.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 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 101 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -25 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Developer 34 73 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.44% 2.03% 3.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 2.14% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 32 62 66
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £41,250
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 £73,750 £80,000 £71,875
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -

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 2,146 3,411 2,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 94.93% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 1,729 1,779
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.62% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (91.18%) C#
3 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
4 19 (55.88%) Microservices
4 19 (55.88%) MongoDB
5 17 (50.00%) AWS
5 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 16 (47.06%) Azure
7 14 (41.18%) Agile
8 12 (35.29%) .NET Core
8 12 (35.29%) NoSQL
8 12 (35.29%) Roadmaps
9 11 (32.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (32.35%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (26.47%) DevOps
10 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (23.53%) Blazor
11 8 (23.53%) Clean Code
11 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (23.53%) Kanban
11 8 (23.53%) SQL
12 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
12 7 (20.59%) Docker
12 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
13 6 (17.65%) .NET Framework
13 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
13 6 (17.65%) OOP
13 6 (17.65%) TDD
14 5 (14.71%) Akka

.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 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 19 (55.88%) MongoDB
3 12 (35.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (5.88%) Back Office
1 2 (5.88%) Games
1 2 (5.88%) Retail
2 1 (2.94%) Marketing
2 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (23.53%) Blazor
5 6 (17.65%) .NET Framework
6 5 (14.71%) Akka
6 5 (14.71%) Akka.NET
6 5 (14.71%) CSS
6 5 (14.71%) HTML
6 5 (14.71%) RESTful
7 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
7 4 (11.76%) Kafka
7 4 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (11.76%) REST
8 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
9 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
9 2 (5.88%) JSON
9 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Clustering
1 8 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.88%) Online Games
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Android
1 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Microservices
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (41.18%) Agile
4 12 (35.29%) Roadmaps
5 11 (32.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (32.35%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (26.47%) DevOps
6 9 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (23.53%) Clean Code
7 8 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (23.53%) Kanban
8 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
9 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 6 (17.65%) OOP
9 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 5 (14.71%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Functional Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
10 5 (14.71%) Scrum
10 5 (14.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) C#
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) Erlang
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Splunk
2 2 (5.88%) Xamarin
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft