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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 46 23
Rank change year-on-year -32 -23 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,670 2,100 5,811
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.50% 5.54% 7.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.53% 25.16% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,482 1,704 5,221
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,919 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +1.53% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 7,097 8,347 16,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.64% 22.02% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,405 5,972 13,652
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 20 March 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 20 March 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
London -31 445 £82,500 +10.00% 223
South East -30 407 £60,000 - 174
North of England -32 397 £65,000 +18.18% 150
North West -32 209 £65,000 +18.18% 82
Midlands -34 205 £55,000 -4.35% 85
Yorkshire -33 123 £60,000 +4.35% 46
South West -16 116 £55,000 -8.33% 62
West Midlands -40 108 £50,000 -14.16% 51
East Midlands -35 97 £60,000 +14.29% 34
East of England -55 72 £60,000 +20.00% 58
North East -8 65 £70,000 +16.67% 28
.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 33 (1.98%) IIS
2 29 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.14%) CMS
4 13 (0.78%) JBoss
4 13 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.66%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.36%) Confluence
7 5 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.12%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.060%) Apache
10 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.060%) Kentico
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.060%) SAS
10 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.060%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.060%) Endur
3 1 (0.060%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.060%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.060%) Magento
3 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 752 (45.03%) Azure
2 276 (16.53%) AWS
3 222 (13.29%) SaaS
4 215 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
5 128 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 109 (6.53%) Serverless
7 106 (6.35%) GitHub
8 70 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 61 (3.65%) Azure Functions
10 59 (3.53%) PowerApps
11 57 (3.41%) Power Automate
12 56 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (3.17%) GCP
14 50 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
15 44 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 37 (2.22%) Azure AKS
17 36 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
19 30 (1.80%) Entra ID
20 27 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.02%) Internet
2 10 (0.60%) Firewall
3 8 (0.48%) WinSCP
4 7 (0.42%) DNS
5 6 (0.36%) DHCP
6 5 (0.30%) VPN
7 4 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.24%) VoIP
8 3 (0.18%) LTE
9 2 (0.12%) HTTP
9 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.12%) Intranet
10 1 (0.060%) AMQP
10 1 (0.060%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.060%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.060%) Modbus
10 1 (0.060%) MPLS
10 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (24.73%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.85%) NoSQL
3 70 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 65 (3.89%) Power BI
5 50 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 49 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 47 (2.81%) Relational Database
8 44 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 41 (2.46%) MySQL
9 41 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.20%) DynamoDB
11 18 (1.08%) Redis
12 15 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.66%) DB2
14 7 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.36%) GIS
16 5 (0.30%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.24%) QGIS
17 4 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 129 (7.72%) Git
2 49 (2.93%) JIRA
3 48 (2.87%) Selenium
4 43 (2.57%) Visual Studio
5 35 (2.10%) Postman
6 29 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 26 (1.56%) WebDriver
8 24 (1.44%) SoapUI
9 21 (1.26%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.08%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.60%) NUnit
13 8 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.42%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.30%) git-flow
15 5 (0.30%) GitLab
16 4 (0.24%) Appium
16 4 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 331 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 289 (17.31%) Finance
3 81 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (3.83%) Law
5 59 (3.53%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.41%) Banking
7 39 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.38%) Marketing
9 22 (1.32%) Games
9 22 (1.32%) Retail
10 21 (1.26%) Legal
11 17 (1.02%) Front Office
12 15 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.84%) Aviation
14 12 (0.72%) Electronics
14 12 (0.72%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.54%) Military
15 9 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 899 (53.83%) Developer
2 406 (24.31%) Senior
3 364 (21.80%) .NET Developer
4 301 (18.02%) Software Engineer
5 272 (16.29%) Software Developer
6 201 (12.04%) Lead
7 189 (11.32%) Senior Developer
8 187 (11.20%) C# Developer
9 170 (10.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 137 (8.20%) .NET Software Engineer
11 119 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
12 108 (6.47%) C# .NET Developer
13 86 (5.15%) .NET Software Developer
14 81 (4.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 81 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 77 (4.61%) Senior .NET Developer
16 75 (4.49%) Lead Developer
17 61 (3.65%) Architect
17 61 (3.65%) C# Software Engineer
18 56 (3.35%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (23.77%) .NET Core
2 294 (17.60%) React
3 258 (15.45%) ASP.NET
4 218 (13.05%) .NET Framework
5 202 (12.10%) HTML
6 177 (10.60%) CSS
7 142 (8.50%) AngularJS
7 142 (8.50%) REST
8 114 (6.83%) RESTful
9 98 (5.87%) Entity Framework
10 92 (5.51%) Node.js
11 91 (5.45%) Blazor
12 87 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
13 64 (3.83%) Vue
14 62 (3.71%) SOAP
15 45 (2.69%) ASP.NET MVC
15 45 (2.69%) ASP.NET Web API
16 39 (2.34%) Middleware
17 36 (2.16%) HTML5
18 32 (1.92%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 146 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.95%) Mobile App
3 65 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 51 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.62%) Hedge funds
9 22 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
11 20 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 15 (0.90%) Management Information System
14 13 (0.78%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.78%) DataPower
15 11 (0.66%) Legacy Code
15 11 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 83 (4.97%) Windows
2 24 (1.44%) Linux
3 23 (1.38%) Android
4 22 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.02%) VMS
7 6 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.060%) Fedora
10 1 (0.060%) Solaris
10 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (31.20%) Agile
1 521 (31.20%) Software Engineering
2 417 (24.97%) Full-Stack Development
3 400 (23.95%) DevOps
4 389 (23.29%) CI/CD
5 270 (16.17%) Microservices
6 253 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
7 210 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 172 (10.30%) Mentoring
9 147 (8.80%) AI
10 140 (8.38%) SDLC
11 139 (8.32%) Clean Code
12 131 (7.84%) Scrum
13 129 (7.72%) Containerisation
14 126 (7.54%) Test Automation
15 117 (7.01%) User Experience
16 112 (6.71%) MVC
17 104 (6.23%) Technical Leadership
18 100 (5.99%) TDD
19 96 (5.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,141 (68.32%) C#
2 517 (30.96%) SQL
3 373 (22.34%) JavaScript
4 203 (12.16%) TypeScript
5 162 (9.70%) Java
6 142 (8.50%) Python
7 60 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.34%) C++
9 33 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 26 (1.56%) Bicep
11 26 (1.56%) PHP
12 21 (1.26%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.96%) C
14 14 (0.84%) Bash
15 13 (0.78%) Go
16 11 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.54%) Rust
19 7 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (11.44%) Degree
2 60 (3.59%) Security Cleared
3 50 (2.99%) SC Cleared
4 49 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 21 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.48%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.42%) ISEB
11 7 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.17%) QA
2 46 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 14 (0.84%) GDPR
4 12 (0.72%) WCAG
5 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.42%) SLA
8 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.060%) GRC
11 1 (0.060%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 158 (9.46%) Docker
2 20 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.36%) Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.060%) Squid
Systems Management
1 133 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 91 (5.45%) Terraform
3 15 (0.90%) Grafana
4 10 (0.60%) Ansible
5 8 (0.48%) Kibana
6 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.060%) Argo
8 1 (0.060%) CASB
8 1 (0.060%) Control-M
8 1 (0.060%) MIIS
Vendors
1 295 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.10%) Salesforce
3 28 (1.68%) Xamarin
4 20 (1.20%) Google
5 19 (1.14%) MuleSoft
6 12 (0.72%) Oracle
6 12 (0.72%) Sage
7 11 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.60%) Adobe
8 10 (0.60%) New Relic
9 9 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.48%) Databricks
11 6 (0.36%) Apple
11 6 (0.36%) Telerik
11 6 (0.36%) VMware
12 5 (0.30%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.30%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.24%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.24%) Datto
13 4 (0.24%) Freshdesk