C#
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring C# skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C# over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,623 8,112 10,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.03% 8.25% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.75% 24.42% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,197 6,844 7,483
10th Percentile £37,669 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%

All Programming Languages
UK

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -31 2,377 £62,500 +6.84% 1,848
UK excluding London -30 1,800 £57,500 +4.55% 1,356
Work from Home -8 1,231 £64,000 +11.30% 1,247
London -27 696 £75,000 -3.23% 587
South East -26 455 £60,000 +4.35% 300
North of England -57 432 £51,873 -5.69% 446
Midlands -28 339 £55,000 +10.00% 278
East of England -5 278 £66,206 +15.14% 116
North West -74 252 £50,055 -8.99% 268
West Midlands -20 233 £55,000 +4.76% 149
South West -44 133 £55,000 +10.00% 118
Yorkshire -27 117 £56,000 +6.67% 113
Scotland +7 111 £45,000 -18.18% 64
East Midlands -42 105 £55,000 +10.00% 128
North East -1 63 £57,500 -4.17% 68
Wales -24 46 £62,500 +25.00% 41
Northern Ireland -15 7 - - 16

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 98 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 63 (2.40%) Confluence
3 56 (2.13%) CMS
4 37 (1.41%) Umbraco
5 30 (1.14%) Apache
6 22 (0.84%) IIS
7 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.30%) Kinematics
9 7 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 6 (0.23%) WordPress
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.19%) Sitefinity
11 5 (0.19%) WinCC
12 4 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.11%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 129 (4.92%) Chatbot
2 30 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.46%) Trello
5 9 (0.34%) Revit
6 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Productboard
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.038%) InVision
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Sketch
10 1 (0.038%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 121 (4.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.69%) Sage 200
2 18 (0.69%) Sage 50
3 14 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
4 10 (0.38%) Endur
5 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.30%) Orchestrade
6 7 (0.27%) Magento
7 5 (0.19%) Shopify
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.076%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.076%) Eikon
9 2 (0.076%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.076%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.076%) RMDS
10 1 (0.038%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.038%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 1 (0.038%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,118 (42.62%) Azure
2 356 (13.57%) AWS
3 349 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
4 304 (11.59%) Power Platform
5 232 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
6 183 (6.98%) SaaS
7 149 (5.68%) PowerApps
8 145 (5.53%) Power Automate
9 138 (5.26%) GitHub
9 138 (5.26%) Serverless
10 108 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 103 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
12 70 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 70 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
13 66 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 64 (2.44%) GCP
15 58 (2.21%) Azure Functions
16 43 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 39 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.11%) Network Security
2 26 (0.99%) HTTP
2 26 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 24 (0.91%) Intranet
4 16 (0.61%) Firewall
5 12 (0.46%) Modbus
5 12 (0.46%) MQTT
6 11 (0.42%) Internet
7 10 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (0.30%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.23%) DNS
10 5 (0.19%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.15%) SSL
12 3 (0.11%) Wireshark
13 2 (0.076%) Broadband
13 2 (0.076%) SAN
14 1 (0.038%) GSM
14 1 (0.038%) IPv4
14 1 (0.038%) SMS
14 1 (0.038%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 687 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 125 (4.77%) MySQL
3 124 (4.73%) Relational Database
4 113 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.93%) MongoDB
5 103 (3.93%) Power BI
6 95 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 91 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 79 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
10 72 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
11 38 (1.45%) Redis
12 34 (1.30%) Big Data
13 33 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (1.22%) DB2
15 26 (0.99%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.69%) Data Lake
17 14 (0.53%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.53%) MS Access
18 12 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 349 (13.31%) Git
2 196 (7.47%) Visual Studio
3 166 (6.33%) JIRA
4 82 (3.13%) Selenium
5 77 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 70 (2.67%) Jenkins
7 68 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 55 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (1.60%) NUnit
10 40 (1.52%) MSBuild
11 38 (1.45%) TeamCity
12 33 (1.26%) Postman
13 29 (1.11%) SpecFlow
14 27 (1.03%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.99%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.99%) Eclipse RCP
16 24 (0.91%) GitLab
17 19 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
18 18 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 17 (0.65%) MSTest
General
1 642 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 438 (16.70%) Finance
3 168 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (4.54%) Retail
5 115 (4.38%) Law
6 113 (4.31%) Banking
7 96 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 83 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 64 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 58 (2.21%) Electronics
11 53 (2.02%) Marketing
12 50 (1.91%) Front Office
13 39 (1.49%) Legal
14 37 (1.41%) Automotive
15 29 (1.11%) Investment Banking
16 26 (0.99%) Games
17 25 (0.95%) Tech for Good
18 19 (0.72%) Back Office
18 19 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,319 (50.29%) Developer
2 666 (25.39%) Senior
3 476 (18.15%) Software Engineer
4 365 (13.92%) .NET Developer
5 346 (13.19%) C# Developer
6 341 (13.00%) Senior Developer
7 304 (11.59%) Lead
8 233 (8.88%) Software Developer
9 163 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 161 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 144 (5.49%) C# .NET Developer
12 117 (4.46%) Trainer
13 114 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 110 (4.19%) Architect
15 99 (3.77%) Analyst
15 99 (3.77%) Senior C# Developer
16 86 (3.28%) Senior .NET Developer
17 81 (3.09%) Lead Developer
18 72 (2.74%) Graduate
19 68 (2.59%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,612 (61.46%) .NET
2 559 (21.31%) HTML
3 453 (17.27%) CSS
4 421 (16.05%) ASP.NET
5 416 (15.86%) .NET Core
6 389 (14.83%) .NET Framework
7 388 (14.79%) React
8 322 (12.28%) AngularJS
9 207 (7.89%) REST
10 203 (7.74%) RESTful
11 191 (7.28%) Entity Framework
12 150 (5.72%) ASP.NET Web API
13 147 (5.60%) HTML5
14 142 (5.41%) XML
15 124 (4.73%) Web Services
16 121 (4.61%) jQuery
17 120 (4.57%) ASP.NET MVC
18 109 (4.16%) Blazor
19 107 (4.08%) JSON
20 92 (3.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (3.55%) Cloud Native
2 88 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
3 86 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 58 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 56 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 55 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 52 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 46 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
9 40 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 39 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 35 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.26%) NHS
13 28 (1.07%) IoT
13 28 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.03%) Onboarding
14 27 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 25 (0.95%) Client/Server
16 23 (0.88%) Hedge funds
16 23 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 227 (8.65%) Windows
2 142 (5.41%) Linux
3 36 (1.37%) Android
4 33 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.76%) Unix
6 19 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.076%) VMS
11 1 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.038%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 991 (37.78%) Agile
2 806 (30.73%) Software Engineering
3 681 (25.96%) DevOps
4 633 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
5 518 (19.75%) CI/CD
6 387 (14.75%) Microservices
7 385 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 339 (12.92%) Computer Science
9 338 (12.89%) Mentoring
10 335 (12.77%) MVC
11 269 (10.26%) OO
12 241 (9.19%) Code Quality
13 238 (9.07%) SDLC
14 236 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 227 (8.65%) Test Automation
16 213 (8.12%) TDD
17 206 (7.85%) Design Patterns
18 187 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
19 183 (6.98%) Scrum
20 177 (6.75%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (41.97%) SQL
2 901 (34.35%) JavaScript
3 548 (20.89%) Python
4 467 (17.80%) Java
5 336 (12.81%) C++
6 324 (12.35%) TypeScript
7 127 (4.84%) C
8 109 (4.16%) PowerShell
9 100 (3.81%) T-SQL
10 82 (3.13%) VB.NET
11 66 (2.52%) PHP
12 60 (2.29%) Ada
13 52 (1.98%) Rust
14 46 (1.75%) PL/SQL
15 42 (1.60%) VB
16 33 (1.26%) Bash
17 26 (0.99%) X++
18 24 (0.91%) Go
19 23 (0.88%) Kotlin
20 22 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 701 (26.73%) Degree
2 190 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (4.38%) Security Cleared
4 108 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 90 (3.43%) Master's Degree
6 59 (2.25%) SC Cleared
7 55 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.52%) PhD
10 17 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.23%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.19%) HND
15 5 (0.19%) MCSE
16 4 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (8.01%) QA
2 71 (2.71%) GDPR
3 52 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 31 (1.18%) WCAG
5 26 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 26 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.42%) COBIT
7 10 (0.38%) NIST
8 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.30%) SLA
9 6 (0.23%) CDISC
9 6 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.19%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.15%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.076%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.076%) HL7
13 2 (0.076%) MiFID
13 2 (0.076%) MISRA
System Software
1 258 (9.84%) Docker
2 32 (1.22%) Firmware
3 13 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) LXC
7 2 (0.076%) vSphere
8 1 (0.038%) HDFS
8 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.038%) Squid
8 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.038%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 98 (3.74%) Terraform
3 52 (1.98%) Ansible
4 32 (1.22%) Grafana
5 28 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.19%) Kibana
8 4 (0.15%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.11%) Graylog
9 3 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.076%) MIIS
10 2 (0.076%) Nmap
10 2 (0.076%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.038%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.038%) logstash
11 1 (0.038%) Packer
11 1 (0.038%) Salt
11 1 (0.038%) vRealize
Vendors
1 637 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.69%) PayPal
3 94 (3.58%) Oracle
4 68 (2.59%) Google
5 64 (2.44%) Databricks
6 49 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 36 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.07%) Xamarin
9 24 (0.91%) IBM
10 22 (0.84%) HP
11 21 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 18 (0.69%) Sage
13 17 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.57%) Informatica
15 12 (0.46%) Epicor
15 12 (0.46%) SAP
16 11 (0.42%) EMC
17 10 (0.38%) OpenLink
17 10 (0.38%) Telerik
18 9 (0.34%) Intapp