.NET Framework Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 161 136
Rank change year-on-year -95 -25 +42
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 53 81 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 1.26% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.59% 6.86% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 53 68 286
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,713 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.61% - +2.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,475 1,181 3,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.94% 18.43% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 996 2,678
10th Percentile £28,475 £32,241 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,397 £71,156
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,967 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the North of England

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the North of England

.NET Framework
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
North West -35 43 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire -78 6 £41,020 -17.96% 10
North East -30 4 £38,750 -29.55% 9
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (7.55%) CMS
1 4 (7.55%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.77%) nginx
2 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Magento
1 1 (1.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (83.02%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Azure AKS
3 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.43%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.55%) Figma
4 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) AWS
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.77%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Sentry
7 1 (1.89%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.89%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.89%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Intranet
2 1 (1.89%) DNS
2 1 (1.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (47.17%) SQL Server
2 15 (28.30%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.32%) MySQL
4 4 (7.55%) Power BI
5 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.77%) PostHog
6 2 (3.77%) Redis
7 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Git
2 5 (9.43%) NUnit
3 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
1 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.77%) Games
2 2 (3.77%) Legal
3 1 (1.89%) Back Office
3 1 (1.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (66.04%) Developer
2 26 (49.06%) Software Developer
3 21 (39.62%) Lead
4 15 (28.30%) Software Engineer
5 13 (24.53%) Senior
6 12 (22.64%) .NET Software Engineer
6 12 (22.64%) Lead Developer
7 10 (18.87%) Lead Software Developer
8 8 (15.09%) .NET Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
9 7 (13.21%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (11.32%) C# Developer
10 6 (11.32%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (11.32%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (9.43%) .NET Software Developer
11 5 (9.43%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (9.43%) C# Software Developer
12 3 (5.66%) Web Developer
13 2 (3.77%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (58.49%) ASP.NET
3 21 (39.62%) .NET Core
4 17 (32.08%) RESTful
5 8 (15.09%) CSS
5 8 (15.09%) Entity Framework
5 8 (15.09%) HTML
6 6 (11.32%) AngularJS
6 6 (11.32%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (7.55%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (7.55%) Vitest
7 4 (7.55%) Web Services
8 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (5.66%) React
8 3 (5.66%) REST
9 2 (3.77%) Loki
9 2 (3.77%) Next.js
9 2 (3.77%) RxJS
9 2 (3.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) Lidar
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Android
1 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (71.70%) Agile
2 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
3 21 (39.62%) Software Engineering
4 19 (35.85%) RAD
5 18 (33.96%) DevOps
6 15 (28.30%) Clean Code
6 15 (28.30%) Microservices
7 14 (26.42%) Software Architecture
8 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
9 12 (22.64%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (22.64%) Scrum
10 11 (20.75%) User Experience
11 10 (18.87%) High Availability
11 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
12 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (13.21%) Line Management
13 7 (13.21%) Performance Optimisation
14 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 6 (11.32%) MVC
15 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 47 (88.68%) C#
1 47 (88.68%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) TypeScript
3 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.55%) Bicep
5 2 (3.77%) PHP
5 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) WCAG
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.89%) Foundry
3 1 (1.89%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Optimizely
3 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.89%) WooCommerce