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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 57 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -34 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,149 1,770 6,384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 4.62% 7.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.02% 23.52% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,950 1,294 5,507
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,258 7,525 17,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.65% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,265 5,150 14,199
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,625 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,359 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +10.60% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 25 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 25 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 +15 577 £60,000 - 136
London -14 537 £82,500 +3.13% 168
North of England -15 480 £60,000 +1.69% 132
North West -15 257 £62,500 +13.64% 77
Midlands -21 248 £55,000 +2.44% 67
South West +3 158 £55,000 - 40
West Midlands -39 130 £55,000 +2.44% 32
East of England -3 129 £67,500 +28.57% 46
Yorkshire -12 122 £60,000 -7.69% 28
East Midlands +10 118 £55,000 - 35
North East -4 101 £60,000 +6.67% 28
.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 54 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.35%) IIS
3 21 (0.98%) CMS
4 16 (0.74%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.65%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.47%) JBoss
8 8 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.33%) Apache
9 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.047%) CICS
13 1 (0.047%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.047%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.047%) Endur
4 1 (0.047%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.047%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.047%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.047%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 946 (44.02%) Azure
2 318 (14.80%) AWS
3 284 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (11.63%) SaaS
5 136 (6.33%) Power Platform
6 126 (5.86%) GitHub
6 126 (5.86%) Serverless
7 110 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 76 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 75 (3.49%) Azure Functions
10 74 (3.44%) Power Automate
10 74 (3.44%) PowerApps
11 66 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 63 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
13 56 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
14 53 (2.47%) Azure AI
14 53 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
15 50 (2.33%) Azure AKS
16 49 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (2.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.81%) Internet
2 8 (0.37%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 3 (0.14%) DHCP
6 3 (0.14%) DNS
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.093%) LAN
7 2 (0.093%) RS-232
7 2 (0.093%) WAN
8 1 (0.047%) AMQP
8 1 (0.047%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.047%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.047%) Modbus
8 1 (0.047%) MPLS
8 1 (0.047%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.047%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (20.10%) SQL Server
2 199 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 157 (7.31%) MongoDB
4 90 (4.19%) Power BI
5 70 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 50 (2.33%) MySQL
7 47 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 46 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.74%) Redis
13 12 (0.56%) DB2
14 11 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.47%) GIS
16 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
18 5 (0.23%) Big Data
19 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
19 4 (0.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 141 (6.56%) Git
2 51 (2.37%) JIRA
3 39 (1.81%) Postman
3 39 (1.81%) Selenium
4 37 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 25 (1.16%) SoapUI
5 25 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (1.12%) WebDriver
7 15 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.65%) GitLab
9 12 (0.56%) NUnit
10 11 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.28%) MSTest
General
1 358 (16.66%) Finance
2 329 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 92 (4.28%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (2.79%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.28%) Banking
6 48 (2.23%) Retail
7 45 (2.09%) Law
8 34 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 33 (1.54%) Legal
10 30 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.30%) Games
12 23 (1.07%) Automotive
13 20 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.88%) Advertising
14 19 (0.88%) Electronics
14 19 (0.88%) Marketing
15 13 (0.60%) Aviation
16 12 (0.56%) Front Office
17 11 (0.51%) Back Office
18 8 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,219 (56.72%) Developer
2 621 (28.90%) .NET Developer
3 471 (21.92%) Senior
4 395 (18.38%) Software Engineer
5 338 (15.73%) Software Developer
6 251 (11.68%) Lead
7 230 (10.70%) Senior Developer
8 212 (9.87%) C# Developer
9 192 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 189 (8.79%) .NET Software Engineer
11 168 (7.82%) C# .NET Developer
12 150 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 141 (6.56%) C# Software Engineer
14 132 (6.14%) .NET Software Developer
15 109 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 103 (4.79%) Senior .NET Developer
17 102 (4.75%) Lead Developer
18 87 (4.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 81 (3.77%) Architect
20 75 (3.49%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (24.01%) .NET Core
2 399 (18.57%) ASP.NET
3 305 (14.19%) React
4 257 (11.96%) HTML
5 242 (11.26%) CSS
6 231 (10.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 212 (9.87%) .NET Framework
8 180 (8.38%) AngularJS
9 164 (7.63%) RESTful
10 153 (7.12%) REST
11 152 (7.07%) Blazor
12 149 (6.93%) Entity Framework
13 138 (6.42%) Vue
14 132 (6.14%) Node.js
15 92 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
16 54 (2.51%) jQuery
16 54 (2.51%) JSON
17 52 (2.42%) SOAP
18 46 (2.14%) ML.NET
19 42 (1.95%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 84 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
3 72 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 70 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.68%) Hedge funds
9 27 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.98%) Legacy Code
12 17 (0.79%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 16 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 15 (0.70%) Sports Betting
15 14 (0.65%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.65%) PropTech
16 13 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 12 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
18 10 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.54%) Windows
2 27 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.12%) Linux
4 19 (0.88%) Android
5 14 (0.65%) VMS
6 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.093%) Unix
8 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.047%) Solaris
9 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (29.08%) Software Engineering
2 609 (28.34%) Full-Stack Development
3 581 (27.04%) Agile
4 481 (22.38%) CI/CD
5 465 (21.64%) DevOps
6 305 (14.19%) Microservices
7 262 (12.19%) AI
8 253 (11.77%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (9.17%) Mentoring
11 177 (8.24%) Test Automation
12 175 (8.14%) SDLC
13 135 (6.28%) Clean Code
14 134 (6.24%) Containerisation
15 129 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
16 127 (5.91%) Scrum
17 111 (5.17%) TDD
17 111 (5.17%) User Experience
18 110 (5.12%) Fintech
18 110 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,509 (70.22%) C#
2 693 (32.25%) SQL
3 429 (19.96%) JavaScript
4 253 (11.77%) TypeScript
5 196 (9.12%) Python
6 167 (7.77%) Java
7 80 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.40%) C++
9 48 (2.23%) PHP
10 38 (1.77%) VB.NET
11 36 (1.68%) Bicep
12 30 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.93%) C
14 19 (0.88%) Bash
14 19 (0.88%) VB
15 16 (0.74%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.56%) VBA
18 9 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 207 (9.63%) Degree
2 83 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.23%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.14%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.14%) PhD
15 2 (0.093%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.70%) QA
2 50 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.79%) GDPR
4 15 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.51%) WCAG
6 9 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.33%) SLA
8 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.093%) ITGC
11 1 (0.047%) NCSC
11 1 (0.047%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (9.03%) Docker
2 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.047%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 182 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 111 (5.17%) Terraform
3 16 (0.74%) Grafana
4 7 (0.33%) Kibana
5 5 (0.23%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.093%) MIIS
8 1 (0.047%) CASB
8 1 (0.047%) Consul
8 1 (0.047%) Packer
8 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.047%) Puppet
Vendors
1 472 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.44%) Google
2 31 (1.44%) Oracle
3 30 (1.40%) Salesforce
4 28 (1.30%) Adobe
5 20 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 20 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 16 (0.74%) Facebook
6 16 (0.74%) ServiceNow
7 12 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 11 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.42%) Databricks
9 9 (0.42%) iManage
10 8 (0.37%) IBM
11 7 (0.33%) Intapp
11 7 (0.33%) VMware
12 6 (0.28%) YouTube
13 5 (0.23%) Aderant
13 5 (0.23%) Sage
13 5 (0.23%) Splunk