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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing C# 174 372 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.59% 5.38% 8.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.93% 19.69% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 147 278 290
10th Percentile £41,098 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +5.69%

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 1,249 1,889 1,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 25.76% 27.31% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 729 1,055 1,265
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,225 £83,069
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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +7 131 £65,000 +13.04% 183
Cheshire -45 17 £55,000 +10.00% 61
Merseyside -34 14 £60,500 +58.17% 12
Lancashire -5 12 £44,942 -18.29% 77
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 4 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (1.15%) CMS
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.15%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 95 (54.60%) Azure
2 66 (37.93%) AWS
3 29 (16.67%) SaaS
4 15 (8.62%) GCP
5 11 (6.32%) Serverless
6 8 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.02%) Azure Functions
8 6 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.87%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.72%) GitHub
11 3 (1.72%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.15%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.15%) NuGet
12 2 (1.15%) PaaS
13 1 (0.57%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.29%) SQL Server
2 28 (16.09%) NoSQL
3 27 (15.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.30%) MySQL
5 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.72%) Power BI
6 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.15%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.15%) Redis
6 2 (1.15%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.15%) GitLab
4 2 (1.15%) JIRA
4 2 (1.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.57%) ESLint
5 1 (0.57%) NUnit
5 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.57%) Storybook
5 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 22 (12.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.75%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.17%) Finance
4 8 (4.60%) Retail
5 5 (2.87%) Back Office
5 5 (2.87%) Games
6 4 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.57%) Electronics
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (52.30%) Developer
2 47 (27.01%) Senior
3 39 (22.41%) .NET Developer
3 39 (22.41%) Lead
4 23 (13.22%) Software Engineer
5 22 (12.64%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.92%) Software Developer
7 14 (8.05%) Lead Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Architect
8 12 (6.90%) C# Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) AWS Architect
9 9 (5.17%) AWS Solution Architect
9 9 (5.17%) Lead .NET Developer
9 9 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.60%) Mathematician
10 8 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.60%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (71.84%) .NET
2 37 (21.26%) .NET Core
3 27 (15.52%) React
4 21 (12.07%) HTML
5 20 (11.49%) ASP.NET
6 18 (10.34%) .NET Framework
6 18 (10.34%) RESTful
7 17 (9.77%) Blazor
7 17 (9.77%) CSS
8 16 (9.20%) AngularJS
8 16 (9.20%) REST
9 12 (6.90%) Kafka
10 11 (6.32%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (6.32%) Entity Framework
11 8 (4.60%) Web Services
12 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.87%) CSS3
14 5 (2.87%) HTML5
14 5 (2.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.90%) Mobile App
5 9 (5.17%) Clustering
5 9 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.30%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.72%) Online Games
9 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Windows
2 4 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Android
4 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.53%) Agile
2 65 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 57 (32.76%) Microservices
4 53 (30.46%) DevOps
5 51 (29.31%) Software Engineering
6 33 (18.97%) Mentoring
7 32 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 28 (16.09%) Containerisation
10 26 (14.94%) TDD
11 23 (13.22%) Clean Code
12 20 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (10.92%) SOLID
13 19 (10.92%) User Experience
14 18 (10.34%) AI
15 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
16 16 (9.20%) Technology Roadmap
17 15 (8.62%) Performance Optimisation
17 15 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.31%) SQL
2 33 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 24 (13.79%) Java
4 23 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.64%) Python
6 7 (4.02%) PHP
6 7 (4.02%) Rust
7 6 (3.45%) C++
7 6 (3.45%) Ruby
8 5 (2.87%) C
9 4 (2.30%) Dart
9 4 (2.30%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.30%) R
10 3 (1.72%) Erlang
11 2 (1.15%) Go
12 1 (0.57%) Bash
12 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (9.77%) Degree
2 13 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (4.60%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) GDPR
2 8 (4.60%) HIPAA
2 8 (4.60%) NIST
3 6 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 28 (16.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.47%) Terraform
3 4 (2.30%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Google
3 5 (2.87%) Splunk
4 2 (1.15%) Aderant
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle
4 2 (1.15%) VMware
4 2 (1.15%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks
5 1 (0.57%) iManage
5 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.57%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) Talend