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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,667 1,817 4,661
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 4.17% 6.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.69% 23.64% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 1,359 3,691
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,688 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 9,630 7,687 13,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.32% 17.64% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,229 5,144 10,283
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

.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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +29 689 £57,500 - 184
North of England +2 626 £57,500 -4.17% 158
London -28 561 £80,000 - 363
Midlands +22 332 £55,000 - 89
North West -3 287 £60,000 - 87
East of England +21 219 £63,750 +21.43% 60
South West +22 216 £52,500 - 42
West Midlands -14 179 £60,000 +4.35% 41
Yorkshire +18 170 £55,000 -15.38% 39
North East +4 169 £55,750 +28.16% 34
East Midlands +37 153 £55,000 - 48
.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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.39%) IIS
3 32 (1.20%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.56%) 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%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.037%) Eikon
7 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.037%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (52.57%) Azure
2 446 (16.72%) AWS
3 442 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (9.07%) GitHub
5 206 (7.72%) SaaS
6 187 (7.01%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.37%) Azure AI
8 162 (6.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 138 (5.17%) Serverless
10 117 (4.39%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 111 (4.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 100 (3.75%) PowerApps
14 98 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 90 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.85%) GCP
18 71 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (1.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.45%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) HTTP
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.22%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) LTE
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 1 (0.037%) Broadband
9 1 (0.037%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.037%) Profibus
9 1 (0.037%) SSL
9 1 (0.037%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 553 (20.73%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (15.97%) MongoDB
4 161 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 115 (4.31%) Power BI
6 78 (2.92%) MySQL
7 71 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 71 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 53 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 35 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (1.09%) Redis
12 21 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (0.45%) Db2
13 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.45%) GIS
14 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 195 (7.31%) Git
2 47 (1.76%) JIRA
3 33 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.12%) Selenium
5 28 (1.05%) Visual Studio
6 26 (0.97%) Claude Code
6 26 (0.97%) NUnit
7 25 (0.94%) Postman
8 24 (0.90%) GitLab
9 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.45%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.37%) SpecFlow
10 10 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
11 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.26%) JMeter
12 7 (0.26%) Moq
12 7 (0.26%) MSI
General
1 423 (15.86%) Social Skills
2 395 (14.81%) Finance
3 128 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (3.34%) Retail
5 80 (3.00%) Public Sector
6 71 (2.66%) Law
7 67 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (2.32%) Advertising
8 62 (2.32%) Legal
9 61 (2.29%) Games
10 57 (2.14%) Marketing
11 55 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 29 (1.09%) Banking
14 25 (0.94%) Automotive
15 20 (0.75%) Electronics
16 15 (0.56%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.52%) Front Office
18 13 (0.49%) Back Office
18 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,620 (60.74%) Developer
2 959 (35.96%) .NET Developer
3 497 (18.64%) Senior
4 417 (15.64%) Software Engineer
5 334 (12.52%) Software Developer
6 309 (11.59%) Lead
7 258 (9.67%) Senior Developer
8 212 (7.95%) C# Developer
9 190 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 164 (6.15%) .NET Software Engineer
11 163 (6.11%) C# .NET Developer
12 157 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
13 148 (5.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 143 (5.36%) Lead Developer
15 127 (4.76%) .NET Software Developer
16 116 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
17 113 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 93 (3.49%) Web Developer
19 92 (3.45%) Architect
20 83 (3.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (30.07%) .NET Core
2 766 (28.72%) ASP.NET
3 582 (21.82%) ASP.NET Core
4 451 (16.91%) React
5 386 (14.47%) HTML
6 382 (14.32%) CSS
7 335 (12.56%) AngularJS
8 297 (11.14%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.02%) Blazor
10 291 (10.91%) .NET Framework
10 291 (10.91%) RESTful
11 265 (9.94%) Vue
12 256 (9.60%) Node.js
13 221 (8.29%) ASP.NET Web API
13 221 (8.29%) REST
14 145 (5.44%) ML.NET
15 109 (4.09%) LINQ
16 83 (3.11%) JSON
17 73 (2.74%) jQuery
18 62 (2.32%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 180 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 155 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
3 132 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
4 122 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 97 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 38 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
9 34 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 32 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 30 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.05%) Hedge funds
14 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
14 20 (0.75%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.64%) iPhone
16 16 (0.60%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 14 (0.52%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 108 (4.05%) Windows
2 36 (1.35%) Linux
3 33 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.12%) Android
5 8 (0.30%) VMS
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.075%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.037%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (35.51%) Full-Stack Development
2 875 (32.81%) Agile
3 699 (26.21%) Software Engineering
4 689 (25.83%) DevOps
5 676 (25.35%) CI/CD
6 473 (17.74%) Microservices
7 425 (15.94%) AI
8 352 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
9 277 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 225 (8.44%) SDLC
12 207 (7.76%) Machine Learning
13 204 (7.65%) Test Automation
14 189 (7.09%) Scrum
15 174 (6.52%) Multithreading
16 171 (6.41%) TDD
17 168 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
18 163 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 154 (5.77%) Clean Code
20 152 (5.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,021 (75.78%) C#
2 1,015 (38.06%) SQL
3 600 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 385 (14.44%) TypeScript
5 229 (8.59%) Python
6 169 (6.34%) Java
7 89 (3.34%) C++
8 82 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.44%) PHP
10 62 (2.32%) T-SQL
11 61 (2.29%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.69%) Bicep
13 29 (1.09%) C
14 24 (0.90%) Bash
15 23 (0.86%) Go
16 19 (0.71%) VB
17 13 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.45%) VBA
19 11 (0.41%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 243 (9.11%) Degree
2 114 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 105 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 83 (3.11%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (5.96%) QA
2 69 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.82%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.79%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.30%) NCSC
8 5 (0.19%) SLA
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.11%) NIST
11 2 (0.075%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.037%) ITGC
System Software
1 338 (12.67%) Docker
2 16 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.37%) Firmware
4 8 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 311 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 132 (4.95%) Terraform
3 14 (0.52%) Grafana
3 14 (0.52%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.075%) MIIS
6 1 (0.037%) Argo
6 1 (0.037%) Consul
6 1 (0.037%) Control-M
6 1 (0.037%) MOM
6 1 (0.037%) Packer
6 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 939 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 73 (2.74%) Google
3 55 (2.06%) Facebook
4 42 (1.57%) Oracle
5 34 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) Adobe
7 26 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.79%) YouTube
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
9 15 (0.56%) iManage
10 13 (0.49%) Intapp
10 13 (0.49%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.49%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.41%) Apple
11 11 (0.41%) Sony
11 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.37%) Aderant
13 9 (0.34%) SAP
13 9 (0.34%) VMware
14 8 (0.30%) Sage