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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 51 23
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,021 1,957 6,302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.50% 5.02% 7.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.27% 25.45% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 1,478 5,454
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,250
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 7,998 7,691 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 19.74% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 5,682 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +2 532 £60,000 - 159
London -19 521 £82,500 +6.45% 225
North of England -30 447 £60,000 +4.35% 144
North West -24 237 £62,500 +8.70% 78
Midlands -38 234 £55,000 +2.44% 71
South West +3 153 £55,000 -2.22% 38
Yorkshire -33 123 £60,000 +3.45% 38
East of England -12 118 £67,500 +28.57% 53
West Midlands -50 118 £55,000 - 36
East Midlands +3 116 £64,500 +22.86% 35
North East -17 87 £65,000 +18.18% 29
.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 52 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.24%) IIS
3 21 (1.04%) CMS
4 15 (0.74%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.59%) Confluence
7 11 (0.54%) JBoss
8 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Apache
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.15%) WordPress
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.099%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.049%) CICS
13 1 (0.049%) Drupal
13 1 (0.049%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.049%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.049%) Endur
3 1 (0.049%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.049%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.049%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 874 (43.25%) Azure
2 296 (14.65%) AWS
3 252 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
3 252 (12.47%) SaaS
4 137 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 115 (5.69%) Serverless
6 109 (5.39%) GitHub
7 106 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 75 (3.71%) Power Automate
9 74 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 66 (3.27%) Azure Functions
11 63 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
12 60 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 57 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
15 48 (2.38%) GCP
16 47 (2.33%) Azure AKS
17 46 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
18 40 (1.98%) GitHub Copilot
19 35 (1.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.29%) Internet
2 8 (0.40%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.30%) Firewall
3 6 (0.30%) Intranet
4 4 (0.20%) LTE
5 3 (0.15%) DNS
5 3 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.099%) DHCP
6 2 (0.099%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.049%) AMQP
7 1 (0.049%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.049%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.049%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.049%) Modbus
7 1 (0.049%) MPLS
7 1 (0.049%) RS-232
7 1 (0.049%) VoIP
7 1 (0.049%) VPN
7 1 (0.049%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 152 (7.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 105 (5.20%) MongoDB
4 91 (4.50%) Power BI
5 74 (3.66%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 38 (1.88%) MySQL
7 38 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 36 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 32 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (0.74%) Redis
11 12 (0.59%) DB2
12 11 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.45%) GIS
14 8 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.35%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.25%) Metadata
17 4 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 130 (6.43%) Git
2 53 (2.62%) JIRA
3 41 (2.03%) Selenium
4 38 (1.88%) Visual Studio
5 37 (1.83%) Postman
6 27 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.24%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.19%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.84%) Jenkins
10 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
10 15 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.59%) NUnit
11 12 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.35%) GitLab
13 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.30%) MSTest
14 6 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 328 (16.23%) Finance
2 324 (16.03%) Social Skills
3 92 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (2.62%) Banking
5 51 (2.52%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.42%) Law
7 42 (2.08%) Retail
8 33 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.53%) Legal
10 29 (1.43%) Games
11 26 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.09%) Automotive
13 19 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 19 (0.94%) Marketing
14 17 (0.84%) Advertising
15 15 (0.74%) Electronics
16 14 (0.69%) Aviation
17 13 (0.64%) Front Office
18 12 (0.59%) Back Office
19 8 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,160 (57.40%) Developer
2 552 (27.31%) .NET Developer
3 463 (22.91%) Senior
4 350 (17.32%) Software Engineer
5 331 (16.38%) Software Developer
6 237 (11.73%) Senior Developer
7 236 (11.68%) Lead
8 218 (10.79%) C# Developer
9 183 (9.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 167 (8.26%) .NET Software Engineer
11 159 (7.87%) C# .NET Developer
12 137 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 121 (5.99%) .NET Software Developer
14 112 (5.54%) C# Software Engineer
15 104 (5.15%) Senior .NET Developer
16 96 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 95 (4.70%) Lead Developer
18 82 (4.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 81 (4.01%) Architect
20 69 (3.41%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (23.80%) .NET Core
2 350 (17.32%) ASP.NET
3 280 (13.85%) React
4 234 (11.58%) HTML
5 214 (10.59%) CSS
6 213 (10.54%) .NET Framework
7 170 (8.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 152 (7.52%) AngularJS
9 148 (7.32%) REST
10 147 (7.27%) RESTful
11 130 (6.43%) Entity Framework
12 121 (5.99%) Blazor
13 115 (5.69%) Node.js
14 107 (5.29%) Vue
15 70 (3.46%) ASP.NET Web API
16 55 (2.72%) SOAP
17 45 (2.23%) jQuery
17 45 (2.23%) JSON
18 40 (1.98%) Playwright
19 39 (1.93%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 147 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.56%) Mobile App
3 71 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 68 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
5 65 (3.22%) Product Ownership
6 48 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.58%) Hedge funds
9 22 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 22 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 21 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 18 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 17 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.79%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.74%) Sports Betting
15 14 (0.69%) PropTech
16 12 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (0.54%) Fixed Income
18 10 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.81%) Windows
2 26 (1.29%) Linux
3 22 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.84%) Android
4 17 (0.84%) VMS
5 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.15%) Unix
7 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.049%) Solaris
8 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (28.70%) Software Engineering
2 548 (27.12%) Agile
3 524 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 440 (21.77%) CI/CD
5 425 (21.03%) DevOps
6 284 (14.05%) Microservices
7 240 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
8 222 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (10.69%) AI
10 183 (9.05%) Mentoring
11 167 (8.26%) Test Automation
12 165 (8.16%) SDLC
13 132 (6.53%) Containerisation
14 130 (6.43%) Clean Code
15 126 (6.23%) Technical Leadership
16 125 (6.19%) Scrum
17 111 (5.49%) TDD
18 110 (5.44%) User Experience
19 108 (5.34%) MVC
20 104 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,394 (68.98%) C#
2 642 (31.77%) SQL
3 395 (19.54%) JavaScript
4 239 (11.83%) TypeScript
5 182 (9.01%) Python
6 160 (7.92%) Java
7 77 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.97%) C++
9 47 (2.33%) PHP
10 35 (1.73%) Bicep
11 34 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.68%) VB.NET
12 18 (0.89%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.89%) Bash
12 18 (0.89%) C
12 18 (0.89%) VB
13 13 (0.64%) Go
13 13 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.64%) VBA
14 12 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 196 (9.70%) Degree
2 80 (3.96%) Security Cleared
3 66 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 20 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 19 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.20%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.20%) PhD
15 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.15%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.70%) QA
2 49 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.89%) GDPR
4 16 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.64%) WCAG
6 9 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.35%) SLA
8 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.099%) ITGC
11 1 (0.049%) NCSC
11 1 (0.049%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 170 (8.41%) Docker
2 12 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.45%) Firmware
4 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.049%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 162 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 100 (4.95%) Terraform
3 15 (0.74%) Grafana
4 8 (0.40%) Ansible
5 7 (0.35%) Kibana
6 2 (0.099%) MIIS
6 2 (0.099%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.049%) CASB
7 1 (0.049%) Consul
7 1 (0.049%) Control-M
7 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.049%) Packer
7 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 414 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.39%) Adobe
3 26 (1.29%) Oracle
4 24 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.14%) Google
6 21 (1.04%) Xamarin
7 16 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 15 (0.74%) MuleSoft
8 15 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 13 (0.64%) Facebook
10 11 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.45%) Databricks
12 8 (0.40%) iManage
13 7 (0.35%) IBM
14 6 (0.30%) Intapp
14 6 (0.30%) YouTube
15 5 (0.25%) DevExpress
15 5 (0.25%) Sage
15 5 (0.25%) VMware
16 4 (0.20%) Apple