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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 64 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 -39 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,657 1,762 4,507
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.74% 4.03% 6.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.78% 22.03% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 1,316 3,359
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 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 1 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 +41 704 £60,000 +4.35% 213
North of England +3 615 £57,500 -4.17% 199
London -23 541 £80,000 - 670
Midlands +21 345 £57,500 +4.55% 117
North West -13 270 £60,000 - 116
East of England +32 220 £63,750 +21.43% 85
South West +11 206 £55,000 +5.67% 78
North East +6 184 £56,500 +32.94% 40
West Midlands -3 184 £59,500 +8.18% 52
East Midlands +45 161 £55,000 - 64
Yorkshire +2 161 £55,000 -8.33% 44
.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 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.66%) IIS
3 30 (1.13%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) Confluence
5 15 (0.56%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.075%) Magento
5 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,403 (52.80%) Azure
2 467 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
3 464 (17.46%) AWS
4 250 (9.41%) GitHub
5 199 (7.49%) SaaS
6 195 (7.34%) Power Platform
7 173 (6.51%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 142 (5.34%) Serverless
10 127 (4.78%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 109 (4.10%) PowerApps
13 106 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 101 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
15 100 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 79 (2.97%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.86%) GCP
18 69 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
19 55 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.54%) Internet
2 13 (0.49%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
3 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
5 6 (0.23%) VLAN
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 5 (0.19%) Wireless
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.075%) LTE
10 1 (0.038%) Profibus
10 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
10 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (21.04%) SQL Server
2 498 (18.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.03%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
5 119 (4.48%) Power BI
6 82 (3.09%) Relational Database
7 79 (2.97%) MySQL
8 74 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.13%) Redis
12 27 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.45%) GIS
15 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.38%) Big Data
16 10 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (8.02%) Git
2 48 (1.81%) JIRA
3 39 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.20%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.17%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.09%) NUnit
7 25 (0.94%) GitLab
8 23 (0.87%) Selenium
9 21 (0.79%) Postman
10 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 10 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.26%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.26%) Moq
16 7 (0.26%) MSI
16 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 433 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 397 (14.94%) Finance
3 145 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (3.58%) Public Sector
5 92 (3.46%) Retail
6 73 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (2.71%) Law
8 65 (2.45%) Games
9 62 (2.33%) Advertising
10 61 (2.30%) Legal
11 55 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 55 (2.07%) Marketing
12 28 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.94%) Banking
14 23 (0.87%) Automotive
15 19 (0.72%) Electronics
15 19 (0.72%) Front Office
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.41%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,597 (60.11%) Developer
2 947 (35.64%) .NET Developer
3 482 (18.14%) Senior
4 397 (14.94%) Software Engineer
5 312 (11.74%) Software Developer
6 309 (11.63%) Lead
7 252 (9.48%) Senior Developer
8 212 (7.98%) C# Developer
9 186 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 161 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
11 153 (5.76%) C# Software Engineer
12 144 (5.42%) Lead Developer
12 144 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
14 116 (4.37%) .NET Software Developer
14 116 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
15 111 (4.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 96 (3.61%) Architect
17 90 (3.39%) Web Developer
18 78 (2.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (29.70%) .NET Core
2 775 (29.17%) ASP.NET
3 590 (22.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (17.01%) React
5 386 (14.53%) HTML
6 383 (14.41%) CSS
7 327 (12.31%) AngularJS
8 302 (11.37%) Entity Framework
9 299 (11.25%) RESTful
10 297 (11.18%) Blazor
11 290 (10.91%) .NET Framework
12 265 (9.97%) Vue
13 262 (9.86%) Node.js
14 223 (8.39%) ASP.NET Web API
15 221 (8.32%) REST
16 145 (5.46%) ML.NET
17 134 (5.04%) Terraform
18 109 (4.10%) LINQ
19 83 (3.12%) JSON
20 80 (3.01%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
3 142 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 42 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
9 41 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 41 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.09%) Legacy Code
13 24 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 22 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.72%) Data Structures
17 18 (0.68%) Client/Server
18 17 (0.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 111 (4.18%) Windows
2 37 (1.39%) Linux
3 36 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.13%) Android
5 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (35.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 873 (32.86%) Agile
3 702 (26.42%) DevOps
4 697 (26.23%) CI/CD
5 691 (26.01%) Software Engineering
6 471 (17.73%) Microservices
7 438 (16.48%) AI
8 382 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 274 (10.31%) Mentoring
11 224 (8.43%) SDLC
12 213 (8.02%) Machine Learning
13 206 (7.75%) Test Automation
14 186 (7.00%) Scrum
15 181 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.55%) Multithreading
17 172 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 168 (6.32%) TDD
19 154 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
19 154 (5.80%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2,027 (76.29%) C#
2 1,021 (38.43%) SQL
3 603 (22.69%) JavaScript
4 372 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 237 (8.92%) Python
6 172 (6.47%) Java
7 96 (3.61%) C++
8 76 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.48%) PHP
10 65 (2.45%) VB.NET
11 64 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 43 (1.62%) Bicep
13 28 (1.05%) C
14 24 (0.90%) Bash
15 19 (0.72%) Go
15 19 (0.72%) VB
16 18 (0.68%) VBA
17 15 (0.56%) COBOL
18 11 (0.41%) JCL
19 9 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 239 (9.00%) Degree
2 117 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 102 (3.84%) Security Cleared
4 83 (3.12%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) 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
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) PhD
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.02%) QA
2 72 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.68%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.038%) Basel III
9 1 (0.038%) GRC
9 1 (0.038%) ITGC
9 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 333 (12.53%) Docker
2 21 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 303 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.56%) Grafana
2 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.075%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 955 (35.94%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.82%) Google
3 55 (2.07%) Facebook
4 45 (1.69%) Oracle
5 33 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) Adobe
7 21 (0.79%) YouTube
8 19 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
10 14 (0.53%) VMware
11 12 (0.45%) iManage
11 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.41%) Apple
12 11 (0.41%) Sony
12 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.38%) Intapp
13 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
14 9 (0.34%) Sage
14 9 (0.34%) SAP