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 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 612 564 717
Rank change year-on-year -48 +153 -282
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 285 466 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.47% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 268 448 508
10th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £63,750 £79,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £96,250 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 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# 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 20 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 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 -48 256 £52,500 -16.00% 70
UK excluding London -69 244 £50,000 -9.09% 61
Work from Home -34 134 £53,500 -10.83% 47
North of England +71 85 £49,500 -10.00% 18
South East -99 55 £62,500 -3.85% 15
North West +28 47 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Midlands +13 42 £53,500 +22.29% 13
London +12 33 £70,000 -12.50% 19
West Midlands +30 30 £53,500 +12.63% 9
South West -19 30 £52,500 +10.53% 7
Yorkshire +92 28 £49,500 -1.00% 5
Northern Ireland +38 17 £45,000 -10.00% 1
East Midlands -14 12 £47,500 +22.58% 4
North East -5 10 £60,000 +14.29% 4
Wales +12 7 £30,000 -33.33% 4
East of England -7 5 £42,500 -26.09% 3
Scotland -72 3 £60,000 +41.18% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 285 (100.00%) C#
2 227 (79.65%) .NET
3 123 (43.16%) SQL
4 111 (38.95%) SQL Server
5 98 (34.39%) JavaScript
6 93 (32.63%) ASP.NET
7 92 (32.28%) Azure
8 90 (31.58%) Agile
9 85 (29.82%) MVC
10 84 (29.47%) Social Skills
11 81 (28.42%) .NET Core
12 79 (27.72%) HTML
13 75 (26.32%) .NET Framework
14 67 (23.51%) Finance
14 67 (23.51%) Entity Framework
15 56 (19.65%) DevOps
16 55 (19.30%) CSS
16 55 (19.30%) React
17 53 (18.60%) Software Engineering
18 52 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
19 48 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
20 46 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
20 46 (16.14%) AngularJS
21 43 (15.09%) Microservices
22 42 (14.74%) Git
23 41 (14.39%) RESTful
24 39 (13.68%) ASP.NET MVC
25 37 (12.98%) CI/CD
26 36 (12.63%) Microsoft
27 34 (11.93%) AWS

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 (1.40%) CMS
1 4 (1.40%) IIS
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (32.28%) Azure
2 46 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (11.93%) AWS
4 18 (6.32%) GitHub
5 16 (5.61%) SaaS
6 13 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.51%) Serverless
8 7 (2.46%) Pulumi
9 4 (1.40%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 3 (1.05%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.70%) PaaS
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.21%) Network Security
2 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.70%) 4G
3 2 (0.70%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (38.95%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.21%) MySQL
3 8 (2.81%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.75%) Redis
6 3 (1.05%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.70%) Power BI
7 2 (0.70%) SQLite
8 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (14.74%) Git
2 33 (11.58%) Visual Studio
3 14 (4.91%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (4.56%) CircleCI
5 12 (4.21%) Jasmine
5 12 (4.21%) NUnit
5 12 (4.21%) Selenium
5 12 (4.21%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (3.86%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.11%) CMake
8 5 (1.75%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.70%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.70%) GCC
9 2 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 84 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.51%) Finance
3 12 (4.21%) Law
4 10 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.81%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.46%) Music Industry
7 6 (2.11%) Retail
8 5 (1.75%) Automotive
8 5 (1.75%) Games
8 5 (1.75%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Back Office
10 2 (0.70%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (0.70%) Front Office
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (79.65%) .NET
2 93 (32.63%) ASP.NET
3 81 (28.42%) .NET Core
4 79 (27.72%) HTML
5 75 (26.32%) .NET Framework
6 67 (23.51%) Entity Framework
7 55 (19.30%) CSS
7 55 (19.30%) React
8 46 (16.14%) AngularJS
9 41 (14.39%) RESTful
10 39 (13.68%) ASP.NET MVC
11 27 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web API
12 21 (7.37%) HTML5
12 21 (7.37%) jQuery
13 19 (6.67%) WPF
14 13 (4.56%) Blazor
14 13 (4.56%) Vue
15 12 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
16 11 (3.86%) LESS
17 10 (3.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 13 (4.56%) Client/Server
3 11 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.46%) Podcast
5 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.75%) Mobile Computing
7 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.70%) Derivative
10 2 (0.70%) e-Health
10 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.70%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.70%) Online Games
11 1 (0.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.67%) Windows
2 8 (2.81%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.11%) Android
3 6 (2.11%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.58%) Agile
2 85 (29.82%) MVC
3 56 (19.65%) DevOps
4 53 (18.60%) Software Engineering
5 52 (18.25%) Full Stack Development
6 48 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.09%) Microservices
8 37 (12.98%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.23%) Design Patterns
11 29 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (9.82%) Test Automation
12 28 (9.82%) Web Development
13 27 (9.47%) TDD
14 26 (9.12%) Computer Science
14 26 (9.12%) Unit Testing
15 25 (8.77%) Clean Code
15 25 (8.77%) SDLC
16 22 (7.72%) SOLID
17 19 (6.67%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 285 (100.00%) C#
2 123 (43.16%) SQL
3 98 (34.39%) JavaScript
4 22 (7.72%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 12 (4.21%) VB.NET
7 10 (3.51%) Java
8 7 (2.46%) Bicep
9 6 (2.11%) XAML
10 3 (1.05%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.70%) VB
12 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (11.58%) Degree
2 16 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.40%) MCSD
5 1 (0.35%) MCSA
5 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.21%) QA
2 3 (1.05%) SLA
3 2 (0.70%) EMIR
3 2 (0.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (11.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.26%) Terraform
3 7 (2.46%) MIIS
4 4 (1.40%) Grafana
4 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.40%) Facebook
2 4 (1.40%) Splunk
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle
4 2 (0.70%) Twitter
4 2 (0.70%) VMware
5 1 (0.35%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.35%) Xamarin