C# Software Developer
UK

The median C# Software Developer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 636 564 713
Rank change year-on-year -72 +149 -281
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 271 464 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 254 446 497
10th Percentile £35,300 £40,000 £33,550
25th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £96,250 £75,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C# Software Developer in the UK

C# Software Developer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -68 243 £52,500 -16.00% 64
UK excluding London -77 230 £50,000 -9.09% 52
Work from Home -53 126 £53,500 -10.83% 45
North of England +63 79 £48,000 -12.73% 18
South East -109 51 £60,000 - 12
North West +33 46 £47,500 -24.00% 10
Midlands +24 40 £53,500 +18.89% 9
London +29 33 £70,000 -9.68% 17
South West -24 29 £52,500 +10.53% 6
West Midlands +22 28 £53,500 +9.74% 6
Yorkshire +95 25 £49,500 -26.67% 4
Northern Ireland +38 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -13 12 £47,500 +22.58% 3
North East -13 8 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Wales +16 6 £30,000 -41.46% 3
East of England -9 5 £42,500 -26.09% 3
Scotland -61 3 £60,000 +41.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, C# Software 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# Software Developer in the job title.

1 271 (100.00%) C#
2 214 (78.97%) .NET
3 119 (43.91%) SQL
4 106 (39.11%) SQL Server
5 94 (34.69%) JavaScript
6 88 (32.47%) ASP.NET
7 87 (32.10%) Agile
8 83 (30.63%) MVC
9 82 (30.26%) Azure
9 82 (30.26%) Social Skills
10 77 (28.41%) HTML
11 74 (27.31%) .NET Core
12 71 (26.20%) .NET Framework
13 65 (23.99%) Finance
14 63 (23.25%) Entity Framework
15 53 (19.56%) CSS
16 52 (19.19%) React
17 49 (18.08%) Software Engineering
18 48 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
19 47 (17.34%) DevOps
20 45 (16.61%) Full Stack Development
21 43 (15.87%) AngularJS
22 40 (14.76%) Microservices
22 40 (14.76%) Azure DevOps
23 39 (14.39%) Git
24 38 (14.02%) RESTful
24 38 (14.02%) ASP.NET MVC
25 33 (12.18%) Docker
25 33 (12.18%) Degree
26 32 (11.81%) Mentoring

C# Software 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 4 (1.48%) IIS
2 3 (1.11%) CMS
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (30.26%) Azure
2 40 (14.76%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (11.81%) AWS
4 17 (6.27%) GitHub
5 13 (4.80%) SaaS
6 12 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.69%) Serverless
8 7 (2.58%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 3 (1.11%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.74%) PaaS
12 1 (0.37%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) Network Security
2 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) 4G
3 2 (0.74%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (39.11%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.43%) MySQL
3 8 (2.95%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.85%) Redis
5 3 (1.11%) Couchbase
5 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.74%) Power BI
6 2 (0.74%) SQLite
7 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (14.39%) Git
2 30 (11.07%) Visual Studio
3 14 (5.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (4.43%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.06%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.69%) Jasmine
6 10 (3.69%) NUnit
6 10 (3.69%) Selenium
6 10 (3.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.21%) CMake
8 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.74%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.74%) GCC
9 2 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 82 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.99%) Finance
3 10 (3.69%) Law
4 9 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.95%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.58%) Music Industry
6 7 (2.58%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.85%) Games
7 5 (1.85%) Retail
8 3 (1.11%) Automotive
8 3 (1.11%) Multimedia
9 2 (0.74%) Advertising
9 2 (0.74%) Back Office
9 2 (0.74%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (0.74%) Front Office
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (78.97%) .NET
2 88 (32.47%) ASP.NET
3 77 (28.41%) HTML
4 74 (27.31%) .NET Core
5 71 (26.20%) .NET Framework
6 63 (23.25%) Entity Framework
7 53 (19.56%) CSS
8 52 (19.19%) React
9 43 (15.87%) AngularJS
10 38 (14.02%) ASP.NET MVC
10 38 (14.02%) RESTful
11 24 (8.86%) ASP.NET Web API
12 20 (7.38%) HTML5
12 20 (7.38%) jQuery
13 19 (7.01%) WPF
14 13 (4.80%) Blazor
15 12 (4.43%) ASP.NET Core
16 11 (4.06%) Vue
17 10 (3.69%) LESS
17 10 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.38%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.80%) Client/Server
3 11 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.58%) Podcast
5 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.85%) Mobile Computing
6 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.11%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.74%) Derivative
8 2 (0.74%) e-Health
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.74%) Online Games
9 1 (0.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.01%) Windows
2 8 (2.95%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.21%) Android
3 6 (2.21%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (32.10%) Agile
2 83 (30.63%) MVC
3 49 (18.08%) Software Engineering
4 48 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (17.34%) DevOps
6 45 (16.61%) Full Stack Development
7 40 (14.76%) Microservices
8 32 (11.81%) Mentoring
9 30 (11.07%) CI/CD
10 29 (10.70%) Design Patterns
11 28 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.59%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.59%) Test Automation
12 26 (9.59%) Web Development
13 24 (8.86%) Clean Code
13 24 (8.86%) SDLC
13 24 (8.86%) Unit Testing
14 23 (8.49%) TDD
15 19 (7.01%) Fintech
15 19 (7.01%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 271 (100.00%) C#
2 119 (43.91%) SQL
3 94 (34.69%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.12%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.64%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.06%) VB.NET
7 10 (3.69%) Java
8 7 (2.58%) Bicep
9 6 (2.21%) XAML
10 3 (1.11%) C++
10 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.74%) VB
12 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (12.18%) Degree
2 16 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.48%) MCSD
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.37%) MCSA
4 1 (0.37%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.43%) QA
2 3 (1.11%) SLA
3 2 (0.74%) EMIR
3 2 (0.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (12.18%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.54%) Terraform
3 7 (2.58%) MIIS
4 4 (1.48%) Grafana
4 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.48%) Facebook
2 4 (1.48%) Splunk
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle
4 2 (0.74%) Twitter
4 2 (0.74%) VMware
5 1 (0.37%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.37%) Xamarin