.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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 142 145
Rank change year-on-year -37 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 10 22 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.87% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 3.55% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 51
10th Percentile £40,875 £44,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £70,625 £80,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +9.52%

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 677 620 994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.15% 24.64% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 554 369 699
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £94,022 £80,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -3.40%

.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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Bolton +16 1 £55,000 +15.79% 1
.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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Graduate
5 1 (10.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Junior
5 1 (10.00%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) RESTful
3 5 (50.00%) Entity Framework
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (30.00%) React
5 3 (30.00%) Vue
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (20.00%) REST
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (10.00%) CSS
7 1 (10.00%) Google Maps API
7 1 (10.00%) HTML
7 1 (10.00%) JSON
7 1 (10.00%) LINQ
7 1 (10.00%) OAuth
7 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) High Availability
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) API Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (10.00%) Line Management
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI