.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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -50 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,407 3,008 3,348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.68% 5.97% 7.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.54% 27.60% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,252 2,043 3,002
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,288 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 6,242 10,897 11,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.91% 21.64% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,805 6,543 9,303
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% -3.18%
75th Percentile £85,250 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

.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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -34 388 £80,000 +3.23% 295
North of England -36 334 £60,000 +9.09% 324
South East -39 334 £60,000 - 390
Midlands -52 181 £57,500 +4.55% 209
North West -29 167 £65,000 +14.29% 183
West Midlands -29 118 £54,344 -5.49% 104
Yorkshire -31 116 £56,250 +7.14% 103
South West -61 81 £55,000 -4.35% 118
East Midlands -54 63 £65,000 +26.21% 94
East of England -65 61 £60,000 +20.00% 159
North East -11 51 £50,000 -23.08% 39
.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 (3.62%) IIS
2 30 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.56%) CMS
4 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.92%) Confluence
6 10 (0.71%) JBoss
6 10 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.36%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.071%) Apache
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.071%) Kentico
12 1 (0.071%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.14%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.071%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.071%) Endur
5 1 (0.071%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 790 (56.15%) Azure
2 328 (23.31%) AWS
3 233 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
4 186 (13.22%) SaaS
5 123 (8.74%) Power Platform
6 104 (7.39%) GitHub
6 104 (7.39%) Serverless
7 84 (5.97%) GCP
8 68 (4.83%) Power Automate
9 58 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 54 (3.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 53 (3.77%) PowerApps
13 50 (3.55%) Azure Functions
14 43 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 43 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 32 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.78%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) DNS
2 13 (0.92%) DHCP
3 12 (0.85%) Firewall
3 12 (0.85%) Internet
3 12 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.85%) VoIP
4 9 (0.64%) VPN
5 7 (0.50%) SAN
6 5 (0.36%) HTTP
6 5 (0.36%) LAN
6 5 (0.36%) SSL
6 5 (0.36%) WAN
6 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.21%) Intranet
8 2 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.14%) NAS
8 2 (0.14%) VLAN
8 2 (0.14%) WPA
9 1 (0.071%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (27.93%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.90%) NoSQL
3 70 (4.98%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 61 (4.34%) MySQL
6 48 (3.41%) Power BI
6 48 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 48 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 44 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 28 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 22 (1.56%) Redis
10 20 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.64%) Tableau
13 7 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
15 5 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
15 5 (0.36%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 149 (10.59%) Git
2 69 (4.90%) JIRA
3 46 (3.27%) Selenium
4 41 (2.91%) Team Foundation Server
5 40 (2.84%) Postman
6 31 (2.20%) SoapUI
6 31 (2.20%) Visual Studio
7 29 (2.06%) WebDriver
8 25 (1.78%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 20 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.85%) Storybook
12 11 (0.78%) GitLab
13 9 (0.64%) NUnit
13 9 (0.64%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.57%) MSTest
15 6 (0.43%) git-flow
16 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
18 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
General
1 356 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 259 (18.41%) Finance
3 71 (5.05%) Law
4 57 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 41 (2.91%) Banking
7 35 (2.49%) Legal
8 34 (2.42%) Retail
9 27 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.49%) Front Office
11 20 (1.42%) Marketing
12 19 (1.35%) Billing
13 18 (1.28%) Games
14 15 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.92%) Aviation
15 13 (0.92%) Back Office
15 13 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.85%) Automotive
17 9 (0.64%) Publishing
18 8 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 789 (56.08%) Developer
2 309 (21.96%) Senior
3 307 (21.82%) .NET Developer
4 200 (14.21%) Software Developer
5 186 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.86%) Lead
7 164 (11.66%) C# Developer
8 162 (11.51%) Senior Developer
9 142 (10.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 69 (4.90%) .NET Software Developer
11 66 (4.69%) .NET Software Engineer
11 66 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
12 64 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (4.26%) Senior .NET Developer
14 57 (4.05%) Lead Developer
15 55 (3.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 55 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 53 (3.77%) Analyst
17 43 (3.06%) Engineering Manager
18 40 (2.84%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (22.96%) .NET Core
2 309 (21.96%) React
3 253 (17.98%) ASP.NET
4 229 (16.28%) .NET Framework
5 202 (14.36%) HTML
6 179 (12.72%) AngularJS
7 174 (12.37%) CSS
8 132 (9.38%) RESTful
9 111 (7.89%) REST
10 110 (7.82%) Entity Framework
11 95 (6.75%) Blazor
12 78 (5.54%) ASP.NET MVC
13 77 (5.47%) Node.js
13 77 (5.47%) Vue
14 65 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
14 65 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
15 54 (3.84%) SOAP
16 45 (3.20%) HTML5
17 41 (2.91%) Web Services
18 34 (2.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.91%) Mobile App
4 54 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.00%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (0.78%) Clustering
13 11 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.78%) Fixed Income
13 11 (0.78%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.69%) Windows
2 29 (2.06%) Linux
3 27 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.78%) Android
4 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.57%) VMS
7 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.071%) Fedora
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (42.08%) Agile
2 426 (30.28%) DevOps
3 415 (29.50%) CI/CD
4 403 (28.64%) Software Engineering
5 356 (25.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 286 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 274 (19.47%) Microservices
8 228 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 188 (13.36%) Mentoring
10 153 (10.87%) Scrum
11 143 (10.16%) MVC
12 141 (10.02%) Clean Code
13 140 (9.95%) AI
14 139 (9.88%) User Experience
15 119 (8.46%) SDLC
16 116 (8.24%) Computer Science
17 109 (7.75%) Containerisation
17 109 (7.75%) TDD
18 106 (7.53%) Test Automation
19 104 (7.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (72.07%) C#
2 481 (34.19%) SQL
3 396 (28.14%) JavaScript
4 234 (16.63%) TypeScript
5 160 (11.37%) Java
6 117 (8.32%) Python
7 60 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.77%) T-SQL
9 36 (2.56%) C++
9 36 (2.56%) VB.NET
10 34 (2.42%) PHP
11 28 (1.99%) Bicep
12 20 (1.42%) Bash
13 14 (1.00%) Rust
14 11 (0.78%) Go
15 9 (0.64%) XAML
16 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.43%) C
17 6 (0.43%) VB
18 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 219 (15.57%) Degree
2 78 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (2.77%) ISTQB
4 38 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 33 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.71%) ISEB
12 9 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.43%) HND
15 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.36%) MCSE
16 4 (0.28%) MCSA
17 3 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
18 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.40%) QA
2 37 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.21%) GDPR
4 12 (0.85%) WCAG
5 4 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.28%) GRC
6 3 (0.21%) HL7
6 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.071%) COBIT
7 1 (0.071%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (10.73%) Docker
2 31 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.071%) Firmware
6 1 (0.071%) HDFS
6 1 (0.071%) Squid
Systems Management
1 108 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 100 (7.11%) Terraform
3 17 (1.21%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.21%) Kibana
7 2 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.071%) CASB
8 1 (0.071%) Control-M
8 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 313 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.92%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.78%) Oracle
4 24 (1.71%) Xamarin
5 17 (1.21%) Google
6 14 (1.00%) MuleSoft
7 13 (0.92%) Guidewire
7 13 (0.92%) Sage
8 11 (0.78%) Databricks
8 11 (0.78%) Telerik
9 10 (0.71%) New Relic
10 9 (0.64%) Apple
10 9 (0.64%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.57%) Adobe
12 7 (0.50%) Datto
12 7 (0.50%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.50%) Freshdesk
12 7 (0.50%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.50%) Syncfusion