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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 443 561
Rank change year-on-year -18 +118 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 79 68 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73 59 127
10th Percentile £50,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,750 £76,450
UK median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% -16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 49,745 24,312 56,636
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 89.92% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31,590 14,312 42,752
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,892
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 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 -37 27 £60,000 - 6
South East -9 19 £55,000 -1.79% 13
South West -19 13 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire -36 12 £50,000 -4.76% 2
East of England -9 11 £55,000 - 5
North West -24 8 £62,500 +11.11% 2
North East -22 7 £100,000 +29.03% 2
Scotland -28 4 £80,000 +100.00%
Midlands -36 4 £62,500 +38.89% 3
East Midlands -55 3 £60,000 +60.00%
West Midlands 0 1 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Wales - 1 £55,000 -
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 20 March 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 UK excluding London region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (100.00%) C#
1 79 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 32 (40.51%) .NET
3 21 (26.58%) Azure
4 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
5 11 (13.92%) AWS
5 11 (13.92%) Microservices
5 11 (13.92%) Visual Studio
6 10 (12.66%) Agile
6 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
7 9 (11.39%) C++
7 9 (11.39%) SDLC
8 8 (10.13%) TDD
9 7 (8.86%) SaaS
10 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
10 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
10 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.59%) DevOps
11 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (6.33%) Degree
11 5 (6.33%) Design Patterns
11 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
11 5 (6.33%) Product Vision
11 5 (6.33%) Python
11 5 (6.33%) Resource Allocation
11 5 (6.33%) WPF
12 4 (5.06%) Architectural Patterns
12 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps

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 (26.58%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (6.33%) Finance
2 3 (3.80%) Games
3 2 (2.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (40.51%) .NET
2 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
2 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.33%) WPF
4 4 (5.06%) CSS
4 4 (5.06%) HTML
4 4 (5.06%) React
4 4 (5.06%) Vue
5 2 (2.53%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.53%) REST
6 1 (1.27%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (13.92%) Microservices
4 10 (12.66%) Agile
4 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
4 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
5 9 (11.39%) SDLC
6 8 (10.13%) TDD
7 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (7.59%) DevOps
8 5 (6.33%) Design Patterns
8 5 (6.33%) Product Vision
8 5 (6.33%) Resource Allocation
9 4 (5.06%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (5.06%) CQRS
9 4 (5.06%) Event-Driven
9 4 (5.06%) Fintech
9 4 (5.06%) High Availability
9 4 (5.06%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (11.39%) C++
3 5 (6.33%) Python
4 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.53%) SQL
6 1 (1.27%) F#
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (5.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.27%) Xamarin