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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 97 18
Rank change year-on-year +46 -79 +23
Permanent jobs citing C# 304 199 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.59% 3.87% 7.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.42% 10.38% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 277 160 490
10th Percentile £38,250 £32,500 £34,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -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 1,745 1,918 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.84% 37.26% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 800 1,675
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,088 £35,321
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -6.15%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +1 161 £57,500 -8.00% 79
Cheshire +39 63 £65,000 +52.94% 11
Lancashire +45 47 £50,000 +17.97% 26
Merseyside -24 24 £45,000 -14.29% 6
Cumbria - 9 £47,500 - 2
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 19 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.97%) CMS
2 6 (1.97%) IIS
3 4 (1.32%) WordPress
4 3 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.32%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (1.32%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.66%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 161 (52.96%) Azure
2 45 (14.80%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (14.14%) AWS
4 37 (12.17%) Power Automate
5 35 (11.51%) Power Platform
6 28 (9.21%) PowerApps
7 24 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (6.58%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (5.92%) Azure AI
11 17 (5.59%) SaaS
12 15 (4.93%) GitHub
12 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (4.93%) Serverless
13 12 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.63%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
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 63 (20.72%) SQL Server
2 42 (13.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.93%) Power BI
5 12 (3.95%) MySQL
6 11 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.99%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.33%) Redis
11 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Git
2 6 (1.97%) Claude Code
2 6 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 4 (1.32%) JIRA
5 3 (0.99%) NUnit
5 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.66%) JUnit
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%) Gradle
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 40 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (8.88%) Finance
3 15 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.93%) Banking
4 13 (4.28%) Retail
5 10 (3.29%) Legal
6 8 (2.63%) Marketing
6 8 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.30%) Games
7 7 (2.30%) Law
7 7 (2.30%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.97%) Advertising
9 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.66%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.33%) Back Office
12 1 (0.33%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 179 (58.88%) Developer
2 69 (22.70%) Senior
3 62 (20.39%) .NET Developer
4 61 (20.07%) Software Developer
5 55 (18.09%) Senior Developer
6 53 (17.43%) Software Engineer
7 47 (15.46%) C# Developer
8 37 (12.17%) C# Software Developer
9 36 (11.84%) Lead
10 29 (9.54%) Senior C# Developer
11 25 (8.22%) Senior Software Developer
12 22 (7.24%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 19 (6.25%) Lead Developer
14 16 (5.26%) Graduate
15 15 (4.93%) C# Software Engineer
16 14 (4.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (3.95%) Microsoft 365 Developer
18 11 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
19 9 (2.96%) Applications Developer
19 9 (2.96%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (59.54%) .NET
2 66 (21.71%) .NET Core
3 65 (21.38%) ASP.NET
4 52 (17.11%) HTML
5 48 (15.79%) CSS
6 42 (13.82%) ASP.NET Core
7 39 (12.83%) React
8 32 (10.53%) Entity Framework
9 26 (8.55%) REST
9 26 (8.55%) RESTful
10 23 (7.57%) ASP.NET Web API
10 23 (7.57%) Node.js
11 22 (7.24%) AngularJS
12 17 (5.59%) .NET Framework
13 16 (5.26%) Blazor
13 16 (5.26%) Vue
14 13 (4.28%) ML.NET
15 11 (3.62%) HTML5 Canvas
15 11 (3.62%) LINQ
15 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.61%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.30%) Social Network
7 7 (2.30%) Virtual Team
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%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.99%) Online Gambling
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
1 101 (33.22%) Agile
2 92 (30.26%) CI/CD
2 92 (30.26%) Software Engineering
3 89 (29.28%) DevOps
4 72 (23.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 66 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (18.09%) AI
7 55 (18.09%) Mentoring
8 44 (14.47%) Microservices
9 34 (11.18%) TDD
10 27 (8.88%) SDLC
10 27 (8.88%) Translating Business Requirements
11 25 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
12 24 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (6.91%) API Development
15 20 (6.58%) Code Quality
16 19 (6.25%) API Integration
16 19 (6.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 109 (35.86%) SQL
2 77 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 30 (9.87%) Python
4 29 (9.54%) TypeScript
5 28 (9.21%) Java
6 21 (6.91%) PHP
7 18 (5.92%) C++
8 9 (2.96%) Go
9 6 (1.97%) C
10 4 (1.32%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (7.89%) Degree
2 15 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.64%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.88%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 7816
3 4 (1.32%) SLA
4 3 (0.99%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (8.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 110 (36.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.30%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.32%) NEC
3 4 (1.32%) Xamarin
4 3 (0.99%) Facebook
4 3 (0.99%) Google
4 3 (0.99%) Splunk
5 2 (0.66%) Adyen
5 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.66%) Talend
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!