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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing C# 173 345 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.49% 5.53% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 19.43% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 156 260 274
10th Percentile £41,060 £31,250 £39,050
25th Percentile £52,188 £42,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +3.12%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 858 1,776 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.33% 28.44% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 710 1,002 1,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,375 £42,500 £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 £71,250 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £80,000 £82,548
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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -2 136 £65,000 +13.04% 79
Cheshire -38 17 £55,000 +10.00% 20
Lancashire +1 11 £42,384 -22.94% 45
Merseyside -36 9 £56,750 +74.62% 8
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 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.58%) CMS
1 1 (0.58%) IIS
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.58%) nginx
1 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 103 (59.54%) Azure
2 54 (31.21%) AWS
3 33 (19.08%) SaaS
4 13 (7.51%) Serverless
5 10 (5.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (5.78%) GCP
6 9 (5.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.20%) Azure Functions
7 8 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.89%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.31%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.31%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.16%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.16%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.31%) HTTP
2 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.43%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.92%) NoSQL
3 21 (12.14%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.62%) MySQL
5 4 (2.31%) Power BI
6 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.58%) PostHog
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.58%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 13 (7.51%) Git
2 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.73%) Selenium
3 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.58%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.58%) ESLint
5 1 (0.58%) NUnit
5 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.58%) Storybook
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 20 (11.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.62%) Manufacturing
3 7 (4.05%) Retail
4 6 (3.47%) Finance
5 4 (2.31%) Games
5 4 (2.31%) Legal
6 3 (1.73%) Back Office
6 3 (1.73%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.58%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.58%) Electronics
8 1 (0.58%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 93 (53.76%) Developer
2 53 (30.64%) Senior
3 44 (25.43%) Lead
4 38 (21.97%) .NET Developer
5 29 (16.76%) Senior Developer
6 28 (16.18%) Software Developer
7 25 (14.45%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.94%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (5.78%) Architect
11 10 (5.78%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Principal Developer
12 9 (5.20%) Team Leader
13 8 (4.62%) C# Developer
14 7 (4.05%) AWS Architect
14 7 (4.05%) Lead .NET Developer
14 7 (4.05%) Lead Software Developer
14 7 (4.05%) Mathematician
14 7 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (76.88%) .NET
2 40 (23.12%) .NET Core
3 29 (16.76%) React
4 28 (16.18%) .NET Framework
5 25 (14.45%) ASP.NET
6 20 (11.56%) RESTful
7 19 (10.98%) CSS
7 19 (10.98%) HTML
8 16 (9.25%) AngularJS
8 16 (9.25%) REST
9 13 (7.51%) Blazor
10 10 (5.78%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (5.20%) Entity Framework
12 8 (4.62%) Kafka
13 7 (4.05%) Web Services
14 6 (3.47%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (3.47%) Next.js
15 5 (2.89%) Akka
15 5 (2.89%) Akka.NET
15 5 (2.89%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.25%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.51%) Mobile App
5 12 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (4.05%) Clustering
7 7 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.89%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.16%) Online Games
11 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.16%) Android
2 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.51%) Agile
2 70 (40.46%) CI/CD
3 60 (34.68%) Microservices
4 53 (30.64%) DevOps
4 53 (30.64%) Software Engineering
5 37 (21.39%) Mentoring
6 33 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (18.50%) Containerisation
8 31 (17.92%) TDD
9 29 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (15.61%) Clean Code
11 23 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (12.72%) SOLID
12 22 (12.72%) User Experience
13 21 (12.14%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.83%) Event-Driven
15 15 (8.67%) Coaching
15 15 (8.67%) Collaborative Culture
15 15 (8.67%) Design Patterns
15 15 (8.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (27.75%) SQL
2 28 (16.18%) JavaScript
3 22 (12.72%) TypeScript
4 16 (9.25%) Java
5 14 (8.09%) Python
6 5 (2.89%) PHP
7 3 (1.73%) C++
7 3 (1.73%) Erlang
7 3 (1.73%) Rust
8 2 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (0.58%) Bash
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) Ruby
9 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (7.51%) Degree
2 6 (3.47%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (3.47%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) GDPR
3 6 (3.47%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.47%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (17.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) HDFS
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (15.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.94%) Terraform
3 5 (2.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.62%) Google
3 3 (1.73%) Splunk
4 2 (1.16%) Aderant
4 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.58%) Databricks
5 1 (0.58%) iManage
5 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle
5 1 (0.58%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) Talend
5 1 (0.58%) VMware