.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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 127 104
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 +84
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 17 24 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.54% 0.92% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% 4.07% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 53
10th Percentile £40,700 £37,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £71,375 £95,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -2.38%

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 374 589 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.94% 22.64% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 316 356 759
10th Percentile £29,875 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% -1.74%

.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 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in Manchester

.NET Framework
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 Framework within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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 -9 2 £35,000 -39.13%
.NET Framework
North West

.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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) SaaS
3 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.76%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) .NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Games Developer
6 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) RESTful
3 4 (23.53%) CSS
3 4 (23.53%) Entity Framework
3 4 (23.53%) HTML
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.76%) Blazor
4 2 (11.76%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) WinForms
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
4 9 (52.94%) Software Architecture
5 8 (47.06%) Clean Code
5 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 8 (47.06%) Microservices
6 5 (29.41%) High Availability
6 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (23.53%) OOP
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
8 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
8 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Xamarin