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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 386 204
Rank change year-on-year +1 -182 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 419 324 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.73% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.82% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 381 264 1,294
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 86,118 39,518 92,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.61% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,984 22,887 67,462
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%

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 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Top 16 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 20 May 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 +7 386 £60,000 - 39
UK excluding London +13 289 £55,000 +4.76% 30
Work from Home +25 182 £50,000 -13.04% 21
London +2 111 £85,000 - 14
North of England +16 100 £65,000 +18.18% 9
South East -6 75 £55,000 +1.38% 14
Midlands -32 62 £60,000 +14.29% 5
North West +29 52 £75,000 +50.00% 4
East Midlands -8 41 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire -17 39 £50,000 -11.89% 1
East of England -8 33 £25,000 -44.44% 4
West Midlands -55 21 £70,000 +27.27% 1
North East -40 9 £100,000 +45.45% 4
South West -62 9 £45,000 -16.28%
Scotland +9 8 £60,000 +53.85%
Wales -25 2 £37,500 -21.05%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 419 (100.00%) C#
2 226 (53.94%) .NET
3 178 (42.48%) Azure
4 138 (32.94%) SQL
5 96 (22.91%) Agile
6 93 (22.20%) SQL Server
7 89 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (20.76%) Software Engineering
9 85 (20.29%) Computer Science
10 75 (17.90%) .NET Core
11 73 (17.42%) AWS
11 73 (17.42%) PHP
12 61 (14.56%) CSS
13 51 (12.17%) Degree
13 51 (12.17%) MVC
14 50 (11.93%) Microsoft
15 48 (11.46%) Microservices
16 47 (11.22%) SaaS
17 43 (10.26%) SDLC
18 42 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
19 39 (9.31%) ASP.NET
20 35 (8.35%) HTML
21 32 (7.64%) C++
22 31 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
22 31 (7.40%) Vue
23 30 (7.16%) JavaScript
23 30 (7.16%) Mentoring
23 30 (7.16%) OOP
24 28 (6.68%) Fintech
24 28 (6.68%) Java

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 3 (0.72%) IIS
2 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Endur
1 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 178 (42.48%) Azure
2 73 (17.42%) AWS
3 47 (11.22%) SaaS
4 19 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (1.67%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.19%) GitHub
10 5 (1.19%) PaaS
10 5 (1.19%) Serverless
11 4 (0.95%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (22.20%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.77%) MySQL
3 17 (4.06%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.86%) Power BI
5 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.48%) CouchDB
7 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Git
2 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.24%) Plastic SCM
4 1 (0.24%) Selenium
4 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (26.49%) Finance
2 37 (8.83%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.06%) Banking
4 16 (3.82%) Front Office
5 11 (2.63%) Retail
6 9 (2.15%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.67%) Games
7 7 (1.67%) Law
8 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.48%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.24%) Advertising
11 1 (0.24%) iGaming
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (53.94%) .NET
2 75 (17.90%) .NET Core
3 61 (14.56%) CSS
4 39 (9.31%) ASP.NET
5 35 (8.35%) HTML
6 31 (7.40%) Vue
7 28 (6.68%) React
8 27 (6.44%) jQuery
9 25 (5.97%) .NET Framework
10 21 (5.01%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.34%) WinForms
12 13 (3.10%) Entity Framework
12 13 (3.10%) REST
13 12 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
13 12 (2.86%) RESTful
14 11 (2.63%) XML
15 8 (1.91%) Blazor
15 8 (1.91%) WPF
16 7 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (1.67%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.73%) Hedge funds
2 15 (3.58%) Virtual Team
3 11 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.15%) Sports Betting
6 7 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.43%) Derivative
8 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.19%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
9 4 (0.95%) EPoS
9 4 (0.95%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.72%) Equities
10 3 (0.72%) IoT
10 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.15%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.95%) Windows
3 3 (0.72%) Android
3 3 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (22.91%) Agile
2 89 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 87 (20.76%) Software Engineering
4 85 (20.29%) Computer Science
5 51 (12.17%) MVC
6 48 (11.46%) Microservices
7 43 (10.26%) SDLC
8 31 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (7.16%) Mentoring
9 30 (7.16%) OOP
10 28 (6.68%) Fintech
11 25 (5.97%) CQRS
11 25 (5.97%) Product Vision
11 25 (5.97%) Resource Allocation
12 24 (5.73%) Clean Code
13 23 (5.49%) CI/CD
14 22 (5.25%) DevOps
15 21 (5.01%) OO
15 21 (5.01%) Web Development
16 17 (4.06%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 419 (100.00%) C#
2 138 (32.94%) SQL
3 73 (17.42%) PHP
4 32 (7.64%) C++
5 30 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.68%) Java
7 25 (5.97%) Python
8 15 (3.58%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.63%) Delphi
10 9 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.95%) C
12 3 (0.72%) COBOL
13 2 (0.48%) Bicep
14 1 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (12.17%) Degree
2 42 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.72%) PhD
4 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.19%) QA
2 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.24%) GDPR
2 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.86%) Oracle
3 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.95%) Xamarin
4 3 (0.72%) Splunk
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe
5 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.24%) Databricks
5 1 (0.24%) IBM
5 1 (0.24%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.24%) Perforce
5 1 (0.24%) Reuters
5 1 (0.24%) SAP
5 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce