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 £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 459 484
Rank change year-on-year -36 +25 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 42 161 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 105 69
10th Percentile £43,500 £24,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £53,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% +0.94% -11.67%
75th Percentile £80,250 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £68,250
UK median annual salary £68,500 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.60% -16.67% +11.11%

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 30,796 47,868 30,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.51% 95.38% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 17,412 26,226 23,110
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 14 October 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 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
North of England -9 21 £65,000 -4.41% 12
Yorkshire +6 15 £55,000 -19.12% 4
Scotland -8 7 £80,000 +100.00% 1
Midlands +30 6 £78,500 +74.44% 2
East Midlands +12 6 £78,500 +73.48%
North West -14 5 £65,000 +13.04% 4
South East -4 4 £61,250 +16.67% 11
South West +24 2 £82,500 +112.90% 7
Wales +17 2 £54,250 -9.58% 1
North East +10 1 £65,000 -18.75% 6
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) C#
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (64.29%) .NET
3 24 (57.14%) Azure
4 22 (52.38%) Agile
5 21 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (42.86%) Mentoring
7 16 (38.10%) Microservices
7 16 (38.10%) React
7 16 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
7 16 (38.10%) AWS
8 14 (33.33%) AngularJS
9 13 (30.95%) Containerisation
9 13 (30.95%) SaaS
10 12 (28.57%) SQL
10 12 (28.57%) DevOps
11 11 (26.19%) Docker
11 11 (26.19%) GitHub
11 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
11 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (26.19%) Product Ownership
11 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
11 11 (26.19%) RESTful
12 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (23.81%) Technology Roadmap
12 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
12 10 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (19.05%) Embedded Firmware

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 24 (57.14%) Azure
2 16 (38.10%) AWS
3 13 (30.95%) SaaS
4 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) GitHub
5 10 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.52%) Azure AI
6 4 (9.52%) ChatGPT
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.38%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
1 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.38%) Spock
3 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.38%) Billing
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Games
4 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (64.29%) .NET
2 16 (38.10%) React
3 14 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
4 11 (26.19%) RESTful
5 8 (19.05%) Blazor
6 2 (4.76%) WinForms
7 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.38%) Kafka
7 1 (2.38%) Middleware
7 1 (2.38%) Node.js
7 1 (2.38%) pytest
7 1 (2.38%) Redux
7 1 (2.38%) REST
7 1 (2.38%) WCF
7 1 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (26.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.38%) Online Games
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 22 (52.38%) Agile
3 18 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 16 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (38.10%) Microservices
5 13 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 12 (28.57%) DevOps
7 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
7 10 (23.81%) Technology Roadmap
8 8 (19.05%) Multithreading
9 7 (16.67%) Application Security
9 7 (16.67%) People Management
9 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (14.29%) KYC
10 6 (14.29%) SDLC
11 5 (11.90%) Coaching
11 5 (11.90%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (28.57%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) C++
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) Delphi
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 8 (19.05%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (19.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle