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 £62,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 470 487
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 44 148 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 42 97 63
10th Percentile £43,500 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.50% -9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £76,625 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,750 £74,250
UK median annual salary £64,750 £57,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.10% -21.03% +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 33,771 43,941 28,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.17% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 21,356 23,426 21,272
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 28 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 28 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 +6 18 £55,000 -19.12% 2
Yorkshire +15 13 £45,000 -33.82% 1
South West +5 7 £60,000 +71.43% 2
Scotland -2 7 £80,000 +100.00% 2
South East +28 5 £61,250 +4.70% 7
Midlands +38 4 £78,000 +73.33% 5
East Midlands +6 4 £78,000 +78.29% 5
North West +34 3 £65,000 +15.56% 1
Wales +13 2 £54,250 -9.58%
North East +7 2 £77,500 -3.13%
East of England +25 1 £85,000 +60.38% 17
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 28 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 24 (54.55%) .NET
3 19 (43.18%) Azure
4 16 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
5 15 (34.09%) Microservices
6 14 (31.82%) Agile
6 14 (31.82%) AngularJS
6 14 (31.82%) React
7 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 12 (27.27%) DevOps
8 11 (25.00%) .NET Core
8 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (25.00%) Visual Studio
9 10 (22.73%) C++
9 10 (22.73%) Embedded Firmware
9 10 (22.73%) Firmware
9 10 (22.73%) Multithreading
9 10 (22.73%) RESTful
9 10 (22.73%) Windows
10 9 (20.45%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (20.45%) Docker
10 9 (20.45%) GitHub
10 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
11 8 (18.18%) AWS
11 8 (18.18%) Blazor
12 7 (15.91%) Application Security

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 19 (43.18%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) GitHub
3 9 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (18.18%) AWS
5 4 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 4 (9.09%) ChatGPT
5 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.27%) NuGet
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) 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 24 (54.55%) .NET
2 14 (31.82%) AngularJS
2 14 (31.82%) React
3 11 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 10 (22.73%) RESTful
5 8 (18.18%) Blazor
6 5 (11.36%) WPF
7 2 (4.55%) WinForms
8 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
8 1 (2.27%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
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 16 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.09%) Microservices
4 14 (31.82%) Agile
5 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 12 (27.27%) DevOps
6 10 (22.73%) Multithreading
7 9 (20.45%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (15.91%) Application Security
9 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.36%) SDLC
11 4 (9.09%) AI
11 4 (9.09%) LLM
11 4 (9.09%) TDD
11 4 (9.09%) Unit Testing
12 3 (6.82%) Process Improvement
12 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (22.73%) C++
3 3 (6.82%) 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%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (22.73%) Firmware
2 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft