.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 3 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
3 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 91 69
Rank change year-on-year -22 -22 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 36 83 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.52% 2.28% 3.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.39% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 72 76
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £52,813 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £83,600 £72,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +2.38%

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 2,198 3,466 2,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 95.06% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,759 1,917
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -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 3 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 3 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 -15 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 3 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 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (91.67%) C#
3 26 (72.22%) SQL Server
4 22 (61.11%) MongoDB
5 19 (52.78%) AWS
5 19 (52.78%) Microservices
6 16 (44.44%) Agile
6 16 (44.44%) Azure
7 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
8 14 (38.89%) Roadmaps
9 13 (36.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (33.33%) NoSQL
11 11 (30.56%) .NET Core
12 10 (27.78%) Blazor
13 9 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (25.00%) Design Patterns
13 9 (25.00%) Kanban
13 9 (25.00%) OOP
13 9 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
14 8 (22.22%) DevOps
14 8 (22.22%) SQL
15 7 (19.44%) .NET Framework
15 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
16 6 (16.67%) TDD
17 5 (13.89%) Akka
17 5 (13.89%) Akka.NET
17 5 (13.89%) 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 (2.78%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) SaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.56%) PaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (72.22%) SQL Server
2 22 (61.11%) MongoDB
3 12 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) MySQL
5 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (8.33%) Back Office
1 3 (8.33%) Games
1 3 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (2.78%) Marketing
2 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (30.56%) .NET Core
3 10 (27.78%) Blazor
4 9 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (19.44%) .NET Framework
6 5 (13.89%) Akka
6 5 (13.89%) Akka.NET
6 5 (13.89%) CSS
6 5 (13.89%) HTML
6 5 (13.89%) Kafka
6 5 (13.89%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (11.11%) Entity Framework
7 4 (11.11%) REST
7 4 (11.11%) RESTful
8 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (5.56%) JSON
9 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.56%) React
9 2 (5.56%) Web Services
10 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Clustering
1 9 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Online Games
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Android
1 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Microservices
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (38.89%) Roadmaps
5 13 (36.11%) Performance Optimisation
6 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 9 (25.00%) Kanban
7 9 (25.00%) OOP
7 9 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
8 8 (22.22%) DevOps
9 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (16.67%) TDD
11 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
11 5 (13.89%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (13.89%) Functional Testing
11 5 (13.89%) Low Latency
11 5 (13.89%) Scrum
11 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) Erlang
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Splunk
2 2 (5.56%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
24 .NET Developer jobs in Manchester