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 to 6 May 2024.

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 696 856
Rank change year-on-year +3 +160 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 219 295 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 193 230 197
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,063 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +10.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £121,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +20.00%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C# Software Engineer in the UK

C# Software Engineer
Top 16 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 6 May 2024. 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 +28 182 £60,000 -25.00% 55
UK excluding London +11 175 £58,000 -3.33% 42
Work from Home +31 118 £65,000 -16.13% 91
Midlands +43 43 £55,000 +22.22% 11
London +16 41 £82,500 -8.33% 16
South East +15 37 £57,500 -8.00% 7
North of England +33 32 £65,000 -16.13% 10
Scotland -44 32 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands +2 26 £62,500 +38.89% 6
South West -16 22 £57,750 -11.15% 4
West Midlands +39 17 £42,500 -2.30% 5
North West +21 13 £57,500 +4.55% 6
Yorkshire +64 10 £68,000 -12.26% 4
North East 0 9 £71,500 +19.17% 1
East of England +8 7 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Wales +7 2 £55,000 +46.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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.

1 219 (100.00%) C#
1 219 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 162 (73.97%) .NET
3 80 (36.53%) Agile
4 75 (34.25%) Azure
5 72 (32.88%) .NET Core
6 68 (31.05%) AWS
7 56 (25.57%) SQL
8 55 (25.11%) JavaScript
9 53 (24.20%) AngularJS
10 52 (23.74%) Computer Science
11 51 (23.29%) ASP.NET
12 48 (21.92%) .NET Framework
13 46 (21.00%) Full Stack Development
14 44 (20.09%) Docker
15 43 (19.63%) SDLC
15 43 (19.63%) Degree
16 39 (17.81%) React
17 38 (17.35%) DevOps
17 38 (17.35%) CI/CD
17 38 (17.35%) Design Patterns
18 36 (16.44%) Social Skills
18 36 (16.44%) Microsoft
19 33 (15.07%) Microservices
20 32 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
21 31 (14.16%) TypeScript
21 31 (14.16%) Finance
21 31 (14.16%) OOP
21 31 (14.16%) Client/Server
22 29 (13.24%) SQL Server

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 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.46%) Sketch
1 1 (0.46%) UXPin
1 1 (0.46%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.25%) Azure
2 68 (31.05%) AWS
3 22 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.68%) Serverless
5 13 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.94%) GitHub
6 7 (3.20%) SaaS
7 6 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.37%) PaaS
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 2 (0.91%) Azure App Service
10 2 (0.91%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.91%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.46%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.91%) RS-232
3 1 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.59%) Redis
3 14 (6.39%) MySQL
4 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.74%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.91%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.91%) Power BI
8 1 (0.46%) Event Store
8 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.46%) GIS
8 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.59%) Git
2 11 (5.02%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.57%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.20%) Moq
5 6 (2.74%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.37%) Postman
6 3 (1.37%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.91%) JIRA
7 2 (0.91%) NUnit
8 1 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.46%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.46%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 36 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.16%) Finance
3 21 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.39%) Aviation
5 12 (5.48%) Games
6 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Law
7 8 (3.65%) Retail
8 7 (3.20%) Banking
8 7 (3.20%) Private Banking
8 7 (3.20%) Publishing
9 6 (2.74%) Automotive
9 6 (2.74%) Legal
9 6 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.74%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.91%) Advertising
10 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (73.97%) .NET
2 72 (32.88%) .NET Core
3 53 (24.20%) AngularJS
4 51 (23.29%) ASP.NET
5 48 (21.92%) .NET Framework
6 39 (17.81%) React
7 21 (9.59%) RESTful
8 17 (7.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (7.31%) ASP.NET MVC
9 16 (7.31%) WPF
10 15 (6.85%) Entity Framework
10 15 (6.85%) HTML
10 15 (6.85%) Vue
11 14 (6.39%) CSS
12 12 (5.48%) jQuery
13 10 (4.57%) Blazor
13 10 (4.57%) JSON
13 10 (4.57%) REST
13 10 (4.57%) Web Services
13 10 (4.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.16%) Client/Server
2 28 (12.79%) Data Structures
3 27 (12.33%) Algorithms
4 19 (8.68%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.65%) IoT
7 8 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.65%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.20%) Online Games
9 6 (2.74%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.83%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.37%) Derivative
11 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.37%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.39%) Windows
2 5 (2.28%) Linux
3 3 (1.37%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (36.53%) Agile
3 52 (23.74%) Computer Science
4 46 (21.00%) Full Stack Development
5 43 (19.63%) SDLC
6 38 (17.35%) CI/CD
6 38 (17.35%) Design Patterns
6 38 (17.35%) DevOps
7 33 (15.07%) Microservices
8 32 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (14.16%) OOP
10 28 (12.79%) MVC
11 23 (10.50%) OO
12 22 (10.05%) Mentoring
13 17 (7.76%) Scrum
14 15 (6.85%) Clean Code
14 15 (6.85%) Coaching
15 14 (6.39%) TDD
16 13 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (5.94%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 219 (100.00%) C#
2 56 (25.57%) SQL
3 55 (25.11%) JavaScript
4 31 (14.16%) TypeScript
5 27 (12.33%) C++
6 20 (9.13%) Python
6 20 (9.13%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.57%) Java
8 7 (3.20%) C
9 4 (1.83%) Bash
9 4 (1.83%) Go
10 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) VB
11 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (19.63%) Degree
2 17 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.37%) HNC
6 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.11%) QA
2 1 (0.46%) EMIR
2 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (20.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.74%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.28%) DevExpress
4 3 (1.37%) Oracle
5 2 (0.91%) VMware
6 1 (0.46%) ESRI
6 1 (0.46%) QNX