.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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 131 124
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 +38
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 19 38 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.82% 1.12% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 5.18% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16 27 23
10th Percentile £42,875 £42,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,625 £64,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 353 734 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.29% 21.69% 33.32%
Number of salaries quoted 294 427 594
10th Percentile £34,800 £40,000 £38,900
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 £86,250
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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -5 2 £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 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) SaaS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) NoSQL
2 7 (36.84%) MySQL
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.26%) Data Hub
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) NUnit
General
1 2 (10.53%) Games
2 1 (5.26%) Back Office
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Software Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) .NET Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Lead
4 5 (26.32%) Senior
5 3 (15.79%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Applications Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Games Developer
6 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (42.11%) Entity Framework
2 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 5 (26.32%) CSS
3 5 (26.32%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
4 3 (15.79%) Blazor
4 3 (15.79%) React
4 3 (15.79%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (10.53%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.26%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (5.26%) JWT
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth
6 1 (5.26%) REST
6 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Online Games
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
3 12 (63.16%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) DevOps
5 9 (47.37%) Microservices
6 7 (36.84%) Clean Code
6 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
7 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
7 6 (31.58%) Software Architecture
8 4 (21.05%) High Availability
8 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (21.05%) TDD
9 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 14 (73.68%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Xamarin
3 1 (5.26%) VMware