Senior C# Developer Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 589 593
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 48 106 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48 70 191
10th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,125 £81,938 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 61,135 45,530 70,841
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 91.70% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 38,457 23,722 55,462
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,493
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Top 14 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 14 February 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 -5 43 £75,000 +15.38% 11
UK excluding London -1 32 £70,000 +16.67% 7
London +5 15 £85,000 -5.56% 4
Work from Home -1 15 £80,000 +23.08% 7
Midlands -7 12 £75,000 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -16 10 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North of England 0 9 £70,000 +12.00% 2
South East +10 4 £65,000 +10.64% 3
North East -5 4 £85,000 +47.83%
Scotland - 4 £60,000 -
South West -15 3 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -27 3 £65,000 -7.14%
North West +9 2 £72,500 +20.83% 2
West Midlands +3 2 £70,000 +33.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 February 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 48 (100.00%) C#
2 37 (77.08%) .NET
3 22 (45.83%) Software Engineering
4 20 (41.67%) .NET Core
5 18 (37.50%) Azure
6 14 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
7 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
8 10 (20.83%) React
9 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
10 8 (16.67%) AWS
10 8 (16.67%) Microservices
10 8 (16.67%) SQL
11 7 (14.58%) ASP.NET
11 7 (14.58%) Fintech
11 7 (14.58%) SaaS
12 6 (12.50%) CAD
12 6 (12.50%) DirectX
12 6 (12.50%) Mathematics
12 6 (12.50%) OpenGL
12 6 (12.50%) Physics
12 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
13 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
13 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
13 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (10.42%) MVC
14 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
15 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
15 3 (6.25%) CSS

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 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) SaaS
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.08%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 8 (16.67%) Games
2 7 (14.58%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Back Office
4 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Front Office
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (77.08%) .NET
2 20 (41.67%) .NET Core
3 10 (20.83%) React
4 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
5 7 (14.58%) ASP.NET
6 6 (12.50%) DirectX
6 6 (12.50%) OpenGL
7 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
8 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (6.25%) CSS
9 3 (6.25%) HTML
9 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (6.25%) REST
9 3 (6.25%) RESTful
10 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
10 2 (4.17%) WPF
11 1 (2.08%) jQuery
11 1 (2.08%) Kafka
11 1 (2.08%) MSMQ
11 1 (2.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) 3D Graphics
2 5 (10.42%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.25%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Software Engineering
2 14 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (16.67%) Microservices
4 7 (14.58%) Fintech
5 6 (12.50%) CAD
5 6 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 6 (12.50%) Physics
6 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.42%) MVC
7 3 (6.25%) TDD
8 2 (4.17%) Agile
8 2 (4.17%) B2B
8 2 (4.17%) Concurrent Programming
8 2 (4.17%) DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) Domain-Driven Design
8 2 (4.17%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (4.17%) Integration Testing
8 2 (4.17%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle