.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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 54 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 -31 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,120 1,954 6,315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 4.95% 7.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.05% 24.59% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 1,465 5,453
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,750 £98,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 8,139 7,945 17,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.96% 20.11% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,171 5,592 14,136
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%

.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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +11 569 £60,000 - 164
London -21 528 £82,500 +6.45% 211
North of England -25 471 £60,000 +4.35% 140
North West -14 249 £60,000 +4.35% 77
Midlands -25 247 £55,000 +2.44% 73
South West 0 159 £55,000 - 45
East of England -7 128 £67,500 +28.57% 52
West Midlands -42 126 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire -21 123 £60,000 - 36
East Midlands -1 121 £60,000 +14.29% 36
North East -7 99 £60,000 +6.67% 28
.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 53 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.27%) IIS
3 20 (0.94%) CMS
4 16 (0.75%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.66%) Confluence
6 12 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.47%) JBoss
8 7 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.28%) Apache
10 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.047%) CICS
13 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 1 (0.047%) Endur
3 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.047%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.047%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 935 (44.10%) Azure
2 308 (14.53%) AWS
3 281 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
4 249 (11.75%) SaaS
5 137 (6.46%) Power Platform
6 126 (5.94%) GitHub
7 116 (5.47%) Serverless
8 109 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
9 75 (3.54%) Power Automate
10 74 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 74 (3.49%) PowerApps
11 69 (3.25%) Azure Functions
12 64 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 61 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
14 55 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
15 54 (2.55%) Azure AI
16 51 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
17 50 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
18 49 (2.31%) GCP
19 48 (2.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.75%) Internet
2 8 (0.38%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.33%) Firewall
4 6 (0.28%) Intranet
4 6 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.24%) LTE
6 4 (0.19%) DNS
7 3 (0.14%) DHCP
7 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.094%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.094%) LAN
8 2 (0.094%) WAN
9 1 (0.047%) AMQP
9 1 (0.047%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.047%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.047%) Modbus
9 1 (0.047%) MPLS
9 1 (0.047%) RS-232
9 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 425 (20.05%) SQL Server
2 199 (9.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 153 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 92 (4.34%) Power BI
5 72 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 47 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
6 47 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 44 (2.08%) MySQL
9 39 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 35 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.66%) Redis
12 12 (0.57%) DB2
13 10 (0.47%) GIS
14 9 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.19%) Big Data
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 140 (6.60%) Git
2 53 (2.50%) JIRA
3 40 (1.89%) Selenium
4 39 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 38 (1.79%) Postman
6 26 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.18%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.13%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.80%) Jenkins
10 15 (0.71%) SpecFlow
10 15 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.57%) GitLab
11 12 (0.57%) NUnit
11 12 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.38%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.33%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.28%) MSTest
15 6 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 350 (16.51%) Finance
2 323 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 91 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 51 (2.41%) Banking
6 46 (2.17%) Law
6 46 (2.17%) Retail
7 34 (1.60%) Legal
8 32 (1.51%) Games
9 31 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.04%) Automotive
12 20 (0.94%) Aerospace
12 20 (0.94%) Marketing
13 19 (0.90%) Advertising
14 17 (0.80%) Electronics
15 13 (0.61%) Aviation
15 13 (0.61%) Front Office
16 12 (0.57%) Back Office
17 8 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,219 (57.50%) Developer
2 610 (28.77%) .NET Developer
3 470 (22.17%) Senior
4 380 (17.92%) Software Engineer
5 337 (15.90%) Software Developer
6 243 (11.46%) Lead
7 236 (11.13%) Senior Developer
8 217 (10.24%) C# Developer
9 186 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 180 (8.49%) .NET Software Engineer
11 162 (7.64%) C# .NET Developer
12 147 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 128 (6.04%) C# Software Engineer
14 126 (5.94%) .NET Software Developer
15 106 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 105 (4.95%) Senior .NET Developer
17 101 (4.76%) Lead Developer
18 81 (3.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 80 (3.77%) Architect
20 71 (3.35%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 524 (24.72%) .NET Core
2 402 (18.96%) ASP.NET
3 299 (14.10%) React
4 250 (11.79%) HTML
5 233 (10.99%) CSS
6 227 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
7 215 (10.14%) .NET Framework
8 169 (7.97%) AngularJS
9 164 (7.74%) RESTful
10 149 (7.03%) REST
11 148 (6.98%) Entity Framework
12 147 (6.93%) Blazor
13 133 (6.27%) Node.js
14 126 (5.94%) Vue
15 88 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
16 53 (2.50%) SOAP
17 50 (2.36%) jQuery
18 48 (2.26%) JSON
19 46 (2.17%) ML.NET
20 40 (1.89%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 86 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
3 76 (3.58%) Mobile App
4 70 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.56%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
10 23 (1.08%) Legacy Code
11 22 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 19 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.75%) Management Information System
14 16 (0.75%) Sports Betting
14 16 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 14 (0.66%) PropTech
16 11 (0.52%) Client/Server
16 11 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (0.47%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.63%) Windows
2 26 (1.23%) Windows Server
3 25 (1.18%) Linux
4 21 (0.99%) Android
5 16 (0.75%) VMS
6 11 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.094%) Unix
7 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.047%) Solaris
8 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (28.82%) Software Engineering
2 592 (27.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 574 (27.08%) Agile
4 464 (21.89%) CI/CD
5 457 (21.56%) DevOps
6 300 (14.15%) Microservices
7 251 (11.84%) AI
8 244 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
9 227 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (9.15%) Mentoring
11 171 (8.07%) Test Automation
12 168 (7.92%) SDLC
13 132 (6.23%) Clean Code
13 132 (6.23%) Containerisation
14 129 (6.08%) Scrum
15 127 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
16 112 (5.28%) User Experience
17 111 (5.24%) TDD
18 107 (5.05%) Business Intelligence
18 107 (5.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,484 (70.00%) C#
2 688 (32.45%) SQL
3 421 (19.86%) JavaScript
4 255 (12.03%) TypeScript
5 192 (9.06%) Python
6 168 (7.92%) Java
7 80 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 68 (3.21%) C++
9 49 (2.31%) PHP
10 36 (1.70%) Bicep
10 36 (1.70%) VB.NET
11 33 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.94%) VB
13 19 (0.90%) Bash
13 19 (0.90%) C
14 17 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.61%) VBA
16 12 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 203 (9.58%) Degree
2 83 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 71 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 14 (0.66%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.19%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.19%) PhD
14 3 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.14%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.094%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.62%) QA
2 49 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.85%) GDPR
4 15 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.61%) WCAG
6 9 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.33%) SLA
8 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.094%) ITGC
11 1 (0.047%) NCSC
11 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 189 (8.92%) Docker
2 14 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.42%) Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.05%) Terraform
3 15 (0.71%) Grafana
4 7 (0.33%) Kibana
5 6 (0.28%) Ansible
6 2 (0.094%) MIIS
6 2 (0.094%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.047%) CASB
7 1 (0.047%) Consul
7 1 (0.047%) Control-M
7 1 (0.047%) Packer
7 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.047%) Puppet
Vendors
1 470 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.46%) Google
3 29 (1.37%) Adobe
4 28 (1.32%) Oracle
5 27 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 21 (0.99%) Xamarin
7 17 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 16 (0.75%) Facebook
9 15 (0.71%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.61%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.42%) iManage
13 8 (0.38%) Databricks
14 7 (0.33%) IBM
14 7 (0.33%) Intapp
14 7 (0.33%) VMware
15 6 (0.28%) YouTube
16 5 (0.24%) Aderant
16 5 (0.24%) Apple
16 5 (0.24%) Sage