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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 26
Rank change year-on-year +17 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,595 1,640 4,343
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 3.79% 6.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.57% 21.52% 29.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,291 1,223 3,080
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,500 £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 10,560 7,622 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.55% 17.62% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,782 5,027 9,729
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 14 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 14 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 +50 689 £60,000 - 268
North of England 0 595 £57,500 -4.17% 302
London -21 530 £80,000 - 891
Midlands +37 349 £60,000 +9.09% 179
North West -11 261 £60,000 -4.00% 162
East of England +28 213 £61,250 +16.67% 108
South West 0 195 £55,000 +7.84% 90
West Midlands +4 185 £58,750 +6.82% 94
North East +7 180 £57,000 +31.03% 59
East Midlands +43 164 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Yorkshire +11 154 £55,000 -8.33% 84
.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 68 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) IIS
3 26 (1.00%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 12 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.35%) WordPress
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
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%) Magento
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Endur
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,365 (52.60%) Azure
2 474 (18.27%) AWS
3 457 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
4 245 (9.44%) GitHub
5 188 (7.24%) SaaS
6 186 (7.17%) Power Platform
7 168 (6.47%) Azure AI
8 160 (6.17%) GitHub Copilot
9 148 (5.70%) Serverless
10 121 (4.66%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 100 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 99 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
14 98 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 95 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
16 78 (3.01%) Azure Functions
17 77 (2.97%) GCP
18 65 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
19 55 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
20 53 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.62%) Internet
2 16 (0.62%) Firewall
3 9 (0.35%) HTTP
3 9 (0.35%) VLAN
4 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.31%) Wireless
5 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) LTE
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 1 (0.039%) Profibus
10 1 (0.039%) SSL
10 1 (0.039%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 554 (21.35%) SQL Server
2 479 (18.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.95%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
5 109 (4.20%) Power BI
6 87 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 77 (2.97%) MySQL
7 77 (2.97%) NoSQL
8 62 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 30 (1.16%) Redis
11 22 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
14 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.42%) Big Data
15 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.42%) GIS
15 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 207 (7.98%) Git
2 46 (1.77%) JIRA
3 38 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.31%) Claude Code
5 31 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.04%) NUnit
7 25 (0.96%) GitLab
8 21 (0.81%) Selenium
9 20 (0.77%) Postman
10 14 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 436 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 378 (14.57%) Finance
3 149 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 90 (3.47%) Retail
6 74 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (2.58%) Law
8 65 (2.50%) Games
9 62 (2.39%) Legal
10 59 (2.27%) Advertising
11 54 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 51 (1.97%) Marketing
13 28 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 23 (0.89%) Automotive
14 23 (0.89%) Banking
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
15 19 (0.73%) Front Office
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
16 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.42%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,548 (59.65%) Developer
2 926 (35.68%) .NET Developer
3 467 (18.00%) Senior
4 386 (14.87%) Software Engineer
5 302 (11.64%) Lead
6 294 (11.33%) Software Developer
7 243 (9.36%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.98%) C# Developer
9 186 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 159 (6.13%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.82%) C# Software Engineer
12 145 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (5.47%) Lead Developer
14 141 (5.43%) .NET Software Engineer
15 116 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
16 110 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 108 (4.16%) .NET Software Developer
18 90 (3.47%) Web Developer
19 87 (3.35%) Architect
20 79 (3.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 766 (29.52%) .NET Core
2 751 (28.94%) ASP.NET
3 574 (22.12%) ASP.NET Core
4 445 (17.15%) React
5 380 (14.64%) HTML
6 377 (14.53%) CSS
7 331 (12.76%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.41%) Entity Framework
9 290 (11.18%) Blazor
10 287 (11.06%) RESTful
11 279 (10.75%) .NET Framework
12 263 (10.13%) Vue
13 244 (9.40%) Node.js
14 218 (8.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 217 (8.36%) REST
16 138 (5.32%) ML.NET
17 132 (5.09%) Terraform
18 107 (4.12%) LINQ
19 88 (3.39%) jQuery
20 80 (3.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
4 131 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 99 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 44 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 44 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
10 34 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 25 (0.96%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 23 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 22 (0.85%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.77%) Data Structures
17 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
18 17 (0.66%) Client/Server
18 17 (0.66%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 111 (4.28%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.39%) Linux
4 30 (1.16%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) VMS
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (35.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 847 (32.64%) Agile
3 685 (26.40%) CI/CD
4 678 (26.13%) DevOps
5 669 (25.78%) Software Engineering
6 452 (17.42%) Microservices
7 435 (16.76%) AI
8 384 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 279 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 276 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 217 (8.36%) SDLC
12 204 (7.86%) Test Automation
13 202 (7.78%) Machine Learning
14 176 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
15 174 (6.71%) Scrum
16 167 (6.44%) Multithreading
17 166 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 157 (6.05%) TDD
19 154 (5.93%) Code Quality
20 153 (5.90%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,002 (77.15%) C#
2 1,000 (38.54%) SQL
3 600 (23.12%) JavaScript
4 361 (13.91%) TypeScript
5 228 (8.79%) Python
6 170 (6.55%) Java
7 103 (3.97%) C++
8 70 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 63 (2.43%) T-SQL
9 63 (2.43%) VB.NET
10 61 (2.35%) PHP
11 41 (1.58%) Bicep
12 28 (1.08%) C
13 24 (0.92%) Bash
14 19 (0.73%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.66%) COBOL
16 17 (0.66%) Go
17 13 (0.50%) JCL
18 9 (0.35%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 238 (9.17%) Degree
2 117 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.19%) PhD
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.05%) QA
2 71 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.66%) WCAG
5 16 (0.62%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.039%) Basel III
10 1 (0.039%) GRC
10 1 (0.039%) ITGC
10 1 (0.039%) SLA
System Software
1 321 (12.37%) Docker
2 23 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.35%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.039%) Argo
5 1 (0.039%) Consul
5 1 (0.039%) Control-M
5 1 (0.039%) MIIS
5 1 (0.039%) MOM
5 1 (0.039%) Packer
5 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.039%) Puppet
Vendors
1 925 (35.65%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.77%) Google
3 53 (2.04%) Facebook
4 47 (1.81%) Oracle
5 33 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.96%) Adobe
7 21 (0.81%) YouTube
8 17 (0.66%) VMware
9 16 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.58%) Databricks
11 12 (0.46%) iManage
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.42%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.35%) SAP
14 8 (0.31%) Aderant
14 8 (0.31%) OneLogin