C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 574 631 553
Rank change year-on-year +57 -78 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 157 491 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.41% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 151 451 587
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £33,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,375 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.95% +16.67% -

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 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
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# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software 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# Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +41 139 £55,000 -4.35% 71
UK excluding London +42 109 £49,375 -5.95% 61
Work from Home +87 72 £53,500 -6.96% 39
South East +56 52 £50,000 -9.09% 16
London +166 39 £72,500 +7.41% 20
Midlands +134 27 £53,500 +18.89% 5
East Midlands +65 16 £56,250 +33.14% 3
North of England +96 13 £45,000 -10.00% 23
West Midlands +144 11 £53,500 +18.89% 2
Scotland +51 6 £51,250 -2.38%
Yorkshire +91 5 £47,500 -2.56% 8
North East +27 5 £45,000 -10.00% 5
South West +26 4 £52,500 +16.67% 6
North West +80 3 £45,000 -16.28% 10
Wales +22 3 £50,000 +17.65% 5
East of England +110 2 £47,500 -38.71% 6
Northern Ireland +29 2 £41,500 +18.57% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2023, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 157 (100.00%) C#
2 147 (93.63%) .NET
3 89 (56.69%) JavaScript
4 84 (53.50%) SQL
5 72 (45.86%) SQL Server
6 70 (44.59%) ASP.NET
7 69 (43.95%) MVC
8 67 (42.68%) HTML
9 66 (42.04%) CSS
9 66 (42.04%) .NET Core
10 63 (40.13%) Azure
11 62 (39.49%) Agile
12 48 (30.57%) Finance
13 44 (28.03%) Microsoft
14 43 (27.39%) React
15 42 (26.75%) ASP.NET MVC
16 41 (26.11%) .NET Framework
17 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
18 37 (23.57%) ASP.NET Web API
19 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
20 34 (21.66%) Design Patterns
21 33 (21.02%) SOLID
22 29 (18.47%) Full Stack Development
23 28 (17.83%) T-SQL
24 25 (15.92%) Clean Code
25 23 (14.65%) Docker
25 23 (14.65%) AWS
26 21 (13.38%) TDD
27 20 (12.74%) Scrum
27 20 (12.74%) AngularJS

C# Software 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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) CMS
2 3 (1.91%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.27%) IIS
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.64%) Kentico
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.13%) Azure
2 23 (14.65%) AWS
3 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.37%) GCP
3 10 (6.37%) SaaS
3 10 (6.37%) Serverless
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (4.46%) CloudFront
7 5 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.55%) GitHub
9 3 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.27%) Azure App Service
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.27%) PaaS
10 2 (1.27%) Scribe Online
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (45.86%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.46%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.18%) MySQL
5 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 13 (8.28%) Git
2 10 (6.37%) JIRA
3 4 (2.55%) NUnit
3 4 (2.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (30.57%) Finance
2 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.64%) Law
4 10 (6.37%) Automotive
5 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.18%) Electronics
6 4 (2.55%) Front Office
6 4 (2.55%) Retail
7 3 (1.91%) Advertising
8 2 (1.27%) Back Office
8 2 (1.27%) Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (93.63%) .NET
2 70 (44.59%) ASP.NET
3 67 (42.68%) HTML
4 66 (42.04%) .NET Core
4 66 (42.04%) CSS
5 43 (27.39%) React
6 42 (26.75%) ASP.NET MVC
7 41 (26.11%) .NET Framework
8 37 (23.57%) ASP.NET Web API
9 20 (12.74%) AngularJS
10 14 (8.92%) Entity Framework
10 14 (8.92%) Web Services
11 13 (8.28%) REST
11 13 (8.28%) Vue
12 11 (7.01%) Blazor
12 11 (7.01%) jQuery
12 11 (7.01%) RESTful
13 10 (6.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (5.73%) React Native
15 7 (4.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.64%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.55%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.27%) Derivative
5 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.64%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.64%) Life Science
6 1 (0.64%) PropTech
6 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (2.55%) Android
2 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.95%) MVC
2 62 (39.49%) Agile
3 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
4 34 (21.66%) Design Patterns
5 33 (21.02%) SOLID
6 29 (18.47%) Full Stack Development
7 25 (15.92%) Clean Code
8 21 (13.38%) TDD
9 20 (12.74%) Microservices
9 20 (12.74%) Scrum
10 18 (11.46%) Unit Testing
10 18 (11.46%) Wealth Management
10 18 (11.46%) Wireframes
11 16 (10.19%) Software Engineering
12 15 (9.55%) DevOps
12 15 (9.55%) Web Development
13 14 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (8.28%) E-Commerce
14 13 (8.28%) Mentoring
14 13 (8.28%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) C#
2 89 (56.69%) JavaScript
3 84 (53.50%) SQL
4 28 (17.83%) T-SQL
5 17 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.10%) PHP
7 5 (3.18%) Python
8 4 (2.55%) Java
9 2 (1.27%) C++
9 2 (1.27%) VB
9 2 (1.27%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.64%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.64%) Rust
10 1 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (7.64%) Degree
2 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.82%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (14.65%) Docker
2 6 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) MIIS
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (28.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.73%) Oracle
3 8 (5.10%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.55%) Telerik
5 2 (1.27%) Ariba
5 2 (1.27%) RedGate
5 2 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Xamarin