.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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 51 29
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 -14
Contract jobs citing .NET 18 37 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.80% 3.09% 5.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 14.45% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 87
10th Percentile £374 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £411 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £495 £575
90th Percentile £635 £525 £605
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £485
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.22% +2.11%

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 192 256 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.16% 21.39% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 179 313
10th Percentile £339 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £688 £600
90th Percentile £613 £850 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £70.63 £64.00 £62.00
25th Percentile £71.56 £66.25 £63.13
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £84.06 £72.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £73.70 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +4.09% +45.63% -34.03%

.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 11 August 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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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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (11.11%) DocumentDB
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Ant
1 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.56%) JUnit
1 1 (5.56%) NUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET Core
1 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 3 (16.67%) React
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) ADO.NET
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.56%) Blazor
4 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.56%) J2EE
4 1 (5.56%) JSTL
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (11.11%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft