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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 123 131
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 +59
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 18 21 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.40% 1.04% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.08% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 72
10th Percentile £45,350 £34,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £44,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £71,375 £95,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 448 515 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.06% 25.51% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 372 422 932
10th Percentile £34,675 £40,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,438 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 3 April 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 April 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 - 2 £35,000 -
.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 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Software Engineer
2 10 (55.56%) .NET Software Engineer
3 8 (44.44%) Lead
4 7 (38.89%) Lead Software Engineer
5 6 (33.33%) Senior
5 6 (33.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (22.22%) Developer
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Games Developer
7 2 (11.11%) PHP Developer
8 1 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
8 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (61.11%) RESTful
3 4 (22.22%) CSS
3 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) WinForms
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) JWT
5 1 (5.56%) OAuth
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (77.78%) Software Architecture
2 14 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 13 (72.22%) Clean Code
3 13 (72.22%) Containerisation
3 13 (72.22%) Microservices
4 12 (66.67%) DevOps
5 10 (55.56%) High Availability
5 10 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (55.56%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) OOP
6 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (88.89%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft