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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,571 1,892 5,126
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.36% 6.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.49% 23.96% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,316 1,422 4,189
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,450
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 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 9,352 7,898 14,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 18.18% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 5,340 11,425
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,870
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 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 26 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 +22 673 £57,500 - 129
North of England -3 590 £57,500 -4.17% 121
London -26 555 £80,000 - 206
Midlands +9 323 £55,000 - 58
North West -6 276 £60,000 +0.84% 57
South West +18 206 £52,500 - 36
East of England +23 201 £65,000 +23.81% 47
West Midlands -14 172 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire +12 157 £57,500 -11.54% 33
North East 0 157 £55,750 +25.99% 34
East Midlands +25 151 £55,000 - 31
.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 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.32%) IIS
3 30 (1.17%) CMS
4 22 (0.86%) Confluence
5 16 (0.62%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.31%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) Apache
9 5 (0.19%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.19%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.19%) Shopify
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.078%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.078%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.078%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,353 (52.63%) Azure
2 419 (16.30%) AWS
2 419 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
3 228 (8.87%) GitHub
4 202 (7.86%) SaaS
5 177 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 164 (6.38%) Azure AI
7 156 (6.07%) GitHub Copilot
8 133 (5.17%) Serverless
9 113 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 111 (4.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 111 (4.32%) Power Automate
11 100 (3.89%) PowerApps
12 95 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 88 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 77 (2.99%) Azure Functions
15 66 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.57%) GCP
16 55 (2.14%) Azure AKS
16 55 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.54%) Internet
2 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) HTTP
5 5 (0.19%) LAN
5 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
7 3 (0.12%) SNMP
8 2 (0.078%) Modbus
9 1 (0.039%) AMQP
9 1 (0.039%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.039%) Profibus
9 1 (0.039%) SSL
9 1 (0.039%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 507 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 491 (19.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 421 (16.37%) MongoDB
4 159 (6.18%) Elasticsearch
5 111 (4.32%) Power BI
6 66 (2.57%) MySQL
7 65 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 52 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 35 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.97%) Redis
13 17 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.47%) Db2
15 11 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
15 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.31%) Big Data
17 8 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 166 (6.46%) Git
2 44 (1.71%) JIRA
3 26 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.01%) Selenium
3 26 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 22 (0.86%) Postman
5 21 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.78%) GitLab
6 20 (0.78%) NUnit
7 12 (0.47%) SpecFlow
8 10 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.27%) Moq
10 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.23%) MSTest
11 6 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 384 (14.94%) Finance
2 378 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 115 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (3.31%) Retail
5 72 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.33%) Advertising
7 56 (2.18%) Games
7 56 (2.18%) Law
8 54 (2.10%) Legal
8 54 (2.10%) Marketing
9 52 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 31 (1.21%) Banking
13 25 (0.97%) Automotive
14 20 (0.78%) Electronics
15 13 (0.51%) Back Office
15 13 (0.51%) Legal Technology
16 12 (0.47%) Front Office
17 11 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,579 (61.42%) Developer
2 939 (36.52%) .NET Developer
3 488 (18.98%) Senior
4 413 (16.06%) Software Engineer
5 328 (12.76%) Software Developer
6 285 (11.09%) Lead
7 248 (9.65%) Senior Developer
8 209 (8.13%) C# Developer
9 192 (7.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 170 (6.61%) .NET Software Engineer
11 165 (6.42%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (5.95%) C# Software Engineer
13 148 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 138 (5.37%) Lead Developer
15 125 (4.86%) .NET Software Developer
16 115 (4.47%) Senior .NET Developer
17 110 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 90 (3.50%) Architect
19 88 (3.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 87 (3.38%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 775 (30.14%) .NET Core
2 739 (28.74%) ASP.NET
3 570 (22.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 432 (16.80%) React
5 371 (14.43%) HTML
6 370 (14.39%) CSS
7 323 (12.56%) AngularJS
8 285 (11.09%) Entity Framework
9 284 (11.05%) Blazor
10 280 (10.89%) .NET Framework
11 275 (10.70%) RESTful
12 259 (10.07%) Vue
13 250 (9.72%) Node.js
14 213 (8.28%) ASP.NET Web API
15 206 (8.01%) REST
16 143 (5.56%) ML.NET
17 110 (4.28%) LINQ
18 82 (3.19%) JSON
19 66 (2.57%) jQuery
20 56 (2.18%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 162 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
3 114 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 66 (2.57%) Mobile App
7 61 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
9 29 (1.13%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.13%) Hedge funds
9 29 (1.13%) Legacy Code
10 26 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 25 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 24 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (0.78%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.74%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.66%) iPhone
16 16 (0.62%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.62%) Client/Server
17 14 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.89%) Windows
2 32 (1.24%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.21%) Linux
4 30 (1.17%) Android
5 10 (0.39%) VMS
6 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.078%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.039%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (36.41%) Full-Stack Development
2 845 (32.87%) Agile
3 663 (25.79%) Software Engineering
4 643 (25.01%) DevOps
5 633 (24.62%) CI/CD
6 459 (17.85%) Microservices
7 411 (15.99%) AI
8 322 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
9 258 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 245 (9.53%) Mentoring
11 206 (8.01%) SDLC
12 205 (7.97%) Machine Learning
13 190 (7.39%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.96%) Scrum
15 170 (6.61%) TDD
16 169 (6.57%) Multithreading
17 157 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
19 141 (5.48%) Clean Code
20 138 (5.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,944 (75.61%) C#
2 987 (38.39%) SQL
3 580 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 375 (14.59%) TypeScript
5 221 (8.60%) Python
6 159 (6.18%) Java
7 90 (3.50%) C++
8 82 (3.19%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.41%) PHP
10 57 (2.22%) T-SQL
11 53 (2.06%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.75%) Bicep
13 28 (1.09%) C
14 24 (0.93%) Bash
15 18 (0.70%) VB
16 15 (0.58%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.51%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.43%) VBA
20 9 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 224 (8.71%) Degree
2 109 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 90 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 70 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.16%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) PhD
14 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.078%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.078%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (5.56%) QA
2 65 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.82%) GDPR
5 15 (0.58%) WCAG
6 10 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.078%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.039%) ITGC
11 1 (0.039%) NIST
System Software
1 317 (12.33%) Docker
2 15 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.43%) Firmware
4 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 300 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 120 (4.67%) Terraform
3 13 (0.51%) Grafana
4 12 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.43%) Ansible
6 2 (0.078%) MIIS
7 1 (0.039%) Consul
7 1 (0.039%) Control-M
7 1 (0.039%) MOM
7 1 (0.039%) Packer
7 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.039%) Puppet
Vendors
1 900 (35.01%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.72%) Google
3 54 (2.10%) Facebook
4 38 (1.48%) Oracle
5 31 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.13%) Adobe
7 28 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.82%) YouTube
9 16 (0.62%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.51%) Databricks
12 12 (0.47%) iManage
13 11 (0.43%) Apple
13 11 (0.43%) Sony
13 11 (0.43%) Yahoo!
14 10 (0.39%) Intapp
15 9 (0.35%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.35%) VMware
16 8 (0.31%) Aderant
16 8 (0.31%) Splunk