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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 176 368 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.54% 5.48% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.18% 19.77% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 158 277 282
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 872 1,861 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.54% 27.71% 39.85%
Number of salaries quoted 727 1,057 1,187
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,216
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +3 134 £65,000 +13.04% 62
Cheshire -37 20 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Lancashire +3 12 £44,942 -18.29% 37
Merseyside -36 10 £61,000 +74.29% 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 3 (1.70%) IIS
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.57%) CMS
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (59.66%) Azure
2 61 (34.66%) AWS
3 30 (17.05%) SaaS
4 12 (6.82%) GCP
5 10 (5.68%) Serverless
6 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.98%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.27%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.27%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.14%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.14%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.70%) HTTP
1 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.61%) NoSQL
3 22 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.55%) MySQL
5 4 (2.27%) Power BI
6 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.70%) Redis
7 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.57%) Big Data
8 1 (0.57%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.57%) PostHog
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.57%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 14 (7.95%) Git
2 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.70%) Selenium
3 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.57%) ESLint
5 1 (0.57%) JIRA
5 1 (0.57%) NUnit
5 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.57%) Storybook
5 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 20 (11.36%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.11%) Manufacturing
3 7 (3.98%) Finance
3 7 (3.98%) Retail
4 4 (2.27%) Games
4 4 (2.27%) Legal
5 3 (1.70%) Back Office
5 3 (1.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.57%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.57%) Electronics
7 1 (0.57%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (55.11%) Developer
2 51 (28.98%) Senior
3 45 (25.57%) Lead
4 37 (21.02%) .NET Developer
5 28 (15.91%) Software Developer
6 27 (15.34%) Senior Developer
7 25 (14.20%) Software Engineer
8 18 (10.23%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.82%) C# Developer
11 10 (5.68%) Architect
12 9 (5.11%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior Software Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Lead .NET Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Principal Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Team Leader
14 7 (3.98%) AWS Architect
14 7 (3.98%) AWS Solution Architect
14 7 (3.98%) Mathematician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (77.27%) .NET
2 42 (23.86%) .NET Core
3 30 (17.05%) React
4 28 (15.91%) .NET Framework
5 27 (15.34%) ASP.NET
6 20 (11.36%) CSS
6 20 (11.36%) HTML
6 20 (11.36%) RESTful
7 16 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 15 (8.52%) Blazor
9 14 (7.95%) REST
10 11 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (5.68%) Entity Framework
12 9 (5.11%) Web Services
13 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (4.55%) Kafka
14 6 (3.41%) Next.js
14 6 (3.41%) OAuth
15 5 (2.84%) HTML5
15 5 (2.84%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.39%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.82%) Mobile App
5 10 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.55%) Clustering
7 6 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.84%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Online Games
10 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.11%) Windows
2 4 (2.27%) Linux
3 3 (1.70%) Android
4 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (43.18%) Agile
2 68 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 61 (34.66%) Microservices
4 54 (30.68%) DevOps
4 54 (30.68%) Software Engineering
5 38 (21.59%) Mentoring
6 31 (17.61%) Containerisation
6 31 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (15.34%) Clean Code
7 27 (15.34%) TDD
8 23 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
8 23 (13.07%) User Experience
9 22 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.23%) SOLID
11 16 (9.09%) Coaching
11 16 (9.09%) Event-Driven
12 15 (8.52%) AI
12 15 (8.52%) Design Patterns
12 15 (8.52%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.11%) SQL
2 32 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 22 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 17 (9.66%) Java
5 16 (9.09%) Python
6 5 (2.84%) PHP
7 3 (1.70%) Erlang
7 3 (1.70%) Rust
8 2 (1.14%) C++
8 2 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) Bash
9 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) Ruby
9 1 (0.57%) Scala
9 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (8.52%) Degree
2 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) GDPR
1 8 (4.55%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) HIPAA
2 6 (3.41%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (17.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.82%) Terraform
3 5 (2.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.11%) Google
3 3 (1.70%) Splunk
4 2 (1.14%) Aderant
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle
4 2 (1.14%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks
5 1 (0.57%) iManage
5 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.57%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) Talend
5 1 (0.57%) VMware