C# Software Engineer
UK

The median C# Software Engineer salary in the UK is £71,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 543 724 742
Rank change year-on-year +181 +18 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 192 383 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 160 246 261
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £66,250
90th Percentile - £105,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.24% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 15 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 29 November 2023. 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 +106 128 £67,500 -10.00% 76
Work from Home +156 96 £72,500 +3.57% 52
UK excluding London +92 86 £55,000 -9.09% 56
London +160 62 £100,000 +17.65% 31
Midlands +136 21 £62,500 - 7
South East +83 20 £65,000 +18.18% 18
East Midlands +58 20 £63,750 -1.92% 5
Scotland +67 19 £40,000 -11.11% 3
North of England +84 16 £55,000 -33.33% 24
North West +118 9 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire +37 7 £70,000 -15.15% 1
South West +39 4 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Wales +15 3 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
West Midlands +116 1 £40,000 -8.05% 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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.

1 192 (100.00%) C#
2 189 (98.44%) Software Engineering
3 105 (54.69%) .NET
4 88 (45.83%) Agile
5 69 (35.94%) JavaScript
6 66 (34.38%) SQL
7 64 (33.33%) React
8 60 (31.25%) Azure
9 56 (29.17%) SDLC
10 51 (26.56%) Fintech
11 46 (23.96%) Computer Science
12 44 (22.92%) AWS
12 44 (22.92%) Greenfield Project
13 43 (22.40%) Finance
14 42 (21.88%) Docker
15 41 (21.35%) CI/CD
16 40 (20.83%) Mentoring
16 40 (20.83%) .NET Framework
17 39 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
18 37 (19.27%) Python
18 37 (19.27%) DevOps
19 36 (18.75%) Design Patterns
20 34 (17.71%) Java
21 32 (16.67%) OO
21 32 (16.67%) Microsoft
22 30 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
22 30 (15.63%) AngularJS
23 29 (15.10%) Scrum
24 27 (14.06%) Aerospace
24 27 (14.06%) Project Management

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 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.25%) Azure
2 44 (22.92%) AWS
3 23 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.81%) GCP
5 11 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 11 (5.73%) SaaS
6 10 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.69%) PaaS
8 6 (3.13%) Serverless
9 5 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.60%) GitHub
10 3 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.04%) CloudFront
11 2 (1.04%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) Modbus
1 1 (0.52%) MQTT
1 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.17%) Redis
5 7 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.65%) SQLite
6 5 (2.60%) MySQL
7 3 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.04%) Power BI
9 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.52%) Flink
9 1 (0.52%) Power Query
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Git
1 6 (3.13%) JIRA
2 4 (2.08%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (1.56%) GitLab
3 3 (1.56%) JMeter
3 3 (1.56%) LoadRunner
3 3 (1.56%) NUnit
3 3 (1.56%) Postman
3 3 (1.56%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.56%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.56%) Selenium
3 3 (1.56%) SpecFlow
3 3 (1.56%) TestRail
3 3 (1.56%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.56%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 43 (22.40%) Finance
2 27 (14.06%) Aerospace
3 18 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.25%) Banking
5 9 (4.69%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.17%) Aviation
6 8 (4.17%) Law
7 7 (3.65%) Front Office
8 6 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.60%) Electronics
9 5 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.56%) Marketing
10 3 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.04%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Automotive
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (54.69%) .NET
2 64 (33.33%) React
3 40 (20.83%) .NET Framework
4 30 (15.63%) AngularJS
5 27 (14.06%) ASP.NET
6 26 (13.54%) React Native
7 21 (10.94%) .NET Core
8 17 (8.85%) Entity Framework
9 13 (6.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (6.77%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (6.77%) Web Services
10 11 (5.73%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (4.17%) CSS
11 8 (4.17%) OAuth
11 8 (4.17%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.17%) OpenID
11 8 (4.17%) WPF
12 5 (2.60%) HTML
12 5 (2.60%) REST
12 5 (2.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.92%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.21%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.13%) Derivative
7 5 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.08%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.04%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.52%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.52%) FPGA
11 1 (0.52%) iPad
11 1 (0.52%) Life Science
11 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.77%) Windows
2 6 (3.13%) Android
2 6 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (98.44%) Software Engineering
2 88 (45.83%) Agile
3 56 (29.17%) SDLC
4 51 (26.56%) Fintech
5 46 (23.96%) Computer Science
6 41 (21.35%) CI/CD
7 40 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 39 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (19.27%) DevOps
10 36 (18.75%) Design Patterns
11 32 (16.67%) OO
12 30 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
13 29 (15.10%) Scrum
14 27 (14.06%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (14.06%) Project Management
15 26 (13.54%) Coaching
15 26 (13.54%) OOA/OOD
16 25 (13.02%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (13.02%) Test Automation
17 24 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 192 (100.00%) C#
2 69 (35.94%) JavaScript
3 66 (34.38%) SQL
4 37 (19.27%) Python
5 34 (17.71%) Java
6 15 (7.81%) C++
7 14 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.56%) C
10 2 (1.04%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.52%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (4.17%) Degree
2 4 (2.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) CEH
4 1 (0.52%) CISMP
4 1 (0.52%) CISSP
4 1 (0.52%) CSSLP
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.81%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 42 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) Nmap
3 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.17%) Google
3 3 (1.56%) Oracle
4 2 (1.04%) SAP
5 1 (0.52%) Intapp
5 1 (0.52%) QNX