C# Developer Job Trends

C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 349 195
Rank change year-on-year -71 -154 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 243 428 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.80% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.86% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 225 295 844
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% -8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 54,710 49,797 52,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 92.91% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,899 25,819 40,678
10th Percentile £28,560 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -5.18%

C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'C# Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for C# Developer job vacancies in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK

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 C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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 -68 225 £64,250 +11.74% 67
UK excluding London -38 176 £56,250 +12.50% 59
Work from Home -1 103 £55,000 -4.35% 45
London -21 59 £95,000 +22.58% 23
Midlands +3 54 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South East -4 44 £57,500 +15.00% 20
North of England -23 38 £55,000 +10.00% 16
East Midlands -19 33 £65,000 +23.81% 2
West Midlands +9 21 £70,000 +33.33% 7
North East +12 15 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +10 15 £25,000 -50.00%
North West +3 15 £55,000 +10.00% 11
South West +6 14 £52,000 +4.00% 4
Scotland +8 8 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Yorkshire -28 8 £70,000 +41.41% 4
Wales +6 2 £38,250 -21.54% 2
Northern Ireland -14 1 - -

C# Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, C# Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring C# Developer in the job title.

1 243 (100.00%) C#
2 173 (71.19%) .NET
3 120 (49.38%) Azure
4 88 (36.21%) Agile
5 77 (31.69%) SQL
6 74 (30.45%) SQL Server
7 73 (30.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 69 (28.40%) .NET Core
9 58 (23.87%) JavaScript
10 55 (22.63%) Software Engineering
11 52 (21.40%) AWS
12 47 (19.34%) React
13 43 (17.70%) CSS
14 40 (16.46%) MVC
15 39 (16.05%) .NET Framework
15 39 (16.05%) ASP.NET
16 37 (15.23%) Computer Science
17 36 (14.81%) AngularJS
18 34 (13.99%) CI/CD
19 31 (12.76%) Degree
20 30 (12.35%) HTML
21 27 (11.11%) Microservices
22 26 (10.70%) PHP
22 26 (10.70%) REST
22 26 (10.70%) TypeScript
23 25 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
23 25 (10.29%) DevOps
24 24 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
25 23 (9.47%) OOP
26 22 (9.05%) Entity Framework

C# Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.88%) CMS
2 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.82%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) IIS
2 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.41%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.41%) Endur
3 1 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 120 (49.38%) Azure
2 52 (21.40%) AWS
3 22 (9.05%) SaaS
4 14 (5.76%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.47%) GitHub
8 6 (2.47%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.65%) Serverless
11 3 (1.23%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.23%) Zapier
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Batch
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Table
12 2 (0.82%) GCP
12 2 (0.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) DNS
1 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (30.45%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.05%) MySQL
3 16 (6.58%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.06%) Power BI
7 4 (1.65%) Redis
7 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) MS Access
8 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.41%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.41%) GIS
9 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Git
2 7 (2.88%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.47%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.23%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) MSTest
6 1 (0.41%) NUnit
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (24.69%) Finance
2 36 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.05%) Front Office
4 15 (6.17%) Games
5 14 (5.76%) Banking
6 9 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.29%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.88%) Law
9 6 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.06%) Aviation
11 4 (1.65%) Electronics
11 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.23%) Legal
12 3 (1.23%) Retail
13 2 (0.82%) Back Office
13 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Advertising
14 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (71.19%) .NET
2 69 (28.40%) .NET Core
3 47 (19.34%) React
4 43 (17.70%) CSS
5 39 (16.05%) .NET Framework
5 39 (16.05%) ASP.NET
6 36 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 30 (12.35%) HTML
8 26 (10.70%) REST
9 22 (9.05%) Entity Framework
10 20 (8.23%) ASP.NET MVC
11 18 (7.41%) jQuery
12 12 (4.94%) WPF
13 10 (4.12%) Blazor
13 10 (4.12%) WinForms
14 9 (3.70%) Vue
15 7 (2.88%) RESTful
16 6 (2.47%) DirectX
16 6 (2.47%) OpenGL
16 6 (2.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.53%) Derivative
4 7 (2.88%) Client/Server
4 7 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.88%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (2.47%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.47%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.65%) IoT
7 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.23%) Grid Computing
9 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.47%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.06%) Android
3 3 (1.23%) Linux
3 3 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (36.21%) Agile
2 73 (30.04%) Full-Stack Development
3 55 (22.63%) Software Engineering
4 40 (16.46%) MVC
5 37 (15.23%) Computer Science
6 34 (13.99%) CI/CD
7 27 (11.11%) Microservices
8 25 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (10.29%) DevOps
9 24 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (9.47%) OOP
11 21 (8.64%) Mentoring
12 19 (7.82%) Design Patterns
13 18 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (6.58%) Analytics
14 16 (6.58%) OO
14 16 (6.58%) TDD
15 15 (6.17%) Web Development
16 13 (5.35%) Architectural Patterns
16 13 (5.35%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 243 (100.00%) C#
2 77 (31.69%) SQL
3 58 (23.87%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.70%) PHP
4 26 (10.70%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.82%) C++
6 18 (7.41%) Java
7 12 (4.94%) Python
8 11 (4.53%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.29%) XAML
10 7 (2.88%) Delphi
11 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.23%) C
12 3 (1.23%) COBOL
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) Dart
Qualifications
1 31 (12.76%) Degree
2 19 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.06%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.06%) QA
2 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (6.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.76%) Terraform
2 4 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.88%) Oracle
3 2 (0.82%) ION Trading
3 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe
4 1 (0.41%) ESRI
4 1 (0.41%) IBM
4 1 (0.41%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.41%) Perforce
4 1 (0.41%) Xamarin