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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 34 14
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 +6
Permanent jobs citing C# 181 262 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.66% 5.32% 9.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.59% 18.62% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 171 195 514
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,625 £64,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 879 1,407 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.93% 28.59% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 731 802 1,744
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,025 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +3 129 £65,000 +8.33% 75
Cheshire -17 39 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Lancashire -7 9 £60,000 +9.09% 46
Merseyside -38 4 £65,000 +100.00% 11
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 (1.10%) nginx
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) CMS
2 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 118 (65.19%) Azure
2 38 (20.99%) AWS
3 36 (19.89%) SaaS
4 13 (7.18%) Azure Functions
4 13 (7.18%) Serverless
5 12 (6.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.08%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.87%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.21%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.66%) Azure AI
11 3 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.66%) GCP
12 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.21%) HTTP
2 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (30.94%) SQL Server
2 22 (12.15%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.73%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.87%) MySQL
5 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.21%) Power BI
6 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.10%) PostHog
6 2 (1.10%) Redis
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Git
2 3 (1.66%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.10%) GitLab
3 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (0.55%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.55%) NUnit
4 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (8.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.42%) Manufacturing
3 5 (2.76%) Finance
4 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.66%) Legal
5 3 (1.66%) Retail
6 2 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Games
6 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Local Government
6 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.55%) Back Office
7 1 (0.55%) Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Electronics
7 1 (0.55%) Law
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (60.77%) Developer
2 57 (31.49%) Lead
2 57 (31.49%) Senior
3 45 (24.86%) Software Developer
4 40 (22.10%) .NET Developer
5 37 (20.44%) Senior Developer
6 34 (18.78%) Lead Developer
7 30 (16.57%) Software Engineer
8 20 (11.05%) Senior Software Developer
9 18 (9.94%) C# Developer
10 15 (8.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (7.73%) Lead Software Developer
12 11 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.52%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (5.52%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (4.97%) Lead .NET Developer
15 8 (4.42%) Azure Developer
15 8 (4.42%) Team Leader
16 7 (3.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.87%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (82.32%) .NET
2 64 (35.36%) .NET Core
3 44 (24.31%) ASP.NET
4 38 (20.99%) .NET Framework
5 35 (19.34%) React
6 20 (11.05%) RESTful
7 18 (9.94%) REST
8 15 (8.29%) AngularJS
9 14 (7.73%) CSS
9 14 (7.73%) HTML
10 9 (4.97%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (3.31%) Blazor
12 6 (3.31%) Entity Framework
12 6 (3.31%) Vue
13 5 (2.76%) Akka
13 5 (2.76%) CSS3
13 5 (2.76%) HTML5
13 5 (2.76%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (2.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.73%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.63%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.87%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.21%) Clustering
8 3 (1.66%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.10%) Digital Signage
9 2 (1.10%) IoT
9 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.10%) Smart City
10 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.21%) Linux
1 4 (2.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.66%) Android
3 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.65%) Agile
2 61 (33.70%) CI/CD
3 58 (32.04%) Software Engineering
4 50 (27.62%) Microservices
5 36 (19.89%) DevOps
5 36 (19.89%) TDD
6 35 (19.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 31 (17.13%) Mentoring
8 30 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (14.36%) Containerisation
10 23 (12.71%) Clean Code
10 23 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (11.60%) SOLID
12 19 (10.50%) RAD
13 18 (9.94%) User Experience
14 16 (8.84%) SDLC
15 15 (8.29%) Collaborative Culture
16 14 (7.73%) Design Patterns
16 14 (7.73%) Scrum
17 13 (7.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.97%) SQL
2 24 (13.26%) JavaScript
3 22 (12.15%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.87%) Java
5 6 (3.31%) Python
6 5 (2.76%) PHP
7 3 (1.66%) C++
7 3 (1.66%) Erlang
7 3 (1.66%) Rust
8 2 (1.10%) Bash
8 2 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (4.42%) Degree
2 2 (1.10%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) QA
2 2 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (10.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.52%) Terraform
3 3 (1.66%) Grafana
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.66%) Xamarin
3 2 (1.10%) Aderant
3 2 (1.10%) Foundry
4 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.55%) Databricks
4 1 (0.55%) iManage
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle
4 1 (0.55%) SAP