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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 31 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 +4
Permanent jobs citing C# 360 565 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.37% 6.18% 9.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.28% 21.70% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 329 378 697
10th Percentile £39,925 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.48% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 1,775 2,604 2,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.63% 28.50% 35.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 1,401 2,419
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -23 180 £62,500 +15.74% 128
Yorkshire -26 119 £61,500 +23.00% 88
North East -6 63 £65,000 - 57
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 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.83%) CMS
2 3 (0.83%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.56%) IIS
3 2 (0.56%) nginx
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 205 (56.94%) Azure
2 116 (32.22%) AWS
3 55 (15.28%) SaaS
4 39 (10.83%) Serverless
5 26 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.61%) Power Automate
6 13 (3.61%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (2.50%) Azure AKS
8 9 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 9 (2.50%) GCP
9 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.94%) GitHub
11 6 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.67%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.83%) Azure AI
12 3 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
2 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) Intranet
3 2 (0.56%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (24.44%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.61%) MySQL
5 7 (1.94%) Redis
6 6 (1.67%) Power BI
7 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.56%) PostHog
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (5.00%) Git
2 13 (3.61%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.94%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.39%) Selenium
6 4 (1.11%) GitLab
7 3 (0.83%) JIRA
8 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.56%) Postman
8 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.28%) Appium
9 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.28%) ESLint
9 1 (0.28%) NUnit
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 84 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (6.39%) Finance
3 18 (5.00%) Games
4 17 (4.72%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.22%) Legal
7 7 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.39%) Electronics
8 5 (1.39%) Retail
9 2 (0.56%) Back Office
9 2 (0.56%) Banking
9 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Local Government
9 2 (0.56%) Marketing
9 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.28%) Law
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (48.06%) Developer
2 79 (21.94%) Senior
3 69 (19.17%) Lead
4 60 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 59 (16.39%) Software Engineer
6 55 (15.28%) .NET Developer
7 51 (14.17%) Senior Developer
8 36 (10.00%) C# Developer
9 33 (9.17%) Architect
10 31 (8.61%) Lead Developer
11 27 (7.50%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
13 18 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
13 18 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.72%) Senior .NET Developer
15 16 (4.44%) Software Manager
16 15 (4.17%) Graduate
16 15 (4.17%) Software Architect
17 14 (3.89%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (71.39%) .NET
2 78 (21.67%) .NET Core
3 66 (18.33%) ASP.NET
4 56 (15.56%) .NET Framework
5 55 (15.28%) React
6 49 (13.61%) CSS
7 44 (12.22%) HTML
8 34 (9.44%) AngularJS
9 29 (8.06%) REST
10 27 (7.50%) RESTful
11 17 (4.72%) Blazor
12 15 (4.17%) Entity Framework
12 15 (4.17%) Vue
13 12 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
14 9 (2.50%) HTML5
14 9 (2.50%) Node.js
15 8 (2.22%) CSS3
15 8 (2.22%) jQuery
15 8 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (5.00%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.50%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.39%) Clustering
10 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.56%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.56%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.56%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.00%) Windows
2 7 (1.94%) Android
2 7 (1.94%) Linux
3 6 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Fedora
4 1 (0.28%) VMS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (35.56%) Agile
2 124 (34.44%) Software Engineering
3 97 (26.94%) Mentoring
4 95 (26.39%) CI/CD
5 94 (26.11%) Microservices
6 79 (21.94%) DevOps
7 74 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (12.50%) SDLC
10 42 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 42 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 37 (10.28%) Architectural Patterns
12 37 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (10.28%) User Experience
13 35 (9.72%) Containerisation
13 35 (9.72%) TDD
14 33 (9.17%) Migration
15 31 (8.61%) Enterprise Architecture
16 29 (8.06%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 99 (27.50%) JavaScript
2 97 (26.94%) SQL
3 65 (18.06%) TypeScript
4 58 (16.11%) Java
5 53 (14.72%) Python
6 20 (5.56%) PHP
7 19 (5.28%) C++
8 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.39%) Delphi
10 4 (1.11%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.11%) XAML
11 3 (0.83%) Bicep
11 3 (0.83%) Erlang
11 3 (0.83%) Go
11 3 (0.83%) Rust
11 3 (0.83%) Scala
12 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (13.89%) Degree
2 34 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 26 (7.22%) AWS Certification
4 26 (7.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.11%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.83%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.22%) QA
2 6 (1.67%) GDPR
3 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.56%) NIST
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (12.22%) Docker
2 10 (2.78%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.78%) Firmware
3 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) HDFS
4 1 (0.28%) Squid
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.56%) Terraform
3 7 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Control-M
4 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.67%) Google
3 5 (1.39%) Sage
4 4 (1.11%) Autodesk
5 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.83%) Foundry
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle
6 2 (0.56%) Aderant
6 2 (0.56%) Lotus
6 2 (0.56%) VMware
6 2 (0.56%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe
7 1 (0.28%) Databricks
7 1 (0.28%) iManage
7 1 (0.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.28%) New Relic
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.28%) SAP
7 1 (0.28%) Talend