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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 20 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 4,909 13,033 15,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.12% 10.31% 11.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.45% 22.39% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,124 9,204 11,302
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,745
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 21,870 58,197 67,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.61% 46.05% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17,139 36,667 45,610
10th Percentile £39,788 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,140 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 November 2023.

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 November 2023. 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 4,289 £65,000 +4.00% 2,172
UK excluding London -5 2,860 £55,000 - 1,668
Work from Home -5 2,392 £60,000 - 1,424
London +5 1,736 £77,750 +3.67% 722
South East -6 792 £57,500 - 428
North of England -7 679 £55,000 -4.35% 477
Midlands +4 462 £55,000 - 254
South West -12 389 £53,250 +1.43% 182
North West -9 360 £57,500 +1.73% 256
Yorkshire -8 285 £55,000 -5.17% 152
West Midlands +9 261 £53,500 -2.73% 150
East Midlands -1 203 £57,500 +4.55% 104
Scotland -20 196 £55,000 +4.76% 88
Wales +8 151 £52,500 - 65
East of England -7 126 £60,000 +9.09% 181
Northern Ireland 0 77 £50,000 -4.76% 28
North East -12 34 £49,250 +2.60% 76

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
1 153 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 118 (2.40%) Confluence
3 113 (2.30%) IIS
4 95 (1.94%) Umbraco
5 89 (1.81%) CMS
6 27 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 25 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 19 (0.39%) NServiceBus
9 17 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 15 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) Kentico
13 10 (0.20%) Apache
14 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 9 (0.18%) WinCC
15 8 (0.16%) MS Exchange
16 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.12%) SAS
17 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
17 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 78 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.081%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.041%) Blender
7 2 (0.041%) Sketch
7 2 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.041%) UXPin
7 2 (0.041%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.020%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.020%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.020%) CATIA
8 1 (0.020%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 204 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 13 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.26%) Visualfiles
4 11 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
5 9 (0.18%) Shopify
6 8 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 6 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 6 (0.12%) JDE OneWorld
8 6 (0.12%) Maximo
8 6 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.10%) Epicor Tropos
9 5 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.081%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
12 2 (0.041%) Fidessa
12 2 (0.041%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.041%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 2,222 (45.26%) Azure
2 778 (15.85%) AWS
3 688 (14.02%) Azure DevOps
4 428 (8.72%) Serverless
5 412 (8.39%) Power Platform
6 291 (5.93%) GCP
7 283 (5.76%) SaaS
8 266 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
9 184 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 169 (3.44%) PowerApps
11 156 (3.18%) GitHub
12 132 (2.69%) Azure Functions
13 125 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
14 118 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
15 113 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 100 (2.04%) PaaS
17 87 (1.77%) Power Automate
18 72 (1.47%) Entra ID
19 58 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
20 57 (1.16%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.06%) DNS
2 43 (0.88%) Firewall
3 33 (0.67%) DHCP
3 33 (0.67%) Internet
4 30 (0.61%) HTTP
5 27 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.31%) WAN
7 13 (0.26%) Network Security
8 12 (0.24%) AMQP
8 12 (0.24%) Wireless
9 11 (0.22%) Modbus
9 11 (0.22%) VPN
10 8 (0.16%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.16%) SSL
11 7 (0.14%) LAN
12 6 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.12%) RS-232
12 6 (0.12%) SNMP
13 5 (0.10%) RS-422
13 5 (0.10%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,305 (26.58%) SQL Server
2 253 (5.15%) Power BI
3 238 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 190 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 159 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 141 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
7 137 (2.79%) MySQL
8 126 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 121 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 110 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 81 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
12 70 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 66 (1.34%) Redis
14 43 (0.88%) Oracle Database
15 42 (0.86%) Big Data
15 42 (0.86%) Data Lake
16 34 (0.69%) Tableau
17 32 (0.65%) SQLite
18 29 (0.59%) RDBMS
19 23 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 760 (15.48%) Git
2 252 (5.13%) JIRA
3 245 (4.99%) Visual Studio
4 220 (4.48%) Selenium
5 150 (3.06%) Postman
6 147 (2.99%) Jenkins
7 107 (2.18%) SpecFlow
8 106 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 91 (1.85%) GitLab
10 88 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 86 (1.75%) Cypress.io
12 85 (1.73%) NUnit
13 63 (1.28%) Cucumber
14 61 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
15 60 (1.22%) SoapUI
16 49 (1.00%) Subversion
17 41 (0.84%) JMeter
18 39 (0.79%) Bitbucket
19 37 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
20 36 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 960 (19.56%) Finance
2 883 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 284 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (3.87%) Banking
5 179 (3.65%) Front Office
6 168 (3.42%) Retail
7 160 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 127 (2.59%) Marketing
9 116 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 115 (2.34%) Law
10 115 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 112 (2.28%) Police
12 110 (2.24%) Legal
13 94 (1.91%) Aerospace
14 69 (1.41%) Automotive
15 68 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 66 (1.34%) Games
17 60 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 59 (1.20%) Electronics
19 49 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2,634 (53.66%) Developer
2 1,072 (21.84%) Senior
3 1,040 (21.19%) .NET Developer
4 851 (17.34%) Software Engineer
5 726 (14.79%) C# Developer
6 675 (13.75%) Senior Developer
7 549 (11.18%) Software Developer
8 533 (10.86%) Lead
9 445 (9.06%) Full Stack Developer
10 362 (7.37%) C# .NET Developer
11 251 (5.11%) Senior .NET Developer
12 218 (4.44%) Architect
13 216 (4.40%) Lead Developer
14 201 (4.09%) .NET Software Developer
15 193 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
16 191 (3.89%) .NET Software Engineer
17 182 (3.71%) Java Engineer
18 181 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
19 171 (3.48%) Senior C# Developer
20 170 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3,279 (66.80%) .NET
2 1,123 (22.88%) React
3 1,010 (20.57%) ASP.NET
4 979 (19.94%) HTML
5 934 (19.03%) CSS
6 915 (18.64%) .NET Core
7 827 (16.85%) AngularJS
8 764 (15.56%) .NET Framework
9 374 (7.62%) ASP.NET Web API
10 365 (7.44%) REST
11 362 (7.37%) ASP.NET MVC
12 327 (6.66%) Entity Framework
13 283 (5.76%) Vue
14 277 (5.64%) Web Services
15 268 (5.46%) RESTful
16 243 (4.95%) jQuery
17 217 (4.42%) Blazor
18 215 (4.38%) JSON
19 203 (4.14%) Spring
20 198 (4.03%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 235 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
2 167 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.10%) Hedge funds
4 126 (2.57%) Cloud Native
5 120 (2.44%) Derivative
5 120 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 112 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 108 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 102 (2.08%) Fixed Income
9 86 (1.75%) Equities
10 83 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 70 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 64 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 55 (1.12%) IoT
14 54 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 51 (1.04%) Algorithms
16 46 (0.94%) Management Information System
17 45 (0.92%) Public Cloud
18 42 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
19 37 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 360 (7.33%) Windows
2 164 (3.34%) Linux
3 89 (1.81%) Android
4 60 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.14%) Unix
6 53 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 19 (0.39%) Windows 7
9 15 (0.31%) VMS
9 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.061%) CentOS
14 3 (0.061%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.041%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,806 (36.79%) Agile
2 1,334 (27.17%) Software Engineering
3 1,327 (27.03%) DevOps
4 913 (18.60%) Full Stack Development
5 868 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 861 (17.54%) CI/CD
7 762 (15.52%) MVC
8 717 (14.61%) Microservices
9 675 (13.75%) Mentoring
10 622 (12.67%) TDD
11 548 (11.16%) Design Patterns
12 537 (10.94%) Scrum
13 526 (10.72%) Test Automation
14 477 (9.72%) Computer Science
15 434 (8.84%) Unit Testing
16 423 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
17 420 (8.56%) SDLC
18 399 (8.13%) Containerisation
19 351 (7.15%) OO
20 340 (6.93%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,867 (38.03%) SQL
2 1,844 (37.56%) JavaScript
3 897 (18.27%) Python
4 776 (15.81%) Java
5 625 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 377 (7.68%) C++
7 326 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 320 (6.52%) T-SQL
9 201 (4.09%) Ruby
10 146 (2.97%) C
11 127 (2.59%) VB.NET
12 112 (2.28%) VB
13 107 (2.18%) Go
14 89 (1.81%) PHP
15 67 (1.36%) Bash
16 57 (1.16%) Bicep
17 45 (0.92%) VBScript
18 44 (0.90%) MATLAB
18 44 (0.90%) R
19 36 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 780 (15.89%) Degree
2 433 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 361 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 217 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 100 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 100 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 76 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 62 (1.26%) PhD
8 61 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 47 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 30 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 25 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.41%) ISEB
13 19 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.26%) MBA
15 8 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.12%) APMP
16 6 (0.12%) MCPD
17 5 (0.10%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 417 (8.49%) QA
2 54 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 49 (1.00%) SLA
4 45 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (0.65%) WCAG
6 30 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 27 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 16 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 9 (0.18%) GDPR
10 7 (0.14%) MISRA
11 6 (0.12%) ISO 9000
12 5 (0.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.10%) PMO
12 5 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.061%) COBIT
13 3 (0.061%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.041%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.041%) DO-160
14 2 (0.041%) DO-254
14 2 (0.041%) HL7
System Software
1 502 (10.23%) Docker
2 115 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.35%) Firmware
6 17 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
7 10 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.14%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.041%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.020%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 452 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 154 (3.14%) Terraform
3 45 (0.92%) SCCM
4 42 (0.86%) WSUS
5 34 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
8 28 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 28 (0.57%) Ansible
8 28 (0.57%) Grafana
9 26 (0.53%) AirWatch
9 26 (0.53%) OpenSSO
10 25 (0.51%) SCOM
11 21 (0.43%) Prometheus
12 18 (0.37%) Kibana
13 12 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.18%) Functional Safety
15 5 (0.10%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.10%) MIIS
Vendors
1 1,174 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 184 (3.75%) Oracle
3 92 (1.87%) Xamarin
4 83 (1.69%) Google
5 50 (1.02%) VMware
6 48 (0.98%) SAP
7 41 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 33 (0.67%) Databricks
8 33 (0.67%) HP
9 29 (0.59%) ServiceNow
10 28 (0.57%) Sitecore
11 26 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.49%) Finsemble
13 19 (0.39%) Autodesk
14 16 (0.33%) Alteryx
15 15 (0.31%) IBM
16 14 (0.29%) Splunk
17 13 (0.26%) Zoho
18 12 (0.24%) MKS
18 12 (0.24%) TIBCO