Senior C# .NET Developer Job Trends

Senior C# .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior C# .NET Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 624 714
Rank change year-on-year -42 +90 +118
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# .NET Developer 15 35 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.079% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.087% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 110
10th Percentile £65,000 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,375 £57,500 £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +5.69% -12.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £98,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.44% -8.89%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 66,178 40,037 79,004
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.84% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 42,020 23,148 60,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -5.66%

Senior C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior C# .NET Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior C# .NET Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# .NET Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior C# .NET Developer in the UK

Senior C# .NET Developer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. 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 -27 14 £85,000 +30.77% 1
London +7 7 £85,000 -5.56% 1
UK excluding London -19 7 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Work from Home +11 6 £92,500 +54.17% 1
North of England -24 5 £70,000 +7.69%
Yorkshire -38 3 £65,000 -7.14%
North East - 2 £100,000 -
South East - 2 £70,000 - 1

Senior C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 March 2026, Senior C# .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Fintech
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) SaaS
4 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
4 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) CouchDB
6 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (13.33%) QA
6 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (13.33%) REST
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) WPF
7 1 (6.67%) Agile
7 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB

Senior C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) CouchDB
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) WPF
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Fintech
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) B2B
4 2 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (6.67%) SDLC
5 1 (6.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) User Experience
5 1 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA