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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 663 674 844
Rank change year-on-year +11 +170 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 225 294 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 196 228 207
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 £73,250 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £130,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% +15.00%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £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 17 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 17 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 +34 187 £60,000 -22.58% 51
UK excluding London +15 181 £58,000 -3.33% 40
Work from Home +20 121 £65,000 -16.13% 101
Midlands +20 42 £55,000 +22.22% 9
South East -4 41 £57,500 -11.54% 9
London +14 40 £85,000 -5.56% 14
North of England +32 35 £65,000 -10.34% 8
Scotland -35 32 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands +2 25 £65,000 +44.44% 4
South West +1 22 £57,750 -11.15% 3
West Midlands +29 17 £42,500 -15.00% 5
North West +1 14 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Yorkshire +47 12 £68,000 -12.26% 3
North East +4 9 £71,500 +19.17%
East of England +5 7 £85,000 +36.00% 8
Wales +5 2 £55,000 +46.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 225 (100.00%) C#
1 225 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 168 (74.67%) .NET
3 86 (38.22%) Agile
4 79 (35.11%) Azure
5 72 (32.00%) .NET Core
6 70 (31.11%) AWS
7 57 (25.33%) SQL
8 53 (23.56%) JavaScript
8 53 (23.56%) AngularJS
9 51 (22.67%) ASP.NET
10 49 (21.78%) .NET Framework
10 49 (21.78%) Computer Science
10 49 (21.78%) Full Stack Development
11 46 (20.44%) Docker
12 45 (20.00%) DevOps
13 43 (19.11%) SDLC
13 43 (19.11%) CI/CD
14 41 (18.22%) React
14 41 (18.22%) Degree
15 38 (16.89%) Design Patterns
16 37 (16.44%) Microsoft
17 36 (16.00%) Microservices
18 34 (15.11%) Social Skills
19 33 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
20 32 (14.22%) Finance
21 31 (13.78%) Client/Server
21 31 (13.78%) TypeScript
22 29 (12.89%) OOP
22 29 (12.89%) 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 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.44%) Sketch
1 1 (0.44%) UXPin
1 1 (0.44%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.11%) Azure
2 70 (31.11%) AWS
3 26 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.89%) Serverless
5 14 (6.22%) GitHub
6 13 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (3.11%) SaaS
8 6 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.33%) PaaS
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 2 (0.89%) Azure App Service
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.89%) GCP
10 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.89%) RS-232
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.89%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.78%) Redis
3 13 (5.78%) MySQL
4 9 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.67%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.89%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) Event Store
8 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.44%) GIS
8 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (11.11%) Git
2 12 (5.33%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.44%) TeamCity
4 7 (3.11%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.11%) Moq
5 4 (1.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.33%) Postman
6 3 (1.33%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.89%) JIRA
7 2 (0.89%) NUnit
8 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 34 (15.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.22%) Finance
3 21 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.22%) Aviation
5 13 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.33%) Games
7 8 (3.56%) Law
7 8 (3.56%) Retail
8 7 (3.11%) Banking
8 7 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.11%) Private Banking
8 7 (3.11%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.11%) Publishing
9 6 (2.67%) Automotive
9 6 (2.67%) Legal
9 6 (2.67%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.33%) Advertising
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
12 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (74.67%) .NET
2 72 (32.00%) .NET Core
3 53 (23.56%) AngularJS
4 51 (22.67%) ASP.NET
5 49 (21.78%) .NET Framework
6 41 (18.22%) React
7 22 (9.78%) RESTful
8 18 (8.00%) WPF
9 17 (7.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 16 (7.11%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (6.67%) Vue
12 14 (6.22%) HTML
13 13 (5.78%) Entity Framework
13 13 (5.78%) jQuery
14 12 (5.33%) CSS
15 11 (4.89%) Blazor
15 11 (4.89%) REST
15 11 (4.89%) WinForms
16 10 (4.44%) Web Services
17 9 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.78%) Client/Server
2 28 (12.44%) Data Structures
3 27 (12.00%) Algorithms
4 18 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.56%) IoT
7 8 (3.56%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.11%) Online Games
8 7 (3.11%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.78%) Derivative
10 4 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.78%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.78%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.67%) Windows
2 5 (2.22%) Linux
3 2 (0.89%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (38.22%) Agile
3 49 (21.78%) Computer Science
3 49 (21.78%) Full Stack Development
4 45 (20.00%) DevOps
5 43 (19.11%) CI/CD
5 43 (19.11%) SDLC
6 38 (16.89%) Design Patterns
7 36 (16.00%) Microservices
8 33 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (12.89%) OOP
10 28 (12.44%) MVC
11 25 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 23 (10.22%) OO
13 18 (8.00%) Scrum
14 15 (6.67%) Coaching
14 15 (6.67%) TDD
15 14 (6.22%) Clean Code
15 14 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (6.22%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (100.00%) C#
2 57 (25.33%) SQL
3 53 (23.56%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.78%) TypeScript
5 29 (12.89%) C++
6 20 (8.89%) Python
7 18 (8.00%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.33%) Java
9 7 (3.11%) C
10 5 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.78%) Bash
11 4 (1.78%) Go
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) F#
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (18.22%) Degree
2 16 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.89%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.33%) HNC
6 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.56%) QA
2 2 (0.89%) EMIR
2 2 (0.89%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 46 (20.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.67%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.22%) DevExpress
4 3 (1.33%) Oracle
5 2 (0.89%) VMware
6 1 (0.44%) ESRI
6 1 (0.44%) QNX