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 24 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
24 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 582 595
Rank change year-on-year -85 +13 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 69 75 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.20% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 69 53 250
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,000 £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 86,735 38,286 93,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.27% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 57,617 21,482 68,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,931 £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 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.10%

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 24 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Top 13 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 24 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 -71 64 £85,000 +30.77% 8
UK excluding London -61 50 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North of England -14 35 £85,000 +41.67% 2
North West +22 27 £85,000 +41.67% 2
London -40 18 £97,500 +39.29% 3
Work from Home -10 9 £90,000 +38.46% 4
North East -40 5 £100,000 -13.04%
Midlands -43 5 £70,000 +16.67% 1
West Midlands -46 5 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Scotland - 4 £60,000 -
South East -33 3 £70,000 +12.00% 3
Yorkshire -46 3 £65,000 +8.33%
South West - 3 £60,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 32 (46.38%) .NET
3 18 (26.09%) Software Engineering
4 14 (20.29%) Azure
4 14 (20.29%) Fintech
5 13 (18.84%) .NET Core
6 12 (17.39%) API Development
7 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.70%) DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
9 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
9 5 (7.25%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
9 5 (7.25%) Microservices
9 5 (7.25%) QA
9 5 (7.25%) REST
9 5 (7.25%) SaaS
10 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
10 4 (5.80%) AWS
10 4 (5.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.80%) CSS
10 4 (5.80%) HTML
10 4 (5.80%) JSON
10 4 (5.80%) LINQ
11 3 (4.35%) ADO.NET
11 3 (4.35%) API Integration
11 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps

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 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (1.45%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.29%) Azure
2 5 (7.25%) SaaS
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
3 4 (5.80%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.90%) PaaS
5 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) MySQL
2 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.90%) CouchDB
3 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Git
1 3 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 12 (17.39%) Banking
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 1 (1.45%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (46.38%) .NET
2 13 (18.84%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.25%) REST
4 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.80%) CSS
4 4 (5.80%) HTML
4 4 (5.80%) JSON
4 4 (5.80%) LINQ
5 3 (4.35%) ADO.NET
5 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.35%) CSS3
5 3 (4.35%) HTML5
5 3 (4.35%) JWT
5 3 (4.35%) Middleware
5 3 (4.35%) OAuth
5 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 3 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (8.70%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Software Engineering
2 14 (20.29%) Fintech
3 12 (17.39%) API Development
4 8 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
5 6 (8.70%) DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.25%) Microservices
7 3 (4.35%) API Integration
7 3 (4.35%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (4.35%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (4.35%) MVC
7 3 (4.35%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (4.35%) Webhook
8 2 (2.90%) Agile
8 2 (2.90%) Domain-Driven Design
8 2 (2.90%) Integration Testing
8 2 (2.90%) TDD
8 2 (2.90%) Test Automation
8 2 (2.90%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.35%) SQL
4 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.45%) Bicep
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) C++
5 1 (1.45%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.35%) Splunk
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