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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 74 26
Rank change year-on-year +18 -48 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,620 1,624 4,313
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.56% 3.78% 6.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.33% 21.44% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 1,215 2,989
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £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 £104,500 £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 10,768 7,575 14,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 17.64% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,864 5,007 9,562
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 £114,689
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -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 21 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 21 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 +47 690 £60,000 - 291
North of England +2 598 £56,500 -5.83% 352
London -30 543 £80,000 - 954
Midlands +25 352 £60,000 +9.09% 183
North West -19 264 £60,000 -4.00% 210
East of England +26 216 £60,000 +14.29% 103
South West +7 196 £55,000 +4.76% 88
West Midlands -11 187 £58,750 +6.82% 95
North East +10 182 £57,500 +32.95% 62
East Midlands +48 165 £60,000 +9.09% 88
Yorkshire +5 152 £55,000 -8.33% 83
.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 68 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.76%) IIS
3 29 (1.11%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.53%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.34%) Apache
7 8 (0.31%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 5 (0.19%) CICS
8 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
8 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.11%) JBoss
10 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.53%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.076%) 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%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (52.21%) Azure
2 475 (18.13%) AWS
3 460 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
4 255 (9.73%) GitHub
5 187 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 184 (7.02%) SaaS
7 170 (6.49%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
9 151 (5.76%) Serverless
10 124 (4.73%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 101 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 100 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
14 96 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
15 81 (3.09%) Azure Functions
16 76 (2.90%) GCP
17 68 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
18 55 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.59%) Internet
2 18 (0.69%) Firewall
3 11 (0.42%) VLAN
4 10 (0.38%) Wireless
5 9 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) Intranet
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.076%) LTE
9 2 (0.076%) Modbus
9 2 (0.076%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 566 (21.60%) SQL Server
2 476 (18.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.80%) MongoDB
4 159 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (4.05%) Power BI
6 94 (3.59%) Relational Database
7 80 (3.05%) MySQL
7 80 (3.05%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.26%) Redis
10 27 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
12 17 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.46%) Big Data
13 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.42%) GIS
14 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
14 11 (0.42%) SQLite
15 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 213 (8.13%) Git
2 47 (1.79%) JIRA
3 38 (1.45%) Claude Code
3 38 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.11%) NUnit
6 27 (1.03%) GitLab
7 21 (0.80%) Selenium
8 20 (0.76%) Postman
9 16 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
12 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.31%) Moq
13 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 7 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 449 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 385 (14.69%) Finance
3 151 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (3.78%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.47%) Retail
6 75 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (2.56%) Law
8 66 (2.52%) Games
9 62 (2.37%) Legal
10 59 (2.25%) Advertising
11 58 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 52 (1.98%) Marketing
13 29 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.92%) Automotive
15 23 (0.88%) Banking
16 21 (0.80%) Front Office
17 18 (0.69%) Electronics
18 13 (0.50%) Back Office
18 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,559 (59.50%) Developer
2 938 (35.80%) .NET Developer
3 475 (18.13%) Senior
4 389 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 296 (11.30%) Lead
6 283 (10.80%) Software Developer
7 248 (9.47%) Senior Developer
8 211 (8.05%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (6.11%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.76%) C# Software Engineer
12 146 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (5.42%) .NET Software Engineer
14 137 (5.23%) Lead Developer
15 122 (4.66%) Senior .NET Developer
16 110 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 102 (3.89%) .NET Software Developer
18 89 (3.40%) Web Developer
19 86 (3.28%) Architect
20 79 (3.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 767 (29.27%) .NET Core
2 751 (28.66%) ASP.NET
3 575 (21.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 462 (17.63%) React
5 383 (14.62%) HTML
6 380 (14.50%) CSS
7 336 (12.82%) AngularJS
8 297 (11.34%) Entity Framework
9 296 (11.30%) RESTful
10 292 (11.15%) Blazor
11 282 (10.76%) .NET Framework
12 261 (9.96%) Vue
13 242 (9.24%) Node.js
14 234 (8.93%) REST
15 220 (8.40%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.23%) ML.NET
17 134 (5.11%) Terraform
18 107 (4.08%) LINQ
19 92 (3.51%) jQuery
20 83 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
2 149 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
3 139 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
4 104 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 71 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 63 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 51 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 46 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
10 38 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 26 (0.99%) Legacy Code
13 25 (0.95%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 24 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 22 (0.84%) Data Structures
16 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
16 19 (0.73%) IoT
17 17 (0.65%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.35%) Windows
2 38 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 35 (1.34%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (35.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 853 (32.56%) Agile
3 704 (26.87%) CI/CD
4 691 (26.37%) DevOps
5 680 (25.95%) Software Engineering
6 461 (17.60%) AI
7 456 (17.40%) Microservices
8 394 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 279 (10.65%) Mentoring
10 278 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 220 (8.40%) SDLC
12 213 (8.13%) Test Automation
13 200 (7.63%) Machine Learning
14 182 (6.95%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.68%) Scrum
16 174 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
17 167 (6.37%) Multithreading
18 164 (6.26%) Code Quality
19 156 (5.95%) TDD
20 151 (5.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,028 (77.40%) C#
2 1,003 (38.28%) SQL
3 611 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 366 (13.97%) TypeScript
5 232 (8.85%) Python
6 170 (6.49%) Java
7 103 (3.93%) C++
8 66 (2.52%) VB.NET
9 65 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 60 (2.29%) PHP
11 45 (1.72%) Bicep
12 27 (1.03%) C
13 22 (0.84%) Bash
13 22 (0.84%) VB
14 19 (0.73%) VBA
15 18 (0.69%) Go
16 17 (0.65%) COBOL
17 13 (0.50%) JCL
18 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 243 (9.27%) Degree
2 122 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 80 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 24 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.11%) QA
2 71 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) WCAG
5 16 (0.61%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.076%) Basel III
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (12.40%) Docker
2 24 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.69%) 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
6 1 (0.038%) HDFS
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 293 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Grafana
4 12 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.076%) Bosun
5 2 (0.076%) Control-M
5 2 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.038%) Argo
6 1 (0.038%) Kibana
6 1 (0.038%) MIIS
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 937 (35.76%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.67%) Google
3 52 (1.98%) Facebook
4 48 (1.83%) Oracle
5 36 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.88%) Adobe
7 21 (0.80%) YouTube
8 19 (0.73%) VMware
9 16 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.57%) Databricks
11 12 (0.46%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.42%) iManage
12 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.38%) Apple
13 10 (0.38%) Intapp
13 10 (0.38%) Sony
13 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.34%) Splunk