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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 90 23
Rank change year-on-year +38 -67 +4
Permanent jobs citing C# 627 320 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.61% 3.33% 6.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.86% 12.86% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 547 268 629
10th Percentile £38,772 £37,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £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 3,510 2,489 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.61% 25.92% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,224 2,012
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £79,563
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 7 October 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 October 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 +45 297 £55,000 -12.00% 200
North East +8 173 £75,000 +36.36% 66
Yorkshire -4 157 £55,000 -8.18% 115
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 30 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.91%) CMS
3 8 (1.28%) IIS
4 6 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.64%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.64%) WordPress
6 2 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Kentico
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.64%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.64%) Shopify
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 294 (46.89%) Azure
2 98 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (14.51%) AWS
4 60 (9.57%) Power Platform
5 53 (8.45%) Power Automate
6 48 (7.66%) Serverless
7 42 (6.70%) PowerApps
8 37 (5.90%) GitHub
9 32 (5.10%) Azure AI
10 30 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (4.78%) SaaS
11 27 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
13 25 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (2.23%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
19 9 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.44%) Internet
2 4 (0.64%) HTTP
3 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.32%) MQTT
4 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (15.31%) Azure SQL Database
2 95 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 81 (12.92%) MongoDB
4 26 (4.15%) Power BI
5 23 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (2.71%) MySQL
6 17 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.91%) Redis
8 12 (1.91%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
11 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.64%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.32%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (7.66%) Git
2 9 (1.44%) JIRA
2 9 (1.44%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.12%) Claude Code
3 7 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.96%) GitLab
5 5 (0.80%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.48%) JUnit
7 3 (0.48%) NUnit
7 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.48%) Selenium
7 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.32%) MSTest
9 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) Gradle
General
1 74 (11.80%) Finance
2 64 (10.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.63%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 19 (3.03%) Legal
7 18 (2.87%) Games
8 15 (2.39%) Banking
9 13 (2.07%) Retail
10 10 (1.59%) Advertising
11 8 (1.28%) Law
11 8 (1.28%) Marketing
11 8 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.64%) Local Government
15 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.64%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.48%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 347 (55.34%) Developer
2 174 (27.75%) .NET Developer
3 153 (24.40%) Senior
4 138 (22.01%) Software Engineer
5 96 (15.31%) Senior Developer
6 84 (13.40%) C# Developer
7 83 (13.24%) Software Developer
8 71 (11.32%) C# Software Engineer
9 50 (7.97%) Lead
10 47 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 42 (6.70%) C# Software Developer
12 41 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (6.38%) Lead Developer
14 38 (6.06%) Senior C# Developer
15 34 (5.42%) C# .NET Developer
16 32 (5.10%) Senior Software Developer
17 30 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
18 28 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
19 27 (4.31%) .NET Software Engineer
20 22 (3.51%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (66.19%) .NET
2 157 (25.04%) .NET Core
3 127 (20.26%) ASP.NET
4 113 (18.02%) React
5 105 (16.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 82 (13.08%) CSS
7 81 (12.92%) HTML
8 74 (11.80%) AngularJS
9 72 (11.48%) Entity Framework
10 68 (10.85%) Vue
11 60 (9.57%) RESTful
12 48 (7.66%) REST
13 46 (7.34%) ASP.NET Web API
14 43 (6.86%) Node.js
15 39 (6.22%) Blazor
16 38 (6.06%) .NET Framework
17 34 (5.42%) LINQ
18 29 (4.63%) Terraform
19 26 (4.15%) ML.NET
20 20 (3.19%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.74%) Cloud Native
1 36 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (3.19%) Hedge funds
5 18 (2.87%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.12%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.96%) Social Network
13 5 (0.80%) Learning Management System
13 5 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.75%) Windows
2 9 (1.44%) Android
3 8 (1.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 217 (34.61%) Agile
3 209 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 154 (24.56%) DevOps
5 152 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 112 (17.86%) AI
7 96 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (14.35%) Mentoring
10 77 (12.28%) Microservices
11 55 (8.77%) SDLC
12 53 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
13 51 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (8.13%) Fintech
14 50 (7.97%) TDD
15 46 (7.34%) OO
16 45 (7.18%) Code Quality
17 44 (7.02%) Multithreading
18 43 (6.86%) Test Automation
19 41 (6.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 216 (34.45%) SQL
2 174 (27.75%) JavaScript
3 99 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 72 (11.48%) Java
5 71 (11.32%) Python
6 33 (5.26%) C++
7 24 (3.83%) PHP
8 19 (3.03%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.87%) Go
10 13 (2.07%) VB.NET
11 11 (1.75%) Bash
11 11 (1.75%) Bicep
12 8 (1.28%) C
12 8 (1.28%) Delphi
12 8 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.64%) Ruby
14 2 (0.32%) Dart
14 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.32%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (7.18%) Degree
2 22 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (1.91%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.59%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.50%) QA
2 13 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 56 (8.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) vSphere
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.48%) Ansible
2 3 (0.48%) Control-M
2 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (0.48%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 211 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.75%) Google
3 9 (1.44%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.12%) Facebook
5 5 (0.80%) Apple
5 5 (0.80%) Sony
5 5 (0.80%) Xamarin
5 5 (0.80%) Yahoo!
6 4 (0.64%) NEC
7 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.48%) Splunk
7 3 (0.48%) VMware
8 2 (0.32%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.32%) HP
8 2 (0.32%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.32%) Sage
8 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.32%) Talend
9 1 (0.16%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.16%) Databricks