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 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 637 564 695
Rank change year-on-year -73 +131 -262
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 270 466 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 253 448 496
10th Percentile £36,050 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £95,000 £75,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 93,878 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# 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 10 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 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 -55 244 £52,500 -12.50% 53
UK excluding London -84 229 £51,250 -6.82% 45
Work from Home -60 127 £53,500 -10.83% 35
North of England +76 78 £48,000 -12.73% 13
South East -104 51 £60,000 - 9
North West +32 46 £47,500 -24.00% 8
Midlands +6 42 £53,500 +18.89% 10
London +19 33 £70,000 -9.68% 13
West Midlands +17 29 £53,500 +9.74% 7
South West -20 29 £52,500 +10.53% 6
Yorkshire +94 24 £49,500 -26.67% 2
Northern Ireland +28 16 £47,500 -5.00% 1
East Midlands -10 13 £48,750 +25.81% 3
North East -13 8 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Wales +9 5 £30,000 -41.46% 3
East of England +5 5 £42,500 -26.09% 3
Scotland -66 3 £60,000 +41.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 270 (100.00%) C#
2 214 (79.26%) .NET
3 119 (44.07%) SQL
4 107 (39.63%) SQL Server
5 93 (34.44%) JavaScript
6 89 (32.96%) ASP.NET
7 88 (32.59%) Agile
8 84 (31.11%) MVC
9 83 (30.74%) Azure
10 82 (30.37%) Social Skills
11 78 (28.89%) HTML
12 75 (27.78%) .NET Core
13 71 (26.30%) .NET Framework
14 65 (24.07%) Finance
15 63 (23.33%) Entity Framework
16 53 (19.63%) CSS
17 52 (19.26%) React
18 49 (18.15%) Software Engineering
19 48 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
20 47 (17.41%) DevOps
21 44 (16.30%) Full Stack Development
22 43 (15.93%) AngularJS
23 41 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
24 39 (14.44%) Microservices
24 39 (14.44%) ASP.NET MVC
24 39 (14.44%) Git
25 38 (14.07%) RESTful
26 33 (12.22%) Mentoring
26 33 (12.22%) Docker
26 33 (12.22%) Degree

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 83 (30.74%) Azure
2 41 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (11.85%) AWS
4 17 (6.30%) GitHub
5 13 (4.81%) SaaS
6 12 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.70%) Serverless
8 7 (2.59%) 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 (3.70%) Network Security
2 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) 4G
3 2 (0.74%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (39.63%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.44%) MySQL
3 8 (2.96%) 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 (14.44%) Git
2 30 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 14 (5.19%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (4.44%) CircleCI
5 11 (4.07%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.70%) Jasmine
6 10 (3.70%) NUnit
6 10 (3.70%) Selenium
6 10 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.22%) 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 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.07%) Finance
3 10 (3.70%) Law
4 9 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.59%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.59%) Music Industry
6 7 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.85%) Games
8 4 (1.48%) Retail
9 3 (1.11%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.74%) Advertising
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (79.26%) .NET
2 89 (32.96%) ASP.NET
3 78 (28.89%) HTML
4 75 (27.78%) .NET Core
5 71 (26.30%) .NET Framework
6 63 (23.33%) Entity Framework
7 53 (19.63%) CSS
8 52 (19.26%) React
9 43 (15.93%) AngularJS
10 39 (14.44%) ASP.NET MVC
11 38 (14.07%) RESTful
12 24 (8.89%) ASP.NET Web API
13 19 (7.04%) HTML5
13 19 (7.04%) jQuery
13 19 (7.04%) WPF
14 13 (4.81%) Blazor
15 12 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
16 11 (4.07%) Vue
17 10 (3.70%) LESS
17 10 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.78%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.81%) Client/Server
3 11 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.59%) Podcast
5 6 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.85%) Mobile Computing
7 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.11%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.74%) Derivative
9 2 (0.74%) e-Health
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.74%) Online Games
10 1 (0.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.04%) Windows
2 8 (2.96%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.22%) Android
3 6 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.59%) Agile
2 84 (31.11%) MVC
3 49 (18.15%) Software Engineering
4 48 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (17.41%) DevOps
6 44 (16.30%) Full Stack Development
7 39 (14.44%) Microservices
8 33 (12.22%) Mentoring
9 31 (11.48%) CI/CD
10 30 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 27 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 26 (9.63%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.63%) Web Development
13 25 (9.26%) Unit Testing
14 24 (8.89%) Clean Code
14 24 (8.89%) SDLC
14 24 (8.89%) TDD
15 20 (7.41%) SOLID
16 19 (7.04%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 270 (100.00%) C#
2 119 (44.07%) SQL
3 93 (34.44%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.15%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.70%) Java
6 10 (3.70%) VB.NET
7 7 (2.59%) Bicep
8 6 (2.22%) XAML
9 3 (1.11%) C++
9 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.74%) VB
11 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (12.22%) Degree
2 16 (5.93%) 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 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (1.11%) SLA
3 2 (0.74%) EMIR
3 2 (0.74%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (12.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.56%) Terraform
3 7 (2.59%) MIIS
4 4 (1.48%) Grafana
4 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (11.85%) 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