.NET Developer Job Trends in Manchester

.NET Developer
North West > Manchester

The median .NET Developer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 112 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 -60 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 32 41 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.03% 1.57% 4.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.67% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 30 32 132
10th Percentile £49,875 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,656 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 2,789 2,453 3,026
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 93.80% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 1,186 2,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%

.NET Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

.NET Developer job vacancy trend in Manchester

.NET Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Developer job vacancies in Manchester

.NET Developer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in Manchester

.NET Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, .NET Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (81.25%) C#
3 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
4 17 (53.13%) Azure
5 15 (46.88%) Microservices
6 14 (43.75%) SaaS
6 14 (43.75%) SQL Server
7 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (37.50%) Agile
9 11 (34.38%) .NET Core
9 11 (34.38%) MongoDB
9 11 (34.38%) NoSQL
10 10 (31.25%) TDD
11 9 (28.13%) Clean Code
11 9 (28.13%) SOLID
12 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (25.00%) REST
12 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (21.88%) AWS
13 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
14 6 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (18.75%) Azure Functions
14 6 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (18.75%) Low Latency
14 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
14 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
14 6 (18.75%) Serverless
14 6 (18.75%) SQL
15 5 (15.63%) Akka

.NET Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) SaaS
3 7 (21.88%) AWS
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Functions
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 11 (34.38%) MongoDB
2 11 (34.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 2 (6.25%) Games
2 1 (3.13%) Back Office
2 1 (3.13%) Retail
2 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (34.38%) .NET Core
3 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 8 (25.00%) REST
4 5 (15.63%) Akka
4 5 (15.63%) Akka.NET
5 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 4 (12.50%) Blazor
5 4 (12.50%) CSS
5 4 (12.50%) HTML
5 4 (12.50%) RESTful
6 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
6 2 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (6.25%) Sass
6 2 (6.25%) WinForms
7 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.13%) jQuery
7 1 (3.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Mobile App
2 5 (15.63%) Clustering
2 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 15 (46.88%) Microservices
3 13 (40.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (37.50%) Agile
5 10 (31.25%) TDD
6 9 (28.13%) Clean Code
6 9 (28.13%) SOLID
7 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.75%) Low Latency
9 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
10 5 (15.63%) API Testing
10 5 (15.63%) DevOps
10 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (15.63%) Functional Testing
10 5 (15.63%) Scrum
10 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
11 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) C#
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Erlang
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft