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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 31 23
Rank change year-on-year -29 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 351 586 599
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.29% 6.09% 8.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.89% 21.29% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 315 397 533
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,500 £81,250
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 1,765 2,753 2,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.52% 28.61% 36.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,373 1,488 2,149
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,250 £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 £69,313 £70,000
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 25 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 25 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 -20 169 £62,500 +19.05% 169
Yorkshire -30 125 £60,000 +20.00% 98
North East -11 59 £55,000 -15.38% 49
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 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.85%) CMS
2 3 (0.85%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.57%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.57%) IIS
3 2 (0.57%) nginx
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Autodesk Inventor
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.57%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 197 (56.13%) Azure
2 117 (33.33%) AWS
3 61 (17.38%) SaaS
4 38 (10.83%) Serverless
5 27 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (3.13%) GCP
7 11 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (2.85%) GitHub
9 9 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.28%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.28%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.71%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.14%) PaaS
13 3 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) HTTP
2 3 (0.85%) SAN
2 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.57%) Intranet
3 2 (0.57%) WPA
4 1 (0.28%) DNS
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (22.51%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.55%) NoSQL
3 15 (4.27%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.99%) MySQL
5 7 (1.99%) Redis
6 6 (1.71%) Power BI
7 5 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.85%) Big Data
9 3 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.57%) PostHog
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (5.41%) Git
2 13 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.28%) TeamCity
4 6 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.71%) Selenium
5 4 (1.14%) GitLab
5 4 (1.14%) JIRA
6 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.28%) ESLint
8 1 (0.28%) NUnit
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.28%) Storybook
8 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 89 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 24 (6.84%) Finance
3 19 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 17 (4.84%) Games
5 9 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.28%) Legal
7 7 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.42%) Electronics
8 5 (1.42%) Retail
9 4 (1.14%) Back Office
10 2 (0.57%) Banking
10 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing
10 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 167 (47.58%) Developer
2 72 (20.51%) Senior
3 70 (19.94%) Lead
4 60 (17.09%) Software Engineer
5 52 (14.81%) .NET Developer
6 49 (13.96%) Software Developer
7 45 (12.82%) Senior Developer
8 36 (10.26%) C# Developer
9 34 (9.69%) Architect
10 25 (7.12%) Lead Developer
11 23 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.70%) Senior Software Developer
13 18 (5.13%) .NET Software Engineer
14 17 (4.84%) Graduate
14 17 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
15 16 (4.56%) C# Software Engineer
15 16 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (3.99%) Principal Developer
16 14 (3.99%) Software Architect
16 14 (3.99%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (70.66%) .NET
2 66 (18.80%) .NET Core
3 57 (16.24%) ASP.NET
4 55 (15.67%) React
5 50 (14.25%) CSS
6 49 (13.96%) .NET Framework
7 44 (12.54%) HTML
8 38 (10.83%) AngularJS
9 27 (7.69%) RESTful
10 25 (7.12%) REST
11 17 (4.84%) Blazor
12 16 (4.56%) Entity Framework
13 14 (3.99%) Vue
14 12 (3.42%) ASP.NET Web API
15 10 (2.85%) Node.js
16 9 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
16 9 (2.56%) HTML5
16 9 (2.56%) jQuery
17 8 (2.28%) CSS3
17 8 (2.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.69%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.12%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (5.70%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.56%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.42%) Clustering
11 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.85%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.85%) Online Games
13 2 (0.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.98%) Windows
2 8 (2.28%) Linux
3 7 (1.99%) Android
4 6 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Fedora
5 1 (0.28%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (37.04%) Agile
2 128 (36.47%) Software Engineering
3 104 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 100 (28.49%) CI/CD
5 94 (26.78%) Microservices
6 85 (24.22%) DevOps
7 71 (20.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (12.54%) Computer Science
10 43 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.25%) SDLC
11 38 (10.83%) Containerisation
11 38 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (10.83%) User Experience
12 36 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
12 36 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (9.40%) Clean Code
13 33 (9.40%) TDD
14 31 (8.83%) Migration
15 30 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 102 (29.06%) SQL
2 99 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 63 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 61 (17.38%) Java
5 52 (14.81%) Python
6 20 (5.70%) C++
6 20 (5.70%) PHP
7 8 (2.28%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.42%) Delphi
9 4 (1.14%) Bash
9 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.14%) XAML
10 3 (0.85%) Bicep
10 3 (0.85%) Erlang
10 3 (0.85%) Go
10 3 (0.85%) Rust
10 3 (0.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.57%) C
11 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (15.38%) Degree
2 36 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 25 (7.12%) AWS Certification
4 25 (7.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (6.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.14%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.84%) QA
2 7 (1.99%) GDPR
3 6 (1.71%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.85%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (13.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.85%) Firmware
3 3 (0.85%) vSphere
4 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
5 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 35 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.70%) Terraform
3 9 (2.56%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Ansible
4 3 (0.85%) Control-M
4 3 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.28%) Google
3 5 (1.42%) Sage
4 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.14%) Autodesk
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle
5 3 (0.85%) VMware
6 2 (0.57%) Aderant
6 2 (0.57%) Lotus
6 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe
7 1 (0.28%) Databricks
7 1 (0.28%) Foundry
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