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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 49 24
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,808 1,909 6,097
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.41% 5.20% 7.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.78% 24.51% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,620 1,633 5,390
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £45,000
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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 7,604 7,790 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.15% 21.22% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,770 5,934 13,999
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.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 April 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 April 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 -24 480 £82,500 +6.45% 187
South East -24 439 £60,000 - 162
North of England -33 423 £65,000 +16.07% 149
North West -34 224 £65,000 +18.18% 83
Midlands -40 215 £55,000 - 65
South West +3 139 £55,000 -8.33% 63
Yorkshire -32 124 £60,000 +7.14% 43
West Midlands -42 111 £50,000 -13.04% 31
East Midlands -22 104 £64,500 +22.86% 34
East of England -42 90 £65,000 +30.00% 52
North East -11 75 £70,000 +21.74% 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 41 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.49%) IIS
3 21 (1.16%) CMS
4 13 (0.72%) Umbraco
5 12 (0.66%) JBoss
5 12 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.44%) Confluence
8 7 (0.39%) ColdFusion
9 5 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.17%) Apache
11 3 (0.17%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.055%) CICS
13 1 (0.055%) Drupal
13 1 (0.055%) SAS
13 1 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.055%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Magento
3 1 (0.055%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.055%) Endur
3 1 (0.055%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 785 (43.42%) Azure
2 285 (15.76%) AWS
3 242 (13.38%) SaaS
4 222 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 110 (6.08%) Serverless
7 106 (5.86%) GitHub
8 94 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 68 (3.76%) PowerApps
10 66 (3.65%) Power Automate
11 61 (3.37%) Azure Functions
12 58 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
13 56 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
14 55 (3.04%) GCP
15 47 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 43 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 42 (2.32%) Azure AKS
18 37 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
19 33 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (1.44%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.94%) Internet
2 10 (0.55%) Firewall
3 8 (0.44%) WinSCP
4 5 (0.28%) DNS
5 4 (0.22%) DHCP
5 4 (0.22%) Intranet
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 3 (0.17%) VoIP
6 3 (0.17%) VPN
7 2 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.055%) AMQP
8 1 (0.055%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.055%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.055%) HTTP
8 1 (0.055%) Modbus
8 1 (0.055%) MPLS
8 1 (0.055%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (23.17%) SQL Server
2 78 (4.31%) Power BI
3 77 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 77 (4.26%) NoSQL
4 48 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (2.21%) MongoDB
5 40 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.21%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 37 (2.05%) MySQL
7 18 (1.00%) Redis
8 17 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 13 (0.72%) DB2
9 13 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.33%) GIS
11 5 (0.28%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 121 (6.69%) Git
2 49 (2.71%) Selenium
3 48 (2.65%) JIRA
4 42 (2.32%) Visual Studio
5 35 (1.94%) Postman
6 28 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 24 (1.33%) SoapUI
7 24 (1.33%) WebDriver
8 18 (1.00%) Jenkins
8 18 (1.00%) SpecFlow
9 17 (0.94%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.66%) NUnit
12 10 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.33%) JMeter
14 6 (0.33%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.28%) MSTest
16 4 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 330 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 296 (16.37%) Finance
3 84 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (3.21%) Law
4 58 (3.21%) Public Sector
5 54 (2.99%) Banking
6 33 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (1.60%) Retail
8 26 (1.44%) Legal
9 23 (1.27%) Games
10 19 (1.05%) Marketing
11 16 (0.88%) Front Office
12 15 (0.83%) Aviation
12 15 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.55%) Electronics
14 10 (0.55%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.50%) Automotive
15 9 (0.50%) Back Office
15 9 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,009 (55.81%) Developer
2 435 (24.06%) Senior
3 427 (23.62%) .NET Developer
4 321 (17.75%) Software Engineer
5 295 (16.32%) Software Developer
6 223 (12.33%) Lead
7 219 (12.11%) C# Developer
8 210 (11.62%) Senior Developer
9 177 (9.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 151 (8.35%) .NET Software Engineer
11 145 (8.02%) C# .NET Developer
12 129 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 103 (5.70%) .NET Software Developer
14 90 (4.98%) Lead Developer
15 88 (4.87%) Senior .NET Developer
16 86 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 83 (4.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 79 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
19 72 (3.98%) Architect
20 66 (3.65%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (22.79%) .NET Core
2 279 (15.43%) ASP.NET
3 269 (14.88%) React
4 211 (11.67%) .NET Framework
5 209 (11.56%) HTML
6 184 (10.18%) CSS
7 144 (7.96%) REST
8 134 (7.41%) AngularJS
9 123 (6.80%) RESTful
10 100 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
11 94 (5.20%) Blazor
12 92 (5.09%) Entity Framework
12 92 (5.09%) Node.js
13 77 (4.26%) Vue
14 58 (3.21%) SOAP
15 42 (2.32%) ASP.NET MVC
16 40 (2.21%) ASP.NET Web API
17 38 (2.10%) Playwright
18 37 (2.05%) Middleware
19 33 (1.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 152 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 73 (4.04%) Mobile App
3 63 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
5 52 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 26 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
8 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 21 (1.16%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 17 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 16 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 15 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (0.77%) Sports Betting
15 12 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.66%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 83 (4.59%) Windows
2 27 (1.49%) Linux
3 23 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.11%) Android
5 18 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.00%) VMS
6 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.17%) Unix
7 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.055%) Solaris
8 1 (0.055%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (30.03%) Software Engineering
2 509 (28.15%) Agile
3 431 (23.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 399 (22.07%) DevOps
5 382 (21.13%) CI/CD
6 268 (14.82%) Microservices
7 244 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (9.24%) Mentoring
10 154 (8.52%) AI
11 149 (8.24%) SDLC
11 149 (8.24%) Test Automation
12 134 (7.41%) Clean Code
13 126 (6.97%) Containerisation
14 122 (6.75%) Scrum
15 116 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
16 113 (6.25%) MVC
17 111 (6.14%) User Experience
18 99 (5.48%) TDD
19 91 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,243 (68.75%) C#
2 550 (30.42%) SQL
3 383 (21.18%) JavaScript
4 205 (11.34%) TypeScript
5 169 (9.35%) Java
6 149 (8.24%) Python
7 65 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.65%) C++
9 36 (1.99%) PHP
10 35 (1.94%) Bicep
11 33 (1.83%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.71%) VB.NET
13 20 (1.11%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.94%) C
15 14 (0.77%) Bash
15 14 (0.77%) Go
16 13 (0.72%) VB
17 12 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.66%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 181 (10.01%) Degree
2 70 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 58 (3.21%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 18 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.44%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.33%) ISEB
12 6 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.22%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.64%) QA
2 47 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.72%) GDPR
3 13 (0.72%) WCAG
4 12 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.39%) SLA
7 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.055%) NCSC
11 1 (0.055%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 153 (8.46%) Docker
2 13 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.44%) Firmware
4 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.055%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 92 (5.09%) Terraform
3 15 (0.83%) Grafana
4 10 (0.55%) Ansible
5 7 (0.39%) Kibana
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.11%) MIIS
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.055%) Argo
8 1 (0.055%) CASB
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Control-M
8 1 (0.055%) Packer
8 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
Vendors
1 318 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (1.66%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.38%) Xamarin
4 20 (1.11%) Google
5 17 (0.94%) MuleSoft
6 16 (0.88%) Adobe
7 14 (0.77%) Oracle
7 14 (0.77%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.50%) New Relic
10 8 (0.44%) Sage
11 7 (0.39%) Databricks
11 7 (0.39%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.33%) Telerik
12 6 (0.33%) VMware
13 5 (0.28%) Apple
13 5 (0.28%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.28%) IBM
13 5 (0.28%) iManage
13 5 (0.28%) Intapp