Senior C# Software Engineer Job Trends

Senior C# Software Engineer
UK

The median Senior C# Software Engineer salary in the UK is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 687 679
Rank change year-on-year +56 -8 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C# Software Engineer 16 27 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.048% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.052% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £55,500 £53,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -10.34% -12.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £150,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £187,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -21.21%

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 53,955 52,420 47,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 93.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,322 27,935 36,851
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -2.86%

Senior C# Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior C# Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior C# Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C# Software Engineer over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior C# Software Engineer in the UK

Senior C# Software Engineer
Top 11 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 25 December 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 +72 12 £71,250 +9.62% 13
UK excluding London +54 12 £65,000 +8.33% 6
North of England +22 5 £65,000 +8.33%
Work from Home +80 4 £65,000 +8.33% 5
London +58 4 £100,000 -42.86% 9
Scotland - 4 £72,250 - 2
North West +22 3 £65,000 +13.04%
Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 -
South East +27 1 - - 3
South West +12 1 - -
East of England - 1 £77,500 - 1

Senior C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Senior C# Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior C# Software Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) .NET
3 9 (56.25%) Azure
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 6 (37.50%) DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
6 5 (31.25%) AWS
6 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (31.25%) React
7 4 (25.00%) TDD
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) SDLC
8 3 (18.75%) SOLID
8 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
9 2 (12.50%) Application Security
9 2 (12.50%) Blazor
9 2 (12.50%) C++
9 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (12.50%) Docker
9 2 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 2 (12.50%) Firmware

Senior C# Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
2 5 (31.25%) React
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Blazor
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Microservices
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 3 (18.75%) SOLID
6 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Application Security
7 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
8 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Delphi
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes