.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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 51 24
Rank change year-on-year -27 -27 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,890 1,888 6,213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 4.99% 7.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.28% 25.04% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 1,566 5,392
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,935 £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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 7,784 7,540 16,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.93% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 5,824 14,041
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,651
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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
London -27 492 £82,500 +6.45% 224
South East -17 481 £60,000 - 189
North of England -11 422 £62,500 +8.70% 158
North West -1 223 £63,000 +9.57% 97
Midlands -38 221 £55,000 +2.44% 70
South West -5 146 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Yorkshire -41 125 £60,000 - 34
West Midlands -50 112 £52,500 -8.70% 36
East Midlands -19 109 £65,000 +23.81% 33
East of England -33 106 £67,500 +28.57% 49
North East -21 74 £67,500 +17.39% 27
.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 54 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.38%) IIS
3 18 (0.95%) CMS
4 13 (0.69%) ColdFusion
4 13 (0.69%) JBoss
5 12 (0.63%) Umbraco
6 11 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Confluence
8 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.21%) Apache
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.053%) CICS
12 1 (0.053%) SAS
12 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.053%) Endur
3 1 (0.053%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.053%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.053%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 789 (41.75%) Azure
2 278 (14.71%) AWS
3 248 (13.12%) SaaS
4 220 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
5 142 (7.51%) Power Platform
6 109 (5.77%) Serverless
7 101 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 94 (4.97%) GitHub
9 76 (4.02%) Power Automate
9 76 (4.02%) PowerApps
10 62 (3.28%) Azure Functions
11 58 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 55 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
13 48 (2.54%) GCP
14 45 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 43 (2.28%) Azure AKS
16 38 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
17 31 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.01%) Internet
2 8 (0.42%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.37%) Firewall
4 6 (0.32%) Intranet
5 4 (0.21%) DNS
5 4 (0.21%) LTE
6 3 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.11%) VoIP
7 2 (0.11%) VPN
8 1 (0.053%) AMQP
8 1 (0.053%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.053%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.053%) HTTP
8 1 (0.053%) Modbus
8 1 (0.053%) MPLS
8 1 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (21.90%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.81%) Power BI
3 87 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 75 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 46 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 39 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 38 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (1.80%) MySQL
8 34 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.85%) Redis
10 14 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (0.63%) DB2
11 12 (0.63%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.32%) GIS
13 5 (0.26%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 119 (6.30%) Git
2 52 (2.75%) JIRA
3 44 (2.33%) Selenium
4 38 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.90%) Postman
6 29 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.32%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.27%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.85%) Jenkins
9 16 (0.85%) SpecFlow
10 15 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (0.58%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.58%) NUnit
13 9 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.32%) JMeter
15 6 (0.32%) TestRail
16 5 (0.26%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.26%) LabVIEW
General
1 318 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 306 (16.19%) Finance
3 89 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (2.96%) Law
5 52 (2.75%) Banking
5 52 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 32 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.53%) Retail
8 28 (1.48%) Legal
9 22 (1.16%) Games
10 20 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 17 (0.90%) Automotive
12 16 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.79%) Front Office
13 15 (0.79%) Marketing
14 14 (0.74%) Aviation
15 13 (0.69%) Electronics
16 9 (0.48%) Back Office
16 9 (0.48%) Military
16 9 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,057 (55.93%) Developer
2 460 (24.34%) .NET Developer
3 459 (24.29%) Senior
4 343 (18.15%) Software Engineer
5 313 (16.56%) Software Developer
6 233 (12.33%) Lead
7 228 (12.06%) Senior Developer
8 218 (11.53%) C# Developer
9 174 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (8.47%) .NET Software Engineer
11 152 (8.04%) C# .NET Developer
12 137 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 108 (5.71%) .NET Software Developer
14 99 (5.24%) Senior .NET Developer
15 96 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
16 93 (4.92%) Lead Developer
17 89 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 85 (4.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 78 (4.13%) Architect
20 67 (3.54%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (22.01%) .NET Core
2 274 (14.50%) ASP.NET
3 255 (13.49%) React
4 211 (11.16%) .NET Framework
5 206 (10.90%) HTML
6 181 (9.58%) CSS
7 142 (7.51%) REST
8 130 (6.88%) AngularJS
9 120 (6.35%) RESTful
10 98 (5.19%) ASP.NET Core
10 98 (5.19%) Blazor
11 95 (5.03%) Node.js
12 94 (4.97%) Entity Framework
13 79 (4.18%) Vue
14 57 (3.02%) SOAP
15 41 (2.17%) JSON
15 41 (2.17%) Playwright
16 40 (2.12%) ASP.NET MVC
16 40 (2.12%) ASP.NET Web API
17 37 (1.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.86%) Mobile App
3 64 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
5 48 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.59%) Hedge funds
7 26 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 20 (1.06%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.01%) Legacy Code
10 19 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 18 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 14 (0.74%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.74%) PropTech
13 14 (0.74%) Sports Betting
14 12 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (0.58%) DataPower
15 11 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.18%) Windows
2 27 (1.43%) Linux
3 23 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.95%) Android
5 17 (0.90%) VMS
6 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.16%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.053%) Solaris
9 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (29.89%) Software Engineering
2 499 (26.40%) Agile
3 435 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 392 (20.74%) DevOps
5 391 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 261 (13.81%) Microservices
7 229 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 176 (9.31%) Mentoring
10 165 (8.73%) AI
11 161 (8.52%) Test Automation
12 150 (7.94%) SDLC
13 132 (6.98%) Clean Code
14 127 (6.72%) Containerisation
14 127 (6.72%) Technical Leadership
15 121 (6.40%) Scrum
16 110 (5.82%) MVC
17 106 (5.61%) User Experience
18 103 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (5.34%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,286 (68.04%) C#
2 567 (30.00%) SQL
3 375 (19.84%) JavaScript
4 207 (10.95%) TypeScript
5 162 (8.57%) Java
6 160 (8.47%) Python
7 74 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 55 (2.91%) C++
9 45 (2.38%) PHP
10 35 (1.85%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.80%) Bicep
12 33 (1.75%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.90%) C
15 16 (0.85%) Bash
15 16 (0.85%) VB
16 13 (0.69%) Go
16 13 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.69%) VBA
17 12 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 184 (9.74%) Degree
2 78 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 64 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 55 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 18 (0.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.16%) ISEB
13 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.24%) QA
2 49 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.79%) GDPR
5 13 (0.69%) WCAG
6 9 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.37%) SLA
8 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.053%) NCSC
12 1 (0.053%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (7.78%) Docker
2 13 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.42%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 135 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.76%) Terraform
3 15 (0.79%) Grafana
4 9 (0.48%) Ansible
5 7 (0.37%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.11%) MIIS
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.053%) CASB
8 1 (0.053%) Consul
8 1 (0.053%) Control-M
8 1 (0.053%) Packer
8 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.053%) Puppet
Vendors
1 333 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.48%) Adobe
3 26 (1.38%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.22%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.06%) Oracle
6 18 (0.95%) Google
7 16 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 16 (0.85%) ServiceNow
8 11 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.42%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.37%) Databricks
10 7 (0.37%) iManage
11 6 (0.32%) New Relic
12 5 (0.26%) IBM
12 5 (0.26%) Intapp
12 5 (0.26%) Sage
12 5 (0.26%) Telerik
12 5 (0.26%) VMware
13 4 (0.21%) Apple
13 4 (0.21%) JDA