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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 31 15
Rank change year-on-year -35 -16 +10
Permanent jobs citing C# 187 236 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 6.15% 9.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.12% 20.79% 29.42%
Number of salaries quoted 180 196 674
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,159
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,152 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,472 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.84% -4.32% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,813 £63,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £83,500 £84,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 1,032 1,135 2,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.41% 29.59% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 838 841 2,238
10th Percentile £34,275 £35,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 19 March 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 March 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 -13 130 £65,000 +9.24% 52
Cheshire -30 40 £55,000 +10.00% 15
Lancashire -12 11 £55,000 +8.08% 28
Merseyside -38 6 £45,000 +38.46% 6
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 (1.07%) nginx
2 1 (0.53%) CMS
2 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 113 (60.43%) Azure
2 32 (17.11%) SaaS
3 27 (14.44%) AWS
4 13 (6.95%) Azure Functions
4 13 (6.95%) Serverless
5 12 (6.42%) Azure AKS
5 12 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (5.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (4.81%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.81%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.14%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.14%) Twilio
11 3 (1.60%) GCP
12 2 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.07%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.14%) HTTP
2 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.34%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.83%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.28%) MySQL
4 8 (4.28%) Power BI
5 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.07%) PostHog
6 2 (1.07%) Redis
6 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) Selenium
2 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) NUnit
4 1 (0.53%) Postman
4 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 16 (8.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.35%) Manufacturing
3 8 (4.28%) Finance
4 7 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.74%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.60%) Legal
5 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.60%) Retail
6 2 (1.07%) Games
6 2 (1.07%) Law
6 2 (1.07%) Local Government
6 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.53%) Advertising
7 1 (0.53%) Electronics
7 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (56.68%) Developer
2 54 (28.88%) Lead
2 54 (28.88%) Senior
3 46 (24.60%) Software Developer
4 40 (21.39%) Software Engineer
5 37 (19.79%) Senior Developer
6 36 (19.25%) .NET Developer
7 29 (15.51%) Lead Developer
8 21 (11.23%) C# Developer
8 21 (11.23%) Senior Software Developer
9 14 (7.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Lead Software Developer
10 12 (6.42%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (5.35%) .NET Software Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.81%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Azure Developer
13 8 (4.28%) C# Software Engineer
14 7 (3.74%) C# Software Developer
14 7 (3.74%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (78.07%) .NET
2 64 (34.22%) .NET Core
3 43 (22.99%) ASP.NET
4 39 (20.86%) .NET Framework
5 32 (17.11%) React
6 23 (12.30%) RESTful
7 16 (8.56%) REST
8 13 (6.95%) CSS
8 13 (6.95%) HTML
9 9 (4.81%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (3.74%) Web Services
12 6 (3.21%) Vue
13 5 (2.67%) Akka
13 5 (2.67%) Akka.NET
13 5 (2.67%) CSS3
13 5 (2.67%) HTML5
13 5 (2.67%) Razor View Engine
14 4 (2.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.02%) Mobile App
3 14 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.35%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.07%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.07%) IoT
8 2 (1.07%) Smart City
8 2 (1.07%) Social Network
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.14%) Windows
2 2 (1.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.57%) Agile
2 62 (33.16%) CI/CD
3 61 (32.62%) Software Engineering
4 48 (25.67%) Microservices
5 34 (18.18%) DevOps
6 31 (16.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (14.44%) Mentoring
8 27 (14.44%) TDD
9 25 (13.37%) Clean Code
9 25 (13.37%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.70%) Scrum
11 19 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (9.09%) RAD
12 17 (9.09%) User Experience
13 16 (8.56%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.02%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (8.02%) Software Architecture
14 15 (8.02%) SOLID
15 14 (7.49%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 58 (31.02%) SQL
2 26 (13.90%) JavaScript
3 22 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.74%) Python
5 5 (2.67%) Java
6 4 (2.14%) PHP
7 3 (1.60%) C++
7 3 (1.60%) Erlang
8 2 (1.07%) Go
9 1 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.53%) Rust
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (3.21%) Degree
2 2 (1.07%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.35%) QA
2 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (9.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.21%) Terraform
3 2 (1.07%) Grafana
Vendors
1 46 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.07%) Aderant
2 2 (1.07%) Foundry
3 1 (0.53%) Adyen
3 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.53%) Databricks
3 1 (0.53%) Google
3 1 (0.53%) iManage
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) SAP
3 1 (0.53%) Xamarin