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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -46 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,607 1,628 4,280
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.52% 3.77% 6.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.08% 21.55% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,278 1,215 2,899
10th Percentile £41,425 £39,775 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,500 £92,500
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 10,828 7,553 14,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 17.48% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,882 4,996 9,334
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,212 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 26 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 26 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 +47 683 £60,000 - 296
North of England +2 599 £55,750 -7.08% 317
London -30 538 £80,000 - 789
Midlands +30 353 £60,000 +9.09% 186
North West -15 266 £60,000 -4.00% 203
East of England +22 213 £60,000 +14.29% 132
South West -2 194 £55,000 +4.76% 82
West Midlands 0 188 £56,250 +2.27% 94
North East +7 180 £56,500 +24.18% 44
East Midlands +44 165 £60,000 +9.09% 92
Yorkshire 0 153 £55,000 -8.33% 73
.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 65 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.80%) IIS
3 29 (1.11%) CMS
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.35%) Apache
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 5 (0.19%) CICS
9 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,357 (52.05%) Azure
2 473 (18.14%) AWS
3 458 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
4 259 (9.93%) GitHub
5 183 (7.02%) SaaS
6 182 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.52%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 149 (5.72%) Serverless
10 121 (4.64%) Power Automate
11 110 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 98 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 98 (3.76%) PowerApps
13 96 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
14 90 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (2.99%) Azure Functions
16 73 (2.80%) GCP
17 66 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
19 50 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.61%) Internet
2 18 (0.69%) Firewall
3 11 (0.42%) VLAN
4 10 (0.38%) Wireless
5 9 (0.35%) HTTP
5 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) Intranet
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.077%) LTE
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
9 2 (0.077%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.038%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (21.60%) SQL Server
2 472 (18.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.84%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
5 101 (3.87%) Power BI
6 98 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 81 (3.11%) MySQL
8 79 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 71 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.30%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Big Data
17 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.42%) SQLite
18 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 214 (8.21%) Git
2 47 (1.80%) JIRA
3 40 (1.53%) Claude Code
3 40 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.30%) Visual Studio
5 28 (1.07%) GitLab
5 28 (1.07%) NUnit
6 20 (0.77%) Postman
6 20 (0.77%) Selenium
7 16 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Moq
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 455 (17.45%) Social Skills
2 385 (14.77%) Finance
3 155 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (3.84%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.49%) Retail
6 76 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.53%) Law
8 65 (2.49%) Games
9 61 (2.34%) Legal
10 60 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 59 (2.26%) Advertising
12 52 (1.99%) Marketing
13 29 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.92%) Automotive
14 24 (0.92%) Banking
15 21 (0.81%) Front Office
16 19 (0.73%) Electronics
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Back Office
18 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,535 (58.88%) Developer
2 929 (35.63%) .NET Developer
3 469 (17.99%) Senior
4 390 (14.96%) Software Engineer
5 291 (11.16%) Lead
6 278 (10.66%) Software Developer
7 242 (9.28%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.94%) C# Developer
9 186 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 158 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
11 154 (5.91%) C# Software Engineer
12 143 (5.49%) .NET Software Engineer
12 143 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 133 (5.10%) Lead Developer
14 120 (4.60%) Senior .NET Developer
15 113 (4.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 99 (3.80%) .NET Software Developer
17 86 (3.30%) Web Developer
18 85 (3.26%) Architect
19 77 (2.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 761 (29.19%) .NET Core
2 745 (28.58%) ASP.NET
3 572 (21.94%) ASP.NET Core
4 465 (17.84%) React
5 380 (14.58%) HTML
6 377 (14.46%) CSS
7 337 (12.93%) AngularJS
8 295 (11.32%) Entity Framework
8 295 (11.32%) RESTful
9 291 (11.16%) Blazor
10 283 (10.86%) .NET Framework
11 258 (9.90%) Vue
12 242 (9.28%) Node.js
13 233 (8.94%) REST
14 220 (8.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 137 (5.26%) ML.NET
16 131 (5.02%) Terraform
17 107 (4.10%) LINQ
18 93 (3.57%) jQuery
19 82 (3.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.72%) Greenfield Project
4 139 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 69 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 50 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
11 38 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 25 (0.96%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
15 22 (0.84%) Data Structures
15 22 (0.84%) Low-Code
16 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.73%) IoT
17 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.33%) Windows
2 37 (1.42%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.27%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 922 (35.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 851 (32.64%) Agile
3 712 (27.31%) CI/CD
4 690 (26.47%) DevOps
5 681 (26.12%) Software Engineering
6 467 (17.91%) AI
7 451 (17.30%) Microservices
8 398 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 280 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 220 (8.44%) SDLC
12 213 (8.17%) Test Automation
13 200 (7.67%) Machine Learning
14 182 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
15 176 (6.75%) Scrum
16 171 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 166 (6.37%) Multithreading
18 165 (6.33%) Code Quality
19 155 (5.95%) TDD
20 152 (5.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,021 (77.52%) C#
2 999 (38.32%) SQL
3 608 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 366 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 230 (8.82%) Python
6 167 (6.41%) Java
7 102 (3.91%) C++
8 69 (2.65%) VB.NET
9 65 (2.49%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.49%) T-SQL
10 58 (2.22%) PHP
11 42 (1.61%) Bicep
12 27 (1.04%) C
13 22 (0.84%) Bash
14 21 (0.81%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) COBOL
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 16 (0.61%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) JCL
18 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 244 (9.36%) Degree
2 124 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 78 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
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%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.18%) QA
2 72 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.69%) WCAG
5 16 (0.61%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.038%) GAMP
10 1 (0.038%) GMP
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (12.47%) Docker
2 25 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.038%) HDFS
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 289 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Control-M
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Kibana
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 929 (35.63%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.69%) Google
3 52 (1.99%) Facebook
4 49 (1.88%) Oracle
5 36 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.84%) Adobe
7 21 (0.81%) YouTube
8 18 (0.69%) VMware
9 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.58%) Databricks
11 10 (0.38%) Apple
11 10 (0.38%) iManage
11 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.38%) Sony
11 10 (0.38%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.35%) Broadcom
12 9 (0.35%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.35%) SAP
12 9 (0.35%) Splunk