.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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 136 120
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 18 40 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.77% 1.13% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 5.21% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 25
10th Percentile £51,750 £42,125 £41,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £74,375 £72,500
North West median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +5.00%

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 367 768 758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.67% 21.62% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 307 449 603
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £38,850
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 £74,144 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £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 29 November 2025.

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 29 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 -4 1 £35,000 -39.13% 2
.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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) NoSQL
2 6 (33.33%) MySQL
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.56%) Data Hub
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 5 (27.78%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Games Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Head of Development
6 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (44.44%) Entity Framework
2 8 (44.44%) RESTful
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
3 5 (27.78%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Blazor
4 3 (16.67%) React
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.56%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (5.56%) JWT
6 1 (5.56%) OAuth
6 1 (5.56%) REST
6 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Online Games
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Android
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) Software Engineering
3 12 (66.67%) Agile
4 10 (55.56%) DevOps
5 9 (50.00%) Microservices
6 7 (38.89%) Clean Code
6 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 6 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
8 4 (22.22%) High Availability
8 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (22.22%) TDD
9 3 (16.67%) AI
9 3 (16.67%) OOP
9 3 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
9 3 (16.67%) Scrum
9 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 14 (77.78%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Xamarin
3 1 (5.56%) VMware