.NET Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -55 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 316 799 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.18% 6.49% 9.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.77% 38.60% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 277 563 628
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,740 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.59%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

.NET 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 1,226 2,070 2,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.34% 16.83% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 816 1,218 1,602
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,558 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

.NET
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET in the North of England

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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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
North West -55 160 £65,000 +18.18% 190
Yorkshire -45 109 £56,250 +7.14% 70
North East -26 47 £47,500 -20.83% 36
.NET
England

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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 12 (3.80%) IIS
2 9 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.95%) CMS
4 3 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.63%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 181 (57.28%) Azure
2 95 (30.06%) AWS
3 45 (14.24%) SaaS
4 34 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.65%) Serverless
6 18 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.75%) GitHub
9 13 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (4.11%) Entra ID
10 11 (3.48%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (2.85%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.22%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.90%) Azure AKS
15 6 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.48%) VoIP
2 8 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.22%) VPN
3 7 (2.22%) WPA
4 6 (1.90%) DHCP
4 6 (1.90%) DNS
4 6 (1.90%) Internet
5 5 (1.58%) LAN
5 5 (1.58%) SAN
5 5 (1.58%) SSL
5 5 (1.58%) WAN
6 2 (0.63%) HTTP
7 1 (0.32%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (26.27%) SQL Server
2 27 (8.54%) MongoDB
3 25 (7.91%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.38%) MySQL
5 14 (4.43%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.22%) Power BI
7 7 (2.22%) Redis
7 7 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.90%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.90%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.63%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.63%) SQL CLR
10 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.32%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 29 (9.18%) Git
2 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.27%) GitLab
4 3 (0.95%) CircleCI
4 3 (0.95%) JIRA
4 3 (0.95%) Storybook
5 2 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.32%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.32%) ESLint
6 1 (0.32%) git-flow
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) Snyk
6 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 83 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.91%) Finance
3 12 (3.80%) Manufacturing
4 9 (2.85%) Games
5 7 (2.22%) Legal
5 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.90%) Retail
7 5 (1.58%) Back Office
7 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.27%) Electronics
9 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Law
10 2 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.32%) Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (56.65%) Developer
2 68 (21.52%) .NET Developer
3 67 (21.20%) Lead
4 61 (19.30%) Senior
5 55 (17.41%) Software Engineer
6 37 (11.71%) Software Developer
7 36 (11.39%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.18%) C# Developer
9 28 (8.86%) Lead Developer
10 22 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (6.65%) .NET Software Engineer
12 18 (5.70%) Senior .NET Developer
13 17 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (4.11%) Architect
16 12 (3.80%) Graduate
16 12 (3.80%) Graduate Developer
17 11 (3.48%) AWS Developer
18 10 (3.16%) Lead .NET Developer
18 10 (3.16%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (22.47%) .NET Core
2 62 (19.62%) React
3 57 (18.04%) ASP.NET
4 49 (15.51%) CSS
5 44 (13.92%) .NET Framework
6 43 (13.61%) AngularJS
7 38 (12.03%) HTML
8 32 (10.13%) Blazor
8 32 (10.13%) RESTful
9 24 (7.59%) REST
10 20 (6.33%) Entity Framework
11 17 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (4.43%) Vue
13 13 (4.11%) Node.js
14 12 (3.80%) jQuery
15 11 (3.48%) Kafka
16 9 (2.85%) CSS3
16 9 (2.85%) HTML5
17 7 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.92%) Cloud Native
2 41 (12.97%) Product Ownership
3 25 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.96%) Mobile App
5 20 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (4.43%) Clustering
8 7 (2.22%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.90%) Driving Licence
9 6 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.90%) iPad
9 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.95%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.63%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.81%) Windows
2 13 (4.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.16%) Linux
4 9 (2.85%) Android
5 8 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (43.04%) Agile
2 110 (34.81%) CI/CD
3 106 (33.54%) Software Engineering
4 102 (32.28%) DevOps
5 78 (24.68%) Microservices
6 70 (22.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (20.89%) Mentoring
8 65 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 55 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (12.03%) Roadmaps
11 37 (11.71%) Containerisation
11 37 (11.71%) SDLC
11 37 (11.71%) TDD
12 34 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (10.13%) Clean Code
14 28 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (8.86%) User Experience
15 27 (8.54%) Design Patterns
15 27 (8.54%) OOP
16 26 (8.23%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 241 (76.27%) C#
2 119 (37.66%) SQL
3 77 (24.37%) JavaScript
4 38 (12.03%) TypeScript
5 30 (9.49%) Java
6 24 (7.59%) Python
7 18 (5.70%) PHP
8 11 (3.48%) C++
9 9 (2.85%) VB.NET
10 7 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.90%) Bash
12 5 (1.58%) Go
13 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.27%) XAML
14 3 (0.95%) Bicep
14 3 (0.95%) Erlang
14 3 (0.95%) Rust
15 1 (0.32%) R
15 1 (0.32%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (6.96%) Degree
2 12 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.22%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.32%) HND
6 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.06%) QA
2 5 (1.58%) GDPR
3 4 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 45 (14.24%) Docker
2 13 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.63%) Squid
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.63%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (9.18%) Terraform
3 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.58%) Grafana
5 3 (0.95%) Ansible
6 2 (0.63%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.90%) Apple
2 6 (1.90%) Datto
2 6 (1.90%) Freshdesk
3 5 (1.58%) Splunk
4 4 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.27%) VMware
5 3 (0.95%) Google
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle
5 3 (0.95%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.63%) Databricks
6 2 (0.63%) Lotus
6 2 (0.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.32%) Advent
7 1 (0.32%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.32%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.32%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.32%) Qualys
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.32%) Sage