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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 107 22
Rank change year-on-year +56 -85 +10
Permanent jobs citing C# 301 165 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.38% 3.21% 6.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.91% 9.11% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 271 133 362
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 1,780 1,811 2,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.10% 35.23% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,380 695 1,289
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £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 £76,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -27 145 £55,000 -15.38% 136
Cheshire +45 64 £65,000 +23.81% 26
Lancashire +51 58 £52,500 +23.87% 28
Merseyside -10 21 £54,500 -14.51% 15
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 23 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.99%) CMS
3 5 (1.66%) IIS
4 4 (1.33%) WordPress
5 3 (1.00%) 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 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.33%) NEC Housing
3 3 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 157 (52.16%) Azure
2 47 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (13.62%) AWS
4 38 (12.62%) Power Automate
5 37 (12.29%) Power Platform
6 30 (9.97%) PowerApps
7 25 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (5.98%) Azure AI
8 18 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Copilot
9 17 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (5.65%) Serverless
10 15 (4.98%) SaaS
11 14 (4.65%) GitHub
12 10 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.66%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.99%) Azure Functions
15 6 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) HTTP
2 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.33%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 41 (13.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (10.30%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.32%) Power BI
5 13 (4.32%) MySQL
6 11 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.33%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.00%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.33%) Redis
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (7.64%) Git
2 6 (1.99%) Claude Code
2 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.66%) GitLab
4 4 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.00%) JIRA
5 3 (1.00%) JUnit
5 3 (1.00%) NUnit
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) MSTest
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
6 2 (0.66%) TestRail
6 2 (0.66%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 38 (12.62%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.97%) Finance
3 16 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (5.32%) Banking
4 11 (3.65%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.65%) Retail
5 10 (3.32%) Legal
6 8 (2.66%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.66%) Marketing
7 7 (2.33%) Games
8 6 (1.99%) Advertising
8 6 (1.99%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Local Government
11 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (62.79%) Developer
2 73 (24.25%) Senior
3 67 (22.26%) Software Developer
4 66 (21.93%) .NET Developer
5 59 (19.60%) Senior Developer
6 45 (14.95%) C# Developer
7 39 (12.96%) Software Engineer
8 35 (11.63%) C# Software Developer
9 31 (10.30%) Lead
10 30 (9.97%) Senior C# Developer
11 28 (9.30%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (7.31%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 19 (6.31%) Lead Developer
14 16 (5.32%) Graduate
15 15 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 14 (4.65%) C# Software Engineer
16 14 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Developer
17 10 (3.32%) .NET Software Developer
17 10 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
17 10 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (58.80%) .NET
2 68 (22.59%) .NET Core
3 63 (20.93%) ASP.NET
4 55 (18.27%) HTML
5 51 (16.94%) CSS
6 45 (14.95%) React
7 41 (13.62%) ASP.NET Core
8 32 (10.63%) Entity Framework
9 28 (9.30%) AngularJS
9 28 (9.30%) REST
10 23 (7.64%) ASP.NET Web API
10 23 (7.64%) Node.js
11 22 (7.31%) Vue
12 20 (6.64%) RESTful
13 16 (5.32%) Blazor
14 14 (4.65%) .NET Framework
15 13 (4.32%) HTML5 Canvas
16 12 (3.99%) ML.NET
17 11 (3.65%) LINQ
17 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.64%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.65%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.32%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.99%) Social Network
9 4 (1.33%) Contactless
9 4 (1.33%) EMV
9 4 (1.33%) Java Card
9 4 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.33%) Smartcard
10 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.00%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.99%) Windows
2 4 (1.33%) Android
3 3 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.89%) Agile
2 85 (28.24%) CI/CD
3 82 (27.24%) DevOps
3 82 (27.24%) Software Engineering
4 81 (26.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (19.27%) Mentoring
7 57 (18.94%) AI
8 53 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (11.30%) Microservices
10 33 (10.96%) TDD
11 28 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (8.97%) SDLC
13 25 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (7.97%) Translating Business Requirements
15 23 (7.64%) API Integration
16 21 (6.98%) Code Quality
16 21 (6.98%) Computer Science
16 21 (6.98%) Event-Driven
17 20 (6.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.89%) SQL
2 91 (30.23%) JavaScript
3 33 (10.96%) Java
4 30 (9.97%) Python
5 29 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.31%) C++
6 22 (7.31%) PHP
7 8 (2.66%) Go
8 6 (1.99%) C
9 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.00%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (9.30%) Degree
2 17 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.66%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.97%) QA
2 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 3 (1.00%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.00%) SLA
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (7.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (5.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 109 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.66%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.33%) NEC
3 4 (1.33%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.00%) Facebook
4 3 (1.00%) Splunk
5 2 (0.66%) Google
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%) HP
6 1 (0.33%) Sony
6 1 (0.33%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.33%) Yahoo!