.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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 56 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 -4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 606 452 876
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 4.79% 6.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.53% 29.68% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 519 248 615
10th Percentile £39,950 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £43,750 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £85,000 £78,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%

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 2,201 1,523 2,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.16% 16.15% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 761 1,431
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.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

.NET
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 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the North of England

.NET
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 14 October 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 -22 257 £60,000 -7.69% 144
North East +8 187 £56,500 +29.89% 55
Yorkshire +8 162 £55,000 -8.33% 94
.NET
England

.NET
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 (1.98%) CMS
2 8 (1.32%) IIS
3 6 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.66%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) Kentico
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) NEC Housing
1 4 (0.66%) Shopify
2 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 272 (44.88%) Azure
2 108 (17.82%) AWS
3 92 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (7.26%) SaaS
5 43 (7.10%) Serverless
6 40 (6.60%) GitHub
7 32 (5.28%) Azure AI
8 30 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 25 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 24 (3.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 20 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (3.30%) Power Automate
12 19 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.82%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (1.82%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.49%) Internet
2 3 (0.50%) HTTP
2 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (16.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 81 (13.37%) MongoDB
2 81 (13.37%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (2.81%) MySQL
5 16 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.64%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.98%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.82%) Power BI
8 11 (1.82%) Redis
9 8 (1.32%) GIS
10 6 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.66%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.33%) ClickHouse
15 1 (0.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (6.93%) Git
2 8 (1.32%) Claude Code
3 7 (1.16%) GitLab
3 7 (1.16%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.66%) JIRA
6 3 (0.50%) NUnit
7 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.33%) MSTest
7 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Gradle
8 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 67 (11.06%) Finance
2 61 (10.07%) Social Skills
3 28 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 17 (2.81%) Legal
5 16 (2.64%) Games
6 10 (1.65%) Advertising
7 8 (1.32%) Marketing
7 8 (1.32%) Retail
8 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.99%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.99%) Tech for Good
10 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.66%) Banking
11 4 (0.66%) Local Government
11 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.33%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 374 (61.72%) Developer
2 250 (41.25%) .NET Developer
3 145 (23.93%) Senior
4 89 (14.69%) Software Engineer
5 86 (14.19%) Senior Developer
6 84 (13.86%) Software Developer
7 55 (9.08%) Lead
8 52 (8.58%) Senior .NET Developer
9 51 (8.42%) C# Developer
10 42 (6.93%) Lead Developer
11 40 (6.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 37 (6.11%) .NET Software Engineer
13 36 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (5.78%) .NET Software Developer
15 34 (5.61%) C# .NET Developer
16 28 (4.62%) Architect
17 23 (3.80%) C# Software Engineer
17 23 (3.80%) Senior Software Developer
18 21 (3.47%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (29.70%) .NET Core
2 126 (20.79%) ASP.NET
3 106 (17.49%) ASP.NET Core
4 102 (16.83%) React
5 75 (12.38%) AngularJS
6 69 (11.39%) CSS
7 67 (11.06%) Entity Framework
8 65 (10.73%) Vue
9 63 (10.40%) HTML
10 60 (9.90%) RESTful
11 46 (7.59%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (7.26%) Node.js
13 43 (7.10%) .NET Framework
14 42 (6.93%) Blazor
15 38 (6.27%) REST
16 34 (5.61%) LINQ
17 26 (4.29%) ML.NET
18 23 (3.80%) Terraform
19 16 (2.64%) WPF
20 14 (2.31%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
3 33 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.14%) Hedge funds
5 19 (3.14%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.99%) Social Network
13 5 (0.83%) BBC
13 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.83%) Learning Management System
13 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.83%) Social Media
14 4 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.66%) Android
1 4 (0.66%) Linux
1 4 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (34.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 200 (33.00%) Agile
3 173 (28.55%) Software Engineering
4 151 (24.92%) DevOps
5 143 (23.60%) CI/CD
6 102 (16.83%) AI
7 88 (14.52%) Microservices
8 79 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (11.22%) Mentoring
10 55 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (8.58%) SDLC
12 47 (7.76%) Multithreading
13 45 (7.43%) Fintech
13 45 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (6.93%) Code Quality
15 41 (6.77%) Decision-Making
16 38 (6.27%) Scrum
16 38 (6.27%) TDD
17 37 (6.11%) OO
18 36 (5.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 432 (71.29%) C#
2 183 (30.20%) SQL
3 136 (22.44%) JavaScript
4 83 (13.70%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.75%) Python
6 45 (7.43%) Java
7 21 (3.47%) C++
8 15 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.15%) Bicep
10 12 (1.98%) VB.NET
11 11 (1.82%) VB
12 10 (1.65%) Bash
13 8 (1.32%) PHP
14 7 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.66%) C
15 4 (0.66%) Go
15 4 (0.66%) Ruby
16 2 (0.33%) Dart
16 2 (0.33%) Delphi
16 2 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (5.61%) Degree
2 23 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 17 (2.81%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.66%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.66%) MBA
6 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.10%) QA
2 13 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) GRC
5 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (9.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (9.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.17%) Ansible
2 1 (0.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 191 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.48%) OpenAI
3 11 (1.82%) Google
4 7 (1.16%) Facebook
5 5 (0.83%) Apple
5 5 (0.83%) Sony
5 5 (0.83%) Yahoo!
6 4 (0.66%) Adobe
6 4 (0.66%) NEC
6 4 (0.66%) Sage
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.50%) Splunk
8 2 (0.33%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.17%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.17%) New Relic
9 1 (0.17%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.17%) SAP
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.17%) Talend
9 1 (0.17%) Xamarin