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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 84 21
Rank change year-on-year +34 -63 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 638 326 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.67% 3.49% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.61% 13.08% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 567 270 691
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £72,500
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 3,622 2,492 3,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.13% 26.69% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,769 1,238 2,179
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +54 304 £55,000 -12.00% 179
North East +1 175 £67,153 +14.30% 53
Yorkshire -8 159 £55,000 -8.33% 88
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 30 (4.70%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.04%) CMS
3 8 (1.25%) IIS
4 6 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.63%) WordPress
6 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Kentico
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.63%) Shopify
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.31%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 305 (47.81%) Azure
2 99 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (14.58%) AWS
4 60 (9.40%) Power Platform
5 56 (8.78%) Power Automate
6 46 (7.21%) Serverless
7 44 (6.90%) PowerApps
8 37 (5.80%) GitHub
9 32 (5.02%) Azure AI
10 30 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (4.55%) SaaS
12 26 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 26 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
13 25 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.04%) Azure Functions
17 10 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.41%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) HTTP
3 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) MQTT
4 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (15.36%) SQL Server
2 97 (15.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (12.70%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.39%) Power BI
5 23 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.66%) MySQL
8 13 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.88%) Redis
9 12 (1.88%) Spark SQL
10 10 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (0.78%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.63%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (0.47%) ClickHouse
16 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
17 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (7.52%) Git
2 9 (1.41%) JIRA
3 8 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.10%) Claude Code
4 7 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.94%) GitLab
6 5 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.63%) Selenium
7 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.47%) JUnit
8 3 (0.47%) NUnit
8 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.31%) MSTest
9 2 (0.31%) TestRail
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 79 (12.38%) Finance
2 65 (10.19%) Social Skills
3 36 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.29%) Legal
6 20 (3.13%) Games
7 19 (2.98%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.66%) Banking
9 14 (2.19%) Retail
10 10 (1.57%) Advertising
11 8 (1.25%) Law
11 8 (1.25%) Marketing
11 8 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.63%) Automotive
15 4 (0.63%) Back Office
15 4 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 355 (55.64%) Developer
2 174 (27.27%) .NET Developer
3 150 (23.51%) Senior
4 141 (22.10%) Software Engineer
5 95 (14.89%) Software Developer
6 94 (14.73%) Senior Developer
7 92 (14.42%) C# Developer
8 73 (11.44%) C# Software Engineer
9 62 (9.72%) Lead
10 50 (7.84%) C# Software Developer
11 44 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (6.90%) Lead Developer
12 42 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (6.43%) Senior C# Developer
14 38 (5.96%) C# .NET Developer
15 33 (5.17%) Senior Software Developer
16 31 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (4.23%) .NET Software Engineer
18 25 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
19 24 (3.76%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (64.89%) .NET
2 159 (24.92%) .NET Core
3 135 (21.16%) ASP.NET
4 112 (17.55%) React
5 106 (16.61%) ASP.NET Core
6 85 (13.32%) HTML
7 84 (13.17%) CSS
8 74 (11.60%) Vue
9 73 (11.44%) AngularJS
10 70 (10.97%) Entity Framework
11 62 (9.72%) RESTful
12 47 (7.37%) REST
13 46 (7.21%) ASP.NET Web API
14 38 (5.96%) Blazor
14 38 (5.96%) Node.js
15 35 (5.49%) .NET Framework
16 34 (5.33%) LINQ
17 29 (4.55%) Terraform
18 26 (4.08%) ML.NET
19 19 (2.98%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
2 35 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (3.45%) Hedge funds
5 19 (2.98%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.10%) Legacy Code
10 7 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.94%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.94%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.94%) Social Network
12 5 (0.78%) BBC
12 5 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.72%) Windows
2 9 (1.41%) Android
3 8 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (34.95%) Agile
2 221 (34.64%) Software Engineering
3 212 (33.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 155 (24.29%) DevOps
5 154 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 112 (17.55%) AI
7 100 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (15.20%) Mentoring
9 96 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (12.54%) Microservices
11 57 (8.93%) SDLC
12 55 (8.62%) Technical Leadership
13 53 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
14 52 (8.15%) Fintech
15 51 (7.99%) TDD
16 45 (7.05%) Code Quality
16 45 (7.05%) Multithreading
16 45 (7.05%) Test Automation
17 44 (6.90%) OO
18 42 (6.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 225 (35.27%) SQL
2 175 (27.43%) JavaScript
3 97 (15.20%) TypeScript
4 75 (11.76%) Python
5 74 (11.60%) Java
6 36 (5.64%) C++
7 25 (3.92%) PHP
8 19 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.66%) Go
10 11 (1.72%) Bash
10 11 (1.72%) Bicep
10 11 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 9 (1.41%) C
12 8 (1.25%) Delphi
12 8 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.63%) Ruby
14 2 (0.31%) Dart
14 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (7.21%) Degree
2 21 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.88%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.99%) QA
2 13 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.16%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 54 (8.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) vSphere
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.47%) Ansible
2 3 (0.47%) Control-M
2 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (0.47%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 211 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.72%) Google
3 9 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.10%) Facebook
5 5 (0.78%) Apple
5 5 (0.78%) Sony
5 5 (0.78%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.78%) Yahoo!
6 4 (0.63%) NEC
7 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.47%) Splunk
7 3 (0.47%) VMware
8 2 (0.31%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.31%) HP
8 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.31%) Sage
8 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.31%) Talend
9 1 (0.16%) TIBCO