.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 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 118 88
Rank change year-on-year -24 -30 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 42 98 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.69% 1.85% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.99% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 40 82 85
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +10.58% -0.95%
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,625 £77,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 5,262 4,923 3,430
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.06% 93.01% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 2,623 2,636
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £53,674
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.98% +2.24%
75th Percentile £65,833 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,548
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 24 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 24 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 +2 32 £60,000 - 28
Lancashire +14 6 £47,500 -26.92% 29
Cheshire -33 3 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Merseyside -14 1 £47,500 -20.83% 3
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 42 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (90.48%) C#
3 24 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 23 (54.76%) Azure
5 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
6 20 (47.62%) .NET Core
6 20 (47.62%) Microservices
7 16 (38.10%) Agile
8 14 (33.33%) AWS
9 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
9 13 (30.95%) MongoDB
9 13 (30.95%) NoSQL
10 12 (28.57%) Clean Code
10 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (28.57%) SQL
11 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (23.81%) DevOps
11 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
12 9 (21.43%) .NET Framework
12 9 (21.43%) ASP.NET
12 9 (21.43%) CSS
12 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (21.43%) HTML
12 9 (21.43%) SaaS
12 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (19.05%) Docker
13 8 (19.05%) RESTful
13 8 (19.05%) TDD
14 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
14 7 (16.67%) Blazor

.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 (54.76%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (21.43%) SaaS
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Functions
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (9.52%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (30.95%) MongoDB
2 13 (30.95%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (9.52%) Games
1 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Retail
3 2 (4.76%) Back Office
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (47.62%) .NET Core
3 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET Web API
4 9 (21.43%) .NET Framework
4 9 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 9 (21.43%) CSS
4 9 (21.43%) HTML
5 8 (19.05%) RESTful
6 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (16.67%) Blazor
7 6 (14.29%) REST
8 5 (11.90%) Akka
8 5 (11.90%) Akka.NET
8 5 (11.90%) React
9 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
10 3 (7.14%) Vue
11 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (4.76%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (4.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 8 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (14.29%) Clustering
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Online Games
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 20 (47.62%) Microservices
3 16 (38.10%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 12 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (23.81%) DevOps
5 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
6 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (19.05%) TDD
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (16.67%) SOLID
9 6 (14.29%) Scrum
10 5 (11.90%) API Testing
10 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
10 5 (11.90%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (11.90%) Functional Testing
10 5 (11.90%) Low Latency
10 5 (11.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) C#
2 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 12 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) Erlang
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Xamarin