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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 47 24
Rank change year-on-year -30 -23 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,715 1,963 5,989
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.47% 5.34% 7.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.56% 24.52% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 1,686 5,327
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 7,279 8,007 16,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 21.77% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,544 6,015 13,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -22 461 £82,500 +10.00% 218
South East -27 416 £60,000 - 174
North of England -32 398 £65,000 +15.56% 164
North West -31 208 £65,000 +18.18% 89
Midlands -33 207 £55,000 - 87
South West -7 124 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Yorkshire -35 123 £60,000 +9.09% 48
West Midlands -46 109 £50,000 -13.04% 50
East Midlands -25 98 £60,000 +14.29% 37
East of England -50 83 £63,750 +27.50% 63
North East -11 67 £70,000 +21.74% 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 36 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.81%) IIS
3 18 (1.05%) CMS
4 13 (0.76%) JBoss
4 13 (0.76%) WebSphere
5 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.64%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.47%) Confluence
7 5 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.23%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Apache
10 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.058%) CICS
11 1 (0.058%) Drupal
11 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.058%) SAS
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.058%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.058%) Endur
3 1 (0.058%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.058%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 759 (44.26%) Azure
2 283 (16.50%) AWS
3 228 (13.29%) SaaS
4 213 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
5 136 (7.93%) Power Platform
6 107 (6.24%) Serverless
7 106 (6.18%) GitHub
8 79 (4.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 64 (3.73%) PowerApps
10 61 (3.56%) Azure Functions
10 61 (3.56%) Power Automate
11 58 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (3.27%) GCP
13 50 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
14 46 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (2.27%) Azure AKS
16 38 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
17 36 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
19 28 (1.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (0.99%) Internet
2 10 (0.58%) Firewall
3 8 (0.47%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) DNS
5 5 (0.29%) DHCP
6 4 (0.23%) VoIP
6 4 (0.23%) VPN
7 3 (0.17%) Intranet
7 3 (0.17%) LTE
8 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.058%) AMQP
9 1 (0.058%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.058%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.058%) HTTP
9 1 (0.058%) Modbus
9 1 (0.058%) MPLS
9 1 (0.058%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (24.31%) SQL Server
2 79 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 73 (4.26%) Power BI
5 49 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 48 (2.80%) MongoDB
7 44 (2.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.39%) MySQL
10 39 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.05%) Redis
13 15 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.76%) DB2
15 7 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.41%) GIS
16 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.23%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 127 (7.41%) Git
2 48 (2.80%) Selenium
3 47 (2.74%) JIRA
4 45 (2.62%) Visual Studio
5 33 (1.92%) Postman
6 28 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.46%) WebDriver
8 23 (1.34%) SoapUI
9 19 (1.11%) Jenkins
9 19 (1.11%) TeamCity
10 17 (0.99%) SpecFlow
11 13 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.58%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.58%) NUnit
13 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.29%) git-flow
15 5 (0.29%) JMeter
16 4 (0.23%) Appium
16 4 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 335 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 293 (17.08%) Finance
3 84 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.62%) Law
5 60 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.38%) Banking
7 38 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.34%) Games
8 23 (1.34%) Legal
9 22 (1.28%) Marketing
9 22 (1.28%) Retail
10 16 (0.93%) Front Office
11 15 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 14 (0.82%) Aviation
13 12 (0.70%) Tech for Good
14 11 (0.64%) Electronics
15 10 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.52%) Military
17 8 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 943 (54.99%) Developer
2 419 (24.43%) Senior
3 393 (22.92%) .NET Developer
4 302 (17.61%) Software Engineer
5 279 (16.27%) Software Developer
6 206 (12.01%) Lead
7 201 (11.72%) C# Developer
8 200 (11.66%) Senior Developer
9 177 (10.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 139 (8.10%) .NET Software Engineer
11 121 (7.06%) C# .NET Developer
12 120 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 94 (5.48%) .NET Software Developer
14 84 (4.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 83 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 82 (4.78%) Senior .NET Developer
17 78 (4.55%) Lead Developer
18 67 (3.91%) Architect
19 66 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
20 58 (3.38%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (23.91%) .NET Core
2 294 (17.14%) React
3 266 (15.51%) ASP.NET
4 218 (12.71%) .NET Framework
5 212 (12.36%) HTML
6 186 (10.85%) CSS
7 143 (8.34%) REST
8 141 (8.22%) AngularJS
9 120 (7.00%) RESTful
10 98 (5.71%) Entity Framework
11 94 (5.48%) Blazor
12 92 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
12 92 (5.36%) Node.js
13 73 (4.26%) Vue
14 59 (3.44%) SOAP
15 46 (2.68%) ASP.NET MVC
16 44 (2.57%) ASP.NET Web API
17 38 (2.22%) Middleware
18 37 (2.16%) HTML5
19 32 (1.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 147 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.79%) Mobile App
3 62 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 51 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 28 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 26 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
9 18 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 17 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 16 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 15 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (0.87%) Legacy Code
13 13 (0.76%) DataPower
13 13 (0.76%) Sports Betting
14 12 (0.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.13%) Windows
2 26 (1.52%) Linux
3 25 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.22%) Android
5 19 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.11%) VMS
6 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.17%) Unix
9 1 (0.058%) Solaris
9 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (30.61%) Software Engineering
2 520 (30.32%) Agile
3 434 (25.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 396 (23.09%) DevOps
5 375 (21.87%) CI/CD
6 276 (16.09%) Microservices
7 249 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 171 (9.97%) Mentoring
10 149 (8.69%) AI
11 141 (8.22%) SDLC
12 138 (8.05%) Clean Code
13 127 (7.41%) Test Automation
14 124 (7.23%) Scrum
15 123 (7.17%) Containerisation
16 116 (6.76%) MVC
16 116 (6.76%) User Experience
17 110 (6.41%) Technical Leadership
18 98 (5.71%) TDD
19 96 (5.60%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,176 (68.57%) C#
2 531 (30.96%) SQL
3 384 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 205 (11.95%) TypeScript
5 162 (9.45%) Java
6 146 (8.51%) Python
7 61 (3.56%) PowerShell
8 43 (2.51%) C++
9 35 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.75%) Bicep
10 30 (1.75%) PHP
11 28 (1.63%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.17%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.93%) C
14 15 (0.87%) Go
15 13 (0.76%) Bash
16 12 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.47%) VBA
18 7 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 190 (11.08%) Degree
2 64 (3.73%) Security Cleared
3 52 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 49 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
6 20 (1.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 19 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.41%) ISEB
11 7 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.41%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.71%) QA
2 45 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.70%) GDPR
3 12 (0.70%) WCAG
4 9 (0.52%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.41%) SLA
7 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.058%) NCSC
11 1 (0.058%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 156 (9.10%) Docker
2 18 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.41%) Firmware
4 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 93 (5.42%) Terraform
3 15 (0.87%) Grafana
4 11 (0.64%) Ansible
5 7 (0.41%) Kibana
6 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.058%) Argo
8 1 (0.058%) CASB
8 1 (0.058%) Consul
8 1 (0.058%) Control-M
8 1 (0.058%) Packer
8 1 (0.058%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 307 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.81%) Salesforce
3 28 (1.63%) Xamarin
4 22 (1.28%) Google
5 17 (0.99%) MuleSoft
6 13 (0.76%) Adobe
6 13 (0.76%) Oracle
7 12 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 11 (0.64%) Sage
9 9 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.52%) New Relic
10 8 (0.47%) Databricks
11 7 (0.41%) Apple
11 7 (0.41%) VMware
12 6 (0.35%) Telerik
13 5 (0.29%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.29%) IBM
13 5 (0.29%) iManage
13 5 (0.29%) Intapp
13 5 (0.29%) OpenAI