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 citing C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	60	77	29
Rank change year-on-year	+17	-48	-7
Permanent jobs citing C#	289	180	361
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West	2.25%	3.42%	5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category	16.36%	16.41%	19.21%
Number of salaries quoted	240	153	267
10^th Percentile	£38,772	£41,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£48,625	£51,250	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,722	£62,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-7.64%	+25.00%	-11.11%
75^th Percentile	£70,686	£75,000	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£80,000	£85,000	£73,000
England median annual salary	£62,500	£60,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+4.17%	-	-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 citing coding skills in the North West.

	6 months to 12 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	1,767	1,097	1,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West	13.76%	20.85%	27.39%
Number of salaries quoted	1,308	740	1,039
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£32,500	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£41,250	£43,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,499	£57,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.69%	+4.55%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£70,188	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£81,250	£78,750
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-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# Salary Trend in the North West

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 12 November 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 12 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Manchester	-41	151	£56,357	-13.30%	125
Lancashire	+26	52	£55,000	+22.38%	8
Cheshire	+18	46	£65,000	+18.18%	29
Merseyside	-5	19	£60,000	-1.64%	16
Cumbria	-	18	£60,000	-
C# England

C# Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, job vacancies citing C# also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region citing C#.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	67.5%	195
2	Azure	48.4%	140
3	Microsoft	37.4%	108
4	Software Engineering	33.2%	96
5	Agile	32.2%	93
6	CI/CD	31.1%	90
6	JavaScript	31.1%	90
8	SQL	30.4%	88
9	Full-Stack Development	28.4%	82
10	DevOps	28.0%	81
11	.NET Core	21.5%	62
12	AI	20.8%	60
12	Problem-Solving	20.8%	60
14	HTML	18.3%	53
15	ASP.NET	17.3%	50
16	CSS	17.0%	49
16	React	17.0%	49
18	Azure DevOps	16.3%	47
19	Continuous Improvement	15.9%	46
20	Mentoring	15.6%	45
21	SQL Server	14.2%	41
22	ASP.NET Core	13.5%	39
23	Azure SQL Database	13.1%	38
23	TypeScript	13.1%	38
25	Power Platform	12.8%	37
26	Python	12.5%	36
26	SDLC	12.5%	36
28	AWS	11.8%	34
29	AngularJS	11.4%	33
30	Power Automate	11.1%	32

C# Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	JavaScript	31.1%	90
2	SQL	30.4%	88
3	TypeScript	13.1%	38
4	Python	12.5%	36
5	Java	9.7%	28
6	C++	8.0%	23
7	PHP	5.2%	15
8	T-SQL	3.1%	9
9	Go	2.8%	8
10	C	2.1%	6
11	VB.NET	1.4%	4
12	PowerShell	1.0%	3
13	Bicep	0.7%	2
13	Ladder Logic	0.7%	2
15	Kusto Query Language	0.3%	1
15	Objective-C	0.3%	1
15	Ruby	0.3%	1