C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 704 860
Rank change year-on-year +28 +156 -295
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 220 290 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 194 223 185
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +10.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73,250 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +20.00%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer.

Salary trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +49 183 £60,000 -22.58% 70
UK excluding London +34 174 £58,000 -3.33% 47
Work from Home +60 120 £65,000 -16.13% 103
Midlands +33 44 £55,000 +22.22% 12
London +59 43 £83,750 -5.63% 26
South East +16 36 £58,750 -2.08% 6
North of England +28 32 £65,000 -16.13% 10
Scotland -40 32 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands 0 27 £65,000 +44.44% 6
South West -1 21 £57,750 -3.75% 6
West Midlands +44 17 £42,500 -2.30% 6
North West +15 14 £53,750 -2.27% 7
Yorkshire +55 9 £68,000 -12.26% 2
North East +11 9 £71,500 +19.17% 2
East of England +20 7 £85,000 +30.77% 11
Wales +2 2 £55,000 +46.67% 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 220 (100.00%) C#
1 220 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 162 (73.64%) .NET
3 80 (36.36%) Agile
4 75 (34.09%) Azure
5 71 (32.27%) .NET Core
6 68 (30.91%) AWS
7 56 (25.45%) JavaScript
8 55 (25.00%) SQL
8 55 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 54 (24.55%) AngularJS
10 50 (22.73%) ASP.NET
11 47 (21.36%) .NET Framework
12 46 (20.91%) Full Stack Development
13 44 (20.00%) Degree
13 44 (20.00%) Docker
14 43 (19.55%) SDLC
15 39 (17.73%) CI/CD
16 38 (17.27%) Design Patterns
16 38 (17.27%) React
16 38 (17.27%) DevOps
17 36 (16.36%) Social Skills
18 35 (15.91%) Microsoft
19 32 (14.55%) Microservices
19 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
20 31 (14.09%) TypeScript
20 31 (14.09%) Finance
20 31 (14.09%) OOP
20 31 (14.09%) Client/Server
21 30 (13.64%) SQL Server

C# Software Engineer 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 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.45%) Sketch
1 1 (0.45%) UXPin
1 1 (0.45%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.09%) Azure
2 68 (30.91%) AWS
3 23 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.64%) Serverless
5 13 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (5.45%) GitHub
7 7 (3.18%) SaaS
8 6 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.36%) PaaS
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.91%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 2 (0.91%) Azure App Service
12 2 (0.91%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.91%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.45%) AWS Fargate
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.91%) RS-232
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.55%) Redis
3 14 (6.36%) MySQL
4 8 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.73%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.91%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.91%) Power BI
8 1 (0.45%) Event Store
8 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.45%) GIS
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (9.09%) Git
2 11 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.55%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.18%) Moq
5 5 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.36%) JIRA
6 3 (1.36%) Postman
6 3 (1.36%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.91%) NUnit
8 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 36 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.09%) Finance
3 21 (9.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.36%) Aviation
5 12 (5.45%) Games
6 11 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.09%) Law
8 8 (3.64%) Banking
9 7 (3.18%) Automotive
9 7 (3.18%) Private Banking
9 7 (3.18%) Publishing
9 7 (3.18%) Retail
10 6 (2.73%) Legal
10 6 (2.73%) Tech for Good
11 5 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.36%) Electronics
13 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.91%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (73.64%) .NET
2 71 (32.27%) .NET Core
3 54 (24.55%) AngularJS
4 50 (22.73%) ASP.NET
5 47 (21.36%) .NET Framework
6 38 (17.27%) React
7 20 (9.09%) RESTful
8 17 (7.73%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (7.73%) WPF
9 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (6.82%) Entity Framework
9 15 (6.82%) Vue
10 14 (6.36%) CSS
10 14 (6.36%) HTML
11 11 (5.00%) Blazor
11 11 (5.00%) jQuery
12 10 (4.55%) JSON
13 9 (4.09%) Node.js
13 9 (4.09%) Web Services
13 9 (4.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.09%) Client/Server
2 28 (12.73%) Data Structures
3 27 (12.27%) Algorithms
4 21 (9.55%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.64%) IoT
6 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.18%) Online Games
8 6 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.82%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.82%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.36%) Derivative
11 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.91%) Windows
2 5 (2.27%) Linux
3 3 (1.36%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (36.36%) Agile
3 55 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 46 (20.91%) Full Stack Development
5 43 (19.55%) SDLC
6 39 (17.73%) CI/CD
7 38 (17.27%) Design Patterns
7 38 (17.27%) DevOps
8 32 (14.55%) Microservices
8 32 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (14.09%) OOP
10 27 (12.27%) MVC
11 22 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 22 (10.00%) OO
12 18 (8.18%) Scrum
13 16 (7.27%) Coaching
13 16 (7.27%) TDD
14 15 (6.82%) Clean Code
15 14 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (5.45%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 220 (100.00%) C#
2 56 (25.45%) JavaScript
3 55 (25.00%) SQL
4 31 (14.09%) TypeScript
5 29 (13.18%) C++
6 21 (9.55%) Python
7 20 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.55%) Java
9 7 (3.18%) C
10 4 (1.82%) Bash
10 4 (1.82%) Go
11 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (20.00%) Degree
2 17 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.36%) HNC
6 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.09%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.27%) Terraform
3 2 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 35 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.73%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.27%) DevExpress
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle
5 2 (0.91%) VMware
6 1 (0.45%) ESRI
6 1 (0.45%) QNX