C# Software Engineer Job Trends in England

C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C# Software Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
31 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 579 651
Rank change year-on-year +135 +72 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 250 46 195
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.12% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 231 40 174
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,875 £36,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +15.42% -22.58%
75th Percentile £81,125 £80,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +14.17% -22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 77,705 35,001 83,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.71% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 52,976 20,178 62,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

C# Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

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

C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in England

C# Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2026. 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 +83 103 £65,000 +18.18% 8
London +20 53 £90,000 +60.00% 3
North of England -5 53 £57,500 -25.81% 3
East of England -1 23 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West +9 19 £60,000 -14.89%
Yorkshire -30 19 £50,000 -35.48% 1
Midlands -26 16 £70,000 -9.68%
North East -34 15 £100,000 +53.85% 2
East Midlands -22 9 £26,000 -66.88%
West Midlands -27 7 £70,000 +47.37%
South West - 7 £55,000 - 5
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2026, C# Software Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 250 (100.00%) C#
2 240 (96.00%) Software Engineering
3 142 (56.80%) .NET
4 65 (26.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (22.80%) AWS
6 53 (21.20%) Degree
7 43 (17.20%) Azure
8 42 (16.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (14.40%) Microservices
10 34 (13.60%) SDLC
11 33 (13.20%) SQL
12 32 (12.80%) SaaS
13 31 (12.40%) C++
13 31 (12.40%) Python
14 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (11.20%) Vue
16 25 (10.00%) CSS
16 25 (10.00%) HTML
16 25 (10.00%) Product Vision
16 25 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
17 24 (9.60%) Agile
17 24 (9.60%) CQRS
18 23 (9.20%) DevOps
19 21 (8.40%) CI/CD
20 20 (8.00%) TDD
21 18 (7.20%) WPF
22 16 (6.40%) Fintech
22 16 (6.40%) JavaScript
23 14 (5.60%) .NET Core
23 14 (5.60%) Design Patterns

C# Software Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 57 (22.80%) AWS
2 43 (17.20%) Azure
3 32 (12.80%) SaaS
4 13 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.60%) PaaS
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
6 2 (0.80%) Azure Functions
6 2 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.80%) Serverless
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.60%) GitLab
3 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.80%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
General
1 28 (11.20%) Finance
2 20 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 14 (5.60%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.00%) Electronics
5 7 (2.80%) Games
6 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.20%) Automotive
7 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.40%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (56.80%) .NET
2 28 (11.20%) Vue
3 25 (10.00%) CSS
3 25 (10.00%) HTML
4 18 (7.20%) WPF
5 14 (5.60%) .NET Core
6 13 (5.20%) React
7 8 (3.20%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.00%) Blazor
8 5 (2.00%) RESTful
9 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.20%) Django
11 2 (0.80%) Kafka
11 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.80%) REST
12 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET Core
12 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
12 1 (0.40%) SignalR
12 1 (0.40%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.00%) Distributed Computing
2 14 (5.60%) Hedge funds
3 7 (2.80%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.40%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.60%) Online Games
7 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.80%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.00%) Android
2 3 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (96.00%) Software Engineering
2 65 (26.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 36 (14.40%) Microservices
4 34 (13.60%) SDLC
5 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (10.00%) Product Vision
6 25 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
7 24 (9.60%) Agile
7 24 (9.60%) CQRS
8 23 (9.20%) DevOps
9 21 (8.40%) CI/CD
10 20 (8.00%) TDD
11 16 (6.40%) Fintech
12 14 (5.60%) Design Patterns
12 14 (5.60%) Mentoring
13 13 (5.20%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (4.80%) Machine Learning
15 10 (4.00%) Clean Code
15 10 (4.00%) Test Automation
16 8 (3.20%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 250 (100.00%) C#
2 33 (13.20%) SQL
3 31 (12.40%) C++
3 31 (12.40%) Python
4 16 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.80%) C
6 2 (0.80%) Julia
Qualifications
1 53 (21.20%) Degree
2 42 (16.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 11 (4.40%) Master's Degree
4 11 (4.40%) PhD
5 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.40%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.00%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle
21 C# Software Engineer jobs in England