.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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 73 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -47 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,600 1,624 4,156
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.50% 3.76% 6.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.05% 21.73% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 1,214 2,781
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,975 £40,000
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 10,811 7,475 14,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.32% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,850 4,941 9,050
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 1 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 1 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 +42 684 £60,000 - 291
North of England 0 602 £55,000 -8.33% 347
London -31 532 £80,000 - 682
Midlands +34 356 £60,000 +9.09% 219
North West -18 267 £60,000 -5.88% 208
East of England +23 209 £60,000 +14.29% 128
South West -3 191 £55,000 +4.76% 92
West Midlands -5 191 £58,750 +6.82% 112
North East +12 180 £56,500 +30.26% 50
East Midlands +45 165 £60,000 +9.09% 107
Yorkshire +4 155 £55,000 -8.33% 95
.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 63 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) IIS
3 31 (1.19%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 15 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.35%) Apache
7 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Actimize
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,348 (51.85%) Azure
2 475 (18.27%) AWS
3 455 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 260 (10.00%) GitHub
5 183 (7.04%) SaaS
6 182 (7.00%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.54%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
9 151 (5.81%) Serverless
10 122 (4.69%) Power Automate
11 109 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 98 (3.77%) PowerApps
13 97 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 97 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
14 83 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 79 (3.04%) Azure Functions
16 74 (2.85%) GCP
17 68 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
18 60 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
19 50 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.58%) Internet
2 19 (0.73%) Firewall
3 13 (0.50%) VLAN
4 11 (0.42%) Wireless
5 9 (0.35%) HTTP
5 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
10 2 (0.077%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.077%) LTE
10 2 (0.077%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.077%) VPN
10 2 (0.077%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (21.65%) SQL Server
2 469 (18.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.92%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 101 (3.88%) Power BI
6 96 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 81 (3.12%) MySQL
7 81 (3.12%) NoSQL
8 72 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (1.31%) Redis
10 25 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
13 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.46%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.42%) SQLite
17 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 216 (8.31%) Git
2 48 (1.85%) JIRA
3 41 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 34 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.15%) GitLab
7 28 (1.08%) NUnit
8 20 (0.77%) Postman
9 19 (0.73%) Selenium
10 16 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.31%) Moq
15 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.27%) MSI
16 7 (0.27%) Snyk
17 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 453 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 381 (14.65%) Finance
3 158 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 88 (3.38%) Retail
6 76 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.54%) Law
8 64 (2.46%) Games
9 62 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 60 (2.31%) Legal
11 59 (2.27%) Advertising
12 52 (2.00%) Marketing
13 29 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.92%) Automotive
15 23 (0.88%) Banking
16 21 (0.81%) Front Office
17 19 (0.73%) Electronics
18 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.50%) Back Office
19 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,517 (58.35%) Developer
2 925 (35.58%) .NET Developer
3 472 (18.15%) Senior
4 391 (15.04%) Software Engineer
5 287 (11.04%) Lead
6 273 (10.50%) Software Developer
7 240 (9.23%) Senior Developer
8 201 (7.73%) C# Developer
9 181 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 154 (5.92%) C# Software Engineer
11 152 (5.85%) C# .NET Developer
12 144 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (5.46%) .NET Software Engineer
14 129 (4.96%) Lead Developer
15 121 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
16 113 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 96 (3.69%) .NET Software Developer
18 83 (3.19%) Architect
18 83 (3.19%) Web Developer
19 75 (2.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 755 (29.04%) .NET Core
2 741 (28.50%) ASP.NET
3 571 (21.96%) ASP.NET Core
4 465 (17.88%) React
5 372 (14.31%) HTML
6 369 (14.19%) CSS
7 339 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 298 (11.46%) Entity Framework
9 296 (11.38%) RESTful
10 289 (11.12%) Blazor
11 282 (10.85%) .NET Framework
12 255 (9.81%) Vue
13 247 (9.50%) Node.js
14 240 (9.23%) REST
15 220 (8.46%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.27%) ML.NET
17 135 (5.19%) Terraform
18 108 (4.15%) LINQ
19 90 (3.46%) jQuery
20 80 (3.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 154 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
3 150 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 50 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
11 36 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 23 (0.88%) Hedge funds
14 23 (0.88%) Legacy Code
15 22 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 21 (0.81%) Low-Code
17 20 (0.77%) IoT
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
19 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 115 (4.42%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.31%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (35.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 848 (32.62%) Agile
3 719 (27.65%) CI/CD
4 689 (26.50%) DevOps
5 681 (26.19%) Software Engineering
6 466 (17.92%) AI
7 451 (17.35%) Microservices
8 405 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 280 (10.77%) Mentoring
11 222 (8.54%) SDLC
12 221 (8.50%) Test Automation
13 197 (7.58%) Machine Learning
14 186 (7.15%) Technical Leadership
15 176 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 176 (6.77%) Scrum
16 167 (6.42%) Code Quality
17 166 (6.38%) Multithreading
18 154 (5.92%) TDD
19 153 (5.88%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,014 (77.46%) C#
2 991 (38.12%) SQL
3 602 (23.15%) JavaScript
4 364 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 231 (8.88%) Python
6 168 (6.46%) Java
7 100 (3.85%) C++
8 68 (2.62%) VB.NET
9 65 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 63 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 57 (2.19%) PHP
12 41 (1.58%) Bicep
13 27 (1.04%) C
14 22 (0.85%) Bash
14 22 (0.85%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) COBOL
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.27%) Degree
2 123 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.08%) QA
2 70 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) WCAG
5 16 (0.62%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.038%) GAMP
10 1 (0.038%) GMP
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 327 (12.58%) Docker
2 27 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 289 (11.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.58%) Grafana
3 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.077%) Bosun
5 2 (0.077%) Control-M
5 2 (0.077%) Kibana
5 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.038%) Argo
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.038%) SCCM
Vendors
1 934 (35.92%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.69%) Google
3 52 (2.00%) Facebook
4 49 (1.88%) Oracle
5 37 (1.42%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.81%) Adobe
6 21 (0.81%) YouTube
7 19 (0.73%) VMware
8 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.58%) Databricks
10 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 10 (0.38%) iManage
11 10 (0.38%) Intapp
11 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.38%) Sony
11 10 (0.38%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.35%) Broadcom
12 9 (0.35%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.35%) Splunk