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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 107 22
Rank change year-on-year +54 -85 +10
Permanent jobs citing C# 304 165 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.39% 3.21% 6.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.91% 9.11% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 272 133 362
10th Percentile £37,625 £37,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 1,798 1,811 2,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.13% 35.23% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,387 695 1,289
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £43,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £76,226 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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# 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -27 146 £55,000 -15.38% 141
Cheshire +45 65 £65,000 +23.81% 31
Lancashire +53 58 £52,500 +23.87% 28
Merseyside -11 21 £54,500 -14.51% 14
Cumbria - 12 £47,500 - 1
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 24 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.97%) CMS
3 5 (1.64%) IIS
4 4 (1.32%) WordPress
5 3 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.66%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Kentico
7 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.32%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.99%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 158 (51.97%) Azure
2 48 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (13.82%) AWS
4 38 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 38 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 31 (10.20%) PowerApps
6 25 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (5.92%) Azure AI
7 18 (5.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (5.92%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (5.92%) Microsoft Copilot
7 18 (5.92%) Serverless
8 15 (4.93%) SaaS
9 14 (4.61%) GitHub
10 10 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (1.97%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.39%) SQL Server
2 41 (13.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (10.20%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.59%) Power BI
5 14 (4.61%) MySQL
6 11 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.32%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.32%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.33%) Redis
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.89%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) Claude Code
3 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.64%) GitLab
5 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.99%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.99%) JIRA
6 3 (0.99%) JUnit
6 3 (0.99%) NUnit
7 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.66%) MSTest
7 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) TestRail
7 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) Gradle
8 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 38 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.22%) Finance
3 17 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.26%) Banking
5 11 (3.62%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.62%) Retail
6 10 (3.29%) Legal
7 9 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.63%) Marketing
9 7 (2.30%) Games
10 6 (1.97%) Advertising
10 6 (1.97%) Law
11 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.33%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (63.16%) Developer
2 75 (24.67%) Senior
3 68 (22.37%) Software Developer
4 66 (21.71%) .NET Developer
5 61 (20.07%) Senior Developer
6 46 (15.13%) C# Developer
7 39 (12.83%) Software Engineer
8 35 (11.51%) C# Software Developer
9 31 (10.20%) Lead
9 31 (10.20%) Senior C# Developer
10 29 (9.54%) Senior Software Developer
11 22 (7.24%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 19 (6.25%) Lead Developer
13 16 (5.26%) Graduate
14 15 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (4.61%) C# Software Engineer
15 14 (4.61%) Microsoft 365 Developer
16 11 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
17 10 (3.29%) .NET Software Developer
17 10 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (58.88%) .NET
2 69 (22.70%) .NET Core
3 63 (20.72%) ASP.NET
4 55 (18.09%) HTML
5 51 (16.78%) CSS
6 46 (15.13%) React
7 41 (13.49%) ASP.NET Core
8 32 (10.53%) Entity Framework
9 29 (9.54%) REST
10 28 (9.21%) AngularJS
11 23 (7.57%) ASP.NET Web API
11 23 (7.57%) Node.js
11 23 (7.57%) Vue
12 21 (6.91%) RESTful
13 16 (5.26%) Blazor
14 14 (4.61%) .NET Framework
15 13 (4.28%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (3.95%) ML.NET
17 11 (3.62%) LINQ
17 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (5.59%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.29%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.97%) Social Network
8 4 (1.32%) Contactless
8 4 (1.32%) EMV
8 4 (1.32%) Java Card
8 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.32%) Smartcard
9 3 (0.99%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.97%) Windows
2 4 (1.32%) Android
3 3 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.58%) Agile
2 86 (28.29%) CI/CD
3 84 (27.63%) Software Engineering
4 83 (27.30%) DevOps
5 82 (26.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 67 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (19.41%) AI
7 59 (19.41%) Mentoring
8 53 (17.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (11.51%) Microservices
10 33 (10.86%) TDD
11 29 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (9.21%) SDLC
13 25 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (7.89%) Translating Business Requirements
15 23 (7.57%) API Integration
16 22 (7.24%) Code Quality
16 22 (7.24%) Computer Science
17 21 (6.91%) Event-Driven
18 20 (6.58%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 104 (34.21%) SQL
2 93 (30.59%) JavaScript
3 33 (10.86%) Java
4 31 (10.20%) Python
5 29 (9.54%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.24%) C++
6 22 (7.24%) PHP
7 8 (2.63%) Go
8 6 (1.97%) C
9 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.99%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (9.54%) Degree
2 18 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.88%) QA
2 8 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.99%) SLA
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (7.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 110 (36.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.96%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.32%) NEC
3 4 (1.32%) Xamarin
4 3 (0.99%) Facebook
4 3 (0.99%) Splunk
5 2 (0.66%) Google
5 2 (0.66%) HP
5 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.66%) Talend
6 1 (0.33%) Adyen
6 1 (0.33%) Apple
6 1 (0.33%) Databricks
6 1 (0.33%) Sony
6 1 (0.33%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.33%) Yahoo!