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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 88 15
Rank change year-on-year +38 -73 +25
Permanent jobs citing C# 644 350 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.83% 3.67% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.87% 13.24% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 576 286 925
10th Percentile £39,375 £31,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,125 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £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 3,604 2,644 3,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.86% 27.69% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,750 1,385 2,834
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,825
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +46 301 £55,000 -8.33% 80
Yorkshire +6 181 £55,000 -8.33% 42
North East +1 162 £65,000 +13.04% 51
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 25 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.02%) CMS
3 8 (1.24%) IIS
4 6 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.62%) WordPress
6 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.78%) Shopify
3 4 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 320 (49.69%) Azure
2 101 (15.68%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (14.29%) AWS
4 61 (9.47%) Power Platform
5 57 (8.85%) Power Automate
6 44 (6.83%) PowerApps
7 39 (6.06%) SaaS
8 36 (5.59%) GitHub
9 34 (5.28%) Azure AI
9 34 (5.28%) Serverless
10 33 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 24 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (2.95%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (2.02%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.86%) GCP
17 10 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.40%) Internet
2 4 (0.62%) HTTP
3 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (15.68%) SQL Server
2 100 (15.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (12.89%) MongoDB
4 29 (4.50%) Power BI
5 22 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.64%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.48%) MySQL
8 12 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.71%) Redis
10 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
12 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.78%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.47%) ClickHouse
13 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.47%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.31%) Power Query
15 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (7.45%) Git
2 10 (1.55%) JIRA
3 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.93%) GitLab
6 5 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.62%) Selenium
8 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.47%) NUnit
8 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.31%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) MSTest
9 2 (0.31%) Postman
9 2 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 82 (12.73%) Finance
2 68 (10.56%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.11%) Games
4 20 (3.11%) Legal
5 15 (2.33%) Banking
5 15 (2.33%) Retail
6 14 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.55%) Advertising
9 8 (1.24%) Marketing
10 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.09%) Law
10 7 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Agriculture
11 5 (0.78%) Automotive
11 5 (0.78%) Back Office
11 5 (0.78%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 358 (55.59%) Developer
2 171 (26.55%) .NET Developer
3 157 (24.38%) Software Engineer
4 137 (21.27%) Senior
5 108 (16.77%) C# Developer
6 100 (15.53%) Software Developer
7 81 (12.58%) Senior Developer
8 77 (11.96%) C# Software Engineer
9 70 (10.87%) Lead
10 65 (10.09%) C# Software Developer
11 48 (7.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 46 (7.14%) Lead Developer
13 45 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
14 42 (6.52%) C# .NET Developer
15 35 (5.43%) Senior C# Developer
16 33 (5.12%) .NET Software Engineer
17 30 (4.66%) .NET Software Developer
18 29 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
19 28 (4.35%) Graduate
19 28 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (64.29%) .NET
2 154 (23.91%) .NET Core
3 138 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 109 (16.93%) React
5 107 (16.61%) ASP.NET Core
6 88 (13.66%) CSS
6 88 (13.66%) HTML
7 76 (11.80%) Vue
8 71 (11.02%) Entity Framework
9 70 (10.87%) RESTful
10 69 (10.71%) AngularJS
11 47 (7.30%) ASP.NET Web API
12 43 (6.68%) REST
13 41 (6.37%) Blazor
14 40 (6.21%) Node.js
15 36 (5.59%) .NET Framework
16 34 (5.28%) LINQ
17 30 (4.66%) Terraform
18 28 (4.35%) ML.NET
19 21 (3.26%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
3 33 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.42%) Mobile App
6 21 (3.26%) Hedge funds
7 16 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.55%) Legacy Code
11 9 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.09%) Social Network
14 6 (0.93%) BBC
14 6 (0.93%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.93%) Social Media
15 5 (0.78%) Learning Management System
15 5 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.40%) Android
1 9 (1.40%) Windows
2 7 (1.09%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (35.09%) Agile
2 225 (34.94%) Software Engineering
3 202 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 162 (25.16%) DevOps
5 148 (22.98%) CI/CD
6 105 (16.30%) AI
6 105 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (14.60%) Microservices
9 88 (13.66%) Mentoring
10 64 (9.94%) SDLC
11 54 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
12 49 (7.61%) TDD
13 48 (7.45%) Fintech
13 48 (7.45%) Multithreading
14 46 (7.14%) Scrum
15 43 (6.68%) Code Quality
15 43 (6.68%) OO
16 42 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (6.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 234 (36.34%) SQL
2 158 (24.53%) JavaScript
3 99 (15.37%) TypeScript
4 77 (11.96%) Python
5 66 (10.25%) Java
6 31 (4.81%) PHP
7 28 (4.35%) C++
8 18 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.33%) Go
10 11 (1.71%) Bash
10 11 (1.71%) Bicep
11 9 (1.40%) C
11 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.24%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.93%) Delphi
14 4 (0.62%) Ruby
15 2 (0.31%) Dart
15 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (7.61%) Degree
2 22 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.40%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.92%) QA
2 7 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.47%) SLA
6 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.16%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (8.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) vSphere
3 2 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.47%) Ansible
2 3 (0.47%) Control-M
2 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 215 (33.39%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.02%) Google
3 8 (1.24%) Facebook
3 8 (1.24%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.93%) Apple
4 6 (0.93%) Sony
4 6 (0.93%) Yahoo!
5 4 (0.62%) NEC
5 4 (0.62%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.47%) Sage
6 3 (0.47%) Splunk
6 3 (0.47%) VMware
7 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.31%) Talend
8 1 (0.16%) Adyen
8 1 (0.16%) Databricks
8 1 (0.16%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.16%) WooCommerce