Senior C# Developer Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 598 511
Rank change year-on-year -30 -87 +220
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 40 163 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.24% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.25% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29 125 224
10th Percentile £51,850 £49,830 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £98,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -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 44,140 66,020 53,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.78% 95.38% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,034 37,745 41,040
10th Percentile £28,207 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,500 £43,067
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.22% -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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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 -18 37 £65,000 -3.70% 27
UK excluding London +1 27 £60,000 - 23
Work from Home +7 15 £65,000 - 15
Midlands +28 11 £61,750 +2.92% 4
London -7 11 £92,500 +4.23% 7
West Midlands +51 9 £64,750 +23.33% 1
South East +9 6 £65,000 - 12
East of England - 5 £60,000 - 1
North West +4 4 £60,000 +2.13% 3
North of England -2 4 £60,000 +5.26% 6
East Midlands +2 2 £56,000 -13.85% 3
Wales +17 1 £41,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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 40 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (80.00%) .NET
3 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 18 (45.00%) SQL Server
4 16 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 16 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (40.00%) SQL
5 15 (37.50%) HTML
5 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
6 13 (32.50%) Git
6 13 (32.50%) MVC
7 12 (30.00%) Agile
7 12 (30.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (27.50%) .NET Core
8 11 (27.50%) CSS
8 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
9 10 (25.00%) .NET Framework
9 10 (25.00%) AWS
9 10 (25.00%) DevOps
9 10 (25.00%) RESTful
10 8 (20.00%) Microservices
10 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (20.00%) React
11 7 (17.50%) Blazor
11 7 (17.50%) Entity Framework
11 7 (17.50%) MySQL
11 7 (17.50%) REST
12 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (15.00%) Docker

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 4 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) SaaS
4 4 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 4 (10.00%) NuGet
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.00%) Tick Data
6 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) NUnit
2 5 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 4 (10.00%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (2.50%) MSTest
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Back Office
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Games
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (80.00%) .NET
2 16 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (37.50%) HTML
4 12 (30.00%) AngularJS
5 11 (27.50%) .NET Core
5 11 (27.50%) CSS
6 10 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 10 (25.00%) RESTful
7 8 (20.00%) React
8 7 (17.50%) Blazor
8 7 (17.50%) Entity Framework
8 7 (17.50%) REST
9 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (15.00%) Vue
10 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (12.50%) CSS3
10 5 (12.50%) HTML5
10 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (10.00%) Jest
12 3 (7.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) MVC
3 12 (30.00%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) Microservices
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.50%) Software Architecture
6 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
7 4 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (10.00%) Mobile First
8 3 (7.50%) Code Quality
8 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
8 3 (7.50%) CQRS
8 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
8 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (2.50%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.50%) Swift
6 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) EMIR
1 2 (5.00%) MiFID
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Rollbar
3 2 (5.00%) Google