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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -42 -14 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,542 2,526 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 5.83% 7.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.13% 26.14% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,737 4,802
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
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 £79,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 6,666 9,663 15,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.96% 22.32% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,113 5,968 12,913
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -8.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

.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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -33 426 £80,000 +6.67% 208
South East -36 380 £60,000 - 200
North of England -37 349 £65,000 +13.04% 157
Midlands -37 203 £52,500 -8.70% 67
North West -30 185 £65,000 +13.04% 97
West Midlands -38 116 £50,000 -13.04% 38
Yorkshire -44 106 £60,000 +13.21% 36
South West -49 98 £55,000 -8.33% 65
East Midlands -34 87 £64,000 +23.08% 29
East of England -62 62 £60,000 +20.00% 45
North East -8 58 £70,000 +12.00% 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 44 (2.85%) IIS
2 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.04%) CMS
4 13 (0.84%) JBoss
4 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 7 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.32%) Confluence
6 5 (0.32%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.065%) Apache
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.065%) Kentico
9 1 (0.065%) SAS
9 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.065%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.065%) Endur
3 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 754 (48.90%) Azure
2 290 (18.81%) AWS
3 233 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (14.53%) SaaS
5 123 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 103 (6.68%) GitHub
7 102 (6.61%) Serverless
8 74 (4.80%) GCP
9 59 (3.83%) Azure Functions
10 58 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
11 57 (3.70%) Power Automate
12 50 (3.24%) PowerApps
13 46 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 41 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.40%) Entra ID
17 31 (2.01%) Azure AKS
18 27 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.91%) Internet
2 11 (0.71%) DNS
3 10 (0.65%) DHCP
3 10 (0.65%) Firewall
4 8 (0.52%) WinSCP
5 7 (0.45%) VPN
6 5 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.32%) VoIP
7 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.19%) Intranet
8 3 (0.19%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.065%) AMQP
10 1 (0.065%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.065%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.065%) IPv6
10 1 (0.065%) MPLS
10 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (25.36%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 53 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (3.44%) Power BI
4 51 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 45 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 42 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 39 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (2.33%) MySQL
10 21 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 20 (1.30%) Redis
12 12 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.45%) DB2
15 6 (0.39%) Tableau
16 4 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
17 3 (0.19%) GIS
17 3 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
17 3 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 131 (8.50%) Git
2 47 (3.05%) JIRA
3 46 (2.98%) Selenium
4 41 (2.66%) Visual Studio
5 34 (2.20%) Postman
6 30 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
8 26 (1.69%) SoapUI
9 19 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.17%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.97%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.45%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.39%) git-flow
15 6 (0.39%) GitLab
16 5 (0.32%) NUnit
17 4 (0.26%) MSTest
17 4 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 325 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 282 (18.29%) Finance
3 67 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (4.28%) Law
5 51 (3.31%) Banking
6 49 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 36 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.69%) Legal
9 20 (1.30%) Games
9 20 (1.30%) Marketing
10 18 (1.17%) Retail
11 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.04%) Aviation
13 15 (0.97%) Front Office
14 11 (0.71%) Electronics
14 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.58%) Military
15 9 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 830 (53.83%) Developer
2 358 (23.22%) Senior
3 342 (22.18%) .NET Developer
4 271 (17.57%) Software Engineer
5 257 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 180 (11.67%) Lead
7 174 (11.28%) C# Developer
8 160 (10.38%) Senior Developer
9 156 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 129 (8.37%) .NET Software Engineer
11 110 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (5.90%) .NET Software Developer
12 91 (5.90%) C# .NET Developer
13 76 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 75 (4.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 70 (4.54%) Senior .NET Developer
16 68 (4.41%) Lead Developer
17 58 (3.76%) C# Software Engineer
18 52 (3.37%) Analyst
19 46 (2.98%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (23.28%) .NET Core
2 290 (18.81%) React
3 224 (14.53%) ASP.NET
4 204 (13.23%) .NET Framework
5 186 (12.06%) HTML
6 158 (10.25%) CSS
7 147 (9.53%) AngularJS
8 131 (8.50%) REST
9 105 (6.81%) RESTful
10 88 (5.71%) Blazor
11 87 (5.64%) Entity Framework
12 64 (4.15%) ASP.NET Core
12 64 (4.15%) Node.js
13 62 (4.02%) Vue
14 59 (3.83%) SOAP
15 48 (3.11%) ASP.NET MVC
16 44 (2.85%) ASP.NET Web API
17 38 (2.46%) HTML5
18 36 (2.33%) Middleware
19 34 (2.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
12 16 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.91%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.84%) DataPower
16 12 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.38%) Windows
2 27 (1.75%) Android
3 26 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 24 (1.56%) Linux
5 23 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.97%) VMS
7 9 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.065%) Fedora
10 1 (0.065%) Solaris
10 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (34.95%) Agile
2 494 (32.04%) Software Engineering
3 395 (25.62%) DevOps
4 386 (25.03%) CI/CD
5 377 (24.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 264 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 262 (16.99%) Microservices
8 205 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 162 (10.51%) AI
11 133 (8.63%) SDLC
12 131 (8.50%) Scrum
13 124 (8.04%) Clean Code
14 121 (7.85%) Containerisation
15 115 (7.46%) User Experience
16 113 (7.33%) Test Automation
17 107 (6.94%) MVC
18 98 (6.36%) Computer Science
19 97 (6.29%) TDD
20 94 (6.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (68.48%) C#
2 479 (31.06%) SQL
3 373 (24.19%) JavaScript
4 213 (13.81%) TypeScript
5 151 (9.79%) Java
6 133 (8.63%) Python
7 63 (4.09%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.20%) C++
9 31 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.95%) VB.NET
11 23 (1.49%) Bicep
11 23 (1.49%) PHP
12 17 (1.10%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.97%) C
14 13 (0.84%) Bash
15 12 (0.78%) Rust
16 9 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.45%) Go
18 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 197 (12.78%) Degree
2 56 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (3.31%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 30 (1.95%) ISTQB
6 23 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.45%) ISEB
12 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.19%) MCSE
15 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (6.74%) QA
2 45 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.97%) GDPR
3 15 (0.97%) WCAG
4 9 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.26%) SLA
8 3 (0.19%) GRC
8 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.065%) ITGC
9 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (9.86%) Docker
2 25 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 122 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 89 (5.77%) Terraform
3 14 (0.91%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Ansible
5 8 (0.52%) Kibana
5 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.13%) Argo
6 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.065%) CASB
7 1 (0.065%) Control-M
Vendors
1 274 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.88%) Xamarin
4 19 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 18 (1.17%) Google
5 18 (1.17%) Oracle
6 12 (0.78%) Sage
7 10 (0.65%) New Relic
8 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.58%) Telerik
9 8 (0.52%) Databricks
10 7 (0.45%) Adobe
10 7 (0.45%) Apple
11 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.39%) VMware
12 5 (0.32%) Datto
12 5 (0.32%) IBM
12 5 (0.32%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.32%) SAP
12 5 (0.32%) Syncfusion