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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -28 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing C# 349 582 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.29% 6.11% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.89% 21.35% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 314 394 601
10th Percentile £37,875 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -2.34%

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 1,755 2,726 2,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.53% 28.64% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 1,486 2,236
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,788 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 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
North West -19 170 £62,500 +19.05% 319
Yorkshire -29 123 £60,750 +21.50% 204
North East -8 58 £55,000 -13.73% 81
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 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.86%) CMS
2 3 (0.86%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.57%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.57%) IIS
3 2 (0.57%) nginx
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 197 (56.45%) Azure
2 116 (33.24%) AWS
3 59 (16.91%) SaaS
4 37 (10.60%) Serverless
5 26 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.72%) Power Automate
7 12 (3.44%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.87%) GCP
9 10 (2.87%) GitHub
10 9 (2.58%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.29%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.15%) PaaS
14 3 (0.86%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) HTTP
2 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.57%) Intranet
3 2 (0.57%) SAN
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.31%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.30%) MongoDB
4 14 (4.01%) MySQL
5 7 (2.01%) Redis
6 6 (1.72%) Power BI
7 5 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.86%) Big Data
9 3 (0.86%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.57%) PostHog
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (5.44%) Git
2 13 (3.72%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.01%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.72%) Selenium
5 4 (1.15%) GitLab
6 3 (0.86%) JIRA
7 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.57%) Postman
7 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.29%) ESLint
8 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
8 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 86 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 23 (6.59%) Finance
3 18 (5.16%) Manufacturing
4 17 (4.87%) Games
5 10 (2.87%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.29%) Legal
7 7 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.43%) Electronics
8 5 (1.43%) Retail
9 4 (1.15%) Back Office
10 2 (0.57%) Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (47.28%) Developer
2 75 (21.49%) Senior
3 70 (20.06%) Lead
4 60 (17.19%) Software Engineer
5 52 (14.90%) .NET Developer
6 51 (14.61%) Software Developer
7 47 (13.47%) Senior Developer
8 36 (10.32%) C# Developer
9 33 (9.46%) Architect
10 26 (7.45%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (6.30%) Senior Software Developer
13 18 (5.16%) .NET Software Engineer
14 17 (4.87%) Senior .NET Developer
14 17 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (4.58%) C# Software Engineer
15 16 (4.58%) Graduate
16 15 (4.30%) Software Manager
17 14 (4.01%) Software Architect
18 13 (3.72%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (70.49%) .NET
2 67 (19.20%) .NET Core
3 58 (16.62%) ASP.NET
4 55 (15.76%) React
5 52 (14.90%) .NET Framework
6 50 (14.33%) CSS
7 44 (12.61%) HTML
8 35 (10.03%) AngularJS
9 27 (7.74%) RESTful
10 26 (7.45%) REST
11 17 (4.87%) Blazor
12 16 (4.58%) Entity Framework
13 14 (4.01%) Vue
14 12 (3.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (2.58%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.58%) HTML5
15 9 (2.58%) jQuery
15 9 (2.58%) Node.js
16 8 (2.29%) CSS3
16 8 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.74%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.16%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (6.30%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.44%) Mobile App
6 15 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.58%) Client/Server
9 7 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.43%) Clustering
11 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.86%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.86%) Online Games
13 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.57%) NHS
13 2 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.44%) Windows
2 7 (2.01%) Android
2 7 (2.01%) Linux
3 6 (1.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Fedora
4 1 (0.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (37.25%) Agile
2 126 (36.10%) Software Engineering
3 102 (29.23%) Mentoring
4 97 (27.79%) CI/CD
5 93 (26.65%) Microservices
6 81 (23.21%) DevOps
7 70 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (12.32%) Computer Science
9 43 (12.32%) SDLC
10 42 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 37 (10.60%) User Experience
13 36 (10.32%) Architectural Patterns
13 36 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (10.03%) Containerisation
15 34 (9.74%) TDD
16 31 (8.88%) Clean Code
17 30 (8.60%) Enterprise Architecture
17 30 (8.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.65%) SQL
2 97 (27.79%) JavaScript
3 62 (17.77%) TypeScript
4 60 (17.19%) Java
5 51 (14.61%) Python
6 20 (5.73%) C++
6 20 (5.73%) PHP
7 7 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.43%) Delphi
9 4 (1.15%) Bash
9 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.15%) XAML
10 3 (0.86%) Bicep
10 3 (0.86%) Erlang
10 3 (0.86%) Go
10 3 (0.86%) Rust
10 3 (0.86%) Scala
11 2 (0.57%) C
11 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (14.61%) Degree
2 35 (10.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.45%) Azure Certification
4 25 (7.16%) AWS Certification
4 25 (7.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (6.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.15%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.86%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.45%) QA
2 7 (2.01%) GDPR
3 6 (1.72%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (12.89%) Docker
2 10 (2.87%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.87%) Firmware
3 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.57%) vSphere
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Squid
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.44%) Terraform
3 7 (2.01%) Grafana
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Control-M
4 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.01%) Google
3 5 (1.43%) Sage
4 4 (1.15%) Autodesk
5 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle
6 2 (0.57%) Aderant
6 2 (0.57%) Foundry
6 2 (0.57%) Lotus
6 2 (0.57%) VMware
6 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Databricks
7 1 (0.29%) iManage
7 1 (0.29%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.29%) SAP
7 1 (0.29%) Talend