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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 152 96
Rank change year-on-year +11 -56 +98
Permanent jobs citing ASP.NET 39 57 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.63% 1.11% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.69% 6.44% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 39 25 97
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £65,850 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 507 885 1,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.19% 17.25% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 434 554 820
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £44,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,813
90th Percentile £83,375 £83,675 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -10 24 £50,000 - 6
Manchester -6 9 £47,500 -24.00% 9
Lancashire - 4 £47,500 - 17
Merseyside -5 2 £50,000 -20.00% 2
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 1 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (89.74%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) SaaS
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (84.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.56%) Legal
2 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (97.44%) Developer
2 28 (71.79%) Software Developer
3 12 (30.77%) Senior
3 12 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 11 (28.21%) Lead
4 11 (28.21%) Lead Developer
4 11 (28.21%) Lead Software Developer
5 10 (25.64%) .NET Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (10.26%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Web Developer
8 2 (5.13%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Applications Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Developer
8 2 (5.13%) PHP Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior .NET Web Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (76.92%) .NET Core
3 19 (48.72%) .NET Framework
4 9 (23.08%) CSS
4 9 (23.08%) HTML
5 8 (20.51%) RESTful
6 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (15.38%) React
7 5 (12.82%) CSS3
7 5 (12.82%) HTML5
8 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
9 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (5.13%) jQuery
10 2 (5.13%) REST
10 2 (5.13%) Sass
11 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
11 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Agile
2 16 (41.03%) RAD
3 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) MVC
5 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.82%) AI
6 5 (12.82%) User Experience
7 4 (10.26%) API Development
7 4 (10.26%) Digital Innovation
7 4 (10.26%) Microservices
7 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.26%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (7.69%) Line Management
8 3 (7.69%) SDLC
8 3 (7.69%) Web Development
9 2 (5.13%) Kanban
9 2 (5.13%) Migration
9 2 (5.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) C#
2 17 (43.59%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) Python
6 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft