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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +18 -46 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,604 1,645 4,365
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 3.79% 6.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.56% 21.45% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 1,227 3,105
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,850 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £83,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,850 £91,250
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 10,601 7,670 14,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.68% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,808 5,067 9,770
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 13 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 13 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 +50 690 £60,000 - 185
North of England +1 596 £56,500 -5.83% 183
London -25 531 £80,000 - 555
Midlands +32 351 £60,000 +9.09% 110
North West -16 260 £60,000 -4.00% 92
East of England +27 214 £62,500 +19.05% 76
South West +13 198 £55,000 +7.84% 60
West Midlands -3 186 £59,000 +7.27% 54
North East +10 181 £56,500 +29.89% 39
East Midlands +43 165 £60,000 +9.09% 55
Yorkshire 0 155 £55,000 -8.33% 55
.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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.80%) IIS
3 26 (1.00%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 12 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.35%) WordPress
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Magento
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
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 1,368 (52.53%) Azure
2 473 (18.16%) AWS
3 457 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
4 246 (9.45%) GitHub
5 188 (7.22%) Power Platform
5 188 (7.22%) SaaS
6 168 (6.45%) Azure AI
7 161 (6.18%) GitHub Copilot
8 147 (5.65%) Serverless
9 122 (4.69%) Power Automate
10 111 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 102 (3.92%) PowerApps
12 100 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
14 97 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (3.00%) Azure Functions
16 76 (2.92%) GCP
17 65 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
18 55 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
19 53 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.61%) Internet
2 16 (0.61%) Firewall
3 9 (0.35%) HTTP
3 9 (0.35%) VLAN
4 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.31%) Wireless
5 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) LTE
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 555 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 481 (18.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.90%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
5 110 (4.22%) Power BI
6 87 (3.34%) Relational Database
7 77 (2.96%) MySQL
8 76 (2.92%) NoSQL
9 62 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 31 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.15%) Redis
12 22 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) GIS
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 207 (7.95%) Git
2 46 (1.77%) JIRA
3 38 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.31%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.04%) NUnit
7 25 (0.96%) GitLab
8 21 (0.81%) Selenium
9 20 (0.77%) Postman
10 14 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 437 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 379 (14.55%) Finance
3 148 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.49%) Retail
6 74 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (2.61%) Law
8 65 (2.50%) Games
9 62 (2.38%) Legal
10 59 (2.27%) Advertising
11 54 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 51 (1.96%) Marketing
13 28 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 23 (0.88%) Automotive
14 23 (0.88%) Banking
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
15 19 (0.73%) Front Office
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
16 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,556 (59.75%) Developer
2 929 (35.68%) .NET Developer
3 469 (18.01%) Senior
4 386 (14.82%) Software Engineer
5 302 (11.60%) Lead
6 298 (11.44%) Software Developer
7 244 (9.37%) Senior Developer
8 210 (8.06%) C# Developer
9 187 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (6.14%) C# .NET Developer
11 152 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
12 145 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (5.45%) Lead Developer
14 141 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
15 116 (4.45%) Senior .NET Developer
16 111 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 110 (4.22%) .NET Software Developer
18 90 (3.46%) Web Developer
19 87 (3.34%) Architect
20 80 (3.07%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (29.49%) .NET Core
2 752 (28.88%) ASP.NET
3 574 (22.04%) ASP.NET Core
4 444 (17.05%) React
5 381 (14.63%) HTML
6 378 (14.52%) CSS
7 330 (12.67%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.37%) Entity Framework
9 291 (11.18%) Blazor
10 287 (11.02%) RESTful
11 279 (10.71%) .NET Framework
12 262 (10.06%) Vue
13 244 (9.37%) Node.js
14 218 (8.37%) ASP.NET Web API
14 218 (8.37%) REST
15 138 (5.30%) ML.NET
16 131 (5.03%) Terraform
17 107 (4.11%) LINQ
18 88 (3.38%) jQuery
19 81 (3.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 175 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
3 143 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
5 99 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 45 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 40 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
11 34 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.00%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
15 23 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 22 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 20 (0.77%) Data Structures
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
19 17 (0.65%) Client/Server
19 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 112 (4.30%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.38%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) VMS
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 847 (32.53%) Agile
3 685 (26.31%) CI/CD
4 678 (26.04%) DevOps
5 670 (25.73%) Software Engineering
6 451 (17.32%) Microservices
7 434 (16.67%) AI
8 384 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 278 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 276 (10.60%) Mentoring
11 218 (8.37%) SDLC
12 203 (7.80%) Machine Learning
12 203 (7.80%) Test Automation
13 177 (6.80%) Technical Leadership
14 174 (6.68%) Scrum
15 167 (6.41%) Multithreading
16 165 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 158 (6.07%) TDD
18 154 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
19 153 (5.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 2,008 (77.11%) C#
2 1,004 (38.56%) SQL
3 601 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 362 (13.90%) TypeScript
5 229 (8.79%) Python
6 170 (6.53%) Java
7 103 (3.96%) C++
8 71 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.46%) T-SQL
10 63 (2.42%) VB.NET
11 61 (2.34%) PHP
12 41 (1.57%) Bicep
13 28 (1.08%) C
14 24 (0.92%) Bash
15 19 (0.73%) VB
16 18 (0.69%) VBA
17 17 (0.65%) COBOL
17 17 (0.65%) Go
18 13 (0.50%) JCL
19 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 239 (9.18%) Degree
2 118 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.76%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 17 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.19%) PhD
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.03%) QA
2 71 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) WCAG
5 16 (0.61%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) Basel III
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) ITGC
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 321 (12.33%) Docker
2 23 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.35%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 926 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.76%) Google
3 53 (2.04%) Facebook
4 47 (1.80%) Oracle
5 33 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 26 (1.00%) Adobe
7 21 (0.81%) YouTube
8 17 (0.65%) VMware
9 16 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.58%) Databricks
11 12 (0.46%) iManage
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.42%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.35%) SAP
14 8 (0.31%) Broadcom
14 8 (0.31%) Sage