.NET Framework Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 144 133
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +16
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 42 61 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.66% 1.21% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.75% 6.93% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 40 42 66
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,725 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £66,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

.NET Framework 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 542 880 1,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.51% 17.41% 24.90%
Number of salaries quoted 468 552 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,550 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,013
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the North West

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the North West

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +20 21 £65,000 +10.64% 12
Cheshire -21 19 £50,000 - 7
Merseyside -13 2 £77,500 +44.19% 3
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
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 2 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 6 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) PaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Sentry
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 14 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (19.05%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.76%) PostHog
5 2 (4.76%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) NUnit
General
1 4 (9.52%) Games
2 1 (2.38%) Legal
2 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (66.67%) Developer
2 19 (45.24%) Software Developer
3 17 (40.48%) Lead
4 12 (28.57%) Senior
5 11 (26.19%) .NET Developer
6 10 (23.81%) Lead Developer
7 9 (21.43%) Lead Software Developer
7 9 (21.43%) Software Engineer
8 7 (16.67%) Senior Developer
9 6 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (11.90%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (9.52%) .NET Software Developer
11 4 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
11 4 (9.52%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (9.52%) Games Developer
12 3 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
13 2 (4.76%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (52.38%) ASP.NET
3 20 (47.62%) .NET Core
4 9 (21.43%) RESTful
5 8 (19.05%) Entity Framework
6 6 (14.29%) CSS
6 6 (14.29%) HTML
7 5 (11.90%) React
8 4 (9.52%) Web Services
9 3 (7.14%) Blazor
9 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
10 2 (4.76%) Loki
10 2 (4.76%) MassTransit
10 2 (4.76%) Next.js
10 2 (4.76%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (4.76%) REST
10 2 (4.76%) WinForms
11 1 (2.38%) OAuth
11 1 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.76%) Online Games
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) CI/CD
2 19 (45.24%) RAD
3 15 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 12 (28.57%) DevOps
4 12 (28.57%) Microservices
5 11 (26.19%) Clean Code
6 9 (21.43%) Software Architecture
7 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
9 5 (11.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (11.90%) High Availability
9 5 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (11.90%) Scrum
9 5 (11.90%) User Experience
10 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.52%) OOP
10 4 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) C#
2 35 (83.33%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Xamarin