.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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 108 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 -41 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 32 49 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.15% 1.80% 3.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.91% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 71
10th Percentile £49,875 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £50,656 £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 £65,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £77,500 £71,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +10.58% -5.45%

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 2,478 2,561 2,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 93.98% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 1,236 1,747
10th Percentile £29,050 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,950 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -0.94%

.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 January 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 2 January 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 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (87.50%) C#
3 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
4 17 (53.13%) Microservices
5 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
6 15 (46.88%) Azure
7 13 (40.63%) NoSQL
8 12 (37.50%) Agile
9 11 (34.38%) .NET Core
9 11 (34.38%) AWS
9 11 (34.38%) Clean Code
9 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (34.38%) MongoDB
10 10 (31.25%) SaaS
10 10 (31.25%) SQL
11 9 (28.13%) DevOps
12 8 (25.00%) .NET Framework
12 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (25.00%) Docker
12 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
12 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
12 8 (25.00%) TDD
12 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
13 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (21.88%) SOLID
14 6 (18.75%) CSS
14 6 (18.75%) HTML
14 6 (18.75%) Low Latency
14 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation

.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 (46.88%) Azure
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) SaaS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (40.63%) NoSQL
3 11 (34.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (3.13%) Back Office
2 1 (3.13%) Retail
2 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (34.38%) .NET Core
3 8 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 8 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (18.75%) CSS
4 6 (18.75%) HTML
4 6 (18.75%) REST
4 6 (18.75%) RESTful
5 5 (15.63%) Akka
5 5 (15.63%) Akka.NET
6 4 (12.50%) Blazor
6 4 (12.50%) Entity Framework
7 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (6.25%) Sass
8 2 (6.25%) WinForms
9 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (15.63%) Clustering
2 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) Microservices
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
4 11 (34.38%) Clean Code
4 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 8 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (21.88%) SOLID
8 6 (18.75%) Low Latency
8 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (15.63%) API Testing
9 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Functional Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Scrum
9 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 28 (87.50%) C#
2 10 (31.25%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Erlang
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft