C# Software Engineer Job Trends in England

C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C# Software Engineer salary in England is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
9 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 548 564
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 +139
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 41 162 123
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.093% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 37 102 114
10th Percentile £43,500 £35,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,250 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £57,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +16.09% -21.23% +8.15%

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 40,075 57,187 45,708
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.73% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25,464 32,162 35,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,387
25th Percentile £35,009 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +14 21 £55,000 -19.12% 9
Yorkshire +15 15 £45,000 -33.82% 3
London +38 6 £90,000 - 16
Midlands +29 5 £78,500 +74.44% 7
South East +14 5 £65,000 +21.50% 27
East Midlands +5 5 £78,500 +42.40% 5
South West +13 4 £60,000 +71.43% 10
North West +9 4 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North East +3 2 £77,500 -3.13% 6
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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 41 (100.00%) C#
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (60.98%) .NET
3 17 (41.46%) Mentoring
4 15 (36.59%) Agile
4 15 (36.59%) Azure
5 13 (31.71%) AWS
6 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
6 12 (29.27%) React
6 12 (29.27%) SQL
7 11 (26.83%) C++
7 11 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (26.83%) Windows
8 10 (24.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (24.39%) Firmware
8 10 (24.39%) Microservices
8 10 (24.39%) Multithreading
8 10 (24.39%) Visual Studio
9 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
9 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (19.51%) SaaS
10 7 (17.07%) DevOps
11 6 (14.63%) .NET Core
11 6 (14.63%) People Management
11 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
11 6 (14.63%) SDLC
11 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (14.63%) TDD
11 6 (14.63%) Technology Roadmap

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 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) AWS
3 8 (19.51%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
5 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
1 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.32%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.44%) Spock
3 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Advertising
5 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.44%) Back Office
5 1 (2.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (60.98%) .NET
2 12 (29.27%) React
3 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
4 6 (14.63%) .NET Core
5 5 (12.20%) RESTful
6 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
7 3 (7.32%) REST
8 2 (4.88%) WCF
8 2 (4.88%) WinForms
8 2 (4.88%) WPF
9 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (2.44%) HTML
9 1 (2.44%) jQuery
9 1 (2.44%) Kafka
9 1 (2.44%) KnockoutJS
9 1 (2.44%) Middleware
9 1 (2.44%) pytest
9 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (41.46%) Mentoring
3 15 (36.59%) Agile
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (24.39%) Microservices
6 10 (24.39%) Multithreading
7 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (17.07%) DevOps
9 6 (14.63%) People Management
9 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
9 6 (14.63%) SDLC
9 6 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (14.63%) TDD
9 6 (14.63%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (12.20%) Coaching
10 5 (12.20%) Conflict Resolution
11 4 (9.76%) Design Patterns
11 4 (9.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) C++
4 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) Delphi
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Java
6 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
1 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (24.39%) Firmware
2 5 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle
2 1 (2.44%) Foundry
2 1 (2.44%) Palantir
74 C# Software Engineer jobs in England