C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 218 251
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,400 1,728 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 1.74% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.90% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 1,637 2,244
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £86,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £110,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +10.53%

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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £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# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C# Developer in the UK

C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Developer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C# Developer in the UK

C# 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# Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +14 1,317 £57,500 -11.54% 246
UK excluding London +24 1,035 £55,000 -4.35% 173
Work from Home -26 697 £55,000 -8.33% 178
North of England +129 320 £55,000 -8.33% 57
London -49 320 £70,000 -12.50% 102
South East -51 273 £55,000 -8.33% 44
North West +52 154 £52,500 -12.50% 36
Midlands +41 153 £50,000 -7.41% 39
South West -9 139 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +127 110 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East of England +13 95 £57,500 +15.00% 7
West Midlands +39 82 £53,500 -6.96% 19
East Midlands +20 71 £47,500 +5.56% 20
North East +29 56 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Wales +21 26 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Northern Ireland +28 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland -95 11 £60,000 - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, C# 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# Developer in the job title.

1 1,400 (100.00%) C#
2 1,227 (87.64%) .NET
3 766 (54.71%) Azure
4 691 (49.36%) JavaScript
5 651 (46.50%) SQL Server
6 612 (43.71%) Agile
7 597 (42.64%) ASP.NET
8 591 (42.21%) Full Stack Development
9 502 (35.86%) .NET Core
10 474 (33.86%) MVC
11 467 (33.36%) AngularJS
12 446 (31.86%) SQL
13 443 (31.64%) Microsoft
14 381 (27.21%) .NET Framework
15 357 (25.50%) HTML
16 342 (24.43%) Microservices
17 338 (24.14%) ASP.NET Web API
18 337 (24.07%) ASP.NET MVC
19 323 (23.07%) Entity Framework
20 289 (20.64%) React
21 263 (18.79%) RESTful
22 258 (18.43%) CSS
23 241 (17.21%) DevOps
24 235 (16.79%) TDD
25 227 (16.21%) Finance
26 203 (14.50%) TypeScript
26 203 (14.50%) Social Skills
27 197 (14.07%) AWS
28 178 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
29 168 (12.00%) Software Engineering

C# 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 73 (5.21%) IIS
2 71 (5.07%) CMS
3 36 (2.57%) Kentico
4 35 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 35 (2.50%) Umbraco
5 34 (2.43%) Headless CMS
6 14 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.36%) Confluence
8 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.071%) EPiServer
Applications
1 16 (1.14%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.071%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.071%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
1 16 (1.14%) SDL Web 8
2 6 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Maximo
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 766 (54.71%) Azure
2 197 (14.07%) AWS
3 178 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (3.29%) GitHub
5 41 (2.93%) Serverless
6 39 (2.79%) SaaS
7 34 (2.43%) Kontent
8 32 (2.29%) Google Play
9 30 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 25 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 24 (1.71%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 15 (1.07%) GCP
13 15 (1.07%) NuGet
14 14 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (0.86%) Azure API Management
16 12 (0.86%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.64%) Internet
2 12 (0.86%) Network Security
3 10 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
4 9 (0.64%) Broadband
4 9 (0.64%) Mobile Broadband
5 6 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.21%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.14%) 4G
7 2 (0.14%) 5G
8 1 (0.071%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 651 (46.50%) SQL Server
2 92 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 63 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.43%) Redis
6 32 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.79%) MySQL
7 25 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.93%) Power BI
10 11 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.71%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.71%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.36%) Big Data
13 5 (0.36%) Couchbase
14 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.21%) GIS
15 2 (0.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 133 (9.50%) Visual Studio
2 119 (8.50%) Git
3 46 (3.29%) NUnit
4 40 (2.86%) Jasmine
5 37 (2.64%) JIRA
6 34 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
7 33 (2.36%) TeamCity
8 28 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 27 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (1.64%) Jenkins
11 21 (1.50%) Moq
12 16 (1.14%) Postman
13 15 (1.07%) git-flow
13 15 (1.07%) Sourcetree
13 15 (1.07%) SpecFlow
14 13 (0.93%) CircleCI
15 12 (0.86%) Selenium
15 12 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.64%) MSTest
17 6 (0.43%) CMake
General
1 227 (16.21%) Finance
2 203 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 65 (4.64%) Games
4 53 (3.79%) Marketing
5 44 (3.14%) Music Industry
6 38 (2.71%) Retail
7 37 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 30 (2.14%) Front Office
9 27 (1.93%) Law
10 25 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.79%) Banking
11 24 (1.71%) Advertising
12 22 (1.57%) Legal
13 20 (1.43%) Public Sector
13 20 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,227 (87.64%) .NET
2 597 (42.64%) ASP.NET
3 502 (35.86%) .NET Core
4 467 (33.36%) AngularJS
5 381 (27.21%) .NET Framework
6 357 (25.50%) HTML
7 338 (24.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 337 (24.07%) ASP.NET MVC
9 323 (23.07%) Entity Framework
10 289 (20.64%) React
11 263 (18.79%) RESTful
12 258 (18.43%) CSS
13 167 (11.93%) HTML5
14 121 (8.64%) Blazor
15 112 (8.00%) Vue
16 109 (7.79%) Web Services
17 102 (7.29%) LINQ
18 92 (6.57%) CSS3
19 91 (6.50%) REST
20 90 (6.43%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (4.50%) Mobile App
3 45 (3.21%) Client/Server
4 43 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.29%) iPhone
5 32 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 31 (2.21%) Hedge funds
7 26 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
11 19 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.21%) Legacy Code
13 15 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.07%) Equities
14 14 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.43%) Android
2 46 (3.29%) Windows
3 15 (1.07%) Linux
4 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (43.71%) Agile
2 591 (42.21%) Full Stack Development
3 474 (33.86%) MVC
4 342 (24.43%) Microservices
5 241 (17.21%) DevOps
6 235 (16.79%) TDD
7 168 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 164 (11.71%) Scrum
9 156 (11.14%) Problem-Solving
10 152 (10.86%) Multithreading
11 137 (9.79%) CI/CD
12 136 (9.71%) Unit Testing
13 126 (9.00%) Web Development
14 124 (8.86%) BDD
15 112 (8.00%) Design Patterns
16 103 (7.36%) Kanban
16 103 (7.36%) Mentoring
17 100 (7.14%) Computer Science
18 97 (6.93%) Continuous Integration
19 88 (6.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (100.00%) C#
2 691 (49.36%) JavaScript
3 446 (31.86%) SQL
4 203 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 97 (6.93%) T-SQL
6 55 (3.93%) VB.NET
7 32 (2.29%) Python
7 32 (2.29%) VB
8 31 (2.21%) Java
9 29 (2.07%) VB6
10 16 (1.14%) XPath
11 15 (1.07%) Delphi
12 12 (0.86%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.79%) C++
14 9 (0.64%) C
15 8 (0.57%) Bicep
16 7 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.43%) F#
17 6 (0.43%) XAML
18 4 (0.29%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 110 (7.86%) Degree
2 43 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (0.93%) Security Cleared
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
6 5 (0.36%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.36%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.29%) MCSD
7 4 (0.29%) PhD
8 3 (0.21%) MCPD
9 2 (0.14%) HNC
10 1 (0.071%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.071%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.071%) MCSA
10 1 (0.071%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.14%) QA
2 5 (0.36%) GDPR
3 3 (0.21%) SLA
4 2 (0.14%) EMIR
4 2 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (5.79%) Docker
2 13 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) Firmware
3 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.64%) Terraform
3 7 (0.50%) MIIS
4 6 (0.43%) Grafana
4 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 443 (31.64%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.50%) Optimizely
2 35 (2.50%) Sitecore
3 34 (2.43%) Google
4 28 (2.00%) Facebook
5 27 (1.93%) Oracle
6 16 (1.14%) Adobe
7 15 (1.07%) Cognizant
7 15 (1.07%) Xamarin
8 10 (0.71%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.57%) SAP
10 6 (0.43%) Splunk
10 6 (0.43%) Twitter
11 4 (0.29%) Databricks
11 4 (0.29%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.14%) Charles River
12 2 (0.14%) VMware
13 1 (0.071%) F5
13 1 (0.071%) Telerik
13 1 (0.071%) UiPath