.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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -54 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,421 3,637 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.03% 6.07% 7.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.15% 29.05% 29.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 2,482 3,218
10th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +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 6,414 12,518 12,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.67% 20.91% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,822 7,545 10,011
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%

.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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -33 417 £80,000 +3.23% 185
North of England -41 333 £60,000 +9.09% 150
South East -50 301 £60,000 - 252
Midlands -45 175 £57,500 +4.55% 88
North West -33 170 £65,000 +18.18% 95
Yorkshire -28 117 £53,750 +1.42% 32
West Midlands -33 113 £57,500 +4.55% 45
East of England -55 82 £57,500 +15.00% 58
South West -71 82 £52,500 -4.55% 56
East Midlands -47 62 £62,500 +25.00% 40
North East -19 46 £47,500 -17.39% 23
.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 60 (4.22%) IIS
2 38 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 31 (2.18%) CMS
4 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.27%) Confluence
6 12 (0.84%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.63%) JBoss
7 9 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.42%) nginx
9 5 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.070%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.070%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.070%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.070%) Kentico
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 63 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.14%) Sage 1000
5 1 (0.070%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.070%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.070%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.070%) Magento
5 1 (0.070%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 858 (60.38%) Azure
2 350 (24.63%) AWS
3 245 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (11.96%) SaaS
5 136 (9.57%) Power Platform
6 108 (7.60%) Serverless
7 100 (7.04%) GitHub
8 93 (6.54%) GCP
9 84 (5.91%) Power Automate
10 79 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
11 68 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 66 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
13 64 (4.50%) PowerApps
14 56 (3.94%) Azure Functions
15 48 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (2.81%) Entra ID
18 39 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
19 28 (1.97%) Azure App Service
19 28 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.99%) DNS
2 13 (0.91%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.84%) DHCP
3 12 (0.84%) VoIP
4 11 (0.77%) Internet
5 10 (0.70%) Firewall
6 9 (0.63%) VPN
7 7 (0.49%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.49%) SAN
7 7 (0.49%) WPA
8 6 (0.42%) Modbus
8 6 (0.42%) MQTT
9 5 (0.35%) HTTP
9 5 (0.35%) LAN
9 5 (0.35%) SSL
9 5 (0.35%) WAN
10 3 (0.21%) Intranet
11 2 (0.14%) NAS
11 2 (0.14%) VLAN
12 1 (0.070%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (30.26%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 77 (5.42%) NoSQL
4 74 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 74 (5.21%) MySQL
5 60 (4.22%) Relational Database
6 54 (3.80%) Power BI
7 48 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 47 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (1.90%) Redis
12 24 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 15 (1.06%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.63%) Tableau
16 8 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.49%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
18 6 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 170 (11.96%) Git
2 69 (4.86%) JIRA
3 33 (2.32%) Visual Studio
4 32 (2.25%) Selenium
4 32 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
5 28 (1.97%) Postman
6 27 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 26 (1.83%) Jenkins
7 26 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 16 (1.13%) SoapUI
8 16 (1.13%) WebDriver
9 15 (1.06%) NUnit
10 14 (0.99%) GitLab
11 12 (0.84%) Storybook
12 11 (0.77%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.56%) MSTest
14 7 (0.49%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.49%) MSBuild
15 6 (0.42%) git-flow
16 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 382 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 262 (18.44%) Finance
3 83 (5.84%) Law
4 63 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.45%) Retail
6 46 (3.24%) Banking
7 40 (2.81%) Legal
7 40 (2.81%) Public Sector
8 28 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.90%) Front Office
9 27 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.69%) Back Office
11 23 (1.62%) Marketing
12 22 (1.55%) Billing
13 21 (1.48%) Games
14 14 (0.99%) Automotive
15 13 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.70%) Aviation
17 9 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 827 (58.20%) Developer
2 305 (21.46%) Senior
3 293 (20.62%) .NET Developer
4 179 (12.60%) C# Developer
5 176 (12.39%) Lead
5 176 (12.39%) Software Developer
6 172 (12.10%) Senior Developer
7 159 (11.19%) Software Engineer
8 152 (10.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (4.57%) C# .NET Developer
10 64 (4.50%) Lead Developer
11 57 (4.01%) .NET Software Developer
12 54 (3.80%) Architect
13 53 (3.73%) .NET Software Engineer
14 52 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (3.59%) Senior .NET Developer
16 47 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
16 47 (3.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 43 (3.03%) Analyst
18 40 (2.81%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (23.50%) .NET Core
2 319 (22.45%) React
3 288 (20.27%) ASP.NET
4 265 (18.65%) .NET Framework
5 228 (16.05%) HTML
6 223 (15.69%) CSS
7 207 (14.57%) AngularJS
8 155 (10.91%) RESTful
9 133 (9.36%) Entity Framework
10 124 (8.73%) REST
11 98 (6.90%) Blazor
12 94 (6.62%) Vue
13 85 (5.98%) ASP.NET MVC
13 85 (5.98%) Node.js
14 77 (5.42%) ASP.NET Web API
15 71 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
16 64 (4.50%) HTML5
17 57 (4.01%) Web Services
18 41 (2.89%) CSS3
19 40 (2.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.24%) Mobile App
5 45 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.83%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.06%) IoT
13 14 (0.99%) Clustering
13 14 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.77%) Windows
2 28 (1.97%) Android
2 28 (1.97%) Linux
3 27 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.42%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
9 1 (0.070%) Fedora
9 1 (0.070%) Solaris
9 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (43.84%) Agile
2 475 (33.43%) DevOps
3 449 (31.60%) CI/CD
4 385 (27.09%) Software Engineering
5 369 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 316 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
7 301 (21.18%) Microservices
8 247 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (14.50%) Mentoring
10 174 (12.24%) MVC
11 157 (11.05%) Scrum
12 153 (10.77%) User Experience
13 148 (10.42%) Clean Code
14 142 (9.99%) AI
15 130 (9.15%) SDLC
16 125 (8.80%) Computer Science
17 124 (8.73%) TDD
18 117 (8.23%) Test Automation
19 115 (8.09%) Containerisation
20 114 (8.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,070 (75.30%) C#
2 516 (36.31%) SQL
3 453 (31.88%) JavaScript
4 242 (17.03%) TypeScript
5 162 (11.40%) Java
6 141 (9.92%) Python
7 59 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 47 (3.31%) T-SQL
9 45 (3.17%) PHP
9 45 (3.17%) VB.NET
10 41 (2.89%) C++
11 30 (2.11%) Bicep
12 21 (1.48%) Bash
13 16 (1.13%) Rust
14 15 (1.06%) Go
15 9 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.63%) XAML
16 8 (0.56%) C
17 7 (0.49%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 223 (15.69%) Degree
2 93 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.18%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.83%) ISTQB
6 19 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 13 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.84%) HND
11 11 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.70%) ISEB
13 9 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.56%) HNC
15 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.28%) MCSE
18 3 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.69%) QA
2 37 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.62%) GDPR
4 10 (0.70%) WCAG
5 7 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.28%) GRC
7 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.21%) HL7
8 3 (0.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.14%) ITGC
10 1 (0.070%) COBIT
10 1 (0.070%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.070%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (12.03%) Docker
2 29 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.070%) Firmware
7 1 (0.070%) HDFS
7 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.070%) Squid
Systems Management
1 124 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.97%) Terraform
3 15 (1.06%) Grafana
4 10 (0.70%) Ansible
4 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.42%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.070%) Control-M
7 1 (0.070%) Kibana
Vendors
1 380 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 40 (2.81%) Oracle
3 33 (2.32%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.62%) Xamarin
5 21 (1.48%) Google
6 17 (1.20%) Databricks
7 16 (1.13%) Guidewire
8 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.06%) Sage
9 13 (0.91%) VMware
10 12 (0.84%) DevExpress
11 11 (0.77%) Telerik
12 10 (0.70%) New Relic
13 9 (0.63%) Apple
14 7 (0.49%) Adobe
14 7 (0.49%) Facebook
14 7 (0.49%) Freshdesk
14 7 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.49%) Syncfusion
14 7 (0.49%) YouTube