C# Job Trends in the North West

C#
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 57 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -44 +21
Permanent jobs citing C# 206 220 863
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.07% 5.41% 9.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.30% 15.42% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 195 191 731
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.59% -10.38%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,264 1,427 2,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.71% 35.08% 30.70%
Number of salaries quoted 992 847 2,372
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,600 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

C# job vacancy trend in the North West

C#
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in the North West over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in the North West

C#
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
Manchester -17 126 £65,000 +8.33% 64
Cheshire -19 55 £55,000 +22.22% 11
Lancashire -3 12 £55,000 +8.08% 35
Merseyside -34 12 £45,000 +38.46% 5
Cumbria -21 1 £45,000 +5.88% 2
C#
England

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (0.97%) nginx
1 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) CMS
2 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.97%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 128 (62.14%) Azure
2 31 (15.05%) SaaS
3 26 (12.62%) AWS
4 17 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (6.80%) Azure Functions
6 14 (6.80%) Power Automate
6 14 (6.80%) PowerApps
6 14 (6.80%) Serverless
7 12 (5.83%) Azure AKS
7 12 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 12 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.94%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.94%) Twilio
11 3 (1.46%) GCP
12 2 (0.97%) GitHub
12 2 (0.97%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.94%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.13%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.34%) Power BI
4 8 (3.88%) MySQL
5 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.97%) PostHog
8 2 (0.97%) Redis
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Git
2 3 (1.46%) Selenium
2 3 (1.46%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.97%) JIRA
3 2 (0.97%) TestRail
4 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) NUnit
4 1 (0.49%) Postman
4 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (9.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.83%) Finance
3 10 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.43%) Retail
6 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.46%) Law
7 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Banking
8 2 (0.97%) Games
8 2 (0.97%) Legal
8 2 (0.97%) Local Government
9 1 (0.49%) Advertising
9 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 120 (58.25%) Developer
2 59 (28.64%) Senior
3 58 (28.16%) Software Developer
4 56 (27.18%) Lead
5 45 (21.84%) Software Engineer
6 41 (19.90%) Senior Developer
7 38 (18.45%) C# Developer
8 37 (17.96%) .NET Developer
9 31 (15.05%) Lead Developer
10 24 (11.65%) Senior Software Developer
11 20 (9.71%) C# Software Developer
12 16 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.28%) Lead Software Developer
14 11 (5.34%) C# .NET Developer
14 11 (5.34%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (5.34%) Senior C# Developer
15 10 (4.85%) .NET Software Developer
15 10 (4.85%) .NET Software Engineer
15 10 (4.85%) Applications Developer
15 10 (4.85%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (72.33%) .NET
2 65 (31.55%) .NET Core
3 47 (22.82%) ASP.NET
4 40 (19.42%) .NET Framework
5 28 (13.59%) React
6 18 (8.74%) REST
7 17 (8.25%) RESTful
8 13 (6.31%) HTML
9 11 (5.34%) CSS
10 9 (4.37%) Web Services
11 8 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.40%) Vue
13 5 (2.43%) ASP.NET Core
14 4 (1.94%) Blazor
14 4 (1.94%) Next.js
14 4 (1.94%) Node.js
14 4 (1.94%) Playwright
15 3 (1.46%) QML
15 3 (1.46%) Razor View Engine
15 3 (1.46%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.74%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.40%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.46%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.97%) Digital Signage
8 2 (0.97%) IoT
8 2 (0.97%) Smart City
8 2 (0.97%) Social Network
9 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Windows
2 2 (0.97%) Android
2 2 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.44%) Agile
2 62 (30.10%) Software Engineering
3 60 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 44 (21.36%) Microservices
5 39 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (18.93%) Mentoring
6 37 (17.96%) DevOps
7 28 (13.59%) TDD
8 27 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (10.68%) Clean Code
11 21 (10.19%) Containerisation
11 21 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (9.22%) RAD
13 17 (8.25%) Design Patterns
13 17 (8.25%) SOLID
13 17 (8.25%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.28%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (7.28%) Software Architecture
15 14 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) SQL
2 27 (13.11%) JavaScript
3 15 (7.28%) TypeScript
4 12 (5.83%) Python
5 10 (4.85%) PHP
6 7 (3.40%) C++
7 5 (2.43%) Java
8 2 (0.97%) Go
8 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.97%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (6.31%) Degree
2 6 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.49%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) QA
2 2 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (9.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.91%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 52 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.97%) Aderant
2 2 (0.97%) Adyen
2 2 (0.97%) Foundry
2 2 (0.97%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.49%) Databricks
3 1 (0.49%) Google