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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 63 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -38 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,687 1,782 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 4.06% 6.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.89% 22.12% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,373 1,331 3,572
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.40%

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 10,796 8,055 14,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.16% 18.37% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,043 5,396 10,822
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
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 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,056
% change year-on-year - +7.05% -6.58%

.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 27 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 27 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 +43 710 £60,000 +4.35% 119
North of England +1 629 £57,500 -4.17% 138
London -29 546 £80,000 - 396
Midlands +23 348 £57,500 +4.55% 84
North West -8 277 £60,000 - 68
East of England +27 219 £65,000 +30.00% 50
South West +9 210 £55,000 +4.76% 62
West Midlands -6 185 £60,000 +9.09% 32
North East +6 183 £56,500 +32.94% 35
Yorkshire +11 169 £55,000 -8.33% 37
East Midlands +48 163 £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 66 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.60%) IIS
3 32 (1.19%) CMS
4 24 (0.89%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.33%) 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%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.48%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.074%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.037%) Eikon
7 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.037%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.037%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,411 (52.51%) Azure
2 469 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
3 466 (17.34%) AWS
4 252 (9.38%) GitHub
5 207 (7.70%) SaaS
6 192 (7.15%) Power Platform
7 171 (6.36%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 141 (5.25%) Serverless
10 123 (4.58%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 108 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 105 (3.91%) PowerApps
14 102 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
15 97 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (2.94%) Azure Functions
17 78 (2.90%) GCP
18 68 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
20 55 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.54%) Internet
2 11 (0.41%) Firewall
3 9 (0.33%) HTTP
3 9 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.22%) 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
7 4 (0.15%) VLAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 3 (0.11%) Wireless
9 2 (0.074%) LTE
10 1 (0.037%) Network Security
10 1 (0.037%) Profibus
10 1 (0.037%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (20.95%) SQL Server
2 498 (18.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (15.85%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.10%) Elasticsearch
5 117 (4.35%) Power BI
6 81 (3.01%) MySQL
6 81 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 76 (2.83%) NoSQL
8 64 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 30 (1.12%) Redis
11 29 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.45%) GIS
14 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.37%) Db2
15 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (7.93%) Git
2 48 (1.79%) JIRA
3 39 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 31 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.08%) NUnit
6 25 (0.93%) GitLab
6 25 (0.93%) Selenium
7 23 (0.86%) Postman
8 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.26%) Moq
13 7 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 434 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 397 (14.77%) Finance
3 147 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (3.46%) Retail
5 92 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 75 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 74 (2.75%) Law
8 64 (2.38%) Games
9 62 (2.31%) Advertising
9 62 (2.31%) Legal
10 57 (2.12%) Marketing
11 55 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.93%) Banking
14 24 (0.89%) Automotive
15 19 (0.71%) Electronics
16 17 (0.63%) Front Office
17 14 (0.52%) Back Office
18 13 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
19 12 (0.45%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,614 (60.07%) Developer
2 953 (35.47%) .NET Developer
3 498 (18.53%) Senior
4 409 (15.22%) Software Engineer
5 325 (12.10%) Software Developer
6 313 (11.65%) Lead
7 262 (9.75%) Senior Developer
8 212 (7.89%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 161 (5.99%) C# .NET Developer
11 157 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
12 150 (5.58%) .NET Software Engineer
13 147 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 145 (5.40%) Lead Developer
15 122 (4.54%) .NET Software Developer
16 118 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
17 114 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 97 (3.61%) Architect
19 92 (3.42%) Web Developer
20 80 (2.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 793 (29.51%) .NET Core
2 775 (28.84%) ASP.NET
3 588 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 454 (16.90%) React
5 388 (14.44%) HTML
6 385 (14.33%) CSS
7 330 (12.28%) AngularJS
8 302 (11.24%) Entity Framework
9 298 (11.09%) Blazor
10 296 (11.02%) RESTful
11 295 (10.98%) .NET Framework
12 266 (9.90%) Vue
13 264 (9.83%) Node.js
14 225 (8.37%) ASP.NET Web API
15 224 (8.34%) REST
16 145 (5.40%) ML.NET
17 136 (5.06%) Terraform
18 109 (4.06%) LINQ
19 80 (2.98%) JSON
20 78 (2.90%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 186 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
3 141 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 43 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
9 41 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.12%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.89%) Hedge funds
15 21 (0.78%) Low-Code
16 20 (0.74%) Digital TV
17 19 (0.71%) Algorithms
18 18 (0.67%) Client/Server
19 17 (0.63%) Data Structures
19 17 (0.63%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.06%) Windows
2 38 (1.41%) Linux
3 34 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.15%) VMS
5 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.037%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (35.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 875 (32.56%) Agile
3 706 (26.27%) DevOps
4 705 (26.24%) Software Engineering
5 698 (25.98%) CI/CD
6 478 (17.79%) Microservices
7 437 (16.26%) AI
8 380 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
9 287 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 276 (10.27%) Mentoring
11 226 (8.41%) SDLC
12 213 (7.93%) Machine Learning
13 208 (7.74%) Test Automation
14 187 (6.96%) Scrum
15 183 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
16 174 (6.48%) Multithreading
17 168 (6.25%) TDD
18 157 (5.84%) Code Quality
19 155 (5.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,038 (75.85%) C#
2 1,024 (38.11%) SQL
3 603 (22.44%) JavaScript
4 376 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.75%) Python
6 174 (6.48%) Java
7 94 (3.50%) C++
8 79 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.53%) PHP
10 66 (2.46%) VB.NET
11 64 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 44 (1.64%) Bicep
13 28 (1.04%) C
14 25 (0.93%) Bash
15 21 (0.78%) Go
16 19 (0.71%) VB
17 15 (0.56%) COBOL
17 15 (0.56%) VBA
18 11 (0.41%) JCL
19 9 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 240 (8.93%) Degree
2 117 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 105 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 85 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 16 (0.60%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.03%) QA
2 73 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.67%) GDPR
5 17 (0.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.11%) SLA
8 2 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.037%) GRC
9 1 (0.037%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (12.50%) Docker
2 19 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.33%) Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 309 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.56%) Grafana
2 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.074%) MIIS
5 1 (0.037%) Argo
5 1 (0.037%) Consul
5 1 (0.037%) Control-M
5 1 (0.037%) MOM
5 1 (0.037%) Packer
5 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 948 (35.28%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.79%) Google
3 55 (2.05%) Facebook
4 45 (1.67%) Oracle
5 33 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.08%) Adobe
7 21 (0.78%) YouTube
8 19 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
10 12 (0.45%) iManage
10 12 (0.45%) VMware
10 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.41%) Apple
11 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.41%) Sony
11 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.37%) Intapp
13 9 (0.33%) Sage
13 9 (0.33%) SAP
14 8 (0.30%) DevExpress