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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 16
Rank change year-on-year -33 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing C# 364 478 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.83% 6.12% 9.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.72% 20.81% 28.09%
Number of salaries quoted 340 329 1,044
10th Percentile £40,113 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 2,054 2,297 4,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.95% 29.39% 32.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 1,321 3,527
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -28 178 £62,500 +19.05% 113
Yorkshire -29 120 £65,000 +30.00% 42
North East -11 66 £70,000 +16.67% 36
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 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.55%) CMS
1 2 (0.55%) nginx
1 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 194 (53.30%) Azure
2 110 (30.22%) AWS
3 61 (16.76%) SaaS
4 38 (10.44%) Serverless
5 26 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 13 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.02%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.75%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.20%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.92%) GCP
12 7 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.37%) GitHub
13 5 (1.37%) Twilio
14 4 (1.10%) Azure AI
15 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.55%) Intranet
3 2 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 26 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.30%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.92%) MySQL
4 7 (1.92%) Redis
5 6 (1.65%) Power BI
6 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.82%) Big Data
8 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.55%) PostHog
9 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.02%) Git
1 11 (3.02%) Visual Studio
2 6 (1.65%) TeamCity
3 3 (0.82%) GitLab
3 3 (0.82%) JIRA
4 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.55%) Selenium
4 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.27%) NUnit
5 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 70 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 23 (6.32%) Finance
3 18 (4.95%) Games
4 11 (3.02%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.65%) Electronics
8 5 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.10%) Retail
10 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Law
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.27%) Advertising
12 1 (0.27%) Back Office
12 1 (0.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (49.73%) Developer
2 77 (21.15%) Senior
3 73 (20.05%) Lead
3 73 (20.05%) Software Engineer
4 65 (17.86%) Software Developer
5 59 (16.21%) .NET Developer
6 50 (13.74%) C# Developer
7 48 (13.19%) Senior Developer
8 38 (10.44%) Lead Developer
9 32 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (7.69%) Architect
10 28 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
11 26 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (6.59%) Senior Software Developer
13 22 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (5.22%) C# .NET Developer
14 19 (5.22%) Senior .NET Developer
15 18 (4.95%) C# Software Developer
16 16 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 15 (4.12%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (71.70%) .NET
2 90 (24.73%) .NET Core
3 58 (15.93%) React
4 56 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 48 (13.19%) .NET Framework
6 38 (10.44%) CSS
7 37 (10.16%) HTML
8 28 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 27 (7.42%) RESTful
10 24 (6.59%) REST
11 14 (3.85%) Vue
12 10 (2.75%) Blazor
13 9 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (2.47%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (2.47%) Node.js
14 8 (2.20%) Entity Framework
14 8 (2.20%) HTML5
15 7 (1.92%) CSS3
15 7 (1.92%) Razor View Engine
16 6 (1.65%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.97%) Cloud Native
1 29 (7.97%) Product Ownership
2 27 (7.42%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (4.40%) Mobile App
6 11 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.20%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.37%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.10%) IoT
11 3 (0.82%) Clustering
11 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.55%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.55%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.55%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.12%) Windows
2 7 (1.92%) Linux
3 6 (1.65%) Android
4 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Fedora
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.74%) Software Engineering
2 116 (31.87%) Agile
3 91 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 90 (24.73%) Microservices
5 86 (23.63%) CI/CD
6 85 (23.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (18.68%) DevOps
8 65 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (12.64%) SDLC
10 41 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (10.99%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (10.16%) Migration
13 35 (9.62%) Containerisation
14 33 (9.07%) User Experience
15 32 (8.79%) Computer Science
15 32 (8.79%) TDD
15 32 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
18 25 (6.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 97 (26.65%) JavaScript
2 89 (24.45%) SQL
3 60 (16.48%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.56%) Java
5 51 (14.01%) Python
6 17 (4.67%) PHP
7 12 (3.30%) C++
8 6 (1.65%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.10%) Go
9 4 (1.10%) XAML
10 3 (0.82%) Bash
10 3 (0.82%) Erlang
10 3 (0.82%) Rust
11 2 (0.55%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) Delphi
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (10.71%) Degree
2 28 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.87%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (6.59%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.22%) QA
2 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.55%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (10.71%) Docker
2 9 (2.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (2.47%) Firmware
3 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Squid
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.85%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 80 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (0.82%) Foundry
2 3 (0.82%) Google
3 2 (0.55%) Aderant
3 2 (0.55%) VMware
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe
4 1 (0.27%) Adyen
4 1 (0.27%) Databricks
4 1 (0.27%) iManage
4 1 (0.27%) New Relic
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.27%) SAP
4 1 (0.27%) Xamarin