.NET Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 -25
Contract jobs citing .NET 23 41 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.48% 2.70% 5.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.62% 11.36% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 86
10th Percentile - £268 £363
25th Percentile £400 £372 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.55% -4.74%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £538
90th Percentile £588 £538 £625
North West median daily rate £413 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for .NET in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for .NET in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport +2 6 £400 -27.27% 34
.NET
North West

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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 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
4 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (8.70%) GIS
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) ObjectStore
3 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Babel
1 5 (21.74%) webpack
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (30.43%) JavaScript Developer
3 7 (30.43%) React Developer
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
5 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 2 (8.70%) GIS Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) React
2 8 (34.78%) RESTful
3 7 (30.43%) REST
4 6 (26.09%) CSS
4 6 (26.09%) HTML
5 5 (21.74%) .NET Core
5 5 (21.74%) HTML5
6 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
7 3 (13.04%) Node.js
8 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
8 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
8 2 (8.70%) GeoJSON
8 2 (8.70%) Google Maps API
8 2 (8.70%) Leaflet
8 2 (8.70%) MapLibre
9 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (4.35%) Blazor
9 1 (4.35%) Kafka
9 1 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Front End Development
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (21.74%) API Development
4 5 (21.74%) B2B
4 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.04%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.70%) CRM
7 2 (8.70%) Scrum
7 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.70%) Visualisation
7 2 (8.70%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) C#
2 11 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Mapbox
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle