.NET Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -58 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 137 190 261
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.79% 7.99% 6.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.70% 35.19% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 113 97 171
10th Percentile £42,700 £45,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

.NET 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 774 540 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.13% 22.72% 24.96%
Number of salaries quoted 594 313 504
10th Percentile £43,150 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

.NET job vacancy trend in Manchester

.NET
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Manchester

.NET
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Oldham +3 7 £67,500 +35.00%
Altrincham +1 1 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Bolton - 1 £55,000 - 4
.NET
North West

.NET
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 5 (3.65%) CMS
2 4 (2.92%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.46%) IIS
3 2 (1.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.73%) Kentico
4 1 (0.73%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.50%) Azure
2 42 (30.66%) AWS
3 26 (18.98%) SaaS
4 22 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.76%) Serverless
6 8 (5.84%) GCP
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.11%) GitHub
8 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.38%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.65%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.46%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.46%) npm
12 1 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.73%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.22%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.65%) MySQL
7 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.46%) Power BI
8 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.73%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.73%) Redis
9 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Git
2 3 (2.19%) GitLab
2 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.19%) NUnit
3 2 (1.46%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.46%) MSTest
4 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.73%) Gradle
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
4 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.73%) Xcode
General
1 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.41%) Finance
3 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.92%) Marketing
5 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.46%) Electronics
5 2 (1.46%) iGaming
5 2 (1.46%) Music Industry
5 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.73%) Banking
6 1 (0.73%) Games
6 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
6 1 (0.73%) Local Government
6 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (45.26%) Developer
2 42 (30.66%) .NET Developer
3 33 (24.09%) Senior
4 24 (17.52%) Software Engineer
5 20 (14.60%) Lead
6 17 (12.41%) Senior Developer
7 16 (11.68%) Software Developer
8 15 (10.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (9.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (8.76%) Lead Developer
10 12 (8.76%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (7.30%) Architect
11 10 (7.30%) Lead .NET Developer
12 9 (6.57%) Lead Software Developer
13 8 (5.84%) .NET Software Developer
13 8 (5.84%) Systems Developer
14 7 (5.11%) Development Manager
14 7 (5.11%) Software Development Manager
14 7 (5.11%) Software Manager
14 7 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.36%) React
2 24 (17.52%) Node.js
3 19 (13.87%) .NET Core
3 19 (13.87%) ASP.NET
4 15 (10.95%) CSS
4 15 (10.95%) HTML
5 14 (10.22%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.22%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (10.22%) Entity Framework
6 13 (9.49%) Vue
7 11 (8.03%) REST
8 10 (7.30%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (5.84%) WPF
10 7 (5.11%) NestJS
11 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.38%) RESTful
11 6 (4.38%) Terraform
12 5 (3.65%) Blazor
12 5 (3.65%) CSS3
12 5 (3.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.68%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.49%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.38%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) Online Gambling
6 3 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.46%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.46%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.46%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.46%) Social Network
8 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.73%) PropTech
8 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) Software Engineering
2 51 (37.23%) DevOps
3 50 (36.50%) Agile
4 48 (35.04%) CI/CD
5 46 (33.58%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (21.90%) Microservices
7 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (18.25%) Mentoring
9 20 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.14%) Code Quality
11 17 (12.41%) AI
12 16 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (10.95%) Clean Code
14 14 (10.22%) Event-Driven
15 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (9.49%) Roadmaps
16 12 (8.76%) Decision-Making
16 12 (8.76%) Observability
16 12 (8.76%) Test Automation
17 10 (7.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 88 (64.23%) C#
2 37 (27.01%) SQL
3 30 (21.90%) JavaScript
4 23 (16.79%) TypeScript
5 15 (10.95%) Python
6 12 (8.76%) Java
7 7 (5.11%) PHP
8 4 (2.92%) Go
8 4 (2.92%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.46%) Ladder Logic
9 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.73%) Ruby
10 1 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (7.30%) Degree
2 7 (5.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.92%) MBA
5 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.87%) QA
2 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (9.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.73%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.92%) Adobe
2 4 (2.92%) NEC
3 3 (2.19%) Facebook
3 3 (2.19%) Google
4 1 (0.73%) Apple
4 1 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (0.73%) CyberArk
4 1 (0.73%) New Relic
4 1 (0.73%) Okta
4 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.73%) Sony
4 1 (0.73%) Yahoo!