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 to 2 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 255 219 171
Rank change year-on-year -36 -48 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 716 2,148 2,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 1.71% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.80% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 664 1,978 2,542
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%

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 50,923 119,491 123,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.34% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37,248 74,881 84,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,005
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -29 668 £60,000 - 271
UK excluding London -48 386 £52,500 -4.55% 225
Work from Home -54 376 £57,500 -4.17% 184
London -10 289 £75,000 -6.25% 63
South East -19 118 £53,750 -6.52% 66
Midlands +153 100 £52,500 +2.44% 35
North of England -27 82 £49,500 -10.00% 70
North West +21 59 £50,000 -9.09% 33
East Midlands +72 56 £52,500 +5.00% 16
West Midlands +119 44 £53,500 +1.90% 19
South West -41 38 £55,000 +10.00% 15
East of England +62 32 £52,500 +7.69% 28
Yorkshire +3 17 £51,250 -14.58% 29
Scotland +4 10 £51,250 -2.38% 4
North East +15 6 £43,750 -12.50% 11
Wales +12 5 £50,000 +2.56% 12
Northern Ireland +19 2 £41,500 -20.95% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2023, 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.

1 716 (100.00%) C#
2 618 (86.31%) .NET
3 320 (44.69%) Azure
4 311 (43.44%) JavaScript
5 291 (40.64%) SQL
6 276 (38.55%) SQL Server
7 255 (35.61%) Agile
8 225 (31.42%) .NET Core
9 207 (28.91%) ASP.NET
10 203 (28.35%) HTML
11 194 (27.09%) Finance
12 183 (25.56%) MVC
12 183 (25.56%) CSS
13 181 (25.28%) Full Stack Development
14 170 (23.74%) Microsoft
15 135 (18.85%) DevOps
15 135 (18.85%) CI/CD
16 129 (18.02%) AngularJS
17 127 (17.74%) .NET Framework
18 122 (17.04%) Microservices
19 116 (16.20%) Social Skills
20 113 (15.78%) React
21 105 (14.66%) ASP.NET Web API
22 102 (14.25%) Software Engineering
23 95 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
24 93 (12.99%) Scrum
25 86 (12.01%) AWS
26 82 (11.45%) ASP.NET MVC
27 79 (11.03%) Git
28 78 (10.89%) Docker

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 20 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.82%) CMS
3 11 (1.54%) Confluence
4 9 (1.26%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.98%) IIS
6 4 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
8 2 (0.28%) Kentico
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.14%) Mendix
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Blender
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.28%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Scribe Insight
3 2 (0.28%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 320 (44.69%) Azure
2 86 (12.01%) AWS
3 72 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (7.82%) Serverless
5 36 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 31 (4.33%) GitHub
7 29 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (3.49%) SaaS
9 23 (3.21%) GCP
10 21 (2.93%) Azure Functions
11 20 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (1.82%) PaaS
13 12 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (0.98%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.42%) MQTT
1 3 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.14%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (38.55%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.01%) Relational Database
3 29 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 23 (3.21%) MySQL
7 21 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (2.65%) Power BI
9 15 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.96%) Oracle Database
11 12 (1.68%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.54%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (1.12%) Redis
15 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
17 3 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
17 3 (0.42%) Tableau
18 2 (0.28%) ActiveReports
18 2 (0.28%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 79 (11.03%) Git
2 53 (7.40%) Visual Studio
3 17 (2.37%) Postman
3 17 (2.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 14 (1.96%) JIRA
4 14 (1.96%) NUnit
5 9 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (1.12%) Moq
7 7 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (0.84%) git-flow
8 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.56%) MSTest
10 4 (0.56%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.42%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.42%) Serilog
11 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.28%) Gitleaks
13 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 194 (27.09%) Finance
2 116 (16.20%) Social Skills
3 41 (5.73%) Law
4 38 (5.31%) Front Office
5 33 (4.61%) Retail
6 31 (4.33%) Banking
7 26 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (2.93%) Legal
9 15 (2.09%) Automotive
10 14 (1.96%) Marketing
11 13 (1.82%) Back Office
12 12 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 11 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.26%) Electronics
14 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.12%) Advertising
15 8 (1.12%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (86.31%) .NET
2 225 (31.42%) .NET Core
3 207 (28.91%) ASP.NET
4 203 (28.35%) HTML
5 183 (25.56%) CSS
6 129 (18.02%) AngularJS
7 127 (17.74%) .NET Framework
8 113 (15.78%) React
9 105 (14.66%) ASP.NET Web API
10 82 (11.45%) ASP.NET MVC
11 61 (8.52%) RESTful
12 57 (7.96%) Blazor
12 57 (7.96%) Entity Framework
12 57 (7.96%) REST
13 54 (7.54%) Web Services
14 49 (6.84%) HTML5
15 39 (5.45%) WPF
16 37 (5.17%) ASP.NET Core
16 37 (5.17%) jQuery
17 35 (4.89%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.21%) Hedge funds
4 21 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.68%) Contactless
9 12 (1.68%) Smartcard
10 11 (1.54%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (1.40%) Derivative
11 10 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.26%) Equities
13 8 (1.12%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.98%) Sports Betting
15 6 (0.84%) FMCG
16 5 (0.70%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.42%) Windows
2 11 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.26%) Android
4 8 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (35.61%) Agile
2 183 (25.56%) MVC
3 181 (25.28%) Full Stack Development
4 135 (18.85%) CI/CD
4 135 (18.85%) DevOps
5 122 (17.04%) Microservices
6 102 (14.25%) Software Engineering
7 95 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (12.99%) Scrum
9 78 (10.89%) Design Patterns
9 78 (10.89%) TDD
10 77 (10.75%) Web Development
11 73 (10.20%) SOLID
11 73 (10.20%) Unit Testing
12 62 (8.66%) Mentoring
13 55 (7.68%) Clean Code
13 55 (7.68%) OO
14 50 (6.98%) OOP
15 45 (6.28%) Multithreading
15 45 (6.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 716 (100.00%) C#
2 311 (43.44%) JavaScript
3 291 (40.64%) SQL
4 73 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 58 (8.10%) T-SQL
6 31 (4.33%) Python
7 24 (3.35%) Java
8 17 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.23%) VB.NET
10 14 (1.96%) C++
11 13 (1.82%) PHP
12 8 (1.12%) Bicep
13 7 (0.98%) Delphi
14 6 (0.84%) Objective-C
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.70%) VB
16 4 (0.56%) VBA
17 3 (0.42%) F#
17 3 (0.42%) VB6
17 3 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (7.68%) Degree
2 23 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 9 (1.26%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) MCPD
7 2 (0.28%) PhD
8 1 (0.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.37%) QA
2 9 (1.26%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.42%) GDPR
3 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 78 (10.89%) Docker
2 17 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.40%) Terraform
3 5 (0.70%) MIIS
4 2 (0.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.28%) Kibana
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.63%) Oracle
3 8 (1.12%) Salesforce
4 7 (0.98%) Telerik
5 6 (0.84%) SAP
6 4 (0.56%) Sitecore
6 4 (0.56%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.28%) Aderant
7 2 (0.28%) Ariba
7 2 (0.28%) Charles River
7 2 (0.28%) Google
7 2 (0.28%) iManage
7 2 (0.28%) Intapp
7 2 (0.28%) Okta
7 2 (0.28%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.28%) RedGate
7 2 (0.28%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.14%) Sage