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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,229 1,849 6,675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.72% 4.70% 7.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.21% 23.62% 37.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,018 1,373 5,654
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,960 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,505 7,828 17,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 19.92% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,261 14,443
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +16 585 £57,500 - 147
London -16 541 £80,000 - 168
North of England -11 510 £60,000 - 141
North West +1 273 £62,500 +8.70% 83
Midlands -6 263 £55,000 - 77
South West +7 165 £55,000 +4.76% 50
East of England +4 142 £65,000 +23.81% 55
West Midlands -29 137 £55,000 +2.44% 39
East Midlands +12 126 £55,000 - 38
Yorkshire -15 122 £60,000 -7.69% 29
North East -3 115 £59,000 +7.27% 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 55 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.17%) IIS
3 22 (0.99%) CMS
4 16 (0.72%) ColdFusion
5 15 (0.67%) Confluence
6 12 (0.54%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.31%) Apache
8 7 (0.31%) JBoss
9 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.22%) WordPress
10 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.045%) Appian
13 1 (0.045%) CICS
Applications
1 11 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.090%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.090%) Shopify
5 1 (0.045%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.045%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.045%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.045%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (45.63%) Azure
2 321 (14.40%) AWS
3 303 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (10.86%) SaaS
5 138 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 136 (6.10%) GitHub
7 129 (5.79%) Serverless
8 109 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 81 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 81 (3.63%) Power Automate
10 79 (3.54%) Azure Functions
11 77 (3.45%) PowerApps
12 74 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
13 69 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
14 67 (3.01%) Azure AI
15 54 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
17 51 (2.29%) Azure AKS
18 47 (2.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.15%) Internet
2 10 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.40%) Firewall
4 6 (0.27%) DHCP
4 6 (0.27%) DNS
4 6 (0.27%) WinSCP
5 5 (0.22%) LAN
5 5 (0.22%) LTE
5 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 4 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 1 (0.045%) AMQP
8 1 (0.045%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.045%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.045%) Modbus
8 1 (0.045%) MPLS
8 1 (0.045%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (20.05%) SQL Server
2 238 (10.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 187 (8.39%) MongoDB
4 91 (4.08%) Power BI
5 68 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 60 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 52 (2.33%) MySQL
8 41 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 29 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (0.54%) Db2
11 12 (0.54%) Redis
12 11 (0.49%) GIS
13 10 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.31%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.22%) Big Data
17 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 137 (6.15%) Git
2 49 (2.20%) JIRA
3 35 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 33 (1.48%) Postman
4 33 (1.48%) Selenium
5 19 (0.85%) SoapUI
5 19 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 19 (0.85%) WebDriver
6 16 (0.72%) SpecFlow
7 13 (0.58%) GitLab
8 12 (0.54%) Jenkins
8 12 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 11 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 11 (0.49%) NUnit
10 9 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 375 (16.82%) Finance
2 333 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 93 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 60 (2.69%) Retail
6 48 (2.15%) Banking
7 43 (1.93%) Law
8 38 (1.70%) Legal
9 37 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 33 (1.48%) Games
11 30 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.17%) Advertising
13 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.08%) Automotive
14 23 (1.03%) Marketing
15 21 (0.94%) Electronics
16 12 (0.54%) Back Office
17 11 (0.49%) Aviation
18 10 (0.45%) Front Office
19 9 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,277 (57.29%) Developer
2 674 (30.24%) .NET Developer
3 484 (21.71%) Senior
4 401 (17.99%) Software Engineer
5 343 (15.39%) Software Developer
6 248 (11.13%) Lead
7 238 (10.68%) Senior Developer
8 201 (9.02%) C# Developer
9 193 (8.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 186 (8.34%) .NET Software Engineer
11 162 (7.27%) C# .NET Developer
12 152 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 146 (6.55%) C# Software Engineer
14 131 (5.88%) .NET Software Developer
15 115 (5.16%) Lead Developer
16 110 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 110 (4.93%) Senior .NET Developer
17 89 (3.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 80 (3.59%) Architect
19 74 (3.32%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (24.41%) .NET Core
2 443 (19.87%) ASP.NET
3 327 (14.67%) React
4 277 (12.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 271 (12.16%) HTML
6 263 (11.80%) CSS
7 217 (9.74%) .NET Framework
8 207 (9.29%) AngularJS
9 176 (7.90%) RESTful
10 167 (7.49%) Blazor
11 166 (7.45%) Entity Framework
12 158 (7.09%) REST
13 156 (7.00%) Vue
14 143 (6.42%) Node.js
15 108 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
16 59 (2.65%) ML.NET
17 56 (2.51%) JSON
18 54 (2.42%) jQuery
19 51 (2.29%) LINQ
20 44 (1.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 140 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 93 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 82 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 74 (3.32%) Mobile App
5 73 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.53%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
9 24 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.94%) Low-Code
11 17 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 16 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 15 (0.67%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.63%) PropTech
14 14 (0.63%) Sports Betting
14 14 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 13 (0.58%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.45%) Windows
2 29 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.08%) Android
3 24 (1.08%) Linux
4 13 (0.58%) VMS
5 9 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.090%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.045%) Solaris
8 1 (0.045%) Unix
8 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (29.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 631 (28.31%) Software Engineering
3 618 (27.73%) Agile
4 498 (22.34%) CI/CD
5 485 (21.76%) DevOps
6 322 (14.45%) Microservices
7 287 (12.88%) AI
8 264 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 207 (9.29%) Mentoring
11 180 (8.08%) SDLC
11 180 (8.08%) Test Automation
12 136 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
13 133 (5.97%) Containerisation
14 132 (5.92%) Clean Code
15 131 (5.88%) Scrum
16 122 (5.47%) TDD
17 121 (5.43%) Machine Learning
18 117 (5.25%) Fintech
19 115 (5.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,580 (70.88%) C#
2 742 (33.29%) SQL
3 447 (20.05%) JavaScript
4 268 (12.02%) TypeScript
5 196 (8.79%) Python
6 151 (6.77%) Java
7 81 (3.63%) PowerShell
8 77 (3.45%) C++
9 53 (2.38%) PHP
10 45 (2.02%) VB.NET
11 40 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 37 (1.66%) Bicep
13 22 (0.99%) C
14 21 (0.94%) VB
15 19 (0.85%) Bash
16 15 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 14 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.54%) VBA
19 9 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 208 (9.33%) Degree
2 84 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 82 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 13 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 7 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.22%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.13%) PhD
13 2 (0.090%) CSQA
13 2 (0.090%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (4.89%) QA
2 49 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 17 (0.76%) GDPR
4 10 (0.45%) WCAG
5 9 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.36%) SLA
7 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.090%) ITGC
11 1 (0.045%) NCSC
11 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 200 (8.97%) Docker
2 16 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.54%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 109 (4.89%) Terraform
3 15 (0.67%) Grafana
4 7 (0.31%) Kibana
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.090%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) CASB
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 537 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.48%) Google
2 33 (1.48%) Oracle
3 30 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 25 (1.12%) Adobe
5 23 (1.03%) Xamarin
6 22 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 21 (0.94%) Facebook
8 17 (0.76%) ServiceNow
9 12 (0.54%) Databricks
10 11 (0.49%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.40%) iManage
11 9 (0.40%) VMware
11 9 (0.40%) YouTube
12 7 (0.31%) IBM
12 7 (0.31%) Intapp
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.22%) DevExpress
14 5 (0.22%) Sage