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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 71 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,598 1,619 4,237
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.51% 3.76% 6.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.16% 21.66% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 1,206 2,848
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,750 £91,250
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 10,753 7,475 14,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 17.37% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,821 4,934 9,202
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,135 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

.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 September 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 September 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 +40 684 £60,000 - 208
North of England +3 600 £55,000 -8.33% 268
London -30 532 £80,000 - 527
Midlands +35 354 £60,000 +9.09% 157
North West -17 268 £60,000 -4.00% 172
East of England +29 207 £60,000 +14.29% 106
South West -6 194 £55,000 +4.76% 57
West Midlands -2 190 £56,250 +2.27% 82
North East +9 179 £56,500 +24.18% 35
East Midlands +41 164 £60,000 +9.09% 75
Yorkshire +3 153 £55,000 -8.33% 64
.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 62 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) IIS
3 30 (1.15%) CMS
4 23 (0.89%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.35%) Apache
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) JBoss
12 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,346 (51.81%) Azure
2 475 (18.28%) AWS
3 454 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
4 258 (9.93%) GitHub
5 186 (7.16%) SaaS
6 179 (6.89%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.54%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 149 (5.74%) Serverless
10 120 (4.62%) Power Automate
11 109 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 97 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
12 97 (3.73%) PowerApps
13 95 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
14 86 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (3.00%) Azure Functions
16 73 (2.81%) GCP
17 66 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
19 50 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.62%) Internet
2 19 (0.73%) Firewall
3 12 (0.46%) VLAN
4 11 (0.42%) Wireless
5 9 (0.35%) HTTP
5 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
10 2 (0.077%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.077%) LTE
10 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 2 (0.077%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.038%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (21.52%) SQL Server
2 470 (18.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.90%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.81%) Power BI
6 98 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 81 (3.12%) MySQL
8 79 (3.04%) NoSQL
9 71 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.31%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Big Data
17 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.42%) SQLite
18 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 214 (8.24%) Git
2 47 (1.81%) JIRA
3 40 (1.54%) Claude Code
3 40 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.31%) Visual Studio
5 28 (1.08%) GitLab
5 28 (1.08%) NUnit
6 20 (0.77%) Postman
6 20 (0.77%) Selenium
7 16 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Moq
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 451 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 379 (14.59%) Finance
3 155 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 89 (3.43%) Retail
6 76 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (2.50%) Games
7 65 (2.50%) Law
8 60 (2.31%) Legal
8 60 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 59 (2.27%) Advertising
10 52 (2.00%) Marketing
11 29 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 23 (0.89%) Automotive
12 23 (0.89%) Banking
13 21 (0.81%) Front Office
14 19 (0.73%) Electronics
15 13 (0.50%) Back Office
15 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,521 (58.55%) Developer
2 924 (35.57%) .NET Developer
3 468 (18.01%) Senior
4 391 (15.05%) Software Engineer
5 291 (11.20%) Lead
6 275 (10.59%) Software Developer
7 240 (9.24%) Senior Developer
8 204 (7.85%) C# Developer
9 182 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 155 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
10 155 (5.97%) C# Software Engineer
11 144 (5.54%) .NET Software Engineer
12 143 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 132 (5.08%) Lead Developer
14 119 (4.58%) Senior .NET Developer
15 114 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 97 (3.73%) .NET Software Developer
17 84 (3.23%) Web Developer
18 83 (3.19%) Architect
19 76 (2.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 752 (28.95%) .NET Core
2 740 (28.48%) ASP.NET
3 570 (21.94%) ASP.NET Core
4 462 (17.78%) React
5 374 (14.40%) HTML
6 371 (14.28%) CSS
7 337 (12.97%) AngularJS
8 293 (11.28%) Entity Framework
8 293 (11.28%) RESTful
9 288 (11.09%) Blazor
10 277 (10.66%) .NET Framework
11 257 (9.89%) Vue
12 246 (9.47%) Node.js
13 234 (9.01%) REST
14 220 (8.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 137 (5.27%) ML.NET
16 131 (5.04%) Terraform
17 107 (4.12%) LINQ
18 91 (3.50%) jQuery
19 80 (3.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
4 140 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 50 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
11 37 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.92%) Legacy Code
15 23 (0.89%) Hedge funds
16 22 (0.85%) Data Structures
17 21 (0.81%) Low-Code
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
18 19 (0.73%) IoT
19 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.35%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.27%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (35.26%) Full-Stack Development
2 845 (32.53%) Agile
3 712 (27.41%) CI/CD
4 684 (26.33%) DevOps
5 681 (26.21%) Software Engineering
6 463 (17.82%) AI
7 451 (17.36%) Microservices
8 397 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 280 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 278 (10.70%) Mentoring
11 220 (8.47%) SDLC
12 217 (8.35%) Test Automation
13 195 (7.51%) Machine Learning
14 181 (6.97%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.74%) Scrum
16 172 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 166 (6.39%) Code Quality
17 166 (6.39%) Multithreading
18 154 (5.93%) TDD
19 151 (5.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,008 (77.29%) C#
2 994 (38.26%) SQL
3 600 (23.09%) JavaScript
4 362 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 227 (8.74%) Python
6 168 (6.47%) Java
7 102 (3.93%) C++
8 69 (2.66%) VB.NET
9 64 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 62 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 58 (2.23%) PHP
12 41 (1.58%) Bicep
13 27 (1.04%) C
14 22 (0.85%) Bash
14 22 (0.85%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) COBOL
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 242 (9.31%) Degree
2 123 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.20%) QA
2 72 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.69%) WCAG
5 16 (0.62%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.038%) GAMP
10 1 (0.038%) GMP
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 323 (12.43%) Docker
2 26 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.038%) HDFS
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 286 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Control-M
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Kibana
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 927 (35.68%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.69%) Google
3 52 (2.00%) Facebook
4 49 (1.89%) Oracle
5 36 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.81%) Adobe
6 21 (0.81%) YouTube
7 19 (0.73%) VMware
8 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.58%) Databricks
10 10 (0.38%) Apple
10 10 (0.38%) iManage
10 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 10 (0.38%) Sony
10 10 (0.38%) Xamarin
10 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
11 9 (0.35%) Broadcom
11 9 (0.35%) DevExpress
11 9 (0.35%) SAP
11 9 (0.35%) Splunk