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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 21 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 4,831 12,865 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.05% 10.26% 11.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.32% 22.39% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,052 9,180 11,280
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,875 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +10.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,612 £71,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 21,640 57,467 67,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.55% 45.85% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,902 36,547 45,642
10th Percentile £39,820 £38,302 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for C# in the UK

C#
Top 17 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 2 December 2023. 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 -2 4,222 £65,000 +4.00% 1,953
UK excluding London -6 2,818 £55,000 - 1,499
Work from Home -4 2,349 £60,000 - 1,164
London +5 1,707 £78,000 +4.00% 627
South East -6 781 £57,500 - 384
North of England -7 665 £55,000 -4.35% 437
Midlands +6 453 £55,000 - 238
South West -9 386 £53,250 +1.43% 153
North West -8 353 £57,500 +1.73% 234
Yorkshire -8 280 £55,000 -6.78% 145
West Midlands +8 254 £53,500 -2.73% 138
East Midlands +1 201 £57,500 +4.55% 100
Scotland -23 195 £55,000 +4.76% 92
Wales +7 151 £52,500 - 59
East of England -6 126 £60,000 +9.09% 143
Northern Ireland 0 73 £50,000 -4.76% 24
North East -12 32 £49,250 +2.60% 63

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
1 147 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 116 (2.40%) Confluence
3 113 (2.34%) IIS
4 92 (1.90%) Umbraco
5 85 (1.76%) CMS
6 27 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 25 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 18 (0.37%) NServiceBus
9 17 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 14 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 12 (0.25%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) Kentico
13 10 (0.21%) Apache
14 9 (0.19%) WinCC
15 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 8 (0.17%) MS Exchange
16 6 (0.12%) SAS
16 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
16 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
16 6 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.083%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.041%) Blender
7 2 (0.041%) Sketch
7 2 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) UXPin
7 2 (0.041%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.021%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.021%) CATIA
8 1 (0.021%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.021%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.021%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 198 (4.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 13 (0.27%) Visualfiles
4 12 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
4 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.17%) Shopify
6 7 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 6 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.12%) Maximo
7 6 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.10%) Epicor Tropos
8 5 (0.10%) JDE OneWorld
8 5 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.062%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.041%) Fidessa
11 2 (0.041%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.041%) Scribe Insight
11 2 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 2,182 (45.17%) Azure
2 767 (15.88%) AWS
3 678 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 421 (8.71%) Serverless
5 407 (8.42%) Power Platform
6 289 (5.98%) GCP
7 280 (5.80%) SaaS
8 255 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
9 179 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 165 (3.42%) PowerApps
11 154 (3.19%) GitHub
12 129 (2.67%) Azure Functions
13 122 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 114 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
15 113 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 96 (1.99%) PaaS
17 85 (1.76%) Power Automate
18 69 (1.43%) Entra ID
19 56 (1.16%) Azure API Management
19 56 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.06%) DNS
2 42 (0.87%) Firewall
3 34 (0.70%) Internet
4 32 (0.66%) DHCP
5 29 (0.60%) HTTP
6 27 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.31%) WAN
8 13 (0.27%) Network Security
8 13 (0.27%) Wireless
9 12 (0.25%) AMQP
10 11 (0.23%) Modbus
10 11 (0.23%) VPN
11 8 (0.17%) SSL
12 7 (0.14%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.14%) LAN
13 6 (0.12%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.12%) RS-232
13 6 (0.12%) SNMP
14 5 (0.10%) RS-422
14 5 (0.10%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,282 (26.54%) SQL Server
2 252 (5.22%) Power BI
3 240 (4.97%) NoSQL
4 188 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 158 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 139 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 136 (2.82%) MySQL
8 123 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 122 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 110 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 80 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 69 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 65 (1.35%) Redis
14 42 (0.87%) Data Lake
15 41 (0.85%) Big Data
15 41 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 33 (0.68%) Tableau
17 32 (0.66%) SQLite
18 29 (0.60%) RDBMS
19 23 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 756 (15.65%) Git
2 248 (5.13%) JIRA
3 242 (5.01%) Visual Studio
4 217 (4.49%) Selenium
5 144 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 144 (2.98%) Postman
6 106 (2.19%) SpecFlow
7 104 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 91 (1.88%) GitLab
9 88 (1.82%) Cypress.io
9 88 (1.82%) TeamCity
10 82 (1.70%) NUnit
11 61 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 60 (1.24%) Cucumber
13 55 (1.14%) SoapUI
14 49 (1.01%) Subversion
15 40 (0.83%) Bitbucket
15 40 (0.83%) JMeter
16 37 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
17 33 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 952 (19.71%) Finance
2 868 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 270 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (3.95%) Banking
5 178 (3.68%) Front Office
6 162 (3.35%) Retail
7 157 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 118 (2.44%) Marketing
9 116 (2.40%) Law
9 116 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 112 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 112 (2.32%) Police
11 107 (2.21%) Legal
12 95 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 68 (1.41%) Automotive
13 68 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 66 (1.37%) Games
15 59 (1.22%) Electronics
15 59 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 47 (0.97%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2,599 (53.80%) Developer
2 1,050 (21.73%) Senior
3 1,013 (20.97%) .NET Developer
4 839 (17.37%) Software Engineer
5 716 (14.82%) C# Developer
6 660 (13.66%) Senior Developer
7 547 (11.32%) Software Developer
8 528 (10.93%) Lead
9 443 (9.17%) Full Stack Developer
10 354 (7.33%) C# .NET Developer
11 243 (5.03%) Senior .NET Developer
12 217 (4.49%) Lead Developer
13 215 (4.45%) Architect
14 200 (4.14%) .NET Software Developer
15 191 (3.95%) C# Software Engineer
16 189 (3.91%) .NET Software Engineer
17 182 (3.77%) Java Engineer
18 181 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
19 166 (3.44%) Senior C# Developer
19 166 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,229 (66.84%) .NET
2 1,112 (23.02%) React
3 997 (20.64%) ASP.NET
4 962 (19.91%) HTML
5 918 (19.00%) CSS
6 893 (18.48%) .NET Core
7 813 (16.83%) AngularJS
8 751 (15.55%) .NET Framework
9 363 (7.51%) ASP.NET Web API
10 358 (7.41%) ASP.NET MVC
10 358 (7.41%) REST
11 321 (6.64%) Entity Framework
12 277 (5.73%) Web Services
13 275 (5.69%) Vue
14 266 (5.51%) RESTful
15 242 (5.01%) jQuery
16 213 (4.41%) Blazor
17 211 (4.37%) JSON
18 202 (4.18%) Spring
19 194 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 232 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
2 161 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.15%) Hedge funds
4 126 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 120 (2.48%) Derivative
6 119 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 108 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 106 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 102 (2.11%) Fixed Income
10 86 (1.78%) Equities
11 81 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
13 64 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
14 53 (1.10%) IoT
14 53 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 51 (1.06%) Algorithms
16 42 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 42 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 41 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
18 38 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 350 (7.24%) Windows
2 158 (3.27%) Linux
3 89 (1.84%) Android
4 60 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.18%) Unix
6 53 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 18 (0.37%) Windows 7
9 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.29%) VMS
10 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 10 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.062%) CentOS
15 3 (0.062%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.062%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.041%) Solaris
16 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,782 (36.89%) Agile
2 1,319 (27.30%) Software Engineering
3 1,303 (26.97%) DevOps
4 906 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
5 855 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 854 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 746 (15.44%) MVC
8 704 (14.57%) Microservices
9 668 (13.83%) Mentoring
10 605 (12.52%) TDD
11 536 (11.10%) Design Patterns
12 525 (10.87%) Scrum
13 515 (10.66%) Test Automation
14 472 (9.77%) Computer Science
15 427 (8.84%) Unit Testing
16 415 (8.59%) Continuous Integration
17 411 (8.51%) SDLC
18 397 (8.22%) Containerisation
19 341 (7.06%) Actionable Insight
19 341 (7.06%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,827 (37.82%) SQL
2 1,813 (37.53%) JavaScript
3 883 (18.28%) Python
4 762 (15.77%) Java
5 620 (12.83%) TypeScript
6 368 (7.62%) C++
7 321 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 318 (6.58%) T-SQL
9 198 (4.10%) Ruby
10 142 (2.94%) C
11 126 (2.61%) VB.NET
12 110 (2.28%) VB
13 104 (2.15%) Go
14 89 (1.84%) PHP
15 68 (1.41%) Bash
16 57 (1.18%) Bicep
17 44 (0.91%) VBScript
18 42 (0.87%) MATLAB
19 39 (0.81%) R
20 36 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 769 (15.92%) Degree
2 430 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 360 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 216 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 98 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 94 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 76 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 59 (1.22%) PhD
10 47 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 29 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 24 (0.50%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.41%) ISEB
15 19 (0.39%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.25%) MBA
17 8 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 6 (0.12%) APMP
18 6 (0.12%) CREST Certified
18 6 (0.12%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 409 (8.47%) QA
2 54 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.01%) SLA
4 46 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (0.68%) WCAG
6 30 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 26 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 9 (0.19%) GDPR
10 7 (0.14%) MISRA
11 6 (0.12%) ISO 9000
12 5 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.10%) PMO
12 5 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.062%) COBIT
13 3 (0.062%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.041%) DO-160
14 2 (0.041%) DO-254
14 2 (0.041%) HL7
14 2 (0.041%) WAI
System Software
1 504 (10.43%) Docker
2 111 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 39 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.33%) Firmware
6 16 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.021%) NFS
11 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.021%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 455 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 154 (3.19%) Terraform
3 43 (0.89%) SCCM
4 40 (0.83%) WSUS
5 34 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.60%) Ansible
6 29 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 27 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 27 (0.56%) Grafana
7 27 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
8 26 (0.54%) AirWatch
8 26 (0.54%) OpenSSO
9 24 (0.50%) SCOM
10 20 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 17 (0.35%) Kibana
12 12 (0.25%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.19%) Functional Safety
14 5 (0.10%) Control-M
14 5 (0.10%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,150 (23.80%) Microsoft
2 178 (3.68%) Oracle
3 87 (1.80%) Xamarin
4 81 (1.68%) Google
5 49 (1.01%) VMware
6 47 (0.97%) SAP
7 41 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 33 (0.68%) Databricks
9 31 (0.64%) HP
10 29 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.56%) Sitecore
12 26 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 24 (0.50%) Finsemble
14 18 (0.37%) Autodesk
15 16 (0.33%) Alteryx
16 14 (0.29%) IBM
16 14 (0.29%) Splunk
17 13 (0.27%) TIBCO
17 13 (0.27%) Zoho
18 12 (0.25%) MKS