Senior C# Developer Job Trends

Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £78,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 569 614
Rank change year-on-year -85 +45 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 73 86 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.22% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 73 63 246
10th Percentile £60,000 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £61,250 £61,500
% change year-on-year +22.45% -0.41% -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 85,613 39,653 91,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 89.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,627 23,002 67,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £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 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 18 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 18 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 -73 68 £80,000 +23.08% 9
UK excluding London -46 54 £75,000 +22.45% 5
North of England -20 34 £85,000 +41.67% 1
North West +29 26 £85,000 +47.83% 1
London -22 18 £97,500 +25.81% 5
Midlands -43 11 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Work from Home +11 9 £85,000 +30.77% 3
East Midlands -29 6 £75,000 +15.38%
North East -35 5 £100,000 -13.04%
West Midlands -36 5 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Scotland - 4 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -44 3 £65,000 +8.33%
South West - 3 £60,000 -
South East -24 2 £70,000 +16.67% 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 73 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (49.32%) .NET
3 23 (31.51%) Software Engineering
4 17 (23.29%) .NET Core
5 14 (19.18%) Azure
6 13 (17.81%) Fintech
7 11 (15.07%) API Development
8 10 (13.70%) SQL Server
9 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
11 7 (9.59%) SQL
12 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
12 6 (8.22%) Microservices
13 5 (6.85%) CAD
13 5 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 5 (6.85%) DevOps
13 5 (6.85%) DirectX
13 5 (6.85%) Mathematics
13 5 (6.85%) OpenGL
13 5 (6.85%) Physics
13 5 (6.85%) SaaS
13 5 (6.85%) T-SQL
14 4 (5.48%) .NET Framework
14 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
14 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
14 4 (5.48%) AWS
14 4 (5.48%) QA
14 4 (5.48%) REST
15 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET MVC
15 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus

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 2 (2.74%) IIS
2 1 (1.37%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.18%) Azure
2 5 (6.85%) SaaS
3 4 (5.48%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.74%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) CouchDB
2 2 (2.74%) MySQL
2 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Git
1 2 (2.74%) GitLab
General
1 11 (15.07%) Banking
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
3 5 (6.85%) Games
4 1 (1.37%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (49.32%) .NET
2 17 (23.29%) .NET Core
3 5 (6.85%) DirectX
3 5 (6.85%) OpenGL
4 4 (5.48%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.48%) REST
5 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (4.11%) CSS
5 3 (4.11%) HTML
5 3 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.11%) React
6 2 (2.74%) ADO.NET
6 2 (2.74%) HTML5
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) LINQ
6 2 (2.74%) Middleware
6 2 (2.74%) OAuth
6 2 (2.74%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.22%) Hedge funds
3 5 (6.85%) 3D Graphics
4 4 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) Software Engineering
2 13 (17.81%) Fintech
3 11 (15.07%) API Development
4 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
6 6 (8.22%) Microservices
7 5 (6.85%) CAD
7 5 (6.85%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.85%) DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) Mathematics
7 5 (6.85%) Physics
8 3 (4.11%) MVC
8 3 (4.11%) TDD
9 2 (2.74%) B2B
9 2 (2.74%) Dependency Injection
9 2 (2.74%) Domain-Driven Design
9 2 (2.74%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.74%) Integration Testing
9 2 (2.74%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (2.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (9.59%) SQL
3 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.85%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.37%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) C
6 1 (1.37%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Splunk
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft