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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 30 13
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing C# 366 561 953
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.24% 6.21% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.93% 22.10% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 337 372 863
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,125 £77,500
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 1,836 2,539 3,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.26% 28.12% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,380 2,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,925 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,575 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 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 23 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 -21 186 £62,500 +19.05% 148
Yorkshire -34 114 £60,750 +21.50% 83
North East -10 66 £70,000 +7.69% 44
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 (1.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.82%) CMS
2 3 (0.82%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.55%) HCL Notes
3 2 (0.55%) IIS
3 2 (0.55%) nginx
3 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Autodesk Inventor
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.82%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.82%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 205 (56.01%) Azure
2 114 (31.15%) AWS
3 61 (16.67%) SaaS
4 40 (10.93%) Serverless
5 28 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 15 (4.10%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (3.55%) Power Automate
7 13 (3.55%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.28%) Azure Functions
8 12 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (2.73%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.19%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.91%) GCP
12 6 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.64%) GitHub
12 6 (1.64%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.09%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.82%) Twilio
15 2 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.55%) Intranet
3 2 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (24.32%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.65%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.28%) MySQL
5 7 (1.91%) Redis
6 6 (1.64%) Power BI
7 5 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.82%) Big Data
9 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.55%) PostHog
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (3.55%) Git
1 13 (3.55%) Visual Studio
2 7 (1.91%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.09%) GitLab
3 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.09%) Selenium
4 3 (0.82%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.27%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) NUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.10%) Finance
3 17 (4.64%) Games
4 15 (4.10%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.19%) Legal
6 7 (1.91%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.37%) Electronics
8 5 (1.37%) Retail
9 2 (0.55%) Back Office
9 2 (0.55%) Banking
9 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.55%) Local Government
9 2 (0.55%) Marketing
9 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 181 (49.45%) Developer
2 79 (21.58%) Senior
3 73 (19.95%) Lead
4 68 (18.58%) Software Engineer
5 59 (16.12%) .NET Developer
6 58 (15.85%) Software Developer
7 49 (13.39%) Senior Developer
8 40 (10.93%) C# Developer
9 38 (10.38%) Lead Developer
10 29 (7.92%) Architect
10 29 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (6.56%) Senior Software Developer
12 23 (6.28%) C# Software Engineer
12 23 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (6.01%) .NET Software Engineer
14 18 (4.92%) Senior .NET Developer
15 17 (4.64%) Principal Developer
16 15 (4.10%) Software Manager
17 14 (3.83%) .NET Development Manager
17 14 (3.83%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (72.68%) .NET
2 86 (23.50%) .NET Core
3 64 (17.49%) ASP.NET
4 58 (15.85%) React
5 54 (14.75%) .NET Framework
6 43 (11.75%) CSS
7 38 (10.38%) HTML
8 33 (9.02%) AngularJS
9 30 (8.20%) REST
10 29 (7.92%) RESTful
11 17 (4.64%) Blazor
12 16 (4.37%) Vue
13 13 (3.55%) Entity Framework
14 10 (2.73%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (2.46%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.46%) HTML5
15 9 (2.46%) Node.js
16 8 (2.19%) CSS3
16 8 (2.19%) jQuery
17 7 (1.91%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.38%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (5.46%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.19%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.37%) Clustering
10 4 (1.09%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.09%) IoT
10 4 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.55%) Digital Signage
12 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.55%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.64%) Windows
2 9 (2.46%) Linux
3 7 (1.91%) Android
4 6 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Fedora
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (36.89%) Software Engineering
2 125 (34.15%) Agile
3 94 (25.68%) Mentoring
3 94 (25.68%) Microservices
4 93 (25.41%) CI/CD
5 80 (21.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (20.49%) DevOps
7 70 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (11.75%) SDLC
9 40 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 39 (10.66%) Computer Science
11 37 (10.11%) Architectural Patterns
11 37 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (9.84%) Containerisation
12 36 (9.84%) TDD
13 35 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
14 34 (9.29%) Migration
15 33 (9.02%) User Experience
16 29 (7.92%) Clean Code
17 28 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 96 (26.23%) JavaScript
2 93 (25.41%) SQL
3 63 (17.21%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.48%) Java
5 49 (13.39%) Python
6 21 (5.74%) PHP
7 19 (5.19%) C++
8 7 (1.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.37%) Bash
10 4 (1.09%) Delphi
10 4 (1.09%) XAML
11 3 (0.82%) Bicep
11 3 (0.82%) Erlang
11 3 (0.82%) Go
11 3 (0.82%) Rust
11 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (12.57%) Degree
2 33 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.56%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (6.56%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.55%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.74%) QA
2 4 (1.09%) GDPR
3 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (11.75%) Docker
2 10 (2.73%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (2.73%) Firmware
3 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.27%) Squid
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.74%) Terraform
3 6 (1.64%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (0.82%) Autodesk
2 3 (0.82%) Foundry
2 3 (0.82%) Google
2 3 (0.82%) Oracle
2 3 (0.82%) Sage
3 2 (0.55%) Aderant
3 2 (0.55%) Lotus
3 2 (0.55%) VMware
3 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe
4 1 (0.27%) Databricks
4 1 (0.27%) iManage
4 1 (0.27%) New Relic
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.27%) SAP