.NET Core Job Trends in Manchester

.NET Core
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 106 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 -40 -14
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 21 46 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.73% 1.73% 3.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.87% 7.93% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 21 36 81
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

.NET Core 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 358 580 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.47% 21.80% 31.45%
Number of salaries quoted 306 350 641
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,813 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £59,013
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.41% +2.63%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

.NET Core job vacancy trend in Manchester

.NET Core
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in Manchester

.NET Core
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 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) NUnit
General
1 1 (4.76%) Back Office
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
1 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Senior
2 11 (52.38%) .NET Developer
2 11 (52.38%) Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Senior .NET Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
5 6 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Web Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (23.81%) Akka
3 5 (23.81%) Akka.NET
3 5 (23.81%) REST
4 4 (19.05%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (9.52%) CSS
5 2 (9.52%) HTML
5 2 (9.52%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (9.52%) React
5 2 (9.52%) Sass
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.76%) Blazor
6 1 (4.76%) JWT
6 1 (4.76%) OAuth
6 1 (4.76%) Vue
6 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Microservices
2 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) Clean Code
4 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
4 10 (47.62%) TDD
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (28.57%) SOLID
5 6 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 5 (23.81%) API Testing
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Functional Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Low Latency
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) C#
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Erlang
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
21 .NET Core jobs in Manchester