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 £75,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 491 507
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 45 171 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42 128 68
10th Percentile £52,500 £24,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £40,500 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £58,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.17% +7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,975 £68,625
UK median annual salary £76,750 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +27.92% -20.00% +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 30,834 52,974 33,276
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.28% 95.21% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 17,549 31,579 24,846
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C# Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 23 £68,500 +0.74% 5
Yorkshire +25 15 £68,500 +0.74% 3
Scotland +61 8 £72,250 +201.04%
Midlands +33 7 £78,500 +42.73% 6
East Midlands +12 6 £78,500 +30.83% 5
North West 0 5 £65,000 +13.04%
North East +16 3 £65,000 -18.75% 4
South East +10 3 £65,000 +21.50% 9
South West +42 2 £82,500 +83.33% 10
Wales +24 2 £54,250 -1.36%
West Midlands +24 1 £75,000 +87.50% 1
C# Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, C# Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 45 (100.00%) C#
1 45 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 28 (62.22%) .NET
3 27 (60.00%) Agile
4 26 (57.78%) Azure
4 26 (57.78%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (44.44%) AWS
6 19 (42.22%) Mentoring
7 18 (40.00%) SaaS
8 17 (37.78%) Microservices
8 17 (37.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
9 16 (35.56%) React
9 16 (35.56%) SQL
10 15 (33.33%) Product Ownership
11 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
11 14 (31.11%) Roadmaps
11 14 (31.11%) Technology Roadmap
11 14 (31.11%) AngularJS
12 12 (26.67%) Docker
12 12 (26.67%) GitHub
12 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (26.67%) RESTful
12 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
12 12 (26.67%) DevOps
13 11 (24.44%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (24.44%) .NET Core
13 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (20.00%) Blazor

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
2 20 (44.44%) AWS
3 18 (40.00%) SaaS
4 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (26.67%) GitHub
5 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.89%) Azure AI
6 4 (8.89%) ChatGPT
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Couchbase
1 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) LabVIEW
3 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.22%) Spock
3 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (62.22%) .NET
2 16 (35.56%) React
3 14 (31.11%) AngularJS
4 12 (26.67%) RESTful
5 11 (24.44%) .NET Core
6 9 (20.00%) Blazor
7 2 (4.44%) WinForms
8 1 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.22%) Kafka
8 1 (2.22%) Middleware
8 1 (2.22%) Node.js
8 1 (2.22%) pytest
8 1 (2.22%) Redux
8 1 (2.22%) REST
8 1 (2.22%) WCF
8 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (57.78%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Online Games
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (60.00%) Agile
3 19 (42.22%) Mentoring
4 17 (37.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (37.78%) Microservices
5 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
6 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
6 14 (31.11%) Roadmaps
6 14 (31.11%) Technology Roadmap
7 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (26.67%) DevOps
8 11 (24.44%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (17.78%) Application Security
9 8 (17.78%) KYC
10 7 (15.56%) People Management
10 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (11.11%) Coaching
11 5 (11.11%) Multithreading
11 5 (11.11%) SDLC
11 5 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) C++
5 3 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Delphi
6 1 (2.22%) Groovy
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Docker
2 5 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle