.NET Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 36 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 -25 +45
Permanent jobs citing .NET 23 19 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 2.25% 4.43% 9.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.51% 29.69% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 96
10th Percentile - £47,400 £36,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +13.37%
75th Percentile £71,875 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £75,250 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

.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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 73 64 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.14% 14.92% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 59 54 196
10th Percentile £28,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -13.33% +11.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £62,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £71,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.65% -0.87%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Merseyside

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Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing .NET

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Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Merseyside over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Merseyside

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Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 12 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
Liverpool -17 21 £55,000 -6.38% 2
Birkenhead - 2 £60,000 -
.NET
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (8.70%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (39.13%) Power Automate
2 9 (39.13%) Power Platform
2 9 (39.13%) PowerApps
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.70%) Sentry
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.70%) PostHog
3 2 (8.70%) Redis
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
4 1 (4.35%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) TestRail
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (8.70%) Games
1 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Applications Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Power Apps Developer
3 8 (34.78%) .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
7 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Entity Framework
2 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
2 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (8.70%) CSS
2 2 (8.70%) HTML
2 2 (8.70%) Loki
2 2 (8.70%) MassTransit
2 2 (8.70%) Next.js
2 2 (8.70%) Playwright
2 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.70%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Leaflet
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) OpenLayers
3 1 (4.35%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Data Integration
1 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (39.13%) Translating Business Requirements
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 2 (8.70%) Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Front End Development
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Testing
6 2 (8.70%) Software Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) C#
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Grafana
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft