.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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,545 1,886 5,287
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 4.36% 6.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.47% 23.90% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,298 1,415 4,335
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,100
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £92,500
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 9,265 7,892 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.24% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 5,334 11,816
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +25 670 £57,500 - 144
North of England +3 587 £57,500 -4.17% 140
London -29 547 £80,000 - 220
Midlands +3 322 £55,000 - 70
North West -5 274 £60,000 +0.84% 70
South West +15 199 £52,500 - 43
East of England +26 198 £65,000 +26.83% 59
West Midlands -21 172 £60,000 +9.09% 35
North East +5 157 £55,750 +17.37% 41
Yorkshire +14 156 £57,500 -11.54% 32
East Midlands +30 150 £55,000 - 35
.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 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.34%) IIS
3 30 (1.18%) CMS
4 21 (0.83%) Confluence
5 16 (0.63%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.31%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.20%) Shopify
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.16%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.079%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.079%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,343 (52.77%) Azure
2 413 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
3 406 (15.95%) AWS
4 224 (8.80%) GitHub
5 203 (7.98%) SaaS
6 175 (6.88%) Power Platform
7 164 (6.44%) Azure AI
8 155 (6.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 133 (5.23%) Serverless
10 114 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 111 (4.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 110 (4.32%) Power Automate
13 100 (3.93%) PowerApps
14 93 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 87 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (3.03%) Azure Functions
17 64 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
18 63 (2.48%) GCP
19 55 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (2.12%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.58%) Internet
2 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.20%) DHCP
5 5 (0.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) LAN
5 5 (0.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 3 (0.12%) HTTP
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.079%) Modbus
8 2 (0.079%) SNMP
9 1 (0.039%) AMQP
9 1 (0.039%) Profibus
9 1 (0.039%) VLAN
9 1 (0.039%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.039%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 498 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 492 (19.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 421 (16.54%) MongoDB
4 159 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 111 (4.36%) Power BI
6 64 (2.51%) MySQL
6 64 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 48 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 41 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 35 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (0.94%) Redis
12 17 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.43%) Db2
13 11 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.43%) GIS
13 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
15 8 (0.31%) Big Data
15 8 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 161 (6.33%) Git
2 43 (1.69%) JIRA
3 26 (1.02%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.94%) Selenium
5 21 (0.83%) Claude Code
5 21 (0.83%) Postman
6 20 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 18 (0.71%) GitLab
8 17 (0.67%) NUnit
9 12 (0.47%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.31%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.28%) Moq
11 7 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 382 (15.01%) Finance
2 370 (14.54%) Social Skills
3 111 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (3.34%) Retail
5 67 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.36%) Advertising
7 56 (2.20%) Games
8 54 (2.12%) Legal
8 54 (2.12%) Marketing
9 52 (2.04%) Law
10 49 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 47 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 31 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 31 (1.22%) Banking
13 25 (0.98%) Automotive
14 19 (0.75%) Electronics
15 13 (0.51%) Back Office
15 13 (0.51%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.47%) Front Office
17 11 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,576 (61.93%) Developer
2 938 (36.86%) .NET Developer
3 484 (19.02%) Senior
4 405 (15.91%) Software Engineer
5 325 (12.77%) Software Developer
6 280 (11.00%) Lead
7 246 (9.67%) Senior Developer
8 209 (8.21%) C# Developer
9 193 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 168 (6.60%) .NET Software Engineer
11 166 (6.52%) C# .NET Developer
12 150 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
13 148 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 137 (5.38%) Lead Developer
15 122 (4.79%) .NET Software Developer
16 114 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
17 108 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 89 (3.50%) Architect
18 89 (3.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 87 (3.42%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 772 (30.33%) .NET Core
2 730 (28.68%) ASP.NET
3 566 (22.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 424 (16.66%) React
5 366 (14.38%) CSS
5 366 (14.38%) HTML
6 316 (12.42%) AngularJS
7 280 (11.00%) Blazor
7 280 (11.00%) Entity Framework
8 272 (10.69%) RESTful
9 270 (10.61%) .NET Framework
10 258 (10.14%) Vue
11 247 (9.71%) Node.js
12 212 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
13 200 (7.86%) REST
14 143 (5.62%) ML.NET
15 110 (4.32%) LINQ
16 79 (3.10%) JSON
17 66 (2.59%) jQuery
18 54 (2.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 156 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 154 (6.05%) Greenfield Project
3 110 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 67 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 57 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.14%) Hedge funds
8 29 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
8 29 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 27 (1.06%) AI Agents
10 25 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 23 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 21 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (0.79%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.75%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.67%) iPhone
16 16 (0.63%) Client/Server
17 15 (0.59%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (3.77%) Windows
2 30 (1.18%) Linux
2 30 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.14%) Android
4 10 (0.39%) VMS
5 5 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.079%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (36.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 831 (32.65%) Agile
3 648 (25.46%) Software Engineering
4 629 (24.72%) DevOps
5 621 (24.40%) CI/CD
6 453 (17.80%) Microservices
7 408 (16.03%) AI
8 313 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 236 (9.27%) Mentoring
11 203 (7.98%) Machine Learning
11 203 (7.98%) SDLC
12 185 (7.27%) Test Automation
13 176 (6.92%) Scrum
14 169 (6.64%) Multithreading
15 166 (6.52%) TDD
16 153 (6.01%) Technical Leadership
17 144 (5.66%) Infrastructure as Code
18 138 (5.42%) Clean Code
18 138 (5.42%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,925 (75.64%) C#
2 981 (38.55%) SQL
3 571 (22.44%) JavaScript
4 372 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 214 (8.41%) Python
6 154 (6.05%) Java
7 88 (3.46%) C++
8 82 (3.22%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.44%) PHP
10 56 (2.20%) T-SQL
11 51 (2.00%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.77%) Bicep
13 27 (1.06%) C
14 24 (0.94%) Bash
15 18 (0.71%) VB
16 14 (0.55%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.51%) Go
18 12 (0.47%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.43%) VBA
20 9 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 216 (8.49%) Degree
2 105 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (3.26%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.55%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.20%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.16%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.12%) PhD
14 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.079%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.079%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.46%) QA
2 65 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.79%) GDPR
5 15 (0.59%) WCAG
6 10 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.28%) NCSC
7 7 (0.28%) SLA
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.039%) ITGC
System Software
1 310 (12.18%) Docker
2 14 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.43%) Firmware
4 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 296 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 117 (4.60%) Terraform
3 12 (0.47%) Grafana
4 11 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.35%) Ansible
6 2 (0.079%) MIIS
7 1 (0.039%) Consul
7 1 (0.039%) Control-M
7 1 (0.039%) MOM
7 1 (0.039%) Packer
7 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.039%) Puppet
Vendors
1 889 (34.93%) Microsoft
2 69 (2.71%) Google
3 54 (2.12%) Facebook
4 38 (1.49%) Oracle
5 31 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.14%) Adobe
7 27 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.83%) YouTube
9 17 (0.67%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.51%) Databricks
12 12 (0.47%) iManage
13 11 (0.43%) Apple
13 11 (0.43%) Sony
13 11 (0.43%) Yahoo!
14 10 (0.39%) Intapp
15 9 (0.35%) VMware
16 8 (0.31%) Aderant
16 8 (0.31%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.31%) Splunk