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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 215 239
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,355 1,809 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.75% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 1.91% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 1,705 2,296
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 £84,250 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 5 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 5 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 +11 1,282 £57,500 -11.54% 241
UK excluding London +14 1,003 £55,000 -4.35% 150
Work from Home -27 684 £55,000 -8.33% 163
London -54 308 £70,000 -12.50% 110
North of England +109 306 £55,000 -8.33% 39
South East -55 262 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands +70 155 £50,000 -7.41% 45
North West +55 152 £52,500 -12.50% 25
South West -23 136 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +115 103 £55,000 -18.52% 7
East of England +20 97 £57,500 +15.00% 6
West Midlands +45 81 £53,500 -8.94% 21
East Midlands +25 74 £47,500 +8.57% 24
North East +23 51 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Wales +18 21 £50,000 +11.11% 12
Northern Ireland +31 16 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Scotland -102 9 £60,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 1,355 (100.00%) C#
2 1,190 (87.82%) .NET
3 735 (54.24%) Azure
4 665 (49.08%) JavaScript
5 643 (47.45%) SQL Server
6 588 (43.39%) Agile
7 583 (43.03%) ASP.NET
8 557 (41.11%) Full Stack Development
9 491 (36.24%) .NET Core
10 469 (34.61%) MVC
11 441 (32.55%) SQL
12 438 (32.32%) AngularJS
13 436 (32.18%) Microsoft
14 366 (27.01%) .NET Framework
15 352 (25.98%) HTML
16 330 (24.35%) ASP.NET MVC
17 328 (24.21%) Microservices
18 319 (23.54%) ASP.NET Web API
19 308 (22.73%) Entity Framework
20 272 (20.07%) React
21 251 (18.52%) CSS
22 243 (17.93%) RESTful
23 222 (16.38%) DevOps
23 222 (16.38%) TDD
24 214 (15.79%) Finance
25 204 (15.06%) Social Skills
26 196 (14.46%) TypeScript
27 188 (13.87%) AWS
28 168 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
29 166 (12.25%) 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 71 (5.24%) IIS
2 68 (5.02%) CMS
3 36 (2.66%) Kentico
4 34 (2.51%) Sitecore CMS
4 34 (2.51%) Umbraco
5 33 (2.44%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.37%) Confluence
8 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.074%) EPiServer
Applications
1 15 (1.11%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.074%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 17 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
2 15 (1.11%) SDL Web 8
3 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) Maximo
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 735 (54.24%) Azure
2 188 (13.87%) AWS
3 168 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (3.32%) GitHub
5 44 (3.25%) Serverless
6 34 (2.51%) SaaS
7 33 (2.44%) Kontent
8 32 (2.36%) Google Play
8 32 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 25 (1.85%) Azure Functions
9 25 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (1.11%) GCP
11 15 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 14 (1.03%) NuGet
13 13 (0.96%) Azure API Management
13 13 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.81%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.80%) Internet
2 10 (0.74%) Hyperconnected
3 9 (0.66%) Network Security
4 8 (0.59%) Broadband
4 8 (0.59%) Mobile Broadband
5 5 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.22%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.15%) 4G
7 2 (0.15%) 5G
7 2 (0.15%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 643 (47.45%) SQL Server
2 88 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 60 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
4 59 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (2.36%) Redis
6 30 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.85%) MySQL
7 25 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.03%) Power BI
10 12 (0.89%) Oracle Database
11 11 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.74%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.37%) Big Data
14 5 (0.37%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.22%) GIS
16 2 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 130 (9.59%) Visual Studio
2 111 (8.19%) Git
3 43 (3.17%) NUnit
4 37 (2.73%) Jasmine
5 35 (2.58%) JIRA
6 32 (2.36%) TeamCity
7 31 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 28 (2.07%) Karma Test Runner
8 28 (2.07%) Team Foundation Server
9 19 (1.40%) Jenkins
9 19 (1.40%) Moq
10 17 (1.25%) Postman
11 14 (1.03%) git-flow
11 14 (1.03%) Sourcetree
11 14 (1.03%) SpecFlow
12 12 (0.89%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.66%) Selenium
13 9 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.52%) MSTest
15 6 (0.44%) CMake
General
1 214 (15.79%) Finance
2 204 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 60 (4.43%) Games
4 49 (3.62%) Marketing
5 42 (3.10%) Music Industry
6 38 (2.80%) Retail
7 36 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.14%) Front Office
9 26 (1.92%) Banking
9 26 (1.92%) Law
10 24 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 23 (1.70%) Advertising
12 22 (1.62%) Legal
13 19 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.25%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.74%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,190 (87.82%) .NET
2 583 (43.03%) ASP.NET
3 491 (36.24%) .NET Core
4 438 (32.32%) AngularJS
5 366 (27.01%) .NET Framework
6 352 (25.98%) HTML
7 330 (24.35%) ASP.NET MVC
8 319 (23.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 308 (22.73%) Entity Framework
10 272 (20.07%) React
11 251 (18.52%) CSS
12 243 (17.93%) RESTful
13 163 (12.03%) HTML5
14 122 (9.00%) Blazor
15 103 (7.60%) Vue
15 103 (7.60%) Web Services
16 102 (7.53%) LINQ
17 91 (6.72%) CSS3
18 89 (6.57%) WPF
19 88 (6.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.20%) Greenfield Project
2 66 (4.87%) Mobile App
3 44 (3.25%) Client/Server
4 41 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.36%) iPhone
6 29 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 27 (1.99%) Hedge funds
8 25 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
10 20 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.18%) Legacy Code
13 15 (1.11%) Equities
14 14 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 14 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
16 9 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.54%) Android
2 46 (3.39%) Windows
3 15 (1.11%) Linux
4 14 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (43.39%) Agile
2 557 (41.11%) Full Stack Development
3 469 (34.61%) MVC
4 328 (24.21%) Microservices
5 222 (16.38%) DevOps
5 222 (16.38%) TDD
6 166 (12.25%) Software Engineering
7 155 (11.44%) Scrum
8 153 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (10.41%) Multithreading
10 129 (9.52%) CI/CD
11 127 (9.37%) Unit Testing
12 122 (9.00%) Web Development
13 119 (8.78%) BDD
14 105 (7.75%) Design Patterns
15 103 (7.60%) Mentoring
16 97 (7.16%) Computer Science
17 95 (7.01%) Kanban
18 93 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
19 84 (6.20%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,355 (100.00%) C#
2 665 (49.08%) JavaScript
3 441 (32.55%) SQL
4 196 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 96 (7.08%) T-SQL
6 54 (3.99%) VB.NET
7 32 (2.36%) VB
8 31 (2.29%) Java
9 29 (2.14%) Python
9 29 (2.14%) VB6
10 16 (1.18%) Delphi
11 15 (1.11%) XPath
12 11 (0.81%) C++
12 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 9 (0.66%) Bicep
14 8 (0.59%) C
15 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.44%) F#
16 6 (0.44%) XAML
17 4 (0.30%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 108 (7.97%) Degree
2 42 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.03%) Security Cleared
4 7 (0.52%) CTC Cleared
4 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.37%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.30%) MCSD
7 3 (0.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.22%) MCPD
7 3 (0.22%) PhD
8 2 (0.15%) HNC
9 1 (0.074%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.074%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.074%) MCSA
9 1 (0.074%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.17%) QA
2 5 (0.37%) GDPR
3 3 (0.22%) SLA
4 1 (0.074%) EMIR
4 1 (0.074%) MiFID
4 1 (0.074%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (5.76%) Docker
2 14 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.22%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.70%) Terraform
3 7 (0.52%) MIIS
4 5 (0.37%) Grafana
4 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 436 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.51%) Google
2 34 (2.51%) Sitecore
3 33 (2.44%) Optimizely
4 28 (2.07%) Facebook
4 28 (2.07%) Oracle
5 15 (1.11%) Adobe
5 15 (1.11%) Xamarin
6 14 (1.03%) Cognizant
7 8 (0.59%) OpenAI
7 8 (0.59%) SAP
8 6 (0.44%) Twitter
9 5 (0.37%) Splunk
10 4 (0.30%) Databricks
10 4 (0.30%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.15%) Charles River
11 2 (0.15%) VMware
12 1 (0.074%) F5
12 1 (0.074%) Telerik
12 1 (0.074%) UiPath