Lead C# Developer Jobs

Lead C# Developer
UK

The median Lead C# Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 812 878
Rank change year-on-year +136 +66 +170
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead C# Developer 16 84 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.090% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 75 106
10th Percentile - £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £74,375 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £143,000 £93,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% -5.17% +7.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead C# Developer in the UK

Lead C# Developer
Top 11 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 1 May 2025. 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 +106 15 £65,000 -7.14% 13
UK excluding London +158 11 £65,000 -5.45% 10
Work from Home +158 10 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North of England +60 8 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North West +19 6 £65,000 -7.14% 2
London +94 4 £157,500 +72.13% 4
Midlands +81 2 £65,000 +8.33% 2
East Midlands +51 2 £65,000 - 2
South East +87 1 £70,000 +3.70% 4
Yorkshire +71 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1
North East +43 1 £80,000 +14.29% 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 16 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (75.00%) .NET
3 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 5 (31.25%) SaaS
5 5 (31.25%) Line Management
5 5 (31.25%) Docker
5 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) AWS
5 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (31.25%) HTML
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) CSS3
7 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
7 3 (18.75%) Degree
7 3 (18.75%) Retail
7 3 (18.75%) HTML5
7 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Python
7 3 (18.75%) CSS
7 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 2 (12.50%) Delphi
8 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
8 2 (12.50%) ERP

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Magento
1 2 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 2 (12.50%) BigCommerce
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) .NET
2 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 5 (31.25%) HTML
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) CSS3
5 3 (18.75%) HTML5
6 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (12.50%) React
6 2 (12.50%) WPF
7 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.25%) Blazor
7 1 (6.25%) Kafka
7 1 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (6.25%) Svelte
7 1 (6.25%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) EPoS
1 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Line Management
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Coaching
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
4 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
4 2 (12.50%) Market Data Development
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) MVC
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Delphi
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft