.NET Developer Job Trends in the North West

.NET Developer
England > North West

The median .NET Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 108 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 40 119 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.72% 1.98% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 2.12% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 101 88
10th Percentile £43,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,875 £77,500 £69,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,739 5,625 3,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.46% 93.73% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,558 3,146 2,668
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £30,416
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £83,400
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

.NET Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in the North West

.NET Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in the North West

.NET Developer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester -1 32 £60,000 - 31
Lancashire +20 6 £47,500 -26.92% 24
Merseyside -9 1 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Cheshire -32 1 £42,500 -15.00% 2
.NET Developer
England

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, .NET Developer 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 West region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (92.50%) C#
3 27 (67.50%) SQL Server
4 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 23 (57.50%) Azure
6 21 (52.50%) Microservices
7 19 (47.50%) .NET Core
8 17 (42.50%) Agile
9 16 (40.00%) MongoDB
10 15 (37.50%) AWS
10 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (32.50%) Clean Code
11 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
11 13 (32.50%) NoSQL
12 12 (30.00%) DevOps
13 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
14 10 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
15 9 (22.50%) Performance Optimisation
15 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
16 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
16 8 (20.00%) Blazor
16 8 (20.00%) CSS
16 8 (20.00%) Docker
16 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 8 (20.00%) HTML
16 8 (20.00%) RESTful
16 8 (20.00%) SQL
17 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
17 7 (17.50%) SaaS
17 7 (17.50%) SOLID

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) SaaS
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (67.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 13 (32.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Games
2 3 (7.50%) Retail
3 2 (5.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (47.50%) .NET Core
3 10 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 8 (20.00%) Blazor
4 8 (20.00%) CSS
4 8 (20.00%) HTML
4 8 (20.00%) RESTful
5 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.00%) REST
6 5 (12.50%) Akka
6 5 (12.50%) Akka.NET
7 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 4 (10.00%) React
8 2 (5.00%) Kafka
8 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.00%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (5.00%) Sass
8 2 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (17.50%) Clustering
2 7 (17.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Online Games
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
1 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (52.50%) Microservices
3 17 (42.50%) Agile
4 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (32.50%) Clean Code
6 12 (30.00%) DevOps
7 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
8 9 (22.50%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.50%) SOLID
10 7 (17.50%) TDD
11 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
11 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
11 6 (15.00%) Kanban
11 6 (15.00%) Scrum
12 5 (12.50%) API Testing
12 5 (12.50%) Functional Testing
12 5 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (92.50%) C#
2 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (7.50%) Erlang
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Splunk
1 2 (5.00%) Xamarin
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft