.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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -37 +5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,393 1,852 6,823
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.83% 4.61% 7.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.95% 23.69% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,176 1,372 5,765
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,893 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £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 8,879 7,816 18,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.46% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,775 5,278 14,717
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,967 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +21 613 £57,500 - 146
London -25 550 £80,000 - 169
North of England -1 545 £60,000 - 118
Midlands +5 300 £55,000 - 61
North West +2 284 £60,000 +4.35% 60
South West +10 188 £55,000 +4.76% 37
East of England +15 174 £65,000 +23.22% 42
West Midlands -23 154 £57,500 +6.50% 34
East Midlands +20 146 £55,000 - 27
North East -3 135 £58,250 +5.91% 29
Yorkshire -2 126 £57,500 -14.81% 32
.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 61 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.13%) CMS
2 27 (1.13%) IIS
3 18 (0.75%) Confluence
4 16 (0.67%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.59%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) JBoss
9 5 (0.21%) nginx
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.084%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.084%) Kentico
12 2 (0.084%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
3 3 (0.13%) Shopify
4 2 (0.084%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.084%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.084%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.042%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,197 (50.02%) Azure
2 367 (15.34%) AWS
3 366 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (9.57%) SaaS
5 183 (7.65%) GitHub
6 159 (6.64%) Power Platform
7 126 (5.27%) Serverless
8 122 (5.10%) Azure AI
9 115 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 114 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 100 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 97 (4.05%) Power Automate
13 92 (3.84%) PowerApps
14 81 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 79 (3.30%) Azure Functions
15 79 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 56 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
17 55 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (2.26%) Azure AKS
18 54 (2.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.13%) Internet
2 9 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.21%) DHCP
4 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) LAN
4 5 (0.21%) LTE
4 5 (0.21%) WAN
5 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.13%) RS-232
6 3 (0.13%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.084%) HTTP
7 2 (0.084%) Modbus
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.042%) Network Security
8 1 (0.042%) SSL
8 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (19.47%) SQL Server
2 381 (15.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 320 (13.37%) MongoDB
4 116 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
5 102 (4.26%) Power BI
6 63 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 55 (2.30%) MySQL
8 41 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 20 (0.84%) Redis
12 13 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.50%) Db2
14 11 (0.46%) GIS
15 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.25%) Big Data
17 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 145 (6.06%) Git
2 45 (1.88%) JIRA
3 33 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.09%) Postman
5 24 (1.00%) Selenium
6 18 (0.75%) GitLab
6 18 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.67%) SpecFlow
8 13 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.54%) NUnit
9 12 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.46%) WebDriver
11 10 (0.42%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 376 (15.71%) Finance
2 339 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 98 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (2.97%) Retail
5 65 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 46 (1.92%) Games
6 46 (1.92%) Law
7 45 (1.88%) Advertising
7 45 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 44 (1.84%) Banking
8 44 (1.84%) Legal
9 40 (1.67%) Marketing
10 37 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.21%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.00%) Automotive
13 20 (0.84%) Electronics
14 12 (0.50%) Back Office
14 12 (0.50%) Legal Technology
15 11 (0.46%) Front Office
16 9 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,437 (60.05%) Developer
2 806 (33.68%) .NET Developer
3 483 (20.18%) Senior
4 405 (16.92%) Software Engineer
5 337 (14.08%) Software Developer
6 254 (10.61%) Lead
7 237 (9.90%) Senior Developer
8 205 (8.57%) C# Developer
9 184 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
9 184 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 164 (6.85%) C# .NET Developer
11 155 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 151 (6.31%) C# Software Engineer
13 128 (5.35%) .NET Software Developer
14 127 (5.31%) Lead Developer
15 107 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
16 102 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 86 (3.59%) Architect
18 78 (3.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 74 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (29.04%) .NET Core
2 602 (25.16%) ASP.NET
3 440 (18.39%) ASP.NET Core
4 380 (15.88%) React
5 320 (13.37%) HTML
6 318 (13.29%) CSS
7 273 (11.41%) AngularJS
8 240 (10.03%) .NET Framework
9 228 (9.53%) Blazor
10 227 (9.49%) RESTful
11 226 (9.44%) Entity Framework
12 217 (9.07%) Vue
13 200 (8.36%) Node.js
14 184 (7.69%) REST
15 165 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
16 109 (4.55%) ML.NET
17 83 (3.47%) LINQ
18 63 (2.63%) jQuery
19 61 (2.55%) JSON
20 49 (2.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 123 (5.14%) Greenfield Project
3 90 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 72 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (3.01%) Mobile App
6 57 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.38%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
8 26 (1.09%) Legacy Code
9 22 (0.92%) Low-Code
10 21 (0.88%) AI Agents
11 20 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.79%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.71%) Digital TV
13 17 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.67%) Sports Betting
15 15 (0.63%) Client/Server
15 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.38%) Windows
2 30 (1.25%) Android
3 25 (1.04%) Linux
3 25 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.50%) VMS
5 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.084%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (33.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 734 (30.67%) Agile
3 645 (26.95%) Software Engineering
4 576 (24.07%) CI/CD
5 571 (23.86%) DevOps
6 388 (16.21%) Microservices
7 358 (14.96%) AI
8 284 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
9 243 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 216 (9.03%) Mentoring
11 196 (8.19%) SDLC
12 178 (7.44%) Test Automation
13 172 (7.19%) Machine Learning
14 152 (6.35%) Scrum
15 150 (6.27%) TDD
16 141 (5.89%) Technical Leadership
17 134 (5.60%) Clean Code
17 134 (5.60%) Containerisation
17 134 (5.60%) Multithreading
18 126 (5.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,761 (73.59%) C#
2 883 (36.90%) SQL
3 507 (21.19%) JavaScript
4 329 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 202 (8.44%) Python
6 144 (6.02%) Java
7 83 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 80 (3.34%) C++
9 57 (2.38%) PHP
10 50 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 41 (1.71%) Bicep
13 24 (1.00%) C
14 21 (0.88%) Bash
15 20 (0.84%) VB
16 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.42%) Go
19 9 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 210 (8.78%) Degree
2 91 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.13%) PhD
13 2 (0.084%) CSQA
13 2 (0.084%) MBA
13 2 (0.084%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (5.35%) QA
2 61 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 18 (0.75%) GDPR
4 15 (0.63%) WCAG
5 9 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.33%) SLA
7 4 (0.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.084%) ITGC
9 2 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 264 (11.03%) Docker
2 16 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.50%) Firmware
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 254 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.64%) Terraform
3 13 (0.54%) Grafana
4 7 (0.29%) Ansible
5 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.21%) Kibana
7 2 (0.084%) MIIS
8 1 (0.042%) Consul
8 1 (0.042%) MOM
8 1 (0.042%) Packer
8 1 (0.042%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 717 (29.96%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.92%) Google
3 40 (1.67%) Facebook
4 34 (1.42%) Oracle
5 30 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.17%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.13%) Adobe
8 19 (0.79%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 16 (0.67%) YouTube
10 13 (0.54%) Databricks
11 11 (0.46%) iManage
11 11 (0.46%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.38%) Intapp
13 8 (0.33%) Apple
13 8 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.33%) Sony
13 8 (0.33%) VMware
13 8 (0.33%) Yahoo!
14 7 (0.29%) IBM