Lead C# Developer
UK

The median Lead C# Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 817 868 1080
Rank change year-on-year +51 +212 -250
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 85 104 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.10% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.11% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 76 99 141
10th Percentile £53,750 £60,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,438 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +18.42%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead C# Developer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +84 84 £70,000 -6.67% 14
UK excluding London -5 61 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Work from Home +67 46 £70,000 -6.67% 10
North of England +60 33 £70,000 -3.45% 2
London +97 22 £91,500 -8.50% 10
South East -10 22 £70,000 -6.67%
North West +18 19 £70,000 -15.15%
North East - 8 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +84 6 £57,500 -17.86%
Midlands -8 3 £60,000 -4.00% 2
South West -25 3 £57,500 -
West Midlands +13 2 £60,000 -4.00% 1
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead C# Developer in the job title.

1 85 (100.00%) C#
2 72 (84.71%) .NET
3 37 (43.53%) Agile
4 36 (42.35%) SQL
5 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
5 35 (41.18%) Azure
6 30 (35.29%) JavaScript
7 29 (34.12%) AWS
8 26 (30.59%) RESTful
8 26 (30.59%) Mentoring
9 25 (29.41%) ASP.NET
10 22 (25.88%) .NET Framework
10 22 (25.88%) Finance
11 20 (23.53%) .NET Core
12 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
13 17 (20.00%) Visual Studio
13 17 (20.00%) Design Patterns
13 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
14 16 (18.82%) CSS
14 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
14 16 (18.82%) Web Development
15 15 (17.65%) Microservices
16 14 (16.47%) Docker
16 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
16 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
16 14 (16.47%) Client/Server
16 14 (16.47%) T-SQL
16 14 (16.47%) MySQL
17 13 (15.29%) HTML
17 13 (15.29%) DevOps

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 35 (41.18%) Azure
2 29 (34.12%) AWS
3 10 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.59%) Serverless
5 8 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.24%) Pulumi
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.71%) GitHub
9 3 (3.53%) SaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.47%) MySQL
3 8 (9.41%) Redis
4 5 (5.88%) Couchbase
4 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (11.76%) Git
2 10 (11.76%) NUnit
2 10 (11.76%) TeamCity
3 7 (8.24%) Jasmine
3 7 (8.24%) Selenium
3 7 (8.24%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (8.24%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) Moq
4 2 (2.35%) MSTest
General
1 22 (25.88%) Finance
2 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Games
4 3 (3.53%) Front Office
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Back Office
5 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
5 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (84.71%) .NET
2 26 (30.59%) RESTful
3 25 (29.41%) ASP.NET
4 22 (25.88%) .NET Framework
5 20 (23.53%) .NET Core
6 16 (18.82%) CSS
7 13 (15.29%) HTML
8 12 (14.12%) Web Services
9 11 (12.94%) AngularJS
10 10 (11.76%) Entity Framework
10 10 (11.76%) JSON
11 9 (10.59%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (9.41%) OpenID
12 8 (9.41%) XML
13 7 (8.24%) ARM Templates
13 7 (8.24%) HTML5
13 7 (8.24%) jQuery
13 7 (8.24%) WinForms
14 6 (7.06%) Razor View Engine
14 6 (7.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Client/Server
2 8 (9.41%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.53%) Online Games
6 2 (2.35%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.35%) e-Health
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.18%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Android
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.53%) Agile
2 26 (30.59%) Mentoring
3 18 (21.18%) Software Engineering
4 17 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 16 (18.82%) Web Development
6 15 (17.65%) Microservices
7 14 (16.47%) Computer Science
7 14 (16.47%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (15.29%) DevOps
9 11 (12.94%) SOLID
10 10 (11.76%) Fintech
10 10 (11.76%) Multithreading
10 10 (11.76%) Scrum
10 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 9 (10.59%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.59%) MVC
11 9 (10.59%) OOP
11 9 (10.59%) TDD
12 8 (9.41%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 8 (9.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (42.35%) SQL
3 30 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.47%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.24%) Bicep
6 6 (7.06%) C++
7 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.71%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.35%) Java
9 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.47%) Docker
2 7 (8.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Terraform
2 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) MIIS
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle
3 1 (1.18%) Xamarin