Senior C# Software Engineer Jobs

Senior C# Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior C# Software Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 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 681 833 897
Rank change year-on-year +152 +64 +201
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Software Engineer 11 63 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.064% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.068% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 9 57 56
10th Percentile £56,500 £56,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -16.13% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,950 £86,750 £113,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -16.13% +6.90%

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%

Senior C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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
Work from Home +158 9 £70,000 +7.69% 21
England +129 8 £66,250 -1.85% 21
UK excluding London +166 7 £62,500 -3.85% 15
North of England +80 3 £60,000 -16.08% 3
North West - 3 £60,000 - 3
Scotland +124 2 £62,500 -3.85% 1
London +99 2 - - 7
South East +95 1 £77,500 +29.17% 5
East of England +57 1 £75,000 -41.18% 5

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (90.91%) .NET
3 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 6 (54.55%) .NET Framework
5 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
5 5 (45.45%) React
5 5 (45.45%) .NET Core
6 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
6 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 4 (36.36%) Docker
6 4 (36.36%) REST
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) HTML
6 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
7 3 (27.27%) Python
7 3 (27.27%) MVC
7 3 (27.27%) Finance
7 3 (27.27%) Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 3 (27.27%) AWS
7 3 (27.27%) RESTful
7 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Moq
1 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Back Office
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) .NET Framework
3 5 (45.45%) .NET Core
3 5 (45.45%) React
4 4 (36.36%) HTML
4 4 (36.36%) REST
5 3 (27.27%) RESTful
6 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
6 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (18.18%) jQuery
6 2 (18.18%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (18.18%) OAuth
6 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
6 2 (18.18%) QuickFIX
6 2 (18.18%) Swagger
6 2 (18.18%) Vue
6 2 (18.18%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) API Design
6 2 (18.18%) Application Security
6 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) OO
6 2 (18.18%) Software Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) C
6 1 (9.09%) C++
6 1 (9.09%) Erlang
6 1 (9.09%) F#
6 1 (9.09%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) CDISC
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft