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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 661 686 848
Rank change year-on-year +25 +162 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a C# Software Engineer 227 298 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.33% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 198 232 211
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £43,250
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 £72,750 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,375 £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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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 20 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 20 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 +18 189 £60,000 -22.58% 64
UK excluding London +24 183 £58,000 -3.33% 49
Work from Home +35 121 £65,000 -16.13% 106
Midlands +19 42 £55,000 +22.22% 9
South East +11 42 £57,500 -11.54% 17
London 0 40 £85,000 -5.56% 25
North of England +21 36 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Scotland -44 32 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -6 25 £65,000 +44.44% 3
South West -4 22 £57,750 -11.15% 2
West Midlands +27 17 £42,500 -15.00% 6
North West +3 14 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Yorkshire +56 13 £68,000 -12.26% 3
North East +6 9 £71,500 +19.17%
East of England 0 7 £85,000 +47.83% 11
Wales 0 2 £55,000 +46.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 227 (100.00%) C#
1 227 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 169 (74.45%) .NET
3 86 (37.89%) Agile
4 79 (34.80%) Azure
5 73 (32.16%) .NET Core
6 70 (30.84%) AWS
7 57 (25.11%) SQL
8 54 (23.79%) AngularJS
9 53 (23.35%) JavaScript
10 51 (22.47%) ASP.NET
11 50 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
12 49 (21.59%) .NET Framework
12 49 (21.59%) Computer Science
13 47 (20.70%) Docker
14 45 (19.82%) DevOps
15 44 (19.38%) CI/CD
16 43 (18.94%) SDLC
17 42 (18.50%) React
18 41 (18.06%) Degree
19 38 (16.74%) Microsoft
19 38 (16.74%) Design Patterns
20 37 (16.30%) Microservices
21 34 (14.98%) Social Skills
22 33 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
23 32 (14.10%) Finance
24 31 (13.66%) Client/Server
24 31 (13.66%) TypeScript
25 29 (12.78%) OOP
25 29 (12.78%) 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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.88%) 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 (34.80%) Azure
2 70 (30.84%) AWS
3 26 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (8.81%) Serverless
5 15 (6.61%) GitHub
6 13 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.08%) SaaS
9 6 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.32%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.32%) PaaS
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.88%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 2 (0.88%) Azure App Service
11 2 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.88%) GCP
11 2 (0.88%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.88%) RS-232
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.78%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.69%) Redis
3 13 (5.73%) MySQL
4 9 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.64%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.88%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.88%) 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 (11.01%) Git
2 12 (5.29%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.41%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.52%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.08%) Moq
6 4 (1.76%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.32%) Postman
7 3 (1.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.88%) JIRA
8 2 (0.88%) NUnit
9 1 (0.44%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 34 (14.98%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.10%) Finance
3 21 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.17%) Aviation
5 13 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.29%) Games
7 8 (3.52%) Law
7 8 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.52%) Retail
8 7 (3.08%) Banking
8 7 (3.08%) Private Banking
8 7 (3.08%) Publishing
9 6 (2.64%) Automotive
9 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 6 (2.64%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.76%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.32%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Back Office
12 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (74.45%) .NET
2 73 (32.16%) .NET Core
3 54 (23.79%) AngularJS
4 51 (22.47%) ASP.NET
5 49 (21.59%) .NET Framework
6 42 (18.50%) React
7 23 (10.13%) RESTful
8 18 (7.93%) WPF
9 17 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
10 16 (7.05%) ASP.NET MVC
11 15 (6.61%) Vue
12 14 (6.17%) HTML
13 13 (5.73%) Entity Framework
13 13 (5.73%) jQuery
14 12 (5.29%) CSS
15 11 (4.85%) Blazor
15 11 (4.85%) REST
15 11 (4.85%) WinForms
16 10 (4.41%) Web Services
17 9 (3.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.66%) Client/Server
2 28 (12.33%) Data Structures
3 27 (11.89%) Algorithms
4 18 (7.93%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.41%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.52%) IoT
7 8 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.52%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.08%) Online Games
9 6 (2.64%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.76%) Derivative
10 4 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.76%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.76%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.61%) Windows
2 5 (2.20%) Linux
3 2 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (37.89%) Agile
3 50 (22.03%) Full Stack Development
4 49 (21.59%) Computer Science
5 45 (19.82%) DevOps
6 44 (19.38%) CI/CD
7 43 (18.94%) SDLC
8 38 (16.74%) Design Patterns
9 37 (16.30%) Microservices
10 33 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (12.78%) OOP
12 28 (12.33%) MVC
13 25 (11.01%) Mentoring
14 23 (10.13%) OO
15 18 (7.93%) Scrum
16 15 (6.61%) Coaching
16 15 (6.61%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (6.61%) TDD
17 14 (6.17%) Clean Code
17 14 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 227 (100.00%) C#
2 57 (25.11%) SQL
3 53 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.66%) TypeScript
5 29 (12.78%) C++
6 20 (8.81%) Python
7 18 (7.93%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.29%) Java
9 7 (3.08%) C
10 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.76%) Bash
11 4 (1.76%) Go
12 2 (0.88%) F#
12 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) VB
13 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (18.06%) Degree
2 16 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.32%) HNC
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.52%) QA
2 2 (0.88%) EMIR
2 2 (0.88%) MiFID
3 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 47 (20.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.05%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 38 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.64%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.20%) DevExpress
4 3 (1.32%) Oracle
5 2 (0.88%) VMware
6 1 (0.44%) ESRI
6 1 (0.44%) QNX