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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 30 23
Rank change year-on-year -25 -7 -8
Permanent jobs citing C# 179 377 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.59% 5.53% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.23% 20.01% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 158 283 278
10th Percentile £40,870 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £43,906
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 £78,500 £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 885 1,884 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.73% 27.65% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 732 1,071 1,183
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,355 £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 £71,063 £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 26 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 26 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 -2 138 £65,000 +13.04% 86
Cheshire -35 20 £55,000 +10.00% 38
Lancashire +10 12 £44,942 -18.29% 49
Merseyside -33 9 £56,750 +62.14% 10
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 (1.68%) IIS
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (57.54%) Azure
2 63 (35.20%) AWS
3 30 (16.76%) SaaS
4 14 (7.82%) GCP
5 11 (6.15%) Serverless
6 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.91%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.35%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.23%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.68%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.12%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.68%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.14%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.32%) NoSQL
3 23 (12.85%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.47%) MySQL
5 4 (2.23%) Power BI
6 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.12%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.56%) Big Data
8 1 (0.56%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.68%) 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 (12.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.59%) Manufacturing
3 7 (3.91%) Finance
3 7 (3.91%) Retail
4 5 (2.79%) Games
5 4 (2.23%) Legal
6 3 (1.68%) Back Office
6 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.56%) Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 99 (55.31%) Developer
2 51 (28.49%) Senior
3 43 (24.02%) Lead
4 37 (20.67%) .NET Developer
5 26 (14.53%) Senior Developer
6 25 (13.97%) Software Developer
6 25 (13.97%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.50%) Lead Developer
8 14 (7.82%) C# Developer
9 13 (7.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Architect
11 8 (4.47%) AWS Architect
11 8 (4.47%) AWS Solution Architect
11 8 (4.47%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Lead .NET Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Mathematician
11 8 (4.47%) Principal Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.47%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (75.42%) .NET
2 41 (22.91%) .NET Core
3 29 (16.20%) React
4 26 (14.53%) .NET Framework
5 24 (13.41%) ASP.NET
6 21 (11.73%) RESTful
7 19 (10.61%) CSS
7 19 (10.61%) HTML
8 16 (8.94%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.38%) Blazor
9 15 (8.38%) REST
10 10 (5.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (5.59%) Entity Framework
10 10 (5.59%) Kafka
11 9 (5.03%) Web Services
12 7 (3.91%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (3.35%) OAuth
14 5 (2.79%) CSS3
14 5 (2.79%) HTML5
14 5 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.94%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.26%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.70%) Mobile App
5 10 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.47%) Clustering
7 7 (3.91%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.79%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.68%) 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
12 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.59%) Windows
2 4 (2.23%) Linux
3 3 (1.68%) Android
4 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (43.02%) Agile
2 70 (39.11%) CI/CD
3 61 (34.08%) Microservices
4 55 (30.73%) DevOps
4 55 (30.73%) Software Engineering
5 37 (20.67%) Mentoring
6 33 (18.44%) Containerisation
7 31 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (16.20%) TDD
10 27 (15.08%) Clean Code
11 23 (12.85%) Roadmaps
11 23 (12.85%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (12.29%) User Experience
13 18 (10.06%) SOLID
14 16 (8.94%) Coaching
14 16 (8.94%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.38%) Design Patterns
15 15 (8.38%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.61%) SQL
2 31 (17.32%) JavaScript
3 21 (11.73%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.61%) Java
5 17 (9.50%) Python
6 5 (2.79%) PHP
7 3 (1.68%) C++
7 3 (1.68%) Erlang
7 3 (1.68%) Rust
8 2 (1.12%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) Bash
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.56%) Ruby
9 1 (0.56%) Scala
9 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (8.38%) Degree
2 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (3.91%) 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 10 (5.59%) GDPR
2 8 (4.47%) QA
3 7 (3.91%) HIPAA
3 7 (3.91%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (17.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Terraform
3 4 (2.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Google
3 4 (2.23%) Splunk
4 2 (1.12%) Aderant
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle
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
5 1 (0.56%) VMware