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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -37 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 340 712 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.62% 6.32% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.19% 22.47% 21.98%
Number of salaries quoted 304 493 545
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 1,684 3,169 2,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.95% 28.14% 38.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,339 1,730 2,219
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -30 166 £62,500 +19.05% 132
Yorkshire -24 129 £55,000 +10.00% 49
North East -20 47 £50,000 -16.67% 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 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.88%) CMS
2 3 (0.88%) IIS
2 3 (0.88%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.18%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 187 (55.00%) Azure
2 115 (33.82%) AWS
3 57 (16.76%) SaaS
4 29 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.53%) Serverless
5 15 (4.41%) GCP
6 14 (4.12%) GitHub
6 14 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 12 (3.53%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.35%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.06%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.76%) Azure AKS
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.06%) WPA
2 3 (0.88%) HTTP
2 3 (0.88%) SAN
3 2 (0.59%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) Intranet
3 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.41%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.00%) MySQL
5 7 (2.06%) Power BI
6 6 (1.76%) Redis
6 6 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.88%) Big Data
8 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.29%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 18 (5.29%) Git
2 12 (3.53%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.35%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.76%) Selenium
5 4 (1.18%) GitLab
5 4 (1.18%) JIRA
6 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.59%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.29%) ESLint
8 1 (0.29%) NUnit
8 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 94 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.24%) Finance
3 24 (7.06%) Manufacturing
4 14 (4.12%) Games
5 10 (2.94%) Legal
5 10 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.35%) Retail
7 6 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.76%) Back Office
8 5 (1.47%) Electronics
9 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Law
10 2 (0.59%) Marketing
10 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Banking
11 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 160 (47.06%) Developer
2 66 (19.41%) Senior
3 65 (19.12%) Lead
4 63 (18.53%) Software Engineer
5 47 (13.82%) .NET Developer
6 41 (12.06%) Software Developer
7 35 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 33 (9.71%) Architect
8 33 (9.71%) C# Developer
9 22 (6.47%) Graduate
10 21 (6.18%) Lead Developer
11 19 (5.59%) .NET Software Engineer
11 19 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (5.29%) C# Software Engineer
13 16 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (4.41%) Graduate Developer
15 14 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
15 14 (4.12%) Senior Software Developer
16 13 (3.82%) Senior .NET Developer
17 12 (3.53%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (71.76%) .NET
2 58 (17.06%) .NET Core
3 52 (15.29%) ASP.NET
3 52 (15.29%) CSS
4 51 (15.00%) React
5 44 (12.94%) .NET Framework
6 42 (12.35%) HTML
7 39 (11.47%) AngularJS
8 25 (7.35%) RESTful
9 23 (6.76%) Blazor
10 21 (6.18%) REST
11 18 (5.29%) Entity Framework
12 13 (3.82%) jQuery
12 13 (3.82%) Vue
13 12 (3.53%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (2.94%) Kafka
15 9 (2.65%) HTML5
15 9 (2.65%) Node.js
16 8 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
16 8 (2.35%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.88%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.29%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.35%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.06%) Clustering
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.88%) Online Games
10 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.59%) IoT
11 2 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.59%) NHS
11 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.94%) Windows
2 8 (2.35%) Linux
3 7 (2.06%) Android
4 6 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) Fedora
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (37.94%) Agile
2 126 (37.06%) Software Engineering
3 99 (29.12%) CI/CD
4 97 (28.53%) Mentoring
5 92 (27.06%) DevOps
6 91 (26.76%) Microservices
7 73 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 50 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.65%) SDLC
11 42 (12.35%) Computer Science
12 40 (11.76%) Containerisation
13 36 (10.59%) Roadmaps
13 36 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (10.59%) User Experience
14 31 (9.12%) Clean Code
14 31 (9.12%) TDD
15 30 (8.82%) Architectural Patterns
15 30 (8.82%) Coaching
15 30 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 109 (32.06%) SQL
2 96 (28.24%) JavaScript
3 61 (17.94%) Java
4 53 (15.59%) TypeScript
5 48 (14.12%) Python
6 23 (6.76%) C++
6 23 (6.76%) PHP
7 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.06%) VB.NET
9 5 (1.47%) Delphi
10 4 (1.18%) Bash
10 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.18%) XAML
11 3 (0.88%) Bicep
11 3 (0.88%) Erlang
11 3 (0.88%) Go
11 3 (0.88%) Rust
11 3 (0.88%) Scala
12 2 (0.59%) C
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (15.88%) Degree
2 35 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (4.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.18%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.59%) QA
2 10 (2.94%) GDPR
3 6 (1.76%) HIPAA
3 6 (1.76%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (14.12%) Docker
2 10 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.94%) Firmware
3 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.88%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.47%) Terraform
3 8 (2.35%) Grafana
4 3 (0.88%) Ansible
4 3 (0.88%) Control-M
4 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.53%) Google
3 5 (1.47%) Sage
4 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.18%) Autodesk
4 4 (1.18%) VMware
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle
5 3 (0.88%) Splunk
6 2 (0.59%) Aderant
6 2 (0.59%) Lotus
6 2 (0.59%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Databricks
7 1 (0.29%) Foundry
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