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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 136 114
Rank change year-on-year +22 -22 +63
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 20 25 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.71% 0.93% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 4.24% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 16 29
10th Percentile £45,350 £38,125 £42,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,531 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £71,938 £95,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +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 353 590 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.50% 21.92% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 301 357 588
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,400 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +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 6 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 6 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 -7 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 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (40.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (35.00%) .NET Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Lead
5 5 (25.00%) Senior
6 4 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (20.00%) Games Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (40.00%) RESTful
3 6 (30.00%) CSS
3 6 (30.00%) Entity Framework
3 6 (30.00%) HTML
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (15.00%) Blazor
5 3 (15.00%) React
6 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (10.00%) REST
6 2 (10.00%) WinForms
7 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.00%) JWT
7 1 (5.00%) OAuth
7 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.00%) Vue
7 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Online Games
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
3 12 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 11 (55.00%) DevOps
5 9 (45.00%) Microservices
6 8 (40.00%) Clean Code
6 8 (40.00%) Software Architecture
7 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
9 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
10 4 (20.00%) High Availability
10 4 (20.00%) OOP
10 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (20.00%) Scrum
10 4 (20.00%) TDD
11 3 (15.00%) MVC
11 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (75.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Xamarin