C# Software Engineer Jobs

C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 675 699
Rank change year-on-year +41 +24 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 58 221 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53 195 225
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -22.58% +10.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £91,250 £119,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C# Software Engineer.

Salary trend for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +42 51 £60,000 - 66
UK excluding London +81 48 £55,000 -5.17% 48
Work from Home +103 28 £67,500 +3.85% 55
North of England +71 19 £69,000 +6.15% 13
Midlands +47 9 £45,000 -18.18% 4
London +76 8 £75,000 -10.45% 28
North West +25 8 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South East +80 7 £55,000 -6.38% 17
East of England +57 7 £55,000 -35.29% 8
Scotland +106 6 £45,000 -18.18% 3
Yorkshire +73 6 £77,500 +13.97% 2
North East +46 5 £70,000 -2.10% 4
West Midlands +38 5 £45,000 +5.88% 1
East Midlands +27 4 £37,500 -42.31% 3

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) C#
1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 41 (70.69%) .NET
3 29 (50.00%) Agile
4 26 (44.83%) SQL
5 25 (43.10%) Azure
6 22 (37.93%) DevOps
7 20 (34.48%) .NET Core
8 16 (27.59%) Degree
8 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
8 16 (27.59%) AWS
8 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
9 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
9 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
10 13 (22.41%) Docker
10 13 (22.41%) .NET Framework
11 12 (20.69%) WPF
11 12 (20.69%) REST
11 12 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
12 11 (18.97%) Microservices
12 11 (18.97%) Entity Framework
12 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
13 10 (17.24%) Finance
13 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
13 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
13 10 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
14 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes

C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.52%) SaaS
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.17%) SQLite
5 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Moq
1 5 (8.62%) Visual Studio
2 4 (6.90%) SpecFlow
3 3 (5.17%) Git
3 3 (5.17%) JIRA
3 3 (5.17%) NUnit
4 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) MSTest
4 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.72%) xUnit.net
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Games
3 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.17%) Back Office
4 3 (5.17%) Law
4 3 (5.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Advertising
5 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (70.69%) .NET
2 20 (34.48%) .NET Core
3 13 (22.41%) .NET Framework
4 12 (20.69%) REST
4 12 (20.69%) WPF
5 11 (18.97%) Entity Framework
6 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
7 9 (15.52%) React
7 9 (15.52%) RESTful
8 8 (13.79%) ASP.NET
9 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (8.62%) HTML
9 5 (8.62%) WCF
9 5 (8.62%) Web Services
9 5 (8.62%) WinForms
10 4 (6.90%) FHIR
10 4 (6.90%) OAuth
10 4 (6.90%) OAuth2
10 4 (6.90%) Vue
11 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.45%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (3.45%) Blog
6 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.45%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.45%) Online Games
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) PlayStation
7 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 29 (50.00%) Agile
3 22 (37.93%) DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
5 14 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.97%) Microservices
7 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.79%) OOP
7 8 (13.79%) Scrum
8 7 (12.07%) Mathematics
8 7 (12.07%) OO
8 7 (12.07%) Software Testing
9 6 (10.34%) Front End Development
9 6 (10.34%) MVC
9 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 6 (10.34%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (44.83%) SQL
3 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) Python
6 5 (8.62%) C++
7 4 (6.90%) Java
8 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 3 (5.17%) XAML
9 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.72%) C
10 1 (1.72%) Erlang
10 1 (1.72%) F#
10 1 (1.72%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) CDISC
2 2 (3.45%) MiFID
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft