.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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,633 1,841 4,684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.22% 6.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.65% 23.78% 34.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,353 1,380 3,713
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,734 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,100
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 9,521 7,743 13,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.76% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,182 5,195 10,373
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

.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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +25 688 £58,500 +1.74% 177
North of England +2 612 £57,500 -4.17% 168
London -26 557 £80,000 - 370
Midlands +7 328 £55,000 - 96
North West -8 282 £60,000 - 92
South West +26 216 £52,500 - 43
East of England +23 210 £65,000 +26.83% 62
West Midlands -14 177 £60,000 +4.35% 47
Yorkshire +19 167 £55,000 -15.38% 45
North East +1 163 £55,750 +29.65% 33
East Midlands +40 151 £55,000 - 49
.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 69 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.37%) IIS
3 32 (1.22%) CMS
4 24 (0.91%) Confluence
5 16 (0.61%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.076%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.076%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.038%) Eikon
7 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,380 (52.41%) Azure
2 438 (16.64%) AWS
3 433 (16.45%) Azure DevOps
4 237 (9.00%) GitHub
5 206 (7.82%) SaaS
6 185 (7.03%) Power Platform
7 169 (6.42%) Azure AI
8 159 (6.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 135 (5.13%) Serverless
10 116 (4.41%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 110 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 101 (3.84%) PowerApps
14 97 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
15 89 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 71 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
17 71 (2.70%) GCP
18 55 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
19 54 (2.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.46%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
3 8 (0.30%) HTTP
4 7 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) LAN
5 5 (0.19%) SNMP
5 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) Intranet
7 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.11%) LTE
7 3 (0.11%) Modbus
7 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.038%) Profibus
8 1 (0.038%) SSL
8 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (20.36%) SQL Server
2 496 (18.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.18%) MongoDB
4 160 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 114 (4.33%) Power BI
6 74 (2.81%) MySQL
7 69 (2.62%) NoSQL
8 65 (2.47%) Relational Database
9 49 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 35 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (1.10%) Redis
13 21 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.46%) Db2
14 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.46%) GIS
15 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 183 (6.95%) Git
2 47 (1.79%) JIRA
3 32 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.18%) Selenium
5 28 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.03%) NUnit
7 25 (0.95%) Claude Code
8 24 (0.91%) Postman
9 23 (0.87%) GitLab
10 12 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.42%) SpecFlow
12 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.27%) Moq
14 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 406 (15.42%) Social Skills
2 388 (14.74%) Finance
3 121 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.34%) Retail
5 76 (2.89%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.43%) Law
7 62 (2.35%) Advertising
8 59 (2.24%) Games
9 58 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (2.20%) Legal
10 56 (2.13%) Marketing
11 55 (2.09%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.14%) Banking
13 25 (0.95%) Automotive
14 20 (0.76%) Electronics
15 14 (0.53%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Front Office
17 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,608 (61.07%) Developer
2 950 (36.08%) .NET Developer
3 492 (18.69%) Senior
4 414 (15.72%) Software Engineer
5 332 (12.61%) Software Developer
6 302 (11.47%) Lead
7 253 (9.61%) Senior Developer
8 211 (8.01%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 167 (6.34%) .NET Software Engineer
11 162 (6.15%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
13 148 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
14 141 (5.36%) Lead Developer
15 125 (4.75%) .NET Software Developer
16 115 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
17 113 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 92 (3.49%) Web Developer
19 89 (3.38%) Architect
20 82 (3.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (29.97%) .NET Core
2 758 (28.79%) ASP.NET
3 576 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 442 (16.79%) React
5 380 (14.43%) HTML
6 376 (14.28%) CSS
7 335 (12.72%) AngularJS
8 292 (11.09%) Entity Framework
9 291 (11.05%) Blazor
10 288 (10.94%) RESTful
11 284 (10.79%) .NET Framework
12 265 (10.06%) Vue
13 255 (9.68%) Node.js
14 221 (8.39%) REST
15 219 (8.32%) ASP.NET Web API
16 145 (5.51%) ML.NET
17 109 (4.14%) LINQ
18 84 (3.19%) JSON
19 71 (2.70%) jQuery
20 60 (2.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 175 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
3 128 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 117 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 32 (1.22%) AI Agents
10 31 (1.18%) Legacy Code
11 30 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.03%) Hedge funds
13 27 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 22 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.76%) Digital TV
16 17 (0.65%) iPhone
17 16 (0.61%) Client/Server
18 15 (0.57%) Algorithms
19 14 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 106 (4.03%) Windows
2 33 (1.25%) Android
2 33 (1.25%) Linux
2 33 (1.25%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.30%) VMS
4 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.076%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (35.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 859 (32.62%) Agile
3 684 (25.98%) Software Engineering
4 673 (25.56%) DevOps
5 662 (25.14%) CI/CD
6 465 (17.66%) Microservices
7 421 (15.99%) AI
8 341 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
9 264 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 250 (9.49%) Mentoring
11 217 (8.24%) SDLC
12 206 (7.82%) Machine Learning
13 199 (7.56%) Test Automation
14 181 (6.87%) Scrum
15 173 (6.57%) Multithreading
16 169 (6.42%) TDD
17 165 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
18 157 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
19 148 (5.62%) User Experience
20 147 (5.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,992 (75.66%) C#
2 1,004 (38.13%) SQL
3 593 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 384 (14.58%) TypeScript
5 227 (8.62%) Python
6 165 (6.27%) Java
7 89 (3.38%) C++
8 81 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 63 (2.39%) PHP
10 61 (2.32%) T-SQL
11 60 (2.28%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.71%) Bicep
13 28 (1.06%) C
14 23 (0.87%) Bash
15 20 (0.76%) Go
16 19 (0.72%) VB
17 13 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.46%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.46%) VBA
19 9 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 234 (8.89%) Degree
2 111 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.85%) QA
2 68 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.76%) GDPR
5 17 (0.65%) WCAG
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.30%) NCSC
8 5 (0.19%) SLA
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.11%) NIST
11 2 (0.076%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.076%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.038%) ITGC
System Software
1 331 (12.57%) Docker
2 16 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.38%) Firmware
4 8 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 306 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.86%) Terraform
3 14 (0.53%) Grafana
3 14 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.076%) MIIS
6 1 (0.038%) Consul
6 1 (0.038%) Control-M
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) Packer
6 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 927 (35.21%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.70%) Google
3 55 (2.09%) Facebook
4 40 (1.52%) Oracle
5 32 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.10%) Adobe
7 27 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.80%) YouTube
9 16 (0.61%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.53%) Databricks
10 14 (0.53%) iManage
11 13 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.46%) Intapp
13 11 (0.42%) Apple
13 11 (0.42%) Sony
13 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.34%) Aderant
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.34%) VMware
15 8 (0.30%) OneLogin