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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 579 699
Rank change year-on-year -73 +120 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 266 473 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 249 455 502
10th Percentile £36,200 £40,000 £32,575
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £78,750 £65,938
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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -57 241 £52,500 -12.50% 54
UK excluding London -92 226 £52,500 -4.55% 42
Work from Home -53 124 £53,500 -10.83% 34
North of England +64 79 £48,000 -12.73% 8
South East -105 48 £61,250 +2.08% 11
North West +40 46 £47,500 -24.00% 6
Midlands +38 42 £53,500 +18.89% 12
London +22 32 £59,000 -23.87% 16
West Midlands +33 29 £53,500 +9.74% 8
South West -23 29 £52,500 +10.53% 5
Yorkshire +97 25 £49,500 -26.67% 1
Northern Ireland +32 16 £47,500 -5.00%
East Midlands -7 13 £48,750 +25.81% 4
North East -10 8 £60,000 +14.29% 1
East of England +8 5 £42,500 -26.09% 3
Wales +13 4 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Scotland -72 3 £60,000 +41.18%

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 266 (100.00%) C#
2 212 (79.70%) .NET
3 118 (44.36%) SQL
4 109 (40.98%) SQL Server
5 90 (33.83%) JavaScript
6 87 (32.71%) ASP.NET
7 85 (31.95%) Agile
7 85 (31.95%) Social Skills
8 84 (31.58%) MVC
9 80 (30.08%) Azure
10 78 (29.32%) HTML
11 74 (27.82%) .NET Core
12 69 (25.94%) .NET Framework
13 65 (24.44%) Finance
14 62 (23.31%) Entity Framework
15 53 (19.92%) CSS
16 52 (19.55%) React
17 48 (18.05%) Software Engineering
18 47 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
19 45 (16.92%) DevOps
20 44 (16.54%) AngularJS
21 42 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
22 39 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
23 38 (14.29%) Microservices
23 38 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
23 38 (14.29%) Git
24 37 (13.91%) RESTful
25 34 (12.78%) Degree
26 33 (12.41%) Docker
26 33 (12.41%) Mentoring

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 (1.50%) IIS
2 2 (0.75%) CMS
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.08%) Azure
2 39 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (11.65%) AWS
4 17 (6.39%) GitHub
5 12 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (3.76%) SaaS
6 10 (3.76%) Serverless
7 7 (2.63%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.13%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.75%) PaaS
11 1 (0.38%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.38%) Network Security
2 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) 4G
3 2 (0.75%) 5G
4 1 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (40.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.51%) MySQL
3 8 (3.01%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.88%) Redis
5 3 (1.13%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.13%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) SQLite
7 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (14.29%) Git
2 30 (11.28%) Visual Studio
3 14 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (4.51%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.14%) TeamCity
6 9 (3.38%) Jasmine
6 9 (3.38%) NUnit
6 9 (3.38%) Selenium
6 9 (3.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.26%) CMake
8 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.13%) JIRA
9 2 (0.75%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.75%) GCC
General
1 85 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.44%) Finance
3 9 (3.38%) Law
3 9 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.63%) Music Industry
5 7 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.88%) Games
7 4 (1.50%) Retail
8 3 (1.13%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (0.75%) Front Office
9 2 (0.75%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.38%) Advertising
10 1 (0.38%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Military
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (79.70%) .NET
2 87 (32.71%) ASP.NET
3 78 (29.32%) HTML
4 74 (27.82%) .NET Core
5 69 (25.94%) .NET Framework
6 62 (23.31%) Entity Framework
7 53 (19.92%) CSS
8 52 (19.55%) React
9 44 (16.54%) AngularJS
10 38 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
11 37 (13.91%) RESTful
12 22 (8.27%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (7.52%) WPF
14 19 (7.14%) HTML5
15 18 (6.77%) jQuery
16 13 (4.89%) Blazor
17 12 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
17 12 (4.51%) Vue
18 10 (3.76%) LESS
19 8 (3.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.27%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.89%) Client/Server
3 9 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.63%) Podcast
5 6 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.88%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) e-Health
9 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.75%) Online Games
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.38%) Derivative
10 1 (0.38%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.77%) Windows
2 8 (3.01%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.26%) Android
3 6 (2.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.95%) Agile
2 84 (31.58%) MVC
3 48 (18.05%) Software Engineering
4 47 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (16.92%) DevOps
6 42 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
7 38 (14.29%) Microservices
8 33 (12.41%) Mentoring
9 32 (12.03%) CI/CD
10 30 (11.28%) Design Patterns
11 27 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.77%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.77%) Test Automation
13 25 (9.40%) Web Development
14 24 (9.02%) Clean Code
15 23 (8.65%) Unit Testing
16 22 (8.27%) SDLC
16 22 (8.27%) TDD
17 19 (7.14%) Fintech
17 19 (7.14%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 266 (100.00%) C#
2 118 (44.36%) SQL
3 90 (33.83%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.27%) TypeScript
5 20 (7.52%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.76%) Java
6 10 (3.76%) VB.NET
7 7 (2.63%) Bicep
8 6 (2.26%) XAML
9 4 (1.50%) C++
10 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.75%) VB
11 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.38%) Python
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (12.78%) Degree
2 16 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.50%) MCSD
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.38%) MCSA
4 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.51%) QA
2 3 (1.13%) SLA
3 1 (0.38%) EMIR
3 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (12.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.64%) Terraform
3 7 (2.63%) MIIS
4 4 (1.50%) Grafana
4 4 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.50%) Facebook
2 4 (1.50%) Splunk
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle
4 2 (0.75%) Twitter
4 2 (0.75%) VMware
5 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.38%) Xamarin