.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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 71 26
Rank change year-on-year +19 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,643 1,655 4,374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 3.83% 6.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.68% 21.57% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 1,227 3,218
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.07%

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 10,708 7,673 14,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.91% 17.78% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,957 5,075 10,022
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +50 701 £60,000 - 191
North of England +4 611 £56,500 -5.83% 179
London -26 535 £80,000 - 596
Midlands +34 348 £58,250 +5.91% 104
North West -8 269 £60,000 -1.64% 100
East of England +33 221 £62,500 +21.95% 76
South West +12 202 £55,000 +7.84% 79
North East +6 185 £56,500 +31.78% 38
West Midlands 0 184 £59,000 +7.27% 48
East Midlands +38 164 £57,500 +4.55% 55
Yorkshire +1 157 £55,000 -8.33% 43
.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 69 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.78%) IIS
3 30 (1.14%) CMS
4 24 (0.91%) Confluence
5 15 (0.57%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.076%) Magento
5 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.076%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (52.67%) Azure
2 472 (17.86%) AWS
3 465 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (9.46%) GitHub
5 194 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 194 (7.34%) SaaS
6 174 (6.58%) Azure AI
7 166 (6.28%) GitHub Copilot
8 149 (5.64%) Serverless
9 125 (4.73%) Power Automate
10 112 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 106 (4.01%) PowerApps
12 103 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 99 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 99 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
14 80 (3.03%) Azure Functions
15 76 (2.88%) GCP
16 67 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
17 55 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
17 55 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.59%) Internet
2 13 (0.49%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
4 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 6 (0.23%) VLAN
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 5 (0.19%) Wireless
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.11%) RS-232
10 2 (0.076%) LTE
10 2 (0.076%) Modbus
11 1 (0.038%) Profibus
11 1 (0.038%) SSL
11 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 560 (21.19%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 425 (16.08%) MongoDB
4 163 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
5 118 (4.46%) Power BI
6 86 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 79 (2.99%) MySQL
8 74 (2.80%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.14%) Redis
12 23 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.61%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) GIS
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 212 (8.02%) Git
2 46 (1.74%) JIRA
3 37 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.25%) Claude Code
4 33 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.14%) NUnit
6 25 (0.95%) GitLab
7 23 (0.87%) Selenium
8 21 (0.79%) Postman
9 15 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.26%) Jasmine
15 7 (0.26%) Moq
15 7 (0.26%) MSI
15 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 437 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 390 (14.76%) Finance
3 149 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 92 (3.48%) Retail
6 72 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (2.69%) Law
8 66 (2.50%) Games
9 62 (2.35%) Advertising
9 62 (2.35%) Legal
10 55 (2.08%) Marketing
11 54 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.91%) Banking
14 23 (0.87%) Automotive
15 19 (0.72%) Electronics
15 19 (0.72%) Front Office
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.42%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,588 (60.08%) Developer
2 944 (35.72%) .NET Developer
3 476 (18.01%) Senior
4 390 (14.76%) Software Engineer
5 307 (11.62%) Lead
6 305 (11.54%) Software Developer
7 250 (9.46%) Senior Developer
8 211 (7.98%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 159 (6.02%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
12 144 (5.45%) Lead Developer
12 144 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 140 (5.30%) .NET Software Engineer
14 116 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
15 111 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 109 (4.12%) .NET Software Developer
17 92 (3.48%) Architect
17 92 (3.48%) Web Developer
18 80 (3.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 791 (29.93%) .NET Core
2 774 (29.28%) ASP.NET
3 590 (22.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 450 (17.03%) React
5 391 (14.79%) HTML
6 388 (14.68%) CSS
7 331 (12.52%) AngularJS
8 304 (11.50%) Entity Framework
9 302 (11.43%) RESTful
10 299 (11.31%) Blazor
11 289 (10.93%) .NET Framework
12 267 (10.10%) Vue
13 256 (9.69%) Node.js
14 223 (8.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 220 (8.32%) REST
16 145 (5.49%) ML.NET
17 133 (5.03%) Terraform
18 108 (4.09%) LINQ
19 86 (3.25%) jQuery
20 84 (3.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 179 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 42 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 42 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
8 42 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.06%) Legacy Code
12 24 (0.91%) Hedge funds
13 23 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 21 (0.79%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.76%) Digital TV
16 18 (0.68%) Client/Server
17 17 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 111 (4.20%) Windows
2 37 (1.40%) Linux
2 37 (1.40%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.14%) Android
4 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (35.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 870 (32.92%) Agile
3 698 (26.41%) CI/CD
4 697 (26.37%) DevOps
5 681 (25.77%) Software Engineering
6 466 (17.63%) Microservices
7 438 (16.57%) AI
8 382 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 278 (10.52%) Mentoring
11 224 (8.48%) SDLC
12 210 (7.95%) Machine Learning
13 206 (7.79%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.77%) Scrum
15 177 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
16 173 (6.55%) Infrastructure as Code
16 173 (6.55%) Multithreading
17 163 (6.17%) TDD
18 161 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
19 154 (5.83%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2,026 (76.66%) C#
2 1,023 (38.71%) SQL
3 611 (23.12%) JavaScript
4 371 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 231 (8.74%) Python
6 176 (6.66%) Java
7 103 (3.90%) C++
8 74 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.46%) VB.NET
10 64 (2.42%) PHP
11 63 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 42 (1.59%) Bicep
13 28 (1.06%) C
14 24 (0.91%) Bash
15 19 (0.72%) VB
15 19 (0.72%) VBA
16 18 (0.68%) Go
17 16 (0.61%) COBOL
18 12 (0.45%) JCL
19 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.12%) Degree
2 118 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 101 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 82 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.11%) OCP
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.09%) QA
2 73 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.68%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.038%) Basel III
9 1 (0.038%) GRC
9 1 (0.038%) ITGC
9 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 330 (12.49%) Docker
2 20 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 302 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.57%) Grafana
2 15 (0.57%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.076%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 949 (35.91%) Microsoft
2 74 (2.80%) Google
3 55 (2.08%) Facebook
4 46 (1.74%) Oracle
5 33 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.06%) Adobe
7 21 (0.79%) YouTube
8 18 (0.68%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.57%) Databricks
10 14 (0.53%) VMware
11 12 (0.45%) iManage
11 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
15 8 (0.30%) Sage