C# Software Developer Job Trends in England

C# Software Developer
UK > England

The median C# Software Developer salary in England is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 607 533
Rank change year-on-year +58 -74 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Developer 60 88 130
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 59 73 125
10th Percentile £24,000 £41,250 £41,550
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% -6.96%
75th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £72,000 £80,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% -6.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,494 46,967 42,139
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 93.27% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 29,848 25,203 32,963
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

C# Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'C# Software Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

C# Software Developer job vacancy trend in England

C# Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Developer job vacancies in England

C# Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for C# Software Developer in England

C# Software Developer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. 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
South East +37 13 £50,000 - 3
London +53 12 £70,000 +16.67% 2
East of England +41 11 £25,000 -73.68%
North of England -1 9 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Midlands +16 8 £45,000 +5.88%
South West +17 7 £40,000 -33.33%
West Midlands +32 5 £45,000 -2.70%
Yorkshire -16 5 £65,000 +31.31% 3
North West +13 4 £66,250 +32.50% 3
East Midlands -19 3 £45,000 +5.88%
C# Software Developer
UK

C# Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, C# Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring C# Software Developer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) C#
2 38 (63.33%) .NET
2 38 (63.33%) Azure
3 32 (53.33%) Agile
4 30 (50.00%) SQL
5 21 (35.00%) SQL Server
6 20 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 20 (33.33%) PHP
7 18 (30.00%) .NET Core
8 17 (28.33%) .NET Framework
9 16 (26.67%) CSS
10 15 (25.00%) AWS
10 15 (25.00%) MVC
11 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
12 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (16.67%) jQuery
12 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 9 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (15.00%) Degree
13 9 (15.00%) Entity Framework
13 9 (15.00%) HTML
13 9 (15.00%) Java
13 9 (15.00%) MySQL
13 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET
14 8 (13.33%) C++
14 8 (13.33%) SaaS
15 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
15 7 (11.67%) OOP
15 7 (11.67%) TDD

C# Software Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Table
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
4 2 (3.33%) PaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.00%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.33%) MS Access
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Banking
4 2 (3.33%) Front Office
4 2 (3.33%) Law
4 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (63.33%) .NET
2 18 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 17 (28.33%) .NET Framework
4 16 (26.67%) CSS
5 10 (16.67%) jQuery
6 9 (15.00%) Entity Framework
6 9 (15.00%) HTML
7 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET
8 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (10.00%) React
9 6 (10.00%) WPF
10 4 (6.67%) Autofac
10 4 (6.67%) REST
11 3 (5.00%) Blazor
11 3 (5.00%) Node.js
11 3 (5.00%) WinForms
12 2 (3.33%) ADO
12 2 (3.33%) Avalonia
12 2 (3.33%) JSON
12 2 (3.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Agile
2 20 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 15 (25.00%) MVC
4 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.67%) OOP
6 7 (11.67%) TDD
7 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 4 (6.67%) Coaching
9 4 (6.67%) Conflict Resolution
9 4 (6.67%) Dependency Injection
9 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (6.67%) Migration
9 4 (6.67%) People Management
9 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.67%) Software Testing
9 4 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (50.00%) SQL
3 20 (33.33%) PHP
4 14 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.00%) Java
6 8 (13.33%) C++
7 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.67%) XAML
8 2 (3.33%) Delphi
9 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle