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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 -51 +14
Permanent jobs citing C# 450 374 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.44% 4.93% 9.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.27% 14.84% 31.07%
Number of salaries quoted 418 323 1,341
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,000
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 £71,313 £66,137
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 2,947 2,520 4,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.99% 33.25% 29.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 1,485 4,174
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £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 12 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 12 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 +16 228 £60,000 +14.29% 84
Yorkshire -24 138 £60,000 +0.33% 36
North East -15 84 £65,000 +13.04% 36
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 9 (2.00%) CMS
2 8 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.89%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) nginx
5 2 (0.44%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.67%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 228 (50.67%) Azure
2 87 (19.33%) AWS
3 63 (14.00%) SaaS
4 35 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 28 (6.22%) Serverless
7 27 (6.00%) Power Automate
8 24 (5.33%) PowerApps
9 23 (5.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.89%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.44%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.44%) GitHub
16 9 (2.00%) Azure AI
16 9 (2.00%) GCP
17 5 (1.11%) Twilio
18 4 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) HTTPS
1 2 (0.44%) Internet
1 2 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.22%) DNS
2 1 (0.22%) HTTP
2 1 (0.22%) SAN
2 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 30 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 27 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 22 (4.89%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.67%) Power BI
6 13 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.00%) MySQL
9 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.44%) PostHog
12 2 (0.44%) Power Query
12 2 (0.44%) Redis
13 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.22%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (4.22%) Git
2 7 (1.56%) JIRA
3 4 (0.89%) GitLab
4 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.44%) MSTest
5 2 (0.44%) NUnit
5 2 (0.44%) Postman
5 2 (0.44%) Selenium
5 2 (0.44%) TestRail
6 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (12.22%) Finance
2 51 (11.33%) Social Skills
3 26 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.78%) Games
5 12 (2.67%) Retail
6 10 (2.22%) Banking
7 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.33%) Legal
8 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.11%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.11%) Automotive
9 5 (1.11%) Law
10 4 (0.89%) Back Office
11 3 (0.67%) Advertising
11 3 (0.67%) Marketing
12 2 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.44%) Electronics
12 2 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 255 (56.67%) Developer
2 108 (24.00%) Software Developer
3 101 (22.44%) Senior
4 93 (20.67%) Software Engineer
5 92 (20.44%) C# Developer
6 91 (20.22%) .NET Developer
7 70 (15.56%) Lead
8 66 (14.67%) Senior Developer
9 61 (13.56%) C# Software Developer
10 41 (9.11%) C# Software Engineer
11 38 (8.44%) Lead Developer
11 38 (8.44%) Senior Software Developer
12 36 (8.00%) C# .NET Developer
13 31 (6.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (6.89%) Senior C# Developer
14 30 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
14 30 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (5.78%) .NET Software Engineer
17 19 (4.22%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (66.22%) .NET
2 116 (25.78%) .NET Core
3 83 (18.44%) ASP.NET
4 60 (13.33%) React
5 45 (10.00%) Vue
6 44 (9.78%) .NET Framework
7 40 (8.89%) CSS
7 40 (8.89%) HTML
8 38 (8.44%) AngularJS
9 37 (8.22%) RESTful
10 32 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
11 29 (6.44%) REST
12 25 (5.56%) Entity Framework
13 18 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (3.11%) Node.js
15 13 (2.89%) Blazor
16 12 (2.67%) LINQ
17 10 (2.22%) Razor View Engine
18 9 (2.00%) Flutter
18 9 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 20 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (3.11%) Legacy Code
7 13 (2.89%) Hedge funds
7 13 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.11%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.11%) Social Network
11 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.89%) Online Games
12 3 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.67%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.00%) Windows
2 6 (1.33%) Linux
3 5 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (0.22%) VMS
4 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (32.67%) Software Engineering
2 137 (30.44%) Agile
3 103 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 88 (19.56%) CI/CD
5 76 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (16.89%) Microservices
6 75 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 70 (15.56%) DevOps
8 53 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (10.44%) SDLC
10 45 (10.00%) AI
11 42 (9.33%) Computer Science
12 35 (7.78%) TDD
13 31 (6.89%) Test Automation
14 28 (6.22%) Fintech
14 28 (6.22%) Technical Leadership
15 26 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (5.33%) Resource Allocation
16 24 (5.33%) Scrum
16 24 (5.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 140 (31.11%) SQL
2 103 (22.89%) JavaScript
3 56 (12.44%) Python
4 54 (12.00%) Java
5 52 (11.56%) TypeScript
6 24 (5.33%) PHP
7 11 (2.44%) C++
8 7 (1.56%) Go
8 7 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.11%) Bash
10 4 (0.89%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) C
11 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) Delphi
12 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (10.22%) Degree
2 28 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (2.67%) AWS Certification
3 12 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (2.67%) Azure Certification
3 12 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (0.89%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.78%) QA
2 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.89%) SLA
4 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 2 (0.44%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (7.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.67%) vSphere
3 2 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.11%) Grafana
4 3 (0.67%) Ansible
4 3 (0.67%) Control-M
4 3 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 111 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.11%) Xamarin
3 4 (0.89%) Facebook
3 4 (0.89%) Google
4 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.67%) Foundry
4 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.67%) VMware
5 2 (0.44%) Adyen
5 2 (0.44%) Apple
5 2 (0.44%) Sony
5 2 (0.44%) Splunk
5 2 (0.44%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe
6 1 (0.22%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.22%) Sage
6 1 (0.22%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.22%) WooCommerce