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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 687 844
Rank change year-on-year +10 +157 -271
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 222 295 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 195 230 209
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £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 £72,250 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £130,000 £100,000
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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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 +5 185 £60,000 -22.58% 54
UK excluding London +16 179 £58,000 -3.33% 45
Work from Home +30 120 £65,000 -16.13% 99
Midlands +32 43 £55,000 +22.22% 9
London +17 40 £85,000 -5.56% 14
South East +4 39 £57,500 -8.00% 9
North of England +18 34 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Scotland -33 32 £55,000 +22.22% 4
East Midlands -3 26 £62,500 +38.89% 4
South West -6 22 £57,750 -11.15% 5
West Midlands +19 17 £42,500 -2.30% 5
North West +7 13 £57,500 +4.55% 6
Yorkshire +62 12 £68,000 -12.26% 4
North East +1 9 £71,500 +19.17% 1
East of England -4 7 £85,000 +33.33% 8
Wales +5 2 £55,000 +83.33% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 222 (100.00%) C#
1 222 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 165 (74.32%) .NET
3 82 (36.94%) Agile
4 76 (34.23%) Azure
5 73 (32.88%) .NET Core
6 69 (31.08%) AWS
7 57 (25.68%) SQL
8 55 (24.77%) JavaScript
9 54 (24.32%) AngularJS
10 51 (22.97%) ASP.NET
11 50 (22.52%) Computer Science
12 49 (22.07%) .NET Framework
13 47 (21.17%) Full Stack Development
14 46 (20.72%) Docker
15 42 (18.92%) SDLC
16 41 (18.47%) DevOps
16 41 (18.47%) React
16 41 (18.47%) Degree
16 41 (18.47%) CI/CD
17 38 (17.12%) Design Patterns
17 38 (17.12%) Microsoft
18 36 (16.22%) Microservices
19 34 (15.32%) Social Skills
20 32 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
20 32 (14.41%) Finance
21 31 (13.96%) Client/Server
21 31 (13.96%) TypeScript
22 30 (13.51%) OOP
23 28 (12.61%) C++

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 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.45%) Sketch
1 1 (0.45%) UXPin
1 1 (0.45%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 76 (34.23%) Azure
2 69 (31.08%) AWS
3 23 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.56%) Serverless
5 14 (6.31%) GitHub
6 13 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.15%) SaaS
8 6 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.35%) PaaS
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.90%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.45%) GCP
12 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.90%) RS-232
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.46%) Redis
3 13 (5.86%) MySQL
4 8 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.90%) Power BI
8 1 (0.45%) Event Store
8 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.45%) GIS
8 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (10.36%) Git
2 11 (4.95%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.50%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.15%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.15%) Moq
5 3 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.35%) Postman
5 3 (1.35%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.90%) JIRA
6 2 (0.90%) NUnit
7 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 34 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.41%) Finance
3 21 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.31%) Aviation
5 12 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.41%) Games
6 8 (3.60%) Law
6 8 (3.60%) Retail
7 7 (3.15%) Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Private Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.15%) Publishing
8 6 (2.70%) Automotive
8 6 (2.70%) Legal
8 6 (2.70%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.35%) Advertising
9 3 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.90%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (74.32%) .NET
2 73 (32.88%) .NET Core
3 54 (24.32%) AngularJS
4 51 (22.97%) ASP.NET
5 49 (22.07%) .NET Framework
6 41 (18.47%) React
7 22 (9.91%) RESTful
8 17 (7.66%) ASP.NET Core
8 17 (7.66%) WPF
9 16 (7.21%) ASP.NET MVC
10 15 (6.76%) HTML
10 15 (6.76%) Vue
11 14 (6.31%) Entity Framework
12 13 (5.86%) CSS
12 13 (5.86%) jQuery
13 11 (4.95%) REST
13 11 (4.95%) Web Services
13 11 (4.95%) WinForms
14 10 (4.50%) Blazor
14 10 (4.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.96%) Client/Server
2 28 (12.61%) Data Structures
3 27 (12.16%) Algorithms
4 18 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.50%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.60%) IoT
8 8 (3.60%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.15%) Online Games
9 7 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.70%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.80%) Derivative
11 4 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.80%) Graphic Design
11 4 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.76%) Windows
2 5 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.35%) Android
4 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 82 (36.94%) Agile
3 50 (22.52%) Computer Science
4 47 (21.17%) Full Stack Development
5 42 (18.92%) SDLC
6 41 (18.47%) CI/CD
6 41 (18.47%) DevOps
7 38 (17.12%) Design Patterns
8 36 (16.22%) Microservices
9 32 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (13.51%) OOP
11 27 (12.16%) MVC
12 23 (10.36%) OO
13 22 (9.91%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.66%) Scrum
15 15 (6.76%) Coaching
16 14 (6.31%) Clean Code
16 14 (6.31%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (6.31%) TDD
17 13 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 222 (100.00%) C#
2 57 (25.68%) SQL
3 55 (24.77%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.96%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.61%) C++
6 20 (9.01%) Python
7 19 (8.56%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.95%) Java
9 7 (3.15%) C
10 4 (1.80%) Bash
10 4 (1.80%) Go
10 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) F#
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) VB
11 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (18.47%) Degree
2 16 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.35%) HNC
6 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.05%) QA
2 2 (0.90%) EMIR
2 2 (0.90%) MiFID
3 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (20.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.70%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.25%) DevExpress
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle
5 2 (0.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.45%) ESRI
6 1 (0.45%) QNX