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 citing C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	53	93	28
Rank change year-on-year	+40	-65	-4
Permanent jobs citing C#	304	168	378
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West	2.35%	3.50%	5.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category	16.84%	12.03%	19.82%
Number of salaries quoted	257	142	284
10^th Percentile	£38,750	£40,908	£31,975
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£51,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£62,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-12.00%	+25.00%	-13.04%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£75,000	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£85,000	£74,666
England median annual salary	£60,000	£60,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-0.83%	+0.83%	-7.69%

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 citing coding skills in the North West.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	1,805	1,396	1,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West	13.94%	29.08%	27.17%
Number of salaries quoted	1,369	687	1,086
10^th Percentile	£39,950	£32,750	£35,250
25^th Percentile	£46,750	£42,125	£43,813
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£61,500	£57,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+6.96%	+4.55%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£70,500	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£81,250	£78,750
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 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# Salary Trend in the North West

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 24 October 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 24 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Manchester	-44	149	£55,000	-15.38%	124
Lancashire	+44	63	£55,000	+29.77%	16
Cheshire	+43	54	£65,000	+18.18%	23
Merseyside	-16	19	£60,000	-1.64%	11
Cumbria	-	16	£47,500	-	4
C# England

C# Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing C# also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region citing C#.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	64.8%	197
2	Azure	50.3%	153
3	Microsoft	38.5%	117
4	SQL	33.6%	102
5	Agile	32.9%	100
6	JavaScript	32.2%	98
7	Full-Stack Development	31.6%	96
8	Software Engineering	31.3%	95
9	CI/CD	30.3%	92
10	DevOps	28.9%	88
11	.NET Core	23.7%	72
12	AI	20.4%	62
13	ASP.NET	19.7%	60
13	Problem-Solving	19.7%	60
15	HTML	19.4%	59
16	CSS	18.8%	57
17	React	17.8%	54
18	Azure DevOps	17.4%	53
19	Continuous Improvement	16.1%	49
19	SQL Server	16.1%	49
21	Azure SQL Database	15.8%	48
22	ASP.NET Core	15.5%	47
23	Mentoring	15.1%	46
24	AWS	12.5%	38
24	Power Platform	12.5%	38
24	TypeScript	12.5%	38
27	AngularJS	11.8%	36
27	MongoDB	11.8%	36
29	Microservices	11.5%	35
29	Power Automate	11.5%	35

C# Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	33.6%	102
2	JavaScript	32.2%	98
3	TypeScript	12.5%	38
4	Java	9.9%	30
5	Python	9.5%	29
6	C++	6.9%	21
7	PHP	4.9%	15
8	Go	2.6%	8
9	T-SQL	2.3%	7
10	C	2.0%	6
11	VB.NET	1.3%	4
12	PowerShell	1.0%	3
13	Bicep	0.7%	2
13	Ladder Logic	0.7%	2
15	Kusto Query Language	0.3%	1
15	Objective-C	0.3%	1
15	Ruby	0.3%	1