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 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,841 7,764 10,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 8.60% 9.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.12% 24.47% 21.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 6,709 8,019
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 15,675 31,732 48,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 35.15% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,458 24,489 30,661
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,533 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,375 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -21 2,570 £62,500 +4.17% 1,258
UK excluding London -20 1,994 £55,000 - 953
Work from Home -9 1,350 £64,000 +11.30% 802
London -30 709 £75,000 -6.25% 451
South East -14 551 £60,000 +1.69% 260
North of England -34 443 £50,055 -7.59% 257
Midlands -22 358 £55,000 +10.00% 133
East of England +2 311 £66,200 +20.36% 132
North West -44 265 £50,000 -4.76% 147
West Midlands -22 238 £57,500 +9.52% 80
South West -42 147 £55,000 +10.00% 95
Scotland -11 125 £45,000 -18.18% 45
Yorkshire -24 123 £50,000 -4.76% 67
East Midlands -26 119 £55,000 +10.00% 51
North East -1 55 £57,500 -4.17% 46
Wales -16 53 £65,000 +30.00% 39
Northern Ireland -17 9 £67,500 +22.73% 12

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 91 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 63 (2.22%) Confluence
3 54 (1.90%) CMS
4 44 (1.55%) Umbraco
5 38 (1.34%) Apache
6 13 (0.46%) IIS
7 11 (0.39%) WinCC
8 9 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.18%) Sitefinity
11 5 (0.18%) WordPress
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.14%) Kentico
12 4 (0.14%) NServiceBus
13 3 (0.11%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.11%) Luigi
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 131 (4.61%) Chatbot
2 38 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.42%) Trello
5 9 (0.32%) Revit
6 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.11%) Productboard
8 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.035%) InVision
9 1 (0.035%) Simulink
9 1 (0.035%) Sketch
9 1 (0.035%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 114 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.81%) Sage 200
2 23 (0.81%) Sage 50
3 13 (0.46%) Endur
4 10 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) Orchestrade
6 7 (0.25%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.11%) Magento
8 3 (0.11%) Shopify
9 2 (0.070%) Eikon
9 2 (0.070%) RMDS
9 2 (0.070%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.035%) Infor CloudSuite
10 1 (0.035%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 1 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 1,220 (42.94%) Azure
2 409 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
3 355 (12.50%) AWS
4 285 (10.03%) Power Platform
5 231 (8.13%) Dynamics 365
6 181 (6.37%) GitHub
7 180 (6.34%) SaaS
8 133 (4.68%) PowerApps
9 126 (4.44%) Serverless
10 120 (4.22%) Power Automate
11 110 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
12 105 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 73 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 66 (2.32%) Azure Functions
16 61 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
17 60 (2.11%) GCP
18 48 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 43 (1.51%) Azure API Management
19 43 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.13%) Network Security
1 32 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 29 (1.02%) Intranet
3 18 (0.63%) Firewall
3 18 (0.63%) HTTP
4 13 (0.46%) Ethernet
4 13 (0.46%) MQTT
5 12 (0.42%) Modbus
6 11 (0.39%) Internet
7 10 (0.35%) DNS
7 10 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.25%) SSL
9 6 (0.21%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.11%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.070%) Broadband
11 2 (0.070%) SAN
12 1 (0.035%) FTP
12 1 (0.035%) GSM
12 1 (0.035%) SMS
12 1 (0.035%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 738 (25.98%) SQL Server
2 143 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 142 (5.00%) MySQL
4 121 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 108 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 105 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 93 (3.27%) Power BI
8 88 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 80 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
10 78 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 75 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (1.48%) Redis
13 35 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (1.13%) DB2
15 27 (0.95%) RDBMS
16 22 (0.77%) SQLite
17 20 (0.70%) Data Lake
18 18 (0.63%) Big Data
19 16 (0.56%) DynamoDB
20 15 (0.53%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 420 (14.78%) Git
2 229 (8.06%) Visual Studio
3 173 (6.09%) JIRA
4 90 (3.17%) Selenium
5 87 (3.06%) Bitbucket
6 85 (2.99%) Jenkins
7 78 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 62 (2.18%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (1.51%) MSBuild
10 41 (1.44%) TeamCity
11 38 (1.34%) NUnit
12 36 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 35 (1.23%) Eclipse
13 35 (1.23%) Eclipse RCP
13 35 (1.23%) Postman
14 31 (1.09%) SpecFlow
15 24 (0.84%) SoapUI
16 23 (0.81%) GitLab
16 23 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
17 18 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 687 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 454 (15.98%) Finance
3 189 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (4.29%) Banking
5 113 (3.98%) Retail
6 107 (3.77%) Law
7 96 (3.38%) Manufacturing
8 95 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (2.39%) Public Sector
10 63 (2.22%) Electronics
11 50 (1.76%) Front Office
12 48 (1.69%) Automotive
12 48 (1.69%) Marketing
13 45 (1.58%) Legal
14 30 (1.06%) Tech for Good
15 29 (1.02%) Investment Banking
16 27 (0.95%) Games
17 22 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (0.77%) Retail Banking
18 21 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,453 (51.14%) Developer
2 789 (27.77%) Senior
3 561 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 417 (14.68%) Senior Developer
5 403 (14.19%) .NET Developer
6 379 (13.34%) C# Developer
7 292 (10.28%) Software Developer
8 283 (9.96%) Lead
9 205 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 162 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 147 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 117 (4.12%) Trainer
13 110 (3.87%) Senior .NET Developer
14 109 (3.84%) Architect
15 105 (3.70%) Senior C# Developer
16 103 (3.63%) Analyst
17 100 (3.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 80 (2.82%) Lead Developer
19 73 (2.57%) Senior Software Developer
20 71 (2.50%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,795 (63.18%) .NET
2 646 (22.74%) HTML
3 550 (19.36%) CSS
4 466 (16.40%) .NET Framework
5 458 (16.12%) ASP.NET
6 456 (16.05%) React
7 455 (16.02%) .NET Core
8 365 (12.85%) AngularJS
9 237 (8.34%) Entity Framework
10 224 (7.88%) RESTful
11 222 (7.81%) REST
12 187 (6.58%) HTML5
13 161 (5.67%) ASP.NET Web API
14 158 (5.56%) XML
15 145 (5.10%) jQuery
16 138 (4.86%) Web Services
17 121 (4.26%) ASP.NET MVC
18 119 (4.19%) JSON
18 119 (4.19%) WPF
19 117 (4.12%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 114 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
2 96 (3.38%) Cloud Native
3 92 (3.24%) Mobile App
4 85 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 55 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
6 55 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 49 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 49 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.37%) NHS
11 32 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 28 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 28 (0.99%) Robotics
12 28 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (0.95%) IoT
14 25 (0.88%) Client/Server
14 25 (0.88%) Virtual Team
15 22 (0.77%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 259 (9.12%) Windows
2 169 (5.95%) Linux
3 59 (2.08%) Android
4 55 (1.94%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.77%) Unix
6 18 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.070%) VMS
11 1 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.035%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,085 (38.19%) Agile
2 923 (32.49%) Software Engineering
3 721 (25.38%) DevOps
4 662 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
5 550 (19.36%) CI/CD
6 413 (14.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 391 (13.76%) Microservices
8 371 (13.06%) MVC
9 370 (13.02%) Computer Science
10 368 (12.95%) Mentoring
11 318 (11.19%) OO
12 278 (9.79%) TDD
13 271 (9.54%) SDLC
14 268 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence
15 250 (8.80%) Code Quality
16 235 (8.27%) Design Patterns
17 225 (7.92%) Unit Testing
18 223 (7.85%) Test Automation
19 199 (7.00%) Software Testing
20 171 (6.02%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,230 (43.29%) SQL
2 1,018 (35.83%) JavaScript
3 613 (21.58%) Python
4 496 (17.46%) Java
5 384 (13.52%) TypeScript
6 377 (13.27%) C++
7 137 (4.82%) C
8 125 (4.40%) T-SQL
9 115 (4.05%) PowerShell
10 82 (2.89%) PHP
10 82 (2.89%) VB.NET
11 63 (2.22%) Ada
12 51 (1.80%) VB
13 45 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 36 (1.27%) Go
14 36 (1.27%) Rust
15 35 (1.23%) Ruby
16 32 (1.13%) Bash
17 29 (1.02%) Objective-C
18 27 (0.95%) XAML
Qualifications
1 783 (27.56%) Degree
2 197 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (4.58%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 101 (3.56%) Master's Degree
6 72 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 62 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 42 (1.48%) PhD
10 24 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.32%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.28%) DV Cleared
15 7 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.18%) HND
16 5 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.14%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (7.32%) QA
2 74 (2.60%) GDPR
3 61 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 40 (1.41%) WCAG
5 29 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.56%) SLA
8 11 (0.39%) COBIT
9 9 (0.32%) NIST
10 5 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.14%) CDISC
11 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.11%) IEC 61131
12 3 (0.11%) MISRA
12 3 (0.11%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.070%) JTAG
System Software
1 291 (10.24%) Docker
2 44 (1.55%) Firmware
3 25 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) LXC
6 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.070%) vSphere
8 1 (0.035%) HDFS
8 1 (0.035%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.035%) Xen
Systems Management
1 255 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.20%) Terraform
3 52 (1.83%) Ansible
4 29 (1.02%) Grafana
5 24 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.21%) Graylog
6 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.18%) Functional Safety
7 5 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.14%) Control-M
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.070%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.070%) logstash
10 2 (0.070%) MIIS
10 2 (0.070%) Nmap
11 1 (0.035%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.035%) vRealize
Vendors
1 629 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.33%) PayPal
3 104 (3.66%) Oracle
4 74 (2.60%) Databricks
5 63 (2.22%) Google
6 60 (2.11%) Xamarin
7 53 (1.87%) Atlassian
8 28 (0.99%) HP
9 24 (0.84%) IBM
10 23 (0.81%) Sage
11 21 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 14 (0.49%) EMC
13 13 (0.46%) OpenLink
13 13 (0.46%) SAP
14 12 (0.42%) Epicor
15 11 (0.39%) Siemens
16 10 (0.35%) Telerik
17 9 (0.32%) Salesforce
17 9 (0.32%) VMware
18 8 (0.28%) Red Hat