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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 48 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -35 +32
Permanent jobs citing .NET 32 15 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 2.55% 2.81% 8.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.56% 24.59% 48.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 14 70
10th Percentile - £47,150 £36,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +33.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,438 £71,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £75,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -3.51%

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 90 61 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.18% 11.42% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 75 40 133
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +27.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £70,125 £85,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -3.40%

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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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -12 27 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Birkenhead - 5 £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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (28.13%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (28.13%) Power Automate
3 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
3 9 (28.13%) PowerApps
4 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) TestRail
General
1 5 (15.63%) Games
2 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (81.25%) Developer
2 16 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Applications Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Power Apps Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Lead
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Integration Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Blazor Developer
8 1 (3.13%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Junior Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Product Owner
8 1 (3.13%) QA Leader
8 1 (3.13%) Software Product Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) .NET Core
2 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
2 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (15.63%) CSS
2 5 (15.63%) Entity Framework
2 5 (15.63%) HTML
3 2 (6.25%) Playwright
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.13%) Blazor
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) IoT
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Data Integration
1 11 (34.38%) Translating Business Requirements
2 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.00%) Agile
4 8 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Data Analytics
7 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.25%) AI
8 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.25%) Performance Testing
8 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.25%) TDD
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (6.25%) Test Management
9 1 (3.13%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) C#
2 18 (56.25%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) C
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.13%) Talend