C# Software Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C# Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 454 478
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 44 152 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.33% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 42 100 66
10th Percentile £43,500 £24,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,188 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,625 £73,125
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -20.69% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,021 45,408 29,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.72% 94.83% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 20,351 24,475 21,891
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

C# Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C# Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +17 21 £55,000 -19.12% 5
Yorkshire +7 15 £45,000 -33.82% 2
Scotland -15 7 £80,000 +100.00%
Midlands +35 5 £78,500 +74.44% 4
South West +16 5 £60,000 +71.43% 10
East Midlands +8 5 £78,500 +42.40% 3
North West +32 4 £65,000 +18.18%
South East +7 4 £65,000 +21.50% 9
Wales +9 2 £54,250 -9.58%
North East +3 2 £77,500 -3.13% 3
C# Software Engineer
UK

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 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 UK excluding London region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) C#
1 44 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (61.36%) .NET
3 21 (47.73%) Azure
4 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 17 (38.64%) Mentoring
5 16 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
6 15 (34.09%) React
7 14 (31.82%) AngularJS
8 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 12 (27.27%) .NET Core
9 12 (27.27%) AWS
9 12 (27.27%) DevOps
10 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (25.00%) RESTful
11 10 (22.73%) C++
11 10 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (22.73%) Docker
11 10 (22.73%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (22.73%) Firmware
11 10 (22.73%) GitHub
11 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
11 10 (22.73%) Multithreading
11 10 (22.73%) Visual Studio
11 10 (22.73%) Windows
12 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (18.18%) Blazor

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (47.73%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) GitHub
4 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (18.18%) SaaS
6 4 (9.09%) Azure AI
6 4 (9.09%) ChatGPT
6 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.27%) NuGet
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (15.91%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.27%) Billing
4 1 (2.27%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Games
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (61.36%) .NET
2 15 (34.09%) React
3 14 (31.82%) AngularJS
4 12 (27.27%) .NET Core
5 11 (25.00%) RESTful
6 8 (18.18%) Blazor
7 4 (9.09%) WPF
8 2 (4.55%) WinForms
9 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.27%) REST
9 1 (2.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (15.91%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 17 (38.64%) Mentoring
3 16 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 15 (34.09%) Microservices
5 13 (29.55%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.27%) DevOps
7 10 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (22.73%) Multithreading
8 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.91%) Application Security
9 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (13.64%) People Management
10 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.64%) Technology Roadmap
11 5 (11.36%) Coaching
11 5 (11.36%) Conflict Resolution
11 5 (11.36%) SDLC
12 4 (9.09%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (22.73%) C++
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Delphi
4 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) Python
4 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Docker
1 10 (22.73%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (22.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft