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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 206 73
Rank change year-on-year +34 -133 +122
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET 62 28 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.60% 0.61% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.52% 2.40% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 62 26 181
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,623 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -7.96% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,188 £62,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,625 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +0.91% -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 825 1,166 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.05% 25.30% 20.47%
Number of salaries quoted 707 532 1,566
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,075 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +10.13% -1.30%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,800 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +30 39 £50,000 +2.56% 3
Lancashire +33 11 £50,000 +25.00% 15
Manchester -18 8 £51,250 -10.87% 15
Merseyside - 2 £60,000 - 1
Cumbria - 2 £46,250 - 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 3 (4.84%) IIS
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (96.77%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.29%) AWS
4 4 (6.45%) Azure AI
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.45%) Figma
5 3 (4.84%) GitHub
6 2 (3.23%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Firebase
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (72.58%) SQL Server
2 12 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.45%) MySQL
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) NUnit
3 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.84%) GitLab
4 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 3 (4.84%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Banking
2 2 (3.23%) Finance
2 2 (3.23%) Games
2 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (3.23%) Retail
3 1 (1.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (95.16%) Developer
2 41 (66.13%) Software Developer
3 25 (40.32%) .NET Developer
4 19 (30.65%) Lead
5 18 (29.03%) Senior
5 18 (29.03%) Senior Developer
6 17 (27.42%) Lead Developer
7 16 (25.81%) Lead Software Developer
7 16 (25.81%) Senior Software Developer
8 11 (17.74%) C# Developer
8 11 (17.74%) C# Software Developer
9 10 (16.13%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (14.52%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
12 2 (3.23%) .NET Web Developer
12 2 (3.23%) PHP Developer
12 2 (3.23%) Senior .NET Web Developer
12 2 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
12 2 (3.23%) Senior Web Developer
12 2 (3.23%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (82.26%) .NET Core
3 27 (43.55%) .NET Framework
4 17 (27.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (20.97%) Entity Framework
6 12 (19.35%) RESTful
7 10 (16.13%) ASP.NET Web API
7 10 (16.13%) CSS
7 10 (16.13%) HTML
8 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.06%) Blazor
9 5 (8.06%) JSON
9 5 (8.06%) React
10 4 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (6.45%) LINQ
10 4 (6.45%) ML.NET
10 4 (6.45%) OpenAPI
10 4 (6.45%) Razor View Engine
10 4 (6.45%) Swagger
10 4 (6.45%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.84%) Social Network
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Lidar
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Android
1 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Agile
2 18 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (29.03%) RAD
3 17 (27.42%) DevOps
4 15 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 9 (14.52%) MVC
6 8 (12.90%) SDLC
7 6 (9.68%) Line Management
8 5 (8.06%) AI
8 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.06%) Multithreading
8 5 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (6.45%) API Design
9 4 (6.45%) API Development
9 4 (6.45%) Microservices
9 4 (6.45%) OO
9 4 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (6.45%) RBAC
9 4 (6.45%) Secure Coding
9 4 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 56 (90.32%) C#
2 39 (62.90%) SQL
3 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.45%) Bicep
6 2 (3.23%) PHP
6 2 (3.23%) Python
6 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.23%) VB
6 2 (3.23%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) DevExpress
3 2 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Google