.NET Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 50 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -30 +10
Permanent jobs citing .NET 260 325 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.07% 6.30% 6.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.41% 29.55% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 227 134 366
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,261 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,742 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 1,160 1,100 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.24% 21.31% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 917 436 918
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,379
Median % change year-on-year - +15.29% -6.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the North West

.NET
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

.NET
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the North West over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

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 13 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
Manchester -50 132 £70,000 +7.69% 64
Lancashire +2 49 £47,988 +13.22% 28
Cheshire +14 42 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Merseyside +1 29 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Cumbria - 7 £47,500 - 1
.NET
England

.NET
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 5 (1.92%) CMS
1 5 (1.92%) IIS
2 4 (1.54%) WordPress
3 3 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
4 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.38%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (50.77%) Azure
2 61 (23.46%) AWS
3 41 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (10.77%) SaaS
5 21 (8.08%) Serverless
6 18 (6.92%) Azure AI
6 18 (6.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (5.77%) Power Automate
8 14 (5.38%) GitHub
9 12 (4.62%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.23%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.23%) GCP
11 9 (3.46%) Amazon Bedrock
12 8 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) HTTP
1 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 41 (15.77%) SQL Server
3 31 (11.92%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.85%) MySQL
6 8 (3.08%) Power BI
7 6 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.54%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.15%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.38%) GIS
11 1 (0.38%) QGIS
11 1 (0.38%) Redis
11 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.92%) Git
2 6 (2.31%) Claude Code
2 6 (2.31%) GitLab
3 5 (1.92%) NUnit
4 4 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.77%) MSTest
5 2 (0.77%) TestRail
6 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.38%) Gradle
6 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 30 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.46%) Finance
3 13 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.46%) Legal
6 8 (3.08%) Marketing
7 7 (2.69%) Retail
8 6 (2.31%) Advertising
8 6 (2.31%) Games
9 3 (1.15%) Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Electronics
10 2 (0.77%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (60.38%) Developer
2 101 (38.85%) .NET Developer
3 59 (22.69%) Senior
4 48 (18.46%) Lead
5 41 (15.77%) Software Developer
6 37 (14.23%) Software Engineer
7 29 (11.15%) Lead Developer
8 28 (10.77%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (6.92%) .NET Software Developer
10 18 (6.92%) Lead Software Developer
11 14 (5.38%) C# Developer
11 14 (5.38%) Senior .NET Developer
12 13 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
13 12 (4.62%) C# Software Developer
13 12 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (3.85%) Architect
14 10 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.46%) Principal .NET Developer
15 9 (3.46%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.77%) .NET Core
1 67 (25.77%) ASP.NET
2 46 (17.69%) React
3 43 (16.54%) ASP.NET Core
4 35 (13.46%) CSS
5 31 (11.92%) Entity Framework
5 31 (11.92%) HTML
6 29 (11.15%) AngularJS
7 26 (10.00%) Node.js
8 24 (9.23%) ASP.NET Web API
8 24 (9.23%) Vue
9 21 (8.08%) RESTful
10 18 (6.92%) REST
11 17 (6.54%) .NET Framework
12 15 (5.77%) Blazor
13 12 (4.62%) ML.NET
14 11 (4.23%) LINQ
15 9 (3.46%) ASP.NET MVC
16 8 (3.08%) CSS3
16 8 (3.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.92%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (6.15%) Mobile App
5 14 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.31%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (2.31%) Social Network
9 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.15%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.15%) Online Gambling
10 3 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.77%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) Robotics
12 1 (0.38%) Animation
12 1 (0.38%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Android
2 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 91 (35.00%) Agile
3 84 (32.31%) CI/CD
4 77 (29.62%) Software Engineering
5 75 (28.85%) DevOps
6 51 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (18.85%) AI
8 44 (16.92%) Mentoring
9 43 (16.54%) Microservices
10 29 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.00%) SDLC
12 23 (8.85%) Event-Driven
12 23 (8.85%) TDD
12 23 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (7.69%) Code Quality
14 20 (7.69%) Roadmaps
15 18 (6.92%) Decision-Making
16 17 (6.54%) Coaching
16 17 (6.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 173 (66.54%) C#
2 92 (35.38%) SQL
3 64 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 28 (10.77%) Python
4 28 (10.77%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.00%) Java
6 11 (4.23%) VB
7 9 (3.46%) C++
8 8 (3.08%) PHP
9 4 (1.54%) C
9 4 (1.54%) Go
9 4 (1.54%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.15%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.77%) Bicep
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.31%) Degree
2 14 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.54%) MBA
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.15%) QA
2 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (8.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 88 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.38%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.54%) Adobe
3 4 (1.54%) Google
3 4 (1.54%) NEC
4 3 (1.15%) Facebook
4 3 (1.15%) Splunk
5 2 (0.77%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.38%) Apple
6 1 (0.38%) Databricks
6 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.38%) New Relic
6 1 (0.38%) Sony
6 1 (0.38%) Talend
6 1 (0.38%) Yahoo!