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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 55 23
Rank change year-on-year +1 -32 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,291 1,851 6,726
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 4.71% 7.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.61% 23.72% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,077 1,373 5,685
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 8,611 7,804 17,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 19.85% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,553 5,236 14,550
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,434 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +10.72% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,075
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +15 605 £57,500 - 130
London -14 547 £80,000 - 140
North of England -6 519 £60,000 - 111
North West +4 277 £62,500 +11.11% 65
Midlands -3 274 £55,000 - 61
South West +7 174 £55,000 +4.76% 43
East of England +6 150 £65,000 +30.00% 45
West Midlands -27 141 £55,000 +2.44% 37
East Midlands +14 133 £55,000 - 24
Yorkshire -8 124 £60,000 -7.69% 16
North East +2 118 £59,000 +7.27% 31
.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 58 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.13%) IIS
3 25 (1.09%) CMS
4 16 (0.70%) ColdFusion
4 16 (0.70%) Confluence
5 13 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.31%) Apache
7 7 (0.31%) JBoss
8 6 (0.26%) WordPress
9 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
11 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.044%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.044%) CICS
Applications
1 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.087%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.087%) Shopify
5 1 (0.044%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.044%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.044%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.044%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,079 (47.10%) Azure
2 334 (14.58%) AWS
3 321 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
4 243 (10.61%) SaaS
5 151 (6.59%) GitHub
6 142 (6.20%) Power Platform
7 128 (5.59%) Serverless
8 111 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 87 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 84 (3.67%) Azure AI
10 84 (3.67%) GitHub Copilot
11 83 (3.62%) Power Automate
12 80 (3.49%) Azure Functions
13 79 (3.45%) PowerApps
14 75 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
15 72 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 52 (2.27%) Azure AKS
16 52 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
17 49 (2.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.58%) Internet
2 10 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.39%) Firewall
4 6 (0.26%) DHCP
4 6 (0.26%) DNS
5 5 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.22%) LAN
5 5 (0.22%) LTE
5 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 4 (0.17%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 2 (0.087%) Modbus
9 1 (0.044%) AMQP
9 1 (0.044%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.044%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.044%) MPLS
9 1 (0.044%) Profibus
9 1 (0.044%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 293 (12.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 240 (10.48%) MongoDB
4 91 (3.97%) Power BI
5 83 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
6 66 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 54 (2.36%) MySQL
8 41 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (0.65%) Redis
13 12 (0.52%) Db2
14 11 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.48%) GIS
15 6 (0.26%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.26%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.22%) Big Data
16 5 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
16 5 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 136 (5.94%) Git
2 49 (2.14%) JIRA
3 34 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 30 (1.31%) Postman
4 30 (1.31%) Selenium
5 16 (0.70%) SoapUI
5 16 (0.70%) SpecFlow
5 16 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 16 (0.70%) WebDriver
6 14 (0.61%) GitLab
7 13 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 13 (0.57%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 12 (0.52%) NUnit
9 9 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 376 (16.41%) Finance
2 329 (14.36%) Social Skills
3 96 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (2.71%) Retail
5 61 (2.66%) Public Sector
6 46 (2.01%) Banking
7 42 (1.83%) Law
8 39 (1.70%) Legal
8 39 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 38 (1.66%) Games
10 32 (1.40%) Marketing
11 31 (1.35%) Advertising
12 30 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.00%) Automotive
15 20 (0.87%) Electronics
16 12 (0.52%) Back Office
17 11 (0.48%) Legal Technology
18 10 (0.44%) Aviation
18 10 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,339 (58.45%) Developer
2 731 (31.91%) .NET Developer
3 487 (21.26%) Senior
4 406 (17.72%) Software Engineer
5 340 (14.84%) Software Developer
6 250 (10.91%) Lead
7 242 (10.56%) Senior Developer
8 204 (8.90%) C# Developer
9 191 (8.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 189 (8.25%) .NET Software Engineer
11 163 (7.11%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 147 (6.42%) C# Software Engineer
14 131 (5.72%) .NET Software Developer
15 119 (5.19%) Lead Developer
16 112 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 111 (4.85%) Senior .NET Developer
18 88 (3.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 81 (3.54%) Architect
20 74 (3.23%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (26.15%) .NET Core
2 504 (22.00%) ASP.NET
3 350 (15.28%) React
4 338 (14.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 286 (12.48%) HTML
6 280 (12.22%) CSS
7 235 (10.26%) AngularJS
8 226 (9.86%) .NET Framework
9 196 (8.56%) RESTful
10 193 (8.42%) Entity Framework
11 190 (8.29%) Blazor
12 183 (7.99%) Vue
13 168 (7.33%) Node.js
14 165 (7.20%) REST
15 132 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
16 75 (3.27%) ML.NET
17 65 (2.84%) LINQ
18 57 (2.49%) JSON
19 55 (2.40%) jQuery
20 45 (1.96%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 106 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
3 82 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
4 78 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 74 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 59 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 56 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.48%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
10 25 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 20 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 17 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 16 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.70%) PropTech
13 16 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (0.61%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.61%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.61%) Sports Betting
16 13 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.32%) Windows
2 27 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 25 (1.09%) Linux
4 24 (1.05%) Android
5 12 (0.52%) VMS
6 9 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.087%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.044%) Solaris
9 1 (0.044%) Unix
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (31.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 662 (28.90%) Agile
3 636 (27.76%) Software Engineering
4 522 (22.78%) CI/CD
5 507 (22.13%) DevOps
6 348 (15.19%) Microservices
7 311 (13.57%) AI
8 269 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 212 (9.25%) Mentoring
11 182 (7.94%) SDLC
11 182 (7.94%) Test Automation
12 138 (6.02%) Scrum
13 137 (5.98%) Machine Learning
14 136 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (5.89%) Clean Code
15 135 (5.89%) TDD
16 132 (5.76%) Containerisation
17 117 (5.11%) Fintech
18 115 (5.02%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,644 (71.76%) C#
2 791 (34.53%) SQL
3 472 (20.60%) JavaScript
4 299 (13.05%) TypeScript
5 198 (8.64%) Python
6 150 (6.55%) Java
7 79 (3.45%) C++
7 79 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 55 (2.40%) PHP
9 45 (1.96%) VB.NET
10 43 (1.88%) T-SQL
11 35 (1.53%) Bicep
12 23 (1.00%) C
13 20 (0.87%) VB
14 19 (0.83%) Bash
15 15 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 15 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.52%) VBA
17 11 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 208 (9.08%) Degree
2 85 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 64 (2.79%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 7 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.13%) PhD
14 2 (0.087%) CSQA
14 2 (0.087%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.89%) QA
2 55 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.74%) GDPR
4 16 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.52%) WCAG
6 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.35%) SLA
7 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.087%) ITGC
10 2 (0.087%) NCSC
10 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 217 (9.47%) Docker
2 17 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.52%) Firmware
4 8 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 210 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.63%) Terraform
3 13 (0.57%) Grafana
4 7 (0.31%) Kibana
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.087%) MIIS
8 1 (0.044%) CASB
8 1 (0.044%) Consul
8 1 (0.044%) MOM
8 1 (0.044%) Packer
8 1 (0.044%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.044%) Puppet
Vendors
1 596 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 38 (1.66%) Google
3 34 (1.48%) Oracle
4 30 (1.31%) Salesforce
5 28 (1.22%) Facebook
6 26 (1.13%) Adobe
7 25 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.00%) Xamarin
9 18 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.48%) Databricks
10 11 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.48%) YouTube
11 9 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.39%) iManage
11 9 (0.39%) VMware
12 7 (0.31%) Intapp
13 6 (0.26%) Apple
13 6 (0.26%) IBM
13 6 (0.26%) Sony
13 6 (0.26%) Yahoo!