C# Software Engineer Job Trends in England

C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C# Software Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 568 602
Rank change year-on-year +47 +34 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 97 105 151
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 89 60 139
10th Percentile £49,500 £40,450 £38,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -12.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% -15.19% -12.90%

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 52,463 41,887 62,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 91.66% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 33,551 21,942 50,063
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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
North of England -6 29 £55,000 -19.12% 7
London +64 27 £100,000 +11.11% 4
South East +4 14 £50,000 -23.08% 4
South West +12 13 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire -23 13 £45,000 -33.82% 2
East of England +21 11 £55,000 +1.85% 5
North West +17 10 £65,000 +15.56% 5
North East -5 6 £77,500 -3.13%
Midlands -4 4 £62,500 +38.89% 1
East Midlands -24 4 £62,500 +51.06%
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 97 (100.00%) C#
1 97 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 52 (53.61%) .NET
3 20 (20.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (19.59%) Azure
4 19 (19.59%) Mentoring
5 18 (18.56%) AWS
6 17 (17.53%) Visual Studio
7 16 (16.49%) Microservices
8 15 (15.46%) Agile
9 14 (14.43%) CI/CD
9 14 (14.43%) Security Cleared
10 12 (12.37%) C++
10 12 (12.37%) Multithreading
11 11 (11.34%) React
12 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
12 10 (10.31%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (10.31%) Firmware
12 10 (10.31%) SDLC
12 10 (10.31%) Windows
13 9 (9.28%) DevOps
14 8 (8.25%) Containerisation
14 8 (8.25%) SQL
14 8 (8.25%) TDD
15 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (7.22%) Design Patterns
15 7 (7.22%) Unit Testing
16 6 (6.19%) .NET Core
16 6 (6.19%) Event-Driven
16 6 (6.19%) Fintech

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) Azure
2 18 (18.56%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.12%) SaaS
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.03%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub
6 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (17.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (8.25%) Finance
2 5 (5.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.09%) Games
4 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.03%) Billing
5 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (53.61%) .NET
2 11 (11.34%) React
3 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.19%) .NET Core
5 5 (5.15%) WPF
6 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.06%) CSS
7 2 (2.06%) HTML
7 2 (2.06%) Kafka
7 2 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.06%) REST
7 2 (2.06%) Vue
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.03%) Blazor
8 1 (1.03%) RESTful
8 1 (1.03%) WCF
8 1 (1.03%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Hedge funds
2 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (20.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (19.59%) Mentoring
4 16 (16.49%) Microservices
5 15 (15.46%) Agile
6 14 (14.43%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.37%) Multithreading
8 10 (10.31%) SDLC
9 9 (9.28%) DevOps
10 8 (8.25%) Containerisation
10 8 (8.25%) TDD
11 7 (7.22%) Design Patterns
11 7 (7.22%) Unit Testing
12 6 (6.19%) Event-Driven
12 6 (6.19%) Fintech
12 6 (6.19%) Process Improvement
12 6 (6.19%) SOLID
13 4 (4.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (4.12%) High Availability
13 4 (4.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (12.37%) C++
3 8 (8.25%) SQL
4 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.06%) Python
7 1 (1.03%) Delphi
7 1 (1.03%) F#
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) PhD
3 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (10.31%) Firmware
2 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.03%) Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) Palantir
3 1 (1.03%) Xamarin
22 C# Software Engineer jobs in England