.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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 170 59
Rank change year-on-year +31 -111 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 100 63 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.91% 1.40% 3.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.57% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 97 62 336
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £66,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 10,142 4,011 9,257
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 88.82% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,086 1,956 7,375
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

.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 28 May 2026.

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 28 May 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
Manchester -15 49 £70,000 +12.00% 22
Lancashire +43 25 £42,500 +6.25% 19
Cheshire 0 15 £45,000 +28.57%
Merseyside -12 9 £60,000 - 3
Cumbria - 2 £46,250 - 1
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2026, .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.

1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (49.00%) C#
3 46 (46.00%) Azure
4 33 (33.00%) .NET Core
4 33 (33.00%) Agile
5 32 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (28.00%) SQL
7 27 (27.00%) ASP.NET
8 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 22 (22.00%) SaaS
10 18 (18.00%) SQL Server
11 17 (17.00%) DevOps
12 16 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 15 (15.00%) JavaScript
13 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
14 14 (14.00%) ASP.NET Core
14 14 (14.00%) TDD
15 12 (12.00%) CSS
15 12 (12.00%) HTML
15 12 (12.00%) MongoDB
15 12 (12.00%) VB
16 11 (11.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (11.00%) React
17 10 (10.00%) .NET Framework
17 10 (10.00%) Azure Functions
17 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (10.00%) Serverless
17 10 (10.00%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (46.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.00%) SaaS
3 11 (11.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 11 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 10 (10.00%) Serverless
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.00%) AWS
7 4 (4.00%) GitHub
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.00%) Firebase
9 1 (1.00%) GCP
9 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (12.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) MSTest
2 2 (2.00%) NUnit
General
1 16 (16.00%) Finance
2 5 (5.00%) Games
3 3 (3.00%) Retail
4 2 (2.00%) Advertising
4 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (33.00%) .NET Core
3 27 (27.00%) ASP.NET
4 14 (14.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 12 (12.00%) CSS
5 12 (12.00%) HTML
6 11 (11.00%) React
7 10 (10.00%) .NET Framework
8 9 (9.00%) Entity Framework
8 9 (9.00%) REST
8 9 (9.00%) Vue
9 7 (7.00%) RESTful
10 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (5.00%) ML.NET
12 4 (4.00%) Blazor
13 3 (3.00%) JSON
13 3 (3.00%) Node.js
13 3 (3.00%) WPF
14 2 (2.00%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (5.00%) Social Network
4 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Agile
2 32 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (17.00%) DevOps
5 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (14.00%) TDD
7 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (10.00%) SOLID
8 6 (6.00%) Microservices
9 5 (5.00%) AI
9 5 (5.00%) Machine Learning
9 5 (5.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (5.00%) Multithreading
9 5 (5.00%) OO
9 5 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.00%) RAD
9 5 (5.00%) SDLC
10 4 (4.00%) Clean Code
10 4 (4.00%) Collaborative Engineering
10 4 (4.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 49 (49.00%) C#
2 28 (28.00%) SQL
3 15 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.00%) VB
5 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.00%) Facebook