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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 81 13
Rank change year-on-year +13 -68 +21
Permanent jobs citing C# 230 205 879
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 4.54% 9.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.55% 11.81% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 217 176 743
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,625 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 1,390 1,736 2,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.61% 38.44% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 836 2,371
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
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 £75,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -5 125 £62,500 +4.17% 54
Cheshire +14 64 £55,000 +29.41% 15
Lancashire +33 23 £55,000 +8.08% 33
Merseyside -37 15 £45,000 +38.46% 3
Cumbria -15 3 £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 3 (1.30%) CMS
1 3 (1.30%) IIS
1 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.87%) nginx
2 2 (0.87%) WordPress
3 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 136 (59.13%) Azure
2 28 (12.17%) AWS
3 25 (10.87%) SaaS
4 18 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 17 (7.39%) Power Automate
6 16 (6.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.52%) PowerApps
8 14 (6.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 14 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (5.65%) Serverless
10 12 (5.22%) Azure Functions
11 11 (4.78%) Azure AKS
11 11 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (2.17%) Azure AI
14 4 (1.74%) GCP
14 4 (1.74%) GitHub
14 4 (1.74%) Twilio
15 2 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (30.87%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (5.22%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.78%) Power BI
6 10 (4.35%) MySQL
7 7 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.87%) PostHog
9 2 (0.87%) Redis
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) Git
2 3 (1.30%) GitLab
3 2 (0.87%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.87%) MSTest
3 2 (0.87%) NUnit
3 2 (0.87%) Selenium
3 2 (0.87%) TestRail
4 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Postman
4 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (8.26%) Finance
1 19 (8.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (3.91%) Banking
4 8 (3.48%) Retail
5 5 (2.17%) Law
5 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.74%) Games
6 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.87%) Advertising
7 2 (0.87%) Legal
7 2 (0.87%) Local Government
7 2 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (61.30%) Developer
2 68 (29.57%) Software Developer
3 65 (28.26%) Senior
4 50 (21.74%) Senior Developer
5 48 (20.87%) C# Developer
5 48 (20.87%) Lead
6 47 (20.43%) Software Engineer
7 46 (20.00%) .NET Developer
8 33 (14.35%) Senior Software Developer
9 30 (13.04%) C# Software Developer
9 30 (13.04%) Lead Developer
10 23 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
11 18 (7.83%) C# Software Engineer
12 16 (6.96%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 15 (6.52%) Lead Software Developer
14 14 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (4.78%) Applications Developer
15 11 (4.78%) C# .NET Developer
16 10 (4.35%) .NET Software Developer
16 10 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (66.96%) .NET
2 71 (30.87%) .NET Core
3 57 (24.78%) ASP.NET
4 39 (16.96%) .NET Framework
5 27 (11.74%) React
6 21 (9.13%) REST
7 18 (7.83%) HTML
7 18 (7.83%) RESTful
8 17 (7.39%) CSS
9 13 (5.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (5.65%) Entity Framework
10 10 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.35%) Web Services
11 8 (3.48%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (3.48%) Vue
12 7 (3.04%) Node.js
13 5 (2.17%) Blazor
13 5 (2.17%) EDI
13 5 (2.17%) Razor View Engine
14 4 (1.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.26%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Social Network
8 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.87%) Contactless
9 2 (0.87%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.87%) EMV
9 2 (0.87%) IoT
9 2 (0.87%) Java Card
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.87%) Smart City
9 2 (0.87%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.17%) Android
1 5 (2.17%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.17%) Agile
2 65 (28.26%) Software Engineering
3 63 (27.39%) CI/CD
4 43 (18.70%) Microservices
5 41 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (17.39%) DevOps
7 38 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (16.52%) Mentoring
8 35 (15.22%) TDD
9 33 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (8.26%) RAD
11 18 (7.83%) Clean Code
11 18 (7.83%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.39%) AI
12 17 (7.39%) API Integration
13 16 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (6.52%) Design Patterns
14 15 (6.52%) SOLID
14 15 (6.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.78%) SQL
2 36 (15.65%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.22%) TypeScript
4 11 (4.78%) PHP
5 10 (4.35%) Python
6 8 (3.48%) Java
7 7 (3.04%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 17 (7.39%) Degree
2 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) SLA
3 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (9.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.48%) Terraform
3 2 (0.87%) Grafana
Vendors
1 63 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.17%) Xamarin
3 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.87%) Adyen
4 2 (0.87%) Facebook
4 2 (0.87%) Foundry
4 2 (0.87%) Splunk
5 1 (0.43%) Google