.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 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -86 +2 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 47 155 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.99% 2.23% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 2.34% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 135 114
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £64,250 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.74% -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 4,309 6,632 3,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 95.29% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,409 3,728 3,033
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -

.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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -25 39 £60,000 - 31
Lancashire -5 5 £47,500 -5.00% 23
Merseyside -22 2 £56,250 -6.25% 4
Cheshire -49 1 £42,500 -5.56% 5
.NET Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 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 47 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (89.36%) C#
3 36 (76.60%) SQL Server
4 23 (48.94%) MongoDB
5 22 (46.81%) AWS
5 22 (46.81%) Azure
6 21 (44.68%) .NET Core
6 21 (44.68%) Agile
6 21 (44.68%) Microservices
7 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
8 15 (31.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (31.91%) JavaScript
8 15 (31.91%) Roadmaps
9 14 (29.79%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (27.66%) ASP.NET Web API
10 13 (27.66%) Clean Code
11 12 (25.53%) Blazor
11 12 (25.53%) DevOps
11 12 (25.53%) NoSQL
12 11 (23.40%) Design Patterns
13 10 (21.28%) CSS
13 10 (21.28%) HTML
13 10 (21.28%) Kanban
13 10 (21.28%) OOP
14 9 (19.15%) .NET Framework
14 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 9 (19.15%) SQL
14 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET
16 7 (14.89%) Git

.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 4 (8.51%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
1 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) SaaS
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.26%) PaaS
5 1 (2.13%) Firebase
5 1 (2.13%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (76.60%) SQL Server
2 23 (48.94%) MongoDB
3 12 (25.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.51%) MySQL
5 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (10.64%) Retail
2 4 (8.51%) Back Office
2 4 (8.51%) Games
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Marketing
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (44.68%) .NET Core
3 13 (27.66%) ASP.NET Web API
4 12 (25.53%) Blazor
5 10 (21.28%) CSS
5 10 (21.28%) HTML
6 9 (19.15%) .NET Framework
7 8 (17.02%) ASP.NET
8 6 (12.77%) REST
8 6 (12.77%) RESTful
9 5 (10.64%) Akka
9 5 (10.64%) Akka.NET
9 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
9 5 (10.64%) Kafka
9 5 (10.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (10.64%) Web Services
10 4 (8.51%) Entity Framework
10 4 (8.51%) JSON
10 4 (8.51%) React
11 3 (6.38%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (19.15%) Clustering
3 6 (12.77%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Online Games
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Android
1 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Agile
1 21 (44.68%) Microservices
2 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (31.91%) Roadmaps
4 14 (29.79%) Performance Optimisation
5 13 (27.66%) Clean Code
6 12 (25.53%) DevOps
7 11 (23.40%) Design Patterns
8 10 (21.28%) Kanban
8 10 (21.28%) OOP
9 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (12.77%) Scrum
10 6 (12.77%) SDLC
10 6 (12.77%) TDD
11 5 (10.64%) API Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Functional Testing
11 5 (10.64%) Low Latency
11 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (89.36%) C#
2 15 (31.91%) JavaScript
3 9 (19.15%) SQL
4 3 (6.38%) Erlang
4 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.13%) PHP
5 1 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Splunk
2 2 (4.26%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft