.NET Job Trends in Dorset

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 23 15
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing .NET 3 58 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.74% 8.55% 12.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 36.25% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 39 43
10th Percentile £47,875 £38,800 £39,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £42,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% +10.58%
75th Percentile £53,438 £60,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £53,625 £65,000 -
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

.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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 57 160 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 13.97% 23.60% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23 99 115
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,875 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £64,000 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Dorset

.NET
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing .NET

.NET
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Bournemouth +7 3 £51,250 -10.87%
.NET
South West

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Angular Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce