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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 216 240
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,372 1,777 2,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.75% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.92% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 1,678 2,271
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £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 £107,875 £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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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# 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 9 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 9 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 +16 1,296 £57,500 -11.54% 192
UK excluding London +17 1,015 £55,000 -4.35% 135
Work from Home -32 688 £55,000 -8.33% 149
London -57 313 £70,000 -12.50% 74
North of England +118 309 £55,000 -8.33% 44
South East -65 268 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Midlands +46 155 £50,000 -7.41% 35
North West +54 152 £52,500 -12.50% 25
South West -11 137 £55,000 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire +124 104 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East of England +21 96 £57,500 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +38 81 £53,500 -8.94% 16
East Midlands +19 74 £47,500 +8.57% 19
North East +26 53 £60,000 +26.32% 10
Wales +11 22 £50,000 -2.44% 9
Northern Ireland +33 16 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Scotland -101 11 £60,000 - 9
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,372 (100.00%) C#
2 1,206 (87.90%) .NET
3 751 (54.74%) Azure
4 677 (49.34%) JavaScript
5 644 (46.94%) SQL Server
6 599 (43.66%) Agile
7 590 (43.00%) ASP.NET
8 572 (41.69%) Full Stack Development
9 495 (36.08%) .NET Core
10 473 (34.48%) MVC
11 453 (33.02%) AngularJS
12 441 (32.14%) SQL
13 440 (32.07%) Microsoft
14 373 (27.19%) .NET Framework
15 354 (25.80%) HTML
16 336 (24.49%) Microservices
16 336 (24.49%) ASP.NET MVC
17 330 (24.05%) ASP.NET Web API
18 314 (22.89%) Entity Framework
19 277 (20.19%) React
20 255 (18.59%) CSS
21 253 (18.44%) RESTful
22 229 (16.69%) TDD
23 226 (16.47%) DevOps
24 216 (15.74%) Finance
25 201 (14.65%) Social Skills
26 200 (14.58%) TypeScript
27 191 (13.92%) AWS
28 170 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
29 167 (12.17%) 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 72 (5.25%) IIS
2 70 (5.10%) CMS
3 37 (2.70%) Kentico
4 35 (2.55%) Sitecore CMS
4 35 (2.55%) Umbraco
5 34 (2.48%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.36%) Confluence
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.073%) EPiServer
Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.15%) S-PLUS
6 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.073%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 16 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 15 (1.09%) SDL Web 8
3 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) Maximo
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.15%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 751 (54.74%) Azure
2 191 (13.92%) AWS
3 170 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (3.28%) GitHub
5 43 (3.13%) Serverless
6 37 (2.70%) SaaS
7 34 (2.48%) Kontent
8 32 (2.33%) Google Play
9 30 (2.19%) Power Platform
10 25 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 25 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (1.09%) GCP
12 15 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (1.02%) NuGet
14 13 (0.95%) Azure API Management
14 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.87%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.74%) Internet
2 10 (0.73%) Hyperconnected
2 10 (0.73%) Network Security
3 8 (0.58%) Broadband
3 8 (0.58%) Mobile Broadband
4 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.22%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.15%) 4G
6 2 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 644 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 90 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 62 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (2.41%) Redis
6 31 (2.26%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.82%) MySQL
8 24 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (0.95%) Power BI
11 11 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.73%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.36%) Big Data
14 5 (0.36%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.22%) GIS
16 2 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 128 (9.33%) Visual Studio
2 113 (8.24%) Git
3 43 (3.13%) NUnit
4 38 (2.77%) Jasmine
5 35 (2.55%) JIRA
6 32 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 32 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 28 (2.04%) Karma Test Runner
8 27 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
9 20 (1.46%) Jenkins
9 20 (1.46%) Moq
10 17 (1.24%) Postman
11 14 (1.02%) git-flow
11 14 (1.02%) Sourcetree
11 14 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 12 (0.87%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.73%) Selenium
13 10 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.58%) MSTest
15 6 (0.44%) CMake
General
1 216 (15.74%) Finance
2 201 (14.65%) Social Skills
3 62 (4.52%) Games
4 50 (3.64%) Marketing
5 44 (3.21%) Music Industry
6 37 (2.70%) Retail
7 36 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (2.62%) Manufacturing
8 30 (2.19%) Front Office
9 26 (1.90%) Law
10 25 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.82%) Banking
11 23 (1.68%) Advertising
12 21 (1.53%) Legal
13 19 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.24%) Public Sector
15 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.58%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,206 (87.90%) .NET
2 590 (43.00%) ASP.NET
3 495 (36.08%) .NET Core
4 453 (33.02%) AngularJS
5 373 (27.19%) .NET Framework
6 354 (25.80%) HTML
7 336 (24.49%) ASP.NET MVC
8 330 (24.05%) ASP.NET Web API
9 314 (22.89%) Entity Framework
10 277 (20.19%) React
11 255 (18.59%) CSS
12 253 (18.44%) RESTful
13 165 (12.03%) HTML5
14 121 (8.82%) Blazor
15 105 (7.65%) Vue
15 105 (7.65%) Web Services
16 101 (7.36%) LINQ
17 92 (6.71%) CSS3
18 89 (6.49%) REST
19 87 (6.34%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.05%) Greenfield Project
2 64 (4.66%) Mobile App
3 45 (3.28%) Client/Server
4 42 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.33%) iPhone
6 31 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 25 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
10 19 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.17%) Legacy Code
13 15 (1.09%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.09%) Equities
14 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.87%) Fixed Income
16 9 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.50%) Android
2 45 (3.28%) Windows
3 15 (1.09%) Linux
4 14 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.073%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (43.66%) Agile
2 572 (41.69%) Full Stack Development
3 473 (34.48%) MVC
4 336 (24.49%) Microservices
5 229 (16.69%) TDD
6 226 (16.47%) DevOps
7 167 (12.17%) Software Engineering
8 159 (11.59%) Scrum
9 154 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
10 147 (10.71%) Multithreading
11 132 (9.62%) Unit Testing
12 129 (9.40%) CI/CD
13 123 (8.97%) Web Development
14 122 (8.89%) BDD
15 108 (7.87%) Design Patterns
16 104 (7.58%) Mentoring
17 99 (7.22%) Kanban
18 98 (7.14%) Computer Science
19 95 (6.92%) Continuous Integration
20 86 (6.27%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,372 (100.00%) C#
2 677 (49.34%) JavaScript
3 441 (32.14%) SQL
4 200 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.92%) T-SQL
6 54 (3.94%) VB.NET
7 32 (2.33%) VB
8 31 (2.26%) Java
9 29 (2.11%) Python
9 29 (2.11%) VB6
10 15 (1.09%) Delphi
10 15 (1.09%) XPath
11 11 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 10 (0.73%) C++
13 9 (0.66%) Bicep
13 9 (0.66%) C
14 7 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.44%) F#
15 6 (0.44%) XAML
16 4 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (7.87%) Degree
2 43 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.02%) Security Cleared
4 7 (0.51%) CTC Cleared
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.36%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.29%) MCSD
7 3 (0.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.22%) MCPD
7 3 (0.22%) PhD
8 2 (0.15%) HNC
9 1 (0.073%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.073%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.073%) MCSA
9 1 (0.073%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.17%) QA
2 5 (0.36%) GDPR
3 3 (0.22%) SLA
4 1 (0.073%) EMIR
4 1 (0.073%) MiFID
4 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (5.76%) Docker
2 14 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.15%) Firmware
3 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.68%) Terraform
3 7 (0.51%) MIIS
4 6 (0.44%) Grafana
4 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 440 (32.07%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.55%) Optimizely
2 35 (2.55%) Sitecore
3 34 (2.48%) Google
4 28 (2.04%) Facebook
5 27 (1.97%) Oracle
6 15 (1.09%) Adobe
6 15 (1.09%) Xamarin
7 14 (1.02%) Cognizant
8 9 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.58%) SAP
10 6 (0.44%) Splunk
10 6 (0.44%) Twitter
11 4 (0.29%) Databricks
11 4 (0.29%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.15%) Charles River
12 2 (0.15%) VMware
13 1 (0.073%) F5
13 1 (0.073%) Telerik
13 1 (0.073%) UiPath