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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -35 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing C# 360 511 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.99% 6.18% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.02% 21.18% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 336 333 1,029
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 1,893 2,413 4,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.70% 29.19% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 1,325 3,526
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -22 174 £62,500 +18.48% 126
Yorkshire -37 120 £60,000 +20.00% 46
North East -11 66 £70,000 +12.00% 34
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 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.56%) CMS
1 2 (0.56%) nginx
1 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 200 (55.56%) Azure
2 111 (30.83%) AWS
3 61 (16.94%) SaaS
4 38 (10.56%) Serverless
5 30 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (3.61%) Power Automate
7 12 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (3.06%) Azure Functions
8 11 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (3.06%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.78%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.94%) GCP
12 6 (1.67%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.39%) GitHub
14 4 (1.11%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.83%) Twilio
16 2 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
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
4 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.78%) MySQL
5 7 (1.94%) Redis
6 6 (1.67%) Power BI
7 5 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.56%) PostHog
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (3.61%) Visual Studio
2 12 (3.33%) Git
3 6 (1.67%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) JIRA
5 2 (0.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) NUnit
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 75 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 24 (6.67%) Finance
3 16 (4.44%) Games
4 11 (3.06%) Manufacturing
5 8 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 7 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.39%) Electronics
7 5 (1.39%) Legal
8 3 (0.83%) Retail
9 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Local Government
9 2 (0.56%) Marketing
9 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.28%) Advertising
10 1 (0.28%) Back Office
10 1 (0.28%) Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (49.44%) Developer
2 73 (20.28%) Senior
3 72 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 71 (19.72%) Lead
5 60 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 56 (15.56%) .NET Developer
7 48 (13.33%) C# Developer
8 46 (12.78%) Senior Developer
9 38 (10.56%) Lead Developer
10 31 (8.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (8.06%) Architect
11 29 (8.06%) C# Software Engineer
12 27 (7.50%) .NET Software Engineer
13 23 (6.39%) Senior Software Developer
14 22 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
17 16 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 15 (4.17%) C# Software Developer
18 15 (4.17%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (71.94%) .NET
2 86 (23.89%) .NET Core
3 58 (16.11%) ASP.NET
4 57 (15.83%) React
5 49 (13.61%) .NET Framework
6 41 (11.39%) CSS
7 37 (10.28%) HTML
8 31 (8.61%) AngularJS
9 26 (7.22%) RESTful
10 24 (6.67%) REST
11 17 (4.72%) Vue
12 10 (2.78%) Blazor
13 9 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
13 9 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (2.50%) Entity Framework
13 9 (2.50%) Node.js
14 8 (2.22%) HTML5
15 7 (1.94%) CSS3
16 6 (1.67%) jQuery
16 6 (1.67%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (4.44%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.22%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.39%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.11%) IoT
11 4 (1.11%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.83%) Clustering
12 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.56%) Digital Signage
13 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.56%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.44%) Windows
2 8 (2.22%) Linux
3 7 (1.94%) Android
4 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Fedora
5 1 (0.28%) VMS
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (39.44%) Software Engineering
2 118 (32.78%) Agile
3 93 (25.83%) Mentoring
4 90 (25.00%) Microservices
5 86 (23.89%) CI/CD
6 85 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (19.17%) DevOps
8 67 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (12.22%) SDLC
10 41 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 39 (10.83%) Architectural Patterns
12 35 (9.72%) Computer Science
12 35 (9.72%) Migration
13 34 (9.44%) Containerisation
13 34 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (9.17%) TDD
14 33 (9.17%) User Experience
15 32 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (7.22%) Enterprise Architecture
17 24 (6.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 95 (26.39%) JavaScript
2 90 (25.00%) SQL
3 63 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 54 (15.00%) Java
5 51 (14.17%) Python
6 20 (5.56%) PHP
7 16 (4.44%) C++
8 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.11%) Bash
9 4 (1.11%) XAML
10 3 (0.83%) Bicep
10 3 (0.83%) Erlang
10 3 (0.83%) Go
10 3 (0.83%) Rust
11 2 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.28%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (11.67%) Degree
2 31 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 24 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 24 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.56%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.28%) QA
2 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.83%) GDPR
3 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.56%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 37 (10.28%) 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 25 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.44%) Terraform
3 4 (1.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Control-M
4 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 80 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
2 3 (0.83%) Foundry
2 3 (0.83%) Google
3 2 (0.56%) Aderant
3 2 (0.56%) VMware
3 2 (0.56%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe
4 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.28%) Databricks
4 1 (0.28%) iManage
4 1 (0.28%) New Relic
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.28%) Sage
4 1 (0.28%) SAP