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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 218 250
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Developer 1,403 1,737 2,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 1.75% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.91% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,297 1,645 2,274
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 £111,250 £90,000
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £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 20 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 20 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 1,320 £57,500 -11.54% 261
UK excluding London +23 1,038 £55,000 -4.35% 184
Work from Home -21 698 £55,000 -8.33% 188
North of England +112 321 £55,000 -8.33% 57
London -59 320 £70,000 -12.50% 113
South East -47 275 £55,000 -8.33% 54
North West +44 155 £52,500 -12.50% 35
Midlands +40 154 £50,000 -7.41% 38
South West -8 139 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire +126 110 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East of England +14 94 £57,500 +15.00% 8
West Midlands +39 82 £53,500 -6.14% 20
East Midlands +12 72 £47,500 +5.56% 18
North East +34 56 £60,000 +20.00% 12
Wales +22 26 £50,000 +11.11% 10
Northern Ireland +38 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland -97 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 20 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 1,403 (100.00%) C#
2 1,230 (87.67%) .NET
3 767 (54.67%) Azure
4 695 (49.54%) JavaScript
5 654 (46.61%) SQL Server
6 615 (43.83%) Agile
7 600 (42.77%) ASP.NET
8 593 (42.27%) Full Stack Development
9 505 (35.99%) .NET Core
10 477 (34.00%) MVC
11 469 (33.43%) AngularJS
12 448 (31.93%) SQL
13 444 (31.65%) Microsoft
14 380 (27.08%) .NET Framework
15 359 (25.59%) HTML
16 342 (24.38%) Microservices
17 340 (24.23%) ASP.NET MVC
18 337 (24.02%) ASP.NET Web API
19 322 (22.95%) Entity Framework
20 290 (20.67%) React
21 266 (18.96%) RESTful
22 262 (18.67%) CSS
23 243 (17.32%) DevOps
24 239 (17.03%) TDD
25 225 (16.04%) Finance
26 204 (14.54%) TypeScript
27 203 (14.47%) Social Skills
28 197 (14.04%) AWS
29 177 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
30 169 (12.05%) 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 (5.20%) IIS
2 72 (5.13%) CMS
3 36 (2.57%) Kentico
4 35 (2.49%) Sitecore CMS
4 35 (2.49%) Umbraco
5 34 (2.42%) Headless CMS
6 15 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.36%) Confluence
8 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.071%) EPiServer
Applications
1 17 (1.21%) Photoshop
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.071%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.071%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (1.21%) SDL Web 8
2 15 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 767 (54.67%) Azure
2 197 (14.04%) AWS
3 177 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (3.28%) GitHub
5 41 (2.92%) Serverless
6 40 (2.85%) SaaS
7 34 (2.42%) Kontent
8 32 (2.28%) Google Play
9 30 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 25 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
11 24 (1.71%) Azure Functions
12 16 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.14%) NuGet
13 15 (1.07%) GCP
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 (4.63%) 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
1 654 (46.61%) SQL Server
2 92 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 64 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
4 58 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.42%) Redis
6 32 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.78%) MySQL
7 25 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (0.93%) Power BI
10 11 (0.78%) 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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (9.55%) Visual Studio
2 120 (8.55%) Git
3 46 (3.28%) NUnit
4 40 (2.85%) Jasmine
5 38 (2.71%) JIRA
6 36 (2.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 35 (2.49%) TeamCity
8 28 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
9 27 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (1.64%) Jenkins
11 22 (1.57%) Moq
12 16 (1.14%) git-flow
12 16 (1.14%) Postman
12 16 (1.14%) Sourcetree
12 16 (1.14%) SpecFlow
13 13 (0.93%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.86%) Selenium
14 12 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.64%) MSTest
16 6 (0.43%) CMake
General
1 225 (16.04%) Finance
2 203 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 65 (4.63%) Games
4 54 (3.85%) Marketing
5 44 (3.14%) Music Industry
6 37 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (2.64%) Manufacturing
6 37 (2.64%) Retail
7 30 (2.14%) Front Office
8 27 (1.92%) Law
9 25 (1.78%) Aerospace
9 25 (1.78%) Banking
10 24 (1.71%) Advertising
11 23 (1.64%) Legal
12 20 (1.43%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,230 (87.67%) .NET
2 600 (42.77%) ASP.NET
3 505 (35.99%) .NET Core
4 469 (33.43%) AngularJS
5 380 (27.08%) .NET Framework
6 359 (25.59%) HTML
7 340 (24.23%) ASP.NET MVC
8 337 (24.02%) ASP.NET Web API
9 322 (22.95%) Entity Framework
10 290 (20.67%) React
11 266 (18.96%) RESTful
12 262 (18.67%) CSS
13 167 (11.90%) HTML5
14 120 (8.55%) Blazor
15 112 (7.98%) Vue
16 110 (7.84%) Web Services
17 101 (7.20%) LINQ
18 94 (6.70%) CSS3
19 90 (6.41%) REST
20 88 (6.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.13%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (4.49%) Mobile App
3 45 (3.21%) Client/Server
4 43 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.28%) iPhone
7 31 (2.21%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 20 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
12 19 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.28%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.28%) Legacy Code
14 15 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.07%) Equities
15 14 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.86%) Fixed Income
17 10 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.42%) Android
2 46 (3.28%) 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
1 615 (43.83%) Agile
2 593 (42.27%) Full Stack Development
3 477 (34.00%) MVC
4 342 (24.38%) Microservices
5 243 (17.32%) DevOps
6 239 (17.03%) TDD
7 169 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 165 (11.76%) Scrum
9 157 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
10 152 (10.83%) Multithreading
11 138 (9.84%) CI/CD
11 138 (9.84%) Unit Testing
12 126 (8.98%) BDD
13 125 (8.91%) Web Development
14 112 (7.98%) Design Patterns
15 103 (7.34%) Kanban
15 103 (7.34%) Mentoring
16 101 (7.20%) Computer Science
17 98 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
18 91 (6.49%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1,403 (100.00%) C#
2 695 (49.54%) JavaScript
3 448 (31.93%) SQL
4 204 (14.54%) TypeScript
5 98 (6.99%) T-SQL
6 55 (3.92%) VB.NET
7 33 (2.35%) Python
8 31 (2.21%) VB
9 30 (2.14%) Java
10 29 (2.07%) VB6
11 17 (1.21%) XPath
12 15 (1.07%) Delphi
13 12 (0.86%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.78%) C++
15 9 (0.64%) C
16 8 (0.57%) Bicep
17 7 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.43%) XAML
19 5 (0.36%) F#
20 4 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (7.91%) Degree
2 43 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (0.93%) Security Cleared
4 8 (0.57%) 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 71 (5.06%) 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 (5.77%) 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 86 (6.13%) 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
1 444 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.49%) Optimizely
2 35 (2.49%) Sitecore
3 34 (2.42%) Google
4 28 (2.00%) Facebook
5 27 (1.92%) Oracle
6 17 (1.21%) Adobe
7 16 (1.14%) Cognizant
8 15 (1.07%) Xamarin
9 11 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.57%) SAP
11 6 (0.43%) Splunk
11 6 (0.43%) Twitter
12 4 (0.29%) Databricks
12 4 (0.29%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.14%) Charles River
13 2 (0.14%) VMware
14 1 (0.071%) F5
14 1 (0.071%) UiPath