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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 23 31
Rank change year-on-year -84 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing C# 165 497 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.20% 6.41% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.11% 23.93% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 133 362 286
10th Percentile £37,750 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,027 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -13.00% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

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 1,812 2,077 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 35.17% 26.79% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 696 1,294 1,371
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,710 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for C# 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -21 119 £65,000 +18.18% 103
Merseyside -31 20 £63,750 +27.50% 14
Cheshire -66 16 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Lancashire -51 10 £42,384 -15.23% 69
C#
England

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.06%) IIS
2 3 (1.82%) Apache
2 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.82%) CMS
2 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.61%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 88 (53.33%) Azure
2 74 (44.85%) AWS
3 26 (15.76%) SaaS
4 18 (10.91%) GCP
5 11 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.67%) Serverless
6 7 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.42%) Firebase
8 4 (2.42%) GitHub
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.82%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.21%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.21%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.82%) HTTP
1 3 (1.82%) Internet
2 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (32.12%) SQL Server
2 34 (20.61%) NoSQL
3 28 (16.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.42%) Big Data
4 4 (2.42%) MySQL
5 3 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.82%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.82%) SQL CLR
6 2 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.21%) Redis
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Power BI
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (10.91%) Git
2 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.82%) JMeter
3 2 (1.21%) ESLint
3 2 (1.21%) JIRA
3 2 (1.21%) NUnit
3 2 (1.21%) Storybook
3 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.21%) webpack
4 1 (0.61%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.61%) Selenium
4 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (11.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.88%) Finance
3 12 (7.27%) Retail
4 9 (5.45%) Back Office
5 6 (3.64%) Games
6 2 (1.21%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.21%) Marketing
7 1 (0.61%) Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Law
7 1 (0.61%) Legal
7 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 95 (57.58%) Developer
2 52 (31.52%) Senior
3 49 (29.70%) .NET Developer
4 35 (21.21%) Lead
5 24 (14.55%) Software Engineer
6 20 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 19 (11.52%) Lead Developer
8 16 (9.70%) C# Developer
9 15 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (8.48%) Architect
11 13 (7.88%) AWS Architect
11 13 (7.88%) AWS Solution Architect
11 13 (7.88%) Lead .NET Developer
11 13 (7.88%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (7.27%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (7.27%) DevOps Architect
12 12 (7.27%) Senior Architect
12 12 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (7.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 12 (7.27%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (75.15%) .NET
2 41 (24.85%) .NET Core
3 26 (15.76%) HTML
4 24 (14.55%) ASP.NET
5 23 (13.94%) CSS
6 20 (12.12%) Blazor
7 19 (11.52%) .NET Framework
8 18 (10.91%) React
9 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
10 15 (9.09%) Kafka
10 15 (9.09%) REST
10 15 (9.09%) RESTful
11 14 (8.48%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (7.88%) Web Services
13 12 (7.27%) Entity Framework
14 10 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (5.45%) WinForms
16 8 (4.85%) JSON
17 7 (4.24%) Razor View Engine
17 7 (4.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.70%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.88%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 12 (7.27%) Mobile App
5 10 (6.06%) Clustering
5 10 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.82%) Online Games
7 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.06%) Windows
2 4 (2.42%) Linux
3 3 (1.82%) Android
3 3 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (47.27%) Agile
2 61 (36.97%) DevOps
3 60 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 59 (35.76%) Microservices
5 48 (29.09%) Software Engineering
6 37 (22.42%) Roadmaps
7 32 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (17.58%) Mentoring
9 28 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (14.55%) Containerisation
10 24 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (14.55%) TDD
11 22 (13.33%) Design Patterns
12 20 (12.12%) Clean Code
12 20 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 20 (12.12%) Technology Roadmap
13 19 (11.52%) Data Privacy
13 19 (11.52%) Kanban
13 19 (11.52%) OOP
13 19 (11.52%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 65 (39.39%) SQL
2 33 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 29 (17.58%) Java
4 28 (16.97%) Python
5 13 (7.88%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.45%) Ruby
7 7 (4.24%) PHP
8 6 (3.64%) C++
8 6 (3.64%) Rust
9 5 (3.03%) C
10 4 (2.42%) Dart
10 4 (2.42%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.42%) R
10 4 (2.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) Bash
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (15.76%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.27%) AWS Certification
3 12 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.70%) GDPR
2 12 (7.27%) HIPAA
2 12 (7.27%) NIST
3 5 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (21.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.52%) Terraform
3 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.30%) Google
2 16 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.24%) Splunk
4 3 (1.82%) VMware
5 2 (1.21%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.61%) HP
6 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle
6 1 (0.61%) Talend