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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing C# 178 364 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.53% 5.33% 8.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.73% 19.42% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 156 270 282
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £44,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -
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% +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 902 1,874 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.88% 27.45% 39.99%
Number of salaries quoted 742 1,048 1,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,264
25th Percentile £41,938 £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 £70,563 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,250
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 20 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 20 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 +3 137 £65,000 +13.04% 146
Cheshire -39 19 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Lancashire +7 12 £44,942 -18.29% 59
Merseyside -33 10 £61,000 +74.29% 9
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 (2.25%) IIS
2 2 (1.12%) CMS
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 100 (56.18%) Azure
2 62 (34.83%) AWS
3 29 (16.29%) SaaS
4 14 (7.87%) GCP
5 11 (6.18%) Serverless
6 9 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.93%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.81%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.69%) GitHub
12 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.12%) NuGet
13 2 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.69%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.28%) SQL Server
2 31 (17.42%) NoSQL
3 25 (14.04%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.81%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.69%) Power BI
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) SQL CLR
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Git
2 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.69%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) GitLab
4 2 (1.12%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.56%) ESLint
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Storybook
5 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 22 (12.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.62%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.06%) Finance
4 7 (3.93%) Retail
5 5 (2.81%) Games
6 4 (2.25%) Back Office
6 4 (2.25%) Legal
7 3 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (54.49%) Developer
2 52 (29.21%) Senior
3 41 (23.03%) Lead
4 38 (21.35%) .NET Developer
5 26 (14.61%) Senior Developer
6 25 (14.04%) Software Engineer
7 24 (13.48%) Software Developer
8 16 (8.99%) Lead Developer
9 14 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (7.30%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.18%) Architect
12 8 (4.49%) AWS Architect
12 8 (4.49%) AWS Solution Architect
12 8 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Lead .NET Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Mathematician
12 8 (4.49%) Principal Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (74.72%) .NET
2 42 (23.60%) .NET Core
3 28 (15.73%) React
4 25 (14.04%) .NET Framework
5 23 (12.92%) ASP.NET
6 21 (11.80%) RESTful
7 18 (10.11%) CSS
7 18 (10.11%) HTML
8 16 (8.99%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.43%) Blazor
9 15 (8.43%) REST
10 12 (6.74%) Kafka
11 11 (6.18%) Entity Framework
12 10 (5.62%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (4.49%) Web Services
14 7 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
15 6 (3.37%) OAuth
15 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (2.81%) Akka.NET
16 5 (2.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (7.30%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (6.74%) Mobile App
6 11 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (4.49%) Clustering
8 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.81%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.69%) Online Games
11 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Windows
2 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Android
4 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (43.82%) Agile
2 70 (39.33%) CI/CD
3 59 (33.15%) Microservices
4 56 (31.46%) DevOps
5 55 (30.90%) Software Engineering
6 35 (19.66%) Mentoring
7 32 (17.98%) Containerisation
8 30 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (16.29%) TDD
10 28 (15.73%) Clean Code
11 23 (12.92%) Roadmaps
11 23 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (11.24%) User Experience
13 19 (10.67%) SOLID
14 17 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.43%) Coaching
15 15 (8.43%) Design Patterns
15 15 (8.43%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (8.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.78%) SQL
2 30 (16.85%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.24%) TypeScript
4 19 (10.67%) Java
5 17 (9.55%) Python
6 3 (1.69%) C++
6 3 (1.69%) Erlang
6 3 (1.69%) PHP
6 3 (1.69%) Rust
7 2 (1.12%) Go
7 2 (1.12%) Ruby
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) C
8 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (8.99%) Degree
2 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.93%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) GDPR
2 8 (4.49%) QA
3 7 (3.93%) HIPAA
3 7 (3.93%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.30%) Terraform
3 4 (2.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.18%) Google
3 5 (2.81%) Splunk
4 2 (1.12%) Aderant
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle
4 2 (1.12%) VMware
4 2 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) iManage
5 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) Talend