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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 587 642
Rank change year-on-year +110 +55 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 200 51 182
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 184 46 163
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,375 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% -25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,375 £91,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 75,487 34,743 78,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.32% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,799 21,313 60,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%

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 6 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 6 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 +37 70 £60,000 +9.09% 21
London +12 47 £90,000 +20.00% 6
North of England -31 39 £57,500 -17.86% 4
East of England +1 20 £55,000 - 5
North West -14 17 £60,000 - 1
Midlands -29 15 £70,000 +55.56% 3
South West - 12 £57,500 - 3
North East -23 11 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire -46 11 £50,000 -35.48% 2
East Midlands -36 9 £60,000 +60.00% 2
West Midlands -20 6 £70,000 +55.56% 1
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 190 (95.00%) Software Engineering
3 106 (53.00%) .NET
4 43 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (21.00%) AWS
6 32 (16.00%) Azure
6 32 (16.00%) Degree
7 31 (15.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (14.00%) Microservices
9 26 (13.00%) SQL
10 23 (11.50%) SDLC
11 22 (11.00%) SaaS
12 21 (10.50%) C++
13 20 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.00%) Python
14 18 (9.00%) CI/CD
14 18 (9.00%) Product Vision
14 18 (9.00%) Resource Allocation
14 18 (9.00%) Vue
15 17 (8.50%) Agile
15 17 (8.50%) CQRS
15 17 (8.50%) CSS
15 17 (8.50%) HTML
15 17 (8.50%) TDD
16 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
16 14 (7.00%) WPF
17 12 (6.00%) Fintech
18 11 (5.50%) Mentoring
18 11 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
19 10 (5.00%) Test Automation

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 42 (21.00%) AWS
2 32 (16.00%) Azure
3 22 (11.00%) SaaS
4 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.00%) Serverless
6 1 (0.50%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (9.50%) Finance
2 10 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (3.00%) Games
5 4 (2.00%) Electronics
6 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.50%) Automotive
7 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (53.00%) .NET
2 18 (9.00%) Vue
3 17 (8.50%) CSS
3 17 (8.50%) HTML
4 14 (7.00%) WPF
5 8 (4.00%) React
6 6 (3.00%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.50%) Blazor
9 2 (1.00%) Kafka
9 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.00%) REST
10 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.50%) Django
10 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.00%) Hedge funds
2 10 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.00%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.00%) Online Games
6 2 (1.00%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (95.00%) Software Engineering
2 43 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (14.00%) Microservices
4 23 (11.50%) SDLC
5 20 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (9.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (9.00%) Product Vision
6 18 (9.00%) Resource Allocation
7 17 (8.50%) Agile
7 17 (8.50%) CQRS
7 17 (8.50%) TDD
8 12 (6.00%) Fintech
9 11 (5.50%) Mentoring
9 11 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (5.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (4.00%) DevOps
12 7 (3.50%) Design Patterns
12 7 (3.50%) Event-Driven
13 5 (2.50%) High Availability
13 5 (2.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 200 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (13.00%) SQL
3 21 (10.50%) C++
4 20 (10.00%) Python
5 9 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.50%) C
6 1 (0.50%) F#
Qualifications
1 32 (16.00%) Degree
2 31 (15.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.00%) PhD
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (4.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.00%) Xamarin
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle