.NET Developer Job Trends in Manchester

.NET Developer
North West > Manchester

The median .NET Developer salary in Manchester is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 92 95
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 49 91 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.07% 2.24% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 2.37% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 47 83 80
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +1.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,152 3,840 2,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.80% 94.49% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 2,202 2,114
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £34,554
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

.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
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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in Manchester

.NET Developer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Developer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham -12 3 £55,000 -4.35%
.NET Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, .NET Developer 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 permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring .NET Developer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) .NET
2 41 (83.67%) C#
3 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
4 28 (57.14%) AWS
5 25 (51.02%) Agile
6 22 (44.90%) MongoDB
7 21 (42.86%) .NET Core
8 20 (40.82%) Microservices
8 20 (40.82%) Azure
9 17 (34.69%) Kanban
9 17 (34.69%) Roadmaps
10 15 (30.61%) JavaScript
10 15 (30.61%) NoSQL
10 15 (30.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
11 14 (28.57%) Blazor
11 14 (28.57%) DevOps
11 14 (28.57%) OOP
11 14 (28.57%) Design Patterns
12 13 (26.53%) CSS
12 13 (26.53%) HTML
12 13 (26.53%) ASP.NET Web API
12 13 (26.53%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (24.49%) SQL
14 11 (22.45%) Docker
15 10 (20.41%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (20.41%) .NET Framework
15 10 (20.41%) Git
16 9 (18.37%) SaaS

.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 6 (12.24%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 20 (40.82%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) SaaS
4 4 (8.16%) Firebase
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
2 22 (44.90%) MongoDB
3 15 (30.61%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.12%) MySQL
5 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.04%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) JMeter
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.04%) NUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (12.24%) Back Office
1 6 (12.24%) Retail
2 3 (6.12%) Games
2 3 (6.12%) Marketing
3 1 (2.04%) Finance
3 1 (2.04%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (42.86%) .NET Core
3 14 (28.57%) Blazor
4 13 (26.53%) ASP.NET Web API
4 13 (26.53%) CSS
4 13 (26.53%) HTML
5 10 (20.41%) .NET Framework
6 9 (18.37%) ASP.NET
7 8 (16.33%) Kafka
8 7 (14.29%) JSON
8 7 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (14.29%) Web Services
9 6 (12.24%) Entity Framework
9 6 (12.24%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (12.24%) XML
10 5 (10.20%) React
10 5 (10.20%) RESTful
11 4 (8.16%) Node.js
11 4 (8.16%) Sass
12 3 (6.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (18.37%) Clustering
2 9 (18.37%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Online Games
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Android
1 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Agile
2 20 (40.82%) Microservices
3 17 (34.69%) Kanban
3 17 (34.69%) Roadmaps
4 15 (30.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 14 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 14 (28.57%) DevOps
5 14 (28.57%) OOP
6 13 (26.53%) Performance Optimisation
7 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (18.37%) TDD
8 9 (18.37%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (14.29%) Line Management
9 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven
10 6 (12.24%) MVC
11 5 (10.20%) E-Commerce
12 4 (8.16%) Clean Code
12 4 (8.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (83.67%) C#
2 15 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 12 (24.49%) SQL
4 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (4.08%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) New Relic