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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 74 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -61 +20
Permanent jobs citing C# 218 205 870
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.11% 4.72% 9.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.21% 12.96% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 205 175 733
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £38,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 1,345 1,582 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.02% 36.41% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 828 2,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £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 £74,258 £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 8 May 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 8 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
Manchester -10 122 £65,000 +8.33% 64
Cheshire +11 63 £55,000 +29.41% 16
Lancashire +14 18 £52,500 +3.16% 37
Merseyside -34 14 £45,000 +38.46% 4
Cumbria -18 1 £45,000 +5.88% 4
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 (0.92%) CMS
1 2 (0.92%) IIS
1 2 (0.92%) nginx
1 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 128 (58.72%) Azure
2 26 (11.93%) SaaS
3 25 (11.47%) AWS
4 18 (8.26%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.34%) Azure Logic Apps
5 16 (7.34%) Power Automate
6 15 (6.88%) PowerApps
7 14 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (5.96%) Serverless
9 12 (5.50%) Azure AKS
9 12 (5.50%) Azure Functions
10 11 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.83%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.83%) GCP
12 4 (1.83%) Twilio
13 2 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.92%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) HTTP
1 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (31.19%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.72%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.05%) Power BI
4 9 (4.13%) MySQL
5 7 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.21%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.92%) PostHog
6 2 (0.92%) Redis
6 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) Selenium
3 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.92%) JIRA
3 2 (0.92%) TestRail
4 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.46%) MSTest
4 1 (0.46%) NUnit
4 1 (0.46%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (8.72%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.26%) Finance
3 12 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.21%) Banking
4 7 (3.21%) Retail
5 5 (2.29%) Law
5 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.38%) Games
6 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.92%) Local Government
8 1 (0.46%) Advertising
8 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 131 (60.09%) Developer
2 66 (30.28%) Software Developer
3 63 (28.90%) Senior
4 49 (22.48%) Lead
5 47 (21.56%) Senior Developer
5 47 (21.56%) Software Engineer
6 45 (20.64%) C# Developer
7 40 (18.35%) .NET Developer
8 31 (14.22%) Senior Software Developer
9 30 (13.76%) Lead Developer
10 28 (12.84%) C# Software Developer
11 20 (9.17%) Senior C# Developer
12 17 (7.80%) C# Software Engineer
13 15 (6.88%) Lead Software Developer
13 15 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (6.42%) Senior C# Software Developer
15 11 (5.05%) Applications Developer
15 11 (5.05%) C# .NET Developer
16 10 (4.59%) .NET Software Engineer
16 10 (4.59%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (66.51%) .NET
2 65 (29.82%) .NET Core
3 50 (22.94%) ASP.NET
4 39 (17.89%) .NET Framework
5 25 (11.47%) React
6 19 (8.72%) REST
7 18 (8.26%) RESTful
8 13 (5.96%) HTML
9 12 (5.50%) CSS
10 10 (4.59%) Web Services
11 8 (3.67%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.67%) Entity Framework
12 7 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (3.21%) Vue
13 5 (2.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.29%) EDI
13 5 (2.29%) Node.js
14 4 (1.83%) Backbone.js
14 4 (1.83%) Playwright
15 3 (1.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.47%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.26%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.83%) Social Network
9 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.92%) Contactless
10 2 (0.92%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.92%) EMV
10 2 (0.92%) IoT
10 2 (0.92%) Java Card
10 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.92%) Smart City
10 2 (0.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.29%) Windows
2 4 (1.83%) Android
3 2 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (31.19%) Agile
2 65 (29.82%) Software Engineering
3 59 (27.06%) CI/CD
4 42 (19.27%) Microservices
5 39 (17.89%) Mentoring
6 37 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (16.97%) DevOps
7 33 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.14%) TDD
8 19 (8.72%) Clean Code
8 19 (8.72%) Containerisation
8 19 (8.72%) RAD
9 17 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (6.88%) API Integration
10 15 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (6.88%) Design Patterns
10 15 (6.88%) SOLID
10 15 (6.88%) Test Automation
11 14 (6.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.03%) SQL
2 32 (14.68%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.05%) PHP
3 11 (5.05%) TypeScript
4 10 (4.59%) Python
5 7 (3.21%) C++
5 7 (3.21%) Java
6 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.46%) Bash
7 1 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (7.34%) Degree
2 9 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 4 (1.83%) SLA
3 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (8.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.21%) Terraform
3 2 (0.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 57 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.83%) Xamarin
3 2 (0.92%) Adyen
3 2 (0.92%) Foundry
3 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.46%) Facebook
4 1 (0.46%) Google
4 1 (0.46%) Splunk