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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 86 17
Rank change year-on-year +36 -69 +16
Permanent jobs citing C# 613 353 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.88% 3.71% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.19% 13.04% 29.50%
Number of salaries quoted 559 289 1,056
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,125 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,992 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £84,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.64% -9.62%

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 3,565 2,708 4,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 28.47% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,689 1,452 3,313
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +50 291 £55,000 - 79
Yorkshire +14 177 £55,000 -15.38% 40
North East -5 145 £60,000 +4.35% 40
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 21 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.12%) CMS
3 8 (1.31%) IIS
4 6 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.65%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.33%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.82%) Shopify
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.49%) Magento
5 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 307 (50.08%) Azure
2 94 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (15.01%) AWS
4 53 (8.65%) Power Platform
5 49 (7.99%) Power Automate
6 43 (7.01%) SaaS
7 38 (6.20%) PowerApps
8 35 (5.71%) GitHub
9 33 (5.38%) Serverless
10 32 (5.22%) Azure AI
10 32 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
12 24 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (2.77%) Microsoft Copilot
14 15 (2.45%) Azure Functions
15 13 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.96%) GCP
17 11 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
18 9 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.47%) Internet
2 3 (0.49%) HTTP
2 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.33%) MQTT
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (16.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 90 (14.68%) SQL Server
3 82 (13.38%) MongoDB
4 28 (4.57%) Power BI
5 22 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.28%) MySQL
8 14 (2.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (1.63%) Redis
10 9 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.49%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.49%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.33%) Power Query
16 1 (0.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (7.01%) Git
2 9 (1.47%) JIRA
3 8 (1.31%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.98%) Claude Code
4 6 (0.98%) GitLab
5 5 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.82%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.33%) MSTest
7 2 (0.33%) NUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.33%) TestRail
7 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
8 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (12.56%) Finance
2 64 (10.44%) Social Skills
3 33 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (3.26%) Games
5 16 (2.61%) Retail
6 15 (2.45%) Banking
6 15 (2.45%) Legal
7 13 (2.12%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.12%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.47%) Advertising
10 8 (1.31%) Law
11 7 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.98%) Marketing
13 5 (0.82%) Agriculture
13 5 (0.82%) Automotive
13 5 (0.82%) Back Office
14 4 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 348 (56.77%) Developer
2 174 (28.38%) .NET Developer
3 150 (24.47%) Software Engineer
4 130 (21.21%) Senior
5 111 (18.11%) C# Developer
6 100 (16.31%) Software Developer
7 81 (13.21%) Senior Developer
8 72 (11.75%) C# Software Developer
9 67 (10.93%) C# Software Engineer
10 66 (10.77%) Lead
11 46 (7.50%) C# .NET Developer
11 46 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 41 (6.69%) Lead Developer
13 40 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 38 (6.20%) .NET Software Engineer
15 37 (6.04%) Senior C# Developer
16 33 (5.38%) .NET Software Developer
17 32 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (4.89%) Senior Software Developer
19 25 (4.08%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (66.07%) .NET
2 152 (24.80%) .NET Core
3 133 (21.70%) ASP.NET
4 106 (17.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 104 (16.97%) React
6 79 (12.89%) HTML
7 78 (12.72%) CSS
7 78 (12.72%) Vue
8 69 (11.26%) AngularJS
8 69 (11.26%) Entity Framework
9 68 (11.09%) RESTful
10 46 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
11 39 (6.36%) Blazor
12 36 (5.87%) Node.js
12 36 (5.87%) REST
13 35 (5.71%) .NET Framework
14 34 (5.55%) LINQ
15 27 (4.40%) ML.NET
16 15 (2.45%) HTML5 Canvas
17 13 (2.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
3 31 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (3.26%) Hedge funds
6 19 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.79%) Legacy Code
10 10 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.14%) Social Network
14 6 (0.98%) BBC
14 6 (0.98%) Social Media
15 5 (0.82%) e-Learning
15 5 (0.82%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.47%) Android
1 9 (1.47%) Windows
2 6 (0.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (34.42%) Software Engineering
2 209 (34.09%) Agile
3 200 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 149 (24.31%) DevOps
5 141 (23.00%) CI/CD
6 105 (17.13%) AI
7 97 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (15.01%) Microservices
10 80 (13.05%) Mentoring
11 61 (9.95%) SDLC
12 48 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
13 47 (7.67%) Multithreading
13 47 (7.67%) TDD
14 46 (7.50%) Fintech
15 42 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
15 42 (6.85%) Scrum
16 39 (6.36%) Test Automation
17 38 (6.20%) Computer Science
17 38 (6.20%) OO
Programming Languages
1 227 (37.03%) SQL
2 156 (25.45%) JavaScript
3 90 (14.68%) TypeScript
4 75 (12.23%) Python
5 63 (10.28%) Java
6 27 (4.40%) C++
7 26 (4.24%) PHP
8 18 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.45%) Go
10 11 (1.79%) Bash
10 11 (1.79%) Bicep
11 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.14%) C
12 7 (1.14%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.49%) Delphi
14 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.33%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.16%) Swift
15 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (7.18%) Degree
2 22 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (0.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.49%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.01%) QA
2 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 4 (0.65%) SLA
4 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (8.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) Firmware
2 3 (0.49%) vSphere
3 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.57%) Terraform
3 3 (0.49%) Ansible
3 3 (0.49%) Control-M
3 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (0.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 200 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.12%) Google
3 8 (1.31%) Facebook
4 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
5 6 (0.98%) Apple
5 6 (0.98%) Sony
5 6 (0.98%) Yahoo!
6 4 (0.65%) Xamarin
7 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.49%) Splunk
7 3 (0.49%) VMware
8 2 (0.33%) Adyen
8 2 (0.33%) NEC
8 2 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.16%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.16%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.16%) Sage
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.16%) Talend
9 1 (0.16%) WooCommerce