C# Job Trends in the North of England

C#
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 30 15
Rank change year-on-year -35 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing C# 361 540 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.07% 6.33% 9.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.51% 21.71% 27.42%
Number of salaries quoted 337 347 1,020
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,850 2,487 4,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.72% 29.14% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 1,329 3,474
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,800 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

C# job vacancy trend in the North of England

C#
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the North of England

C#
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
North West -19 181 £62,500 +18.48% 116
Yorkshire -36 114 £60,000 +20.00% 42
North East -11 66 £70,000 +9.80% 34
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (0.83%) CMS
1 3 (0.83%) Umbraco
2 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.55%) nginx
2 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 203 (56.23%) Azure
2 111 (30.75%) AWS
3 61 (16.90%) SaaS
4 40 (11.08%) Serverless
5 29 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.16%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (3.60%) Azure Functions
8 13 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.60%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.49%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.94%) GCP
12 6 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.66%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.39%) GitHub
14 4 (1.11%) Azure AI
15 3 (0.83%) Twilio
16 2 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
2 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.55%) Intranet
3 2 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.55%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.93%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.05%) MySQL
5 7 (1.94%) Redis
6 6 (1.66%) Power BI
7 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.55%) PostHog
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (3.60%) Visual Studio
2 12 (3.32%) Git
3 7 (1.94%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.11%) GitLab
5 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.83%) JIRA
5 3 (0.83%) Selenium
6 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.28%) NUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Postman
7 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (7.48%) Finance
3 16 (4.43%) Games
4 11 (3.05%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.39%) Electronics
6 5 (1.39%) Legal
7 4 (1.11%) Retail
8 2 (0.55%) Back Office
8 2 (0.55%) Banking
8 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.55%) Local Government
8 2 (0.55%) Marketing
8 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.28%) Advertising
9 1 (0.28%) Law
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 179 (49.58%) Developer
2 75 (20.78%) Senior
3 71 (19.67%) Lead
4 68 (18.84%) Software Engineer
5 58 (16.07%) Software Developer
6 56 (15.51%) .NET Developer
7 47 (13.02%) Senior Developer
8 44 (12.19%) C# Developer
9 38 (10.53%) Lead Developer
10 29 (8.03%) Architect
11 28 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (7.20%) C# Software Engineer
13 22 (6.09%) .NET Software Engineer
13 22 (6.09%) Senior Software Developer
14 21 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (4.99%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (4.71%) Principal Developer
17 15 (4.16%) Software Manager
18 14 (3.88%) .NET Development Manager
18 14 (3.88%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (72.58%) .NET
2 88 (24.38%) .NET Core
3 60 (16.62%) ASP.NET
4 55 (15.24%) React
5 48 (13.30%) .NET Framework
6 41 (11.36%) CSS
7 36 (9.97%) HTML
8 31 (8.59%) AngularJS
9 28 (7.76%) REST
10 25 (6.93%) RESTful
11 14 (3.88%) Vue
12 11 (3.05%) Blazor
13 10 (2.77%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (2.49%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (2.49%) Entity Framework
14 9 (2.49%) HTML5
14 9 (2.49%) Node.js
15 8 (2.22%) CSS3
15 8 (2.22%) jQuery
16 7 (1.94%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (4.99%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.22%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.39%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.11%) Clustering
9 4 (1.11%) IoT
9 4 (1.11%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.55%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.55%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.71%) Windows
2 9 (2.49%) Linux
3 7 (1.94%) Android
4 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Fedora
5 1 (0.28%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (37.67%) Software Engineering
2 122 (33.80%) Agile
3 92 (25.48%) Mentoring
4 89 (24.65%) Microservices
5 88 (24.38%) CI/CD
6 80 (22.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 70 (19.39%) DevOps
8 68 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (11.36%) SDLC
10 40 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
12 36 (9.97%) Computer Science
12 36 (9.97%) TDD
13 35 (9.70%) Migration
14 34 (9.42%) Containerisation
15 33 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (9.14%) User Experience
16 26 (7.20%) Enterprise Architecture
17 24 (6.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 93 (25.76%) JavaScript
2 88 (24.38%) SQL
3 63 (17.45%) TypeScript
4 54 (14.96%) Java
5 50 (13.85%) Python
6 21 (5.82%) PHP
7 17 (4.71%) C++
8 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.39%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) XAML
11 3 (0.83%) Bicep
11 3 (0.83%) Erlang
11 3 (0.83%) Go
11 3 (0.83%) Rust
12 2 (0.55%) Delphi
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
13 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (11.91%) Degree
2 32 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (6.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.83%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 39 (10.80%) Docker
2 10 (2.77%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.77%) Firmware
3 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) HDFS
4 1 (0.28%) Squid
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.39%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
2 3 (0.83%) Foundry
2 3 (0.83%) Google
3 2 (0.55%) Aderant
3 2 (0.55%) VMware
3 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe
4 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.28%) Databricks
4 1 (0.28%) iManage
4 1 (0.28%) New Relic
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.28%) Sage
4 1 (0.28%) SAP