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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -34 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,324 1,853 6,826
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.79% 4.68% 7.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.79% 23.75% 37.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,110 1,374 5,756
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 8,676 7,802 18,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 19.73% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 5,241 14,679
10th Percentile £40,725 £38,890 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +20 604 £57,500 - 346
London -22 546 £80,000 - 221
North of England -2 527 £60,000 +0.84% 362
Midlands -2 287 £55,000 - 204
North West +2 280 £62,500 +11.11% 174
South West +15 179 £55,000 +4.76% 122
East of England +11 159 £65,000 +23.81% 209
West Midlands -19 147 £55,000 +2.44% 103
East Midlands +17 140 £55,000 - 101
North East -1 124 £59,000 +7.27% 81
Yorkshire -10 123 £60,000 -7.69% 108
.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 59 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.12%) IIS
3 25 (1.08%) CMS
4 18 (0.77%) Confluence
5 16 (0.69%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.30%) Apache
8 7 (0.30%) JBoss
9 6 (0.26%) WordPress
10 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.043%) Kentico
14 1 (0.043%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.086%) Shopify
5 1 (0.043%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.043%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.043%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,109 (47.72%) Azure
2 344 (14.80%) AWS
3 330 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
4 237 (10.20%) SaaS
5 163 (7.01%) GitHub
6 145 (6.24%) Power Platform
7 126 (5.42%) Serverless
8 111 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 97 (4.17%) Azure AI
10 95 (4.09%) GitHub Copilot
11 92 (3.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 86 (3.70%) Power Automate
13 82 (3.53%) PowerApps
14 79 (3.40%) Azure Functions
15 78 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
16 74 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
17 53 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (2.24%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
19 49 (2.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.75%) Internet
2 10 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.39%) Firewall
4 6 (0.26%) DHCP
4 6 (0.26%) DNS
4 6 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.22%) LAN
5 5 (0.22%) LTE
5 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 4 (0.17%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 2 (0.086%) Modbus
9 1 (0.043%) AMQP
9 1 (0.043%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.043%) MPLS
9 1 (0.043%) Profibus
9 1 (0.043%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.043%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (19.54%) SQL Server
2 316 (13.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 259 (11.14%) MongoDB
4 93 (4.00%) Power BI
5 90 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
6 64 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 54 (2.32%) MySQL
8 40 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (0.69%) Redis
12 12 (0.52%) Db2
13 11 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.47%) GIS
14 7 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.26%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.26%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (0.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 138 (5.94%) Git
2 50 (2.15%) JIRA
3 33 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 29 (1.25%) Postman
4 29 (1.25%) Selenium
5 16 (0.69%) GitLab
5 16 (0.69%) SpecFlow
6 15 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 15 (0.65%) SoapUI
6 15 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (0.65%) WebDriver
7 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
7 12 (0.52%) NUnit
7 12 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.26%) JMeter
General
1 377 (16.22%) Finance
2 329 (14.16%) Social Skills
3 94 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (2.75%) Retail
5 63 (2.71%) Public Sector
6 47 (2.02%) Banking
7 42 (1.81%) Law
8 41 (1.76%) Manufacturing
9 39 (1.68%) Games
9 39 (1.68%) Legal
10 36 (1.55%) Advertising
11 34 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.46%) Marketing
12 27 (1.16%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.03%) Automotive
14 20 (0.86%) Electronics
15 12 (0.52%) Back Office
16 11 (0.47%) Legal Technology
17 10 (0.43%) Aviation
17 10 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,377 (59.25%) Developer
2 753 (32.40%) .NET Developer
3 486 (20.91%) Senior
4 398 (17.13%) Software Engineer
5 348 (14.97%) Software Developer
6 249 (10.71%) Lead
7 243 (10.46%) Senior Developer
8 205 (8.82%) C# Developer
9 191 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 183 (7.87%) .NET Software Engineer
11 164 (7.06%) C# .NET Developer
12 150 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 147 (6.33%) C# Software Engineer
14 133 (5.72%) .NET Software Developer
15 124 (5.34%) Lead Developer
16 111 (4.78%) Senior .NET Developer
17 109 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 86 (3.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 82 (3.53%) Architect
20 74 (3.18%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (26.89%) .NET Core
2 530 (22.81%) ASP.NET
3 364 (15.66%) ASP.NET Core
4 358 (15.40%) React
5 297 (12.78%) HTML
6 292 (12.56%) CSS
7 244 (10.50%) AngularJS
8 231 (9.94%) .NET Framework
9 205 (8.82%) RESTful
10 202 (8.69%) Blazor
11 196 (8.43%) Entity Framework
12 187 (8.05%) Vue
13 173 (7.44%) Node.js
14 171 (7.36%) REST
15 138 (5.94%) ASP.NET Web API
16 87 (3.74%) ML.NET
17 69 (2.97%) LINQ
18 58 (2.50%) JSON
19 56 (2.41%) jQuery
20 48 (2.07%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 111 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
3 85 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 78 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 73 (3.14%) Mobile App
6 60 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.33%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
10 25 (1.08%) Legacy Code
11 20 (0.86%) Low-Code
12 17 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.73%) Onboarding
13 16 (0.69%) AI Agents
13 16 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.69%) Sports Betting
14 15 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.60%) PropTech
15 14 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.36%) Windows
2 27 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.12%) Android
3 26 (1.12%) Linux
4 12 (0.52%) VMS
5 9 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.086%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.086%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.043%) Solaris
8 1 (0.043%) Unix
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (32.36%) Full-Stack Development
2 682 (29.35%) Agile
3 633 (27.24%) Software Engineering
4 536 (23.06%) CI/CD
5 521 (22.42%) DevOps
6 362 (15.58%) Microservices
7 329 (14.16%) AI
8 272 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (9.17%) Mentoring
11 188 (8.09%) SDLC
12 180 (7.75%) Test Automation
13 149 (6.41%) Machine Learning
14 141 (6.07%) Scrum
15 139 (5.98%) TDD
16 138 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
17 137 (5.90%) Containerisation
18 132 (5.68%) Clean Code
19 120 (5.16%) Fintech
20 117 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,679 (72.25%) C#
2 812 (34.94%) SQL
3 480 (20.65%) JavaScript
4 304 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 199 (8.56%) Python
6 147 (6.33%) Java
7 80 (3.44%) PowerShell
8 78 (3.36%) C++
9 56 (2.41%) PHP
10 45 (1.94%) VB.NET
11 43 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.72%) Bicep
13 23 (0.99%) C
14 20 (0.86%) Bash
14 20 (0.86%) VB
15 15 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 15 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.39%) Go
17 9 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (8.95%) Degree
2 86 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.84%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 22 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.43%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.26%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.22%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.13%) PhD
15 2 (0.086%) CSQA
15 2 (0.086%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (5.16%) QA
2 59 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.73%) GDPR
4 16 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.65%) WCAG
6 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.34%) SLA
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.17%) NCSC
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.086%) ITGC
10 2 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 236 (10.15%) Docker
2 17 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.52%) Firmware
4 8 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 227 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 109 (4.69%) Terraform
3 13 (0.56%) Grafana
4 6 (0.26%) Ansible
4 6 (0.26%) Kibana
5 5 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.086%) MIIS
7 1 (0.043%) CASB
7 1 (0.043%) Consul
7 1 (0.043%) MOM
7 1 (0.043%) Packer
7 1 (0.043%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.043%) Puppet
Vendors
1 628 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 40 (1.72%) Google
3 34 (1.46%) Oracle
4 32 (1.38%) Facebook
5 30 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.12%) Adobe
6 26 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 21 (0.90%) Xamarin
8 18 (0.77%) ServiceNow
9 12 (0.52%) Databricks
9 12 (0.52%) YouTube
10 11 (0.47%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.39%) iManage
11 9 (0.39%) VMware
12 8 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.30%) Apple
13 7 (0.30%) IBM
13 7 (0.30%) Intapp
13 7 (0.30%) Sony
13 7 (0.30%) Yahoo!