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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -33 -7 +12
Permanent jobs citing .NET 6 38 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.97% 7.36% 8.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 35.51% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 46
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,200 £34,375
25th Percentile £51,563 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £77,813 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £71,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -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 41 107 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.62% 20.74% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 39 74 93
10th Percentile - - £34,600
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £42,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% -19.81% +6.00%
75th Percentile £53,125 £60,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £83,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% +1.74%

.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 16 January 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 16 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
Liverpool -27 6 £60,000 +4.35% 8
.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 3 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Sentry
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) PostHog
2 2 (33.33%) Redis
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) git-flow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Loki
2 2 (33.33%) MassTransit
2 2 (33.33%) Next.js
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Insurtech
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) HubSpot