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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 26
Rank change year-on-year +17 -45 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,647 1,662 4,350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 3.83% 6.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.55% 21.60% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 1,236 3,099
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,500 £90,000
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 10,783 7,693 14,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.86% 17.72% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,984 5,082 9,737
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 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 9 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 9 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 +51 702 £60,000 - 201
North of England +2 609 £56,500 -5.83% 208
London -32 536 £80,000 - 659
Midlands +33 351 £58,250 +5.91% 118
North West -13 269 £60,000 -4.00% 106
East of England +28 221 £62,500 +19.05% 80
South West +11 203 £55,000 +6.80% 78
West Midlands -1 187 £59,000 +7.27% 60
North East +5 185 £56,500 +31.78% 43
East Midlands +43 164 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Yorkshire -1 155 £55,000 -8.33% 60
.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 69 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.78%) IIS
3 30 (1.13%) CMS
4 24 (0.91%) Confluence
5 15 (0.57%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) 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%) Magento
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%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,403 (53.00%) Azure
2 473 (17.87%) AWS
3 467 (17.64%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (9.52%) GitHub
5 195 (7.37%) Power Platform
6 193 (7.29%) SaaS
7 174 (6.57%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 150 (5.67%) Serverless
10 126 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 107 (4.04%) PowerApps
13 103 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 100 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
15 99 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
16 80 (3.02%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.87%) GCP
18 68 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
20 55 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.59%) Internet
2 14 (0.53%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
4 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.26%) VLAN
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 6 (0.23%) Wireless
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.11%) RS-232
10 2 (0.076%) LTE
10 2 (0.076%) Modbus
11 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.038%) Network Security
11 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (21.27%) SQL Server
2 498 (18.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.09%) MongoDB
4 163 (6.16%) Elasticsearch
5 118 (4.46%) Power BI
6 87 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 79 (2.98%) MySQL
8 75 (2.83%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.13%) Redis
12 23 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.64%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) GIS
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 212 (8.01%) Git
2 47 (1.78%) JIRA
3 38 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.28%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.25%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.13%) NUnit
7 25 (0.94%) GitLab
8 23 (0.87%) Selenium
9 21 (0.79%) Postman
10 15 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.26%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.26%) Moq
16 7 (0.26%) MSI
16 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 442 (16.70%) Social Skills
2 392 (14.81%) Finance
3 149 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 93 (3.51%) Retail
6 72 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (2.68%) Law
8 67 (2.53%) Games
9 62 (2.34%) Advertising
9 62 (2.34%) Legal
10 55 (2.08%) Marketing
11 54 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.91%) Banking
14 23 (0.87%) Automotive
15 19 (0.72%) Electronics
15 19 (0.72%) Front Office
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,587 (59.95%) Developer
2 945 (35.70%) .NET Developer
3 475 (17.94%) Senior
4 388 (14.66%) Software Engineer
5 307 (11.60%) Lead
6 304 (11.48%) Software Developer
7 249 (9.41%) Senior Developer
8 210 (7.93%) C# Developer
9 190 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 159 (6.01%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.70%) C# Software Engineer
12 144 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.40%) Lead Developer
14 141 (5.33%) .NET Software Engineer
15 117 (4.42%) Senior .NET Developer
16 112 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 110 (4.16%) .NET Software Developer
18 92 (3.48%) Web Developer
19 90 (3.40%) Architect
20 81 (3.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 793 (29.96%) .NET Core
2 776 (29.32%) ASP.NET
3 593 (22.40%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (17.08%) React
5 392 (14.81%) HTML
6 389 (14.70%) CSS
7 335 (12.66%) AngularJS
8 304 (11.48%) Entity Framework
8 304 (11.48%) RESTful
9 298 (11.26%) Blazor
10 289 (10.92%) .NET Framework
11 269 (10.16%) Vue
12 253 (9.56%) Node.js
13 223 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 222 (8.39%) REST
15 145 (5.48%) ML.NET
16 133 (5.02%) Terraform
17 108 (4.08%) LINQ
18 87 (3.29%) jQuery
19 84 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 179 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 145 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
4 131 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 63 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 44 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
10 42 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.06%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.91%) Hedge funds
15 23 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 21 (0.79%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 20 (0.76%) Digital TV
18 18 (0.68%) Client/Server
19 17 (0.64%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 112 (4.23%) Windows
2 37 (1.40%) Linux
2 37 (1.40%) Windows Server
3 31 (1.17%) Android
4 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) VMS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (35.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 870 (32.87%) Agile
3 702 (26.52%) CI/CD
4 699 (26.41%) DevOps
5 679 (25.65%) Software Engineering
6 466 (17.60%) Microservices
7 439 (16.58%) AI
8 386 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 281 (10.62%) Mentoring
11 226 (8.54%) SDLC
12 210 (7.93%) Machine Learning
13 208 (7.86%) Test Automation
14 179 (6.76%) Technical Leadership
15 178 (6.72%) Scrum
16 173 (6.54%) Multithreading
17 172 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 162 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
18 162 (6.12%) TDD
19 155 (5.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,034 (76.84%) C#
2 1,027 (38.80%) SQL
3 616 (23.27%) JavaScript
4 372 (14.05%) TypeScript
5 230 (8.69%) Python
6 177 (6.69%) Java
7 104 (3.93%) C++
8 74 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.46%) VB.NET
10 64 (2.42%) PHP
10 64 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.62%) Bicep
12 28 (1.06%) C
13 24 (0.91%) Bash
14 19 (0.72%) VB
14 19 (0.72%) VBA
15 18 (0.68%) Go
16 17 (0.64%) COBOL
17 13 (0.49%) JCL
18 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.10%) Degree
2 118 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 100 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 81 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.11%) OCP
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (6.04%) QA
2 73 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.68%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.038%) Basel III
9 1 (0.038%) GRC
9 1 (0.038%) ITGC
9 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 330 (12.47%) Docker
2 21 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 302 (11.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.57%) Grafana
2 15 (0.57%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.076%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Bosun
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
5 1 (0.038%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 952 (35.97%) Microsoft
2 74 (2.80%) Google
3 55 (2.08%) Facebook
4 46 (1.74%) Oracle
5 33 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.06%) Adobe
7 21 (0.79%) YouTube
8 17 (0.64%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.57%) Databricks
9 15 (0.57%) VMware
10 12 (0.45%) iManage
10 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 11 (0.42%) Intapp
11 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.42%) Sony
11 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.34%) SAP
13 8 (0.30%) Broadcom