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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 111 14
Rank change year-on-year +58 -97 +19
Permanent jobs citing C# 259 175 937
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.43% 3.73% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.58% 9.22% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 242 141 777
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,676 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £76,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,562 1,898 3,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.65% 40.46% 28.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 785 2,489
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.04%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +15 131 £62,500 +4.17% 72
Cheshire +39 73 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Lancashire +53 35 £55,000 +11.80% 26
Merseyside -31 17 £45,000 +38.46% 10
Cumbria -21 3 £45,000 +5.88% 4
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 5 (1.93%) CMS
1 5 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.54%) IIS
2 4 (1.54%) WordPress
3 3 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 141 (54.44%) Azure
2 37 (14.29%) AWS
3 28 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.88%) SaaS
5 20 (7.72%) Power Automate
5 20 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.18%) PowerApps
6 16 (6.18%) Serverless
7 14 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.25%) Azure Functions
9 9 (3.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (3.09%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.09%) GitHub
11 6 (2.32%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.54%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.54%) GCP
12 4 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.79%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.63%) Power BI
6 10 (3.86%) MySQL
7 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.77%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (6.18%) Git
2 4 (1.54%) Claude Code
2 4 (1.54%) GitLab
2 4 (1.54%) JIRA
3 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.77%) MSTest
3 2 (0.77%) NUnit
3 2 (0.77%) Selenium
3 2 (0.77%) TestRail
4 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.39%) Postman
4 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (11.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.42%) Finance
3 16 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.02%) Banking
5 10 (3.86%) Retail
6 8 (3.09%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.32%) Games
8 5 (1.93%) Law
8 5 (1.93%) Legal
8 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.54%) Marketing
9 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 149 (57.53%) Developer
2 71 (27.41%) Software Developer
3 68 (26.25%) Senior
4 56 (21.62%) C# Developer
5 52 (20.08%) Software Engineer
6 48 (18.53%) Senior Developer
7 46 (17.76%) .NET Developer
7 46 (17.76%) Lead
8 38 (14.67%) C# Software Developer
9 32 (12.36%) Senior Software Developer
10 31 (11.97%) Lead Developer
11 28 (10.81%) Senior C# Developer
12 20 (7.72%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 19 (7.34%) C# Software Engineer
14 18 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (5.41%) Lead Software Developer
16 12 (4.63%) C# .NET Developer
16 12 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (4.25%) .NET Software Developer
17 11 (4.25%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (63.32%) .NET
2 70 (27.03%) .NET Core
3 55 (21.24%) ASP.NET
4 32 (12.36%) React
5 30 (11.58%) .NET Framework
6 28 (10.81%) REST
7 24 (9.27%) CSS
8 23 (8.88%) HTML
9 17 (6.56%) Entity Framework
10 16 (6.18%) RESTful
11 14 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.02%) AngularJS
13 12 (4.63%) Vue
14 11 (4.25%) Node.js
15 10 (3.86%) ASP.NET Web API
16 8 (3.09%) Web Services
17 7 (2.70%) Blazor
18 6 (2.32%) ASP.NET MVC
19 5 (1.93%) LINQ
19 5 (1.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.95%) Mobile App
3 17 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.32%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.93%) Social Network
10 4 (1.54%) Contactless
10 4 (1.54%) EMV
10 4 (1.54%) Java Card
10 4 (1.54%) Smartcard
11 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.16%) IoT
11 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.16%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.77%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.93%) Android
1 5 (1.93%) Windows
2 4 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (30.89%) Software Engineering
2 72 (27.80%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.41%) Agile
4 56 (21.62%) DevOps
5 55 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (17.76%) Mentoring
6 46 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (15.44%) Microservices
9 33 (12.74%) AI
9 33 (12.74%) TDD
10 22 (8.49%) API Integration
11 21 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (6.95%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (6.56%) Test Automation
14 16 (6.18%) API Development
14 16 (6.18%) Clean Code
14 16 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (5.79%) Containerisation
15 15 (5.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 89 (34.36%) SQL
2 48 (18.53%) JavaScript
3 21 (8.11%) Python
4 16 (6.18%) Java
4 16 (6.18%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.63%) C++
6 10 (3.86%) PHP
7 3 (1.16%) Go
7 3 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.16%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (6.18%) Degree
2 12 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.79%) QA
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 7816
2 4 (1.54%) SLA
3 1 (0.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (6.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.32%) OpenAI
3 5 (1.93%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.16%) Splunk
5 2 (0.77%) Adyen
5 2 (0.77%) Facebook
5 2 (0.77%) Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Databricks
6 1 (0.39%) Google