.NET Developer Contracts in Manchester

.NET Developer
North West > Manchester

The median .NET Developer daily rate in Manchester is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 79 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 -5
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Developer 4 17 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 1.12% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 1.17% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 47
10th Percentile £402 £268 £370
25th Percentile £405 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £485 £488 £506
90th Percentile £503 £506 £585
North West median daily rate £413 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +6.45% -18.42% +8.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured .NET Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Developer in Manchester

.NET Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for .NET Developer in Manchester

.NET Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Developer in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Developer in Manchester

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (25.00%) Blazor
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) B2C
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle