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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 58 16
Rank change year-on-year -17 -42 +13
Permanent jobs citing C# 418 382 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.26% 5.31% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.78% 16.78% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 384 331 1,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £66,068
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 2,828 2,276 4,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.27% 31.65% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 1,498 4,136
10th Percentile £33,225 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,954 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -3 215 £60,000 +15.67% 93
Yorkshire -42 133 £62,500 +4.17% 31
North East -20 70 £70,000 +21.74% 25
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 7 (1.67%) CMS
1 7 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.96%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.72%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 204 (48.80%) Azure
2 83 (19.86%) AWS
3 65 (15.55%) SaaS
4 30 (7.18%) Serverless
5 29 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.98%) Power Automate
7 24 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (5.74%) PowerApps
8 21 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 17 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (3.11%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.87%) Azure AKS
13 12 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.67%) GCP
15 6 (1.44%) Azure AI
15 6 (1.44%) GitHub
16 5 (1.20%) Twilio
17 3 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) HTTP
2 2 (0.48%) Intranet
2 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.24%) DNS
3 1 (0.24%) SAN
3 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (22.25%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.78%) Power BI
4 13 (3.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.91%) MySQL
6 8 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.72%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.48%) PostHog
9 2 (0.48%) Power Query
9 2 (0.48%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.24%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (3.59%) Git
2 5 (1.20%) JIRA
3 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.72%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.48%) NUnit
5 2 (0.48%) Postman
5 2 (0.48%) TestRail
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) MSTest
6 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (12.20%) Social Skills
2 47 (11.24%) Finance
3 25 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.35%) Games
5 11 (2.63%) Retail
6 8 (1.91%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.44%) Legal
9 5 (1.20%) Banking
9 5 (1.20%) Law
10 4 (0.96%) Agriculture
10 4 (0.96%) Automotive
10 4 (0.96%) Back Office
10 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Advertising
11 2 (0.48%) Electronics
11 2 (0.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (54.55%) Developer
2 103 (24.64%) Software Developer
3 97 (23.21%) Senior
4 91 (21.77%) Software Engineer
5 85 (20.33%) C# Developer
6 74 (17.70%) Lead
7 70 (16.75%) .NET Developer
8 60 (14.35%) Senior Developer
9 54 (12.92%) C# Software Developer
10 41 (9.81%) Lead Developer
11 39 (9.33%) C# Software Engineer
12 34 (8.13%) C# .NET Developer
13 32 (7.66%) Senior Software Developer
14 30 (7.18%) Senior Software Engineer
15 29 (6.94%) .NET Software Developer
16 26 (6.22%) .NET Software Engineer
16 26 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 24 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (5.50%) Senior C# Developer
19 22 (5.26%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (65.07%) .NET
2 97 (23.21%) .NET Core
3 61 (14.59%) ASP.NET
4 53 (12.68%) React
5 45 (10.77%) .NET Framework
6 32 (7.66%) HTML
7 31 (7.42%) CSS
7 31 (7.42%) Vue
8 29 (6.94%) RESTful
9 25 (5.98%) REST
10 23 (5.50%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (2.63%) Node.js
12 10 (2.39%) Web Services
13 9 (2.15%) Flutter
14 8 (1.91%) Blazor
15 7 (1.67%) Entity Framework
15 7 (1.67%) Razor View Engine
16 6 (1.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (1.44%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.78%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.11%) Legacy Code
7 13 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.87%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.44%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.96%) Online Games
13 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.91%) Windows
2 4 (0.96%) Android
2 4 (0.96%) Linux
3 1 (0.24%) VMS
3 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (34.93%) Software Engineering
2 120 (28.71%) Agile
3 81 (19.38%) CI/CD
4 79 (18.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 76 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 76 (18.18%) Microservices
6 74 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (14.11%) DevOps
8 52 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (10.53%) SDLC
10 40 (9.57%) Computer Science
11 36 (8.61%) AI
12 33 (7.89%) TDD
13 31 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (7.42%) Test Automation
14 26 (6.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (5.98%) Containerisation
15 25 (5.98%) Migration
16 24 (5.74%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (5.50%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 118 (28.23%) SQL
2 94 (22.49%) JavaScript
3 56 (13.40%) Python
4 50 (11.96%) Java
5 42 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.74%) PHP
7 11 (2.63%) C++
8 7 (1.67%) Go
8 7 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.72%) Bash
9 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.48%) C
10 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.24%) Delphi
11 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (10.53%) Degree
2 28 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.35%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 14 (3.35%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (3.35%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.98%) QA
2 6 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.96%) SLA
4 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.48%) WCAG
5 1 (0.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (6.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.39%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 89 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.96%) Xamarin
3 3 (0.72%) Foundry
3 3 (0.72%) Google
4 2 (0.48%) Aderant
4 2 (0.48%) Adyen
4 2 (0.48%) Facebook
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe
5 1 (0.24%) Apple
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.24%) Databricks
5 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.24%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.24%) Sage
5 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.24%) Sony
5 1 (0.24%) VMware
5 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!