.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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 43 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -32 +48
Permanent jobs citing .NET 26 14 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 2.32% 3.14% 9.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% 22.58% 47.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 103
10th Percentile - £47,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £78,250 £79,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +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 78 62 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.96% 13.90% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 62 43 203
10th Percentile £28,800 - £36,250
25th Percentile £35,938 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £84,375 £67,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £71,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £61,418 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +18.18% -4.35%

.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

.NET
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Merseyside over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Merseyside

.NET
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 30 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 -18 23 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Birkenhead - 3 £60,000 - 1
.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 1 (3.85%) GeoServer
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (34.62%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (34.62%) Power Automate
3 9 (34.62%) Power Platform
3 9 (34.62%) PowerApps
4 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.85%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.85%) GIS
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) PostHog
4 1 (3.85%) QGIS
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) TestRail
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (11.54%) Games
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Applications Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Power Apps Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.85%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Junior
6 1 (3.85%) Junior Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.85%) QA Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Software Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
1 4 (15.38%) Entity Framework
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) Next.js
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) Playwright
3 2 (7.69%) React
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.85%) Blazor
4 1 (3.85%) Leaflet
4 1 (3.85%) Loki
4 1 (3.85%) MassTransit
4 1 (3.85%) OpenLayers
4 1 (3.85%) PostGIS
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.85%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) IoT
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Data Integration
2 9 (34.62%) Translating Business Requirements
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Data Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (7.69%) AI
8 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
8 2 (7.69%) Software Delivery
8 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) C#
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Databricks