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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 180 272 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.86% 5.38% 10.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.86% 19.02% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 169 207 404
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £82,150 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 863 1,430 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.71% 28.27% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 724 814 1,336
10th Percentile £31,075 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,375 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 11 January 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 January 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 -1 127 £65,000 +13.04% 64
Cheshire -22 38 £52,500 +5.00% 17
Lancashire +6 10 £52,500 -4.55% 43
Merseyside -41 5 £52,500 +61.54% 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 (1.11%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) CMS
2 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 118 (65.56%) Azure
2 44 (24.44%) AWS
3 31 (17.22%) SaaS
4 12 (6.67%) Serverless
5 10 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 9 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (3.89%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.22%) GCP
10 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.67%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.11%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) HTTP
2 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (31.67%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.44%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.00%) MySQL
5 4 (2.22%) Power BI
6 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.11%) PostHog
7 2 (1.11%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Git
2 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.11%) GitLab
4 2 (1.11%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.56%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (9.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.44%) Manufacturing
3 5 (2.78%) Games
3 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.22%) Finance
4 4 (2.22%) Legal
5 3 (1.67%) Retail
6 2 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.11%) Local Government
6 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.56%) Back Office
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Electronics
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 109 (60.56%) Developer
2 58 (32.22%) Senior
3 54 (30.00%) Lead
4 46 (25.56%) Software Developer
5 42 (23.33%) .NET Developer
6 37 (20.56%) Senior Developer
7 30 (16.67%) Lead Developer
8 28 (15.56%) Software Engineer
9 20 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (8.33%) C# Developer
10 15 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Lead Software Developer
12 10 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
13 9 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (5.00%) Team Leader
14 7 (3.89%) Mathematician
14 7 (3.89%) Principal Developer
15 6 (3.33%) Azure Developer
15 6 (3.33%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (83.33%) .NET
2 62 (34.44%) .NET Core
3 45 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 42 (23.33%) .NET Framework
5 35 (19.44%) React
6 22 (12.22%) RESTful
7 18 (10.00%) CSS
7 18 (10.00%) HTML
8 17 (9.44%) AngularJS
8 17 (9.44%) REST
9 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (5.00%) Blazor
10 8 (4.44%) Entity Framework
11 7 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.89%) Vue
11 7 (3.89%) Web Services
12 5 (2.78%) Akka
12 5 (2.78%) Akka.NET
12 5 (2.78%) HTML5
12 5 (2.78%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.11%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.78%) Clustering
8 4 (2.22%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.11%) Online Games
10 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (1.11%) Android
2 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.44%) Agile
2 63 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 55 (30.56%) Microservices
4 54 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 42 (23.33%) DevOps
6 36 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 33 (18.33%) TDD
8 32 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (15.56%) Containerisation
10 27 (15.00%) Clean Code
11 25 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (10.56%) RAD
12 19 (10.56%) SOLID
12 19 (10.56%) User Experience
13 16 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
13 16 (8.89%) SDLC
14 15 (8.33%) AI
14 15 (8.33%) Scrum
15 14 (7.78%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.78%) SQL
2 29 (16.11%) JavaScript
3 21 (11.67%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.56%) Java
5 8 (4.44%) Python
6 5 (2.78%) PHP
7 3 (1.67%) C++
7 3 (1.67%) Erlang
7 3 (1.67%) Rust
8 2 (1.11%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.11%) Terraform
3 4 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.11%) Aderant
2 2 (1.11%) Foundry
2 2 (1.11%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.56%) Databricks
3 1 (0.56%) Google
3 1 (0.56%) iManage
3 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) SAP
3 1 (0.56%) Talend