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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 52 24
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,980 1,907 6,281
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.45% 4.90% 7.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.07% 24.95% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 1,480 5,439
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
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 7,898 7,642 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.63% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 5,674 14,137
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 8 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 8 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 -7 521 £60,000 - 162
London -17 513 £82,500 +6.45% 220
North of England -25 437 £62,500 +8.70% 142
North West -15 234 £62,500 +8.70% 75
Midlands -37 226 £55,000 +2.44% 76
South West +3 152 £55,000 -4.35% 44
Yorkshire -29 121 £60,000 - 38
East of England -17 115 £67,500 +28.57% 54
West Midlands -52 114 £52,500 -4.55% 36
East Midlands -6 112 £65,000 +23.81% 40
North East -9 82 £65,000 +18.18% 30
.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 51 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.26%) IIS
3 20 (1.01%) CMS
4 15 (0.76%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.66%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.61%) Confluence
7 11 (0.56%) JBoss
8 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) Apache
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
13 1 (0.051%) CICS
13 1 (0.051%) Drupal
13 1 (0.051%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.051%) Endur
4 1 (0.051%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.051%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.051%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 839 (42.37%) Azure
2 291 (14.70%) AWS
3 251 (12.68%) SaaS
4 241 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
5 135 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 113 (5.71%) Serverless
7 105 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 103 (5.20%) GitHub
9 73 (3.69%) Power Automate
9 73 (3.69%) PowerApps
10 65 (3.28%) Azure Functions
11 62 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 56 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
13 54 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 50 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
15 48 (2.42%) GCP
16 46 (2.32%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
18 36 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
19 32 (1.62%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.26%) 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 (0.10%) DHCP
6 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.051%) AMQP
7 1 (0.051%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.051%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.051%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.051%) Modbus
7 1 (0.051%) MPLS
7 1 (0.051%) VoIP
7 1 (0.051%) VPN
7 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (20.86%) SQL Server
2 134 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (4.49%) Power BI
4 88 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 73 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 44 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.92%) MySQL
9 36 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.71%) Redis
12 12 (0.61%) DB2
13 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.40%) GIS
15 7 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.30%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.25%) Metadata
18 4 (0.20%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 124 (6.26%) Git
2 53 (2.68%) JIRA
3 41 (2.07%) Selenium
4 38 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.82%) Postman
6 27 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.26%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.21%) WebDriver
9 16 (0.81%) Jenkins
10 15 (0.76%) SpecFlow
10 15 (0.76%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (0.56%) NUnit
13 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.30%) GitLab
15 6 (0.30%) Moq
15 6 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 324 (16.36%) Finance
2 318 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 92 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (2.68%) Banking
5 50 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.47%) Law
7 40 (2.02%) Retail
8 32 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.52%) Legal
10 27 (1.36%) Games
11 25 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.11%) Automotive
13 19 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.86%) Marketing
15 14 (0.71%) Advertising
15 14 (0.71%) Aviation
15 14 (0.71%) Electronics
16 13 (0.66%) Front Office
17 12 (0.61%) Back Office
18 8 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,132 (57.17%) Developer
2 531 (26.82%) .NET Developer
3 461 (23.28%) Senior
4 349 (17.63%) Software Engineer
5 328 (16.57%) Software Developer
6 236 (11.92%) Senior Developer
7 231 (11.67%) Lead
8 218 (11.01%) C# Developer
9 181 (9.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 167 (8.43%) .NET Software Engineer
11 159 (8.03%) C# .NET Developer
12 136 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 120 (6.06%) .NET Software Developer
14 112 (5.66%) C# Software Engineer
15 104 (5.25%) Senior .NET Developer
16 94 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 94 (4.75%) Lead Developer
17 82 (4.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 79 (3.99%) Architect
19 69 (3.48%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (23.33%) .NET Core
2 330 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 273 (13.79%) React
4 224 (11.31%) HTML
5 209 (10.56%) .NET Framework
6 203 (10.25%) CSS
7 150 (7.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 145 (7.32%) REST
9 144 (7.27%) AngularJS
10 141 (7.12%) RESTful
11 117 (5.91%) Entity Framework
12 116 (5.86%) Blazor
13 112 (5.66%) Node.js
14 101 (5.10%) Vue
15 62 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
16 55 (2.78%) SOAP
17 45 (2.27%) JSON
18 43 (2.17%) jQuery
19 39 (1.97%) Playwright
20 37 (1.87%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 69 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
4 66 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 63 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 48 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.62%) Hedge funds
9 22 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 22 (1.11%) Legacy Code
10 21 (1.06%) Low-Code
11 18 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 17 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (0.81%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.76%) Sports Betting
15 14 (0.71%) PropTech
16 12 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (0.56%) Fixed Income
18 10 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.89%) Windows
2 26 (1.31%) Linux
3 22 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.86%) Android
4 17 (0.86%) VMS
5 11 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.15%) Unix
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.051%) Solaris
8 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (29.04%) Software Engineering
2 524 (26.46%) Agile
3 502 (25.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 426 (21.52%) CI/CD
5 412 (20.81%) DevOps
6 276 (13.94%) Microservices
7 235 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
8 219 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 200 (10.10%) AI
10 179 (9.04%) Mentoring
11 164 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 160 (8.08%) SDLC
13 131 (6.62%) Containerisation
14 128 (6.46%) Clean Code
15 123 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
16 120 (6.06%) Scrum
17 109 (5.51%) User Experience
18 107 (5.40%) MVC
19 106 (5.35%) TDD
20 100 (5.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,358 (68.59%) C#
2 620 (31.31%) SQL
3 385 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 231 (11.67%) TypeScript
5 174 (8.79%) Python
6 158 (7.98%) Java
7 76 (3.84%) PowerShell
8 58 (2.93%) C++
9 47 (2.37%) PHP
10 34 (1.72%) Bicep
10 34 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.67%) VB.NET
12 18 (0.91%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.91%) VB
13 17 (0.86%) Bash
14 16 (0.81%) C
15 13 (0.66%) Go
15 13 (0.66%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.66%) VBA
16 12 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 191 (9.65%) Degree
2 78 (3.94%) Security Cleared
3 64 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.16%) ISTQB
6 19 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 18 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.20%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.20%) PhD
14 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.75%) QA
2 49 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.86%) GDPR
4 16 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.66%) 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 (0.10%) ITGC
11 1 (0.051%) NCSC
11 1 (0.051%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 162 (8.18%) Docker
2 12 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.40%) Firmware
4 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.85%) Terraform
3 15 (0.76%) Grafana
4 8 (0.40%) Ansible
5 7 (0.35%) Kibana
6 2 (0.10%) MIIS
6 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.051%) CASB
7 1 (0.051%) Consul
7 1 (0.051%) Control-M
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.051%) Packer
7 1 (0.051%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.051%) Puppet
Vendors
1 387 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.41%) Adobe
3 25 (1.26%) Oracle
4 24 (1.21%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.16%) Google
6 21 (1.06%) Xamarin
7 16 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 15 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 14 (0.71%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.51%) Facebook
12 8 (0.40%) iManage
13 7 (0.35%) Databricks
14 6 (0.30%) IBM
14 6 (0.30%) Intapp
15 5 (0.25%) DevExpress
15 5 (0.25%) Sage
15 5 (0.25%) VMware
16 4 (0.20%) New Relic
16 4 (0.20%) SYSPRO