Senior .NET Developer Job Trends in the North West

Senior .NET Developer
England > North West

The median Senior .NET Developer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 181 167
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior .NET Developer 17 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.27% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.52% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 30
10th Percentile £51,000 £53,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £68,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £64,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.95% -4.81% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 5,478 4,660 4,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.98% 92.20% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 2,452 3,359
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,113 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Senior .NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior .NET Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Senior .NET Developer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Senior .NET Developer job vacancies in the North West

Senior .NET Developer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior .NET Developer in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior .NET Developer in the North West

Senior .NET Developer
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 Senior .NET Developer within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester +20 17 £60,000 - 3
Senior .NET Developer
England

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Senior .NET Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (64.71%) C#
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) .NET Core
3 9 (52.94%) Microservices
4 8 (47.06%) SaaS
5 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
6 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
7 5 (29.41%) Azure
7 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) Docker
7 5 (29.41%) SOLID
7 5 (29.41%) TDD
8 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
8 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (17.65%) Akka
9 3 (17.65%) Akka.NET
9 3 (17.65%) API Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
9 3 (17.65%) DevOps
9 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
9 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Git

Senior .NET Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) SaaS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
General
1 1 (5.88%) Back Office
1 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) .NET Core
3 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (17.65%) Akka
4 3 (17.65%) Akka.NET
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (11.76%) CSS
5 2 (11.76%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (11.76%) Sass
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.88%) Blazor
6 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) SOLID
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (17.65%) API Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
7 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Kanban
7 3 (17.65%) Low Latency
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Erlang
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes