.NET Software Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

.NET Software Engineer
England > North of England

The median .NET Software Engineer salary in the North of England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 230 256
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +84
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 23 44 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.22% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.51% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 21 41 33
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% +13.33% -27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 9,424 8,550 8,203
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.56% 94.06% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,469 4,023 6,549
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,483 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £81,713 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -5.75%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

.NET Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the North of England

.NET Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire -28 14 £40,000 -41.18% 5
North West +35 7 £65,000 +18.18% 8
North East +1 2 £100,000 +25.00% 4
.NET Software Engineer
England

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, .NET Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (78.26%) C#
3 14 (60.87%) SQL
4 13 (56.52%) Azure
5 12 (52.17%) DevOps
6 10 (43.48%) Agile
7 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
8 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
9 6 (26.09%) .NET Core
9 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
9 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
9 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
9 6 (26.09%) Microservices
10 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
10 5 (21.74%) AWS
10 5 (21.74%) Azure AKS
10 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
10 5 (21.74%) High Availability
10 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
10 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
10 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (21.74%) RESTful
10 5 (21.74%) Scrum
10 5 (21.74%) Software Architecture
10 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
11 4 (17.39%) Git
12 3 (13.04%) Blazor

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Azure AKS
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
3 6 (26.09%) .NET Core
3 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
4 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
4 5 (21.74%) RESTful
5 3 (13.04%) Blazor
5 3 (13.04%) CSS
5 3 (13.04%) CSS3
5 3 (13.04%) HTML
5 3 (13.04%) HTML5
5 3 (13.04%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) React
5 3 (13.04%) Sass
5 3 (13.04%) Vue
6 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Fedora
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (52.17%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
5 5 (21.74%) High Availability
5 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Software Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Fintech
6 3 (13.04%) SDLC
7 2 (8.70%) B2B
8 1 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) C#
2 14 (60.87%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) Python
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat