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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 884 1074
Rank change year-on-year +65 +190 -249
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 85 109 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.11% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 76 104 145
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +19.47%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Top 13 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 3 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 +67 84 £70,000 -6.67% 12
UK excluding London +4 62 £68,750 -8.33% 6
Work from Home +86 47 £70,000 -6.67% 9
North of England +55 33 £70,000 -3.45% 3
South East 0 23 £67,500 -10.00%
London +112 21 £91,500 -8.50% 6
North West +10 19 £70,000 -15.15%
North East - 8 £70,000 - 3
Yorkshire +72 6 £57,500 -17.86%
Midlands +16 3 £60,000 -4.00% 2
South West -29 3 £57,500 -
West Midlands +18 2 £60,000 -4.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 85 (100.00%) C#
2 72 (84.71%) .NET
3 37 (43.53%) Agile
4 36 (42.35%) SQL
5 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
5 35 (41.18%) Azure
6 29 (34.12%) AWS
6 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
7 25 (29.41%) ASP.NET
7 25 (29.41%) RESTful
7 25 (29.41%) Mentoring
8 22 (25.88%) .NET Framework
9 21 (24.71%) Finance
10 20 (23.53%) .NET Core
11 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
11 18 (21.18%) Visual Studio
12 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
12 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 16 (18.82%) Design Patterns
14 15 (17.65%) Microservices
14 15 (17.65%) CSS
14 15 (17.65%) Web Development
15 14 (16.47%) T-SQL
15 14 (16.47%) MySQL
15 14 (16.47%) Client/Server
15 14 (16.47%) Docker
15 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
16 13 (15.29%) DevOps
16 13 (15.29%) Computer Science
17 12 (14.12%) HTML

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 35 (41.18%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.59%) Serverless
5 8 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.24%) Pulumi
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.71%) GitHub
9 3 (3.53%) SaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.47%) MySQL
3 8 (9.41%) Redis
4 5 (5.88%) Couchbase
4 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Visual Studio
2 11 (12.94%) NUnit
3 10 (11.76%) Git
3 10 (11.76%) TeamCity
4 7 (8.24%) Jasmine
4 7 (8.24%) Selenium
4 7 (8.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (8.24%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.18%) Moq
6 1 (1.18%) MSTest
General
1 21 (24.71%) Finance
2 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Games
4 3 (3.53%) Front Office
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Back Office
5 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (84.71%) .NET
2 25 (29.41%) ASP.NET
2 25 (29.41%) RESTful
3 22 (25.88%) .NET Framework
4 20 (23.53%) .NET Core
5 15 (17.65%) CSS
6 12 (14.12%) HTML
7 11 (12.94%) AngularJS
7 11 (12.94%) Web Services
8 9 (10.59%) Entity Framework
8 9 (10.59%) JSON
9 8 (9.41%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (9.41%) OpenID
9 8 (9.41%) WinForms
10 7 (8.24%) ARM Templates
10 7 (8.24%) HTML5
10 7 (8.24%) WPF
10 7 (8.24%) XML
11 6 (7.06%) jQuery
11 6 (7.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Client/Server
2 8 (9.41%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.53%) Online Games
6 2 (2.35%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.35%) e-Health
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.18%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Android
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Agile
2 25 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
4 16 (18.82%) Design Patterns
5 15 (17.65%) Microservices
5 15 (17.65%) Web Development
6 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (15.29%) Computer Science
7 13 (15.29%) DevOps
8 10 (11.76%) Multithreading
8 10 (11.76%) Scrum
8 10 (11.76%) SOLID
8 10 (11.76%) TDD
8 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 9 (10.59%) Decision-Making
9 9 (10.59%) Fintech
9 9 (10.59%) OOP
10 8 (9.41%) MVC
10 8 (9.41%) OO
10 8 (9.41%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (42.35%) SQL
3 29 (34.12%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.24%) Bicep
6 6 (7.06%) C++
7 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.71%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.35%) Java
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Docker
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Terraform
2 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) MIIS
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle
3 1 (1.18%) Xamarin