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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 35 22
Rank change year-on-year -43 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,470 2,805 4,537
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.71% 5.88% 8.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.16% 27.17% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,319 1,850 4,131
10th Percentile £40,100 £41,475 £39,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £79,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 6,348 10,322 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.72% 21.64% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,850 6,056 11,263
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,856
% change year-on-year - +1.79% -5.40%

.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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -41 394 £80,000 +6.67% 204
North of England -31 352 £63,000 +13.26% 236
South East -34 350 £60,000 - 323
Midlands -46 194 £55,000 -4.35% 117
North West -24 192 £65,000 +18.18% 142
West Midlands -35 117 £50,000 -13.04% 43
Yorkshire -43 101 £55,000 +3.77% 61
South West -50 93 £55,000 -8.33% 111
East Midlands -42 77 £65,000 +23.81% 73
East of England -70 60 £60,000 +20.00% 115
North East -10 59 £70,000 +3.70% 33
.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 46 (3.13%) IIS
2 24 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.22%) CMS
4 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.88%) Confluence
6 12 (0.82%) JBoss
6 12 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.068%) Apache
12 1 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.068%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.068%) Kentico
12 1 (0.068%) SAS
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.14%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.068%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.068%) Endur
3 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.068%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 783 (53.27%) Azure
2 313 (21.29%) AWS
3 245 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (14.22%) SaaS
5 124 (8.44%) Power Platform
6 113 (7.69%) GitHub
7 109 (7.41%) Serverless
8 81 (5.51%) GCP
9 66 (4.49%) Power Automate
10 59 (4.01%) Azure Functions
10 59 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 54 (3.67%) PowerApps
13 43 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 43 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 29 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (1.77%) Azure AKS
17 24 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) DNS
2 12 (0.82%) DHCP
2 12 (0.82%) Internet
3 10 (0.68%) Firewall
4 9 (0.61%) VPN
5 8 (0.54%) VoIP
5 8 (0.54%) WinSCP
6 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.27%) HTTP
8 3 (0.20%) Intranet
8 3 (0.20%) SAN
9 2 (0.14%) NAS
9 2 (0.14%) VLAN
10 1 (0.068%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.068%) IPv6
10 1 (0.068%) LAN
10 1 (0.068%) LTE
10 1 (0.068%) MPLS
10 1 (0.068%) SSL
10 1 (0.068%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (26.60%) SQL Server
2 84 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (3.74%) MySQL
6 49 (3.33%) Power BI
7 47 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.56%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.50%) Redis
13 18 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.61%) Tableau
16 6 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
18 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
18 3 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 139 (9.46%) Git
2 68 (4.63%) JIRA
3 48 (3.27%) Selenium
4 42 (2.86%) Postman
4 42 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 40 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 33 (2.24%) SoapUI
7 30 (2.04%) WebDriver
8 23 (1.56%) Jenkins
9 22 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (0.88%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.54%) GitLab
12 8 (0.54%) Storybook
13 6 (0.41%) git-flow
13 6 (0.41%) MSTest
13 6 (0.41%) NUnit
14 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 345 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 266 (18.10%) Finance
3 66 (4.49%) Law
4 56 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.13%) Banking
6 43 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 31 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (1.90%) Legal
9 27 (1.84%) Retail
10 20 (1.36%) Marketing
11 19 (1.29%) Games
12 16 (1.09%) Billing
12 16 (1.09%) Front Office
12 16 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.95%) Aviation
14 11 (0.75%) Back Office
14 11 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Automotive
15 9 (0.61%) Electronics
15 9 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 807 (54.90%) Developer
2 334 (22.72%) Senior
3 329 (22.38%) .NET Developer
4 231 (15.71%) Software Developer
5 226 (15.37%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.31%) Lead
7 163 (11.09%) Senior Developer
8 161 (10.95%) C# Developer
9 144 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 96 (6.53%) .NET Software Engineer
11 89 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
12 81 (5.51%) .NET Software Developer
13 75 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
14 70 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
15 68 (4.63%) Lead Developer
16 63 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 60 (4.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 58 (3.95%) Analyst
19 46 (3.13%) C# Software Engineer
19 46 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (24.15%) .NET Core
2 307 (20.88%) React
3 254 (17.28%) ASP.NET
4 220 (14.97%) .NET Framework
5 193 (13.13%) HTML
6 165 (11.22%) AngularJS
7 162 (11.02%) CSS
8 122 (8.30%) REST
8 122 (8.30%) RESTful
9 100 (6.80%) Entity Framework
10 96 (6.53%) Blazor
11 74 (5.03%) Vue
12 70 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
13 69 (4.69%) ASP.NET Core
14 65 (4.42%) Node.js
15 60 (4.08%) SOAP
16 57 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
17 42 (2.86%) HTML5
18 40 (2.72%) WPF
19 32 (2.18%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 147 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 20 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (1.09%) Hedge funds
14 13 (0.88%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.82%) DataPower
16 11 (0.75%) Algorithms
17 10 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 79 (5.37%) Windows
2 27 (1.84%) Linux
3 26 (1.77%) Android
3 26 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.54%) VMS
7 7 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Unix
9 1 (0.068%) Fedora
9 1 (0.068%) Solaris
9 1 (0.068%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (39.73%) Agile
2 439 (29.86%) Software Engineering
3 417 (28.37%) DevOps
4 411 (27.96%) CI/CD
5 361 (24.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 279 (18.98%) Microservices
7 275 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.84%) Mentoring
10 155 (10.54%) AI
11 146 (9.93%) Scrum
12 130 (8.84%) Clean Code
12 130 (8.84%) MVC
13 128 (8.71%) SDLC
14 122 (8.30%) User Experience
15 115 (7.82%) TDD
16 112 (7.62%) Containerisation
17 111 (7.55%) Computer Science
18 102 (6.94%) Roadmaps
19 101 (6.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,044 (71.02%) C#
2 491 (33.40%) SQL
3 378 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 220 (14.97%) TypeScript
5 154 (10.48%) Java
6 113 (7.69%) Python
7 60 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.45%) T-SQL
9 34 (2.31%) C++
10 33 (2.24%) PHP
11 27 (1.84%) VB.NET
12 26 (1.77%) Bicep
13 15 (1.02%) Bash
14 13 (0.88%) Rust
15 10 (0.68%) C
16 9 (0.61%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.54%) XAML
18 7 (0.48%) Go
18 7 (0.48%) VB
19 5 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 210 (14.29%) Degree
2 73 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 39 (2.65%) ISTQB
5 36 (2.45%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.61%) ISEB
12 8 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) MCSE
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) HND
15 3 (0.20%) MCSA
15 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.33%) QA
2 44 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.09%) WCAG
4 14 (0.95%) GDPR
5 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.27%) GRC
7 3 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.14%) HL7
8 2 (0.14%) SLA
9 1 (0.068%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (10.07%) Docker
2 27 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.068%) HDFS
6 1 (0.068%) Squid
6 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 101 (6.87%) Terraform
3 15 (1.02%) Grafana
4 11 (0.75%) Ansible
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.48%) Kibana
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.068%) CASB
9 1 (0.068%) Control-M
9 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 293 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.84%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.70%) Xamarin
4 24 (1.63%) Oracle
5 17 (1.16%) Google
6 15 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 12 (0.82%) Sage
8 11 (0.75%) Telerik
9 10 (0.68%) Databricks
9 10 (0.68%) Guidewire
9 10 (0.68%) New Relic
10 9 (0.61%) Apple
11 7 (0.48%) Adobe
11 7 (0.48%) Datto
11 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.48%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.48%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.48%) Syncfusion
12 6 (0.41%) VMware
13 5 (0.34%) IBM