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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 -36 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,438 1,863 6,619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.55% 7.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.27% 23.81% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,221 1,383 5,566
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,600 £37,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 8,940 7,824 18,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.53% 19.12% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,835 5,282 14,474
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%

.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 28 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 28 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 +21 630 £57,500 - 155
North of England -3 559 £60,000 - 132
London -22 546 £80,000 - 169
Midlands +8 307 £55,000 - 72
North West 0 283 £60,000 +4.35% 66
South West +8 191 £55,000 +4.76% 38
East of England +22 181 £65,000 +23.81% 43
West Midlands -17 158 £57,500 +4.55% 39
East Midlands +30 149 £55,000 - 33
North East +3 143 £57,500 +6.98% 35
Yorkshire -2 133 £57,500 -14.81% 34
.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 61 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.15%) IIS
3 27 (1.11%) CMS
4 19 (0.78%) Confluence
5 16 (0.66%) ColdFusion
6 14 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.33%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) JBoss
8 6 (0.25%) nginx
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.082%) DNN
12 2 (0.082%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.082%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.082%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.082%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.082%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.041%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (51.39%) Azure
2 388 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
3 382 (15.67%) AWS
4 227 (9.31%) SaaS
5 198 (8.12%) GitHub
6 160 (6.56%) Power Platform
7 137 (5.62%) Azure AI
8 128 (5.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 128 (5.25%) Serverless
9 115 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 107 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 98 (4.02%) Power Automate
12 93 (3.81%) PowerApps
13 84 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
14 81 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
15 80 (3.28%) Azure Functions
16 57 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
16 57 (2.34%) GCP
17 56 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (2.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.24%) Internet
2 9 (0.37%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.21%) DHCP
4 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) LAN
4 5 (0.21%) LTE
4 5 (0.21%) WAN
5 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.12%) RS-232
6 3 (0.12%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.082%) HTTP
7 2 (0.082%) Modbus
8 1 (0.041%) AMQP
8 1 (0.041%) Profibus
8 1 (0.041%) VLAN
8 1 (0.041%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.041%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (19.03%) SQL Server
2 431 (17.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 365 (14.97%) MongoDB
4 136 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
5 104 (4.27%) Power BI
6 63 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 56 (2.30%) MySQL
8 41 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.86%) Redis
12 13 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.49%) Db2
14 11 (0.45%) GIS
15 9 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
16 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
17 6 (0.25%) Big Data
17 6 (0.25%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 147 (6.03%) Git
2 45 (1.85%) JIRA
3 30 (1.23%) Visual Studio
4 25 (1.03%) Postman
5 23 (0.94%) Selenium
6 19 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 18 (0.74%) GitLab
8 16 (0.66%) SpecFlow
9 13 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.53%) NUnit
10 12 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 9 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.37%) SoapUI
12 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 388 (15.91%) Finance
2 345 (14.15%) Social Skills
3 99 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (3.12%) Retail
5 65 (2.67%) Public Sector
6 51 (2.09%) Advertising
7 49 (2.01%) Games
8 47 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 46 (1.89%) Law
9 46 (1.89%) Marketing
10 44 (1.80%) Legal
11 43 (1.76%) Banking
12 38 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.23%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.98%) Automotive
15 20 (0.82%) Electronics
16 12 (0.49%) Back Office
16 12 (0.49%) Legal Technology
17 11 (0.45%) Front Office
18 9 (0.37%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,482 (60.79%) Developer
2 857 (35.15%) .NET Developer
3 475 (19.48%) Senior
4 406 (16.65%) Software Engineer
5 336 (13.78%) Software Developer
6 258 (10.58%) Lead
7 229 (9.39%) Senior Developer
8 205 (8.41%) C# Developer
9 182 (7.47%) .NET Software Engineer
9 182 (7.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 165 (6.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 155 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 153 (6.28%) C# Software Engineer
13 130 (5.33%) Lead Developer
14 129 (5.29%) .NET Software Developer
15 106 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
16 100 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 85 (3.49%) Architect
18 78 (3.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 74 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 732 (30.02%) .NET Core
2 649 (26.62%) ASP.NET
3 491 (20.14%) ASP.NET Core
4 402 (16.49%) React
5 334 (13.70%) HTML
6 333 (13.66%) CSS
7 291 (11.94%) AngularJS
8 251 (10.30%) Blazor
9 246 (10.09%) .NET Framework
10 245 (10.05%) RESTful
11 244 (10.01%) Entity Framework
12 235 (9.64%) Vue
13 218 (8.94%) Node.js
14 185 (7.59%) REST
15 184 (7.55%) ASP.NET Web API
16 124 (5.09%) ML.NET
17 96 (3.94%) LINQ
18 63 (2.58%) jQuery
19 61 (2.50%) JSON
20 51 (2.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 133 (5.46%) Greenfield Project
3 93 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 77 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (2.95%) Mobile App
7 58 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.35%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.07%) Legacy Code
10 22 (0.90%) Low-Code
11 20 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 20 (0.82%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.78%) Digital TV
12 19 (0.78%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.66%) Client/Server
15 15 (0.62%) iPhone
15 15 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.36%) Windows
2 31 (1.27%) Android
3 26 (1.07%) Linux
4 25 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.49%) VMS
6 9 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.082%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (35.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 772 (31.67%) Agile
3 649 (26.62%) Software Engineering
4 595 (24.41%) CI/CD
4 595 (24.41%) DevOps
5 410 (16.82%) Microservices
6 375 (15.38%) AI
7 289 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 218 (8.94%) Mentoring
10 195 (8.00%) SDLC
11 187 (7.67%) Machine Learning
12 179 (7.34%) Test Automation
13 162 (6.64%) Scrum
14 160 (6.56%) TDD
15 151 (6.19%) Multithreading
16 141 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
17 136 (5.58%) Clean Code
18 133 (5.46%) Containerisation
19 131 (5.37%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,809 (74.20%) C#
2 931 (38.19%) SQL
3 528 (21.66%) JavaScript
4 349 (14.32%) TypeScript
5 203 (8.33%) Python
6 145 (5.95%) Java
7 85 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 81 (3.32%) C++
9 58 (2.38%) PHP
10 51 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 42 (1.72%) Bicep
13 24 (0.98%) C
14 21 (0.86%) Bash
15 20 (0.82%) VB
16 15 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.41%) Go
19 9 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 209 (8.57%) Degree
2 91 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.29%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.12%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.12%) PhD
12 2 (0.082%) CSQA
12 2 (0.082%) MBA
12 2 (0.082%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.37%) QA
2 60 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.74%) GDPR
5 14 (0.57%) WCAG
6 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.33%) SLA
8 4 (0.16%) NCSC
8 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.082%) ITGC
10 2 (0.082%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 280 (11.48%) Docker
2 17 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.49%) Firmware
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 268 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.55%) Terraform
3 14 (0.57%) Grafana
4 8 (0.33%) Ansible
5 7 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.21%) Kibana
7 2 (0.082%) MIIS
8 1 (0.041%) Consul
8 1 (0.041%) MOM
8 1 (0.041%) Packer
8 1 (0.041%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.041%) Puppet
Vendors
1 768 (31.50%) Microsoft
2 51 (2.09%) Google
3 47 (1.93%) Facebook
4 34 (1.39%) Oracle
5 30 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.11%) Adobe
8 18 (0.74%) Xamarin
8 18 (0.74%) YouTube
9 16 (0.66%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.49%) Databricks
11 11 (0.45%) iManage
11 11 (0.45%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.41%) Apple
12 10 (0.41%) Sony
12 10 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.37%) Intapp
14 8 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.33%) VMware
15 7 (0.29%) IBM