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 8 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 570 599
Rank change year-on-year -69 +29 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 69 94 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 69 69 237
10th Percentile £60,000 £53,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £97,000
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 84,240 38,844 90,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.44% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,564 23,127 66,916
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 8 May 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 8 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 -68 64 £79,250 +21.92% 14
UK excluding London -74 51 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North of England -39 28 £85,000 +41.67% 3
North West -6 20 £85,000 +47.83% 3
London -19 17 £95,000 +18.75% 9
Midlands -37 14 £75,000 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -22 10 £75,000 +15.38%
Work from Home -28 9 £85,000 +30.77% 3
North East -33 5 £100,000 -13.04%
West Midlands -43 4 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Scotland - 4 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -52 3 £65,000 +8.33%
South West - 3 £60,000 -
South East -43 2 £70,000 +16.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 69 (100.00%) C#
2 38 (55.07%) .NET
3 23 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 19 (27.54%) .NET Core
5 15 (21.74%) Azure
6 11 (15.94%) Fintech
6 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (14.49%) SQL Server
8 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
8 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.14%) AngularJS
9 7 (10.14%) API Development
9 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.14%) SQL
10 6 (8.70%) ASP.NET
10 6 (8.70%) AWS
10 6 (8.70%) CAD
10 6 (8.70%) DirectX
10 6 (8.70%) Mathematics
10 6 (8.70%) Microservices
10 6 (8.70%) OpenGL
10 6 (8.70%) Physics
10 6 (8.70%) React
10 6 (8.70%) T-SQL
11 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (7.25%) MVC
11 5 (7.25%) SaaS
12 4 (5.80%) DevOps
12 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
13 3 (4.35%) .NET Framework

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 (1.45%) IIS
1 1 (1.45%) NServiceBus
1 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) Azure
2 6 (8.70%) AWS
3 5 (7.25%) SaaS
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) CouchDB
2 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Git
1 1 (1.45%) GitLab
General
1 9 (13.04%) Finance
2 7 (10.14%) Banking
3 6 (8.70%) Games
4 1 (1.45%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (55.07%) .NET
2 19 (27.54%) .NET Core
3 7 (10.14%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 6 (8.70%) DirectX
4 6 (8.70%) OpenGL
4 6 (8.70%) React
5 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.35%) REST
7 2 (2.90%) CSS
7 2 (2.90%) HTML
7 2 (2.90%) RESTful
7 2 (2.90%) WPF
8 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.45%) CSS3
8 1 (1.45%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.45%) Kafka
8 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) 3D Graphics
1 6 (8.70%) Hedge funds
2 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.80%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 11 (15.94%) Fintech
2 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
4 7 (10.14%) API Development
4 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
5 6 (8.70%) CAD
5 6 (8.70%) Mathematics
5 6 (8.70%) Microservices
5 6 (8.70%) Physics
6 5 (7.25%) MVC
7 4 (5.80%) DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) TDD
9 2 (2.90%) B2B
9 2 (2.90%) Concurrent Programming
9 2 (2.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (2.90%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.90%) Integration Testing
9 2 (2.90%) Low Latency
9 2 (2.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.14%) SQL
4 6 (8.70%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.45%) Bicep
6 1 (1.45%) C
6 1 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.45%) Splunk
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