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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 69 26
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,598 1,632 4,323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.59% 3.80% 6.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.49% 21.56% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,292 1,217 3,050
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 10,607 7,568 14,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 17.61% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 7,809 4,981 9,643
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%

.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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +47 688 £60,000 - 300
North of England +3 594 £56,500 -5.83% 362
London -29 534 £80,000 - 975
Midlands +34 350 £60,000 +9.09% 192
North West -16 263 £60,000 -4.00% 209
East of England +28 214 £60,000 +14.29% 117
South West -4 194 £55,000 +6.80% 94
West Midlands -1 186 £58,750 +6.82% 103
North East +6 179 £56,500 +30.26% 66
East Midlands +49 164 £60,000 +9.09% 88
Yorkshire +1 152 £55,000 -8.33% 90
.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 69 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.85%) IIS
3 26 (1.00%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 12 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.35%) WordPress
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Magento
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (52.66%) Azure
2 474 (18.24%) AWS
3 458 (17.63%) Azure DevOps
4 246 (9.47%) GitHub
5 190 (7.31%) Power Platform
6 187 (7.20%) SaaS
7 168 (6.47%) Azure AI
8 161 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 150 (5.77%) Serverless
10 124 (4.77%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 103 (3.96%) PowerApps
13 100 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 100 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
14 97 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 80 (3.08%) Azure Functions
16 77 (2.96%) GCP
17 67 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
18 55 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.62%) Internet
2 16 (0.62%) Firewall
3 9 (0.35%) HTTP
3 9 (0.35%) VLAN
4 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.31%) Wireless
5 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) Intranet
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.077%) LTE
8 2 (0.077%) Modbus
9 1 (0.038%) Profibus
9 1 (0.038%) TETRA
9 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 480 (18.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.94%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 112 (4.31%) Power BI
6 88 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 78 (3.00%) NoSQL
8 77 (2.96%) MySQL
9 62 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.15%) Redis
12 22 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.46%) Big Data
15 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) GIS
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 209 (8.04%) Git
2 46 (1.77%) JIRA
3 38 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.31%) Claude Code
5 31 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.04%) NUnit
7 25 (0.96%) GitLab
8 21 (0.81%) Selenium
9 20 (0.77%) Postman
10 14 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 441 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 380 (14.63%) Finance
3 149 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (3.93%) Public Sector
5 90 (3.46%) Retail
6 74 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (2.58%) Law
8 64 (2.46%) Games
9 62 (2.39%) Legal
10 59 (2.27%) Advertising
11 54 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 51 (1.96%) Marketing
13 28 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.92%) Banking
15 23 (0.89%) Automotive
16 19 (0.73%) Electronics
16 19 (0.73%) Front Office
17 13 (0.50%) Back Office
17 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,547 (59.55%) Developer
2 926 (35.64%) .NET Developer
3 470 (18.09%) Senior
4 386 (14.86%) Software Engineer
5 301 (11.59%) Lead
6 291 (11.20%) Software Developer
7 245 (9.43%) Senior Developer
8 207 (7.97%) C# Developer
9 185 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 158 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.81%) C# Software Engineer
12 146 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
13 141 (5.43%) .NET Software Engineer
13 141 (5.43%) Lead Developer
14 117 (4.50%) Senior .NET Developer
15 111 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 108 (4.16%) .NET Software Developer
17 90 (3.46%) Web Developer
18 88 (3.39%) Architect
19 79 (3.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (29.56%) .NET Core
2 750 (28.87%) ASP.NET
3 575 (22.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 447 (17.21%) React
5 382 (14.70%) HTML
6 379 (14.59%) CSS
7 331 (12.74%) AngularJS
8 297 (11.43%) Entity Framework
9 291 (11.20%) Blazor
10 290 (11.16%) RESTful
11 280 (10.78%) .NET Framework
12 263 (10.12%) Vue
13 243 (9.35%) Node.js
14 219 (8.43%) REST
15 218 (8.39%) ASP.NET Web API
16 138 (5.31%) ML.NET
17 133 (5.12%) Terraform
18 107 (4.12%) LINQ
19 89 (3.43%) jQuery
20 81 (3.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 176 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
3 142 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
4 131 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 69 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 45 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 44 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 40 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
11 35 (1.35%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.92%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 24 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 22 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
17 17 (0.65%) Client/Server
17 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 112 (4.31%) Windows
2 39 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.39%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) VMS
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (35.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 850 (32.72%) Agile
3 690 (26.56%) CI/CD
4 681 (26.21%) DevOps
5 670 (25.79%) Software Engineering
6 452 (17.40%) Microservices
7 436 (16.78%) AI
8 386 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 277 (10.66%) Mentoring
11 219 (8.43%) SDLC
12 205 (7.89%) Test Automation
13 202 (7.78%) Machine Learning
14 180 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
15 174 (6.70%) Scrum
16 168 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 167 (6.43%) Multithreading
18 157 (6.04%) TDD
19 156 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
20 154 (5.93%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2,007 (77.25%) C#
2 1,002 (38.57%) SQL
3 602 (23.17%) JavaScript
4 361 (13.90%) TypeScript
5 228 (8.78%) Python
6 171 (6.58%) Java
7 102 (3.93%) C++
8 70 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 63 (2.42%) T-SQL
9 63 (2.42%) VB.NET
10 61 (2.35%) PHP
11 42 (1.62%) Bicep
12 28 (1.08%) C
13 24 (0.92%) Bash
14 19 (0.73%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.65%) COBOL
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 13 (0.50%) JCL
18 9 (0.35%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.28%) Degree
2 119 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 25 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.23%) PhD
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.12%) OCP
13 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.08%) QA
2 71 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 38 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) WCAG
5 16 (0.62%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) Basel III
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) ITGC
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 321 (12.36%) Docker
2 23 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (11.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 931 (35.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.77%) Google
3 53 (2.04%) Facebook
4 47 (1.81%) Oracle
5 33 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 25 (0.96%) Adobe
7 21 (0.81%) YouTube
8 17 (0.65%) VMware
9 16 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.58%) Databricks
11 12 (0.46%) iManage
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.42%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.35%) SAP
14 8 (0.31%) Aderant
14 8 (0.31%) OneLogin