C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 213 256
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,461 1,696 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 1.74% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.91% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 1,604 2,263
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £86,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £111,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C# Developer.

Salary trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
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# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +19 1,370 £57,500 -11.54% 222
UK excluding London +32 1,083 £55,000 -2.65% 152
Work from Home -19 725 £55,000 -8.33% 153
North of England +127 343 £55,000 - 54
London -41 330 £70,000 -12.50% 78
South East -45 287 £55,000 -8.33% 23
North West +65 164 £52,500 -6.67% 33
Midlands +47 158 £50,000 -7.41% 42
South West 0 141 £56,250 +12.50% 15
Yorkshire +132 117 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East of England +4 93 £57,500 +15.00% 9
West Midlands +37 82 £53,500 -5.31% 18
East Midlands +14 76 £47,500 - 24
North East +35 62 £60,000 +26.32% 10
Wales +19 29 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Northern Ireland +26 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland -84 14 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, C# Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 1,461 (100.00%) C#
2 1,277 (87.41%) .NET
3 791 (54.14%) Azure
4 713 (48.80%) JavaScript
5 666 (45.59%) SQL Server
6 632 (43.26%) Agile
7 618 (42.30%) Full Stack Development
8 612 (41.89%) ASP.NET
9 523 (35.80%) .NET Core
10 485 (33.20%) AngularJS
11 480 (32.85%) MVC
12 460 (31.49%) SQL
13 449 (30.73%) Microsoft
14 387 (26.49%) .NET Framework
15 364 (24.91%) HTML
16 348 (23.82%) ASP.NET Web API
17 344 (23.55%) Microservices
17 344 (23.55%) ASP.NET MVC
18 327 (22.38%) Entity Framework
19 295 (20.19%) React
20 276 (18.89%) RESTful
21 269 (18.41%) CSS
22 251 (17.18%) DevOps
23 249 (17.04%) TDD
24 239 (16.36%) Finance
25 208 (14.24%) Social Skills
26 207 (14.17%) TypeScript
27 206 (14.10%) AWS
28 180 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
29 169 (11.57%) Software Engineering

C# Developer Skill Set
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 76 (5.20%) CMS
2 75 (5.13%) IIS
3 36 (2.46%) Kentico
3 36 (2.46%) Sitecore CMS
3 36 (2.46%) Umbraco
4 34 (2.33%) Headless CMS
5 15 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.34%) Confluence
8 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.068%) Apache
10 1 (0.068%) EPiServer
Applications
1 18 (1.23%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.068%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.068%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.23%) SDL Web 8
2 15 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 791 (54.14%) Azure
2 206 (14.10%) AWS
3 180 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (3.15%) GitHub
5 43 (2.94%) SaaS
6 40 (2.74%) Serverless
7 34 (2.33%) Kontent
8 32 (2.19%) Google Play
9 29 (1.98%) Power Platform
10 23 (1.57%) Azure Functions
10 23 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 17 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (1.16%) NuGet
12 16 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (1.03%) GCP
14 14 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (0.82%) Azure API Management
16 12 (0.82%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.45%) Internet
2 13 (0.89%) Network Security
3 10 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
4 9 (0.62%) Broadband
4 9 (0.62%) Mobile Broadband
5 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.14%) 4G
7 2 (0.14%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (45.59%) SQL Server
2 93 (6.37%) MongoDB
3 65 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (2.46%) NoSQL
6 35 (2.40%) Redis
7 27 (1.85%) MySQL
7 27 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.82%) Power BI
10 11 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.68%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.68%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.34%) Big Data
13 5 (0.34%) Couchbase
14 4 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.21%) GIS
16 2 (0.14%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 138 (9.45%) Visual Studio
2 125 (8.56%) Git
3 48 (3.29%) NUnit
4 41 (2.81%) Jasmine
5 39 (2.67%) JIRA
6 38 (2.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 36 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 28 (1.92%) Karma Test Runner
8 28 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (1.71%) Moq
10 24 (1.64%) Jenkins
11 17 (1.16%) git-flow
11 17 (1.16%) Sourcetree
11 17 (1.16%) SpecFlow
12 16 (1.10%) Postman
13 14 (0.96%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.89%) Selenium
14 13 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
15 11 (0.75%) MSTest
16 6 (0.41%) CMake
General
1 239 (16.36%) Finance
2 208 (14.24%) Social Skills
3 70 (4.79%) Games
4 55 (3.76%) Marketing
5 45 (3.08%) Music Industry
6 40 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 36 (2.46%) Retail
9 28 (1.92%) Front Office
10 26 (1.78%) Law
11 25 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.64%) Advertising
13 23 (1.57%) Banking
13 23 (1.57%) Legal
14 22 (1.51%) Public Sector
15 21 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.68%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,277 (87.41%) .NET
2 612 (41.89%) ASP.NET
3 523 (35.80%) .NET Core
4 485 (33.20%) AngularJS
5 387 (26.49%) .NET Framework
6 364 (24.91%) HTML
7 348 (23.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 344 (23.55%) ASP.NET MVC
9 327 (22.38%) Entity Framework
10 295 (20.19%) React
11 276 (18.89%) RESTful
12 269 (18.41%) CSS
13 167 (11.43%) HTML5
14 118 (8.08%) Blazor
15 115 (7.87%) Vue
15 115 (7.87%) Web Services
16 103 (7.05%) LINQ
17 95 (6.50%) CSS3
18 90 (6.16%) REST
18 90 (6.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (4.24%) Mobile App
3 46 (3.15%) Client/Server
4 42 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.26%) Hedge funds
7 32 (2.19%) iPhone
8 25 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.37%) Legacy Code
12 20 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.23%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
14 17 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.03%) Equities
16 14 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.82%) Fixed Income
18 10 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.29%) Android
2 45 (3.08%) Windows
3 15 (1.03%) Linux
4 13 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (43.26%) Agile
2 618 (42.30%) Full Stack Development
3 480 (32.85%) MVC
4 344 (23.55%) Microservices
5 251 (17.18%) DevOps
6 249 (17.04%) TDD
7 169 (11.57%) Software Engineering
8 168 (11.50%) Scrum
9 165 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
10 156 (10.68%) Multithreading
11 149 (10.20%) CI/CD
12 145 (9.92%) Unit Testing
13 128 (8.76%) BDD
14 127 (8.69%) Web Development
15 118 (8.08%) Design Patterns
16 106 (7.26%) Computer Science
16 106 (7.26%) Mentoring
17 105 (7.19%) Kanban
18 100 (6.84%) Continuous Integration
19 93 (6.37%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,461 (100.00%) C#
2 713 (48.80%) JavaScript
3 460 (31.49%) SQL
4 207 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 99 (6.78%) T-SQL
6 55 (3.76%) VB.NET
7 36 (2.46%) Python
8 31 (2.12%) Java
9 30 (2.05%) VB
10 29 (1.98%) VB6
11 18 (1.23%) XPath
12 15 (1.03%) Delphi
13 13 (0.89%) C++
14 12 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.62%) C
16 7 (0.48%) Bicep
16 7 (0.48%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.41%) F#
17 6 (0.41%) XAML
18 3 (0.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 121 (8.28%) Degree
2 46 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (0.82%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (0.41%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.41%) PhD
6 5 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (0.27%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.27%) MCSD
7 4 (0.27%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.21%) MCPD
9 2 (0.14%) HNC
10 1 (0.068%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.068%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.068%) MCSA
10 1 (0.068%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.93%) QA
2 5 (0.34%) GDPR
3 3 (0.21%) MiFID
3 3 (0.21%) SLA
4 2 (0.14%) EMIR
System Software
1 81 (5.54%) Docker
2 13 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.57%) Terraform
3 7 (0.48%) MIIS
4 6 (0.41%) Grafana
4 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 449 (30.73%) Microsoft
2 36 (2.46%) Sitecore
3 35 (2.40%) Optimizely
4 34 (2.33%) Google
5 28 (1.92%) Facebook
6 27 (1.85%) Oracle
7 19 (1.30%) Adobe
8 17 (1.16%) Cognizant
9 15 (1.03%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.55%) SAP
12 6 (0.41%) Splunk
12 6 (0.41%) Twitter
13 4 (0.27%) Databricks
13 4 (0.27%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.14%) VMware
15 1 (0.068%) Charles River
15 1 (0.068%) F5
15 1 (0.068%) UiPath