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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 2,733 7,837 10,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.41% 8.44% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.76% 24.21% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 6,760 7,951
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,750 £47,750
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 £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 15,392 32,374 47,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.45% 34.86% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,527 24,748 30,323
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.55%

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 3 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 3 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 -23 2,468 £62,500 +4.17% 2,508
UK excluding London -17 1,897 £55,000 - 1,657
Work from Home -8 1,300 £64,000 +11.30% 1,364
London -28 698 £75,000 -6.25% 1,083
South East -15 497 £60,000 +1.69% 491
North of England -34 435 £50,055 -8.99% 413
Midlands -22 346 £55,000 +10.00% 245
East of England +3 310 £66,206 +20.37% 190
North West -46 257 £50,000 -6.25% 223
West Midlands -21 237 £57,500 +9.52% 136
South West -49 131 £57,500 +15.00% 165
Scotland -3 120 £45,000 -18.18% 99
Yorkshire -23 119 £52,500 - 131
East Midlands -27 108 £55,000 +10.00% 102
North East -4 59 £57,000 -5.00% 62
Wales -17 53 £62,500 +25.00% 60
Northern Ireland -16 8 £67,500 +22.73% 27

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 94 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 60 (2.20%) Confluence
3 56 (2.05%) CMS
4 40 (1.46%) Umbraco
5 31 (1.13%) Apache
6 13 (0.48%) IIS
7 8 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.26%) WinCC
9 6 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.18%) Sitefinity
10 5 (0.18%) WordPress
11 4 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
11 4 (0.15%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Luigi
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 131 (4.79%) Chatbot
2 36 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.48%) Trello
5 9 (0.33%) Revit
6 5 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.11%) Productboard
8 2 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.037%) InVision
9 1 (0.037%) Sketch
9 1 (0.037%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 115 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.77%) Sage 200
2 21 (0.77%) Sage 50
3 13 (0.48%) Endur
4 12 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.29%) Orchestrade
6 7 (0.26%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.18%) Magento
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.11%) Shopify
10 2 (0.073%) Eikon
10 2 (0.073%) Infor CloudSuite
10 2 (0.073%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 2 (0.073%) RMDS
11 1 (0.037%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 1 (0.037%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,169 (42.77%) Azure
2 385 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
3 357 (13.06%) AWS
4 283 (10.35%) Power Platform
5 225 (8.23%) Dynamics 365
6 183 (6.70%) SaaS
7 163 (5.96%) GitHub
8 138 (5.05%) Serverless
9 137 (5.01%) PowerApps
10 127 (4.65%) Power Automate
11 109 (3.99%) Azure Service Bus
12 101 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 73 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 68 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
15 65 (2.38%) Azure Functions
16 62 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 59 (2.16%) GCP
18 42 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
18 42 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.13%) Network Security
1 31 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 27 (0.99%) Intranet
3 20 (0.73%) HTTP
4 18 (0.66%) Firewall
5 13 (0.48%) MQTT
6 12 (0.44%) Ethernet
6 12 (0.44%) Modbus
7 11 (0.40%) Internet
8 10 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (0.29%) DNS
10 6 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.22%) SSL
11 3 (0.11%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.073%) Broadband
12 2 (0.073%) SAN
13 1 (0.037%) GSM
13 1 (0.037%) IPv4
13 1 (0.037%) SMS
13 1 (0.037%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 711 (26.02%) SQL Server
2 139 (5.09%) MySQL
3 130 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 123 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 100 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 100 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 89 (3.26%) Power BI
7 86 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 84 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 82 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
10 71 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
11 42 (1.54%) Redis
12 33 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.17%) DB2
14 30 (1.10%) Big Data
15 27 (0.99%) RDBMS
16 19 (0.70%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.70%) SQLite
17 16 (0.59%) DynamoDB
18 15 (0.55%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 398 (14.56%) Git
2 218 (7.98%) Visual Studio
3 163 (5.96%) JIRA
4 84 (3.07%) Selenium
5 82 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 77 (2.82%) Jenkins
7 76 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 57 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 42 (1.54%) MSBuild
10 40 (1.46%) NUnit
11 38 (1.39%) TeamCity
12 34 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 33 (1.21%) Postman
14 31 (1.13%) SpecFlow
15 29 (1.06%) Eclipse
15 29 (1.06%) Eclipse RCP
16 23 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.80%) GitLab
18 19 (0.70%) SoapUI
19 17 (0.62%) MSTest
General
1 660 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 440 (16.10%) Finance
3 181 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (4.35%) Banking
5 114 (4.17%) Law
6 112 (4.10%) Retail
7 93 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 72 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 54 (1.98%) Front Office
11 52 (1.90%) Electronics
12 46 (1.68%) Marketing
13 43 (1.57%) Automotive
13 43 (1.57%) Legal
14 32 (1.17%) Tech for Good
15 28 (1.02%) Investment Banking
16 25 (0.91%) Games
17 22 (0.80%) Retail Banking
18 20 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
19 18 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,404 (51.37%) Developer
2 746 (27.30%) Senior
3 527 (19.28%) Software Engineer
4 391 (14.31%) Senior Developer
5 389 (14.23%) .NET Developer
6 363 (13.28%) C# Developer
7 286 (10.46%) Lead
8 284 (10.39%) Software Developer
9 189 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 157 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 148 (5.42%) C# .NET Developer
12 117 (4.28%) Trainer
13 109 (3.99%) Architect
14 102 (3.73%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 101 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
15 101 (3.70%) Senior C# Developer
16 96 (3.51%) Analyst
17 79 (2.89%) Lead Developer
18 74 (2.71%) Graduate
19 73 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,724 (63.08%) .NET
2 599 (21.92%) HTML
3 510 (18.66%) CSS
4 441 (16.14%) .NET Framework
4 441 (16.14%) ASP.NET
5 435 (15.92%) .NET Core
6 430 (15.73%) React
7 350 (12.81%) AngularJS
8 222 (8.12%) Entity Framework
9 217 (7.94%) RESTful
10 212 (7.76%) REST
11 174 (6.37%) HTML5
12 156 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
13 149 (5.45%) XML
14 136 (4.98%) jQuery
15 131 (4.79%) Web Services
16 118 (4.32%) ASP.NET MVC
17 115 (4.21%) JSON
18 110 (4.02%) Blazor
19 106 (3.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 111 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
2 94 (3.44%) Mobile App
3 93 (3.40%) Cloud Native
4 84 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 54 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 52 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 52 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 52 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
8 48 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.32%) NHS
11 31 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.02%) IoT
12 28 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 26 (0.95%) Onboarding
15 24 (0.88%) Client/Server
15 24 (0.88%) Robotics
16 22 (0.80%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 242 (8.85%) Windows
2 155 (5.67%) Linux
3 56 (2.05%) Android
4 52 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.77%) Unix
6 16 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.073%) VMS
11 1 (0.037%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.037%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (37.76%) Agile
2 880 (32.20%) Software Engineering
3 705 (25.80%) DevOps
4 657 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
5 538 (19.69%) CI/CD
6 392 (14.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 379 (13.87%) Microservices
8 357 (13.06%) MVC
9 354 (12.95%) Computer Science
10 345 (12.62%) Mentoring
11 304 (11.12%) OO
12 259 (9.48%) SDLC
13 257 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
14 256 (9.37%) TDD
15 244 (8.93%) Code Quality
16 223 (8.16%) Design Patterns
17 216 (7.90%) Test Automation
18 209 (7.65%) Unit Testing
19 176 (6.44%) Software Testing
20 175 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,160 (42.44%) SQL
2 972 (35.57%) JavaScript
3 581 (21.26%) Python
4 480 (17.56%) Java
5 366 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 358 (13.10%) C++
7 128 (4.68%) C
8 111 (4.06%) T-SQL
9 107 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 81 (2.96%) VB.NET
11 80 (2.93%) PHP
12 60 (2.20%) Ada
13 50 (1.83%) VB
14 47 (1.72%) PL/SQL
15 34 (1.24%) Rust
16 32 (1.17%) Bash
16 32 (1.17%) Ruby
17 31 (1.13%) Go
18 25 (0.91%) Kotlin
19 24 (0.88%) XAML
Qualifications
1 746 (27.30%) Degree
2 194 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 123 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 108 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 101 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 69 (2.52%) SC Cleared
7 57 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 49 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.50%) PhD
10 19 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
11 11 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.37%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.22%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.22%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.18%) HND
17 4 (0.15%) Chartered Engineer
17 4 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (7.76%) QA
2 72 (2.63%) GDPR
3 58 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.32%) WCAG
5 26 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 23 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.51%) SLA
8 11 (0.40%) COBIT
9 9 (0.33%) NIST
10 6 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.18%) CDISC
11 5 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.15%) ISO 13485
12 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.073%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.073%) HL7
14 2 (0.073%) MISRA
14 2 (0.073%) NIST 800
System Software
1 277 (10.14%) Docker
2 31 (1.13%) Firmware
3 22 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) LXC
6 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.073%) vSphere
8 1 (0.037%) HDFS
8 1 (0.037%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.037%) Xen
Systems Management
1 250 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 91 (3.33%) Terraform
3 51 (1.87%) Ansible
4 30 (1.10%) Grafana
5 25 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.18%) Graylog
7 5 (0.18%) Kibana
8 4 (0.15%) Control-M
8 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.11%) Nmap
10 2 (0.073%) logstash
10 2 (0.073%) MIIS
10 2 (0.073%) Puppet
11 1 (0.037%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.037%) vRealize
Vendors
1 611 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.50%) PayPal
3 102 (3.73%) Oracle
4 68 (2.49%) Databricks
5 63 (2.31%) Google
6 53 (1.94%) Xamarin
7 52 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 33 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 25 (0.91%) HP
10 24 (0.88%) IBM
11 21 (0.77%) Sage
11 21 (0.77%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.48%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.48%) OpenLink
12 13 (0.48%) SAP
13 12 (0.44%) EMC
13 12 (0.44%) Epicor
13 12 (0.44%) Informatica
14 10 (0.37%) Telerik
15 8 (0.29%) Intapp