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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -51 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing C# 332 787 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.58% 6.30% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 23.58% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 280 549 593
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,750 £79,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

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 2,156 3,338 3,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.27% 26.72% 39.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,821 2,481
10th Percentile £30,300 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -66 171 £62,500 +25.00% 163
Yorkshire -40 118 £55,000 +10.00% 42
North East -19 45 £51,250 -14.58% 41
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 8 (2.41%) IIS
2 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.60%) CMS
2 2 (0.60%) HCL Notes
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.20%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.20%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 177 (53.31%) Azure
2 109 (32.83%) AWS
3 49 (14.76%) SaaS
4 30 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (7.23%) Serverless
6 21 (6.33%) GCP
7 14 (4.22%) GitHub
8 12 (3.61%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.71%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (2.11%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.20%) PaaS
13 4 (1.20%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.11%) WPA
2 3 (0.90%) Internet
2 3 (0.90%) SAN
3 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.30%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (22.29%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.34%) NoSQL
3 29 (8.73%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.92%) MySQL
5 10 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.41%) Redis
7 5 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.51%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.20%) Power BI
8 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.90%) Big Data
9 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.60%) SQL CLR
10 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.53%) Git
2 11 (3.31%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.41%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.81%) JIRA
6 5 (1.51%) GitLab
6 5 (1.51%) Selenium
7 3 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.60%) ESLint
8 2 (0.60%) Postman
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.60%) Storybook
8 2 (0.60%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.43%) Finance
3 26 (7.83%) Manufacturing
4 13 (3.92%) Games
5 10 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.71%) Retail
7 8 (2.41%) Back Office
8 7 (2.11%) Legal
9 5 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Electronics
10 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 159 (47.89%) Developer
2 63 (18.98%) Senior
3 59 (17.77%) .NET Developer
3 59 (17.77%) Lead
4 57 (17.17%) Software Engineer
5 32 (9.64%) Senior Developer
5 32 (9.64%) Software Developer
6 30 (9.04%) Architect
6 30 (9.04%) C# Developer
7 22 (6.63%) C# Software Engineer
8 19 (5.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 19 (5.72%) Graduate
9 18 (5.42%) Lead Developer
10 17 (5.12%) .NET Software Engineer
11 16 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
14 12 (3.61%) Graduate Developer
15 11 (3.31%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (69.88%) .NET
2 53 (15.96%) .NET Core
3 51 (15.36%) React
4 49 (14.76%) ASP.NET
4 49 (14.76%) HTML
5 46 (13.86%) CSS
6 35 (10.54%) AngularJS
7 32 (9.64%) .NET Framework
8 27 (8.13%) REST
9 26 (7.83%) Blazor
9 26 (7.83%) RESTful
10 21 (6.33%) Entity Framework
11 16 (4.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 15 (4.52%) Kafka
13 13 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (3.61%) jQuery
14 12 (3.61%) Vue
15 10 (3.01%) Web Services
16 9 (2.71%) WinForms
17 8 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.35%) Product Ownership
2 39 (11.75%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (5.72%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.71%) Clustering
8 9 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.11%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.20%) Online Games
10 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.60%) NHS
12 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.94%) Windows
2 9 (2.71%) Linux
3 7 (2.11%) Android
4 5 (1.51%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (36.14%) Agile
2 104 (31.33%) Software Engineering
3 98 (29.52%) CI/CD
4 97 (29.22%) DevOps
5 88 (26.51%) Microservices
6 78 (23.49%) Mentoring
7 64 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 57 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (15.66%) Computer Science
11 45 (13.55%) Roadmaps
12 37 (11.14%) Containerisation
13 34 (10.24%) SDLC
13 34 (10.24%) TDD
14 30 (9.04%) OOP
15 29 (8.73%) Clean Code
16 28 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (8.13%) AI
17 27 (8.13%) Design Patterns
17 27 (8.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 122 (36.75%) SQL
2 97 (29.22%) JavaScript
3 73 (21.99%) Java
4 60 (18.07%) Python
5 58 (17.47%) TypeScript
6 34 (10.24%) C++
7 31 (9.34%) PHP
8 17 (5.12%) C
9 16 (4.82%) Rust
10 15 (4.52%) Ruby
11 14 (4.22%) R
12 13 (3.92%) Dart
12 13 (3.92%) MATLAB
13 11 (3.31%) PowerShell
14 7 (2.11%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.51%) Bash
16 4 (1.20%) Delphi
16 4 (1.20%) Go
17 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.90%) XAML
Qualifications
1 60 (18.07%) Degree
2 47 (14.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 19 (5.72%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (0.90%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) HND
8 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.82%) QA
2 14 (4.22%) GDPR
3 9 (2.71%) HIPAA
3 9 (2.71%) NIST
4 6 (1.81%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (14.46%) Docker
2 9 (2.71%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (2.71%) Firmware
3 5 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) vSphere
5 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.60%) Squid
6 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.23%) Terraform
3 8 (2.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) Control-M
4 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.72%) Google
3 5 (1.51%) Sage
3 5 (1.51%) Splunk
3 5 (1.51%) VMware
4 4 (1.20%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.20%) Autodesk
4 4 (1.20%) Oracle
5 3 (0.90%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.60%) Lotus
6 2 (0.60%) New Relic
7 1 (0.30%) Databricks
7 1 (0.30%) iManage
7 1 (0.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.30%) SAP
7 1 (0.30%) Talend