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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 61 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -45 +13
Permanent jobs citing C# 429 379 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.34% 5.16% 9.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.01% 15.94% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 397 327 1,328
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,700
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £66,137
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 2,859 2,377 4,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.57% 32.37% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,029 1,487 4,155
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £56,500 £53,847
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +4.93% -2.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,072 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,934 £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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +6 218 £60,000 +14.29% 99
Yorkshire -29 134 £61,500 +2.84% 48
North East -13 77 £67,500 +17.39% 32
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 8 (1.86%) CMS
2 7 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.93%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.47%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.70%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 211 (49.18%) Azure
2 81 (18.88%) AWS
3 64 (14.92%) SaaS
4 29 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.53%) Serverless
6 27 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.06%) Power Automate
8 24 (5.59%) PowerApps
9 21 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (4.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (3.03%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.80%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.86%) GCP
16 7 (1.63%) Azure AI
16 7 (1.63%) GitHub
17 5 (1.17%) Twilio
18 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Intranet
2 1 (0.23%) DNS
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) SAN
2 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (22.61%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.66%) Power BI
4 17 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (2.10%) MySQL
6 9 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.70%) ClickHouse
8 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.47%) PostHog
9 2 (0.47%) Power Query
9 2 (0.47%) Redis
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.23%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.23%) Metadata
10 1 (0.23%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (3.73%) Git
2 6 (1.40%) JIRA
3 3 (0.70%) Selenium
3 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.47%) Postman
4 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.47%) TestRail
5 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) MSTest
5 1 (0.23%) NUnit
5 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (12.12%) Finance
2 49 (11.42%) Social Skills
3 26 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (3.50%) Games
5 11 (2.56%) Retail
6 8 (1.86%) Banking
7 7 (1.63%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.63%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.17%) Agriculture
8 5 (1.17%) Automotive
8 5 (1.17%) Law
8 5 (1.17%) Legal
9 4 (0.93%) Back Office
9 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Advertising
10 2 (0.47%) Electronics
10 2 (0.47%) Local Government
10 2 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (55.94%) Developer
2 107 (24.94%) Software Developer
3 100 (23.31%) Senior
4 93 (21.68%) Software Engineer
5 89 (20.75%) C# Developer
6 79 (18.41%) .NET Developer
7 73 (17.02%) Lead
8 64 (14.92%) Senior Developer
9 59 (13.75%) C# Software Developer
10 40 (9.32%) C# Software Engineer
11 39 (9.09%) Lead Developer
12 36 (8.39%) C# .NET Developer
12 36 (8.39%) Senior Software Developer
13 31 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 30 (6.99%) .NET Software Developer
15 28 (6.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (6.53%) Senior C# Developer
16 27 (6.29%) .NET Software Engineer
17 26 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
18 20 (4.66%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (65.73%) .NET
2 105 (24.48%) .NET Core
3 69 (16.08%) ASP.NET
4 55 (12.82%) React
5 45 (10.49%) .NET Framework
6 39 (9.09%) Vue
7 35 (8.16%) CSS
7 35 (8.16%) HTML
8 33 (7.69%) RESTful
9 30 (6.99%) AngularJS
10 27 (6.29%) REST
11 18 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (3.26%) Entity Framework
13 11 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (2.56%) Node.js
14 10 (2.33%) Web Services
15 9 (2.10%) Blazor
15 9 (2.10%) Flutter
16 7 (1.63%) Razor View Engine
17 6 (1.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 17 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.26%) Legacy Code
7 13 (3.03%) Hedge funds
7 13 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.17%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.93%) Online Games
10 4 (0.93%) Social Network
11 3 (0.70%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.70%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.86%) Windows
2 5 (1.17%) Linux
3 4 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) VMS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (34.27%) Software Engineering
2 126 (29.37%) Agile
3 87 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 83 (19.35%) CI/CD
5 77 (17.95%) Mentoring
6 74 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (17.25%) Microservices
7 62 (14.45%) DevOps
8 53 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (10.96%) SDLC
10 40 (9.32%) Computer Science
11 39 (9.09%) AI
12 34 (7.93%) TDD
13 30 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (6.99%) Test Automation
14 26 (6.06%) Fintech
15 25 (5.83%) Containerisation
16 24 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (5.59%) Resource Allocation
16 24 (5.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 125 (29.14%) SQL
2 97 (22.61%) JavaScript
3 53 (12.35%) Python
4 50 (11.66%) Java
5 47 (10.96%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.59%) PHP
7 11 (2.56%) C++
8 7 (1.63%) Go
8 7 (1.63%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.93%) Bash
11 3 (0.70%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) C
12 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.47%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.23%) Delphi
13 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (10.26%) Degree
2 27 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.80%) AWS Certification
3 12 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (2.80%) Azure Certification
3 12 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.83%) QA
2 6 (1.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.93%) SLA
4 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 2 (0.47%) WCAG
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (6.99%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.47%) Firmware
2 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.80%) Terraform
3 4 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Control-M
4 2 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 97 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.93%) Xamarin
3 3 (0.70%) Foundry
3 3 (0.70%) Google
4 2 (0.47%) Adyen
4 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.47%) Facebook
4 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.47%) VMware
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe
5 1 (0.23%) Apple
5 1 (0.23%) Optimizely
5 1 (0.23%) Sage
5 1 (0.23%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.23%) Sony
5 1 (0.23%) Splunk
5 1 (0.23%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.23%) Yahoo!