.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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 61
Rank change year-on-year -23 -41 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 35 41 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.74% 2.06% 3.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 2.19% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 33 40 180
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -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 4,297 1,872 4,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 93.83% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,072 1,260 3,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,675 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,938 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £81,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (51.43%) C#
3 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 17 (48.57%) SaaS
4 13 (37.14%) Agile
5 12 (34.29%) Azure
5 12 (34.29%) SOLID
5 12 (34.29%) TDD
6 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (28.57%) REST
8 9 (25.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (25.71%) Azure Functions
8 9 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (25.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (25.71%) Serverless
8 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.00%) Microservices
10 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
10 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
11 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
11 5 (14.29%) Docker
12 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
12 4 (11.43%) DevOps
12 4 (11.43%) SQL
12 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
12 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
13 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
13 3 (8.57%) CSS

.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 (48.57%) SaaS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Functions
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 9 (25.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 9 (25.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (28.57%) REST
3 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (8.57%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (5.71%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) Sass
5 2 (5.71%) WinForms
6 1 (2.86%) Akka
6 1 (2.86%) Akka.NET
6 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.86%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) React
6 1 (2.86%) Vue
6 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 13 (37.14%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) SOLID
3 12 (34.29%) TDD
4 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
9 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) DevOps
9 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
11 2 (5.71%) Coaching
11 2 (5.71%) Continuous Delivery
11 2 (5.71%) Data Pipeline
11 2 (5.71%) Event-Driven
11 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
11 2 (5.71%) Performance Optimisation
11 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) C#
2 4 (11.43%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) Erlang
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes