C# .NET Developer
UK

The median C# .NET Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 433 430
Rank change year-on-year +90 -3 -184
Permanent jobs requiring a C# .NET Developer 818 743 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.78% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 787 710 1,112
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,675 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

C# .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C# .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C# .NET Developer.

Salary trend for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# .NET Developer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C# .NET Developer in the UK

C# .NET Developer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# .NET Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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 +104 781 £55,000 -8.33% 122
UK excluding London +126 676 £55,000 - 89
Work from Home +48 455 £55,000 -8.33% 99
South East +30 196 £55,000 - 17
North of England +137 192 £55,000 - 26
London +1 138 £60,000 -20.00% 37
South West +26 113 £60,000 +25.00% 9
East of England +50 85 £57,500 +35.29% 2
North West +33 77 £50,000 - 14
Yorkshire +113 67 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Midlands +42 62 £50,000 +2.56% 30
North East +33 48 £60,000 +14.29% 6
East Midlands +12 34 £47,500 +18.75% 18
West Midlands +29 28 £50,000 -11.50% 12
Wales +14 16 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Northern Ireland +31 9 £42,500 -15.00%
Scotland -65 2 £65,000 +18.18%
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, C# .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring C# .NET Developer in the job title.

1 818 (100.00%) C#
1 818 (100.00%) .NET
2 542 (66.26%) Azure
3 498 (60.88%) JavaScript
4 431 (52.69%) Full Stack Development
5 425 (51.96%) ASP.NET
6 421 (51.47%) Agile
7 417 (50.98%) SQL Server
8 396 (48.41%) .NET Core
9 367 (44.87%) MVC
10 347 (42.42%) Microsoft
11 340 (41.56%) AngularJS
12 300 (36.67%) ASP.NET Web API
13 290 (35.45%) .NET Framework
14 278 (33.99%) ASP.NET MVC
15 271 (33.13%) Microservices
16 254 (31.05%) Entity Framework
17 241 (29.46%) HTML
18 189 (23.11%) RESTful
19 188 (22.98%) React
20 182 (22.25%) TDD
20 182 (22.25%) SQL
21 167 (20.42%) CSS
22 149 (18.22%) HTML5
23 125 (15.28%) AWS
24 123 (15.04%) Multithreading
25 118 (14.43%) DevOps
26 116 (14.18%) Scrum
26 116 (14.18%) TypeScript
27 113 (13.81%) BDD

C# .NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (6.48%) CMS
2 38 (4.65%) IIS
3 36 (4.40%) Kentico
4 34 (4.16%) Sitecore CMS
4 34 (4.16%) Umbraco
5 33 (4.03%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.12%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 16 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.37%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 542 (66.26%) Azure
2 125 (15.28%) AWS
3 101 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (4.03%) Kontent
5 32 (3.91%) Google Play
6 30 (3.67%) SaaS
7 16 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 14 (1.71%) Serverless
9 12 (1.47%) GCP
10 9 (1.10%) GitHub
11 8 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (0.86%) Pulumi
13 6 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.61%) Azure Functions
14 5 (0.61%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.49%) PaaS
16 3 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (0.37%) Amazon S3
16 3 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (0.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (7.95%) Internet
2 10 (1.22%) Hyperconnected
3 9 (1.10%) Network Security
4 6 (0.73%) Broadband
4 6 (0.73%) Mobile Broadband
5 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (50.98%) SQL Server
2 83 (10.15%) MongoDB
3 59 (7.21%) Elasticsearch
4 50 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.55%) Redis
6 21 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.47%) MySQL
8 7 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.49%) Big Data
9 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.37%) Couchbase
10 3 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.37%) GIS
11 2 (0.24%) Event Store
11 2 (0.24%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.24%) Power BI
11 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.24%) SQLite
12 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 79 (9.66%) Visual Studio
2 56 (6.85%) Git
3 27 (3.30%) NUnit
4 17 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 15 (1.83%) JIRA
5 15 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 14 (1.71%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 9 (1.10%) Jasmine
8 9 (1.10%) Selenium
8 9 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.49%) MSTest
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 102 (12.47%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.10%) Finance
3 44 (5.38%) Games
4 35 (4.28%) Music Industry
5 30 (3.67%) Marketing
6 26 (3.18%) Retail
7 24 (2.93%) Aerospace
7 24 (2.93%) Manufacturing
8 20 (2.44%) Advertising
9 17 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (1.96%) Front Office
11 15 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.71%) Law
13 9 (1.10%) Legal
14 8 (0.98%) Electronics
14 8 (0.98%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.49%) Automotive
15 4 (0.49%) Publishing
16 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.24%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 818 (100.00%) .NET
2 425 (51.96%) ASP.NET
3 396 (48.41%) .NET Core
4 340 (41.56%) AngularJS
5 300 (36.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 290 (35.45%) .NET Framework
7 278 (33.99%) ASP.NET MVC
8 254 (31.05%) Entity Framework
9 241 (29.46%) HTML
10 189 (23.11%) RESTful
11 188 (22.98%) React
12 167 (20.42%) CSS
13 149 (18.22%) HTML5
14 98 (11.98%) Vue
15 92 (11.25%) Blazor
16 81 (9.90%) LINQ
17 78 (9.54%) CSS3
18 74 (9.05%) Node.js
19 66 (8.07%) WPF
20 62 (7.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 49 (5.99%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 36 (4.40%) Client/Server
4 35 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (3.91%) iPhone
6 24 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.47%) Equities
9 12 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.34%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.10%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.73%) IoT
12 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.16%) Android
2 13 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (52.69%) Full Stack Development
2 421 (51.47%) Agile
3 367 (44.87%) MVC
4 271 (33.13%) Microservices
5 182 (22.25%) TDD
6 123 (15.04%) Multithreading
7 118 (14.43%) DevOps
8 116 (14.18%) Scrum
9 113 (13.81%) BDD
10 92 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
11 85 (10.39%) Web Development
12 84 (10.27%) Kanban
13 69 (8.44%) Software Engineering
14 67 (8.19%) CI/CD
15 66 (8.07%) Continuous Integration
16 64 (7.82%) Design Patterns
17 62 (7.58%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
18 54 (6.60%) E-Commerce
19 42 (5.13%) Unit Testing
20 41 (5.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 818 (100.00%) C#
2 498 (60.88%) JavaScript
3 182 (22.25%) SQL
4 116 (14.18%) TypeScript
5 24 (2.93%) T-SQL
6 16 (1.96%) VB.NET
7 10 (1.22%) Java
8 7 (0.86%) Bicep
9 6 (0.73%) C
9 6 (0.73%) Python
10 5 (0.61%) Delphi
11 4 (0.49%) F#
11 4 (0.49%) PHP
11 4 (0.49%) VBA
12 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.24%) VB
12 2 (0.24%) XAML
13 1 (0.12%) C++
13 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (3.67%) Degree
2 12 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (1.34%) Security Cleared
4 7 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (0.49%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.37%) MCPD
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.24%) HNC
8 1 (0.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.03%) QA
2 5 (0.61%) GDPR
3 3 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.32%) Terraform
3 7 (0.86%) MIIS
4 5 (0.61%) Grafana
4 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 347 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.16%) Sitecore
3 33 (4.03%) Optimizely
4 32 (3.91%) Google
5 24 (2.93%) Facebook
6 7 (0.86%) SAP
7 6 (0.73%) Oracle
7 6 (0.73%) Xamarin
8 5 (0.61%) Splunk
9 4 (0.49%) Databricks
9 4 (0.49%) Twitter
10 2 (0.24%) Charles River
10 2 (0.24%) VMware
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe
11 1 (0.12%) F5
11 1 (0.12%) Telerik
11 1 (0.12%) UiPath