C# Software Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

C# Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median C# Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 267 295
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 23 43 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.24% 0.34% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.36% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23 34 7
10th Percentile - £44,875 £48,300
25th Percentile £43,500 £52,188 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +23.64% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74,500 £69,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £68,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 8,394 11,863 7,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.87% 95.14% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,765 6,323 5,880
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,745
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

C# Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the North of England

C# Software Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Yorkshire +8 16 £50,000 -26.47% 4
North West -5 5 £65,000 +18.18%
North East +10 2 £77,500 -3.13% 2
C# Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 North of England region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Mentoring
3 11 (47.83%) .NET
4 10 (43.48%) C++
4 10 (43.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 10 (43.48%) Firmware
4 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
4 10 (43.48%) Visual Studio
4 10 (43.48%) Windows
5 9 (39.13%) AWS
6 8 (34.78%) Agile
6 8 (34.78%) Azure
7 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
8 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
8 6 (26.09%) Microservices
8 6 (26.09%) React
9 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
9 5 (21.74%) SaaS
9 5 (21.74%) SQL
9 5 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
10 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (17.39%) People Management
11 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
11 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (13.04%) DevOps

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (39.13%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) SaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Visual Studio
2 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) .NET
2 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
2 6 (26.09%) React
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
4 3 (13.04%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (60.87%) Mentoring
3 10 (43.48%) Multithreading
4 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
7 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 5 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) People Management
9 3 (13.04%) DevOps
9 3 (13.04%) KYC
9 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
9 3 (13.04%) SOLID
9 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (13.04%) TDD
9 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) C++
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (43.48%) Firmware
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes