.NET Framework Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft .NET Framework
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 131 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 +36
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 14 38 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.57% 1.05% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 4.79% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 39
10th Percentile £52,375 - £43,300
25th Percentile £54,688 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,813 £64,375
90th Percentile £88,375 £80,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +11.90% +2.44% +2.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 456 793 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.57% 21.88% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 303 440 646
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £84,100 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in Manchester

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in Manchester

.NET Framework
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 2 (14.29%) IIS
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) SaaS
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (21.43%) MySQL
4 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (14.29%) Data Hub
4 2 (14.29%) SQL CLR
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) NUnit
General
1 2 (14.29%) Back Office
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Games
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) .NET Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Games Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Development
3 2 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) Entity Framework
3 6 (42.86%) RESTful
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
4 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (21.43%) Blazor
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) React
5 2 (14.29%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
6 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (7.14%) JWT
6 1 (7.14%) OAuth
6 1 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) Vue
6 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Online Games
2 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (42.86%) Clean Code
6 5 (35.71%) Microservices
7 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
7 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (21.43%) AI
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) High Availability
8 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (21.43%) Release Management
8 3 (21.43%) TDD
9 2 (14.29%) Mathematics
9 2 (14.29%) Refactoring
9 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Xamarin