Senior C# .NET Developer Job Trends

Senior C# .NET Developer
UK

The median Senior C# .NET Developer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 706 623 745
Rank change year-on-year -83 +122 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# .NET Developer 24 26 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.061% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.068% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24 20 126
10th Percentile £66,125 £54,525 £52,500
25th Percentile £79,375 £57,188 £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £61,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.93% -0.81% -18.00%
75th Percentile - £96,875 £70,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £73,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -2.44% -13.99%

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 86,624 38,246 93,392
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 89.23% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 57,551 21,495 68,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.54%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -64 23 £100,000 +66.67% 1
London -17 13 £100,000 +11.11% 1
UK excluding London -63 11 £90,000 +50.00% 1
North of England -33 8 £100,000 +14.29%
Work from Home +15 6 £87,500 +45.83%
North East -39 5 £100,000 -13.04%
South East -16 3 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Yorkshire -48 3 £65,000 +8.33%

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 17 (70.83%) Software Engineering
3 9 (37.50%) Fintech
4 8 (33.33%) .NET Core
5 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 5 (20.83%) SaaS
6 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (12.50%) Microservices
8 2 (8.33%) Agile
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (8.33%) B2B
8 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.33%) CouchDB
8 2 (8.33%) DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce
8 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 2 (8.33%) PaaS
8 2 (8.33%) React
8 2 (8.33%) Serverless
8 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 2 (8.33%) User Experience
8 2 (8.33%) UX Design
9 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
9 1 (4.17%) API Management
9 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
9 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core

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 (4.17%) NServiceBus
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
1 5 (20.83%) SaaS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (8.33%) PaaS
2 2 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Table
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) CouchDB
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.33%) React
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) LINQ
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Software Engineering
2 9 (37.50%) Fintech
3 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) B2B
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.33%) User Experience
5 2 (8.33%) UX Design
6 1 (4.17%) Backlog Management
6 1 (4.17%) Event-Driven
6 1 (4.17%) IT Strategy
6 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.17%) Product Vision
6 1 (4.17%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform