.NET Jobs in the North West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 18 41
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 -20
Permanent jobs citing .NET 341 872 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.37% 8.43% 6.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.85% 41.46% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 141 672 424
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

.NET 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 1,182 2,103 2,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.15% 20.33% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 496 1,603 1,108
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +3.85%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the North West

.NET
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET in the North West.

Salary trend for .NET in the North West

.NET
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET in the North West

.NET
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 May 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 -14 195 £62,500 +8.70% 326
Lancashire -60 83 £50,000 - 71
Cheshire -38 49 £45,000 -18.18% 189
Merseyside -34 14 £62,500 +25.00% 87
.NET
England

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.35%) IIS
2 3 (0.88%) CMS
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (71.26%) Azure
2 229 (67.16%) AWS
3 177 (51.91%) GCP
4 19 (5.57%) SaaS
5 13 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.64%) GitHub
7 8 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.05%) Serverless
9 6 (1.76%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.47%) NuGet
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.88%) Azure Functions
12 3 (0.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.88%) HTTP
2 3 (0.88%) Internet
3 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.30%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.16%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.52%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.35%) MySQL
5 5 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.47%) Power BI
6 3 (0.88%) Event Store
6 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.59%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.59%) SQL CLR
8 1 (0.29%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (6.16%) Git
2 8 (2.35%) webpack
3 7 (2.05%) Babel
4 5 (1.47%) NUnit
5 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.88%) JMeter
6 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.59%) JIRA
7 2 (0.59%) MSTest
7 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) ESLint
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.29%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.29%) Maven
8 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 172 (50.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (8.80%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.99%) Finance
4 11 (3.23%) Retail
5 8 (2.35%) Back Office
6 6 (1.76%) Law
7 4 (1.17%) Automotive
7 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.88%) Marketing
8 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.59%) Front Office
9 2 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 215 (63.05%) Senior
2 192 (56.30%) Software Engineer
3 178 (52.20%) Senior Software Engineer
4 118 (34.60%) Developer
5 65 (19.06%) .NET Developer
6 36 (10.56%) Senior Developer
7 28 (8.21%) Lead
8 21 (6.16%) C# Developer
9 19 (5.57%) Lead Developer
9 19 (5.57%) Senior .NET Developer
10 13 (3.81%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.52%) Lead .NET Developer
12 9 (2.64%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (2.64%) WinForms Developer
13 7 (2.05%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.05%) React Developer
14 6 (1.76%) HTML CSS Developer
14 6 (1.76%) HTML Developer
14 6 (1.76%) JavaScript Developer
14 6 (1.76%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (53.67%) Node.js
2 61 (17.89%) .NET Core
3 40 (11.73%) React
4 39 (11.44%) CSS
5 36 (10.56%) HTML
6 31 (9.09%) .NET Framework
7 26 (7.62%) ASP.NET
7 26 (7.62%) RESTful
8 20 (5.87%) ASP.NET Web API
9 18 (5.28%) WinForms
10 17 (4.99%) REST
11 16 (4.69%) AngularJS
12 15 (4.40%) Entity Framework
13 14 (4.11%) Blazor
13 14 (4.11%) Kafka
14 13 (3.81%) HTML5
15 12 (3.52%) JSON
15 12 (3.52%) Web Services
16 8 (2.35%) Vue
16 8 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 172 (50.44%) Cyberattack
1 172 (50.44%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (50.44%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.99%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.05%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.88%) Clustering
7 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.88%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.59%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (0.59%) Derivative
8 2 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.59%) Equities
8 2 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.59%) Life Science
8 2 (0.59%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 179 (52.49%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (75.07%) Agile
2 213 (62.46%) Software Engineering
3 211 (61.88%) Microservices
4 192 (56.30%) Mentoring
5 185 (54.25%) Scrum
6 184 (53.96%) User Experience
7 178 (52.20%) Data Engineering
8 174 (51.03%) Cloud Security
9 173 (50.73%) Machine Learning
10 172 (50.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 59 (17.30%) CI/CD
12 58 (17.01%) DevOps
13 35 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (8.50%) OOP
16 27 (7.92%) Full-Stack Development
17 26 (7.62%) Design Patterns
17 26 (7.62%) TDD
18 25 (7.33%) Computer Science
19 21 (6.16%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 222 (65.10%) JavaScript
2 188 (55.13%) Python
3 179 (52.49%) Java
4 176 (51.61%) C++
5 173 (50.73%) Go
6 172 (50.44%) Rust
7 119 (34.90%) C#
8 59 (17.30%) SQL
9 26 (7.62%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.88%) PHP
12 2 (0.59%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.29%) Bicep
13 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.29%) Swift
13 1 (0.29%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
13 1 (0.29%) X++
13 1 (0.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 175 (51.32%) Security Cleared
2 174 (51.03%) AWS Certification
2 174 (51.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 172 (50.44%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (50.44%) DV Cleared
4 36 (10.56%) Degree
5 23 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.35%) QA
2 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (8.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.40%) Terraform
2 11 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.76%) Grafana
4 4 (1.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.47%) Splunk
3 4 (1.17%) Google
4 3 (0.88%) New Relic
5 2 (0.59%) Hitachi
5 2 (0.59%) IBM
5 2 (0.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.29%) Facebook
6 1 (0.29%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce