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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -28 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing C# 178 372 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.52% 5.38% 8.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.89% 19.57% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 155 277 290
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,250 £76,250
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 895 1,901 1,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.70% 27.47% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 733 1,060 1,251
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £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 £71,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,050 £79,640 £83,250
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 16 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 16 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 +1 139 £65,000 +13.04% 132
Cheshire -44 17 £55,000 +10.00% 28
Lancashire +2 12 £44,942 -18.29% 52
Merseyside -34 10 £61,000 +74.29% 9
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 4 (2.25%) IIS
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 99 (55.62%) Azure
2 66 (37.08%) AWS
3 30 (16.85%) SaaS
4 15 (8.43%) GCP
5 11 (6.18%) Serverless
6 9 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.93%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.81%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.69%) GitHub
12 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.12%) NuGet
13 2 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.69%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.28%) SQL Server
2 32 (17.98%) NoSQL
3 27 (15.17%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.81%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Git
2 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.69%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.56%) ESLint
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Storybook
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 22 (12.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.62%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.06%) Finance
4 8 (4.49%) Retail
5 5 (2.81%) Back Office
5 5 (2.81%) Games
6 4 (2.25%) Legal
7 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (53.93%) Developer
2 51 (28.65%) Senior
3 42 (23.60%) Lead
4 40 (22.47%) .NET Developer
5 25 (14.04%) Senior Developer
5 25 (14.04%) Software Engineer
6 21 (11.80%) Software Developer
7 16 (8.99%) Lead Developer
8 13 (7.30%) C# Developer
8 13 (7.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.74%) Architect
10 9 (5.06%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.06%) AWS Solution Architect
10 9 (5.06%) Lead .NET Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Senior .NET Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.49%) DevOps Architect
11 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.49%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (74.16%) .NET
2 41 (23.03%) .NET Core
3 28 (15.73%) React
4 22 (12.36%) .NET Framework
5 21 (11.80%) ASP.NET
6 20 (11.24%) RESTful
7 18 (10.11%) CSS
7 18 (10.11%) HTML
8 17 (9.55%) Blazor
9 16 (8.99%) AngularJS
10 15 (8.43%) REST
11 12 (6.74%) Kafka
12 11 (6.18%) ASP.NET Web API
12 11 (6.18%) Entity Framework
13 8 (4.49%) Web Services
14 7 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (3.37%) OAuth
15 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (2.81%) CSS3
16 5 (2.81%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.74%) Mobile App
6 10 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (5.06%) Clustering
8 8 (4.49%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.81%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.69%) Online Games
11 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Windows
2 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Android
4 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.82%) Agile
2 70 (39.33%) CI/CD
3 61 (34.27%) Microservices
4 56 (31.46%) DevOps
5 55 (30.90%) Software Engineering
6 36 (20.22%) Mentoring
7 32 (17.98%) Containerisation
7 32 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (16.29%) TDD
10 27 (15.17%) Clean Code
10 27 (15.17%) Roadmaps
11 24 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (11.24%) User Experience
13 19 (10.67%) SOLID
14 17 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (8.99%) Coaching
15 16 (8.99%) Design Patterns
15 16 (8.99%) Performance Optimisation
16 15 (8.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.21%) SQL
2 30 (16.85%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.24%) Java
3 20 (11.24%) TypeScript
4 18 (10.11%) Python
5 3 (1.69%) C++
5 3 (1.69%) Erlang
5 3 (1.69%) PHP
5 3 (1.69%) Rust
6 2 (1.12%) Go
6 2 (1.12%) Ruby
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) C
7 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) Degree
2 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) GDPR
2 8 (4.49%) HIPAA
2 8 (4.49%) NIST
2 8 (4.49%) QA
System Software
1 31 (17.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Terraform
3 4 (2.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.74%) Google
3 5 (2.81%) Splunk
4 2 (1.12%) Aderant
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle
4 2 (1.12%) VMware
4 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) iManage
5 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) Talend