C# Developer
UK

The median C# Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 219 239
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -112
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,377 1,776 2,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.76% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.92% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,677 2,264
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £86,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £108,750 £95,000
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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +18 1,300 £57,500 -11.54% 202
UK excluding London +7 1,017 £55,000 -4.35% 141
Work from Home -28 692 £55,000 -8.33% 155
London -53 317 £70,000 -12.50% 78
North of England +113 310 £55,000 -8.33% 46
South East -51 268 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Midlands +42 155 £50,000 -7.41% 36
North West +42 153 £52,500 -12.50% 26
South West -7 137 £55,000 +10.00% 13
Yorkshire +119 104 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East of England +22 96 £57,500 +15.00% 5
West Midlands +26 81 £53,500 -8.94% 18
East Midlands +20 74 £47,500 +5.56% 18
North East +26 53 £60,000 +26.32% 10
Wales +16 23 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Northern Ireland +28 16 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Scotland -94 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 10 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 1,377 (100.00%) C#
2 1,210 (87.87%) .NET
3 753 (54.68%) Azure
4 684 (49.67%) JavaScript
5 647 (46.99%) SQL Server
6 600 (43.57%) Agile
7 593 (43.06%) ASP.NET
8 573 (41.61%) Full Stack Development
9 498 (36.17%) .NET Core
10 476 (34.57%) MVC
11 454 (32.97%) AngularJS
12 443 (32.17%) SQL
13 442 (32.10%) Microsoft
14 377 (27.38%) .NET Framework
15 357 (25.93%) HTML
16 339 (24.62%) ASP.NET MVC
17 338 (24.55%) Microservices
18 331 (24.04%) ASP.NET Web API
19 317 (23.02%) Entity Framework
20 280 (20.33%) React
21 257 (18.66%) CSS
22 254 (18.45%) RESTful
23 229 (16.63%) TDD
24 227 (16.49%) DevOps
25 218 (15.83%) Finance
26 201 (14.60%) TypeScript
27 200 (14.52%) Social Skills
28 192 (13.94%) AWS
29 171 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
30 168 (12.20%) 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 (5.23%) IIS
2 70 (5.08%) CMS
3 37 (2.69%) Kentico
4 35 (2.54%) Sitecore CMS
4 35 (2.54%) Umbraco
5 34 (2.47%) 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 (1.16%) 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
1 753 (54.68%) Azure
2 192 (13.94%) AWS
3 171 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (3.27%) GitHub
5 42 (3.05%) Serverless
6 37 (2.69%) SaaS
7 34 (2.47%) Kontent
8 32 (2.32%) Google Play
9 30 (2.18%) Power Platform
10 24 (1.74%) Azure Functions
10 24 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.09%) GCP
12 15 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 14 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.02%) NuGet
14 12 (0.87%) Azure API Management
14 12 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.87%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.72%) 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
1 647 (46.99%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.61%) MongoDB
3 63 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (2.40%) Redis
6 31 (2.25%) NoSQL
7 26 (1.89%) MySQL
8 25 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (0.94%) 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 (9.30%) Visual Studio
2 114 (8.28%) Git
3 43 (3.12%) NUnit
4 38 (2.76%) Jasmine
5 35 (2.54%) JIRA
6 32 (2.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 32 (2.32%) TeamCity
7 28 (2.03%) Karma Test Runner
8 27 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 21 (1.53%) Moq
10 20 (1.45%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.16%) Postman
12 14 (1.02%) git-flow
12 14 (1.02%) Sourcetree
12 14 (1.02%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.87%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.73%) Selenium
14 10 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.65%) MSTest
16 6 (0.44%) CMake
General
1 218 (15.83%) Finance
2 200 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 62 (4.50%) Games
4 50 (3.63%) Marketing
5 44 (3.20%) Music Industry
6 37 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (2.69%) Retail
7 36 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 30 (2.18%) Front Office
9 26 (1.89%) Law
10 25 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.82%) Banking
11 24 (1.74%) Advertising
12 21 (1.53%) Legal
13 19 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.31%) Public Sector
15 12 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,210 (87.87%) .NET
2 593 (43.06%) ASP.NET
3 498 (36.17%) .NET Core
4 454 (32.97%) AngularJS
5 377 (27.38%) .NET Framework
6 357 (25.93%) HTML
7 339 (24.62%) ASP.NET MVC
8 331 (24.04%) ASP.NET Web API
9 317 (23.02%) Entity Framework
10 280 (20.33%) React
11 257 (18.66%) CSS
12 254 (18.45%) RESTful
13 165 (11.98%) HTML5
14 121 (8.79%) Blazor
15 107 (7.77%) Vue
15 107 (7.77%) Web Services
16 102 (7.41%) LINQ
17 92 (6.68%) CSS3
18 90 (6.54%) REST
19 87 (6.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
2 64 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 45 (3.27%) Client/Server
4 42 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.32%) iPhone
5 32 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.11%) Hedge funds
7 25 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 22 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 22 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
9 19 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.16%) Legacy Code
12 15 (1.09%) Equities
13 14 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.87%) Fixed Income
15 9 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.49%) Android
2 46 (3.34%) 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
1 600 (43.57%) Agile
2 573 (41.61%) Full Stack Development
3 476 (34.57%) MVC
4 338 (24.55%) Microservices
5 229 (16.63%) TDD
6 227 (16.49%) DevOps
7 168 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 160 (11.62%) Scrum
9 155 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
10 147 (10.68%) Multithreading
11 133 (9.66%) Unit Testing
12 129 (9.37%) CI/CD
13 125 (9.08%) Web Development
14 123 (8.93%) BDD
15 109 (7.92%) Design Patterns
16 103 (7.48%) Mentoring
17 100 (7.26%) Kanban
18 99 (7.19%) Computer Science
19 95 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
20 86 (6.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,377 (100.00%) C#
2 684 (49.67%) JavaScript
3 443 (32.17%) SQL
4 201 (14.60%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.90%) T-SQL
6 54 (3.92%) VB.NET
7 32 (2.32%) VB
8 31 (2.25%) Java
9 30 (2.18%) Python
10 29 (2.11%) VB6
11 15 (1.09%) Delphi
11 15 (1.09%) XPath
12 13 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 10 (0.73%) C++
14 9 (0.65%) Bicep
14 9 (0.65%) C
15 7 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.44%) F#
16 6 (0.44%) XAML
17 4 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (7.99%) Degree
2 44 (3.20%) 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%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.29%) MCSD
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 (5.16%) QA
2 5 (0.36%) GDPR
3 3 (0.22%) SLA
4 2 (0.15%) EMIR
4 2 (0.15%) MiFID
5 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (5.74%) 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 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.67%) Terraform
3 7 (0.51%) MIIS
4 6 (0.44%) Grafana
4 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 442 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.54%) Optimizely
2 35 (2.54%) Sitecore
3 34 (2.47%) Google
4 28 (2.03%) Facebook
5 27 (1.96%) Oracle
6 15 (1.09%) Adobe
6 15 (1.09%) Xamarin
7 14 (1.02%) Cognizant
8 9 (0.65%) 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