Senior C# Developer
UK

The median Senior C# Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 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 626 548 731
Rank change year-on-year -78 +183 -278
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Developer 283 491 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.53% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 242 468 405
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.14% +16.67% +14.29%

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%

Senior C# Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior C# Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior C# Developer.

Salary trend for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Developer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Developer in the UK

Senior C# 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 Senior 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 -52 264 £64,500 -7.86% 36
UK excluding London -122 186 £61,500 -12.14% 23
Work from Home -65 135 £61,500 -12.14% 26
London +37 83 £90,000 +12.50% 18
South East -73 61 £61,500 -12.14% 6
South West +5 48 £62,500 +4.17% 2
North of England 0 31 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Midlands -29 18 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Yorkshire +60 15 £55,000 -21.43% 3
East of England +19 11 £110,000 +57.14%
North West -22 11 £65,000 -7.14% 4
East Midlands -7 10 £56,250 +4.65% 2
West Midlands -22 8 £60,000 - 1
Scotland -73 7 £60,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £55,000 -
North East - 5 £55,000 -
Wales +7 3 £55,000 -4.35% 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior C# Developer in the job title.

1 283 (100.00%) C#
2 232 (81.98%) .NET
3 146 (51.59%) Azure
4 141 (49.82%) JavaScript
5 127 (44.88%) SQL Server
6 125 (44.17%) ASP.NET
7 110 (38.87%) .NET Framework
8 104 (36.75%) DevOps
9 102 (36.04%) MVC
10 100 (35.34%) .NET Core
11 96 (33.92%) React
12 91 (32.16%) Agile
13 83 (29.33%) SQL
14 72 (25.44%) HTML
14 72 (25.44%) RESTful
14 72 (25.44%) Azure DevOps
15 70 (24.73%) CSS
15 70 (24.73%) Microsoft
16 64 (22.61%) ASP.NET MVC
17 63 (22.26%) Entity Framework
17 63 (22.26%) CMS
18 61 (21.55%) Full Stack Development
19 53 (18.73%) Git
19 53 (18.73%) Continuous Integration
20 52 (18.37%) CI/CD
21 49 (17.31%) E-Commerce
22 48 (16.96%) Technical Leadership
23 46 (16.25%) AWS
23 46 (16.25%) Unit Testing
23 46 (16.25%) Microservices

Senior 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 63 (22.26%) CMS
2 34 (12.01%) Headless CMS
2 34 (12.01%) IIS
2 34 (12.01%) Kentico
2 34 (12.01%) Sitecore CMS
2 34 (12.01%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (5.30%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.35%) Mathematica
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (4.95%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 146 (51.59%) Azure
2 72 (25.44%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (16.25%) AWS
4 34 (12.01%) Kontent
5 18 (6.36%) GitHub
6 16 (5.65%) Serverless
7 14 (4.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 14 (4.95%) NuGet
8 13 (4.59%) SaaS
9 11 (3.89%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.77%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.41%) TestFlight
13 3 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.06%) PaaS
13 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (44.88%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.41%) Big Data
5 4 (1.41%) MySQL
5 4 (1.41%) Redis
5 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.71%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.71%) Power BI
6 2 (0.71%) SQLite
7 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (18.73%) Git
2 31 (10.95%) Visual Studio
3 20 (7.07%) JIRA
4 18 (6.36%) Moq
4 18 (6.36%) NUnit
5 17 (6.01%) Octopus Deploy
5 17 (6.01%) TeamCity
6 14 (4.95%) git-flow
6 14 (4.95%) Sourcetree
6 14 (4.95%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.12%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.12%) CMake
8 3 (1.06%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.06%) MSTest
8 3 (1.06%) Postman
8 3 (1.06%) Selenium
8 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.07%) Finance
3 15 (5.30%) Banking
4 14 (4.95%) Marketing
5 9 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.18%) Investment Banking
5 9 (3.18%) Legal
6 7 (2.47%) Music Industry
7 6 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.12%) Law
8 5 (1.77%) Front Office
9 4 (1.41%) Back Office
10 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.06%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.71%) Advertising
11 2 (0.71%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (81.98%) .NET
2 125 (44.17%) ASP.NET
3 110 (38.87%) .NET Framework
4 100 (35.34%) .NET Core
5 96 (33.92%) React
6 72 (25.44%) HTML
6 72 (25.44%) RESTful
7 70 (24.73%) CSS
8 64 (22.61%) ASP.NET MVC
9 63 (22.26%) Entity Framework
10 40 (14.13%) AngularJS
11 34 (12.01%) Next.js
11 34 (12.01%) Web Services
12 29 (10.25%) jQuery
13 26 (9.19%) Blazor
14 20 (7.07%) REST
15 17 (6.01%) LESS
15 17 (6.01%) XML
16 16 (5.65%) ASP.NET MVC 5
17 14 (4.95%) Code First Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.43%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.07%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.95%) Legacy Code
5 9 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.12%) Derivative
8 6 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Podcast
10 4 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.06%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
11 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.48%) Windows
2 12 (4.24%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.47%) Android
4 6 (2.12%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.77%) Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (36.75%) DevOps
2 102 (36.04%) MVC
3 91 (32.16%) Agile
4 61 (21.55%) Full Stack Development
5 53 (18.73%) Continuous Integration
6 52 (18.37%) CI/CD
7 49 (17.31%) E-Commerce
8 48 (16.96%) Technical Leadership
9 46 (16.25%) Microservices
9 46 (16.25%) Unit Testing
10 44 (15.55%) Mentoring
11 42 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (14.49%) Project Delivery
13 40 (14.13%) SOLID
14 38 (13.43%) Design Patterns
15 36 (12.72%) Web Development
16 35 (12.37%) Deployment Automation
17 34 (12.01%) ERP
17 34 (12.01%) Mobile First
17 34 (12.01%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 283 (100.00%) C#
2 141 (49.82%) JavaScript
3 83 (29.33%) SQL
4 44 (15.55%) TypeScript
5 34 (12.01%) T-SQL
6 16 (5.65%) Java
7 14 (4.95%) Python
7 14 (4.95%) XPath
8 9 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.77%) Delphi
9 5 (1.77%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.41%) C
10 4 (1.41%) Objective-C
10 4 (1.41%) Swift
10 4 (1.41%) VBScript
11 3 (1.06%) F#
11 3 (1.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.06%) VBA
12 2 (0.71%) VB
12 2 (0.71%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (11.66%) Degree
2 8 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.35%) PhD
4 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.41%) QA
2 2 (0.71%) EMIR
2 2 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (5.65%) Docker
2 7 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.01%) Optimizely
2 34 (12.01%) Sitecore
3 14 (4.95%) Adobe
3 14 (4.95%) Cognizant
4 9 (3.18%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.41%) Databricks
6 3 (1.06%) Xamarin
7 2 (0.71%) Charles River
7 2 (0.71%) Google
7 2 (0.71%) VMware
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) Telerik
8 1 (0.35%) UiPath