Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,365 7,811 15,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 7.88% 9.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.90% 26.05% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,057 6,092 9,327
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,960
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET.

Salary trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +4 6,510 £60,000 -7.69% 1,527
UK excluding London +1 5,548 £55,000 -3.51% 1,190
Work from Home +1 3,459 £57,500 -4.17% 1,243
North of England +19 1,520 £55,000 - 376
London +2 1,486 £76,250 -1.61% 503
South East +4 1,453 £60,000 - 269
Midlands +35 959 £50,000 -9.09% 243
North West +23 851 £55,000 -4.35% 204
South West +17 619 £55,000 - 106
West Midlands +37 505 £52,500 -4.55% 154
Yorkshire +19 505 £55,000 - 124
East Midlands +20 451 £50,000 -4.76% 89
East of England +16 420 £55,000 -4.35% 77
Scotland -40 351 £60,000 - 71
North East +22 164 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Wales -5 141 £52,686 +17.96% 46
Northern Ireland -9 84 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Channel Islands -3 1 £57,500 +64.29% 1

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 300 (4.07%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.83%) GeoServer
3 227 (3.08%) CMS
4 189 (2.57%) IIS
5 163 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 130 (1.77%) Umbraco
7 56 (0.76%) Kentico
8 53 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
9 46 (0.62%) Confluence
10 41 (0.56%) Apache
10 41 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 20 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 19 (0.26%) NServiceBus
13 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
14 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.15%) Apache Spark
14 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
15 10 (0.14%) nginx
15 10 (0.14%) WordPress
16 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 88 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.095%) Trello
7 4 (0.054%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.041%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.027%) Revit
9 2 (0.027%) Sketch
10 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.014%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.014%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 124 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 29 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
5 25 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.15%) Shopify
7 8 (0.11%) Maximo
8 5 (0.068%) Endur
8 5 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.054%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,294 (58.30%) Azure
2 1,507 (20.46%) AWS
3 1,033 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 442 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 404 (5.49%) Serverless
6 310 (4.21%) SaaS
7 295 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
8 286 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 270 (3.67%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.42%) IBM Cloud
11 236 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 204 (2.77%) GCP
13 203 (2.76%) PowerApps
14 192 (2.61%) GitHub
15 190 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
16 163 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 152 (2.06%) Azure API Management
18 115 (1.56%) PaaS
19 100 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 88 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.53%) Internet
2 69 (0.94%) DNS
3 64 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.52%) Firewall
5 30 (0.41%) HTTP
5 30 (0.41%) SSL
6 17 (0.23%) RS-232
7 16 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 16 (0.22%) Network Security
8 15 (0.20%) Broadband
8 15 (0.20%) Mobile Broadband
9 14 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.18%) Modbus
11 10 (0.14%) CTI
12 9 (0.12%) FTP
13 8 (0.11%) LAN
13 8 (0.11%) SAN
13 8 (0.11%) VPN
13 8 (0.11%) WAN
14 7 (0.095%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,448 (33.24%) SQL Server
2 687 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (8.26%) MongoDB
4 519 (7.05%) NoSQL
5 364 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 311 (4.22%) GIS
7 282 (3.83%) QGIS
8 278 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 273 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.42%) DB2
11 211 (2.86%) MySQL
12 188 (2.55%) Power BI
13 133 (1.81%) Redis
14 112 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 110 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 87 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.61%) MS Access
18 45 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 35 (0.48%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 693 (9.41%) Git
2 519 (7.05%) Visual Studio
3 203 (2.76%) JIRA
4 169 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 140 (1.90%) NUnit
6 124 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 103 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 90 (1.22%) GitLab
9 86 (1.17%) Selenium
10 71 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
10 71 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
11 67 (0.91%) Moq
12 65 (0.88%) Postman
13 62 (0.84%) Jasmine
14 51 (0.69%) SpecFlow
15 45 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
16 38 (0.52%) MSTest
17 37 (0.50%) SoapUI
18 36 (0.49%) Bitbucket
19 34 (0.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,137 (15.44%) Social Skills
2 969 (13.16%) Finance
3 392 (5.32%) Public Sector
4 366 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
5 291 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 270 (3.67%) Marketing
7 225 (3.05%) Retail
8 216 (2.93%) Law
9 170 (2.31%) Games
10 141 (1.91%) Banking
10 141 (1.91%) Front Office
11 134 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 119 (1.62%) Legal
13 107 (1.45%) Back Office
14 105 (1.43%) Advertising
15 80 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 78 (1.06%) Tech for Good
17 76 (1.03%) Aerospace
18 62 (0.84%) Automotive
19 59 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,814 (65.36%) Developer
2 2,594 (35.22%) .NET Developer
3 1,549 (21.03%) Senior
4 1,227 (16.66%) C# Developer
5 1,114 (15.13%) Software Engineer
6 938 (12.74%) Senior Developer
7 882 (11.98%) Software Developer
8 852 (11.57%) C# .NET Developer
9 689 (9.36%) Lead
10 634 (8.61%) Full Stack Developer
11 488 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 440 (5.97%) Senior .NET Developer
13 326 (4.43%) Lead Developer
14 315 (4.28%) .NET Software Developer
15 301 (4.09%) Architect
16 267 (3.63%) .NET Software Engineer
17 261 (3.54%) Azure Developer
18 259 (3.52%) Senior Software Developer
19 238 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
20 225 (3.05%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,393 (32.49%) ASP.NET
2 2,343 (31.81%) .NET Core
3 2,015 (27.36%) AngularJS
4 1,949 (26.46%) React
5 1,847 (25.08%) CSS
6 1,839 (24.97%) HTML
7 1,664 (22.59%) .NET Framework
8 1,249 (16.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,145 (15.55%) Entity Framework
10 1,093 (14.84%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,017 (13.81%) Vue
12 708 (9.61%) RESTful
13 707 (9.60%) Web Services
14 704 (9.56%) REST
15 643 (8.73%) HTML5
16 572 (7.77%) jQuery
17 566 (7.68%) Node.js
18 553 (7.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 494 (6.71%) Blazor
20 452 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 443 (6.01%) Greenfield Project
2 342 (4.64%) Data Structures
3 328 (4.45%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.45%) Blockchain
6 211 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 172 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 169 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 148 (2.01%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 127 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 125 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 122 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 112 (1.52%) Derivative
15 110 (1.49%) Equities
16 104 (1.41%) Fixed Income
17 101 (1.37%) Management Information System
18 97 (1.32%) Client/Server
19 81 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
20 77 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 624 (8.47%) Windows
2 440 (5.97%) Linux
3 373 (5.06%) Android
4 326 (4.43%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.30%) AIX
8 17 (0.23%) VMS
9 15 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.15%) Unix
12 8 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.068%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.027%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.014%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.014%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,367 (45.72%) Agile
2 2,424 (32.91%) Full Stack Development
3 1,992 (27.05%) DevOps
4 1,894 (25.72%) MVC
5 1,877 (25.49%) Software Engineering
6 1,376 (18.68%) Microservices
7 989 (13.43%) Web Development
8 964 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
9 908 (12.33%) TDD
10 834 (11.32%) Scrum
11 762 (10.35%) CI/CD
12 714 (9.69%) OO
13 689 (9.36%) Computer Science
14 680 (9.23%) Design Patterns
15 639 (8.68%) Mentoring
16 576 (7.82%) SOLID
17 538 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
18 494 (6.71%) OOP
19 473 (6.42%) BDD
20 461 (6.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5,887 (79.93%) C#
2 3,453 (46.88%) JavaScript
3 2,645 (35.91%) SQL
4 1,102 (14.96%) TypeScript
5 839 (11.39%) Python
6 534 (7.25%) Java
7 394 (5.35%) T-SQL
8 271 (3.68%) VB.NET
9 221 (3.00%) C++
10 218 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 173 (2.35%) VB
12 144 (1.96%) C
13 75 (1.02%) PHP
14 45 (0.61%) VB6
15 44 (0.60%) XPath
16 43 (0.58%) XAML
17 42 (0.57%) Bicep
17 42 (0.57%) VBA
18 37 (0.50%) Go
19 29 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 970 (13.17%) Degree
2 527 (7.16%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 358 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 54 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 42 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 37 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 35 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.20%) HNC
13 13 (0.18%) PhD
14 12 (0.16%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.14%) CIPD
17 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
17 8 (0.11%) HND
17 8 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (5.40%) QA
2 89 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 25 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.33%) SLA
6 22 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.20%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.15%) PMO
10 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.095%) ISO 13485
12 6 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.081%) HL7
13 4 (0.054%) DICOM
13 4 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 4 (0.054%) WCAG
14 3 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.041%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 581 (7.89%) Docker
2 81 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.18%) Firmware
6 9 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.095%) VMware Server
7 7 (0.095%) vSphere
8 4 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.027%) NFS
9 2 (0.027%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.014%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 489 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 209 (2.84%) Terraform
3 65 (0.88%) Ansible
4 40 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.45%) Grafana
6 23 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 23 (0.31%) Puppet
7 16 (0.22%) Consul
8 11 (0.15%) MIIS
9 6 (0.081%) Control-M
9 6 (0.081%) Kibana
10 5 (0.068%) Packer
10 5 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.041%) Istio
11 3 (0.041%) SCOM
11 3 (0.041%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.041%) vMotion
12 2 (0.027%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.027%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 2,160 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.02%) ESRI
3 262 (3.56%) IBM
4 254 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 179 (2.43%) Oracle
6 163 (2.21%) Google
7 104 (1.41%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.32%) Facebook
9 86 (1.17%) Sitecore
10 48 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 48 (0.65%) SAP
11 47 (0.64%) Apple
12 41 (0.56%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.49%) Sony
13 36 (0.49%) Yahoo!
14 32 (0.43%) DevExpress
14 32 (0.43%) VMware
15 31 (0.42%) Sparx
16 28 (0.38%) Dynatrace
16 28 (0.38%) Splunk