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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 88 15
Rank change year-on-year +40 -73 +24
Permanent jobs citing C# 638 356 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.88% 3.71% 7.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.58% 13.25% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 574 292 959
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 3,630 2,687 3,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.40% 27.98% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,742 1,424 2,952
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,868 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,918
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.60% -6.28%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +43 303 £55,000 -4.35% 113
Yorkshire +20 181 £55,000 -12.00% 44
North East -4 154 £65,000 +10.64% 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 24 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.04%) CMS
3 8 (1.25%) IIS
4 6 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.63%) WordPress
6 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.78%) Shopify
3 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.63%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.47%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 319 (50.00%) Azure
2 99 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
3 94 (14.73%) AWS
4 59 (9.25%) Power Platform
5 55 (8.62%) Power Automate
6 42 (6.58%) PowerApps
7 40 (6.27%) SaaS
8 36 (5.64%) GitHub
9 35 (5.49%) Serverless
10 34 (5.33%) Azure AI
10 34 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
11 29 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 28 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (2.35%) Azure Functions
16 13 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (1.88%) GCP
18 11 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.41%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) HTTP
3 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (15.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 99 (15.52%) SQL Server
3 83 (13.01%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.39%) Power BI
5 22 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.35%) MySQL
8 14 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.72%) Redis
10 9 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.78%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.47%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.31%) Power Query
16 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (7.05%) Git
2 9 (1.41%) JIRA
3 8 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.94%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.94%) GitLab
6 5 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.47%) NUnit
7 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.31%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) MSTest
8 2 (0.31%) Postman
8 2 (0.31%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 80 (12.54%) Finance
2 66 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.45%) Games
5 18 (2.82%) Legal
6 16 (2.51%) Retail
7 15 (2.35%) Banking
8 14 (2.19%) Public Sector
9 13 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.57%) Advertising
11 8 (1.25%) Law
11 8 (1.25%) Marketing
11 8 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.78%) Agriculture
13 5 (0.78%) Automotive
13 5 (0.78%) Back Office
14 4 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 360 (56.43%) Developer
2 176 (27.59%) .NET Developer
3 154 (24.14%) Software Engineer
4 135 (21.16%) Senior
5 112 (17.55%) C# Developer
6 101 (15.83%) Software Developer
7 81 (12.70%) Senior Developer
8 72 (11.29%) Lead
9 71 (11.13%) C# Software Engineer
10 69 (10.82%) C# Software Developer
11 47 (7.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 46 (7.21%) Lead Developer
13 45 (7.05%) C# .NET Developer
13 45 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (5.49%) Senior C# Developer
15 34 (5.33%) .NET Software Engineer
16 32 (5.02%) .NET Software Developer
17 29 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
18 28 (4.39%) Senior Software Developer
19 27 (4.23%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (64.89%) .NET
2 156 (24.45%) .NET Core
3 136 (21.32%) ASP.NET
4 109 (17.08%) React
5 107 (16.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 86 (13.48%) HTML
7 85 (13.32%) CSS
8 76 (11.91%) Vue
9 71 (11.13%) Entity Framework
10 70 (10.97%) AngularJS
10 70 (10.97%) RESTful
11 47 (7.37%) ASP.NET Web API
12 42 (6.58%) Blazor
13 41 (6.43%) REST
14 38 (5.96%) Node.js
15 37 (5.80%) .NET Framework
16 34 (5.33%) LINQ
17 28 (4.39%) ML.NET
18 19 (2.98%) HTML5 Canvas
19 14 (2.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
3 33 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.29%) Mobile App
6 20 (3.13%) Hedge funds
7 15 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.72%) Legacy Code
10 10 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.10%) Social Network
14 6 (0.94%) BBC
14 6 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.94%) Social Media
15 5 (0.78%) Learning Management System
15 5 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.57%) Windows
2 9 (1.41%) Android
3 7 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (34.64%) Agile
2 219 (34.33%) Software Engineering
3 201 (31.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 158 (24.76%) DevOps
5 144 (22.57%) CI/CD
6 104 (16.30%) AI
7 100 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (14.42%) Microservices
10 86 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 62 (9.72%) SDLC
12 52 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (7.68%) TDD
14 48 (7.52%) Multithreading
15 47 (7.37%) Fintech
16 46 (7.21%) Scrum
17 42 (6.58%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (6.58%) OO
18 40 (6.27%) Code Quality
18 40 (6.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 236 (36.99%) SQL
2 162 (25.39%) JavaScript
3 97 (15.20%) TypeScript
4 76 (11.91%) Python
5 66 (10.34%) Java
6 30 (4.70%) PHP
7 28 (4.39%) C++
8 18 (2.82%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.35%) Go
10 11 (1.72%) Bash
10 11 (1.72%) Bicep
11 9 (1.41%) C
11 9 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.10%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.78%) Delphi
14 3 (0.47%) Ruby
15 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.31%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.31%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.16%) Dart
Qualifications
1 47 (7.37%) Degree
2 22 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.25%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.10%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.37%) QA
2 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 4 (0.63%) SLA
4 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (8.62%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) Firmware
2 3 (0.47%) vSphere
3 2 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.70%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Ansible
3 3 (0.47%) Control-M
3 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 211 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.04%) Google
3 8 (1.25%) Facebook
3 8 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 6 (0.94%) Apple
4 6 (0.94%) Sony
4 6 (0.94%) Yahoo!
5 4 (0.63%) NEC
5 4 (0.63%) Xamarin
6 3 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.47%) Splunk
6 3 (0.47%) VMware
7 2 (0.31%) Adyen
7 2 (0.31%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.31%) Sage
7 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.31%) Talend
8 1 (0.16%) Databricks
8 1 (0.16%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.16%) WooCommerce