.NET Developer Job Trends in Manchester

.NET Developer
North West > Manchester

The median .NET Developer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 114 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 -50 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 50 47 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.85% 2.18% 3.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 2.39% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 46 185
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -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 5,505 1,970 4,928
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 91.29% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,167 1,138 3,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,463 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,656 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +10.99% -7.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,335 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,758 £81,150
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

.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 29 May 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 29 May 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 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (44.00%) SaaS
3 21 (42.00%) C#
4 18 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (34.00%) Azure
5 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (30.00%) Agile
7 14 (28.00%) Software Engineering
8 12 (24.00%) TDD
9 10 (20.00%) SOLID
10 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.00%) REST
11 8 (16.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (16.00%) Azure Functions
11 8 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (16.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (16.00%) Serverless
11 8 (16.00%) SQL
12 7 (14.00%) DevOps
13 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
14 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
14 5 (10.00%) CSS
14 5 (10.00%) HTML
14 5 (10.00%) Microservices
14 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
15 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (8.00%) Clean Code
15 4 (8.00%) Docker
15 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
15 4 (8.00%) Mentoring

.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:

Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) SaaS
2 17 (34.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Functions
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (16.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (16.00%) Serverless
4 3 (6.00%) AWS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) MSTest
1 2 (4.00%) NUnit
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 16 (32.00%) Finance
2 2 (4.00%) Games
3 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (18.00%) REST
3 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.00%) CSS
3 5 (10.00%) HTML
4 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (6.00%) React
4 3 (6.00%) WPF
5 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.00%) Ninject
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) Spring.NET
5 2 (4.00%) Unity DI Container
5 2 (4.00%) Vue
5 2 (4.00%) WinForms
6 1 (2.00%) RESTful
6 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.00%) Social Network
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 14 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.00%) TDD
6 10 (20.00%) SOLID
7 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (14.00%) DevOps
9 5 (10.00%) Microservices
10 4 (8.00%) Clean Code
10 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
11 3 (6.00%) Design Patterns
11 3 (6.00%) Kanban
11 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
12 2 (4.00%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (4.00%) Dependency Injection
12 2 (4.00%) Inversion of Control
12 2 (4.00%) Scrum
12 2 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) C#
2 8 (16.00%) SQL
3 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Facebook