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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 35 22
Rank change year-on-year -43 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,500 2,728 5,222
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 5.86% 8.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.36% 26.78% 34.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 1,777 4,782
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 6,420 10,187 15,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.41% 21.88% 23.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,904 5,945 12,881
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

.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 February 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 February 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 -30 403 £80,000 +6.67% 240
South East -33 363 £60,000 - 211
North of England -40 346 £65,000 +13.04% 173
Midlands -49 198 £52,500 -8.70% 88
North West -23 189 £65,000 +13.04% 112
West Midlands -35 116 £50,000 -13.04% 38
Yorkshire -45 99 £55,000 +3.77% 33
South West -54 97 £55,000 -8.33% 53
East Midlands -35 82 £65,000 +23.81% 50
East of England -65 65 £60,000 +20.00% 53
North East -13 58 £70,000 +7.69% 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 44 (2.93%) IIS
2 24 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.20%) CMS
4 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.87%) JBoss
5 13 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 9 (0.60%) Confluence
7 8 (0.53%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.067%) Apache
10 1 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.067%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) Kentico
10 1 (0.067%) SAS
10 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.067%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 47 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.067%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.067%) Endur
3 1 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.067%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 783 (52.20%) Azure
2 308 (20.53%) AWS
3 241 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (14.60%) SaaS
5 121 (8.07%) Power Platform
6 109 (7.27%) GitHub
7 106 (7.07%) Serverless
8 83 (5.53%) GCP
9 60 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 59 (3.93%) Power Automate
11 58 (3.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 52 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 49 (3.27%) PowerApps
15 42 (2.80%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 27 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.73%) Azure AKS
19 23 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.87%) DNS
2 12 (0.80%) DHCP
2 12 (0.80%) Internet
3 10 (0.67%) Firewall
4 9 (0.60%) VPN
5 8 (0.53%) WinSCP
6 7 (0.47%) VoIP
7 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.27%) HTTP
9 3 (0.20%) Intranet
10 2 (0.13%) NAS
10 2 (0.13%) SAN
10 2 (0.13%) VLAN
11 1 (0.067%) AMQP
11 1 (0.067%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.067%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.067%) IPv6
11 1 (0.067%) LTE
11 1 (0.067%) MPLS
11 1 (0.067%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (26.33%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 67 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 64 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (3.47%) Power BI
6 50 (3.33%) MySQL
7 46 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 36 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.53%) DynamoDB
12 20 (1.33%) Redis
13 18 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.60%) Tableau
16 6 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.33%) NonStop SQL
18 4 (0.27%) RDBMS
19 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
19 3 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 134 (8.93%) Git
2 59 (3.93%) JIRA
3 44 (2.93%) Selenium
4 41 (2.73%) Visual Studio
5 37 (2.47%) Postman
6 36 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 30 (2.00%) SoapUI
8 28 (1.87%) WebDriver
9 22 (1.47%) TeamCity
10 20 (1.33%) Jenkins
11 17 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (0.80%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.53%) GitLab
14 7 (0.47%) Storybook
15 6 (0.40%) git-flow
15 6 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.33%) MSTest
16 5 (0.33%) NUnit
General
1 345 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 283 (18.87%) Finance
3 64 (4.27%) Law
4 61 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (3.40%) Banking
6 46 (3.07%) Public Sector
7 32 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.67%) Legal
9 21 (1.40%) Retail
10 20 (1.33%) Marketing
11 19 (1.27%) Front Office
12 17 (1.13%) Games
13 16 (1.07%) Aviation
13 16 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.87%) Billing
15 11 (0.73%) Back Office
15 11 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.67%) Electronics
17 9 (0.60%) Publishing
17 9 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 820 (54.67%) Developer
2 336 (22.40%) Senior
3 333 (22.20%) .NET Developer
4 234 (15.60%) Software Developer
5 232 (15.47%) Software Engineer
6 180 (12.00%) Lead
7 164 (10.93%) C# Developer
8 155 (10.33%) Senior Developer
9 150 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 101 (6.73%) .NET Software Engineer
11 93 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 80 (5.33%) .NET Software Developer
13 78 (5.20%) C# .NET Developer
14 68 (4.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 67 (4.47%) Lead Developer
15 67 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
16 66 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 56 (3.73%) Analyst
18 48 (3.20%) C# Software Engineer
19 45 (3.00%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (24.33%) .NET Core
2 301 (20.07%) React
3 245 (16.33%) ASP.NET
4 212 (14.13%) .NET Framework
5 187 (12.47%) HTML
6 159 (10.60%) CSS
7 156 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 129 (8.60%) REST
9 111 (7.40%) RESTful
10 96 (6.40%) Entity Framework
11 90 (6.00%) Blazor
12 68 (4.53%) Node.js
13 67 (4.47%) ASP.NET MVC
13 67 (4.47%) Vue
14 66 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
15 60 (4.00%) SOAP
16 55 (3.67%) ASP.NET Web API
17 41 (2.73%) HTML5
18 39 (2.60%) WPF
19 35 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 75 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 61 (4.07%) Mobile App
4 50 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.20%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (1.20%) Hedge funds
12 13 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.87%) Client/Server
12 13 (0.87%) DataPower
13 12 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 10 (0.67%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.40%) Windows
2 29 (1.93%) Linux
3 27 (1.80%) Android
4 26 (1.73%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.67%) VMS
8 7 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.20%) Unix
10 1 (0.067%) Fedora
10 1 (0.067%) Solaris
10 1 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (38.33%) Agile
2 459 (30.60%) Software Engineering
3 407 (27.13%) DevOps
4 400 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 371 (24.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 281 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (18.20%) Microservices
8 215 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (11.33%) Mentoring
10 161 (10.73%) AI
11 135 (9.00%) Scrum
12 127 (8.47%) MVC
12 127 (8.47%) SDLC
13 125 (8.33%) Clean Code
14 121 (8.07%) User Experience
15 112 (7.47%) Computer Science
16 111 (7.40%) Containerisation
17 109 (7.27%) TDD
17 109 (7.27%) Test Automation
18 104 (6.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (69.80%) C#
2 489 (32.60%) SQL
3 383 (25.53%) JavaScript
4 216 (14.40%) TypeScript
5 158 (10.53%) Java
6 126 (8.40%) Python
7 63 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.60%) C++
9 35 (2.33%) PHP
10 33 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.73%) Bicep
11 26 (1.73%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.07%) Bash
13 13 (0.87%) C
13 13 (0.87%) Rust
14 12 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.53%) XAML
16 7 (0.47%) Go
17 6 (0.40%) VB
18 5 (0.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 209 (13.93%) Degree
2 71 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 46 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 40 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 36 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 27 (1.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.60%) ISEB
12 8 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.27%) MCSE
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) MCSA
15 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (6.13%) QA
2 45 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.00%) WCAG
4 14 (0.93%) GDPR
5 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.27%) GRC
6 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.27%) SLA
7 3 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.067%) ITGC
9 1 (0.067%) SOC 2
System Software
1 147 (9.80%) Docker
2 27 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) Firmware
3 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.13%) vSphere
5 1 (0.067%) HDFS
5 1 (0.067%) Squid
Systems Management
1 115 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.67%) Terraform
3 15 (1.00%) Grafana
4 11 (0.73%) Ansible
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.53%) Kibana
7 2 (0.13%) Argo
7 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.067%) CASB
8 1 (0.067%) Control-M
8 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 283 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.07%) Salesforce
3 26 (1.73%) Xamarin
4 23 (1.53%) Oracle
5 18 (1.20%) Google
5 18 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 12 (0.80%) Sage
7 11 (0.73%) Telerik
8 10 (0.67%) New Relic
9 9 (0.60%) Apple
9 9 (0.60%) Databricks
10 7 (0.47%) Adobe
10 7 (0.47%) Datto
10 7 (0.47%) Freshdesk
10 7 (0.47%) Guidewire
10 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.47%) Syncfusion
11 6 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.40%) VMware
12 5 (0.33%) IBM