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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 49 24
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,862 1,904 6,227
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 5.09% 7.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.00% 25.00% 36.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 1,580 5,425
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 7,758 7,615 16,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 20.37% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,870 5,860 14,094
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,544
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 April 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 April 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
London -28 490 £82,500 +6.45% 194
South East -20 471 £60,000 - 173
North of England -13 421 £62,750 +9.13% 140
North West -11 220 £65,000 +13.04% 84
Midlands -47 215 £55,000 +2.44% 69
South West -5 146 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -37 128 £60,000 - 34
West Midlands -48 111 £52,500 -8.70% 33
East Midlands -35 104 £65,000 +23.81% 35
East of England -49 97 £66,250 +26.19% 46
North East -19 73 £70,000 +21.74% 22
.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 51 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.40%) IIS
3 20 (1.07%) CMS
4 13 (0.70%) JBoss
4 13 (0.70%) Umbraco
5 12 (0.64%) ColdFusion
6 11 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.48%) Confluence
8 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.21%) Apache
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.054%) Appian
12 1 (0.054%) CICS
12 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.054%) SAS
12 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 26 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.054%) Endur
3 1 (0.054%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.054%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 790 (42.43%) Azure
2 280 (15.04%) AWS
3 246 (13.21%) SaaS
4 222 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
5 141 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 110 (5.91%) Serverless
7 98 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 98 (5.26%) GitHub
8 76 (4.08%) PowerApps
9 74 (3.97%) Power Automate
10 61 (3.28%) Azure Functions
11 58 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 57 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
13 52 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
14 51 (2.74%) GCP
15 45 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (2.36%) Azure AKS
17 37 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
18 33 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.02%) Internet
2 8 (0.43%) Firewall
2 8 (0.43%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.32%) Intranet
4 4 (0.21%) DNS
4 4 (0.21%) LTE
5 3 (0.16%) DHCP
6 2 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.11%) VoIP
6 2 (0.11%) VPN
7 1 (0.054%) AMQP
7 1 (0.054%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.054%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.054%) HTTP
7 1 (0.054%) Modbus
7 1 (0.054%) MPLS
7 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (22.45%) SQL Server
2 87 (4.67%) Power BI
3 86 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 77 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 46 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 39 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 39 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (1.83%) MySQL
8 34 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.86%) Redis
10 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.64%) DB2
13 6 (0.32%) GIS
14 5 (0.27%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 123 (6.61%) Git
2 52 (2.79%) JIRA
3 46 (2.47%) Selenium
4 41 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.93%) Postman
6 29 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.34%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.29%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.91%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.86%) Jenkins
11 15 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.59%) NUnit
14 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (0.32%) JMeter
15 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.27%) LabVIEW
16 5 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 323 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 301 (16.17%) Finance
3 83 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (3.11%) Law
5 55 (2.95%) Public Sector
6 52 (2.79%) Banking
7 30 (1.61%) Retail
8 29 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.45%) Legal
10 22 (1.18%) Games
11 16 (0.86%) Marketing
12 15 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.75%) Aviation
13 14 (0.75%) Front Office
14 11 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.59%) Automotive
15 9 (0.48%) Back Office
15 9 (0.48%) Military
15 9 (0.48%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,044 (56.07%) Developer
2 449 (24.11%) .NET Developer
2 449 (24.11%) Senior
3 332 (17.83%) Software Engineer
4 306 (16.43%) Software Developer
5 229 (12.30%) Lead
6 225 (12.08%) Senior Developer
7 215 (11.55%) C# Developer
8 171 (9.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 157 (8.43%) .NET Software Engineer
10 148 (7.95%) C# .NET Developer
11 133 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 104 (5.59%) .NET Software Developer
13 97 (5.21%) Senior .NET Developer
14 92 (4.94%) Lead Developer
15 90 (4.83%) C# Software Engineer
16 89 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 83 (4.46%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 78 (4.19%) Architect
19 66 (3.54%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (22.40%) .NET Core
2 275 (14.77%) ASP.NET
3 256 (13.75%) React
4 208 (11.17%) .NET Framework
5 206 (11.06%) HTML
6 181 (9.72%) CSS
7 142 (7.63%) REST
8 129 (6.93%) AngularJS
9 125 (6.71%) RESTful
10 98 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 96 (5.16%) Blazor
12 94 (5.05%) Node.js
13 90 (4.83%) Entity Framework
14 79 (4.24%) Vue
15 57 (3.06%) SOAP
16 41 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web API
17 40 (2.15%) ASP.NET MVC
17 40 (2.15%) Playwright
18 39 (2.09%) JSON
19 35 (1.88%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 65 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 27 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
10 21 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 19 (1.02%) Legacy Code
11 19 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 17 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 14 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.75%) Sports Betting
14 13 (0.70%) PropTech
15 12 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.64%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.35%) Windows
2 26 (1.40%) Linux
3 24 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.02%) Android
5 17 (0.91%) VMS
6 16 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.16%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.054%) Solaris
9 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (29.59%) Software Engineering
2 504 (27.07%) Agile
3 433 (23.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 395 (21.21%) DevOps
5 389 (20.89%) CI/CD
6 264 (14.18%) Microservices
7 238 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (9.34%) Mentoring
10 160 (8.59%) Test Automation
11 159 (8.54%) AI
12 150 (8.06%) SDLC
13 134 (7.20%) Clean Code
14 129 (6.93%) Containerisation
15 128 (6.87%) Technical Leadership
16 121 (6.50%) Scrum
17 110 (5.91%) MVC
18 105 (5.64%) User Experience
19 98 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
20 96 (5.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,266 (67.99%) C#
2 561 (30.13%) SQL
3 376 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 207 (11.12%) TypeScript
5 167 (8.97%) Java
6 159 (8.54%) Python
7 71 (3.81%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.58%) C++
9 44 (2.36%) PHP
10 35 (1.88%) Bicep
11 34 (1.83%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.72%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.02%) Apex Code
14 18 (0.97%) C
15 15 (0.81%) Bash
15 15 (0.81%) VB
16 13 (0.70%) Go
17 12 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 183 (9.83%) Degree
2 79 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 65 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 54 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (1.34%) ISTQB
6 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.21%) ISEB
12 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.48%) QA
2 48 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.75%) GDPR
5 13 (0.70%) WCAG
6 9 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.38%) SLA
8 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.054%) NCSC
12 1 (0.054%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (8.06%) Docker
2 13 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.43%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 136 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.94%) Terraform
3 15 (0.81%) Grafana
4 9 (0.48%) Ansible
5 7 (0.38%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.11%) MIIS
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) CASB
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Control-M
8 1 (0.054%) Packer
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 335 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.45%) Salesforce
3 26 (1.40%) Adobe
4 23 (1.24%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.07%) Oracle
6 19 (1.02%) Google
7 16 (0.86%) MuleSoft
7 16 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.38%) Databricks
9 7 (0.38%) iManage
9 7 (0.38%) New Relic
9 7 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.27%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.27%) IBM
10 5 (0.27%) Intapp
10 5 (0.27%) Sage
10 5 (0.27%) Telerik
10 5 (0.27%) VMware
11 4 (0.21%) Apple