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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -53 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 133 190 285
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.80% 8.05% 7.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.34% 33.81% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 105 94 187
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -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 767 562 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.39% 23.82% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 602 327 553
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £41,250
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 £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £81,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year - +15.03% -5.82%

.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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -13.64% 3
Bolton - 1 £55,000 -
.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 2 (1.50%) Confluence
1 2 (1.50%) IIS
1 2 (1.50%) nginx
1 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.60%) Azure
2 46 (34.59%) AWS
3 28 (21.05%) SaaS
4 22 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.77%) Serverless
6 11 (8.27%) GCP
7 7 (5.26%) GitHub
8 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.50%) Apigee
11 2 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.50%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.50%) npm
12 1 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) MongoDB
2 15 (11.28%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.76%) MySQL
5 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.50%) Power BI
7 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.75%) GIS
8 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.75%) QGIS
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
3 3 (2.26%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) NUnit
4 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.50%) MSTest
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 28 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.54%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.01%) Marketing
4 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.50%) Music Industry
6 1 (0.75%) Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Games
6 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.75%) Legal
6 1 (0.75%) Local Government
6 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (45.11%) Developer
2 40 (30.08%) .NET Developer
3 31 (23.31%) Senior
4 26 (19.55%) Software Engineer
5 24 (18.05%) Lead
6 18 (13.53%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (12.03%) Software Developer
8 13 (9.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Lead Developer
9 12 (9.02%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.52%) Architect
10 10 (7.52%) Lead .NET Developer
11 9 (6.77%) Lead Software Developer
11 9 (6.77%) Principal .NET Developer
11 9 (6.77%) Principal Developer
12 8 (6.02%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (6.02%) Systems Developer
13 7 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
13 7 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.05%) React
2 21 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 20 (15.04%) Node.js
4 15 (11.28%) .NET Core
5 14 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (10.53%) CSS
5 14 (10.53%) Entity Framework
5 14 (10.53%) HTML
6 13 (9.77%) Vue
7 10 (7.52%) REST
8 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (6.02%) Terraform
9 7 (5.26%) XML
10 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (4.51%) RESTful
10 6 (4.51%) WPF
11 5 (3.76%) Blazor
11 5 (3.76%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.28%) Mobile App
4 8 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.51%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.26%) Online Gambling
8 3 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.50%) Social Network
10 1 (0.75%) Animation
10 1 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.75%) PropTech
10 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) Software Engineering
2 52 (39.10%) Agile
2 52 (39.10%) DevOps
3 49 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
5 30 (22.56%) Mentoring
5 30 (22.56%) Microservices
6 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (15.04%) Roadmaps
8 19 (14.29%) AI
8 19 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (12.78%) Code Quality
10 16 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (11.28%) Event-Driven
12 13 (9.77%) Decision-Making
12 13 (9.77%) TDD
13 12 (9.02%) Architectural Design
13 12 (9.02%) Observability
14 11 (8.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (60.15%) C#
2 36 (27.07%) SQL
3 32 (24.06%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.54%) Python
5 19 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.03%) Java
7 7 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (3.01%) Go
9 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.50%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.01%) MBA
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Adobe
2 4 (3.01%) Google
2 4 (3.01%) NEC
3 3 (2.26%) Facebook
4 1 (0.75%) Apple
4 1 (0.75%) New Relic
4 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.75%) Sony
4 1 (0.75%) Yahoo!