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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 65 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -40 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,650 1,758 4,507
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.73% 4.03% 6.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.71% 22.05% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,343 1,314 3,359
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,810 £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 £72,500
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% -7.69%

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 10,723 7,973 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.03% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,958 5,332 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 2 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 2 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 +43 700 £60,000 +4.35% 222
North of England 0 610 £56,500 -5.83% 202
London -25 539 £80,000 - 715
Midlands +27 346 £57,500 +4.55% 121
North West -14 265 £60,000 - 113
East of England +31 222 £62,500 +19.05% 84
South West +9 205 £55,000 +5.67% 85
West Midlands -6 186 £59,000 +7.27% 51
North East +5 185 £56,500 +32.94% 44
East Midlands +40 160 £55,000 - 69
Yorkshire +3 160 £55,000 -8.33% 46
.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 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.70%) IIS
3 30 (1.13%) 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 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) 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 (0.075%) Magento
5 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.075%) 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 1,395 (52.64%) Azure
2 468 (17.66%) AWS
3 467 (17.62%) Azure DevOps
4 251 (9.47%) GitHub
5 195 (7.36%) SaaS
6 194 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 173 (6.53%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 148 (5.58%) Serverless
10 125 (4.72%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 107 (4.04%) PowerApps
13 105 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 100 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 100 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
15 79 (2.98%) Azure Functions
16 76 (2.87%) GCP
17 67 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
18 55 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
18 55 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.55%) 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 (0.075%) LTE
10 2 (0.075%) Modbus
11 1 (0.038%) Profibus
11 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (21.02%) SQL Server
2 498 (18.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.08%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
5 118 (4.45%) Power BI
6 84 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 78 (2.94%) MySQL
8 74 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.13%) Redis
12 25 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.60%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) Big Data
17 10 (0.38%) GIS
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (8.04%) Git
2 48 (1.81%) JIRA
3 38 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.21%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.17%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.09%) NUnit
7 25 (0.94%) GitLab
8 23 (0.87%) Selenium
9 21 (0.79%) Postman
10 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.26%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.26%) Moq
16 7 (0.26%) MSI
16 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 436 (16.45%) Social Skills
2 396 (14.94%) Finance
3 151 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (3.74%) Public Sector
5 92 (3.47%) Retail
6 72 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (2.72%) Law
7 65 (2.45%) Games
8 62 (2.34%) Advertising
9 61 (2.30%) Legal
10 55 (2.08%) Marketing
11 54 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.94%) 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%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,588 (59.92%) Developer
2 946 (35.70%) .NET Developer
3 481 (18.15%) Senior
4 394 (14.87%) Software Engineer
5 310 (11.70%) Software Developer
6 307 (11.58%) Lead
7 253 (9.55%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.81%) C# Developer
9 185 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 159 (6.00%) C# .NET Developer
11 152 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
12 145 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.40%) Lead Developer
14 142 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
15 117 (4.42%) Senior .NET Developer
16 115 (4.34%) .NET Software Developer
17 112 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 95 (3.58%) Architect
19 91 (3.43%) Web Developer
20 78 (2.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (29.74%) .NET Core
2 774 (29.21%) ASP.NET
3 590 (22.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (17.06%) React
5 386 (14.57%) HTML
6 383 (14.45%) CSS
7 328 (12.38%) AngularJS
8 303 (11.43%) Entity Framework
9 302 (11.40%) RESTful
10 297 (11.21%) Blazor
11 290 (10.94%) .NET Framework
12 265 (10.00%) Vue
13 258 (9.74%) Node.js
14 223 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
15 218 (8.23%) REST
16 145 (5.47%) ML.NET
17 133 (5.02%) Terraform
18 109 (4.11%) LINQ
19 84 (3.17%) JSON
20 81 (3.06%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 148 (5.58%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (5.40%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 42 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
9 41 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 41 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 31 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.09%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.91%) Hedge funds
14 22 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.72%) Data Structures
17 18 (0.68%) Client/Server
18 17 (0.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 111 (4.19%) Windows
2 37 (1.40%) Linux
2 37 (1.40%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.13%) 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
1 943 (35.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 876 (33.06%) Agile
3 703 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 701 (26.45%) DevOps
5 687 (25.92%) Software Engineering
6 470 (17.74%) Microservices
7 436 (16.45%) AI
8 382 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 280 (10.57%) Mentoring
11 226 (8.53%) SDLC
12 212 (8.00%) Machine Learning
13 208 (7.85%) Test Automation
14 180 (6.79%) Scrum
15 179 (6.75%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.57%) Multithreading
17 172 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 164 (6.19%) TDD
19 160 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
20 155 (5.85%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2,026 (76.45%) C#
2 1,025 (38.68%) SQL
3 609 (22.98%) JavaScript
4 373 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 232 (8.75%) Python
6 177 (6.68%) Java
7 103 (3.89%) C++
8 76 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.45%) PHP
10 64 (2.42%) T-SQL
10 64 (2.42%) VB.NET
11 42 (1.58%) Bicep
12 28 (1.06%) C
13 24 (0.91%) Bash
14 19 (0.72%) Go
14 19 (0.72%) VB
15 18 (0.68%) VBA
16 16 (0.60%) COBOL
17 12 (0.45%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 239 (9.02%) Degree
2 118 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 102 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 83 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) PhD
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.08%) QA
2 72 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.32%) 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 (0.075%) 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
1 334 (12.60%) Docker
2 20 (0.75%) 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
1 304 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.57%) Grafana
2 15 (0.57%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.075%) 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
1 951 (35.89%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.83%) Google
3 55 (2.08%) Facebook
4 45 (1.70%) Oracle
5 33 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) 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%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.38%) Intapp
13 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
14 9 (0.34%) Sage
14 9 (0.34%) SAP