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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,081 10,116 17,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.24% 9.67% 11.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.41% 22.23% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6,825 7,502 10,535
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.76% +10.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £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 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
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 £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +5 7,142 £58,500 -10.00% 1,719
UK excluding London +3 6,028 £55,000 - 1,310
Work from Home 0 3,676 £57,500 -4.17% 1,272
London -2 1,701 £77,500 - 536
North of England +11 1,542 £55,000 -4.35% 332
South East -3 1,535 £57,500 -4.17% 281
Midlands +30 1,026 £50,000 -9.09% 267
North West +17 903 £55,000 -4.35% 198
South West +3 728 £50,000 -9.09% 162
West Midlands +43 536 £52,500 -4.55% 161
East of England +4 529 £57,500 - 127
East Midlands +11 491 £50,000 -4.76% 106
Yorkshire +8 486 £52,500 -8.70% 91
Scotland -42 393 £55,000 +4.76% 99
Wales -3 195 £50,000 +9.89% 50
North East -5 153 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Northern Ireland -11 83 £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 (2.40%) ArcGIS
2 184 (2.28%) CMS
3 183 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 182 (2.25%) GeoServer
5 172 (2.13%) IIS
6 140 (1.73%) Confluence
7 111 (1.37%) Umbraco
8 56 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 51 (0.63%) Kentico
9 51 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
10 40 (0.49%) Headless CMS
11 36 (0.45%) Apache
12 24 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
15 15 (0.19%) NServiceBus
16 9 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
17 8 (0.099%) Apache Solr
17 8 (0.099%) nginx
18 7 (0.087%) Mendix
Applications
1 94 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.28%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 5 (0.062%) Doxygen
6 5 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.049%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.037%) Sketch
9 2 (0.025%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.025%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.012%) Blender
10 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.012%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.012%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 168 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
3 25 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
6 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.074%) BusinessWorks
7 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
7 6 (0.074%) Visualfiles
8 5 (0.062%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.062%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.049%) Endur
9 4 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 3 (0.037%) Shopify
11 2 (0.025%) Infor LN
11 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,115 (50.92%) Azure
2 1,427 (17.66%) AWS
3 1,026 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
4 524 (6.48%) Power Platform
5 418 (5.17%) Serverless
6 334 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
7 324 (4.01%) SaaS
8 298 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 254 (3.14%) Azure Functions
9 254 (3.14%) GCP
10 241 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
11 223 (2.76%) IBM Cloud
12 213 (2.64%) PowerApps
13 209 (2.59%) Power Automate
14 173 (2.14%) GitHub
15 164 (2.03%) Azure API Management
16 149 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
17 107 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 92 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
19 83 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (2.23%) Internet
2 75 (0.93%) DNS
3 74 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 66 (0.82%) Firewall
5 35 (0.43%) DHCP
6 27 (0.33%) Modbus
6 27 (0.33%) SSL
7 26 (0.32%) Network Security
7 26 (0.32%) RS-232
8 23 (0.28%) HTTP
9 21 (0.26%) Ethernet
10 20 (0.25%) Wireless
11 17 (0.21%) VPN
12 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
13 15 (0.19%) WAN
14 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.16%) Broadband
15 13 (0.16%) Mobile Broadband
16 10 (0.12%) CTI
17 9 (0.11%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,452 (30.34%) SQL Server
2 603 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 599 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 494 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 374 (4.63%) Relational Database
6 280 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 270 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
8 256 (3.17%) Power BI
9 251 (3.11%) MySQL
10 223 (2.76%) DB2
11 201 (2.49%) GIS
12 180 (2.23%) QGIS
13 147 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 144 (1.78%) Redis
15 122 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 78 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
17 64 (0.79%) DynamoDB
18 55 (0.68%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 32 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 978 (12.10%) Git
2 606 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 340 (4.21%) JIRA
4 187 (2.31%) Selenium
5 156 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 139 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 135 (1.67%) NUnit
8 133 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 132 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 100 (1.24%) Postman
11 85 (1.05%) GitLab
12 79 (0.98%) Cypress.io
13 78 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 74 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
14 74 (0.92%) SpecFlow
15 60 (0.74%) Moq
16 53 (0.66%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.62%) Subversion
18 48 (0.59%) SoapUI
19 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,376 (17.03%) Social Skills
2 1,138 (14.08%) Finance
3 456 (5.64%) Public Sector
4 425 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 365 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 297 (3.68%) Games
7 274 (3.39%) Marketing
8 243 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 238 (2.95%) Law
10 223 (2.76%) Retail
11 217 (2.69%) Banking
12 213 (2.64%) Front Office
13 155 (1.92%) Back Office
14 150 (1.86%) Electronics
15 132 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 118 (1.46%) Legal
17 98 (1.21%) Advertising
18 91 (1.13%) Telecoms
19 84 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
20 79 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,947 (61.22%) Developer
2 2,199 (27.21%) .NET Developer
3 1,666 (20.62%) Senior
4 1,346 (16.66%) C# Developer
5 1,323 (16.37%) Software Engineer
6 1,032 (12.77%) Software Developer
7 1,001 (12.39%) Senior Developer
8 817 (10.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 679 (8.40%) Lead
10 624 (7.72%) Full Stack Developer
11 456 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 348 (4.31%) Senior .NET Developer
13 332 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 306 (3.79%) Senior Software Developer
15 281 (3.48%) .NET Software Developer
16 275 (3.40%) Architect
17 269 (3.33%) Senior C# Developer
18 259 (3.21%) C# Software Developer
19 250 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
20 243 (3.01%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,770 (71.40%) .NET
2 2,279 (28.20%) ASP.NET
3 2,105 (26.05%) .NET Core
4 1,924 (23.81%) AngularJS
5 1,861 (23.03%) HTML
6 1,851 (22.91%) React
7 1,786 (22.10%) CSS
8 1,476 (18.27%) .NET Framework
9 1,150 (14.23%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,083 (13.40%) Entity Framework
11 1,068 (13.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 947 (11.72%) Vue
13 682 (8.44%) RESTful
14 670 (8.29%) REST
15 648 (8.02%) Web Services
16 644 (7.97%) HTML5
17 580 (7.18%) Node.js
18 559 (6.92%) jQuery
19 533 (6.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 447 (5.53%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 395 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
2 388 (4.80%) Algorithms
3 310 (3.84%) Data Structures
4 231 (2.86%) Blockchain
5 229 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 217 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 210 (2.60%) Mobile App
8 208 (2.57%) Hedge funds
9 171 (2.12%) Derivative
10 170 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 164 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
12 163 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
13 158 (1.96%) Cloud Native
14 119 (1.47%) Equities
15 115 (1.42%) Fixed Income
15 115 (1.42%) Virtual Reality
16 113 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
17 111 (1.37%) e-Learning
18 103 (1.27%) Client/Server
19 96 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 736 (9.11%) Windows
2 589 (7.29%) Linux
3 355 (4.39%) Android
4 306 (3.79%) Apple iOS
5 77 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 28 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.33%) 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 11 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (0.12%) VMS
13 9 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (0.11%) Solaris
14 7 (0.087%) CentOS
15 5 (0.062%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
16 4 (0.049%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,496 (43.26%) Agile
2 2,297 (28.42%) Software Engineering
3 2,235 (27.66%) Full Stack Development
4 2,016 (24.95%) DevOps
5 1,835 (22.71%) MVC
6 1,328 (16.43%) Microservices
7 1,159 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
8 956 (11.83%) Scrum
9 944 (11.68%) Computer Science
10 919 (11.37%) TDD
11 882 (10.91%) CI/CD
12 831 (10.28%) Web Development
13 822 (10.17%) Design Patterns
14 791 (9.79%) OO
15 739 (9.14%) Mentoring
16 590 (7.30%) Test Automation
17 586 (7.25%) SOLID
18 581 (7.19%) Artificial Intelligence
19 528 (6.53%) Unit Testing
20 522 (6.46%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,521 (43.57%) JavaScript
2 2,832 (35.05%) SQL
3 1,310 (16.21%) Python
4 1,171 (14.49%) TypeScript
5 845 (10.46%) Java
6 507 (6.27%) C++
7 412 (5.10%) C
8 376 (4.65%) T-SQL
9 307 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 222 (2.75%) VB.NET
11 195 (2.41%) VB
12 147 (1.82%) PHP
13 103 (1.27%) Go
14 74 (0.92%) Ruby
15 73 (0.90%) XAML
16 65 (0.80%) Bash
17 61 (0.75%) Bicep
17 61 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.57%) VBA
19 44 (0.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,416 (17.52%) Degree
2 597 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 478 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 442 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 166 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 141 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 109 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 58 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 50 (0.62%) PhD
11 46 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 30 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.36%) HNC
14 18 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 18 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (0.16%) HND
17 11 (0.14%) MCSE
18 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 8 (0.099%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (5.94%) QA
2 117 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 41 (0.51%) WCAG
4 37 (0.46%) GDPR
5 29 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
7 22 (0.27%) SLA
8 19 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.19%) PMO
9 15 (0.19%) WAI
10 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.099%) MISRA
12 8 (0.099%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.087%) IEC 61131
14 6 (0.074%) HL7
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO 9000
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 4 (0.049%) JTAG
System Software
1 634 (7.85%) Docker
2 112 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 49 (0.61%) Firmware
4 45 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.099%) KVM
10 7 (0.087%) 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
1 574 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 202 (2.50%) Terraform
3 60 (0.74%) Ansible
4 35 (0.43%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 20 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
7 18 (0.22%) WSUS
8 15 (0.19%) Puppet
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.17%) SCOM
10 11 (0.14%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.099%) Packer
13 7 (0.087%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.087%) Stealthwatch
14 6 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.062%) Control-M
16 4 (0.049%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2,229 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 228 (2.82%) Red Hat
3 225 (2.78%) IBM
4 189 (2.34%) ESRI
5 183 (2.26%) Google
6 162 (2.00%) Oracle
7 125 (1.55%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.19%) Facebook
9 67 (0.83%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 60 (0.74%) SAP
12 51 (0.63%) Apple
13 50 (0.62%) VMware
14 37 (0.46%) Optimizely
15 36 (0.45%) Databricks
16 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
17 33 (0.41%) F5
17 33 (0.41%) Sony
17 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
18 30 (0.37%) Cisco