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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	58	100	27
Rank change year-on-year	+42	-73	-2
Permanent jobs citing C#	302	158	387
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West	2.34%	3.34%	5.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category	16.73%	11.38%	20.24%
Number of salaries quoted	260	131	287
10^th Percentile	£38,750	£40,870	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£46,217	£50,625	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£62,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	-12.00%	+25.00%	-13.04%
75^th Percentile	£72,500	£74,375	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£82,058	£85,000	£74,331
England median annual salary	£60,261	£61,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-2.02%	+2.50%	-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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	1,805	1,388	1,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West	13.99%	29.36%	27.00%
Number of salaries quoted	1,377	675	1,086
10^th Percentile	£38,763	£32,750	£35,250
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£41,250	£43,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	+4.55%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£70,000	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£80,850	£78,750
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-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# Salary Trend in the North West

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 19 October 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 19 October 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	-33	148	£55,000	-15.38%	118
Lancashire	+41	60	£55,000	+29.77%	12
Cheshire	+44	57	£65,000	+18.18%	21
Merseyside	-14	20	£60,000	-1.64%	11
Cumbria	-	14	£47,500	-	2
C# England

C# Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing C# also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region with a requirement for C#.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	63.2%	191
2	Azure	50.3%	152
3	Microsoft	38.1%	115
4	SQL	33.8%	102
5	Agile	32.5%	98
6	JavaScript	32.1%	97
7	Full-Stack Development	31.5%	95
8	Software Engineering	30.5%	92
9	CI/CD	29.5%	89
10	DevOps	28.8%	87
11	.NET Core	23.5%	71
12	AI	19.9%	60
12	Problem-Solving	19.9%	60
14	ASP.NET	19.5%	59
15	HTML	18.5%	56
16	CSS	17.9%	54
16	React	17.9%	54
18	Azure DevOps	17.5%	53
19	Mentoring	16.6%	50
19	SQL Server	16.6%	50
21	Continuous Improvement	15.9%	48
22	Azure SQL Database	15.6%	47
23	ASP.NET Core	15.2%	46
24	AWS	12.6%	38
25	Power Platform	12.3%	37
26	AngularJS	11.9%	36
26	Power Automate	11.9%	36
26	TypeScript	11.9%	36
29	Microservices	11.6%	35
29	MongoDB	11.6%	35

C# Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	33.8%	102
2	JavaScript	32.1%	97
3	TypeScript	11.9%	36
4	Java	9.9%	30
5	Python	9.3%	28
6	C++	6.0%	18
7	PHP	5.6%	17
8	Go	2.6%	8
9	C	2.0%	6
9	T-SQL	2.0%	6
11	VB.NET	1.3%	4
12	PowerShell	1.0%	3
13	Bicep	0.7%	2
13	Ladder Logic	0.7%	2
15	Kusto Query Language	0.3%	1
15	Objective-C	0.3%	1
15	Ruby	0.3%	1