.NET Developer Job Trends in Manchester

.NET Developer
North West > Manchester

The median .NET Developer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 96 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 30 64 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.15% 2.19% 3.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 2.33% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 28 55 56
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £78,250 £69,375
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% +1.90%

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 2,319 2,749 2,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 94.11% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 1,377 1,651
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.73%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,466
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +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 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Developer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, .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 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (96.67%) C#
3 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 19 (63.33%) Microservices
4 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
5 16 (53.33%) Azure
6 14 (46.67%) MongoDB
7 13 (43.33%) AWS
8 12 (40.00%) .NET Core
8 12 (40.00%) Agile
8 12 (40.00%) NoSQL
9 11 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
11 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
12 8 (26.67%) DevOps
12 8 (26.67%) Docker
12 8 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (26.67%) SQL
12 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
13 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
13 7 (23.33%) SaaS
13 7 (23.33%) SOLID
13 7 (23.33%) TDD
14 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
14 6 (20.00%) Blazor
14 6 (20.00%) RESTful
15 5 (16.67%) 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 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Functions
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (13.33%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (46.67%) MongoDB
3 12 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (6.67%) Back Office
1 2 (6.67%) Games
1 2 (6.67%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (20.00%) Blazor
4 6 (20.00%) RESTful
5 5 (16.67%) Akka
5 5 (16.67%) Akka.NET
5 5 (16.67%) CSS
5 5 (16.67%) HTML
5 5 (16.67%) REST
6 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
7 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (6.67%) Sass
9 1 (3.33%) React
9 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (20.00%) Clustering
2 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
1 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 19 (63.33%) Microservices
3 12 (40.00%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
7 8 (26.67%) DevOps
7 8 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (23.33%) SOLID
8 7 (23.33%) TDD
9 5 (16.67%) API Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Design Patterns
9 5 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Functional Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Kanban
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
9 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) C#
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) Erlang
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Xamarin
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk