C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 639 558 715
Rank change year-on-year -81 +157 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 259 475 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 242 456 490
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,813 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £95,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +17.65%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -48 235 £52,500 -12.50% 50
UK excluding London -71 220 £52,500 -4.55% 42
Work from Home -54 120 £53,500 -10.83% 31
North of England +79 77 £48,000 -12.73% 11
North West +42 46 £47,500 -26.92% 6
South East -91 44 £63,000 +12.00% 10
Midlands +31 43 £53,500 +18.89% 10
London +31 31 £58,250 -24.84% 12
West Midlands +43 29 £53,500 +9.74% 6
South West -8 28 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Yorkshire +98 23 £49,500 -26.67% 3
Northern Ireland +38 16 £47,500 -5.00%
East Midlands -7 14 £47,500 +26.67% 4
North East -9 8 £60,000 +14.29% 2
East of England +1 6 £45,000 -21.74% 3
Wales +12 3 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Scotland -70 3 £60,000 +41.18%

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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.

1 259 (100.00%) C#
2 205 (79.15%) .NET
3 117 (45.17%) SQL
4 109 (42.08%) SQL Server
5 86 (33.20%) JavaScript
6 85 (32.82%) Agile
6 85 (32.82%) Social Skills
7 84 (32.43%) ASP.NET
8 81 (31.27%) MVC
9 76 (29.34%) Azure
10 75 (28.96%) HTML
11 69 (26.64%) .NET Core
12 65 (25.10%) .NET Framework
13 64 (24.71%) Finance
14 59 (22.78%) Entity Framework
15 51 (19.69%) CSS
16 50 (19.31%) React
17 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (17.37%) Software Engineering
19 43 (16.60%) DevOps
20 42 (16.22%) AngularJS
21 39 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
22 37 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
22 37 (14.29%) Microservices
22 37 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
23 36 (13.90%) Git
23 36 (13.90%) RESTful
24 34 (13.13%) Degree
25 32 (12.36%) AWS
25 32 (12.36%) Docker

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 4 (1.54%) IIS
2 2 (0.77%) CMS
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (29.34%) Azure
2 37 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (12.36%) AWS
4 16 (6.18%) GitHub
5 11 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (4.25%) Serverless
6 8 (3.09%) SaaS
7 7 (2.70%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.54%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.16%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.16%) PaaS
9 3 (1.16%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.39%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.09%) Network Security
2 4 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) 4G
3 2 (0.77%) 5G
4 1 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (42.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.02%) MySQL
3 8 (3.09%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.93%) Redis
5 3 (1.16%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.16%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.77%) Power BI
6 2 (0.77%) SQLite
7 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (13.90%) Git
2 29 (11.20%) Visual Studio
3 14 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (4.25%) CircleCI
4 11 (4.25%) TeamCity
5 8 (3.09%) Jasmine
5 8 (3.09%) NUnit
5 8 (3.09%) Selenium
5 8 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (2.32%) CMake
7 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.16%) JIRA
8 2 (0.77%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.77%) GCC
General
1 85 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.71%) Finance
3 8 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (2.70%) Law
4 7 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 7 (2.70%) Music Industry
5 6 (2.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.93%) Games
6 5 (1.93%) Retail
7 3 (1.16%) Automotive
7 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
8 2 (0.77%) Front Office
9 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Military
9 1 (0.39%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (79.15%) .NET
2 84 (32.43%) ASP.NET
3 75 (28.96%) HTML
4 69 (26.64%) .NET Core
5 65 (25.10%) .NET Framework
6 59 (22.78%) Entity Framework
7 51 (19.69%) CSS
8 50 (19.31%) React
9 42 (16.22%) AngularJS
10 37 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
11 36 (13.90%) RESTful
12 20 (7.72%) ASP.NET Web API
12 20 (7.72%) WPF
13 19 (7.34%) HTML5
14 17 (6.56%) jQuery
15 13 (5.02%) Blazor
16 12 (4.63%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (4.63%) Vue
17 9 (3.47%) LESS
18 8 (3.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.49%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.02%) Client/Server
3 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.70%) Podcast
5 6 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.93%) Mobile Computing
6 5 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.77%) e-Health
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.77%) Online Games
10 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.39%) IoT
10 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.56%) Windows
2 8 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.32%) Android
3 6 (2.32%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.82%) Agile
2 81 (31.27%) MVC
3 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (17.37%) Software Engineering
5 43 (16.60%) DevOps
6 39 (15.06%) Full Stack Development
7 37 (14.29%) Microservices
8 32 (12.36%) Mentoring
9 28 (10.81%) CI/CD
9 28 (10.81%) Design Patterns
10 27 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.04%) Computer Science
12 25 (9.65%) Clean Code
12 25 (9.65%) Test Automation
13 24 (9.27%) Web Development
14 22 (8.49%) TDD
15 21 (8.11%) Unit Testing
16 19 (7.34%) Fintech
16 19 (7.34%) SDLC
16 19 (7.34%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 259 (100.00%) C#
2 117 (45.17%) SQL
3 86 (33.20%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.49%) TypeScript
5 21 (8.11%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.86%) Java
7 9 (3.47%) VB.NET
8 7 (2.70%) Bicep
9 6 (2.32%) XAML
10 4 (1.54%) C++
11 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.77%) VB
12 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.39%) PHP
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.39%) Python
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (13.13%) Degree
2 16 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.54%) MCSD
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.39%) MCSA
4 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.63%) QA
2 3 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (12.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.79%) Terraform
3 7 (2.70%) MIIS
4 4 (1.54%) Grafana
4 4 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.54%) Facebook
2 4 (1.54%) Splunk
3 3 (1.16%) Oracle
4 2 (0.77%) Twitter
4 2 (0.77%) VMware
5 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.39%) Xamarin