Senior C# Software Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior C# Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior C# Software Engineer salary in England is £88,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 February 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 654 724
Rank change year-on-year +47 +70 +120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Software Engineer 21 22 35
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.037% 0.047% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.052% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 20 11 30
10th Percentile £61,500 £52,500 £56,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -7.41% -20.59%
75th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 £73,250
90th Percentile - £150,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -10.71% -15.15%

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 51,483 42,527 61,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 91.78% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 32,822 21,999 49,640
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
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% -8.71%

Senior C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior C# Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Software Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior C# Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 -1 10 £65,000 +13.04% 2
London +47 9 £100,000 -33.33% 2
North West +21 5 £65,000 +13.04%
Yorkshire - 3 £55,000 - 2
North East - 2 £100,000 -
South East +14 1 - -
East of England - 1 £77,500 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 -
Senior C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, Senior 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 Senior C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) C#
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (80.95%) .NET
3 10 (47.62%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) AWS
4 9 (42.86%) Azure
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (33.33%) DevOps
6 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 7 (33.33%) SDLC
7 6 (28.57%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
7 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (28.57%) Process Improvement
7 6 (28.57%) React
7 6 (28.57%) SOLID
7 6 (28.57%) TDD
7 6 (28.57%) Unit Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Fintech
9 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
10 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (9.52%) C++
10 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
10 2 (9.52%) Critical Thinking
10 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware

Senior 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 9 (42.86%) AWS
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) .NET
2 6 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 6 (28.57%) React
3 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (47.62%) Microservices
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (33.33%) SDLC
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 6 (28.57%) SOLID
5 6 (28.57%) TDD
5 6 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Fintech
7 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 3 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
8 2 (9.52%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Programming
8 2 (9.52%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (9.52%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Delphi
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform