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 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 578 570
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 46 150 114
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.097% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.28% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 43 95 106
10th Percentile £43,500 £35,000 £46,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,875 £87,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £110,100 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +3.57%

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 43,054 53,467 42,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.03% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27,832 29,735 33,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,175 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +10 18 £55,000 -19.12% 9
Yorkshire +2 13 £45,000 -33.82% 5
South West +10 9 £60,000 +71.43% 1
South East +36 7 £53,750 -10.42% 7
London +30 6 £95,000 -9.52%
Midlands +31 4 £68,750 +52.78% 5
East Midlands +4 4 £68,750 +57.14% 5
North West +30 3 £65,000 +13.04% 3
East of England +33 2 £85,000 +60.38% 17
North East +7 2 £77,500 -3.13% 1
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 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 46 (100.00%) C#
1 46 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) .NET
3 15 (32.61%) Mentoring
4 12 (26.09%) Azure
4 12 (26.09%) Visual Studio
5 11 (23.91%) Agile
5 11 (23.91%) C++
5 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 10 (21.74%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (21.74%) Firmware
6 10 (21.74%) Multithreading
6 10 (21.74%) Windows
7 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
7 9 (19.57%) React
8 8 (17.39%) AWS
8 8 (17.39%) Microservices
9 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
10 6 (13.04%) DevOps
11 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
11 5 (10.87%) SDLC
11 5 (10.87%) SQL
11 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.87%) TDD
11 5 (10.87%) WPF
12 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 4 (8.70%) RESTful
12 4 (8.70%) Unit Testing

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 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub
4 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.52%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.17%) NuGet
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.17%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Billing
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (47.83%) .NET
2 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
2 9 (19.57%) React
3 5 (10.87%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.87%) WPF
4 4 (8.70%) RESTful
5 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.17%) Blazor
6 1 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) WCF
6 1 (2.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 15 (32.61%) Mentoring
3 11 (23.91%) Agile
3 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 10 (21.74%) Multithreading
5 8 (17.39%) Microservices
6 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) DevOps
8 5 (10.87%) SDLC
8 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
9 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
9 4 (8.70%) Unit Testing
10 3 (6.52%) AI
10 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (6.52%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (6.52%) OOP
10 3 (6.52%) Process Improvement
10 3 (6.52%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (23.91%) C++
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) Delphi
6 1 (2.17%) F#
6 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (21.74%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Foundry
3 1 (2.17%) Palantir