.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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 214 144
Rank change year-on-year -23 -70 +12
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 20 23 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.45% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% 2.09% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 81
10th Percentile £40,875 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 1,184 1,103 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.55% 21.57% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 942 442 942
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £51,250 £44,145
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,738 £88,975 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

.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 8 September 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 8 September 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
Cheshire +11 7 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Manchester -38 7 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Lancashire +9 4 £62,500 +56.25% 4
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 -
.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 3 (15.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (20.00%) Figma
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) NUnit
3 4 (20.00%) GitLab
4 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
6 1 (5.00%) Claude Code
6 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Developer
2 10 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 7 (35.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Lead
5 5 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 5 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior
6 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (15.00%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (15.00%) Lead Software Developer
7 3 (15.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (15.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
8 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 1 (5.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (70.00%) ASP.NET
2 14 (70.00%) Entity Framework
3 13 (65.00%) .NET Core
4 9 (45.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (45.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (35.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 7 (35.00%) CSS
5 7 (35.00%) HTML
5 7 (35.00%) RESTful
6 6 (30.00%) REST
7 5 (25.00%) OpenAPI
7 5 (25.00%) Swagger
8 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (20.00%) JSON
8 4 (20.00%) LINQ
8 4 (20.00%) OAuth
8 4 (20.00%) OAuth2
8 4 (20.00%) Vitest
8 4 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Lidar
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) API Design
6 4 (20.00%) API Integration
6 4 (20.00%) MVC
6 4 (20.00%) RBAC
6 4 (20.00%) Secure Coding
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (20.00%) User Experience
6 4 (20.00%) Webhook
7 3 (15.00%) API Development
7 3 (15.00%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) OWASP
7 3 (15.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) C#
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (20.00%) Bicep
5 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) DevExpress
3 3 (15.00%) Splunk
4 2 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) OpenAI