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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 62 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -49 +21
Permanent jobs citing C# 213 204 865
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.05% 4.91% 9.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.42% 14.49% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 199 174 729
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,873 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -5.69% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £81,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

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 1,297 1,408 2,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.51% 33.91% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 830 2,363
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,975 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,165 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -6 128 £65,000 +8.33% 59
Cheshire -11 58 £55,000 +22.22% 18
Merseyside -34 14 £45,000 +38.46% 4
Lancashire +3 12 £52,500 +3.16% 33
Cumbria -19 1 £45,000 +5.88% 3
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 (0.94%) nginx
1 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 126 (59.15%) Azure
2 27 (12.68%) SaaS
3 24 (11.27%) AWS
4 16 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (6.57%) Power Automate
6 14 (6.57%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (5.63%) Azure AKS
8 12 (5.63%) Azure Functions
8 12 (5.63%) Serverless
9 11 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.88%) Twilio
12 3 (1.41%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.41%) GCP
13 2 (0.94%) GitHub
13 2 (0.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (30.05%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.69%) Power BI
4 8 (3.76%) MySQL
5 6 (2.82%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.94%) PostHog
7 2 (0.94%) Redis
8 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (1.41%) Selenium
3 2 (0.94%) JIRA
3 2 (0.94%) NUnit
3 2 (0.94%) TestRail
3 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.47%) MSTest
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
4 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (8.92%) Social Skills
2 15 (7.04%) Finance
3 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.82%) Retail
5 4 (1.88%) Banking
5 4 (1.88%) Law
5 4 (1.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.41%) Games
6 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Legal
7 2 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.47%) Advertising
8 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (58.22%) Developer
2 62 (29.11%) Software Developer
3 61 (28.64%) Senior
4 51 (23.94%) Lead
5 49 (23.00%) Software Engineer
6 43 (20.19%) Senior Developer
7 41 (19.25%) C# Developer
8 38 (17.84%) .NET Developer
9 31 (14.55%) Lead Developer
10 27 (12.68%) Senior Software Developer
11 24 (11.27%) C# Software Developer
12 16 (7.51%) C# Software Engineer
12 16 (7.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.04%) Lead Software Developer
13 15 (7.04%) Senior C# Developer
14 11 (5.16%) Applications Developer
14 11 (5.16%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (4.69%) Analyst
15 10 (4.69%) Senior .NET Developer
15 10 (4.69%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (67.14%) .NET
2 65 (30.52%) .NET Core
3 47 (22.07%) ASP.NET
4 40 (18.78%) .NET Framework
5 24 (11.27%) React
6 16 (7.51%) REST
6 16 (7.51%) RESTful
7 13 (6.10%) HTML
8 11 (5.16%) CSS
9 10 (4.69%) Web Services
10 8 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.29%) Vue
12 5 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (2.35%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.35%) Node.js
13 4 (1.88%) Backbone.js
13 4 (1.88%) EDI
13 4 (1.88%) Playwright
14 3 (1.41%) Sass
14 3 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.45%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.29%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.41%) Social Network
8 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.94%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.94%) Digital Signage
8 2 (0.94%) IoT
8 2 (0.94%) Smart City
9 1 (0.47%) Contactless
9 1 (0.47%) EMV
9 1 (0.47%) Java Card
9 1 (0.47%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.35%) Windows
2 4 (1.88%) Android
3 2 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.39%) Agile
2 67 (31.46%) Software Engineering
3 59 (27.70%) CI/CD
4 43 (20.19%) Microservices
5 38 (17.84%) Mentoring
6 37 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (16.90%) DevOps
8 33 (15.49%) TDD
9 30 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (9.86%) Clean Code
11 21 (9.86%) Containerisation
12 19 (8.92%) RAD
12 19 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (7.98%) Design Patterns
14 16 (7.51%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (7.04%) Software Architecture
15 15 (7.04%) SOLID
16 14 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 74 (34.74%) SQL
2 29 (13.62%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.63%) Python
4 11 (5.16%) PHP
4 11 (5.16%) TypeScript
5 7 (3.29%) C++
6 6 (2.82%) Java
7 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.47%) Bash
8 1 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (7.04%) Degree
2 8 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) QA
2 3 (1.41%) SLA
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 19 (8.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 53 (24.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.88%) Xamarin
3 2 (0.94%) Aderant
3 2 (0.94%) Adyen
3 2 (0.94%) Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) Databricks
4 1 (0.47%) Facebook
4 1 (0.47%) Google