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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing C# 6,538 7,389 18,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.23% 9.16% 10.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.69% 22.78% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,173 5,907 10,479
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.04% +8.18%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 £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# 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 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -1 5,737 £58,500 -10.00% 857
UK excluding London +2 4,938 £55,000 - 804
Work from Home -3 2,619 £55,000 -8.33% 627
South East -2 1,339 £60,000 - 175
London -7 1,309 £77,500 - 170
North of England +15 1,305 £52,500 -4.55% 209
Midlands +8 893 £52,500 -4.55% 146
North West +15 716 £52,500 -4.55% 110
South West +6 517 £50,000 -9.09% 102
Yorkshire +14 457 £52,500 -4.55% 68
West Midlands +16 455 £52,500 -4.55% 81
East Midlands +7 436 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Scotland -27 333 £55,000 +4.76% 57
East of England +10 316 £55,000 -4.35% 93
Wales +9 177 £50,000 +11.11% 11
North East +10 132 £60,000 +14.29% 33
Northern Ireland -15 57 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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
1 195 (2.98%) ArcGIS
2 180 (2.75%) GeoServer
3 154 (2.36%) CMS
3 154 (2.36%) IIS
4 131 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 85 (1.30%) Umbraco
6 67 (1.02%) Confluence
7 48 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 40 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
9 32 (0.49%) Apache
9 32 (0.49%) Kentico
10 28 (0.43%) Headless CMS
11 18 (0.28%) NServiceBus
12 14 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
13 12 (0.18%) Apache Spark
14 11 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 8 (0.12%) nginx
16 7 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
16 7 (0.11%) Kinematics
16 7 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 55 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.38%) Photoshop
4 15 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.12%) Simulink
6 7 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.092%) OrCAD
7 6 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.061%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.061%) Fusion 360
9 4 (0.061%) Revit
10 3 (0.046%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.046%) S-PLUS
11 2 (0.031%) PrintSoft PReS
12 1 (0.015%) Blender
12 1 (0.015%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 161 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.57%) SDL Web 8
3 15 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 13 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 10 (0.15%) Sage 200
6 6 (0.092%) Endur
6 6 (0.092%) Sage 50
7 5 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.076%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.046%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.046%) SystmOne
9 2 (0.031%) Epicor Tropos
9 2 (0.031%) iTrent
9 2 (0.031%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 2 (0.031%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.031%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 3,296 (50.41%) Azure
2 1,061 (16.23%) AWS
3 848 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
4 485 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 364 (5.57%) Serverless
6 324 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
7 320 (4.89%) SaaS
8 285 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 265 (4.05%) IBM Cloud
10 251 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 243 (3.72%) Azure Functions
12 239 (3.66%) Power Automate
12 239 (3.66%) PowerApps
13 148 (2.26%) Azure API Management
14 142 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
15 137 (2.10%) GCP
16 125 (1.91%) GitHub
17 102 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 72 (1.10%) PaaS
19 71 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 82 (1.25%) Internet
2 63 (0.96%) DNS
3 57 (0.87%) Firewall
4 46 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 30 (0.46%) DHCP
6 26 (0.40%) Network Security
7 22 (0.34%) HTTP
7 22 (0.34%) SSL
8 21 (0.32%) Ethernet
9 16 (0.24%) Modbus
10 15 (0.23%) Wireless
11 14 (0.21%) RS-232
11 14 (0.21%) VPN
12 12 (0.18%) Bluetooth
13 9 (0.14%) Intranet
13 9 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.11%) 4G
14 7 (0.11%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.11%) Mobile Broadband
14 7 (0.11%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,589 (24.30%) SQL Server
2 567 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
3 485 (7.42%) NoSQL
4 437 (6.68%) MongoDB
5 370 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 241 (3.69%) DB2
7 234 (3.58%) Power BI
8 196 (3.00%) GIS
9 180 (2.75%) QGIS
10 174 (2.66%) MySQL
11 133 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 129 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 104 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
14 102 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 74 (1.13%) Redis
16 53 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
17 52 (0.80%) DynamoDB
18 41 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 34 (0.52%) Big Data
20 32 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 756 (11.56%) Git
2 454 (6.94%) Visual Studio
3 227 (3.47%) JIRA
4 170 (2.60%) Selenium
5 128 (1.96%) NUnit
6 126 (1.93%) Jenkins
7 118 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 113 (1.73%) TeamCity
9 82 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 81 (1.24%) SpecFlow
11 73 (1.12%) GitLab
12 71 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 68 (1.04%) Moq
14 59 (0.90%) Postman
15 46 (0.70%) Bitbucket
16 45 (0.69%) SoapUI
16 45 (0.69%) Sourcetree
17 44 (0.67%) Jasmine
18 38 (0.58%) MSTest
19 36 (0.55%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,177 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 871 (13.32%) Finance
3 446 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 392 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 313 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 220 (3.36%) Marketing
7 205 (3.14%) Law
8 185 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 164 (2.51%) Retail
10 151 (2.31%) Games
11 126 (1.93%) Front Office
12 113 (1.73%) Electronics
13 110 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
14 102 (1.56%) Banking
15 98 (1.50%) Legal
16 84 (1.28%) Back Office
17 62 (0.95%) Advertising
18 61 (0.93%) Automotive
19 58 (0.89%) Tech for Good
20 55 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,928 (60.08%) Developer
2 1,624 (24.84%) .NET Developer
3 1,403 (21.46%) Senior
4 1,195 (18.28%) C# Developer
5 1,143 (17.48%) Software Engineer
6 971 (14.85%) Software Developer
7 889 (13.60%) Senior Developer
8 702 (10.74%) C# .NET Developer
9 561 (8.58%) Full Stack Developer
10 559 (8.55%) Lead
11 379 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 339 (5.19%) Senior .NET Developer
13 329 (5.03%) C# Software Developer
14 269 (4.11%) .NET Software Developer
14 269 (4.11%) Senior C# Developer
15 262 (4.01%) Lead Developer
16 260 (3.98%) Azure Developer
17 244 (3.73%) Senior Software Developer
18 229 (3.50%) Architect
19 213 (3.26%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4,730 (72.35%) .NET
2 1,547 (23.66%) ASP.NET
3 1,528 (23.37%) CSS
3 1,528 (23.37%) React
4 1,483 (22.68%) HTML
5 1,449 (22.16%) AngularJS
6 1,399 (21.40%) .NET Core
7 1,079 (16.50%) .NET Framework
8 737 (11.27%) ASP.NET Web API
9 721 (11.03%) Vue
10 668 (10.22%) Entity Framework
11 615 (9.41%) Web Services
12 612 (9.36%) REST
13 530 (8.11%) RESTful
14 510 (7.80%) jQuery
15 466 (7.13%) ASP.NET MVC
16 444 (6.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 386 (5.90%) HTML5
18 379 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
19 367 (5.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 344 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 297 (4.54%) Data Structures
3 271 (4.14%) Blockchain
4 270 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 206 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
6 205 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 155 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 143 (2.19%) Mobile App
9 142 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 127 (1.94%) e-Learning
11 125 (1.91%) Hedge funds
12 109 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
13 108 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
14 103 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 93 (1.42%) Derivative
16 86 (1.32%) Onboarding
17 79 (1.21%) Fixed Income
18 78 (1.19%) Equities
19 66 (1.01%) Virtual Reality
20 55 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 687 (10.51%) Windows
2 518 (7.92%) Linux
3 330 (5.05%) Android
4 293 (4.48%) Apple iOS
5 53 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.34%) AIX
7 21 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 20 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.21%) Unix
11 13 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.20%) Windows 7
12 12 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.15%) Solaris
14 10 (0.15%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) CentOS
16 8 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.12%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,597 (39.72%) Agile
2 1,880 (28.75%) Software Engineering
3 1,745 (26.69%) Full Stack Development
4 1,610 (24.63%) DevOps
5 1,109 (16.96%) MVC
6 1,028 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 816 (12.48%) Microservices
8 804 (12.30%) Computer Science
9 759 (11.61%) Web Development
10 757 (11.58%) CI/CD
11 663 (10.14%) OO
12 640 (9.79%) Design Patterns
13 618 (9.45%) Scrum
14 614 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 606 (9.27%) TDD
16 581 (8.89%) SOLID
17 566 (8.66%) Mentoring
18 466 (7.13%) Unit Testing
19 462 (7.07%) OOP
20 435 (6.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,679 (40.98%) JavaScript
2 2,241 (34.28%) SQL
3 1,010 (15.45%) Python
4 857 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 563 (8.61%) Java
6 532 (8.14%) C++
7 334 (5.11%) C
8 277 (4.24%) T-SQL
9 221 (3.38%) PowerShell
10 212 (3.24%) VB.NET
11 173 (2.65%) VB
12 97 (1.48%) PHP
13 64 (0.98%) XAML
14 61 (0.93%) Bicep
15 58 (0.89%) Go
16 55 (0.84%) MATLAB
17 52 (0.80%) Bash
18 35 (0.54%) PL/SQL
19 32 (0.49%) Fortran
19 32 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,198 (18.32%) Degree
2 493 (7.54%) Security Cleared
3 382 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 343 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 121 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 101 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 54 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (0.67%) PhD
10 43 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 35 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 29 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (0.18%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
15 11 (0.17%) ISEB
15 11 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
16 8 (0.12%) CIPD
17 7 (0.11%) HND
17 7 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (5.58%) QA
2 87 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 43 (0.66%) GDPR
4 41 (0.63%) WCAG
5 22 (0.34%) SLA
6 16 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.23%) MiFID
8 12 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.18%) ISO 13485
9 11 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 10 (0.15%) IEC 61131
11 8 (0.12%) PMO
12 7 (0.11%) MISRA
13 5 (0.076%) JTAG
14 4 (0.061%) DICOM
14 4 (0.061%) EMIR
14 4 (0.061%) HL7
14 4 (0.061%) IEC 62304
14 4 (0.061%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.046%) MISRA C
System Software
1 461 (7.05%) Docker
2 90 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 45 (0.69%) Firmware
4 43 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.061%) vSphere
12 3 (0.046%) KVM
12 3 (0.046%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.031%) Ceph
13 2 (0.031%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.015%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 427 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 129 (1.97%) Terraform
3 45 (0.69%) Ansible
4 29 (0.44%) SCCM
4 29 (0.44%) WSUS
5 26 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (0.32%) Grafana
7 19 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (0.24%) SCOM
9 10 (0.15%) MIIS
9 10 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.12%) Packer
11 7 (0.11%) Kibana
12 5 (0.076%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.061%) Istio
14 3 (0.046%) MOM
14 3 (0.046%) Puppet
15 2 (0.031%) linkerd
15 2 (0.031%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,432 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 269 (4.11%) Red Hat
3 265 (4.05%) IBM
4 191 (2.92%) ESRI
5 164 (2.51%) Oracle
6 80 (1.22%) Xamarin
7 71 (1.09%) Google
8 48 (0.73%) Sitecore
9 39 (0.60%) SAP
10 37 (0.57%) VMware
11 35 (0.54%) Adobe
11 35 (0.54%) Optimizely
12 34 (0.52%) Databricks
13 33 (0.50%) Facebook
14 27 (0.41%) Salesforce
15 26 (0.40%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.35%) ServiceNow
17 22 (0.34%) Apple
17 22 (0.34%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.31%) YouTube