Senior C# Developer Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 598 595
Rank change year-on-year -101 -3 -75
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 63 82 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 62 54 253
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £89,375 £84,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -2.44% -12.14%

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 93,213 44,199 93,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 89.97% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 63,958 26,129 66,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior C# Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Salary Trend

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

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

Senior C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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 -92 63 £85,000 +30.77% 11
UK excluding London -74 47 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North of England -9 35 £85,000 +41.67% 2
North West +13 27 £85,000 +41.67% 2
London -29 17 £90,000 -2.70% 6
West Midlands -33 7 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Midlands -45 7 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North East -54 7 £100,000 -13.04%
Work from Home -49 6 £85,000 +37.10% 5
East of England -14 4 £60,000 -
South East -29 1 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Yorkshire -38 1 £70,000 +16.67%

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2026, Senior C# 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# Developer in the job title.

1 63 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (41.27%) .NET
3 18 (28.57%) Azure
4 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 14 (22.22%) .NET Core
6 13 (20.63%) API Development
6 13 (20.63%) Fintech
7 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (12.70%) DevOps
8 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.52%) .NET Framework
9 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
10 5 (7.94%) QA
10 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
11 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET
11 4 (6.35%) AWS
11 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.35%) CSS
11 4 (6.35%) Git
11 4 (6.35%) HTML
11 4 (6.35%) JSON
11 4 (6.35%) LINQ
11 4 (6.35%) REST
12 3 (4.76%) ADO.NET
12 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.76%) API Integration
12 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
12 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor

Senior C# 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 3 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (1.59%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) AWS
2 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (4.76%) Serverless
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.17%) PaaS
5 1 (1.59%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Table
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
2 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.17%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) git-flow
3 1 (1.59%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (22.22%) Banking
2 10 (15.87%) Finance
3 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.59%) Law
3 1 (1.59%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) .NET
2 14 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 6 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET
4 4 (6.35%) CSS
4 4 (6.35%) HTML
4 4 (6.35%) JSON
4 4 (6.35%) LINQ
4 4 (6.35%) REST
5 3 (4.76%) ADO.NET
5 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.76%) CSS3
5 3 (4.76%) HTML5
5 3 (4.76%) JWT
5 3 (4.76%) Middleware
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.35%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.81%) Software Engineering
2 13 (20.63%) API Development
2 13 (20.63%) Fintech
3 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (12.70%) DevOps
4 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
5 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 3 (4.76%) API Integration
6 3 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (4.76%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (4.76%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (4.76%) MVC
6 3 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (4.76%) Webhook
7 2 (3.17%) Agile
7 2 (3.17%) B2B
7 2 (3.17%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.17%) Test Automation
7 2 (3.17%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 63 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) Bicep
4 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.59%) C
5 1 (1.59%) C++
5 1 (1.59%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Splunk
2 1 (1.59%) IBM
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
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