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 17 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
17 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 570 634
Rank change year-on-year +105 +64 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 225 56 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 208 49 166
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,750 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -22.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 76,166 35,415 79,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.91% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 51,416 20,957 60,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,822
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 17 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 17 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 +62 87 £62,500 +13.64% 14
London +13 51 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -18 44 £55,000 -24.14% 4
East of England -7 21 £55,000 - 5
North West +13 18 £60,000 -4.00%
Midlands -26 15 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Yorkshire -43 14 £50,000 -35.48% 1
North East -31 12 £77,500 +10.71% 3
South West - 11 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -29 9 £60,000 +60.00% 1
West Midlands -28 6 £70,000 +55.56%
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 225 (100.00%) C#
2 215 (95.56%) Software Engineering
3 126 (56.00%) .NET
4 54 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (21.78%) AWS
6 41 (18.22%) Degree
7 40 (17.78%) Azure
8 36 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (14.67%) Microservices
10 29 (12.89%) SDLC
11 28 (12.44%) SQL
12 27 (12.00%) SaaS
13 26 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (10.67%) C++
14 24 (10.67%) Python
15 23 (10.22%) Vue
16 22 (9.78%) Product Vision
16 22 (9.78%) Resource Allocation
17 21 (9.33%) Agile
17 21 (9.33%) CQRS
17 21 (9.33%) CSS
17 21 (9.33%) HTML
18 20 (8.89%) CI/CD
19 18 (8.00%) TDD
20 15 (6.67%) DevOps
20 15 (6.67%) Security Cleared
20 15 (6.67%) WPF
21 14 (6.22%) Fintech
22 13 (5.78%) Mentoring
23 12 (5.33%) Problem-Solving

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 49 (21.78%) AWS
2 40 (17.78%) Azure
3 27 (12.00%) SaaS
4 9 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.22%) PaaS
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (0.89%) Azure AKS
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Functions
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.89%) Serverless
7 1 (0.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.89%) Git
2 2 (0.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
General
1 24 (10.67%) Finance
2 13 (5.78%) Manufacturing
3 11 (4.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (2.67%) Electronics
4 6 (2.67%) Games
5 2 (0.89%) Aerospace
5 2 (0.89%) Automotive
5 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (56.00%) .NET
2 23 (10.22%) Vue
3 21 (9.33%) CSS
3 21 (9.33%) HTML
4 15 (6.67%) WPF
5 9 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.56%) React
7 6 (2.67%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.78%) Blazor
10 3 (1.33%) RESTful
11 2 (0.89%) Django
11 2 (0.89%) Kafka
11 2 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.89%) REST
12 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Hedge funds
2 12 (5.33%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.11%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.78%) Online Games
6 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.89%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.22%) Android
2 2 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (95.56%) Software Engineering
2 54 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (14.67%) Microservices
4 29 (12.89%) SDLC
5 26 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (9.78%) Product Vision
6 22 (9.78%) Resource Allocation
7 21 (9.33%) Agile
7 21 (9.33%) CQRS
8 20 (8.89%) CI/CD
9 18 (8.00%) TDD
10 15 (6.67%) DevOps
11 14 (6.22%) Fintech
12 13 (5.78%) Mentoring
13 12 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (4.89%) Design Patterns
15 10 (4.44%) Test Automation
16 8 (3.56%) Event-Driven
17 7 (3.11%) Machine Learning
17 7 (3.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 225 (100.00%) C#
2 28 (12.44%) SQL
3 24 (10.67%) C++
3 24 (10.67%) Python
4 11 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.89%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.44%) C
5 1 (0.44%) F#
5 1 (0.44%) Julia
Qualifications
1 41 (18.22%) Degree
2 36 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.67%) PhD
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.22%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle
32 C# Software Engineer jobs in England