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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -69 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing C# 326 1,017 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.47% 7.22% 7.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.95% 27.13% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 269 738 616
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £81,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 2,518 3,748 3,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.76% 26.60% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,254 2,307 2,641
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -84 165 £62,500 +24.93% 150
Yorkshire -42 114 £59,900 +14.10% 74
North East -12 49 £60,000 - 57
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.68%) IIS
2 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.92%) Apache
3 3 (0.92%) CMS
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.92%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.61%) HCL Notes
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.23%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.31%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 165 (50.61%) Azure
2 111 (34.05%) AWS
3 48 (14.72%) SaaS
4 34 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (7.06%) GCP
6 19 (5.83%) Serverless
7 13 (3.99%) GitHub
8 9 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (2.76%) Power Automate
9 8 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.15%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
11 6 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.53%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.23%) Firebase
13 4 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) WPA
2 3 (0.92%) HTTP
2 3 (0.92%) Internet
2 3 (0.92%) SAN
3 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.31%) Intranet
4 1 (0.31%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 36 (11.04%) NoSQL
3 30 (9.20%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.60%) MySQL
5 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.84%) Big Data
7 5 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.23%) Redis
8 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.92%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.92%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.92%) SQL CLR
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.61%) Endeca
10 2 (0.61%) Power BI
10 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (10.12%) Git
2 9 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.76%) Selenium
3 8 (2.45%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.84%) GitLab
5 5 (1.53%) JIRA
5 5 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.23%) JMeter
6 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.92%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.92%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.92%) NUnit
7 3 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.92%) Postman
8 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.61%) ESLint
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.61%) Storybook
8 2 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 80 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 34 (10.43%) Finance
3 18 (5.52%) Manufacturing
4 12 (3.68%) Games
4 12 (3.68%) Retail
5 11 (3.37%) Back Office
6 9 (2.76%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.15%) Legal
8 5 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.53%) Marketing
8 5 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Law
10 2 (0.61%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Banking
11 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (49.69%) Developer
2 78 (23.93%) Senior
3 68 (20.86%) .NET Developer
4 63 (19.33%) Software Engineer
5 60 (18.40%) Lead
6 35 (10.74%) C# Developer
7 34 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 32 (9.82%) Software Developer
9 28 (8.59%) Architect
10 24 (7.36%) Lead Developer
11 23 (7.06%) C# Software Engineer
12 21 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (5.83%) Graduate
13 19 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (5.21%) C# .NET Developer
14 17 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (5.21%) Lead .NET Developer
14 17 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 16 (4.91%) Senior .NET Developer
16 14 (4.29%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (71.17%) .NET
2 63 (19.33%) .NET Core
3 55 (16.87%) ASP.NET
4 44 (13.50%) HTML
5 42 (12.88%) React
6 41 (12.58%) CSS
7 35 (10.74%) AngularJS
8 33 (10.12%) .NET Framework
9 29 (8.90%) Blazor
10 23 (7.06%) RESTful
11 22 (6.75%) REST
12 20 (6.13%) Entity Framework
13 19 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
14 18 (5.52%) Kafka
15 15 (4.60%) jQuery
16 14 (4.29%) WinForms
17 13 (3.99%) Web Services
17 13 (3.99%) XML
18 12 (3.68%) ASP.NET Core
18 12 (3.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.96%) Product Ownership
2 38 (11.66%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.13%) Mobile App
5 18 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.68%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.07%) Clustering
9 7 (2.15%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.84%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.84%) Online Games
11 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.92%) NHS
13 3 (0.92%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.20%) Windows
2 8 (2.45%) Linux
3 3 (0.92%) Android
3 3 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (38.34%) Agile
2 112 (34.36%) Software Engineering
3 109 (33.44%) DevOps
4 100 (30.67%) CI/CD
5 77 (23.62%) Microservices
6 76 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (19.94%) Mentoring
8 61 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (17.18%) Computer Science
10 53 (16.26%) Roadmaps
11 51 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 43 (13.19%) OOP
13 36 (11.04%) SDLC
14 35 (10.74%) Containerisation
15 34 (10.43%) Design Patterns
16 33 (10.12%) MVC
16 33 (10.12%) TDD
17 32 (9.82%) Technology Roadmap
18 30 (9.20%) Data Privacy
19 28 (8.59%) OO
Programming Languages
1 141 (43.25%) SQL
2 92 (28.22%) JavaScript
3 79 (24.23%) Java
4 67 (20.55%) Python
5 39 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 34 (10.43%) C++
7 31 (9.51%) PHP
8 18 (5.52%) C
8 18 (5.52%) Ruby
9 15 (4.60%) Rust
10 14 (4.29%) R
11 13 (3.99%) Dart
11 13 (3.99%) MATLAB
11 13 (3.99%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.45%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.84%) Scala
14 5 (1.53%) Bash
14 5 (1.53%) Go
14 5 (1.53%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.23%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 68 (20.86%) Degree
2 48 (14.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.91%) Azure Certification
4 15 (4.60%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.92%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.31%) HND
7 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.31%) MCSD
7 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.13%) QA
2 19 (5.83%) GDPR
3 12 (3.68%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.68%) NIST
4 6 (1.84%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (15.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.53%) Firmware
4 3 (0.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.61%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (13.50%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.59%) Terraform
3 8 (2.45%) Grafana
4 3 (0.92%) Ansible
4 3 (0.92%) Control-M
4 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.75%) Google
3 7 (2.15%) Splunk
4 6 (1.84%) VMware
5 5 (1.53%) Oracle
5 5 (1.53%) Sage
6 4 (1.23%) Autodesk
6 4 (1.23%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.61%) CyberSource
8 2 (0.61%) Lotus
8 2 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.61%) New Relic
9 1 (0.31%) Capita
9 1 (0.31%) Databricks
9 1 (0.31%) HP
9 1 (0.31%) Talend
9 1 (0.31%) Telerik