.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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 105 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 -29 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 32 71 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.37% 2.00% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 2.11% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 30 60 64
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £52,813 £50,000 £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 £74,125 £80,400 £72,125
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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 2,124 3,371 2,205
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.88% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 1,705 1,778
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,581
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.48% +4.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,900 £85,000
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

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 November 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 29 November 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 -6 1 £55,000 -4.35%
.NET Developer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (93.75%) C#
3 23 (71.88%) SQL Server
4 19 (59.38%) Microservices
5 18 (56.25%) MongoDB
6 17 (53.13%) AWS
6 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
7 16 (50.00%) Azure
8 12 (37.50%) .NET Core
8 12 (37.50%) Agile
8 12 (37.50%) NoSQL
8 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
9 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (28.13%) DevOps
11 9 (28.13%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (25.00%) Blazor
12 8 (25.00%) Clean Code
12 8 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (25.00%) SQL
13 7 (21.88%) Docker
13 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
13 7 (21.88%) Kanban
14 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
14 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
14 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
15 5 (15.63%) Akka
15 5 (15.63%) Akka.NET
15 5 (15.63%) API Testing

.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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (71.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (56.25%) MongoDB
3 12 (37.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (6.25%) Back Office
1 2 (6.25%) Games
1 2 (6.25%) Retail
2 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (25.00%) Blazor
5 6 (18.75%) .NET Framework
6 5 (15.63%) Akka
6 5 (15.63%) Akka.NET
6 5 (15.63%) CSS
6 5 (15.63%) HTML
6 5 (15.63%) RESTful
7 4 (12.50%) Entity Framework
8 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (9.38%) Kafka
8 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (9.38%) REST
9 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (6.25%) React
9 2 (6.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Clustering
1 8 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (18.75%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Online Games
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Microservices
2 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 9 (28.13%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 8 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.88%) Kanban
9 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
10 5 (15.63%) API Testing
10 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (15.63%) Functional Testing
10 5 (15.63%) Low Latency
10 5 (15.63%) Scrum
10 5 (15.63%) TDD
10 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) C#
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Erlang
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Splunk
2 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft