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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 165 360 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.36% 5.50% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.69% 19.87% 21.52%
Number of salaries quoted 148 271 281
10th Percentile £41,136 £31,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +1.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £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 838 1,812 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.04% 27.69% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 693 1,023 1,184
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £72,433
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £83,750
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 1 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 1 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 -3 128 £65,000 +13.04% 65
Cheshire -37 17 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Lancashire -3 11 £42,384 -22.94% 44
Merseyside -36 9 £56,750 +62.14% 7
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 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.61%) CMS
1 1 (0.61%) IIS
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.61%) nginx
1 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 97 (58.79%) Azure
2 54 (32.73%) AWS
3 29 (17.58%) SaaS
4 10 (6.06%) GCP
4 10 (6.06%) Serverless
5 9 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (3.64%) Azure Functions
8 5 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.42%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.21%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.21%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 2 (1.21%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) HTTP
2 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.45%) SQL Server
2 29 (17.58%) NoSQL
3 21 (12.73%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.24%) MySQL
5 4 (2.42%) Power BI
6 2 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.61%) Big Data
7 1 (0.61%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.61%) PostHog
7 1 (0.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.82%) Selenium
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.61%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.61%) ESLint
5 1 (0.61%) NUnit
5 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.61%) Storybook
5 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 20 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
3 7 (4.24%) Retail
4 6 (3.64%) Finance
5 4 (2.42%) Games
5 4 (2.42%) Legal
6 3 (1.82%) Back Office
6 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (52.12%) Developer
2 48 (29.09%) Senior
3 43 (26.06%) Lead
4 34 (20.61%) .NET Developer
5 27 (16.36%) Software Developer
6 25 (15.15%) Software Engineer
7 24 (14.55%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.70%) Lead Developer
9 13 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (6.06%) Architect
11 9 (5.45%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (4.85%) C# Developer
12 8 (4.85%) Principal Developer
12 8 (4.85%) Team Leader
13 7 (4.24%) AWS Architect
13 7 (4.24%) Lead .NET Developer
13 7 (4.24%) Lead Software Developer
13 7 (4.24%) Mathematician
13 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (76.36%) .NET
2 38 (23.03%) .NET Core
3 28 (16.97%) React
4 27 (16.36%) .NET Framework
5 23 (13.94%) ASP.NET
6 19 (11.52%) RESTful
7 18 (10.91%) CSS
7 18 (10.91%) HTML
8 16 (9.70%) AngularJS
9 13 (7.88%) Blazor
9 13 (7.88%) REST
10 9 (5.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (5.45%) Entity Framework
11 8 (4.85%) Kafka
12 7 (4.24%) Web Services
13 6 (3.64%) Next.js
14 5 (3.03%) Akka
14 5 (3.03%) Akka.NET
14 5 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 5 (3.03%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.70%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.24%) Clustering
6 6 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.42%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.21%) Online Games
9 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Android
2 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.64%) Agile
2 65 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 58 (35.15%) Microservices
4 53 (32.12%) Software Engineering
5 51 (30.91%) DevOps
6 37 (22.42%) Mentoring
7 31 (18.79%) Containerisation
8 30 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (16.36%) TDD
11 26 (15.76%) Clean Code
12 22 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (13.33%) User Experience
13 21 (12.73%) Roadmaps
14 18 (10.91%) SOLID
15 16 (9.70%) Event-Driven
16 15 (9.09%) Coaching
16 15 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
17 14 (8.48%) Design Patterns
17 14 (8.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.48%) SQL
2 27 (16.36%) JavaScript
3 21 (12.73%) TypeScript
4 16 (9.70%) Java
5 14 (8.48%) Python
6 4 (2.42%) PHP
7 3 (1.82%) Erlang
7 3 (1.82%) Rust
8 2 (1.21%) C++
8 2 (1.21%) Go
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) Ruby
9 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (7.88%) Degree
2 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
2 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.21%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.85%) GDPR
1 8 (4.85%) QA
2 6 (3.64%) HIPAA
2 6 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) HDFS
3 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.27%) Terraform
3 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) Google
3 3 (1.82%) Splunk
4 2 (1.21%) Aderant
4 2 (1.21%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.61%) Databricks
5 1 (0.61%) iManage
5 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.61%) Talend
5 1 (0.61%) VMware