.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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 57 23
Rank change year-on-year -13 -34 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,158 1,755 6,394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 4.62% 7.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.02% 23.53% 37.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,283 5,517
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,295 7,459 17,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 19.62% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,297 5,095 14,216
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +14 576 £60,000 - 147
London -10 534 £82,500 +3.13% 207
North of England -13 485 £60,000 - 147
North West -12 261 £62,500 +13.64% 94
Midlands -26 253 £55,000 +2.44% 73
South West +5 159 £55,000 - 43
West Midlands -47 133 £55,000 +2.44% 34
East of England -5 130 £67,500 +28.57% 46
Yorkshire -12 123 £60,000 -7.69% 27
East Midlands +8 120 £55,000 - 39
North East -4 101 £60,000 +6.67% 28
.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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.34%) IIS
3 22 (1.02%) CMS
4 16 (0.74%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.65%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.46%) JBoss
8 8 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.32%) Apache
9 7 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.23%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) nginx
13 2 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.046%) CICS
14 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.046%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.046%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 953 (44.16%) Azure
2 319 (14.78%) AWS
3 285 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (11.58%) SaaS
5 137 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 130 (6.02%) GitHub
7 127 (5.89%) Serverless
8 110 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 77 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 76 (3.52%) Power Automate
11 75 (3.48%) Azure Functions
11 75 (3.48%) PowerApps
12 66 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
13 64 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
15 53 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (2.41%) Azure AI
17 50 (2.32%) Azure AKS
18 49 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
19 48 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.81%) Internet
2 8 (0.37%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.32%) Firewall
3 7 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 3 (0.14%) DHCP
6 3 (0.14%) DNS
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.093%) LAN
7 2 (0.093%) RS-232
7 2 (0.093%) WAN
8 1 (0.046%) AMQP
8 1 (0.046%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.046%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.046%) Modbus
8 1 (0.046%) MPLS
8 1 (0.046%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 439 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 199 (9.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 157 (7.28%) MongoDB
4 90 (4.17%) Power BI
5 71 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 50 (2.32%) MySQL
7 47 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
8 46 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 34 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.74%) Redis
12 12 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.56%) DB2
13 10 (0.46%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.46%) GIS
14 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.23%) Big Data
16 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 142 (6.58%) Git
2 52 (2.41%) JIRA
3 39 (1.81%) Postman
3 39 (1.81%) Selenium
4 38 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 25 (1.16%) SoapUI
5 25 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (1.11%) WebDriver
7 15 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.65%) GitLab
9 12 (0.56%) NUnit
10 11 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 358 (16.59%) Finance
2 328 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 91 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.27%) Banking
5 49 (2.27%) Retail
6 44 (2.04%) Law
7 34 (1.58%) Legal
8 33 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 30 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.30%) Games
11 23 (1.07%) Automotive
12 22 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 20 (0.93%) Electronics
13 20 (0.93%) Marketing
14 19 (0.88%) Advertising
15 13 (0.60%) Aviation
16 12 (0.56%) Back Office
16 12 (0.56%) Front Office
17 8 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,225 (56.77%) Developer
2 624 (28.92%) .NET Developer
3 473 (21.92%) Senior
4 397 (18.40%) Software Engineer
5 337 (15.62%) Software Developer
6 252 (11.68%) Lead
7 230 (10.66%) Senior Developer
8 209 (9.68%) C# Developer
9 193 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 189 (8.76%) .NET Software Engineer
11 166 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
12 151 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 141 (6.53%) C# Software Engineer
14 131 (6.07%) .NET Software Developer
15 107 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 104 (4.82%) Lead Developer
17 103 (4.77%) Senior .NET Developer
18 87 (4.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 81 (3.75%) Architect
20 74 (3.43%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (24.00%) .NET Core
2 402 (18.63%) ASP.NET
3 303 (14.04%) React
4 260 (12.05%) HTML
5 246 (11.40%) CSS
6 234 (10.84%) ASP.NET Core
7 214 (9.92%) .NET Framework
8 182 (8.43%) AngularJS
9 165 (7.65%) RESTful
10 157 (7.28%) REST
11 154 (7.14%) Blazor
12 150 (6.95%) Entity Framework
13 139 (6.44%) Vue
14 132 (6.12%) Node.js
15 94 (4.36%) ASP.NET Web API
16 54 (2.50%) jQuery
16 54 (2.50%) JSON
17 52 (2.41%) SOAP
18 46 (2.13%) ML.NET
19 42 (1.95%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 83 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (3.34%) Mobile App
4 67 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (1.62%) Hedge funds
8 27 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
9 22 (1.02%) Low-Code
10 21 (0.97%) Legacy Code
11 16 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 16 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 16 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.70%) Sports Betting
13 14 (0.65%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.65%) PropTech
14 13 (0.60%) Client/Server
15 12 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.52%) Windows
2 27 (1.25%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.11%) Linux
4 20 (0.93%) Android
5 14 (0.65%) VMS
6 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.093%) Unix
8 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.046%) Solaris
9 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (28.92%) Software Engineering
2 609 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 586 (27.15%) Agile
4 483 (22.38%) CI/CD
5 467 (21.64%) DevOps
6 307 (14.23%) Microservices
7 264 (12.23%) AI
8 258 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
9 236 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 202 (9.36%) Mentoring
11 178 (8.25%) SDLC
12 176 (8.16%) Test Automation
13 135 (6.26%) Clean Code
14 134 (6.21%) Containerisation
15 131 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
16 128 (5.93%) Scrum
17 111 (5.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 111 (5.14%) TDD
18 110 (5.10%) Fintech
18 110 (5.10%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,519 (70.39%) C#
2 699 (32.39%) SQL
3 433 (20.06%) JavaScript
4 253 (11.72%) TypeScript
5 194 (8.99%) Python
6 165 (7.65%) Java
7 81 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 74 (3.43%) C++
9 48 (2.22%) PHP
10 41 (1.90%) VB.NET
11 36 (1.67%) Bicep
12 34 (1.58%) T-SQL
13 21 (0.97%) C
14 20 (0.93%) VB
15 19 (0.88%) Bash
16 16 (0.74%) Apex Code
17 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.56%) VBA
19 9 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 207 (9.59%) Degree
2 86 (3.99%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (0.97%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 16 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.23%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.14%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.14%) PhD
14 2 (0.093%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.73%) QA
2 50 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.79%) GDPR
4 15 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.51%) WCAG
6 9 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.32%) SLA
8 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.093%) ITGC
11 1 (0.046%) NCSC
11 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 196 (9.08%) Docker
2 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.51%) Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 182 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.14%) Terraform
3 16 (0.74%) Grafana
4 7 (0.32%) Kibana
5 5 (0.23%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.093%) MIIS
8 1 (0.046%) CASB
8 1 (0.046%) Consul
8 1 (0.046%) Packer
8 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 477 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.44%) Google
2 31 (1.44%) Oracle
2 31 (1.44%) Salesforce
3 28 (1.30%) Adobe
4 21 (0.97%) OpenAI
4 21 (0.97%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.74%) Facebook
5 16 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 12 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 11 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (0.42%) Databricks
8 9 (0.42%) iManage
9 8 (0.37%) IBM
10 7 (0.32%) Intapp
10 7 (0.32%) VMware
11 6 (0.28%) YouTube
12 5 (0.23%) Aderant
12 5 (0.23%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.23%) Sage