C# Software Engineer Job Trends in England

C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C# Software Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 566 587
Rank change year-on-year -25 +21 +128
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 40 188 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 34 135 117
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,750 £50,950
25th Percentile £63,125 £48,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,250 £76,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £95,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £76,750 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +27.92% -22.58% +14.81%

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 38,808 65,073 51,972
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 95.20% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 23,177 40,036 40,169
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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
North of England +4 23 £68,500 +0.74% 5
Yorkshire +12 15 £68,500 +0.74% 3
Midlands +19 7 £78,500 +42.73% 6
East Midlands +7 6 £78,500 +30.83% 5
London +58 5 £90,000 -5.26% 3
North West 0 5 £65,000 +13.04%
North East +11 3 £65,000 -18.75% 4
South East +10 3 £65,000 +21.50% 7
South West +43 2 £82,500 +83.33% 8
West Midlands +41 1 £75,000 +87.50% 1
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, 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 across the England region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) C#
1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 24 (60.00%) .NET
3 23 (57.50%) Agile
4 21 (52.50%) Azure
4 21 (52.50%) AWS
5 19 (47.50%) SQL
5 19 (47.50%) Mentoring
5 19 (47.50%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (45.00%) SaaS
7 15 (37.50%) Product Ownership
8 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
8 14 (35.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
10 12 (30.00%) Microservices
11 11 (27.50%) React
11 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
12 10 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 8 (20.00%) KYC
13 8 (20.00%) DevOps
13 8 (20.00%) Windows
14 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
14 7 (17.50%) People Management
14 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (15.00%) TDD
16 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
16 5 (12.50%) Firmware
16 5 (12.50%) C++

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) SaaS
3 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) GitHub
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.50%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
1 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.50%) Spock
3 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Advertising
3 3 (7.50%) Back Office
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Games
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.50%) Billing
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) .NET
2 11 (27.50%) React
3 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.50%) RESTful
5 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 4 (10.00%) REST
5 4 (10.00%) WCF
5 4 (10.00%) WinForms
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (7.50%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (7.50%) HTML
6 3 (7.50%) jQuery
6 3 (7.50%) KnockoutJS
6 3 (7.50%) QuickFIX
6 3 (7.50%) Web Services
7 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.50%) Middleware
7 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Online Games
6 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.50%) PKI
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (57.50%) Agile
3 19 (47.50%) Mentoring
4 14 (35.00%) Roadmaps
4 14 (35.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
6 12 (30.00%) Microservices
7 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 8 (20.00%) DevOps
9 8 (20.00%) KYC
10 7 (17.50%) People Management
11 6 (15.00%) TDD
12 5 (12.50%) Coaching
12 5 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
12 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
12 5 (12.50%) SDLC
13 4 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
13 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (47.50%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (7.50%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.50%) Delphi
6 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
1 5 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle