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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 34 13
Rank change year-on-year -22 -21 +6
Permanent jobs citing C# 186 275 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.87% 5.43% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.83% 19.27% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 174 210 431
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 893 1,427 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.77% 28.15% 35.60%
Number of salaries quoted 743 826 1,406
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,375 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £84,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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# 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 17 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 17 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 +1 133 £65,000 +13.04% 87
Cheshire -22 39 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Lancashire +2 9 £55,000 - 56
Merseyside -38 5 £52,500 +61.54% 13
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 (1.08%) nginx
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) CMS
2 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 121 (65.05%) Azure
2 44 (23.66%) AWS
3 34 (18.28%) SaaS
4 15 (8.06%) Serverless
5 13 (6.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.76%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.69%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.15%) GCP
11 4 (2.15%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.61%) Azure AI
12 3 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.08%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 2 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (1.08%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) HTTP
2 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (31.18%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.98%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.84%) MySQL
5 4 (2.15%) Power BI
6 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.08%) PostHog
7 2 (1.08%) Redis
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.54%) Big Data
8 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Git
2 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.08%) GitLab
4 2 (1.08%) Selenium
5 1 (0.54%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.54%) NUnit
5 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (8.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
3 5 (2.69%) Games
3 5 (2.69%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.15%) Finance
4 4 (2.15%) Legal
5 3 (1.61%) Retail
6 2 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.08%) Local Government
6 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.54%) Back Office
7 1 (0.54%) Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Electronics
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 112 (60.22%) Developer
2 60 (32.26%) Senior
3 57 (30.65%) Lead
4 45 (24.19%) Software Developer
5 44 (23.66%) .NET Developer
6 38 (20.43%) Senior Developer
7 32 (17.20%) Lead Developer
8 30 (16.13%) Software Engineer
9 20 (10.75%) Senior Software Developer
10 16 (8.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (8.06%) C# Developer
12 14 (7.53%) Lead Software Developer
13 11 (5.91%) Senior .NET Developer
14 10 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (5.38%) Team Leader
15 9 (4.84%) Lead .NET Developer
16 7 (3.76%) C# Software Engineer
16 7 (3.76%) Mathematician
16 7 (3.76%) Principal Developer
17 6 (3.23%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (83.33%) .NET
2 64 (34.41%) .NET Core
3 46 (24.73%) ASP.NET
4 42 (22.58%) .NET Framework
5 36 (19.35%) React
6 22 (11.83%) RESTful
7 21 (11.29%) REST
8 18 (9.68%) CSS
8 18 (9.68%) HTML
9 17 (9.14%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (4.84%) Blazor
11 8 (4.30%) Entity Framework
12 7 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (3.76%) Vue
12 7 (3.76%) Web Services
13 5 (2.69%) Akka
13 5 (2.69%) Akka.NET
13 5 (2.69%) CSS3
13 5 (2.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.99%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.69%) Clustering
8 3 (1.61%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.08%) Online Games
10 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.54%) Smart City
10 1 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.15%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Linux
3 2 (1.08%) Android
3 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (44.09%) Agile
2 67 (36.02%) CI/CD
3 56 (30.11%) Software Engineering
4 55 (29.57%) Microservices
5 42 (22.58%) DevOps
6 37 (19.89%) TDD
7 36 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 34 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (15.05%) Containerisation
11 27 (14.52%) Clean Code
12 25 (13.44%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (11.83%) SOLID
14 19 (10.22%) RAD
14 19 (10.22%) User Experience
15 16 (8.60%) Collaborative Culture
15 16 (8.60%) SDLC
16 15 (8.06%) AI
16 15 (8.06%) Scrum
17 13 (6.99%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.34%) SQL
2 29 (15.59%) JavaScript
3 22 (11.83%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.38%) Java
5 8 (4.30%) Python
6 5 (2.69%) PHP
7 3 (1.61%) C++
7 3 (1.61%) Erlang
7 3 (1.61%) Rust
8 2 (1.08%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) Bash
9 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (4.84%) Degree
2 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (13.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.45%) Terraform
3 4 (2.15%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.08%) Aderant
2 2 (1.08%) Foundry
2 2 (1.08%) Xamarin
3 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.54%) Databricks
3 1 (0.54%) Google
3 1 (0.54%) iManage
3 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle
3 1 (0.54%) SAP
3 1 (0.54%) Talend