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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 8,136 9,530 18,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.14% 9.64% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.49% 22.25% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,847 7,027 10,526
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,875 £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 £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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 33,227 42,836 88,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.23% 43.33% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,855 27,410 43,712
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 21 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 21 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 +5 7,178 £57,501 -11.54% 1,726
UK excluding London +3 6,105 £55,000 -2.65% 1,289
Work from Home -2 3,683 £57,500 -7.93% 1,328
London -3 1,679 £77,500 - 547
North of England +14 1,586 £55,000 -4.35% 366
South East -3 1,559 £57,500 -4.17% 248
Midlands +26 1,034 £50,000 -9.09% 298
North West +18 912 £55,000 -4.35% 203
South West +9 723 £51,000 -7.27% 148
West Midlands +46 535 £52,500 -4.55% 175
East of England +6 526 £55,000 -4.35% 88
Yorkshire +13 510 £52,500 -8.70% 115
East Midlands +13 497 £50,000 -4.76% 122
Scotland -40 402 £55,000 +4.76% 96
Wales +1 196 £50,000 +11.11% 46
North East +1 164 £60,000 +9.09% 53
Northern Ireland -13 78 £55,000 +10.00% 23
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
1 195 (2.40%) ArcGIS
2 188 (2.31%) CMS
3 182 (2.24%) GeoServer
4 166 (2.04%) IIS
4 166 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 125 (1.54%) Confluence
6 105 (1.29%) Umbraco
7 56 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 52 (0.64%) Sitecore CMS
9 50 (0.61%) Kentico
10 41 (0.50%) Headless CMS
11 36 (0.44%) Apache
12 24 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 22 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
14 19 (0.23%) NServiceBus
15 17 (0.21%) EPiServer
16 10 (0.12%) Apache Solr
16 10 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
17 7 (0.086%) Mendix
17 7 (0.086%) nginx
Applications
1 93 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (0.31%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.15%) Simulink
6 8 (0.098%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.061%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.061%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.037%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.037%) Sketch
9 3 (0.037%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.025%) Revit
10 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.012%) Blender
11 1 (0.012%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.012%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.012%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 164 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.41%) SDL Web 8
3 26 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 17 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 12 (0.15%) Epicor Tropos
6 10 (0.12%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.074%) SAP PLM
8 5 (0.061%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.061%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.049%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.049%) Endur
9 4 (0.049%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.037%) Maximo
10 3 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.025%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.025%) SAP Business ByDesign
11 2 (0.025%) Shopify
11 2 (0.025%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,182 (51.40%) Azure
2 1,446 (17.77%) AWS
3 1,011 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 404 (4.97%) Serverless
6 333 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
7 331 (4.07%) SaaS
8 294 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 256 (3.15%) Azure Functions
10 242 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 240 (2.95%) IBM Cloud
12 233 (2.86%) GCP
13 226 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 225 (2.77%) PowerApps
15 169 (2.08%) GitHub
16 161 (1.98%) Azure API Management
17 146 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
18 101 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 98 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
20 79 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.29%) Internet
2 76 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 74 (0.91%) DNS
4 65 (0.80%) Firewall
5 34 (0.42%) DHCP
6 29 (0.36%) Network Security
7 27 (0.33%) Modbus
7 27 (0.33%) SSL
8 26 (0.32%) RS-232
9 23 (0.28%) Ethernet
9 23 (0.28%) HTTP
10 18 (0.22%) Wireless
11 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
12 15 (0.18%) Broadband
12 15 (0.18%) Mobile Broadband
12 15 (0.18%) VPN
13 14 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.15%) WAN
15 10 (0.12%) Bluetooth
15 10 (0.12%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,470 (30.36%) SQL Server
2 617 (7.58%) MongoDB
3 606 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
4 516 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 388 (4.77%) Relational Database
6 275 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 273 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 266 (3.27%) Power BI
9 250 (3.07%) MySQL
10 240 (2.95%) DB2
11 202 (2.48%) GIS
12 180 (2.21%) QGIS
13 143 (1.76%) Redis
14 139 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 127 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 75 (0.92%) 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
1 961 (11.81%) Git
2 613 (7.53%) Visual Studio
3 329 (4.04%) JIRA
4 176 (2.16%) Selenium
5 157 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 144 (1.77%) NUnit
7 135 (1.66%) TeamCity
8 130 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 119 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 86 (1.06%) GitLab
11 85 (1.04%) Postman
12 80 (0.98%) Sourcetree
13 76 (0.93%) Cypress.io
14 74 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
15 73 (0.90%) SpecFlow
16 67 (0.82%) Moq
17 56 (0.69%) Jasmine
18 51 (0.63%) Subversion
19 45 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
20 44 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 1,389 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 1,133 (13.93%) Finance
3 484 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 428 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 392 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 288 (3.54%) Games
7 284 (3.49%) Marketing
8 245 (3.01%) Law
9 240 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 218 (2.68%) Retail
11 216 (2.65%) Banking
12 214 (2.63%) Front Office
13 161 (1.98%) Back Office
14 150 (1.84%) Electronics
15 119 (1.46%) Legal
16 117 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 101 (1.24%) Advertising
18 90 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
19 87 (1.07%) Telecoms
20 82 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5,020 (61.70%) Developer
2 2,246 (27.61%) .NET Developer
3 1,675 (20.59%) Senior
4 1,401 (17.22%) C# Developer
5 1,335 (16.41%) Software Engineer
6 1,055 (12.97%) Software Developer
7 1,012 (12.44%) Senior Developer
8 852 (10.47%) C# .NET Developer
9 681 (8.37%) Lead
10 647 (7.95%) Full Stack Developer
11 467 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 347 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
13 331 (4.07%) Lead Developer
14 316 (3.88%) Senior Software Developer
15 291 (3.58%) Senior C# Developer
16 285 (3.50%) C# Software Developer
17 283 (3.48%) .NET Software Developer
18 271 (3.33%) Architect
19 258 (3.17%) Azure Developer
20 251 (3.09%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,879 (72.26%) .NET
2 2,306 (28.34%) ASP.NET
3 2,124 (26.11%) .NET Core
4 1,978 (24.31%) AngularJS
5 1,881 (23.12%) HTML
6 1,857 (22.82%) React
7 1,821 (22.38%) CSS
8 1,523 (18.72%) .NET Framework
9 1,195 (14.69%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,134 (13.94%) Entity Framework
11 1,080 (13.27%) ASP.NET MVC
12 980 (12.05%) Vue
13 717 (8.81%) RESTful
14 681 (8.37%) Web Services
15 678 (8.33%) REST
16 652 (8.01%) HTML5
17 600 (7.37%) Node.js
18 582 (7.15%) jQuery
19 558 (6.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 452 (5.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 407 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 397 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
3 329 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 245 (3.01%) Blockchain
4 245 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 220 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 210 (2.58%) Hedge funds
7 205 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 170 (2.09%) Derivative
9 165 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 164 (2.02%) Cloud Native
11 162 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 161 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
13 119 (1.46%) e-Learning
14 114 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
15 112 (1.38%) Equities
16 107 (1.32%) Client/Server
16 107 (1.32%) Fixed Income
17 103 (1.27%) Onboarding
18 99 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 757 (9.30%) Windows
2 601 (7.39%) Linux
3 376 (4.62%) Android
4 323 (3.97%) Apple iOS
5 74 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (0.27%) AIX
8 20 (0.25%) Unix
9 18 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 11 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 11 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 10 (0.12%) Solaris
15 9 (0.11%) VMS
16 6 (0.074%) CentOS
16 6 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.061%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.061%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,556 (43.71%) Agile
2 2,341 (28.77%) Full Stack Development
3 2,295 (28.21%) Software Engineering
4 2,003 (24.62%) DevOps
5 1,858 (22.84%) MVC
6 1,343 (16.51%) Microservices
7 1,153 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
8 966 (11.87%) Scrum
9 960 (11.80%) Computer Science
10 945 (11.62%) TDD
11 888 (10.91%) CI/CD
12 841 (10.34%) Web Development
13 813 (9.99%) OO
14 808 (9.93%) Design Patterns
15 720 (8.85%) Mentoring
16 609 (7.49%) SOLID
17 605 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
18 603 (7.41%) Test Automation
19 539 (6.62%) OOP
20 538 (6.61%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3,562 (43.78%) JavaScript
2 2,822 (34.69%) SQL
3 1,294 (15.90%) Python
4 1,173 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 831 (10.21%) Java
6 517 (6.35%) C++
7 416 (5.11%) C
8 370 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 304 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 231 (2.84%) VB.NET
11 197 (2.42%) VB
12 139 (1.71%) PHP
13 100 (1.23%) Go
14 75 (0.92%) XAML
15 63 (0.77%) MATLAB
16 60 (0.74%) Bash
17 58 (0.71%) Bicep
18 53 (0.65%) Ruby
19 45 (0.55%) XPath
20 42 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,420 (17.45%) Degree
2 606 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 480 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 440 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 163 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 127 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 112 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 64 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 61 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 51 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 51 (0.63%) PhD
11 32 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 28 (0.34%) HNC
13 21 (0.26%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (0.16%) HND
16 10 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
16 10 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (5.65%) QA
2 112 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 40 (0.49%) WCAG
4 37 (0.45%) GDPR
5 24 (0.29%) SLA
6 22 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 16 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (0.18%) WAI
10 14 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 13 (0.16%) PMO
12 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.086%) IEC 61131
13 7 (0.086%) MISRA
14 6 (0.074%) HL7
15 5 (0.061%) JTAG
15 5 (0.061%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.049%) DICOM
16 4 (0.049%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 4 (0.049%) NCSC
System Software
1 616 (7.57%) Docker
2 109 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.65%) Firmware
4 47 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 39 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.098%) KVM
10 7 (0.086%) vSphere
11 6 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.049%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.025%) Ceph
14 2 (0.025%) HDFS
14 2 (0.025%) NFS
14 2 (0.025%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 557 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 193 (2.37%) Terraform
3 63 (0.77%) Ansible
4 37 (0.45%) Grafana
5 30 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 29 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.25%) SCCM
8 20 (0.25%) WSUS
9 15 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (0.18%) Puppet
9 15 (0.18%) SCOM
10 12 (0.15%) MIIS
11 10 (0.12%) Kibana
12 8 (0.098%) Packer
13 6 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.061%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.061%) Stealthwatch
15 4 (0.049%) Functional Safety
15 4 (0.049%) Istio
Vendors
1 2,241 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 245 (3.01%) Red Hat
3 242 (2.97%) IBM
4 190 (2.34%) ESRI
5 184 (2.26%) Google
6 170 (2.09%) Oracle
7 130 (1.60%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.19%) Facebook
9 69 (0.85%) YouTube
10 65 (0.80%) Sitecore
11 58 (0.71%) SAP
12 52 (0.64%) VMware
13 51 (0.63%) Apple
14 40 (0.49%) Optimizely
15 35 (0.43%) DevExpress
16 33 (0.41%) F5
16 33 (0.41%) Sony
16 33 (0.41%) Yahoo!
17 30 (0.37%) Adobe
18 28 (0.34%) Cisco