Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 554 750
Rank change year-on-year -84 +196 -314
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 277 497 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 237 474 415
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £102,350 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.14% +16.67% +14.29%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
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%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# 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 Senior C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 -39 260 £64,000 -8.57% 36
UK excluding London -126 184 £61,500 -12.14% 18
Work from Home -59 132 £61,500 -12.14% 22
London +40 79 £90,000 +12.50% 23
South East -63 61 £61,500 -12.14% 4
South West -8 47 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North of England +5 32 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Midlands -1 18 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Yorkshire +68 16 £55,000 -21.43%
East of England +18 11 £110,000 +57.14% 1
North West -9 11 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East Midlands -6 10 £56,250 +2.27% 2
West Midlands +3 8 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £55,000 -
Scotland -81 5 £60,000 - 3
North East - 5 £55,000 -
Wales +14 3 £55,000 -4.35% 2

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

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

1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 227 (81.95%) .NET
3 142 (51.26%) Azure
4 136 (49.10%) JavaScript
5 124 (44.77%) SQL Server
6 121 (43.68%) ASP.NET
7 105 (37.91%) .NET Framework
8 100 (36.10%) DevOps
9 99 (35.74%) MVC
10 97 (35.02%) .NET Core
11 93 (33.57%) React
12 90 (32.49%) Agile
13 82 (29.60%) SQL
14 69 (24.91%) RESTful
14 69 (24.91%) Azure DevOps
15 68 (24.55%) HTML
15 68 (24.55%) Microsoft
16 67 (24.19%) CSS
17 62 (22.38%) CMS
18 61 (22.02%) ASP.NET MVC
19 60 (21.66%) Entity Framework
20 58 (20.94%) Full Stack Development
21 52 (18.77%) Git
21 52 (18.77%) Continuous Integration
22 51 (18.41%) CI/CD
23 48 (17.33%) E-Commerce
24 47 (16.97%) AWS
24 47 (16.97%) Technical Leadership
25 46 (16.61%) Unit Testing
26 45 (16.25%) Social Skills

Senior 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 62 (22.38%) CMS
2 33 (11.91%) Headless CMS
2 33 (11.91%) IIS
2 33 (11.91%) Kentico
2 33 (11.91%) Sitecore CMS
2 33 (11.91%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (5.42%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.36%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (5.05%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 142 (51.26%) Azure
2 69 (24.91%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (16.97%) AWS
4 33 (11.91%) Kontent
5 18 (6.50%) GitHub
6 17 (6.14%) Serverless
7 14 (5.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 14 (5.05%) NuGet
8 12 (4.33%) SaaS
9 11 (3.97%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.81%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.44%) TestFlight
13 3 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.08%) PaaS
13 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (44.77%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.44%) Big Data
5 4 (1.44%) Redis
5 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.08%) MySQL
7 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.72%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) SQLite
8 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 52 (18.77%) Git
2 30 (10.83%) Visual Studio
3 21 (7.58%) JIRA
4 17 (6.14%) Moq
4 17 (6.14%) NUnit
4 17 (6.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 17 (6.14%) TeamCity
5 14 (5.05%) git-flow
5 14 (5.05%) Sourcetree
5 14 (5.05%) SpecFlow
6 6 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.17%) CMake
7 3 (1.08%) Postman
8 2 (0.72%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.72%) MSTest
8 2 (0.72%) Selenium
8 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.00%) Finance
3 15 (5.42%) Banking
4 14 (5.05%) Marketing
5 9 (3.25%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.89%) Legal
7 7 (2.53%) Music Industry
8 5 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.81%) Front Office
8 5 (1.81%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Back Office
9 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (0.72%) Games
10 2 (0.72%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (81.95%) .NET
2 121 (43.68%) ASP.NET
3 105 (37.91%) .NET Framework
4 97 (35.02%) .NET Core
5 93 (33.57%) React
6 69 (24.91%) RESTful
7 68 (24.55%) HTML
8 67 (24.19%) CSS
9 61 (22.02%) ASP.NET MVC
10 60 (21.66%) Entity Framework
11 39 (14.08%) AngularJS
12 33 (11.91%) Next.js
13 32 (11.55%) Web Services
14 27 (9.75%) jQuery
15 26 (9.39%) Blazor
16 19 (6.86%) REST
17 17 (6.14%) LESS
18 16 (5.78%) ASP.NET MVC 5
18 16 (5.78%) XML
19 14 (5.05%) Code First Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.36%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (5.05%) Legacy Code
3 14 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.81%) Derivative
10 4 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.44%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.44%) Podcast
10 4 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.08%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.08%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.30%) Windows
2 12 (4.33%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.53%) Android
4 6 (2.17%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.81%) Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.10%) DevOps
2 99 (35.74%) MVC
3 90 (32.49%) Agile
4 58 (20.94%) Full Stack Development
5 52 (18.77%) Continuous Integration
6 51 (18.41%) CI/CD
7 48 (17.33%) E-Commerce
8 47 (16.97%) Technical Leadership
9 46 (16.61%) Unit Testing
10 45 (16.25%) Microservices
11 44 (15.88%) Mentoring
12 41 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (14.44%) Project Delivery
14 38 (13.72%) SOLID
15 36 (13.00%) Design Patterns
16 34 (12.27%) Deployment Automation
16 34 (12.27%) Web Development
17 33 (11.91%) CRM
17 33 (11.91%) ERP
17 33 (11.91%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 277 (100.00%) C#
2 136 (49.10%) JavaScript
3 82 (29.60%) SQL
4 43 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 34 (12.27%) T-SQL
6 16 (5.78%) Java
7 14 (5.05%) Python
7 14 (5.05%) XPath
8 8 (2.89%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.81%) Delphi
9 5 (1.81%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.44%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.44%) Swift
10 4 (1.44%) VBScript
11 3 (1.08%) C
11 3 (1.08%) F#
11 3 (1.08%) PHP
11 3 (1.08%) VBA
12 2 (0.72%) C++
12 2 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (11.19%) Degree
2 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.36%) PhD
3 1 (0.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.44%) QA
2 1 (0.36%) EMIR
2 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (5.78%) Docker
2 7 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.91%) Optimizely
2 33 (11.91%) Sitecore
3 14 (5.05%) Adobe
3 14 (5.05%) Cognizant
4 8 (2.89%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.44%) Databricks
6 3 (1.08%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.72%) Charles River
7 2 (0.72%) Google
7 2 (0.72%) VMware
8 1 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.36%) Telerik
8 1 (0.36%) UiPath