C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 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 620 553 716
Rank change year-on-year -67 +163 -285
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 306 459 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.52% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 289 441 508
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £68,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £96,250 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%

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# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
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# Software 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 -42 273 £52,500 -12.50% 65
UK excluding London -54 263 £50,000 -9.09% 54
Work from Home -34 146 £53,500 -10.83% 43
North of England +93 93 £49,500 -10.00% 17
South East -107 61 £63,500 -2.31% 8
North West +37 47 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Midlands +13 42 £53,500 +18.89% 14
London +51 33 £70,000 -9.68% 16
South West -20 33 £52,500 +10.53% 7
Yorkshire +93 32 £49,500 -1.00% 5
West Midlands +26 30 £53,500 +9.74% 8
Northern Ireland +26 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
North East -6 14 £60,000 +14.29% 4
East Midlands -12 12 £47,500 +18.75% 6
Wales +8 9 £30,000 -33.33% 3
East of England -17 5 £42,500 -26.09% 4
Scotland -64 3 £60,000 +41.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 306 (100.00%) C#
2 243 (79.41%) .NET
3 124 (40.52%) SQL
4 114 (37.25%) SQL Server
5 105 (34.31%) Azure
6 103 (33.66%) JavaScript
7 95 (31.05%) ASP.NET
8 94 (30.72%) Agile
9 88 (28.76%) .NET Core
10 84 (27.45%) Social Skills
10 84 (27.45%) MVC
11 79 (25.82%) HTML
12 76 (24.84%) .NET Framework
13 68 (22.22%) Finance
13 68 (22.22%) Entity Framework
14 61 (19.93%) DevOps
15 58 (18.95%) Full Stack Development
16 57 (18.63%) React
17 56 (18.30%) CSS
18 54 (17.65%) Software Engineering
19 49 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
19 49 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
20 48 (15.69%) AngularJS
21 44 (14.38%) Git
21 44 (14.38%) Microservices
22 43 (14.05%) RESTful
23 41 (13.40%) CI/CD
24 40 (13.07%) Microsoft
25 38 (12.42%) ASP.NET MVC
26 36 (11.76%) AWS

C# Software 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 6 (1.96%) CMS
2 4 (1.31%) IIS
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (34.31%) Azure
2 49 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (11.76%) AWS
4 19 (6.21%) GitHub
4 19 (6.21%) SaaS
5 14 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.27%) Serverless
7 7 (2.29%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.31%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.98%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.25%) Network Security
2 4 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.65%) 4G
3 2 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (37.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.92%) MySQL
3 8 (2.61%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.61%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.63%) Redis
5 3 (0.98%) Couchbase
5 3 (0.98%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (0.98%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.65%) Power BI
6 2 (0.65%) SQLite
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (14.38%) Git
2 35 (11.44%) Visual Studio
3 14 (4.58%) CircleCI
3 14 (4.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (4.25%) Jasmine
4 13 (4.25%) NUnit
4 13 (4.25%) Selenium
4 13 (4.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 11 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.96%) CMake
7 4 (1.31%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.65%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.65%) GCC
9 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 84 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.22%) Finance
3 12 (3.92%) Law
4 11 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.29%) Music Industry
8 6 (1.96%) Games
8 6 (1.96%) Multimedia
8 6 (1.96%) Retail
9 4 (1.31%) Automotive
10 3 (0.98%) Marketing
11 2 (0.65%) Advertising
11 2 (0.65%) Back Office
11 2 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (0.65%) Front Office
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (79.41%) .NET
2 95 (31.05%) ASP.NET
3 88 (28.76%) .NET Core
4 79 (25.82%) HTML
5 76 (24.84%) .NET Framework
6 68 (22.22%) Entity Framework
7 57 (18.63%) React
8 56 (18.30%) CSS
9 48 (15.69%) AngularJS
10 43 (14.05%) RESTful
11 38 (12.42%) ASP.NET MVC
12 32 (10.46%) ASP.NET Web API
13 21 (6.86%) HTML5
13 21 (6.86%) jQuery
14 19 (6.21%) WPF
15 14 (4.58%) Vue
16 13 (4.25%) Blazor
17 12 (3.92%) LESS
18 11 (3.59%) ASP.NET Core
18 11 (3.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.21%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.25%) Client/Server
3 11 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.29%) Podcast
7 6 (1.96%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.63%) Mobile Computing
8 5 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.98%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.65%) Derivative
10 2 (0.65%) e-Health
10 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.65%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.65%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.21%) Windows
2 8 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.96%) Android
3 6 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.72%) Agile
2 84 (27.45%) MVC
3 61 (19.93%) DevOps
4 58 (18.95%) Full Stack Development
5 54 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 49 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.38%) Microservices
8 41 (13.40%) CI/CD
9 36 (11.76%) Mentoring
10 33 (10.78%) Design Patterns
11 29 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (9.48%) Test Automation
11 29 (9.48%) Web Development
12 28 (9.15%) TDD
13 27 (8.82%) Computer Science
13 27 (8.82%) Unit Testing
14 25 (8.17%) SDLC
15 24 (7.84%) Clean Code
16 22 (7.19%) SOLID
17 20 (6.54%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 306 (100.00%) C#
2 124 (40.52%) SQL
3 103 (33.66%) JavaScript
4 23 (7.52%) TypeScript
5 18 (5.88%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.92%) VB.NET
7 10 (3.27%) Java
8 7 (2.29%) Bicep
9 6 (1.96%) XAML
10 3 (0.98%) C++
10 3 (0.98%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.65%) Python
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (10.78%) Degree
2 16 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.31%) MCSD
5 1 (0.33%) MCSA
5 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.92%) QA
2 3 (0.98%) SLA
3 2 (0.65%) EMIR
3 2 (0.65%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.90%) Terraform
3 7 (2.29%) MIIS
4 4 (1.31%) Grafana
4 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.31%) Facebook
2 4 (1.31%) Splunk
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle
4 2 (0.65%) Sitecore
4 2 (0.65%) Twitter
4 2 (0.65%) VMware
5 1 (0.33%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.33%) Xamarin