C# Job Trends in Northern Ireland

C#
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring C# skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 32 6
Rank change year-on-year -25 -26 -1
Permanent jobs citing C# 9 14 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.39% 3.91% 15.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.31% 13.59% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 59
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.70% +17.50% -
75th Percentile - £66,563 £63,250
90th Percentile - £69,375 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 103 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.01% 28.77% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27 36 149
10th Percentile £46,700 £52,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £64,471 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +52.17% +10.58%
75th Percentile £88,125 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £91,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C# relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

C# job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

C#
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing C#.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing C#

C#
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing C# in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for C# in Northern Ireland

C#
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
County Antrim -9 7 £95,000 +61.70% 6
County Londonderry - 1 - - 1
C#
UK

C#
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) ArcGIS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
4 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (44.44%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (44.44%) GCP
5 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 2 (22.22%) SaaS
7 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) GIS
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Microsoft Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 4 (44.44%) Next.js
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) React
1 4 (44.44%) Vue
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (11.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) AI
4 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) LLM
4 4 (44.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
4 4 (44.44%) User Experience
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) Data Management
7 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) MVC
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 5 (55.56%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Java
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
7 1 (11.11%) PHP
7 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) HND
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) ESRI
2 1 (11.11%) RedGate