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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 111 26
Rank change year-on-year +54 -85 +3
Permanent jobs citing C# 295 159 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.30% 3.08% 5.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.69% 9.22% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 260 131 303
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,870 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £74,777
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 requiring coding skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,768 1,725 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 33.42% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 680 1,124
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,250 £67,500
90th 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# 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 12 October 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 October 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 -39 142 £55,000 -15.38% 113
Cheshire +50 61 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Lancashire +61 58 £55,000 +29.77% 9
Merseyside -12 19 £60,000 -2.83% 8
Cumbria - 12 £47,500 - 3
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 25 (8.47%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.05%) CMS
3 5 (1.69%) IIS
4 4 (1.36%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.36%) WordPress
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Kentico
7 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.36%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 144 (48.81%) Azure
2 45 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (12.88%) AWS
4 35 (11.86%) Power Automate
4 35 (11.86%) Power Platform
5 28 (9.49%) PowerApps
6 23 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (6.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 18 (6.10%) Azure AI
8 18 (6.10%) SaaS
8 18 (6.10%) Serverless
9 15 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.41%) GitHub
11 9 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (2.03%) Azure Functions
13 6 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) HTTP
2 3 (1.02%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.29%) SQL Server
2 41 (13.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (10.51%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.08%) Power BI
5 14 (4.75%) MySQL
6 11 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.36%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.36%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.34%) Redis
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (7.80%) Git
2 7 (2.37%) Claude Code
3 6 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.69%) GitLab
5 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.02%) JUnit
6 3 (1.02%) NUnit
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) JIRA
7 2 (0.68%) MSTest
7 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) Gradle
8 1 (0.34%) Selenium
8 1 (0.34%) Xcode
General
1 35 (11.86%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.12%) Finance
3 17 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.08%) Banking
5 13 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.39%) Legal
7 10 (3.39%) Retail
8 8 (2.71%) Marketing
9 7 (2.37%) Games
10 6 (2.03%) Advertising
11 5 (1.69%) Law
12 3 (1.02%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) iGaming
13 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.68%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 176 (59.66%) Developer
2 73 (24.75%) Senior
3 61 (20.68%) .NET Developer
3 61 (20.68%) Senior Developer
4 58 (19.66%) Software Developer
5 42 (14.24%) Software Engineer
6 33 (11.19%) C# Developer
7 29 (9.83%) Senior Software Developer
8 27 (9.15%) Senior C# Developer
9 25 (8.47%) C# Software Developer
10 24 (8.14%) Lead
11 20 (6.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (6.44%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 16 (5.42%) Lead Developer
13 16 (5.42%) Microsoft 365 Developer
14 15 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
15 13 (4.41%) Graduate
16 12 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
17 9 (3.05%) Senior .NET Developer
18 8 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (60.34%) .NET
2 66 (22.37%) .NET Core
3 54 (18.31%) ASP.NET
4 53 (17.97%) HTML
5 51 (17.29%) CSS
5 51 (17.29%) React
6 41 (13.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 34 (11.53%) AngularJS
8 31 (10.51%) Entity Framework
9 28 (9.49%) Node.js
9 28 (9.49%) REST
10 24 (8.14%) ASP.NET Web API
10 24 (8.14%) Vue
11 21 (7.12%) RESTful
12 16 (5.42%) Blazor
13 15 (5.08%) .NET Framework
14 13 (4.41%) HTML5 Canvas
15 12 (4.07%) ML.NET
16 11 (3.73%) LINQ
16 11 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.03%) Social Network
5 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.36%) Contactless
7 4 (1.36%) EMV
7 4 (1.36%) Java Card
7 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.36%) Smartcard
8 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.02%) Online Gambling
8 3 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.03%) Windows
2 3 (1.02%) Android
2 3 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.19%) Agile
2 90 (30.51%) Software Engineering
3 88 (29.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 82 (27.80%) CI/CD
5 78 (26.44%) DevOps
6 60 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (19.32%) AI
8 51 (17.29%) Mentoring
9 50 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (11.86%) Microservices
11 30 (10.17%) SDLC
12 29 (9.83%) TDD
13 26 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (8.14%) API Integration
15 23 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (7.46%) API Development
16 22 (7.46%) Code Quality
17 20 (6.78%) Computer Science
17 20 (6.78%) Translating Business Requirements
18 19 (6.44%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 97 (32.88%) SQL
2 93 (31.53%) JavaScript
3 35 (11.86%) TypeScript
4 31 (10.51%) Java
5 27 (9.15%) Python
6 19 (6.44%) PHP
7 18 (6.10%) C++
8 8 (2.71%) Go
9 6 (2.03%) C
10 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.36%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.68%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (8.81%) Degree
2 16 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.81%) QA
2 8 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 3 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (8.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (5.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 107 (36.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.05%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.36%) NEC
4 3 (1.02%) Facebook
4 3 (1.02%) Splunk
4 3 (1.02%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.68%) Google
5 2 (0.68%) HP
5 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.68%) Talend
6 1 (0.34%) Apple
6 1 (0.34%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.34%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.34%) Databricks
6 1 (0.34%) Okta
6 1 (0.34%) Sony
6 1 (0.34%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.34%) Yahoo!