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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 -34 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,516 1,914 6,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.42% 6.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.43% 24.02% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,284 1,429 5,044
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £91,250
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 9,173 7,970 17,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.39% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,023 5,401 13,534
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

.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 July 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 July 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 +23 661 £57,500 - 221
North of England +2 566 £59,000 -1.67% 210
London -25 544 £80,000 - 200
Midlands +8 324 £55,000 - 114
North West -9 273 £60,000 +4.35% 105
South West +13 205 £52,500 - 75
East of England +20 191 £65,000 +30.00% 95
West Midlands -17 172 £58,250 +5.91% 49
East Midlands +29 152 £55,000 - 65
North East 0 149 £56,500 +7.62% 37
Yorkshire +5 144 £57,500 -11.54% 70
.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 65 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.27%) IIS
3 28 (1.11%) CMS
4 21 (0.83%) Confluence
5 16 (0.64%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.60%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.32%) nginx
7 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.20%) JBoss
9 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.079%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (52.31%) Azure
2 403 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
3 398 (15.82%) AWS
4 219 (8.70%) GitHub
5 213 (8.47%) SaaS
6 171 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 162 (6.44%) Azure AI
8 152 (6.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 136 (5.41%) Serverless
10 117 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 108 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 105 (4.17%) Power Automate
13 98 (3.90%) PowerApps
14 89 (3.54%) Azure Service Bus
15 86 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (3.18%) Azure Functions
17 59 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (2.34%) GCP
18 55 (2.19%) Azure AKS
18 55 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.58%) Internet
2 9 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.32%) Firewall
4 7 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.20%) DHCP
5 5 (0.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) LAN
5 5 (0.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.079%) HTTP
8 2 (0.079%) Modbus
9 1 (0.040%) AMQP
9 1 (0.040%) Profibus
9 1 (0.040%) SSL
9 1 (0.040%) VLAN
9 1 (0.040%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.040%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (19.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 476 (18.92%) SQL Server
3 419 (16.65%) MongoDB
4 156 (6.20%) Elasticsearch
5 109 (4.33%) Power BI
6 65 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 60 (2.38%) MySQL
8 41 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.83%) Redis
13 16 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.48%) Db2
15 11 (0.44%) GIS
15 11 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.36%) Big Data
16 9 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 150 (5.96%) Git
2 44 (1.75%) JIRA
3 23 (0.91%) Visual Studio
4 21 (0.83%) Postman
5 20 (0.79%) Selenium
6 19 (0.76%) GitLab
6 19 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 15 (0.60%) NUnit
8 15 (0.60%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.32%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.28%) Moq
10 7 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.24%) MSTest
11 6 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 387 (15.38%) Finance
2 355 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 103 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (3.26%) Retail
5 66 (2.62%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.34%) Advertising
7 56 (2.23%) Games
8 52 (2.07%) Marketing
9 49 (1.95%) Legal
10 48 (1.91%) Law
11 47 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.43%) Banking
14 32 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 25 (0.99%) Automotive
16 20 (0.79%) Electronics
17 13 (0.52%) Back Office
17 13 (0.52%) Legal Technology
18 12 (0.48%) Front Office
19 11 (0.44%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,547 (61.49%) Developer
2 927 (36.84%) .NET Developer
3 477 (18.96%) Senior
4 407 (16.18%) Software Engineer
5 318 (12.64%) Software Developer
6 274 (10.89%) Lead
7 235 (9.34%) Senior Developer
8 200 (7.95%) C# Developer
9 187 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 174 (6.92%) .NET Software Engineer
11 163 (6.48%) C# .NET Developer
12 150 (5.96%) C# Software Engineer
12 150 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 132 (5.25%) Lead Developer
14 120 (4.77%) .NET Software Developer
15 110 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
16 101 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 88 (3.50%) Architect
18 85 (3.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 84 (3.34%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 764 (30.37%) .NET Core
2 716 (28.46%) ASP.NET
3 560 (22.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 416 (16.53%) React
5 362 (14.39%) CSS
6 359 (14.27%) HTML
7 311 (12.36%) AngularJS
8 275 (10.93%) Blazor
9 272 (10.81%) Entity Framework
10 267 (10.61%) RESTful
11 263 (10.45%) .NET Framework
12 257 (10.21%) Vue
13 245 (9.74%) Node.js
14 206 (8.19%) ASP.NET Web API
15 195 (7.75%) REST
16 143 (5.68%) ML.NET
17 110 (4.37%) LINQ
18 75 (2.98%) JSON
19 66 (2.62%) jQuery
20 53 (2.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 159 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
3 99 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 55 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.23%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 27 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 26 (1.03%) Legacy Code
12 25 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 22 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.79%) Digital TV
14 20 (0.79%) Low-Code
15 19 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
16 18 (0.72%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.68%) iPhone
18 16 (0.64%) Client/Server
19 14 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 90 (3.58%) Windows
2 33 (1.31%) Android
3 30 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.07%) Linux
5 12 (0.48%) VMS
6 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.079%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 919 (36.53%) Full-Stack Development
2 822 (32.67%) Agile
3 651 (25.87%) Software Engineering
4 618 (24.56%) CI/CD
5 611 (24.28%) DevOps
6 441 (17.53%) Microservices
7 400 (15.90%) AI
8 298 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 234 (9.30%) Mentoring
11 208 (8.27%) Machine Learning
12 202 (8.03%) SDLC
13 191 (7.59%) Test Automation
14 170 (6.76%) Scrum
15 167 (6.64%) Multithreading
16 164 (6.52%) TDD
17 150 (5.96%) Technical Leadership
18 141 (5.60%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (5.52%) Fintech
20 136 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,900 (75.52%) C#
2 981 (38.99%) SQL
3 561 (22.30%) JavaScript
4 370 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 213 (8.47%) Python
6 153 (6.08%) Java
7 85 (3.38%) C++
8 83 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 59 (2.34%) PHP
10 51 (2.03%) T-SQL
11 47 (1.87%) VB.NET
12 43 (1.71%) Bicep
13 27 (1.07%) C
14 23 (0.91%) Bash
15 20 (0.79%) VB
16 15 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.52%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.48%) Go
19 11 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
20 9 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 213 (8.47%) Degree
2 100 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (3.26%) Security Cleared
4 63 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.32%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.12%) MBA
13 3 (0.12%) PhD
13 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.079%) CSQA
14 2 (0.079%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (5.52%) QA
2 65 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.76%) GDPR
5 16 (0.64%) WCAG
6 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.24%) NCSC
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.079%) ITGC
11 2 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 305 (12.12%) Docker
2 16 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.48%) Firmware
4 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 293 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.41%) Terraform
3 13 (0.52%) Grafana
4 10 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.079%) MIIS
7 1 (0.040%) Consul
7 1 (0.040%) Kibana
7 1 (0.040%) MOM
7 1 (0.040%) Packer
7 1 (0.040%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.040%) Puppet
Vendors
1 868 (34.50%) Microsoft
2 67 (2.66%) Google
3 54 (2.15%) Facebook
4 36 (1.43%) Oracle
5 30 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.11%) Adobe
6 28 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.83%) YouTube
8 18 (0.72%) Xamarin
9 15 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.48%) Databricks
10 12 (0.48%) iManage
11 11 (0.44%) Apple
11 11 (0.44%) Sony
11 11 (0.44%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.40%) Intapp
12 10 (0.40%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.36%) VMware
14 8 (0.32%) Aderant
14 8 (0.32%) CrowdStrike