.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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -56 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,356 3,555 3,567
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.88% 6.06% 7.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.93% 28.94% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,186 2,432 3,212
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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 6,184 12,283 12,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.16% 20.95% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,444 10,004
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

.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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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
London -38 414 £80,000 +3.23% 156
North of England -41 319 £60,000 +9.09% 136
South East -55 280 £60,000 - 232
Midlands -51 161 £57,500 +4.55% 82
North West -34 156 £65,000 +18.18% 87
Yorkshire -34 117 £52,500 -0.94% 28
West Midlands -35 106 £57,500 +4.55% 42
South West -59 79 £54,500 -0.91% 49
East of England -57 74 £57,500 +15.00% 54
East Midlands -51 55 £65,000 +30.00% 38
North East -23 46 £47,500 -20.83% 21
.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 56 (4.13%) IIS
2 37 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.92%) CMS
4 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.25%) Confluence
6 9 (0.66%) JBoss
6 9 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.44%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) Kentico
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SAS
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 56 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.15%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.074%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.074%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.074%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.074%) Magento
6 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 821 (60.55%) Azure
2 332 (24.48%) AWS
3 233 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (12.32%) SaaS
5 128 (9.44%) Power Platform
6 106 (7.82%) Serverless
7 99 (7.30%) GitHub
8 89 (6.56%) GCP
9 77 (5.68%) Power Automate
10 66 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 65 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 58 (4.28%) PowerApps
14 53 (3.91%) Azure Functions
15 46 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (2.95%) Entra ID
17 40 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (1.99%) Azure App Service
19 26 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.03%) DNS
2 12 (0.88%) DHCP
2 12 (0.88%) VoIP
3 11 (0.81%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Internet
3 11 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.66%) VPN
5 7 (0.52%) SAN
5 7 (0.52%) WPA
6 5 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.37%) HTTP
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
6 5 (0.37%) SSL
6 5 (0.37%) WAN
7 4 (0.29%) Modbus
7 4 (0.29%) MQTT
8 3 (0.22%) Intranet
9 2 (0.15%) NAS
9 2 (0.15%) VLAN
10 1 (0.074%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (29.72%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 73 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (5.31%) NoSQL
5 64 (4.72%) MySQL
6 56 (4.13%) Relational Database
7 50 (3.69%) Power BI
8 47 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 42 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (1.84%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.70%) Redis
14 13 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.66%) Tableau
17 7 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
18 6 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
18 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
18 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 151 (11.14%) Git
2 63 (4.65%) JIRA
3 34 (2.51%) Selenium
4 33 (2.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 29 (2.14%) Postman
6 28 (2.06%) Visual Studio
7 26 (1.92%) Jenkins
8 24 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 22 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.33%) SoapUI
10 18 (1.33%) WebDriver
11 14 (1.03%) GitLab
12 12 (0.88%) Storybook
13 11 (0.81%) SpecFlow
14 10 (0.74%) NUnit
15 8 (0.59%) MSTest
16 6 (0.44%) git-flow
16 6 (0.44%) MSBuild
17 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.29%) Artifactory
General
1 365 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.95%) Finance
3 74 (5.46%) Law
4 54 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (3.32%) Retail
6 42 (3.10%) Banking
7 40 (2.95%) Legal
8 39 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 26 (1.92%) Front Office
10 25 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.70%) Back Office
12 22 (1.62%) Billing
12 22 (1.62%) Marketing
13 18 (1.33%) Games
14 13 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.88%) Automotive
16 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.74%) Aviation
18 9 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 767 (56.56%) Developer
2 288 (21.24%) Senior
3 286 (21.09%) .NET Developer
4 175 (12.91%) Software Developer
5 171 (12.61%) Lead
6 168 (12.39%) C# Developer
7 161 (11.87%) Software Engineer
8 154 (11.36%) Senior Developer
9 139 (10.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 64 (4.72%) C# .NET Developer
11 58 (4.28%) Lead Developer
12 57 (4.20%) .NET Software Developer
13 54 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
14 53 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (3.69%) Architect
16 47 (3.47%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 46 (3.39%) Senior .NET Developer
18 45 (3.32%) Analyst
18 45 (3.32%) Engineering Manager
19 39 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (23.53%) .NET Core
2 307 (22.64%) React
3 262 (19.32%) ASP.NET
4 245 (18.07%) .NET Framework
5 207 (15.27%) HTML
6 197 (14.53%) CSS
7 194 (14.31%) AngularJS
8 139 (10.25%) RESTful
9 126 (9.29%) Entity Framework
10 117 (8.63%) REST
11 97 (7.15%) Blazor
12 83 (6.12%) Vue
13 82 (6.05%) ASP.NET MVC
14 81 (5.97%) Node.js
15 74 (5.46%) ASP.NET Web API
16 62 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
17 54 (3.98%) HTML5
18 51 (3.76%) Web Services
19 42 (3.10%) SOAP
20 35 (2.58%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.75%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 35 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.03%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.03%) Clustering
15 13 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.88%) IoT
17 11 (0.81%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.97%) Windows
2 26 (1.92%) Linux
3 25 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.77%) Android
5 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.52%) VMS
6 7 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) Fedora
8 1 (0.074%) Solaris
8 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (44.03%) Agile
2 450 (33.19%) DevOps
3 429 (31.64%) CI/CD
4 383 (28.24%) Software Engineering
5 351 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 297 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
7 286 (21.09%) Microservices
8 244 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 191 (14.09%) Mentoring
10 159 (11.73%) MVC
11 152 (11.21%) Scrum
12 147 (10.84%) User Experience
13 140 (10.32%) Clean Code
14 139 (10.25%) AI
15 121 (8.92%) SDLC
16 118 (8.70%) Computer Science
17 116 (8.55%) TDD
18 114 (8.41%) Containerisation
18 114 (8.41%) Test Automation
19 112 (8.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,008 (74.34%) C#
2 484 (35.69%) SQL
3 419 (30.90%) JavaScript
4 234 (17.26%) TypeScript
5 160 (11.80%) Java
6 129 (9.51%) Python
7 57 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 41 (3.02%) VB.NET
10 40 (2.95%) PHP
11 38 (2.80%) C++
12 31 (2.29%) Bicep
13 21 (1.55%) Bash
14 16 (1.18%) Rust
15 15 (1.11%) Go
16 9 (0.66%) XAML
17 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.52%) VB
19 5 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 215 (15.86%) Degree
2 86 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.58%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.06%) ISTQB
6 18 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 18 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.74%) HND
10 10 (0.74%) ISEB
11 9 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.44%) HNC
14 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.29%) MCSE
16 3 (0.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.64%) QA
2 36 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.40%) GDPR
4 10 (0.74%) WCAG
5 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.29%) GRC
6 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.22%) HL7
7 3 (0.22%) SLA
8 2 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.074%) COBIT
9 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (11.95%) Docker
2 30 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) HDFS
7 1 (0.074%) Squid
Systems Management
1 117 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 97 (7.15%) Terraform
3 15 (1.11%) Grafana
4 11 (0.81%) Ansible
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) Control-M
8 1 (0.074%) Kibana
Vendors
1 353 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.58%) Oracle
3 31 (2.29%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.40%) Xamarin
5 18 (1.33%) Google
6 16 (1.18%) Databricks
6 16 (1.18%) Guidewire
7 15 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 15 (1.11%) Sage
8 12 (0.88%) VMware
9 11 (0.81%) DevExpress
9 11 (0.81%) New Relic
9 11 (0.81%) Telerik
10 9 (0.66%) Apple
11 7 (0.52%) Adobe
11 7 (0.52%) Facebook
11 7 (0.52%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.52%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.52%) Syncfusion
11 7 (0.52%) YouTube