (0.12%) Wireless
17 15 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4,600 (33.67%) SQL Server
2 571 (4.18%) Relational Database
3 480 (3.51%) MySQL
4 467 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 456 (3.34%) NoSQL
6 415 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 326 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 324 (2.37%) Big Data
9 223 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
10 190 (1.39%) Power BI
11 167 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 163 (1.19%) SQL Server 2008
13 160 (1.17%) SQL Server 2012
14 154 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
15 144 (1.05%) RDBMS
16 108 (0.79%) Redis
17 107 (0.78%) GIS
18 95 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 88 (0.64%) Cosmos DB
20 84 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1,827 (13.37%) Git (software)
2 1,467 (10.74%) Visual Studio
3 991 (7.25%) Selenium
4 920 (6.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 684 (5.01%) JIRA
6 465 (3.40%) SpecFlow
7 463 (3.39%) Jenkins
8 319 (2.33%) WebDriver
9 318 (2.33%) TeamCity
10 316 (2.31%) Visual Studio Team System
11 315 (2.31%) NUnit
12 308 (2.25%) Subversion
13 302 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
14 245 (1.79%) Cucumber
15 216 (1.58%) SoapUI
16 192 (1.41%) Bitbucket
17 138 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 115 (0.84%) JMeter
19 100 (0.73%) webpack
20 94 (0.69%) Hudson
General
1 1,391 (10.18%) Finance
2 575 (4.21%) Retail
3 457 (3.35%) Marketing
4 371 (2.72%) Manufacturing
5 364 (2.66%) Public Sector
6 280 (2.05%) Games
7 250 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 224 (1.64%) Electronics
9 130 (0.95%) Banking
10 106 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 102 (0.75%) Legal
12 96 (0.70%) Automotive
13 70 (0.51%) Military
14 54 (0.40%) Advertising
15 53 (0.39%) Law
16 49 (0.36%) Financial Institution
17 48 (0.35%) Back Office
18 45 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
19 37 (0.27%) Local Government
20 31 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9,185 (67.23%) Developer
2 3,963 (29.01%) .NET Developer
3 3,511 (25.70%) C# Developer
4 2,643 (19.35%) Software Developer
5 2,045 (14.97%) C# .NET Developer
6 1,726 (12.63%) Senior Developer
7 1,691 (12.38%) Software Engineer
8 933 (6.83%) C# Software Developer
9 832 (6.09%) .NET Software Developer
10 781 (5.72%) Senior .NET Developer
11 775 (5.67%) Junior
12 710 (5.20%) Full Stack Developer
13 668 (4.89%) ASP.NET Developer
14 647 (4.74%) Junior Developer
15 618 (4.52%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 604 (4.42%) Web Developer
17 586 (4.29%) Graduate
18 576 (4.22%) Senior C# Developer
19 555 (4.06%) SQL Developer
20 492 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10,139 (74.21%) .NET
2 5,022 (36.76%) ASP.NET
3 3,964 (29.01%) HTML
4 3,538 (25.90%) CSS
5 2,819 (20.63%) AngularJS
6 2,233 (16.34%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2,209 (16.17%) .NET Framework
8 1,959 (14.34%) jQuery
9 1,761 (12.89%) .NET Core
10 1,585 (11.60%) ASP.NET Web API
11 1,579 (11.56%) Web Services
12 1,337 (9.79%) React
13 1,154 (8.45%) HTML5
14 1,102 (8.07%) WCF
15 1,005 (7.36%) Entity Framework
16 999 (7.31%) REST
17 964 (7.06%) XML
18 850 (6.22%) RESTful
19 828 (6.06%) WPF
20 732 (5.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 951 (6.96%) Greenfield Project
2 709 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
3 515 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 481 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 475 (3.48%) User Experience
6 417 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 322 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 232 (1.70%) Robotics
9 107 (0.78%) Public Cloud
10 104 (0.76%) Management Information System
11 102 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 93 (0.68%) Client/Server
13 89 (0.65%) Data Structures
14 88 (0.64%) Driving Licence
15 86 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
16 78 (0.57%) NHS
17 64 (0.47%) Video Conferencing
18 60 (0.44%) Cyberthreat
19 56 (0.41%) Cloud Native
20 55 (0.40%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1,341 (9.82%) Windows
2 658 (4.82%) Linux
3 469 (3.43%) Android
4 390 (2.85%) Apple iOS
5 201 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 97 (0.71%) Unix
7 70 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 48 (0.35%) Windows 7
9 36 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 26 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 22 (0.16%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.13%) Windows 8
13 17 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.095%) VMS
15 12 (0.088%) Windows Mobile
16 11 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
17 7 (0.051%) Windows Server 2003
18 6 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 6 (0.044%) Solaris
19 5 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6,298 (46.10%) Agile Software Development
2 4,406 (32.25%) MVC
3 2,984 (21.84%) Software Engineering
4 2,136 (15.63%) Scrum
5 1,938 (14.19%) Test Automation
6 1,888 (13.82%) TDD
7 1,696 (12.41%) DevOps
8 1,464 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
9 1,412 (10.34%) Web Development
10 1,326 (9.71%) Computer Science
11 1,314 (9.62%) SDLC
12 1,279 (9.36%) OO
13 1,157 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
14 1,061 (7.77%) Unit Testing
15 1,048 (7.67%) Microservices
16 1,026 (7.51%) Mentoring
17 752 (5.50%) BDD
18 745 (5.45%) SOLID
19 632 (4.63%) OOP
20 553 (4.05%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 6,091 (44.58%) JavaScript
2 5,526 (40.45%) SQL
3 2,318 (16.97%) Java
4 1,688 (12.36%) C++
5 1,319 (9.65%) Python
6 1,068 (7.82%) T-SQL
7 811 (5.94%) VB.NET
8 798 (5.84%) TypeScript
9 553 (4.05%) C
10 454 (3.32%) PowerShell
11 452 (3.31%) PHP
12 399 (2.92%) VB
13 240 (1.76%) Ruby
14 141 (1.03%) PL/SQL
15 140 (1.02%) Objective-C
15 140 (1.02%) Scala
16 132 (0.97%) R
17 120 (0.88%) ES6
18 113 (0.83%) VBA
19 102 (0.75%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2,229 (16.32%) Degree
2 741 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 420 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 255 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 213 (1.56%) ISTQB
6 199 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 190 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
8 141 (1.03%) ISEB
9 119 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 76 (0.56%) HND
11 69 (0.51%) PhD
12 51 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 37 (0.27%) Master's Degree
14 32 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 30 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
16 29 (0.21%) MCSE
17 27 (0.20%) CISSP
17 27 (0.20%) MCP
18 24 (0.18%) PMI Certification
19 23 (0.17%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 890 (6.51%) QA
2 67 (0.49%) GDPR
3 38 (0.28%) SLA
4 29 (0.21%) Data Quality
5 27 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 24 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.15%) DICOM
8 18 (0.13%) PMO
9 17 (0.12%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.081%) ISO 13485
11 10 (0.073%) MISRA
12 9 (0.066%) Basel II
12 9 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.066%) IFRS
12 9 (0.066%) IFRS 9
13 8 (0.059%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.051%) ISO 26262
14 7 (0.051%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.044%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.044%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 841 (6.16%) Docker
2 133 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 70 (0.51%) Firmware
4 48 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 46 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 30 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 23 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.12%) LXC
9 9 (0.066%) vSphere
10 6 (0.044%) ISA Server
11 3 (0.022%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.022%) Terminal Server
11 3 (0.022%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.015%) IAG
13 1 (0.007%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 417 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 122 (0.89%) Puppet
3 116 (0.85%) Opscode Chef
4 102 (0.75%) Ansible
5 63 (0.46%) Terraform
6 47 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
7 31 (0.23%) Grafana
8 30 (0.22%) Tivoli
9 27 (0.20%) Kibana
10 24 (0.18%) CA Service Virtualization
11 16 (0.12%) logstash
12 14 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
13 12 (0.088%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.081%) Backup Exec
14 11 (0.081%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.073%) Salt
16 9 (0.066%) Rancher
17 8 (0.059%) Data Guard
17 8 (0.059%) Oracle RMAN
17 8 (0.059%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3,363 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 537 (3.93%) Oracle
3 355 (2.60%) Xamarin
4 320 (2.34%) Google
5 215 (1.57%) SAP
6 152 (1.11%) IBM
7 148 (1.08%) Sitecore
8 128 (0.94%) Salesforce.com
9 127 (0.93%) Sage
10 88 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 67 (0.49%) Pega
12 52 (0.38%) VMware
13 45 (0.33%) Splunk
14 36 (0.26%) CA
15 35 (0.26%) Apple
16 30 (0.22%) Cisco
16 30 (0.22%) Telerik
16 30 (0.22%) UiPath
17 29 (0.21%) Databricks
17 29 (0.21%) HP