.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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 17 45
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -24
Permanent jobs citing .NET 344 875 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.38% 8.41% 6.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.88% 41.33% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 144 674 424
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,425 £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 1,191 2,117 2,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.18% 20.35% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 503 1,610 1,109
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -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 31 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 31 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 -16 197 £62,500 +8.70% 185
Lancashire -61 83 £50,000 - 67
Cheshire -38 49 £45,000 -18.18% 37
Merseyside -33 15 £65,000 +30.00% 35
.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 10 (2.91%) IIS
2 3 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.58%) 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
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 246 (71.51%) Azure
2 232 (67.44%) AWS
3 178 (51.74%) GCP
4 19 (5.52%) SaaS
5 13 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.62%) GitHub
7 8 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.03%) Serverless
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon EventBridge
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.45%) NuGet
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.16%) Firebase
12 3 (0.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.87%) HTTP
2 3 (0.87%) Internet
3 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.78%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.62%) MySQL
5 6 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.45%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.45%) Power BI
7 3 (0.87%) Event Store
7 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.58%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.58%) Redis
8 2 (0.58%) SQL CLR
9 1 (0.29%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (6.40%) Git
2 8 (2.33%) webpack
3 7 (2.03%) Babel
4 5 (1.45%) NUnit
5 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.87%) JMeter
6 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.58%) JIRA
7 2 (0.58%) MSTest
7 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.58%) 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 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (8.72%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.23%) Finance
4 11 (3.20%) Retail
5 8 (2.33%) Back Office
6 6 (1.74%) Law
7 4 (1.16%) Automotive
7 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.87%) Marketing
8 3 (0.87%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Front Office
9 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 215 (62.50%) Senior
2 192 (55.81%) Software Engineer
3 178 (51.74%) Senior Software Engineer
4 121 (35.17%) Developer
5 68 (19.77%) .NET Developer
6 36 (10.47%) Senior Developer
7 29 (8.43%) Lead
8 22 (6.40%) C# Developer
9 20 (5.81%) Lead Developer
10 19 (5.52%) Senior .NET Developer
11 13 (3.78%) Lead .NET Developer
11 13 (3.78%) Software Developer
12 10 (2.91%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (2.62%) WinForms Developer
14 8 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (2.03%) React Developer
16 6 (1.74%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 6 (1.74%) HTML CSS Developer
16 6 (1.74%) HTML Developer
16 6 (1.74%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (53.20%) Node.js
2 63 (18.31%) .NET Core
3 40 (11.63%) CSS
3 40 (11.63%) React
4 37 (10.76%) HTML
5 31 (9.01%) .NET Framework
6 28 (8.14%) ASP.NET
7 26 (7.56%) RESTful
8 21 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
9 18 (5.23%) REST
9 18 (5.23%) WinForms
10 16 (4.65%) AngularJS
11 15 (4.36%) Blazor
11 15 (4.36%) Entity Framework
12 14 (4.07%) Kafka
13 13 (3.78%) HTML5
13 13 (3.78%) JSON
13 13 (3.78%) Web Services
14 9 (2.62%) XML
15 8 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 172 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 172 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.16%) Clustering
8 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.58%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (0.58%) Derivative
9 2 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.58%) Life Science
9 2 (0.58%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 179 (52.03%) Linux
2 6 (1.74%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (74.71%) Agile
2 213 (61.92%) Software Engineering
3 212 (61.63%) Microservices
4 192 (55.81%) Mentoring
5 185 (53.78%) Scrum
6 184 (53.49%) User Experience
7 178 (51.74%) Data Engineering
8 174 (50.58%) Cloud Security
9 173 (50.29%) Machine Learning
10 172 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 59 (17.15%) CI/CD
11 59 (17.15%) DevOps
12 35 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.43%) OOP
15 28 (8.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (7.85%) Design Patterns
17 26 (7.56%) TDD
18 25 (7.27%) Computer Science
19 21 (6.10%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 224 (65.12%) JavaScript
2 189 (54.94%) Python
3 179 (52.03%) Java
4 176 (51.16%) C++
5 173 (50.29%) Go
6 172 (50.00%) Rust
7 122 (35.47%) C#
8 61 (17.73%) SQL
9 26 (7.56%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.16%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 2 (0.58%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.29%) Swift
13 1 (0.29%) VB
13 1 (0.29%) VB6
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
13 1 (0.29%) X++
13 1 (0.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 175 (50.87%) Security Cleared
2 174 (50.58%) AWS Certification
2 174 (50.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 172 (50.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 36 (10.47%) Degree
5 23 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.87%) 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 (2.33%) QA
2 4 (1.16%) 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 (8.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.36%) Terraform
2 11 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.74%) Grafana
4 4 (1.16%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.45%) Splunk
3 4 (1.16%) Google
4 3 (0.87%) New Relic
5 2 (0.58%) Hitachi
5 2 (0.58%) IBM
5 2 (0.58%) VMware
6 1 (0.29%) Facebook
6 1 (0.29%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce