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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 36 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 -25 +5
Permanent jobs citing C# 7 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.38% 3.46% 13.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 11.81% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 33
10th Percentile £38,625 £50,750 £37,650
25th Percentile £50,938 £55,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £62,700
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 49 127 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.63% 29.26% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 88
10th Percentile £43,625 £38,000 £33,525
25th Percentile £55,938 £55,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +43.50% +6.19%
75th Percentile £88,125 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 -3 4 £95,000 +40.74% 3
County Londonderry - 2 £31,500 - 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 (28.57%) ArcGIS
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Functions
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) GIS
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Local Government
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Microsoft Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) Next.js
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) LLM
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (14.29%) VB
5 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ESRI
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) RedGate