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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -37 +5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,403 1,844 6,882
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.85% 4.61% 7.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.10% 23.62% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,368 5,813
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,803 £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 £78,750 £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 8,867 7,807 18,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 19.50% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,769 5,268 14,791
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,871 £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 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -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 23 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 23 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 +25 623 £57,500 - 133
London -22 546 £80,000 - 168
North of England 0 543 £60,000 - 121
Midlands +1 303 £55,000 - 58
North West +2 281 £60,000 +6.67% 64
South West +14 191 £55,000 +4.76% 40
East of England +13 174 £65,000 +23.81% 40
West Midlands -24 155 £55,000 +2.44% 33
East Midlands +24 148 £55,000 - 25
North East +1 134 £58,250 +5.91% 30
Yorkshire -1 128 £57,500 -11.54% 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 59 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.12%) CMS
2 27 (1.12%) IIS
3 18 (0.75%) Confluence
4 16 (0.67%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) JBoss
9 5 (0.21%) nginx
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.083%) DNN
12 2 (0.083%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.083%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.083%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (49.56%) Azure
2 365 (15.19%) AWS
2 365 (15.19%) Azure DevOps
3 232 (9.65%) SaaS
4 185 (7.70%) GitHub
5 154 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 126 (5.24%) Serverless
7 120 (4.99%) Azure AI
8 115 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 111 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 100 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 93 (3.87%) Power Automate
12 89 (3.70%) PowerApps
13 81 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
14 79 (3.29%) Azure Functions
15 76 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
16 56 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
17 55 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
18 54 (2.25%) Azure AKS
19 53 (2.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.08%) Internet
2 9 (0.37%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.21%) DHCP
4 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) LAN
4 5 (0.21%) LTE
4 5 (0.21%) WAN
5 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.12%) RS-232
6 3 (0.12%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.083%) Modbus
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) Network Security
8 1 (0.042%) Profibus
8 1 (0.042%) VLAN
8 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.042%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (19.27%) SQL Server
2 382 (15.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 321 (13.36%) MongoDB
4 116 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (4.12%) Power BI
6 64 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 56 (2.33%) MySQL
8 40 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 20 (0.83%) Redis
13 13 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.50%) Db2
15 11 (0.46%) GIS
16 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.25%) Big Data
18 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
18 5 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 144 (5.99%) Git
2 47 (1.96%) JIRA
3 34 (1.41%) Visual Studio
4 28 (1.17%) Postman
5 27 (1.12%) Selenium
6 16 (0.67%) GitLab
6 16 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 13 (0.54%) NUnit
7 13 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.54%) WebDriver
8 12 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 12 (0.50%) SoapUI
8 12 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 378 (15.73%) Finance
2 331 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 99 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (2.91%) Retail
5 63 (2.62%) Public Sector
6 46 (1.91%) Games
7 45 (1.87%) Manufacturing
8 44 (1.83%) Advertising
8 44 (1.83%) Banking
8 44 (1.83%) Law
9 42 (1.75%) Legal
10 40 (1.66%) Marketing
11 36 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.00%) Automotive
14 20 (0.83%) Electronics
15 12 (0.50%) Back Office
15 12 (0.50%) Legal Technology
16 11 (0.46%) Front Office
17 9 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,443 (60.05%) Developer
2 814 (33.87%) .NET Developer
3 484 (20.14%) Senior
4 407 (16.94%) Software Engineer
5 343 (14.27%) Software Developer
6 254 (10.57%) Lead
7 238 (9.90%) Senior Developer
8 207 (8.61%) C# Developer
9 186 (7.74%) .NET Software Engineer
10 185 (7.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 166 (6.91%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 151 (6.28%) C# Software Engineer
14 132 (5.49%) .NET Software Developer
15 127 (5.29%) Lead Developer
16 108 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
17 105 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 86 (3.58%) Architect
19 80 (3.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 74 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (28.80%) .NET Core
2 601 (25.01%) ASP.NET
3 439 (18.27%) ASP.NET Core
4 378 (15.73%) React
5 322 (13.40%) HTML
6 319 (13.28%) CSS
7 272 (11.32%) AngularJS
8 240 (9.99%) .NET Framework
9 228 (9.49%) Blazor
10 227 (9.45%) Entity Framework
11 226 (9.40%) RESTful
12 216 (8.99%) Vue
13 199 (8.28%) Node.js
14 180 (7.49%) REST
15 165 (6.87%) ASP.NET Web API
16 109 (4.54%) ML.NET
17 83 (3.45%) LINQ
18 61 (2.54%) jQuery
19 60 (2.50%) JSON
20 50 (2.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.08%) Cloud Native
2 123 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
3 86 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 74 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 71 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.87%) Low-Code
11 19 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 19 (0.79%) Onboarding
12 17 (0.71%) Algorithms
12 17 (0.71%) Digital TV
12 17 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (0.67%) Sports Betting
14 15 (0.62%) Social Network
14 15 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.41%) Windows
2 30 (1.25%) Android
3 25 (1.04%) Linux
3 25 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.50%) VMS
5 9 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.083%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (33.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 733 (30.50%) Agile
3 647 (26.92%) Software Engineering
4 566 (23.55%) CI/CD
5 563 (23.43%) DevOps
6 386 (16.06%) Microservices
7 358 (14.90%) AI
8 281 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
9 244 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 212 (8.82%) Mentoring
11 196 (8.16%) SDLC
12 178 (7.41%) Test Automation
13 172 (7.16%) Machine Learning
14 154 (6.41%) Scrum
15 150 (6.24%) TDD
16 139 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
17 134 (5.58%) Clean Code
17 134 (5.58%) Multithreading
18 133 (5.53%) Containerisation
19 126 (5.24%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,766 (73.49%) C#
2 886 (36.87%) SQL
3 506 (21.06%) JavaScript
4 329 (13.69%) TypeScript
5 203 (8.45%) Python
6 146 (6.08%) Java
7 83 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 80 (3.33%) C++
9 56 (2.33%) PHP
10 50 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 41 (1.71%) Bicep
13 24 (1.00%) C
14 21 (0.87%) Bash
15 20 (0.83%) VB
16 15 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.42%) Go
19 9 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 208 (8.66%) Degree
2 89 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 7 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.12%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.12%) PhD
12 2 (0.083%) CSQA
12 2 (0.083%) MBA
12 2 (0.083%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.24%) QA
2 59 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 16 (0.67%) GDPR
4 15 (0.62%) WCAG
5 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.33%) SLA
6 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.083%) ITGC
9 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 261 (10.86%) Docker
2 16 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.50%) Firmware
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 251 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.62%) Terraform
3 14 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.29%) Ansible
5 6 (0.25%) Kibana
5 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.083%) MIIS
7 1 (0.042%) Consul
7 1 (0.042%) MOM
7 1 (0.042%) Packer
7 1 (0.042%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 707 (29.42%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.91%) Google
3 40 (1.66%) Facebook
4 34 (1.41%) Oracle
5 30 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.17%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.12%) Adobe
8 20 (0.83%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 16 (0.67%) YouTube
10 12 (0.50%) Databricks
11 11 (0.46%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.37%) iManage
13 8 (0.33%) Apple
13 8 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.33%) Sony
13 8 (0.33%) VMware
13 8 (0.33%) Yahoo!
14 7 (0.29%) IBM
14 7 (0.29%) Intapp