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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 50 24
Rank change year-on-year -26 -26 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,923 1,881 6,258
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.38% 4.89% 7.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.55% 24.95% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 1,515 5,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 7,833 7,540 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.68% 19.62% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,918 5,744 14,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

.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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -22 503 £82,500 +6.45% 229
South East -14 500 £60,000 - 167
North of England -18 427 £62,500 +8.70% 154
North West -18 232 £64,000 +11.30% 83
Midlands -37 222 £56,250 +4.77% 70
South West -6 146 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Yorkshire -44 122 £60,000 - 41
West Midlands -53 112 £52,500 -8.70% 38
East Midlands -22 110 £65,000 +23.81% 32
East of England -22 107 £67,500 +28.57% 55
North East -14 73 £67,500 +22.73% 30
.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 52 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.25%) IIS
3 18 (0.94%) CMS
4 14 (0.73%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.68%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.62%) Confluence
6 12 (0.62%) JBoss
7 10 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.21%) Apache
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.16%) nginx
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.052%) CICS
12 1 (0.052%) SAS
12 1 (0.052%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.052%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.052%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.052%) Endur
4 1 (0.052%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.052%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.052%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.052%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 799 (41.55%) Azure
2 283 (14.72%) AWS
3 249 (12.95%) SaaS
4 225 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
5 140 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 109 (5.67%) Serverless
7 100 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 92 (4.78%) GitHub
9 74 (3.85%) PowerApps
10 73 (3.80%) Power Automate
11 62 (3.22%) Azure Functions
12 60 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 56 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
14 53 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (2.55%) GCP
16 48 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 44 (2.29%) Azure AKS
18 41 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
20 29 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.09%) Internet
2 8 (0.42%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.36%) Firewall
4 6 (0.31%) Intranet
5 4 (0.21%) DNS
5 4 (0.21%) LTE
6 3 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.10%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.10%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.10%) VoIP
7 2 (0.10%) VPN
8 1 (0.052%) AMQP
8 1 (0.052%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.052%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.052%) HTTP
8 1 (0.052%) Modbus
8 1 (0.052%) MPLS
8 1 (0.052%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 95 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 92 (4.78%) Power BI
4 73 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 50 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 46 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 43 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 34 (1.77%) MySQL
10 33 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 16 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (0.73%) Redis
13 12 (0.62%) DB2
13 12 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.36%) GIS
15 6 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.31%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.26%) Metadata
17 4 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 117 (6.08%) Git
2 54 (2.81%) JIRA
3 43 (2.24%) Selenium
4 39 (2.03%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.87%) Postman
6 27 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.30%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.25%) WebDriver
9 15 (0.78%) Jenkins
9 15 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 15 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.62%) NUnit
10 12 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.31%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.31%) JMeter
14 6 (0.31%) Moq
14 6 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 317 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 313 (16.28%) Finance
3 92 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (2.65%) Banking
4 51 (2.65%) Public Sector
5 50 (2.60%) Law
6 37 (1.92%) Retail
7 33 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (1.46%) Legal
9 23 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.14%) Automotive
11 21 (1.09%) Games
12 17 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.78%) Marketing
14 14 (0.73%) Aviation
14 14 (0.73%) Front Office
15 13 (0.68%) Electronics
16 11 (0.57%) Back Office
17 10 (0.52%) Advertising
18 8 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,077 (56.01%) Developer
2 483 (25.12%) .NET Developer
3 460 (23.92%) Senior
4 345 (17.94%) Software Engineer
5 323 (16.80%) Software Developer
6 233 (12.12%) Lead
7 232 (12.06%) Senior Developer
8 215 (11.18%) C# Developer
9 176 (9.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 165 (8.58%) .NET Software Engineer
11 155 (8.06%) C# .NET Developer
12 135 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 116 (6.03%) .NET Software Developer
14 105 (5.46%) C# Software Engineer
15 103 (5.36%) Senior .NET Developer
16 96 (4.99%) Lead Developer
17 90 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 81 (4.21%) Architect
18 81 (4.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 67 (3.48%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (21.79%) .NET Core
2 284 (14.77%) ASP.NET
3 259 (13.47%) React
4 206 (10.71%) .NET Framework
5 205 (10.66%) HTML
6 182 (9.46%) CSS
7 143 (7.44%) REST
8 129 (6.71%) RESTful
9 127 (6.60%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.72%) ASP.NET Core
11 101 (5.25%) Blazor
12 99 (5.15%) Node.js
13 97 (5.04%) Entity Framework
14 83 (4.32%) Vue
15 56 (2.91%) SOAP
16 43 (2.24%) ASP.NET Web API
17 42 (2.18%) JSON
18 41 (2.13%) jQuery
19 40 (2.08%) Playwright
20 37 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 65 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 61 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 49 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 27 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 21 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 21 (1.09%) Low-Code
11 19 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 17 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.78%) Sports Betting
15 14 (0.73%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.73%) PropTech
16 12 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (0.57%) Fixed Income
17 11 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.00%) Windows
2 26 (1.35%) Linux
3 23 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.88%) VMS
5 15 (0.78%) Android
6 11 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.16%) Unix
8 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.052%) Solaris
9 1 (0.052%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (29.54%) Software Engineering
2 497 (25.85%) Agile
3 450 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 408 (21.22%) CI/CD
5 398 (20.70%) DevOps
6 263 (13.68%) Microservices
7 232 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
8 219 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 181 (9.41%) AI
10 178 (9.26%) Mentoring
11 162 (8.42%) Test Automation
12 152 (7.90%) SDLC
13 129 (6.71%) Containerisation
14 128 (6.66%) Clean Code
15 126 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
16 118 (6.14%) Scrum
17 108 (5.62%) MVC
18 107 (5.56%) User Experience
19 103 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
20 102 (5.30%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,303 (67.76%) C#
2 579 (30.11%) SQL
3 372 (19.34%) JavaScript
4 216 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 167 (8.68%) Python
6 159 (8.27%) Java
7 75 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 57 (2.96%) C++
9 46 (2.39%) PHP
10 34 (1.77%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.72%) Bicep
11 33 (1.72%) VB.NET
12 18 (0.94%) Apex Code
12 18 (0.94%) VB
13 16 (0.83%) Bash
14 15 (0.78%) C
15 13 (0.68%) Go
15 13 (0.68%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.68%) VBA
16 12 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 186 (9.67%) Degree
2 79 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 65 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (1.20%) ISTQB
6 19 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 18 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.21%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.21%) PhD
15 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.10%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.94%) QA
2 49 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.83%) GDPR
5 13 (0.68%) WCAG
6 9 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.36%) SLA
8 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.10%) ITGC
11 1 (0.052%) NCSC
11 1 (0.052%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (7.64%) Docker
2 13 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.42%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 141 (7.33%) Kubernetes
2 96 (4.99%) Terraform
3 15 (0.78%) Grafana
4 8 (0.42%) Ansible
5 7 (0.36%) Kibana
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.10%) MIIS
6 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.052%) CASB
7 1 (0.052%) Consul
7 1 (0.052%) Control-M
7 1 (0.052%) Packer
7 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.052%) Puppet
Vendors
1 344 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.46%) Adobe
3 24 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.14%) Oracle
5 21 (1.09%) Xamarin
6 20 (1.04%) Google
7 16 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 15 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 12 (0.62%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (0.42%) Databricks
12 7 (0.36%) iManage
13 6 (0.31%) Facebook
14 5 (0.26%) Apple
14 5 (0.26%) DevExpress
14 5 (0.26%) IBM
14 5 (0.26%) Intapp
14 5 (0.26%) New Relic
14 5 (0.26%) Sage
14 5 (0.26%) VMware