.NET Job Trends in England

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 77 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -51 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,578 1,602 4,016
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.48% 3.72% 6.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.27% 21.71% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,224 1,195 2,676
10th Percentile £41,650 £39,775 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,622 7,378 14,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.23% 17.12% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7,675 4,865 8,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -3.70%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

.NET job vacancy trend in England

.NET
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in England

.NET
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +39 682 £60,000 - 232
North of England +3 593 £56,500 -5.83% 296
London -32 524 £80,000 - 779
Midlands +31 364 £60,000 +9.09% 170
North West -15 257 £60,000 -7.69% 153
East of England +20 208 £60,000 +6.67% 109
West Midlands +4 196 £58,750 +6.82% 97
South West 0 182 £55,000 +4.76% 66
North East +5 179 £56,500 +29.89% 49
East Midlands +46 168 £60,000 +9.09% 73
Yorkshire +9 157 £55,000 -8.33% 99
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 60 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.82%) IIS
3 28 (1.09%) Confluence
4 27 (1.05%) CMS
5 11 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.35%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.35%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) CICS
8 7 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.16%) Kentico
10 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.66%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.16%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.078%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Actimize
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Magento
6 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,311 (50.85%) Azure
2 472 (18.31%) AWS
3 448 (17.38%) Azure DevOps
4 268 (10.40%) GitHub
5 177 (6.87%) Power Platform
6 174 (6.75%) SaaS
7 171 (6.63%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 148 (5.74%) Serverless
10 117 (4.54%) Power Automate
11 106 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 98 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
13 94 (3.65%) PowerApps
14 92 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 78 (3.03%) Azure Functions
16 71 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (2.75%) GCP
17 66 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
18 64 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.57%) Internet
2 21 (0.81%) Firewall
3 14 (0.54%) VLAN
4 12 (0.47%) Wireless
5 10 (0.39%) HTTP
6 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.23%) DNS
7 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.23%) SNMP
8 5 (0.19%) DHCP
8 5 (0.19%) LAN
8 5 (0.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
10 2 (0.078%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.078%) LTE
10 2 (0.078%) Modbus
10 2 (0.078%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (21.76%) SQL Server
2 466 (18.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 416 (16.14%) MongoDB
4 157 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.84%) Relational Database
6 94 (3.65%) Power BI
7 81 (3.14%) NoSQL
8 80 (3.10%) MySQL
9 74 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.32%) Redis
11 25 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
13 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.50%) Big Data
16 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.43%) SQLite
17 10 (0.39%) GIS
18 9 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 214 (8.30%) Git
2 49 (1.90%) JIRA
3 46 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 43 (1.67%) Claude Code
5 35 (1.36%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.20%) GitLab
7 27 (1.05%) NUnit
8 18 (0.70%) Selenium
9 16 (0.62%) Postman
9 16 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
10 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.31%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 6 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 468 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 382 (14.82%) Finance
3 160 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (4.19%) Public Sector
5 84 (3.26%) Retail
6 76 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (2.60%) Law
8 66 (2.56%) Games
9 65 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 59 (2.29%) Legal
11 58 (2.25%) Advertising
12 52 (2.02%) Marketing
13 29 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.93%) Banking
15 23 (0.89%) Automotive
15 23 (0.89%) Front Office
16 19 (0.74%) Electronics
17 15 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Legal Technology
19 12 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,472 (57.10%) Developer
2 908 (35.22%) .NET Developer
3 474 (18.39%) Senior
4 389 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 280 (10.86%) Lead
6 266 (10.32%) Software Developer
7 241 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 190 (7.37%) C# Developer
9 178 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 153 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
11 144 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 143 (5.55%) .NET Software Engineer
13 141 (5.47%) C# .NET Developer
14 127 (4.93%) Senior .NET Developer
15 122 (4.73%) Lead Developer
16 117 (4.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 95 (3.69%) .NET Software Developer
18 88 (3.41%) Architect
19 75 (2.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 75 (2.91%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 736 (28.55%) .NET Core
2 731 (28.36%) ASP.NET
3 567 (21.99%) ASP.NET Core
4 465 (18.04%) React
5 362 (14.04%) HTML
6 361 (14.00%) CSS
7 337 (13.07%) AngularJS
8 295 (11.44%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.40%) RESTful
10 288 (11.17%) Blazor
11 276 (10.71%) .NET Framework
12 251 (9.74%) Node.js
12 251 (9.74%) Vue
13 246 (9.54%) REST
14 220 (8.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 137 (5.31%) ML.NET
16 133 (5.16%) Terraform
17 109 (4.23%) LINQ
18 91 (3.53%) jQuery
19 74 (2.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 185 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 164 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
5 104 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 53 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (1.98%) Mobile App
10 50 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
11 36 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 34 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 27 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 23 (0.89%) Hedge funds
16 22 (0.85%) Legacy Code
17 21 (0.81%) IoT
18 19 (0.74%) Digital TV
19 18 (0.70%) Mainframe
19 18 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.42%) Windows
2 39 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 35 (1.36%) Linux
4 29 (1.12%) Android
5 10 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.078%) Unix
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (35.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 838 (32.51%) Agile
3 722 (28.01%) CI/CD
4 688 (26.69%) DevOps
5 675 (26.18%) Software Engineering
6 462 (17.92%) AI
7 449 (17.42%) Microservices
8 415 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 286 (11.09%) Mentoring
10 277 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 223 (8.65%) SDLC
12 217 (8.42%) Test Automation
13 194 (7.53%) Machine Learning
14 193 (7.49%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 169 (6.56%) Scrum
17 165 (6.40%) Multithreading
18 164 (6.36%) Code Quality
19 158 (6.13%) Event-Driven
20 152 (5.90%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2,009 (77.93%) C#
2 979 (37.98%) SQL
3 598 (23.20%) JavaScript
4 363 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 232 (9.00%) Python
6 164 (6.36%) Java
7 96 (3.72%) C++
8 71 (2.75%) VB.NET
9 66 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 62 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.06%) PHP
12 39 (1.51%) Bicep
13 25 (0.97%) C
14 22 (0.85%) COBOL
15 20 (0.78%) Bash
15 20 (0.78%) VB
16 18 (0.70%) Go
16 18 (0.70%) JCL
17 15 (0.58%) VBA
18 10 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 237 (9.19%) Degree
2 119 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 75 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.31%) PhD
11 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.16%) MBA
15 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.12%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.12%) OCP
15 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (6.17%) QA
2 66 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.62%) WCAG
5 15 (0.58%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.078%) Basel III
9 2 (0.078%) PMO
10 1 (0.039%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.039%) GAMP
10 1 (0.039%) GMP
10 1 (0.039%) GRC
10 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.039%) SLA
System Software
1 328 (12.72%) Docker
2 29 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.039%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 289 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.58%) Grafana
3 13 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.078%) Bosun
5 2 (0.078%) Control-M
5 2 (0.078%) Kibana
5 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.039%) Argo
6 1 (0.039%) MOM
6 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 930 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.75%) Google
3 52 (2.02%) Facebook
3 52 (2.02%) Oracle
4 35 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 21 (0.81%) YouTube
6 20 (0.78%) VMware
7 19 (0.74%) Adobe
8 17 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.58%) Databricks
10 14 (0.54%) Intapp
11 13 (0.50%) iManage
12 11 (0.43%) Aderant
12 11 (0.43%) Apple
12 11 (0.43%) Broadcom
12 11 (0.43%) SAP
13 10 (0.39%) Sony
13 10 (0.39%) Yahoo!
14 8 (0.31%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.31%) ServiceNow