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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -37 +5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,380 1,846 6,910
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.84% 4.63% 7.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.03% 23.65% 37.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,167 1,369 5,838
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 8,806 7,807 18,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.50% 19.58% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,729 5,262 14,843
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +24 620 £57,500 - 127
London -26 545 £80,000 - 153
North of England -3 538 £60,000 - 114
Midlands +8 302 £55,000 - 59
North West -1 279 £60,000 +9.09% 61
South West +14 187 £55,000 +4.76% 38
East of England +11 166 £65,000 +23.81% 41
West Midlands -22 155 £55,000 +2.44% 35
East Midlands +24 147 £55,000 - 24
North East +2 132 £58,250 +5.91% 31
Yorkshire -9 127 £58,750 -9.62% 24
.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 60 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.05%) CMS
2 25 (1.05%) IIS
3 18 (0.76%) Confluence
4 16 (0.67%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) JBoss
9 5 (0.21%) nginx
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.042%) CICS
12 1 (0.042%) DNN
12 1 (0.042%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.084%) Shopify
4 2 (0.084%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (49.24%) Azure
2 359 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
3 358 (15.04%) AWS
4 234 (9.83%) SaaS
5 179 (7.52%) GitHub
6 152 (6.39%) Power Platform
7 127 (5.34%) Serverless
8 115 (4.83%) Azure AI
9 112 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 110 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
11 100 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 91 (3.82%) Power Automate
13 87 (3.66%) PowerApps
14 80 (3.36%) Azure Functions
15 79 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
16 78 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 56 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (2.27%) Azure AKS
18 54 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
19 53 (2.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.03%) Internet
2 9 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.34%) Firewall
4 7 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.21%) DHCP
5 5 (0.21%) DNS
5 5 (0.21%) LAN
5 5 (0.21%) LTE
5 5 (0.21%) WAN
6 4 (0.17%) Intranet
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
7 3 (0.13%) WinSCP
8 2 (0.084%) Modbus
9 1 (0.042%) AMQP
9 1 (0.042%) Network Security
9 1 (0.042%) Profibus
9 1 (0.042%) VLAN
9 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.042%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (19.20%) SQL Server
2 368 (15.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 307 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 110 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
5 97 (4.08%) Power BI
6 63 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 55 (2.31%) MySQL
8 39 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 38 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 31 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (0.80%) Redis
12 13 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.50%) Db2
14 11 (0.46%) GIS
15 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.25%) Big Data
17 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 141 (5.92%) Git
2 47 (1.97%) JIRA
3 33 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 27 (1.13%) Postman
4 27 (1.13%) Selenium
5 16 (0.67%) GitLab
5 16 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.67%) SpecFlow
6 13 (0.55%) NUnit
6 13 (0.55%) TeamCity
6 13 (0.55%) WebDriver
7 12 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 12 (0.50%) SoapUI
7 12 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 374 (15.71%) Finance
2 328 (13.78%) Social Skills
3 98 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (2.94%) Retail
5 63 (2.65%) Public Sector
6 46 (1.93%) Games
7 45 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 44 (1.85%) Banking
8 44 (1.85%) Law
9 42 (1.76%) Advertising
9 42 (1.76%) Legal
10 40 (1.68%) Marketing
11 35 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 29 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.01%) Automotive
14 20 (0.84%) Electronics
15 12 (0.50%) Back Office
15 12 (0.50%) Legal Technology
16 11 (0.46%) Front Office
17 9 (0.38%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,426 (59.92%) Developer
2 801 (33.66%) .NET Developer
3 485 (20.38%) Senior
4 403 (16.93%) Software Engineer
5 343 (14.41%) Software Developer
6 254 (10.67%) Lead
7 239 (10.04%) Senior Developer
8 207 (8.70%) C# Developer
9 187 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 184 (7.73%) .NET Software Engineer
11 166 (6.97%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 150 (6.30%) C# Software Engineer
14 132 (5.55%) .NET Software Developer
15 127 (5.34%) Lead Developer
16 108 (4.54%) Senior .NET Developer
17 104 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 85 (3.57%) Architect
19 82 (3.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 74 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (28.40%) .NET Core
2 584 (24.54%) ASP.NET
3 422 (17.73%) ASP.NET Core
4 372 (15.63%) React
5 317 (13.32%) HTML
6 314 (13.19%) CSS
7 265 (11.13%) AngularJS
8 236 (9.92%) .NET Framework
9 223 (9.37%) Blazor
10 222 (9.33%) RESTful
11 221 (9.29%) Entity Framework
12 210 (8.82%) Vue
13 193 (8.11%) Node.js
14 178 (7.48%) REST
15 159 (6.68%) ASP.NET Web API
16 104 (4.37%) ML.NET
17 81 (3.40%) LINQ
18 60 (2.52%) jQuery
19 59 (2.48%) JSON
20 50 (2.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 123 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
3 87 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 84 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 69 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.39%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.88%) Low-Code
11 19 (0.80%) Onboarding
12 18 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 17 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.71%) Management Information System
14 16 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.67%) Sports Betting
15 15 (0.63%) Digital TV
15 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.59%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.40%) Windows
2 28 (1.18%) Android
3 25 (1.05%) Linux
3 25 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.50%) VMS
5 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.084%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (33.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 718 (30.17%) Agile
3 642 (26.97%) Software Engineering
4 562 (23.61%) CI/CD
5 556 (23.36%) DevOps
6 379 (15.92%) Microservices
7 351 (14.75%) AI
8 278 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
9 243 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (8.95%) Mentoring
11 191 (8.03%) SDLC
12 180 (7.56%) Test Automation
13 168 (7.06%) Machine Learning
14 147 (6.18%) Scrum
15 146 (6.13%) TDD
16 140 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
17 135 (5.67%) Clean Code
18 133 (5.59%) Containerisation
19 130 (5.46%) Multithreading
20 125 (5.25%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,745 (73.32%) C#
2 866 (36.39%) SQL
3 501 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 325 (13.66%) TypeScript
5 201 (8.45%) Python
6 145 (6.09%) Java
7 82 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 80 (3.36%) C++
9 56 (2.35%) PHP
10 48 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 42 (1.76%) Bicep
13 24 (1.01%) C
14 21 (0.88%) Bash
15 20 (0.84%) VB
16 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.42%) Go
19 9 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 209 (8.78%) Degree
2 89 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 7 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.13%) PhD
12 2 (0.084%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.084%) CSQA
12 2 (0.084%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.17%) QA
2 59 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 16 (0.67%) GDPR
4 15 (0.63%) WCAG
5 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.34%) SLA
6 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.084%) ITGC
9 2 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 256 (10.76%) Docker
2 16 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.50%) Firmware
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 246 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 109 (4.58%) Terraform
3 14 (0.59%) Grafana
4 7 (0.29%) Ansible
5 6 (0.25%) Kibana
5 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.084%) MIIS
7 1 (0.042%) Consul
7 1 (0.042%) MOM
7 1 (0.042%) Packer
7 1 (0.042%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 690 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 45 (1.89%) Google
3 39 (1.64%) Facebook
4 34 (1.43%) Oracle
5 30 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.18%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.13%) Adobe
8 20 (0.84%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 15 (0.63%) YouTube
11 12 (0.50%) Databricks
12 11 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.38%) iManage
14 8 (0.34%) Apple
14 8 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.34%) Sony
14 8 (0.34%) VMware
14 8 (0.34%) Yahoo!
15 7 (0.29%) IBM
15 7 (0.29%) Intapp