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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 69 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -56 +21
Permanent jobs citing C# 214 205 870
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.03% 4.70% 9.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.01% 12.95% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 201 175 734
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £38,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 1,337 1,583 2,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 36.32% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 830 2,361
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,975 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 May 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 May 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 -8 124 £65,000 +8.33% 62
Cheshire +11 61 £55,000 +29.41% 15
Lancashire +12 14 £52,500 +3.16% 35
Merseyside -33 14 £45,000 +38.46% 7
Cumbria -19 1 £45,000 +5.88% 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 (0.93%) nginx
1 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 128 (59.81%) Azure
2 27 (12.62%) SaaS
3 25 (11.68%) AWS
4 18 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
6 15 (7.01%) Power Automate
6 15 (7.01%) PowerApps
7 14 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (6.07%) Serverless
9 12 (5.61%) Azure AKS
9 12 (5.61%) Azure Functions
10 11 (5.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.87%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.87%) GCP
12 4 (1.87%) Twilio
13 2 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (30.37%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.14%) Power BI
4 8 (3.74%) MySQL
5 7 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.93%) PostHog
6 2 (0.93%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Git
2 3 (1.40%) Selenium
3 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.93%) JIRA
3 2 (0.93%) NUnit
3 2 (0.93%) TestRail
3 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) MSTest
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
4 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (8.88%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.48%) Finance
3 11 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.27%) Retail
5 6 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.34%) Banking
6 5 (2.34%) Law
6 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.40%) Games
7 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Local Government
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (59.81%) Developer
2 63 (29.44%) Software Developer
3 61 (28.50%) Senior
4 49 (22.90%) Lead
5 47 (21.96%) Software Engineer
6 45 (21.03%) Senior Developer
7 43 (20.09%) C# Developer
8 40 (18.69%) .NET Developer
9 31 (14.49%) Lead Developer
10 28 (13.08%) Senior Software Developer
11 25 (11.68%) C# Software Developer
12 17 (7.94%) C# Software Engineer
12 17 (7.94%) Senior C# Developer
13 15 (7.01%) Lead Software Developer
13 15 (7.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (5.14%) Applications Developer
14 11 (5.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 11 (5.14%) Senior C# Software Developer
15 10 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
15 10 (4.67%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (67.29%) .NET
2 65 (30.37%) .NET Core
3 49 (22.90%) ASP.NET
4 39 (18.22%) .NET Framework
5 26 (12.15%) React
6 19 (8.88%) RESTful
7 17 (7.94%) REST
8 12 (5.61%) HTML
9 10 (4.67%) CSS
9 10 (4.67%) Web Services
10 8 (3.74%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.27%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.27%) Vue
12 6 (2.80%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.34%) EDI
13 5 (2.34%) Node.js
14 4 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
14 4 (1.87%) Backbone.js
14 4 (1.87%) Playwright
15 3 (1.40%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.41%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.87%) Social Network
9 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.93%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.93%) IoT
10 2 (0.93%) Smart City
11 1 (0.47%) EMV
11 1 (0.47%) Java Card
11 1 (0.47%) Smartcard
11 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.80%) Windows
2 4 (1.87%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.71%) Agile
2 66 (30.84%) Software Engineering
3 59 (27.57%) CI/CD
4 43 (20.09%) Microservices
5 38 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (17.76%) DevOps
5 38 (17.76%) Mentoring
6 32 (14.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (14.95%) TDD
7 20 (9.35%) Clean Code
8 19 (8.88%) Containerisation
8 19 (8.88%) RAD
9 18 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (7.48%) Design Patterns
10 16 (7.48%) Test Automation
11 15 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (7.01%) SOLID
12 14 (6.54%) Scrum
12 14 (6.54%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.64%) SQL
2 30 (14.02%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.14%) PHP
3 11 (5.14%) TypeScript
4 10 (4.67%) Python
5 7 (3.27%) C++
6 6 (2.80%) Java
7 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (7.01%) Degree
2 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) QA
2 4 (1.87%) SLA
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 17 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.27%) Terraform
3 2 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.87%) Xamarin
3 2 (0.93%) Adyen
3 2 (0.93%) Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) Facebook
4 1 (0.47%) Google
4 1 (0.47%) OpenAI