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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 56 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -40 +12
Permanent jobs citing C# 416 396 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.34% 5.65% 8.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 17.76% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 385 344 1,298
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,875 £75,750
England median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +11.11% -10.00%

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 2,786 2,230 4,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.70% 31.84% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 1,510 4,154
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,318 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 April 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 April 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 -13 204 £60,000 +14.29% 88
Yorkshire -32 137 £62,500 +13.64% 25
North East -23 75 £70,000 +21.74% 22
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 7 (1.68%) CMS
1 7 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.96%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Magento
3 2 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (48.56%) Azure
2 89 (21.39%) AWS
3 67 (16.11%) SaaS
4 31 (7.45%) Serverless
5 26 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 24 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.77%) Power Automate
7 23 (5.53%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (3.13%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.88%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.44%) Azure AI
15 6 (1.44%) GCP
15 6 (1.44%) GitHub
16 5 (1.20%) Twilio
17 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.96%) HTTP
2 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.48%) Intranet
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) SAN
4 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.57%) Power BI
4 10 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (1.92%) MySQL
5 8 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.48%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.48%) PostHog
10 2 (0.48%) Power Query
10 2 (0.48%) Redis
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (3.61%) Git
2 6 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.20%) JIRA
4 3 (0.72%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) Postman
5 2 (0.48%) TestRail
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) NUnit
6 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.10%) Finance
3 23 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.85%) Games
5 8 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 8 (1.92%) Retail
6 6 (1.44%) Legal
6 6 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 4 (0.96%) Agriculture
7 4 (0.96%) Automotive
7 4 (0.96%) Banking
8 3 (0.72%) Back Office
8 3 (0.72%) Electronics
8 3 (0.72%) Law
8 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.24%) Advertising
10 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.24%) Marketing
10 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (54.81%) Developer
2 100 (24.04%) Software Developer
3 95 (22.84%) Senior
4 92 (22.12%) Software Engineer
5 89 (21.39%) C# Developer
6 81 (19.47%) Lead
7 67 (16.11%) .NET Developer
8 58 (13.94%) Senior Developer
9 52 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
10 43 (10.34%) Lead Developer
11 34 (8.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 33 (7.93%) C# Software Engineer
13 31 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (7.21%) .NET Software Engineer
14 30 (7.21%) Senior Software Developer
15 29 (6.97%) .NET Software Developer
16 28 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
17 26 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (5.05%) Architect
18 21 (5.05%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (66.83%) .NET
2 102 (24.52%) .NET Core
3 60 (14.42%) ASP.NET
4 53 (12.74%) React
5 46 (11.06%) .NET Framework
6 33 (7.93%) HTML
7 32 (7.69%) CSS
7 32 (7.69%) Vue
8 28 (6.73%) RESTful
9 26 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 25 (6.01%) REST
11 11 (2.64%) Node.js
12 10 (2.40%) Blazor
13 9 (2.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (2.16%) Flutter
13 9 (2.16%) Web Services
14 7 (1.68%) Razor View Engine
15 6 (1.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 5 (1.20%) Entity Framework
16 5 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.33%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.88%) Legacy Code
9 11 (2.64%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.68%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.72%) Online Games
14 2 (0.48%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.92%) Windows
2 4 (0.96%) Linux
3 3 (0.72%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) VMS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (36.06%) Software Engineering
2 123 (29.57%) Agile
3 81 (19.47%) Mentoring
4 79 (18.99%) CI/CD
4 79 (18.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 79 (18.99%) Microservices
5 71 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (14.66%) DevOps
7 45 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (10.82%) SDLC
8 38 (9.13%) Computer Science
9 35 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
10 34 (8.17%) AI
11 30 (7.21%) Test Automation
12 28 (6.73%) TDD
13 27 (6.49%) Containerisation
14 26 (6.25%) Migration
15 25 (6.01%) Architectural Patterns
15 25 (6.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (5.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 111 (26.68%) SQL
2 97 (23.32%) JavaScript
3 54 (12.98%) Python
4 48 (11.54%) Java
5 46 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.29%) PHP
7 12 (2.88%) C++
8 8 (1.92%) Go
9 7 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.72%) Bash
10 3 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.48%) C
11 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) Delphi
12 1 (0.24%) VB
12 1 (0.24%) XAML
Qualifications
1 42 (10.10%) Degree
2 26 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.61%) AWS Certification
3 15 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 15 (3.61%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (3.61%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.24%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.77%) QA
2 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.48%) SLA
3 2 (0.48%) WCAG
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (6.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (0.72%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.16%) Terraform
3 3 (0.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
4 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 85 (20.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.72%) Foundry
3 2 (0.48%) Aderant
3 2 (0.48%) Adyen
3 2 (0.48%) Google
3 2 (0.48%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe
4 1 (0.24%) Apple
4 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.24%) Databricks
4 1 (0.24%) Facebook
4 1 (0.24%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.24%) Sage
4 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.24%) Sony
4 1 (0.24%) VMware
4 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!