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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,665 1,834 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.21% 6.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.81% 23.77% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,378 1,374 3,713
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,100
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 9,582 7,716 13,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.32% 17.71% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,231 5,167 10,376
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

.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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +22 689 £57,500 - 173
North of England +3 622 £57,500 -4.17% 164
London -23 565 £80,000 - 366
Midlands +15 331 £55,000 - 94
North West -1 285 £60,000 - 91
East of England +27 218 £63,750 +21.43% 61
South West +22 216 £52,500 - 47
West Midlands -12 179 £60,000 +4.35% 43
Yorkshire +21 171 £55,000 -15.38% 42
North East +6 166 £55,750 +28.16% 33
East Midlands +42 152 £55,000 - 51
.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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.39%) IIS
3 32 (1.20%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.56%) 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%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.038%) Eikon
7 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,398 (52.46%) Azure
2 441 (16.55%) AWS
3 440 (16.51%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (9.04%) GitHub
5 206 (7.73%) SaaS
6 189 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 169 (6.34%) Azure AI
8 162 (6.08%) GitHub Copilot
9 137 (5.14%) Serverless
10 119 (4.47%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 111 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 102 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 99 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
15 90 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 73 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (2.74%) GCP
18 56 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
19 54 (2.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.45%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) HTTP
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) LAN
5 5 (0.19%) SNMP
5 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) Intranet
7 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.11%) LTE
7 3 (0.11%) Modbus
7 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.038%) Profibus
8 1 (0.038%) SSL
8 1 (0.038%) VLAN
8 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 551 (20.68%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (15.98%) MongoDB
4 161 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 115 (4.32%) Power BI
6 78 (2.93%) MySQL
7 71 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 69 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 52 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 35 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (1.09%) Redis
13 21 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.45%) Db2
14 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.45%) GIS
15 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 190 (7.13%) Git
2 47 (1.76%) JIRA
3 33 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.16%) Selenium
5 28 (1.05%) Visual Studio
6 26 (0.98%) Claude Code
6 26 (0.98%) NUnit
7 24 (0.90%) Postman
8 23 (0.86%) GitLab
9 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.45%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.26%) Moq
13 7 (0.26%) MSI
13 7 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 418 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 397 (14.90%) Finance
3 127 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (3.38%) Retail
5 79 (2.96%) Public Sector
6 68 (2.55%) Law
7 63 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (2.33%) Advertising
9 61 (2.29%) Legal
10 59 (2.21%) Games
11 57 (2.14%) Marketing
12 55 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.13%) Aerospace
13 30 (1.13%) Banking
14 25 (0.94%) Automotive
15 20 (0.75%) Electronics
16 15 (0.56%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.53%) Front Office
18 13 (0.49%) Back Office
19 12 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,627 (61.05%) Developer
2 961 (36.06%) .NET Developer
3 498 (18.69%) Senior
4 414 (15.53%) Software Engineer
5 338 (12.68%) Software Developer
6 305 (11.44%) Lead
7 258 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 213 (7.99%) C# Developer
9 190 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 166 (6.23%) .NET Software Engineer
11 163 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (5.82%) C# Software Engineer
13 149 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 143 (5.37%) Lead Developer
15 129 (4.84%) .NET Software Developer
16 116 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
17 111 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 93 (3.49%) Web Developer
19 91 (3.41%) Architect
20 83 (3.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 799 (29.98%) .NET Core
2 762 (28.59%) ASP.NET
3 578 (21.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 447 (16.77%) React
5 384 (14.41%) HTML
6 380 (14.26%) CSS
7 335 (12.57%) AngularJS
8 297 (11.14%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.03%) Blazor
10 292 (10.96%) .NET Framework
11 291 (10.92%) RESTful
12 265 (9.94%) Vue
13 256 (9.61%) Node.js
14 224 (8.41%) REST
15 221 (8.29%) ASP.NET Web API
16 145 (5.44%) ML.NET
17 109 (4.09%) LINQ
18 84 (3.15%) JSON
19 73 (2.74%) jQuery
20 62 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 177 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 155 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
3 132 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
4 120 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 37 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 33 (1.24%) AI Agents
10 32 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 30 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.05%) Hedge funds
14 22 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
16 17 (0.64%) iPhone
17 16 (0.60%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.60%) Client/Server
18 14 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.02%) Windows
2 34 (1.28%) Linux
3 33 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 31 (1.16%) Android
5 8 (0.30%) VMS
6 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.075%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (35.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 869 (32.61%) Agile
3 694 (26.04%) Software Engineering
4 684 (25.67%) DevOps
5 670 (25.14%) CI/CD
6 470 (17.64%) Microservices
7 424 (15.91%) AI
8 351 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
9 272 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 253 (9.49%) Mentoring
11 224 (8.41%) SDLC
12 206 (7.73%) Machine Learning
13 202 (7.58%) Test Automation
14 186 (6.98%) Scrum
15 173 (6.49%) Multithreading
16 169 (6.34%) TDD
17 167 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
18 159 (5.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 153 (5.74%) Clean Code
20 151 (5.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,016 (75.65%) C#
2 1,013 (38.01%) SQL
3 599 (22.48%) JavaScript
4 385 (14.45%) TypeScript
5 228 (8.56%) Python
6 168 (6.30%) Java
7 89 (3.34%) C++
8 81 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.44%) PHP
10 62 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 61 (2.29%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.69%) Bicep
13 28 (1.05%) C
14 23 (0.86%) Bash
15 22 (0.83%) Go
16 19 (0.71%) VB
17 13 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.45%) VBA
19 10 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 241 (9.04%) Degree
2 114 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 103 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 81 (3.04%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.89%) QA
2 69 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.79%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.30%) NCSC
8 5 (0.19%) SLA
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.11%) NIST
11 2 (0.075%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.075%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.038%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (12.61%) Docker
2 16 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.38%) Firmware
4 8 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 309 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 129 (4.84%) Terraform
3 14 (0.53%) Grafana
3 14 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.075%) MIIS
6 1 (0.038%) Consul
6 1 (0.038%) Control-M
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) Packer
6 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 938 (35.20%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.66%) Google
3 55 (2.06%) Facebook
4 40 (1.50%) Oracle
5 33 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) Adobe
7 27 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.79%) YouTube
9 15 (0.56%) iManage
10 14 (0.53%) Databricks
10 14 (0.53%) Xamarin
11 13 (0.49%) Intapp
11 13 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.41%) Apple
12 11 (0.41%) Sony
12 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.38%) Aderant
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.34%) VMware
15 8 (0.30%) Sage