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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 507 462
Rank change year-on-year +99 -45 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 289 42 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.12% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.14% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 252 39 114
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +21.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £80,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +25.83% -20.00%

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 80,366 31,085 50,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 89.49% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 55,521 17,305 27,963
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £39,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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
South East +80 138 £65,000 - 14
North of England -3 72 £100,000 +49.81% 13
East of England - 49 £60,000 - 19
North East -27 37 £100,000 +37.93% 3
Yorkshire -37 20 £50,000 -27.01% 2
North West -23 15 £50,000 -23.08% 8
Midlands -42 15 £45,000 -42.68% 7
South West -61 14 £53,500 -35.15% 5
East Midlands -38 8 £26,000 -66.88% 4
West Midlands - 7 £45,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
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 5 October 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.

1 289 (100.00%) C#
2 285 (98.62%) Software Engineering
3 126 (43.60%) .NET
4 61 (21.11%) Degree
5 50 (17.30%) C++
6 49 (16.96%) AWS
6 49 (16.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (16.26%) Azure
8 42 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (14.19%) Agile
9 41 (14.19%) SQL
10 34 (11.76%) Python
11 30 (10.38%) Fintech
12 29 (10.03%) WPF
13 23 (7.96%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
13 23 (7.96%) Finite Element Analysis
13 23 (7.96%) SaaS
14 22 (7.61%) SDLC
15 21 (7.27%) CI/CD
15 21 (7.27%) Vue
16 18 (6.23%) Computer Science
16 18 (6.23%) Microservices
17 17 (5.88%) JavaScript
17 17 (5.88%) PHP
17 17 (5.88%) TDD
18 16 (5.54%) .NET Core
18 16 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 16 (5.54%) CSS
18 16 (5.54%) Design Patterns
18 16 (5.54%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (16.96%) AWS
2 47 (16.26%) Azure
3 23 (7.96%) SaaS
4 8 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.42%) PaaS
6 3 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
6 3 (1.04%) GitHub
6 3 (1.04%) Serverless
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Functions
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.35%) GCP
8 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.38%) GitLab
2 3 (1.04%) Claude Code
2 3 (1.04%) Git
3 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.35%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
General
1 37 (12.80%) Manufacturing
2 25 (8.65%) Finance
3 21 (7.27%) Electronics
4 19 (6.57%) Social Skills
5 8 (2.77%) Aerospace
5 8 (2.77%) Games
6 7 (2.42%) Automotive
7 5 (1.73%) Agriculture
8 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (0.69%) Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Military
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (43.60%) .NET
2 29 (10.03%) WPF
3 21 (7.27%) Vue
4 16 (5.54%) .NET Core
4 16 (5.54%) CSS
5 14 (4.84%) React
6 13 (4.50%) HTML
7 10 (3.46%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.08%) Django
9 5 (1.73%) Blazor
9 5 (1.73%) RESTful
10 3 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.04%) jQuery
10 3 (1.04%) Terraform
11 1 (0.35%) Node.js
11 1 (0.35%) Qt
11 1 (0.35%) SignalR
11 1 (0.35%) Web Services
11 1 (0.35%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.65%) Distributed Computing
2 11 (3.81%) Hedge funds
3 5 (1.73%) Client/Server
3 5 (1.73%) e-Learning
3 5 (1.73%) Robotics
4 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.69%) Online Games
7 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.35%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.35%) Life Science
7 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.42%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Android
3 2 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (98.62%) Software Engineering
2 42 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 41 (14.19%) Agile
4 30 (10.38%) Fintech
5 23 (7.96%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
5 23 (7.96%) Finite Element Analysis
6 22 (7.61%) SDLC
7 21 (7.27%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.23%) Computer Science
8 18 (6.23%) Microservices
9 17 (5.88%) TDD
10 16 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (5.54%) Design Patterns
10 16 (5.54%) DevOps
11 15 (5.19%) Machine Learning
12 13 (4.50%) Multithreading
13 12 (4.15%) CQRS
13 12 (4.15%) Mentoring
13 12 (4.15%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (4.15%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 289 (100.00%) C#
2 50 (17.30%) C++
3 41 (14.19%) SQL
4 34 (11.76%) Python
5 17 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.88%) PHP
6 13 (4.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.08%) Delphi
8 3 (1.04%) C
8 3 (1.04%) Java
9 2 (0.69%) Julia
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (21.11%) Degree
2 49 (16.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.50%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.50%) PhD
4 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.04%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.46%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.69%) Docker
1 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (2.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.73%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.38%) Xamarin
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle
5 1 (0.35%) Google
5 1 (0.35%) Workday