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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing C# 6 0 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.63% - 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.22% - 30.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 62
10th Percentile £54,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £55,625 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile £90,500 - £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 73 44 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.70% 18.72% 35.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 155
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,003 £38,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 - 6 £65,000 - 10
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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Cross-Platform Development
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) LLM
5 1 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) HND
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft