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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 86 18
Rank change year-on-year +31 -68 +12
Permanent jobs citing C# 570 356 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.74% 3.78% 8.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.47% 13.13% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 531 291 1,262
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,800 £54,875
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.97% -0.23%
75th Percentile £74,985 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 3,461 2,712 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 28.77% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 1,451 4,036
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +37 274 £57,500 +4.55% 86
Yorkshire +2 162 £55,000 -19.12% 43
North East -9 134 £60,000 +4.35% 38
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 16 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.93%) CMS
3 6 (1.05%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.88%) IIS
5 4 (0.70%) WordPress
6 2 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.53%) Magento
3 3 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 290 (50.88%) Azure
2 89 (15.61%) AWS
3 88 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (8.07%) SaaS
5 44 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 42 (7.37%) Power Automate
7 33 (5.79%) GitHub
8 32 (5.61%) PowerApps
8 32 (5.61%) Serverless
9 31 (5.44%) Azure AI
10 28 (4.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 27 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (2.81%) Azure Functions
15 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (1.93%) GCP
19 8 (1.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.58%) Internet
2 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.35%) MQTT
4 1 (0.18%) Broadband
4 1 (0.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) VoIP
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (17.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 81 (14.21%) MongoDB
3 79 (13.86%) SQL Server
4 26 (4.56%) Power BI
5 21 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (2.28%) MySQL
10 9 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.40%) Redis
12 6 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.53%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.35%) Power Query
17 1 (0.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 39 (6.84%) Git
2 9 (1.58%) JIRA
3 6 (1.05%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.88%) GitLab
4 5 (0.88%) TeamCity
4 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.35%) MSTest
6 2 (0.35%) NUnit
6 2 (0.35%) Postman
6 2 (0.35%) Selenium
6 2 (0.35%) TestRail
7 1 (0.18%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 75 (13.16%) Finance
2 58 (10.18%) Social Skills
3 32 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.86%) Games
5 17 (2.98%) Retail
6 13 (2.28%) Banking
7 11 (1.93%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.93%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.75%) Legal
8 10 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.58%) Advertising
10 8 (1.40%) Law
11 7 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 5 (0.88%) Automotive
12 5 (0.88%) Back Office
12 5 (0.88%) Marketing
13 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.53%) Electronics
14 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 323 (56.67%) Developer
2 170 (29.82%) .NET Developer
3 143 (25.09%) Software Engineer
4 114 (20.00%) Senior
5 105 (18.42%) C# Developer
6 93 (16.32%) Software Developer
7 70 (12.28%) Senior Developer
8 68 (11.93%) C# Software Developer
9 65 (11.40%) C# Software Engineer
10 62 (10.88%) Lead
11 45 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (7.72%) C# .NET Developer
13 40 (7.02%) .NET Software Engineer
14 37 (6.49%) Lead Developer
15 35 (6.14%) Senior C# Developer
15 35 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (5.61%) .NET Software Developer
16 32 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (4.91%) Senior Software Developer
18 25 (4.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (67.02%) .NET
2 155 (27.19%) .NET Core
3 126 (22.11%) ASP.NET
4 101 (17.72%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (17.37%) React
6 80 (14.04%) Vue
7 68 (11.93%) CSS
7 68 (11.93%) HTML
8 67 (11.75%) AngularJS
8 67 (11.75%) RESTful
9 66 (11.58%) Entity Framework
10 45 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
11 37 (6.49%) Blazor
12 34 (5.96%) LINQ
13 33 (5.79%) .NET Framework
13 33 (5.79%) REST
14 32 (5.61%) Node.js
15 27 (4.74%) ML.NET
16 12 (2.11%) HTML5 Canvas
17 11 (1.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.32%) Cloud Native
1 36 (6.32%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.51%) Hedge funds
4 20 (3.51%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.93%) Legacy Code
8 9 (1.58%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.23%) Social Network
11 6 (1.05%) BBC
11 6 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.05%) Social Media
12 5 (0.88%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.88%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.75%) Android
2 8 (1.40%) Linux
2 8 (1.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.61%) Software Engineering
2 198 (34.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 192 (33.68%) Agile
4 135 (23.68%) DevOps
5 130 (22.81%) CI/CD
6 100 (17.54%) AI
7 86 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (14.91%) Microservices
9 74 (12.98%) Mentoring
10 54 (9.47%) SDLC
11 47 (8.25%) Multithreading
12 46 (8.07%) Fintech
12 46 (8.07%) TDD
13 41 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (6.32%) Computer Science
15 36 (6.32%) Test Automation
16 35 (6.14%) Machine Learning
16 35 (6.14%) OO
Programming Languages
1 220 (38.60%) SQL
2 146 (25.61%) JavaScript
3 88 (15.44%) TypeScript
4 71 (12.46%) Python
5 58 (10.18%) Java
6 26 (4.56%) C++
7 22 (3.86%) PHP
8 16 (2.81%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.28%) Go
10 11 (1.93%) Bash
11 10 (1.75%) Bicep
12 9 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.05%) C
13 6 (1.05%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.35%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.18%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.18%) Swift
15 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (7.02%) Degree
2 20 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.32%) QA
2 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 4 (0.70%) SLA
4 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 52 (9.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Firmware
2 3 (0.53%) vSphere
3 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.39%) Terraform
3 3 (0.53%) Ansible
3 3 (0.53%) Control-M
3 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 178 (31.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.28%) Google
3 8 (1.40%) Facebook
4 7 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 6 (1.05%) Apple
5 6 (1.05%) Sony
5 6 (1.05%) Yahoo!
6 5 (0.88%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.53%) Splunk
7 3 (0.53%) VMware
8 2 (0.35%) Adyen
8 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.18%) Databricks
9 1 (0.18%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.18%) Sage
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.18%) WooCommerce