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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -44 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,543 2,634 5,207
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 5.86% 7.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.34% 26.45% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,767 4,769
10th Percentile £40,388 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 6,611 9,958 15,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.27% 22.17% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,069 6,017 12,805
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 £111,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

.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 12 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 12 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 -26 424 £80,000 +3.23% 191
South East -34 379 £60,000 - 196
North of England -42 348 £65,000 +13.04% 166
Midlands -47 203 £52,500 -8.70% 71
North West -29 186 £65,000 +13.04% 110
West Midlands -42 117 £50,000 -13.04% 34
Yorkshire -46 104 £60,000 +13.21% 34
South West -47 99 £55,000 -8.33% 66
East Midlands -37 86 £64,500 +27.09% 37
East of England -70 65 £60,000 +20.00% 46
North East -11 58 £70,000 +9.80% 24
.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 45 (2.92%) IIS
2 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.04%) CMS
4 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.84%) JBoss
5 13 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.52%) Confluence
7 7 (0.45%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Apache
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.065%) Kentico
11 1 (0.065%) SAS
11 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.065%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 45 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.065%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.065%) Endur
3 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 785 (50.87%) Azure
2 309 (20.03%) AWS
3 246 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (14.58%) SaaS
5 124 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 111 (7.19%) GitHub
7 104 (6.74%) Serverless
8 85 (5.51%) GCP
9 61 (3.95%) Power Automate
10 60 (3.89%) Azure Functions
11 58 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 54 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 47 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 41 (2.66%) Entra ID
16 40 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (1.94%) Azure AKS
18 28 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
19 24 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.84%) Internet
2 12 (0.78%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) DHCP
4 10 (0.65%) Firewall
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 8 (0.52%) WinSCP
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.39%) VoIP
7 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.19%) Intranet
8 3 (0.19%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.065%) AMQP
10 1 (0.065%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.065%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.065%) IPv6
10 1 (0.065%) MPLS
10 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (25.92%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.12%) NoSQL
3 58 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (3.76%) MongoDB
4 53 (3.43%) Power BI
5 46 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.79%) MySQL
7 42 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.23%) Redis
12 15 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.58%) Tableau
15 6 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.26%) DB2
16 4 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.26%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.19%) GIS
Development Applications
1 137 (8.88%) Git
2 55 (3.56%) JIRA
3 43 (2.79%) Selenium
4 42 (2.72%) Visual Studio
5 35 (2.27%) Postman
6 34 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.81%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
9 20 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.45%) GitLab
13 7 (0.45%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.45%) Storybook
14 6 (0.39%) git-flow
14 6 (0.39%) NUnit
14 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.32%) MSTest
General
1 345 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 295 (19.12%) Finance
3 68 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (4.02%) Law
5 53 (3.43%) Banking
6 49 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 34 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.56%) Legal
9 21 (1.36%) Marketing
9 21 (1.36%) Retail
10 19 (1.23%) Games
11 18 (1.17%) Front Office
12 16 (1.04%) Aviation
12 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.78%) Billing
14 11 (0.71%) Electronics
14 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.58%) Military
15 9 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 832 (53.92%) Developer
2 352 (22.81%) Senior
3 341 (22.10%) .NET Developer
4 255 (16.53%) Software Engineer
5 250 (16.20%) Software Developer
6 183 (11.86%) Lead
7 171 (11.08%) C# Developer
8 156 (10.11%) Senior Developer
9 155 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 116 (7.52%) .NET Software Engineer
11 103 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
12 90 (5.83%) .NET Software Developer
13 86 (5.57%) C# .NET Developer
14 77 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 72 (4.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 67 (4.34%) Lead Developer
16 67 (4.34%) Senior .NET Developer
17 55 (3.56%) Analyst
18 54 (3.50%) C# Software Engineer
19 46 (2.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (23.66%) .NET Core
2 303 (19.64%) React
3 241 (15.62%) ASP.NET
4 215 (13.93%) .NET Framework
5 193 (12.51%) HTML
6 164 (10.63%) CSS
7 158 (10.24%) AngularJS
8 129 (8.36%) REST
9 110 (7.13%) RESTful
10 93 (6.03%) Entity Framework
11 91 (5.90%) Blazor
12 67 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 66 (4.28%) Node.js
13 66 (4.28%) Vue
14 60 (3.89%) ASP.NET MVC
15 58 (3.76%) SOAP
16 51 (3.31%) ASP.NET Web API
17 40 (2.59%) HTML5
18 38 (2.46%) WPF
19 35 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.02%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.36%) Hedge funds
10 20 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.84%) DataPower
15 12 (0.78%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.44%) Windows
2 29 (1.88%) Android
3 28 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 28 (1.81%) Linux
4 24 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.78%) VMS
6 10 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.065%) Fedora
9 1 (0.065%) Solaris
9 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (36.94%) Agile
2 483 (31.30%) Software Engineering
3 412 (26.70%) DevOps
4 397 (25.73%) CI/CD
5 379 (24.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 279 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (17.69%) Microservices
8 210 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.28%) Mentoring
10 165 (10.69%) AI
11 135 (8.75%) Scrum
12 134 (8.68%) SDLC
13 128 (8.30%) Clean Code
14 123 (7.97%) User Experience
15 120 (7.78%) MVC
16 118 (7.65%) Containerisation
17 110 (7.13%) Test Automation
18 108 (7.00%) Computer Science
19 103 (6.68%) TDD
20 101 (6.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (68.96%) C#
2 494 (32.02%) SQL
3 389 (25.21%) JavaScript
4 220 (14.26%) TypeScript
5 154 (9.98%) Java
6 135 (8.75%) Python
7 65 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.53%) C++
9 33 (2.14%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.01%) PHP
11 28 (1.81%) VB.NET
12 27 (1.75%) Bicep
13 15 (0.97%) Bash
13 15 (0.97%) C
14 14 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.84%) Rust
16 7 (0.45%) Go
16 7 (0.45%) XAML
17 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (13.35%) Degree
2 66 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (3.11%) Security Cleared
4 40 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 34 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 25 (1.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.58%) ISEB
12 8 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.26%) MCSE
15 3 (0.19%) MCSA
15 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.19%) PhD
15 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.35%) QA
2 45 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.04%) GDPR
4 15 (0.97%) WCAG
5 9 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.26%) GRC
7 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.26%) SLA
8 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.065%) ITGC
9 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (9.85%) Docker
2 26 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.065%) HDFS
6 1 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 124 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.29%) Terraform
3 14 (0.91%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Ansible
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.13%) Argo
7 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.065%) CASB
8 1 (0.065%) Control-M
Vendors
1 288 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.14%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.88%) Xamarin
4 21 (1.36%) Oracle
5 20 (1.30%) Google
6 17 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 12 (0.78%) Sage
8 11 (0.71%) Telerik
9 10 (0.65%) New Relic
10 9 (0.58%) Databricks
11 8 (0.52%) Apple
12 7 (0.45%) Adobe
12 7 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.45%) Syncfusion
13 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.39%) Datto
13 6 (0.39%) Freshdesk
13 6 (0.39%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.39%) VMware
14 5 (0.32%) IBM