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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 20 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 4,320 4,783 12,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.23% 9.03% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.18% 22.20% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 4,009 9,049
10th Percentile £39,225 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% +12.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 21,409 21,547 56,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 40.67% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 12,467 16,785 35,998
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,730 £38,442
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,788 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 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 -5 3,915 £60,000 -7.69% 1,333
UK excluding London -2 3,219 £55,000 - 964
Work from Home -4 1,851 £57,500 -4.17% 1,010
South East +4 1,037 £60,000 +4.35% 190
London -33 945 £75,000 -3.23% 456
North of England -8 677 £53,500 -2.73% 305
Midlands -5 526 £55,000 - 196
East of England +15 356 £55,000 -8.33% 107
North West -18 328 £52,500 -4.55% 173
West Midlands -11 311 £55,000 +2.80% 115
South West -8 302 £50,000 -4.76% 79
Yorkshire -7 237 £50,000 -9.09% 96
Scotland -9 226 £46,000 -16.36% 58
East Midlands -6 215 £52,500 -8.70% 79
North East +11 112 £62,500 +31.58% 37
Wales -5 79 £48,500 -7.62% 33
Northern Ireland -15 18 £65,000 +30.00% 15

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
1 121 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 84 (1.94%) Umbraco
3 79 (1.83%) CMS
4 49 (1.13%) Confluence
5 36 (0.83%) IIS
5 36 (0.83%) WinCC
6 18 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.35%) Apache
7 15 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 12 (0.28%) nginx
9 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 9 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.16%) Moodle
12 5 (0.12%) NServiceBus
13 4 (0.093%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.093%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.093%) ThingWorx
14 3 (0.069%) Appian
14 3 (0.069%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.069%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 5 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.093%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.093%) Trello
11 3 (0.069%) Revit
12 2 (0.046%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.046%) PrintSoft PReS
13 1 (0.023%) 3ds Max
13 1 (0.023%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.023%) CANalyzer
13 1 (0.023%) Fusion 360
13 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 156 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.58%) Sage 200
2 25 (0.58%) Sage 50
3 13 (0.30%) Endur
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.16%) SystmOne
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.046%) Magento
8 2 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
8 2 (0.046%) TIBCO iProcess
8 2 (0.046%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (0.046%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.023%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.023%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.023%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.023%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 1,921 (44.47%) Azure
2 608 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
3 592 (13.70%) AWS
4 378 (8.75%) Power Platform
5 306 (7.08%) SaaS
6 286 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
7 239 (5.53%) GitHub
8 181 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 171 (3.96%) PowerApps
10 155 (3.59%) Serverless
11 154 (3.56%) Power Automate
12 135 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 117 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 99 (2.29%) Azure Functions
15 84 (1.94%) GCP
16 83 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
17 80 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
18 77 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
19 71 (1.64%) PaaS
20 55 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 35 (0.81%) Intranet
2 31 (0.72%) Internet
3 28 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 26 (0.60%) DNS
5 24 (0.56%) Ethernet
6 22 (0.51%) Firewall
6 22 (0.51%) Network Security
7 14 (0.32%) HTTP
8 11 (0.25%) DHCP
8 11 (0.25%) Modbus
9 10 (0.23%) SSL
10 8 (0.19%) RS-232
10 8 (0.19%) RS-485
11 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.14%) SNMP
11 6 (0.14%) VPN
12 5 (0.12%) Broadband
12 5 (0.12%) MQTT
13 4 (0.093%) FTP
13 4 (0.093%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,073 (24.84%) SQL Server
2 213 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 163 (3.77%) Power BI
4 162 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 156 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 137 (3.17%) MySQL
7 126 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 125 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 114 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
10 92 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 87 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 50 (1.16%) SQLite
13 46 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (0.97%) Redis
15 38 (0.88%) Data Lake
15 38 (0.88%) RDBMS
16 21 (0.49%) DB2
17 18 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
18 17 (0.39%) Big Data
19 16 (0.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 587 (13.59%) Git
2 302 (6.99%) Visual Studio
3 185 (4.28%) JIRA
4 151 (3.50%) Selenium
5 134 (3.10%) Jenkins
6 112 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 81 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 71 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 60 (1.39%) MSBuild
10 56 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 52 (1.20%) SoapUI
12 51 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 46 (1.06%) Postman
14 45 (1.04%) GitLab
15 40 (0.93%) SpecFlow
16 36 (0.83%) NUnit
17 28 (0.65%) CircleCI
18 22 (0.51%) Cucumber
19 21 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
20 19 (0.44%) MSTest
General
1 1,004 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 617 (14.28%) Finance
3 284 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 167 (3.87%) Law
6 149 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 121 (2.80%) Retail
8 120 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 117 (2.71%) Legal
10 93 (2.15%) Electronics
11 90 (2.08%) Automotive
12 76 (1.76%) Banking
12 76 (1.76%) Marketing
13 74 (1.71%) Games
14 68 (1.57%) Front Office
15 56 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 33 (0.76%) Tech for Good
17 30 (0.69%) Back Office
18 29 (0.67%) Aerospace
19 28 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2,293 (53.08%) Developer
2 1,049 (24.28%) Senior
3 867 (20.07%) Software Engineer
4 755 (17.48%) .NET Developer
5 627 (14.51%) Senior Developer
6 605 (14.00%) C# Developer
7 517 (11.97%) Software Developer
8 384 (8.89%) Lead
9 299 (6.92%) C# .NET Developer
10 287 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 271 (6.27%) Full-Stack Developer
12 232 (5.37%) Senior .NET Developer
13 167 (3.87%) Architect
14 160 (3.70%) C# Software Engineer
15 144 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
16 133 (3.08%) Senior C# Developer
17 124 (2.87%) .NET Software Engineer
18 123 (2.85%) Senior Software Developer
19 122 (2.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 115 (2.66%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,981 (69.00%) .NET
2 941 (21.78%) HTML
3 898 (20.79%) CSS
4 781 (18.08%) ASP.NET
4 781 (18.08%) React
5 745 (17.25%) .NET Framework
6 679 (15.72%) .NET Core
7 606 (14.03%) AngularJS
8 369 (8.54%) Entity Framework
9 349 (8.08%) RESTful
10 328 (7.59%) REST
11 306 (7.08%) ASP.NET Web API
12 294 (6.81%) HTML5
13 275 (6.37%) WPF
14 258 (5.97%) Blazor
15 210 (4.86%) Web Services
16 194 (4.49%) XML
17 192 (4.44%) jQuery
18 173 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
19 171 (3.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 202 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
2 137 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 133 (3.08%) Mobile App
4 98 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 86 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 85 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 84 (1.94%) Robotics
8 76 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 56 (1.30%) NHS
12 54 (1.25%) Hedge funds
13 47 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
13 47 (1.09%) Management Information System
13 47 (1.09%) Onboarding
14 42 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
15 40 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
16 39 (0.90%) IoT
17 38 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 309 (7.15%) Windows
2 169 (3.91%) Linux
3 116 (2.69%) Android
4 80 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 18 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 15 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.35%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.23%) Unix
9 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.19%) CentOS
11 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.14%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.12%) VMS
14 4 (0.093%) Solaris
15 3 (0.069%) Debian
16 1 (0.023%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,510 (34.95%) Agile
2 1,379 (31.92%) Software Engineering
3 981 (22.71%) DevOps
4 852 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
5 800 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 727 (16.83%) CI/CD
7 604 (13.98%) Computer Science
8 570 (13.19%) MVC
9 538 (12.45%) Microservices
10 418 (9.68%) TDD
11 394 (9.12%) Mentoring
12 373 (8.63%) SDLC
13 355 (8.22%) OO
14 354 (8.19%) Test Automation
15 343 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence
16 314 (7.27%) Design Patterns
17 301 (6.97%) Unit Testing
18 295 (6.83%) Scrum
18 295 (6.83%) Software Testing
19 238 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,667 (38.59%) SQL
2 1,504 (34.81%) JavaScript
3 661 (15.30%) Python
4 618 (14.31%) TypeScript
5 517 (11.97%) Java
6 479 (11.09%) C++
7 258 (5.97%) C
8 230 (5.32%) T-SQL
9 173 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 129 (2.99%) VB.NET
11 101 (2.34%) PHP
12 87 (2.01%) Go
13 80 (1.85%) VB
14 46 (1.06%) Bicep
15 43 (1.00%) Bash
16 41 (0.95%) Objective-C
17 40 (0.93%) XAML
18 36 (0.83%) Ruby
19 33 (0.76%) PL/SQL
20 32 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 941 (21.78%) Degree
2 311 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 261 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 136 (3.15%) Master's Degree
5 120 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 96 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 56 (1.30%) PhD
9 31 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
10 30 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 23 (0.53%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (0.35%) ISEB
14 12 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (0.25%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.23%) CISSP
17 9 (0.21%) HND
18 7 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 7 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (5.37%) QA
2 89 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 80 (1.85%) GDPR
4 57 (1.32%) WCAG
5 33 (0.76%) SLA
6 22 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.44%) HL7
8 18 (0.42%) MiFID
9 17 (0.39%) IEC 61131
10 16 (0.37%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.19%) NIST
12 7 (0.16%) MISRA
13 5 (0.12%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.12%) NCSC
14 4 (0.093%) ISO 13485
15 3 (0.069%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.046%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.046%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.046%) JTAG
16 2 (0.046%) NIST 800
System Software
1 461 (10.67%) Docker
2 61 (1.41%) Firmware
3 49 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 39 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 15 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.093%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.093%) vSphere
10 3 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.023%) KVM
11 1 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 345 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 101 (2.34%) Terraform
3 25 (0.58%) Grafana
4 24 (0.56%) Ansible
5 23 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.28%) SCCM
6 12 (0.28%) WSUS
7 10 (0.23%) Graylog
7 10 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.14%) SCOM
10 4 (0.093%) Istio
10 4 (0.093%) Kibana
10 4 (0.093%) MIIS
11 3 (0.069%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.069%) MOM
12 2 (0.046%) Control-M
12 2 (0.046%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.046%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,016 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 122 (2.82%) Oracle
3 94 (2.18%) Xamarin
4 73 (1.69%) Google
5 70 (1.62%) Databricks
6 55 (1.27%) IBM
7 38 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 36 (0.83%) HP
8 36 (0.83%) Siemens
9 30 (0.69%) EMC
10 25 (0.58%) Sage
10 25 (0.58%) Sitecore
11 22 (0.51%) Salesforce
12 21 (0.49%) VMware
13 19 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.44%) ServiceNow
14 17 (0.39%) Adobe
14 17 (0.39%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.32%) OpenLink
16 13 (0.30%) Epicor