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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 50 24
Rank change year-on-year -28 -26 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,849 1,931 6,206
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.39% 5.17% 7.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.87% 24.80% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,606 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 £95,000 £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 7,746 7,785 16,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.00% 20.84% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 5,911 14,075
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,038
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 20 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 20 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 -27 480 £82,500 +6.45% 221
South East -19 464 £60,000 - 188
North of England -13 423 £63,000 +9.57% 157
North West -7 223 £65,000 +13.04% 86
Midlands -44 219 £55,000 - 70
South West -7 146 £55,000 -8.33% 62
Yorkshire -40 126 £60,000 - 46
West Midlands -56 113 £52,500 -8.70% 32
East Midlands -32 106 £65,000 +23.81% 38
East of England -49 94 £65,000 +30.00% 60
North East -18 74 £70,000 +21.74% 26
.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 48 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.41%) IIS
3 19 (1.03%) CMS
4 13 (0.70%) JBoss
4 13 (0.70%) Umbraco
5 12 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 11 (0.59%) ColdFusion
7 8 (0.43%) Confluence
8 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.27%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.16%) Apache
11 3 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.054%) CICS
13 1 (0.054%) Drupal
13 1 (0.054%) SAS
13 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) 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 29 (1.57%) 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
1 794 (42.94%) Azure
2 284 (15.36%) AWS
3 245 (13.25%) SaaS
4 222 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
5 141 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 114 (6.17%) Serverless
7 104 (5.62%) GitHub
8 97 (5.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 73 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 72 (3.89%) Power Automate
11 64 (3.46%) Azure Functions
12 59 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
12 59 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (2.76%) GCP
14 48 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
15 47 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 43 (2.33%) Azure AKS
17 37 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
18 35 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (1.51%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.97%) Internet
2 9 (0.49%) Firewall
3 8 (0.43%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.32%) Intranet
5 5 (0.27%) DNS
6 4 (0.22%) DHCP
6 4 (0.22%) LTE
7 3 (0.16%) VoIP
7 3 (0.16%) VPN
8 2 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.054%) AMQP
9 1 (0.054%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.054%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.054%) HTTP
9 1 (0.054%) Modbus
9 1 (0.054%) MPLS
9 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (22.82%) SQL Server
2 84 (4.54%) Power BI
3 80 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 77 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 47 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 39 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 37 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 35 (1.89%) MySQL
11 17 (0.92%) Redis
12 16 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.65%) DB2
15 6 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.32%) GIS
16 5 (0.27%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 124 (6.71%) Git
2 50 (2.70%) JIRA
3 47 (2.54%) Selenium
4 42 (2.27%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.95%) Postman
6 29 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.35%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.30%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.92%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.87%) Jenkins
11 15 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.59%) NUnit
14 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 6 (0.32%) JMeter
16 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.27%) LabVIEW
18 4 (0.22%) MSTest
General
1 330 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 300 (16.22%) Finance
3 85 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (3.24%) Law
5 56 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 54 (2.92%) Banking
7 31 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (1.62%) Retail
9 27 (1.46%) Legal
10 22 (1.19%) Games
11 16 (0.87%) Front Office
11 16 (0.87%) Marketing
12 15 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.76%) Aviation
14 11 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.54%) Automotive
15 10 (0.54%) Back Office
15 10 (0.54%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.49%) Military
17 8 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,037 (56.08%) Developer
2 447 (24.18%) Senior
3 441 (23.85%) .NET Developer
4 328 (17.74%) Software Engineer
5 305 (16.50%) Software Developer
6 232 (12.55%) Lead
7 220 (11.90%) Senior Developer
8 216 (11.68%) C# Developer
9 174 (9.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 154 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
11 147 (7.95%) C# .NET Developer
12 133 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 104 (5.62%) .NET Software Developer
14 93 (5.03%) Lead Developer
14 93 (5.03%) Senior .NET Developer
15 86 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 83 (4.49%) C# Software Engineer
16 83 (4.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 77 (4.16%) Architect
18 66 (3.57%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (22.34%) .NET Core
2 277 (14.98%) ASP.NET
3 265 (14.33%) React
4 211 (11.41%) .NET Framework
5 208 (11.25%) HTML
6 181 (9.79%) CSS
7 144 (7.79%) REST
8 132 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 124 (6.71%) RESTful
10 100 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 98 (5.30%) Blazor
12 95 (5.14%) Node.js
13 90 (4.87%) Entity Framework
14 77 (4.16%) Vue
15 58 (3.14%) SOAP
16 41 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
16 41 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
17 39 (2.11%) Playwright
18 37 (2.00%) Middleware
19 36 (1.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 65 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.68%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
9 25 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 19 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 18 (0.97%) Legacy Code
13 17 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 14 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.76%) Sports Betting
15 13 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.70%) PropTech
16 12 (0.65%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.43%) Windows
2 27 (1.46%) Linux
3 24 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.03%) Android
5 18 (0.97%) VMS
6 16 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.16%) Unix
8 3 (0.16%) 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
1 552 (29.85%) Software Engineering
2 508 (27.47%) Agile
3 429 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 399 (21.58%) DevOps
5 387 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 265 (14.33%) Microservices
7 243 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (9.46%) Mentoring
10 158 (8.55%) AI
11 157 (8.49%) Test Automation
12 148 (8.00%) SDLC
13 135 (7.30%) Clean Code
14 129 (6.98%) Containerisation
15 125 (6.76%) Scrum
16 124 (6.71%) Technical Leadership
17 111 (6.00%) MVC
18 105 (5.68%) User Experience
19 98 (5.30%) TDD
20 95 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,264 (68.36%) C#
2 553 (29.91%) SQL
3 381 (20.61%) JavaScript
4 208 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 169 (9.14%) Java
6 152 (8.22%) Python
7 68 (3.68%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.60%) C++
9 41 (2.22%) PHP
10 36 (1.95%) Bicep
11 35 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 33 (1.78%) VB.NET
13 20 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.92%) C
15 15 (0.81%) Bash
15 15 (0.81%) VB
16 13 (0.70%) Go
17 12 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (9.57%) Degree
2 77 (4.16%) Security Cleared
3 64 (3.46%) SC Cleared
4 48 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (0.87%) 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.27%) ISEB
12 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.57%) QA
2 48 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.76%) GDPR
5 13 (0.70%) WCAG
6 9 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.38%) SLA
8 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.22%) 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 (8.11%) Docker
2 14 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.43%) Firmware
4 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.92%) Terraform
3 15 (0.81%) Grafana
4 10 (0.54%) Ansible
5 7 (0.38%) Kibana
6 4 (0.22%) 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
1 330 (17.85%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.51%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.35%) Xamarin
4 20 (1.08%) Adobe
5 19 (1.03%) Google
6 17 (0.92%) MuleSoft
6 17 (0.92%) Oracle
7 14 (0.76%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.43%) New Relic
10 7 (0.38%) Databricks
10 7 (0.38%) iManage
10 7 (0.38%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.32%) Sage
11 6 (0.32%) Telerik
11 6 (0.32%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) Apple
12 5 (0.27%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.27%) IBM
12 5 (0.27%) Intapp