.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 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 103 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -22 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 30 67 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.30% 1.98% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.09% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 61
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £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 £74,875 £81,600 £71,250
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 2,086 3,205 2,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 94.71% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,612 1,750
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,581
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.48% +4.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 2 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 2 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 28 (93.33%) C#
3 21 (70.00%) SQL Server
4 18 (60.00%) Microservices
5 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
5 17 (56.67%) MongoDB
6 15 (50.00%) AWS
7 14 (46.67%) Azure
8 11 (36.67%) .NET Core
8 11 (36.67%) Agile
8 11 (36.67%) NoSQL
8 11 (36.67%) Roadmaps
9 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (26.67%) Clean Code
10 8 (26.67%) DevOps
10 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (23.33%) Blazor
11 7 (23.33%) Docker
11 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (23.33%) SQL
12 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
12 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
12 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
12 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
12 6 (20.00%) Kanban
13 5 (16.67%) Akka
13 5 (16.67%) Akka.NET
13 5 (16.67%) 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Functions
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (56.67%) MongoDB
3 11 (36.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) 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 11 (36.67%) .NET Core
3 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (23.33%) Blazor
5 6 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 5 (16.67%) Akka
6 5 (16.67%) Akka.NET
6 5 (16.67%) RESTful
7 4 (13.33%) CSS
7 4 (13.33%) Entity Framework
7 4 (13.33%) HTML
8 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.00%) Kafka
8 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (10.00%) REST
9 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.67%) React
10 1 (3.33%) jQuery
10 1 (3.33%) Razor View Engine
10 1 (3.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Clustering
1 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Online Games
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
1 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Microservices
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Roadmaps
4 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (26.67%) Clean Code
5 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (20.00%) Kanban
8 5 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Functional Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Low Latency
8 5 (16.67%) OOP
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (16.67%) TDD
8 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) C#
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) Erlang
5 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (6.67%) Xamarin
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft