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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,122 9,778 17,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.25% 9.63% 11.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.58% 22.25% 20.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,846 7,250 10,474
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 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £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 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
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 £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +4 7,169 £58,000 -10.77% 1,829
UK excluding London +2 6,075 £55,000 - 1,350
Work from Home -1 3,686 £57,500 -4.17% 1,337
London -3 1,694 £77,500 - 605
North of England +11 1,557 £55,000 -4.35% 338
South East -4 1,541 £57,500 -4.17% 261
Midlands +31 1,036 £50,000 -9.09% 321
North West +19 903 £55,000 -4.35% 202
South West +5 732 £50,000 -9.09% 161
West Midlands +45 539 £52,500 -4.55% 199
East of England +6 529 £57,500 - 108
East Midlands +14 496 £50,000 -4.76% 122
Yorkshire +12 495 £52,500 -8.70% 100
Scotland -39 403 £55,000 +4.76% 102
Wales 0 193 £50,000 +11.11% 51
North East -2 159 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Northern Ireland -9 84 £55,000 +10.00% 28
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 (2.39%) ArcGIS
2 183 (2.25%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 173 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 169 (2.08%) IIS
6 138 (1.70%) Confluence
7 108 (1.33%) 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 37 (0.46%) Apache
12 23 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
14 17 (0.21%) NServiceBus
15 9 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
16 8 (0.098%) Apache Solr
16 8 (0.098%) nginx
17 7 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 94 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (0.76%) 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
6 5 (0.062%) OrCAD
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
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
1 167 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 27 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
3 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
5 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
7 5 (0.062%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.062%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.062%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
8 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.049%) Endur
8 4 (0.049%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.037%) Maximo
9 3 (0.037%) Shopify
10 2 (0.025%) Infor LN
10 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
10 2 (0.025%) SystmOne
10 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,162 (51.24%) Azure
2 1,435 (17.67%) AWS
3 1,024 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
4 530 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 420 (5.17%) Serverless
6 336 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
6 336 (4.14%) SaaS
7 300 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 256 (3.15%) Azure Functions
9 246 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 240 (2.95%) GCP
10 240 (2.95%) IBM Cloud
11 222 (2.73%) PowerApps
12 221 (2.72%) Power Automate
13 170 (2.09%) GitHub
14 169 (2.08%) Azure API Management
15 152 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
16 105 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 92 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
18 80 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (2.27%) Internet
2 75 (0.92%) DNS
3 74 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 64 (0.79%) Firewall
5 35 (0.43%) DHCP
6 29 (0.36%) Network Security
7 28 (0.34%) Modbus
8 27 (0.33%) RS-232
8 27 (0.33%) SSL
9 23 (0.28%) HTTP
10 22 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 18 (0.22%) Wireless
12 17 (0.21%) VPN
13 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
14 14 (0.17%) Broadband
14 14 (0.17%) Mobile Broadband
14 14 (0.17%) WAN
14 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
15 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,462 (30.31%) SQL Server
2 617 (7.60%) MongoDB
3 614 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
4 511 (6.29%) NoSQL
5 385 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 283 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 272 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 261 (3.21%) Power BI
9 254 (3.13%) MySQL
10 240 (2.95%) DB2
11 201 (2.47%) GIS
12 180 (2.22%) QGIS
13 144 (1.77%) Redis
14 143 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 123 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 76 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
17 62 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 56 (0.69%) Big Data
19 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 29 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 977 (12.03%) Git
2 610 (7.51%) Visual Studio
3 341 (4.20%) JIRA
4 179 (2.20%) Selenium
5 155 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 135 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 134 (1.65%) NUnit
8 132 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 131 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 92 (1.13%) Postman
11 82 (1.01%) GitLab
12 78 (0.96%) Sourcetree
13 76 (0.94%) Cypress.io
14 75 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
15 71 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 62 (0.76%) Moq
17 53 (0.65%) Jasmine
18 51 (0.63%) Subversion
19 45 (0.55%) SoapUI
20 43 (0.53%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 1,376 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 1,129 (13.90%) Finance
3 475 (5.85%) Public Sector
4 421 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 383 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 297 (3.66%) Games
7 277 (3.41%) Marketing
8 243 (2.99%) Law
9 242 (2.98%) Manufacturing
10 223 (2.75%) Retail
11 214 (2.63%) Banking
11 214 (2.63%) Front Office
12 160 (1.97%) Back Office
13 154 (1.90%) Electronics
14 129 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
15 116 (1.43%) Legal
16 100 (1.23%) Advertising
17 89 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 86 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
19 82 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4,982 (61.34%) Developer
2 2,215 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 1,662 (20.46%) Senior
4 1,364 (16.79%) C# Developer
5 1,335 (16.44%) Software Engineer
6 1,044 (12.85%) Software Developer
7 992 (12.21%) Senior Developer
8 828 (10.19%) C# .NET Developer
9 688 (8.47%) Lead
10 630 (7.76%) Full Stack Developer
11 464 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
12 339 (4.17%) Senior .NET Developer
13 337 (4.15%) Lead Developer
14 309 (3.80%) Senior Software Developer
15 278 (3.42%) .NET Software Developer
16 276 (3.40%) Senior C# Developer
17 275 (3.39%) Architect
18 264 (3.25%) C# Software Developer
19 250 (3.08%) Azure Developer
20 249 (3.07%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,829 (71.77%) .NET
2 2,302 (28.34%) ASP.NET
3 2,120 (26.10%) .NET Core
4 1,957 (24.10%) AngularJS
5 1,882 (23.17%) HTML
6 1,868 (23.00%) React
7 1,810 (22.29%) CSS
8 1,503 (18.51%) .NET Framework
9 1,177 (14.49%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,111 (13.68%) Entity Framework
11 1,073 (13.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 969 (11.93%) Vue
13 692 (8.52%) RESTful
14 685 (8.43%) REST
15 674 (8.30%) Web Services
16 650 (8.00%) HTML5
17 594 (7.31%) Node.js
18 575 (7.08%) jQuery
19 553 (6.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 450 (5.54%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 405 (4.99%) Algorithms
2 394 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 328 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 247 (3.04%) Blockchain
5 246 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 218 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 210 (2.59%) Hedge funds
8 206 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 169 (2.08%) Derivative
10 165 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 163 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 161 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
13 158 (1.95%) Cloud Native
14 120 (1.48%) e-Learning
15 115 (1.42%) Virtual Reality
16 114 (1.40%) Equities
17 112 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
18 110 (1.35%) Fixed Income
19 104 (1.28%) Client/Server
20 97 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 755 (9.30%) Windows
2 610 (7.51%) Linux
3 376 (4.63%) Android
4 324 (3.99%) Apple iOS
5 76 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 29 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (0.28%) 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 12 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
12 11 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.12%) Solaris
13 10 (0.12%) VMS
14 7 (0.086%) CentOS
15 6 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
16 5 (0.062%) Windows Mobile
17 4 (0.049%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,528 (43.44%) Agile
2 2,312 (28.47%) Software Engineering
3 2,286 (28.15%) Full Stack Development
4 2,008 (24.72%) DevOps
5 1,851 (22.79%) MVC
6 1,351 (16.63%) Microservices
7 1,162 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
8 964 (11.87%) Scrum
9 943 (11.61%) Computer Science
10 926 (11.40%) TDD
11 874 (10.76%) CI/CD
12 847 (10.43%) Web Development
13 837 (10.31%) Design Patterns
14 813 (10.01%) OO
15 745 (9.17%) Mentoring
16 603 (7.42%) SOLID
17 601 (7.40%) Test Automation
18 600 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence
19 544 (6.70%) Unit Testing
20 542 (6.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3,539 (43.57%) JavaScript
2 2,841 (34.98%) SQL
3 1,312 (16.15%) Python
4 1,167 (14.37%) TypeScript
5 852 (10.49%) Java
6 508 (6.25%) C++
7 415 (5.11%) C
8 369 (4.54%) T-SQL
9 307 (3.78%) PowerShell
10 226 (2.78%) VB.NET
11 199 (2.45%) VB
12 145 (1.79%) PHP
13 101 (1.24%) Go
14 76 (0.94%) Ruby
15 75 (0.92%) XAML
16 64 (0.79%) Bash
17 61 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 59 (0.73%) Bicep
19 44 (0.54%) VBA
20 43 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,418 (17.46%) Degree
2 604 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 476 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 447 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 162 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 138 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 110 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 63 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 59 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 50 (0.62%) PhD
11 46 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 31 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.36%) HNC
14 19 (0.23%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 13 (0.16%) HND
17 11 (0.14%) MCSE
18 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
19 9 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (5.81%) QA
2 112 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.46%) GDPR
5 29 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 23 (0.28%) SLA
7 17 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.18%) WAI
9 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 14 (0.17%) PMO
10 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.098%) MISRA
11 8 (0.098%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
13 6 (0.074%) HL7
14 5 (0.062%) JTAG
15 4 (0.049%) DICOM
15 4 (0.049%) ISO 9000
15 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 625 (7.70%) Docker
2 113 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 54 (0.66%) Firmware
4 45 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
8 14 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.098%) KVM
10 7 (0.086%) 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
1 563 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 199 (2.45%) Terraform
3 60 (0.74%) Ansible
4 37 (0.46%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 22 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
7 18 (0.22%) WSUS
8 15 (0.18%) Puppet
9 14 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.17%) SCOM
10 11 (0.14%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.098%) Packer
13 7 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.086%) Stealthwatch
14 5 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.049%) Control-M
15 4 (0.049%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,245 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.02%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.98%) IBM
4 189 (2.33%) ESRI
5 180 (2.22%) Google
6 165 (2.03%) Oracle
7 127 (1.56%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.19%) Facebook
9 68 (0.84%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 59 (0.73%) SAP
12 51 (0.63%) Apple
13 50 (0.62%) VMware
14 38 (0.47%) Optimizely
15 34 (0.42%) DevExpress
16 33 (0.41%) F5
16 33 (0.41%) Sony
16 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
17 31 (0.38%) Databricks
18 30 (0.37%) Cisco