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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 31 14
Rank change year-on-year -37 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing C# 177 244 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.20% 6.16% 9.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.81% 20.49% 28.84%
Number of salaries quoted 171 200 664
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £40,905 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,890 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -7.47% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,375 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £84,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.34% +7.92% -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 requiring coding skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 994 1,191 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.33% 30.08% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 811 840 2,231
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,802 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,569 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -18 123 £65,000 +8.33% 57
Cheshire -29 40 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Lancashire -9 10 £57,500 +12.99% 40
Merseyside -42 4 £61,250 +88.46% 6
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 (1.13%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 109 (61.58%) Azure
2 30 (16.95%) SaaS
3 24 (13.56%) AWS
4 13 (7.34%) Azure Functions
4 13 (7.34%) Serverless
5 12 (6.78%) Azure AKS
5 12 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (5.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (5.65%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.26%) Twilio
10 3 (1.69%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) HTTP
2 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.94%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.12%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.21%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.52%) MySQL
5 6 (3.39%) Power BI
6 2 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.13%) PostHog
6 2 (1.13%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.13%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 14 (7.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.65%) Manufacturing
3 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.39%) Finance
5 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Legal
6 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Retail
7 2 (1.13%) Games
7 2 (1.13%) Law
7 2 (1.13%) Local Government
7 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 102 (57.63%) Developer
2 55 (31.07%) Lead
3 53 (29.94%) Senior
4 46 (25.99%) Software Developer
5 37 (20.90%) Senior Developer
5 37 (20.90%) Software Engineer
6 35 (19.77%) .NET Developer
7 31 (17.51%) Lead Developer
8 21 (11.86%) Senior Software Developer
9 19 (10.73%) C# Developer
10 13 (7.34%) Lead Software Developer
10 13 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (6.78%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (5.65%) .NET Software Engineer
13 9 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (4.52%) Azure Developer
14 8 (4.52%) C# Software Engineer
15 7 (3.95%) Lead .NET Developer
15 7 (3.95%) Mathematician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (78.53%) .NET
2 63 (35.59%) .NET Core
3 42 (23.73%) ASP.NET
4 40 (22.60%) .NET Framework
5 28 (15.82%) React
6 22 (12.43%) RESTful
7 15 (8.47%) REST
8 13 (7.34%) CSS
8 13 (7.34%) HTML
9 9 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (3.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (3.39%) Web Services
12 5 (2.82%) Akka
12 5 (2.82%) Akka.NET
12 5 (2.82%) CSS3
12 5 (2.82%) HTML5
12 5 (2.82%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (2.82%) Vue
13 4 (2.26%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (7.34%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.13%) Clustering
7 2 (1.13%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.13%) IoT
7 2 (1.13%) Smart City
8 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.26%) Windows
2 2 (1.13%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.68%) Agile
2 58 (32.77%) Software Engineering
3 56 (31.64%) CI/CD
4 45 (25.42%) Microservices
5 30 (16.95%) DevOps
5 30 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (15.25%) Mentoring
8 26 (14.69%) TDD
9 25 (14.12%) Clean Code
9 25 (14.12%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.30%) Scrum
11 19 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (10.17%) RAD
13 16 (9.04%) User Experience
14 15 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (8.47%) Software Architecture
14 15 (8.47%) SOLID
15 13 (7.34%) Design Patterns
15 13 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.07%) SQL
2 24 (13.56%) JavaScript
3 21 (11.86%) TypeScript
4 5 (2.82%) Python
5 4 (2.26%) Java
5 4 (2.26%) PHP
6 3 (1.69%) C++
6 3 (1.69%) Erlang
7 2 (1.13%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Rust
8 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (3.95%) Degree
2 2 (1.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (9.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (11.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.26%) Terraform
3 2 (1.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 43 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.13%) Aderant
2 2 (1.13%) Foundry
3 1 (0.56%) Adyen
3 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.56%) Databricks
3 1 (0.56%) Google
3 1 (0.56%) iManage
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) SAP
3 1 (0.56%) Xamarin