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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 37 15
Rank change year-on-year -27 -22 +8
Permanent jobs citing C# 180 245 660
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.42% 5.42% 9.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.91% 18.70% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 174 182 583
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 952 1,310 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.79% 28.96% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 791 785 1,974
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,981 £33,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -9 129 £65,000 +8.33% 77
Cheshire -24 38 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Lancashire -8 10 £57,500 +8.60% 47
Merseyside -40 3 £77,500 +138.46% 10
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 (1.11%) nginx
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 113 (62.78%) Azure
2 35 (19.44%) AWS
3 30 (16.67%) SaaS
4 11 (6.11%) Azure Functions
4 11 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (6.11%) Serverless
5 9 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 9 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.78%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.22%) Twilio
9 3 (1.67%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.67%) GCP
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) HTTP
2 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.44%) SQL Server
2 23 (12.78%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.89%) MySQL
5 4 (2.22%) Power BI
6 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.11%) PostHog
6 2 (1.11%) Redis
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Git
2 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.11%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 17 (9.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 8 (4.44%) Finance
4 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Legal
6 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.67%) Retail
7 2 (1.11%) Games
7 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.11%) Law
7 2 (1.11%) Local Government
7 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 103 (57.22%) Developer
2 56 (31.11%) Lead
2 56 (31.11%) Senior
3 47 (26.11%) Software Developer
4 36 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 36 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 35 (19.44%) .NET Developer
6 33 (18.33%) Lead Developer
7 21 (11.67%) Senior Software Developer
8 18 (10.00%) C# Developer
9 15 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (7.78%) Lead Software Developer
11 10 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.44%) Azure Developer
13 8 (4.44%) Lead .NET Developer
14 7 (3.89%) .NET Software Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.89%) Mathematician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (80.00%) .NET
2 67 (37.22%) .NET Core
3 44 (24.44%) ASP.NET
4 38 (21.11%) .NET Framework
5 33 (18.33%) React
6 21 (11.67%) RESTful
7 15 (8.33%) REST
8 13 (7.22%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.22%) CSS
8 13 (7.22%) HTML
9 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (3.89%) Web Services
11 5 (2.78%) Akka
11 5 (2.78%) Akka.NET
11 5 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (2.78%) Vue
12 4 (2.22%) Entity Framework
12 4 (2.22%) HTML5
12 4 (2.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.11%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.89%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.67%) Clustering
8 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.11%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.11%) IoT
9 2 (1.11%) Smart City
10 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Windows
2 3 (1.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (42.22%) Agile
2 63 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 60 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 50 (27.78%) Microservices
5 35 (19.44%) DevOps
6 34 (18.89%) TDD
7 33 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (18.33%) Mentoring
8 30 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 24 (13.33%) Clean Code
11 21 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (10.56%) RAD
12 19 (10.56%) SOLID
13 18 (10.00%) User Experience
14 17 (9.44%) Scrum
15 16 (8.89%) SDLC
16 14 (7.78%) Design Patterns
16 14 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (7.22%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.33%) SQL
2 24 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 6 (3.33%) Java
5 5 (2.78%) PHP
5 5 (2.78%) Python
6 3 (1.67%) C++
6 3 (1.67%) Erlang
6 3 (1.67%) Rust
7 2 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (4.44%) Degree
2 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (10.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (1.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 42 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.11%) Aderant
2 2 (1.11%) Foundry
3 1 (0.56%) Adyen
3 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.56%) Databricks
3 1 (0.56%) iManage
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) SAP
3 1 (0.56%) Xamarin