C# Job Trends in Manchester

C#
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 133 186 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.41% 5.84% 9.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.86% 17.02% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 118 135 183
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,245
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +2.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,841
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

C# falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 1,093 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 21.77% 34.31% 45.58%
Number of salaries quoted 452 572 835
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,251 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

C# job vacancy trend in Manchester

C#
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for C# in Manchester

C#
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 7 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
Altrincham -9 3 £35,000 -39.13% 5
Salford +9 1 - - 1
Oldham 0 1 £50,000 +11.11%
C#
North West

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.75%) IIS
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.89%) Azure
2 47 (35.34%) AWS
3 32 (24.06%) SaaS
4 13 (9.77%) Serverless
5 10 (7.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Functions
7 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (6.02%) GCP
8 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.50%) GitHub
10 2 (1.50%) PaaS
10 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.75%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) HTTP
2 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.56%) NoSQL
2 25 (18.80%) SQL Server
3 19 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.02%) MySQL
5 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.26%) Selenium
2 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) NUnit
General
1 14 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
3 5 (3.76%) Finance
4 4 (3.01%) Legal
4 4 (3.01%) Retail
5 3 (2.26%) Back Office
6 2 (1.50%) Games
6 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.75%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.75%) Electronics
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (48.12%) Developer
2 47 (35.34%) Senior
3 32 (24.06%) Lead
4 31 (23.31%) .NET Developer
5 26 (19.55%) Senior Developer
6 22 (16.54%) Software Engineer
7 17 (12.78%) Software Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (8.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Architect
10 9 (6.77%) Lead Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Principal Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Team Leader
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Mathematician
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Architect
13 6 (4.51%) AWS Solution Architect
13 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.76%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (76.69%) .NET
2 22 (16.54%) .NET Core
3 21 (15.79%) React
4 19 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 18 (13.53%) RESTful
6 13 (9.77%) CSS
6 13 (9.77%) HTML
7 11 (8.27%) REST
8 10 (7.52%) AngularJS
8 10 (7.52%) ASP.NET
9 9 (6.77%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (6.77%) Blazor
10 8 (6.02%) Entity Framework
11 7 (5.26%) Kafka
12 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET Core
13 5 (3.76%) Akka
13 5 (3.76%) Akka.NET
14 4 (3.01%) CSS3
14 4 (3.01%) HTML5
14 4 (3.01%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.28%) Product Ownership
4 11 (8.27%) Mobile App
5 10 (7.52%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (5.26%) Clustering
6 7 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.76%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.50%) Online Games
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.50%) Android
2 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (45.11%) Agile
1 60 (45.11%) CI/CD
2 54 (40.60%) Microservices
3 46 (34.59%) Software Engineering
4 43 (32.33%) DevOps
5 32 (24.06%) Mentoring
6 31 (23.31%) TDD
7 30 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (21.80%) Containerisation
9 25 (18.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (17.29%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (16.54%) Clean Code
12 21 (15.79%) SOLID
13 20 (15.04%) Roadmaps
14 15 (11.28%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (11.28%) User Experience
15 14 (10.53%) Coaching
15 14 (10.53%) Design Patterns
15 14 (10.53%) Event-Driven
16 12 (9.02%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.56%) SQL
2 19 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 16 (12.03%) TypeScript
4 12 (9.02%) Java
4 12 (9.02%) Python
5 5 (3.76%) PHP
6 3 (2.26%) C++
6 3 (2.26%) Erlang
6 3 (2.26%) Rust
7 1 (0.75%) Go
7 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
1 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.75%) Degree
3 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) GDPR
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.76%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (20.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) HDFS
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) Google
3 2 (1.50%) Aderant
3 2 (1.50%) Splunk
3 2 (1.50%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.75%) Databricks
4 1 (0.75%) iManage
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle
4 1 (0.75%) SAP
4 1 (0.75%) VMware