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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 85 15
Rank change year-on-year +28 -70 +14
Permanent jobs citing C# 567 341 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.77% 3.87% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.52% 12.85% 30.57%
Number of salaries quoted 528 282 1,409
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,900 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +14.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,375 £73,777
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 3,433 2,653 5,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.76% 30.11% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,606 1,400 4,330
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,564 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +52 282 £57,593 +4.72% 68
Yorkshire +1 157 £55,000 -19.71% 40
North East -3 128 £60,000 +4.35% 39
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 14 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.94%) CMS
3 6 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.88%) IIS
5 4 (0.71%) WordPress
6 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.53%) Magento
3 3 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 292 (51.50%) Azure
2 94 (16.58%) AWS
3 84 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (9.17%) SaaS
5 42 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 39 (6.88%) Power Automate
7 34 (6.00%) Serverless
8 32 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 30 (5.29%) PowerApps
10 29 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 29 (5.11%) GitHub
11 25 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (3.35%) GitHub Copilot
13 18 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 16 (2.82%) Azure Functions
16 15 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
18 11 (1.94%) GCP
19 9 (1.59%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.41%) Internet
2 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.35%) MQTT
4 1 (0.18%) Broadband
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) VoIP
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 87 (15.34%) SQL Server
3 72 (12.70%) MongoDB
4 25 (4.41%) Power BI
5 22 (3.88%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (2.29%) MySQL
10 8 (1.41%) Redis
10 8 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.53%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.35%) Power Query
15 1 (0.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (6.53%) Git
2 9 (1.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.06%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.88%) GitLab
4 5 (0.88%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.35%) MSTest
7 2 (0.35%) NUnit
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.35%) TestRail
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 70 (12.35%) Finance
2 55 (9.70%) Social Skills
3 32 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.06%) Games
5 16 (2.82%) Retail
6 13 (2.29%) Banking
7 12 (2.12%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.76%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.41%) Advertising
10 7 (1.23%) Legal
11 6 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.88%) Automotive
12 5 (0.88%) Back Office
12 5 (0.88%) Law
12 5 (0.88%) Marketing
13 3 (0.53%) Electronics
13 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 323 (56.97%) Developer
2 159 (28.04%) .NET Developer
3 137 (24.16%) Software Engineer
4 113 (19.93%) Senior
5 105 (18.52%) C# Developer
6 102 (17.99%) Software Developer
7 70 (12.35%) C# Software Developer
8 67 (11.82%) Senior Developer
9 65 (11.46%) C# Software Engineer
9 65 (11.46%) Lead
10 46 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (7.76%) C# .NET Developer
12 40 (7.05%) Lead Developer
13 39 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (6.53%) .NET Software Engineer
15 35 (6.17%) .NET Software Developer
16 33 (5.82%) Full-Stack Developer
16 33 (5.82%) Senior C# Developer
17 32 (5.64%) Senior Software Developer
18 22 (3.88%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (67.37%) .NET
2 155 (27.34%) .NET Core
3 121 (21.34%) ASP.NET
4 98 (17.28%) React
5 89 (15.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 77 (13.58%) Vue
7 66 (11.64%) RESTful
8 64 (11.29%) AngularJS
9 63 (11.11%) CSS
9 63 (11.11%) HTML
10 59 (10.41%) Entity Framework
11 40 (7.05%) ASP.NET Web API
12 39 (6.88%) REST
13 35 (6.17%) .NET Framework
13 35 (6.17%) Blazor
14 30 (5.29%) LINQ
15 29 (5.11%) Node.js
16 26 (4.59%) ML.NET
17 11 (1.94%) HTML5 Canvas
18 9 (1.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 29 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.06%) Mobile App
6 20 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (3.35%) Hedge funds
8 15 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.12%) Legacy Code
10 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.41%) Social Network
11 7 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.06%) BBC
12 6 (1.06%) Social Media
12 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.88%) e-Learning
13 5 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.76%) Android
2 8 (1.41%) Linux
2 8 (1.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (34.74%) Software Engineering
2 192 (33.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 185 (32.63%) Agile
4 132 (23.28%) CI/CD
5 131 (23.10%) DevOps
6 99 (17.46%) AI
7 88 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (15.34%) Microservices
9 83 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
10 74 (13.05%) Mentoring
11 53 (9.35%) SDLC
12 50 (8.82%) TDD
13 44 (7.76%) Multithreading
14 42 (7.41%) Fintech
15 40 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
16 38 (6.70%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (6.35%) Computer Science
18 34 (6.00%) Machine Learning
18 34 (6.00%) Test Automation
19 33 (5.82%) OO
Programming Languages
1 214 (37.74%) SQL
2 143 (25.22%) JavaScript
3 81 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 71 (12.52%) Python
5 61 (10.76%) Java
6 23 (4.06%) C++
6 23 (4.06%) PHP
7 13 (2.29%) Go
7 13 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.76%) Bash
9 9 (1.59%) Bicep
9 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.88%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.71%) C
12 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.35%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.18%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.18%) Swift
13 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (7.05%) Degree
2 21 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.82%) QA
2 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 4 (0.71%) SLA
4 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (8.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Firmware
2 3 (0.53%) vSphere
3 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.59%) Terraform
3 3 (0.53%) Ansible
3 3 (0.53%) Control-M
3 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 166 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.12%) Google
3 8 (1.41%) Facebook
4 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.06%) Apple
5 6 (1.06%) Sony
5 6 (1.06%) Yahoo!
6 5 (0.88%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.53%) Splunk
7 3 (0.53%) VMware
8 2 (0.35%) Adyen
8 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.18%) Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.18%) Sage
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) WooCommerce