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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,672 1,769 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.76% 4.04% 6.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.81% 22.05% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,361 1,320 3,561
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £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 £96,250 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 10,769 8,023 15,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 18.34% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,022 5,363 10,815
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

.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 28 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 28 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 +41 706 £60,000 +4.35% 231
North of England +6 625 £57,500 -4.17% 203
London -26 539 £80,000 - 677
Midlands +28 347 £58,250 +5.91% 121
North West -13 275 £60,000 - 116
East of England +30 218 £65,000 +30.00% 90
South West +5 211 £55,000 +4.76% 76
North East +7 185 £57,500 +35.29% 43
West Midlands -4 185 £60,000 +9.09% 54
Yorkshire +10 165 £55,000 -8.33% 45
East Midlands +38 162 £55,000 - 66
.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 67 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.61%) IIS
3 31 (1.16%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 14 (0.52%) 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%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
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%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.037%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,406 (52.62%) Azure
2 467 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
3 463 (17.33%) AWS
4 251 (9.39%) GitHub
5 205 (7.67%) SaaS
6 192 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 171 (6.40%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.21%) GitHub Copilot
9 140 (5.24%) Serverless
10 123 (4.60%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 107 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 105 (3.93%) PowerApps
14 101 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 98 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
16 78 (2.92%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.84%) GCP
18 68 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
19 55 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
19 55 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.56%) Internet
2 11 (0.41%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
3 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
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
7 4 (0.15%) VLAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 3 (0.11%) Wireless
9 2 (0.075%) LTE
10 1 (0.037%) Profibus
10 1 (0.037%) SSL
10 1 (0.037%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (21.03%) SQL Server
2 496 (18.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (15.94%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
5 117 (4.38%) Power BI
6 81 (3.03%) MySQL
6 81 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 75 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 64 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 30 (1.12%) Redis
11 28 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.45%) GIS
14 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.37%) SQLite
16 9 (0.34%) Db2
Development Applications
1 212 (7.93%) Git
2 48 (1.80%) JIRA
3 39 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.16%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.09%) NUnit
7 25 (0.94%) GitLab
8 23 (0.86%) Selenium
9 22 (0.82%) Postman
10 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.26%) Moq
16 7 (0.26%) MSI
16 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 431 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 397 (14.86%) Finance
3 145 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (3.48%) Retail
5 92 (3.44%) Public Sector
6 74 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (2.77%) Law
7 64 (2.40%) Games
8 62 (2.32%) Advertising
8 62 (2.32%) Legal
9 56 (2.10%) Marketing
10 55 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 25 (0.94%) Banking
13 24 (0.90%) Automotive
14 19 (0.71%) Electronics
15 17 (0.64%) Front Office
16 14 (0.52%) Back Office
17 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.45%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,605 (60.07%) Developer
2 948 (35.48%) .NET Developer
3 491 (18.38%) Senior
4 405 (15.16%) Software Engineer
5 321 (12.01%) Software Developer
6 312 (11.68%) Lead
7 258 (9.66%) Senior Developer
8 208 (7.78%) C# Developer
9 186 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 157 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
11 155 (5.80%) C# Software Engineer
12 147 (5.50%) .NET Software Engineer
13 146 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 145 (5.43%) Lead Developer
15 119 (4.45%) .NET Software Developer
16 117 (4.38%) Senior .NET Developer
17 112 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 97 (3.63%) Architect
19 91 (3.41%) Web Developer
20 77 (2.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 792 (29.64%) .NET Core
2 774 (28.97%) ASP.NET
3 588 (22.01%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (16.92%) React
5 386 (14.45%) HTML
6 383 (14.33%) CSS
7 330 (12.35%) AngularJS
8 300 (11.23%) Entity Framework
9 298 (11.15%) Blazor
10 296 (11.08%) RESTful
11 292 (10.93%) .NET Framework
12 265 (9.92%) Node.js
12 265 (9.92%) Vue
13 224 (8.38%) ASP.NET Web API
14 222 (8.31%) REST
15 145 (5.43%) ML.NET
16 135 (5.05%) Terraform
17 109 (4.08%) LINQ
18 79 (2.96%) JSON
19 78 (2.92%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
3 141 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.36%) Mobile App
8 42 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
9 41 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.12%) Legacy Code
14 25 (0.94%) Hedge funds
15 22 (0.82%) Low-Code
16 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.71%) Algorithms
18 18 (0.67%) Client/Server
19 17 (0.64%) Data Structures
19 17 (0.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 108 (4.04%) Windows
2 38 (1.42%) Linux
3 34 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.037%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (35.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 872 (32.63%) Agile
3 703 (26.31%) DevOps
4 700 (26.20%) Software Engineering
5 696 (26.05%) CI/CD
6 475 (17.78%) Microservices
7 436 (16.32%) AI
8 380 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 274 (10.25%) Mentoring
11 223 (8.35%) SDLC
12 213 (7.97%) Machine Learning
13 205 (7.67%) Test Automation
14 186 (6.96%) Scrum
15 182 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.51%) Multithreading
17 173 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 168 (6.29%) TDD
19 155 (5.80%) Code Quality
20 154 (5.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,030 (75.97%) C#
2 1,020 (38.17%) SQL
3 603 (22.57%) JavaScript
4 375 (14.03%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.79%) Python
6 170 (6.36%) Java
7 94 (3.52%) C++
8 78 (2.92%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.54%) PHP
10 65 (2.43%) VB.NET
11 64 (2.40%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.65%) Bicep
13 28 (1.05%) C
14 25 (0.94%) Bash
15 19 (0.71%) Go
15 19 (0.71%) VB
16 15 (0.56%) COBOL
16 15 (0.56%) VBA
17 11 (0.41%) JCL
18 9 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 240 (8.98%) Degree
2 117 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 104 (3.89%) Security Cleared
4 84 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (5.99%) QA
2 73 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.67%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.11%) SLA
8 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.037%) GRC
9 1 (0.037%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (12.57%) Docker
2 19 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 306 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.56%) Grafana
2 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.075%) MIIS
5 1 (0.037%) Argo
5 1 (0.037%) Consul
5 1 (0.037%) Control-M
5 1 (0.037%) MOM
5 1 (0.037%) Packer
5 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 950 (35.55%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.81%) Google
3 55 (2.06%) Facebook
4 45 (1.68%) Oracle
5 33 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) Adobe
7 21 (0.79%) YouTube
8 19 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
10 12 (0.45%) iManage
10 12 (0.45%) VMware
10 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.41%) Apple
11 11 (0.41%) Sony
11 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.37%) Intapp
12 10 (0.37%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.34%) Sage
13 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 8 (0.30%) Splunk