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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 341 627 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.27% 6.28% 8.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.71% 21.90% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 306 438 517
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,500 £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 1,730 2,863 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.59% 28.69% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 1,573 2,138
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £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 15 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 15 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 -27 168 £62,500 +18.48% 168
Yorkshire -37 122 £58,750 +17.50% 87
North East -18 53 £55,000 -15.38% 43
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 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.88%) CMS
2 3 (0.88%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.59%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.59%) IIS
3 2 (0.59%) nginx
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 189 (55.43%) Azure
2 118 (34.60%) AWS
3 61 (17.89%) SaaS
4 34 (9.97%) Serverless
5 28 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.81%) Power Automate
7 12 (3.52%) GCP
8 11 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.93%) GitHub
10 9 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (2.64%) Azure Functions
10 9 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.35%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.05%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.76%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.17%) PaaS
15 3 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) HTTP
2 3 (0.88%) SAN
2 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.88%) WPA
3 2 (0.59%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.17%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.80%) NoSQL
3 18 (5.28%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.81%) MySQL
5 7 (2.05%) Redis
6 6 (1.76%) Power BI
7 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.88%) Big Data
9 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.59%) PostHog
10 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (5.57%) Git
2 13 (3.81%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.35%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.76%) Selenium
5 4 (1.17%) GitLab
5 4 (1.17%) 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%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.59%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) ESLint
8 1 (0.29%) NUnit
8 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
8 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 88 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.04%) Finance
3 20 (5.87%) Manufacturing
4 16 (4.69%) Games
5 9 (2.64%) Legal
5 9 (2.64%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.05%) Retail
7 6 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.47%) Back Office
8 5 (1.47%) Electronics
9 2 (0.59%) Banking
9 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Marketing
9 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 160 (46.92%) Developer
2 71 (20.82%) Senior
3 68 (19.94%) Lead
4 61 (17.89%) Software Engineer
5 51 (14.96%) .NET Developer
6 45 (13.20%) Software Developer
7 42 (12.32%) Senior Developer
8 33 (9.68%) C# Developer
9 32 (9.38%) Architect
10 23 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.74%) Lead Developer
11 17 (4.99%) .NET Software Engineer
11 17 (4.99%) C# Software Engineer
11 17 (4.99%) Graduate
11 17 (4.99%) Senior Software Developer
12 16 (4.69%) Senior .NET Developer
12 16 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (4.11%) Software Manager
14 13 (3.81%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (3.52%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (71.85%) .NET
2 63 (18.48%) .NET Core
3 54 (15.84%) React
4 53 (15.54%) ASP.NET
5 49 (14.37%) CSS
6 46 (13.49%) .NET Framework
7 43 (12.61%) HTML
8 38 (11.14%) AngularJS
9 25 (7.33%) REST
9 25 (7.33%) RESTful
10 20 (5.87%) Blazor
11 17 (4.99%) Entity Framework
12 14 (4.11%) Vue
13 13 (3.81%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (2.93%) Node.js
15 9 (2.64%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.64%) HTML5
15 9 (2.64%) jQuery
16 8 (2.35%) CSS3
17 7 (2.05%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.87%) Mobile App
6 14 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.64%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.76%) Clustering
10 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.88%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.88%) Online Games
12 2 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.59%) NHS
12 2 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.45%) Windows
2 8 (2.35%) Linux
3 7 (2.05%) Android
4 6 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Fedora
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (38.12%) Agile
2 127 (37.24%) Software Engineering
3 101 (29.62%) CI/CD
4 100 (29.33%) Mentoring
5 91 (26.69%) Microservices
6 87 (25.51%) DevOps
7 72 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (20.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 44 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.61%) SDLC
11 40 (11.73%) Computer Science
12 38 (11.14%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.14%) User Experience
13 35 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (9.97%) Roadmaps
15 33 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (9.68%) TDD
16 32 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (9.38%) Clean Code
17 30 (8.80%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 103 (30.21%) SQL
2 95 (27.86%) JavaScript
3 58 (17.01%) TypeScript
4 57 (16.72%) Java
5 48 (14.08%) Python
6 20 (5.87%) C++
7 19 (5.57%) PHP
8 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.47%) Delphi
10 4 (1.17%) Bash
10 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.17%) 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
11 3 (0.88%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.59%) C
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (14.96%) Degree
2 32 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (6.74%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.17%) 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 23 (6.74%) QA
2 8 (2.35%) GDPR
3 6 (1.76%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.17%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.17%) NIST
5 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (14.37%) Docker
2 10 (2.93%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.93%) Firmware
3 3 (0.88%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 37 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.16%) Terraform
3 9 (2.64%) 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 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.64%) Google
3 5 (1.47%) Sage
4 4 (1.17%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.17%) Autodesk
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle
5 3 (0.88%) VMware
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%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) Talend