Lead C# Developer
UK

The median Lead C# Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 795 867 1088
Rank change year-on-year +72 +221 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 83 105 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.10% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.11% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 74 100 141
10th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £89,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% +13.64%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Lead C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead C# Developer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +87 82 £70,000 -6.67% 13
UK excluding London -19 60 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Work from Home +79 45 £70,000 -6.67% 10
North of England +56 33 £70,000 -3.45% 2
South East +1 22 £70,000 -6.67%
London +103 21 £90,750 -9.25% 9
North West +8 19 £70,000 -15.15%
North East - 8 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +77 6 £57,500 -17.86%
South West -20 3 £57,500 -
West Midlands +18 2 £60,000 -4.00% 1
Midlands 0 2 £60,000 -4.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead C# Developer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) C#
2 70 (84.34%) .NET
3 36 (43.37%) Agile
4 35 (42.17%) SQL
5 33 (39.76%) SQL Server
5 33 (39.76%) Azure
6 29 (34.94%) AWS
6 29 (34.94%) JavaScript
7 26 (31.33%) RESTful
8 24 (28.92%) ASP.NET
8 24 (28.92%) Mentoring
9 22 (26.51%) .NET Framework
9 22 (26.51%) Finance
10 19 (22.89%) .NET Core
11 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
11 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
11 17 (20.48%) Visual Studio
12 16 (19.28%) Web Development
12 16 (19.28%) Design Patterns
13 15 (18.07%) Microservices
13 15 (18.07%) CSS
13 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
14 14 (16.87%) Client/Server
14 14 (16.87%) MySQL
14 14 (16.87%) Computer Science
14 14 (16.87%) Docker
14 14 (16.87%) Full Stack Development
15 13 (15.66%) T-SQL
16 12 (14.46%) HTML
16 12 (14.46%) Web Services

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) Azure
2 29 (34.94%) AWS
3 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (10.84%) Serverless
4 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.43%) Pulumi
6 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.02%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub
8 3 (3.61%) SaaS
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (39.76%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.87%) MySQL
3 8 (9.64%) Redis
4 5 (6.02%) Couchbase
4 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.02%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (20.48%) Visual Studio
2 10 (12.05%) Git
2 10 (12.05%) NUnit
2 10 (12.05%) TeamCity
3 7 (8.43%) Jasmine
3 7 (8.43%) Selenium
3 7 (8.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (8.43%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.41%) Moq
4 2 (2.41%) MSTest
General
1 22 (26.51%) Finance
2 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Games
4 2 (2.41%) Front Office
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Back Office
5 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Retail
5 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (84.34%) .NET
2 26 (31.33%) RESTful
3 24 (28.92%) ASP.NET
4 22 (26.51%) .NET Framework
5 19 (22.89%) .NET Core
6 15 (18.07%) CSS
7 12 (14.46%) HTML
7 12 (14.46%) Web Services
8 11 (13.25%) AngularJS
9 10 (12.05%) Entity Framework
9 10 (12.05%) JSON
10 8 (9.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (9.64%) OpenID
10 8 (9.64%) XML
11 7 (8.43%) ARM Templates
11 7 (8.43%) HTML5
11 7 (8.43%) jQuery
11 7 (8.43%) WinForms
12 6 (7.23%) OAuth
12 6 (7.23%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Client/Server
2 8 (9.64%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.61%) Online Games
4 3 (3.61%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.41%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.41%) e-Health
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Android
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.37%) Agile
2 24 (28.92%) Mentoring
3 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
4 16 (19.28%) Design Patterns
4 16 (19.28%) Web Development
5 15 (18.07%) Microservices
6 14 (16.87%) Computer Science
6 14 (16.87%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (14.46%) DevOps
8 10 (12.05%) Fintech
8 10 (12.05%) Multithreading
8 10 (12.05%) SOLID
9 9 (10.84%) OOP
9 9 (10.84%) Scrum
9 9 (10.84%) Test Automation
10 8 (9.64%) MVC
10 8 (9.64%) OO
10 8 (9.64%) SDLC
10 8 (9.64%) SOA
10 8 (9.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) C#
2 35 (42.17%) SQL
3 29 (34.94%) JavaScript
4 13 (15.66%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.43%) Bicep
6 6 (7.23%) C++
7 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.82%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.41%) Java
9 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (12.05%) Terraform
2 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) MIIS
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle
3 1 (1.20%) Xamarin