ASP.NET Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft ASP.NET
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ASP.NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 215 92
Rank change year-on-year +36 -123 +94
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET 67 30 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.60% 0.61% 2.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.59% 2.60% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 67 28 168
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,750 £38,550
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £59,375 £61,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

ASP.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 1,017 1,156 2,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.17% 23.63% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 862 488 1,645
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,525 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

ASP.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

ASP.NET job vacancy trend in the North West

ASP.NET
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

ASP.NET
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ASP.NET in the North West over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for ASP.NET in the North West

ASP.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 ASP.NET within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 June 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 +21 23 £55,000 +2.33% 2
Lancashire +42 21 £50,000 +25.00% 17
Manchester -22 13 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Merseyside -15 5 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Cumbria - 5 £47,500 - 1
ASP.NET
England

ASP.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 4 (5.97%) IIS
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 65 (97.01%) Azure
2 25 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) AWS
4 12 (17.91%) Azure AI
5 10 (14.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.46%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.97%) Figma
9 2 (2.99%) GCP
9 2 (2.99%) Serverless
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.49%) Firebase
10 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (52.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 26 (38.81%) SQL Server
3 25 (37.31%) MongoDB
4 9 (13.43%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.97%) MySQL
5 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.49%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Git
2 4 (5.97%) GitLab
2 4 (5.97%) NUnit
3 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 6 (8.96%) Games
2 5 (7.46%) Advertising
2 5 (7.46%) Retail
3 4 (5.97%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Finance
6 1 (1.49%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (94.03%) Developer
2 42 (62.69%) .NET Developer
3 27 (40.30%) Software Developer
4 15 (22.39%) Lead
5 13 (19.40%) Lead Developer
6 12 (17.91%) Lead Software Developer
7 10 (14.93%) C# Developer
7 10 (14.93%) C# Software Developer
8 8 (11.94%) Senior
8 8 (11.94%) Senior Developer
8 8 (11.94%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (10.45%) .NET Software Developer
10 6 (8.96%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior C# Software Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Development Specialist
12 2 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 1 (1.49%) JavaScript Engineer
13 1 (1.49%) Junior
13 1 (1.49%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (86.57%) .NET Core
3 39 (58.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 26 (38.81%) Entity Framework
5 21 (31.34%) CSS
5 21 (31.34%) HTML
6 19 (28.36%) RESTful
7 18 (26.87%) ASP.NET Web API
8 15 (22.39%) .NET Framework
9 13 (19.40%) AngularJS
9 13 (19.40%) React
10 12 (17.91%) Blazor
10 12 (17.91%) ML.NET
11 10 (14.93%) LINQ
12 9 (13.43%) Node.js
12 9 (13.43%) Vue
13 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (7.46%) JSON
14 5 (7.46%) REST
14 5 (7.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (10.45%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.96%) Social Network
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) BBC
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Lidar
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Android
1 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 39 (58.21%) Agile
3 29 (43.28%) DevOps
4 26 (38.81%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.90%) AI
5 14 (20.90%) Multithreading
5 14 (20.90%) SDLC
6 12 (17.91%) Machine Learning
6 12 (17.91%) OO
7 8 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (10.45%) MVC
9 6 (8.96%) Microservices
9 6 (8.96%) TDD
10 5 (7.46%) Analytics
10 5 (7.46%) BDD
10 5 (7.46%) Data Analytics
10 5 (7.46%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.46%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (7.46%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 62 (92.54%) C#
2 50 (74.63%) SQL
3 19 (28.36%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.40%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.97%) Bicep
6 2 (2.99%) Python
6 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.99%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.49%) Java
7 1 (1.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (73.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) DevExpress
3 3 (4.48%) Splunk
4 2 (2.99%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) Apple
5 1 (1.49%) Facebook
5 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.49%) Sony
5 1 (1.49%) Yahoo!