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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 215 84
Rank change year-on-year +41 -131 +101
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET 64 26 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.59% 0.55% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.43% 2.26% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 64 24 186
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,750 £38,075
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,873 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -5.69% +4.76%
75th Percentile £58,438 £61,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £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 996 1,149 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.12% 24.31% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 847 482 1,723
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,024
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,313 £42,875
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 £93,775 £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 21 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 21 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 +29 28 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Lancashire +33 16 £52,500 +31.25% 16
Manchester -21 11 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Merseyside -17 5 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Cumbria - 4 £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 (6.25%) IIS
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (96.88%) Azure
2 22 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.75%) AWS
4 8 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 8 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (7.81%) GitHub
6 4 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.25%) Figma
7 3 (4.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.13%) GCP
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.56%) Firebase
9 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (48.44%) SQL Server
2 27 (42.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (29.69%) MongoDB
4 7 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (6.25%) MySQL
5 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) NUnit
3 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.56%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (9.38%) Games
2 4 (6.25%) Retail
2 4 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Advertising
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (93.75%) Developer
2 35 (54.69%) .NET Developer
3 32 (50.00%) Software Developer
4 16 (25.00%) Lead
5 14 (21.88%) Lead Developer
6 13 (20.31%) Lead Software Developer
7 11 (17.19%) C# Developer
7 11 (17.19%) C# Software Developer
7 11 (17.19%) Senior
7 11 (17.19%) Senior Developer
7 11 (17.19%) Senior Software Developer
8 8 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
9 7 (10.94%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Senior C# Software Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Development Specialist
11 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 1 (1.56%) JavaScript Engineer
12 1 (1.56%) Junior
12 1 (1.56%) Senior .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (100.00%) .NET
2 55 (85.94%) .NET Core
3 31 (48.44%) ASP.NET Core
4 23 (35.94%) Entity Framework
5 18 (28.13%) .NET Framework
5 18 (28.13%) CSS
5 18 (28.13%) HTML
6 15 (23.44%) ASP.NET Web API
6 15 (23.44%) RESTful
7 11 (17.19%) AngularJS
8 10 (15.63%) React
9 9 (14.06%) Blazor
10 8 (12.50%) LINQ
10 8 (12.50%) ML.NET
11 7 (10.94%) Node.js
11 7 (10.94%) Vue
12 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (7.81%) JSON
13 5 (7.81%) OpenAPI
13 5 (7.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.25%) Social Network
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) BBC
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Lidar
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Android
1 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) Agile
2 32 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (40.63%) DevOps
4 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.75%) SDLC
6 10 (15.63%) AI
6 10 (15.63%) Multithreading
7 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 8 (12.50%) OO
7 8 (12.50%) RAD
7 8 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (10.94%) MVC
9 5 (7.81%) Analytics
9 5 (7.81%) Data Analytics
9 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.81%) Microservices
9 5 (7.81%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (6.25%) RBAC
10 4 (6.25%) Secure Coding
10 4 (6.25%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 59 (92.19%) C#
2 45 (70.31%) SQL
3 16 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.25%) Bicep
6 2 (3.13%) Python
6 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.13%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.56%) Java
7 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) DevExpress
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Apple
5 1 (1.56%) Facebook
5 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.56%) Sony
5 1 (1.56%) Yahoo!