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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,633 1,861 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 4.26% 6.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.58% 23.79% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,353 1,396 3,715
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 £92,950
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 9,547 7,821 13,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.38% 17.89% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,223 5,266 10,381
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
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 £88,750 £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 3 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 3 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 +25 686 £58,500 +1.74% 161
North of England +1 612 £57,500 -4.17% 142
London -27 562 £80,000 - 282
Midlands +9 330 £55,000 - 87
North West -5 283 £60,000 - 73
South West +16 214 £52,500 - 41
East of England +23 206 £65,000 +23.81% 50
West Midlands -13 178 £60,000 +4.35% 43
Yorkshire +18 166 £55,000 -15.38% 39
North East 0 163 £55,750 +29.65% 32
East Midlands +38 152 £55,000 - 44
.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 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.37%) IIS
3 32 (1.22%) CMS
4 24 (0.91%) Confluence
5 16 (0.61%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
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%) 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 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.076%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.076%) 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 1,375 (52.22%) Azure
2 439 (16.67%) AWS
3 430 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 235 (8.93%) GitHub
5 206 (7.82%) SaaS
6 185 (7.03%) Power Platform
7 167 (6.34%) Azure AI
8 158 (6.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 135 (5.13%) Serverless
10 116 (4.41%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 111 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 101 (3.84%) PowerApps
13 96 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
14 89 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 79 (3.00%) Azure Functions
16 72 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
17 71 (2.70%) GCP
18 56 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
19 54 (2.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.46%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
3 8 (0.30%) HTTP
4 7 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) LAN
5 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) Intranet
6 4 (0.15%) LTE
6 4 (0.15%) SNMP
7 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.11%) Modbus
7 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.038%) Network Security
8 1 (0.038%) SSL
8 1 (0.038%) VLAN
8 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 534 (20.28%) SQL Server
2 494 (18.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.18%) MongoDB
4 160 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 114 (4.33%) Power BI
6 74 (2.81%) MySQL
7 66 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 64 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 50 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 35 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (1.10%) Redis
13 21 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.49%) GIS
15 12 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.46%) Db2
15 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 8 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 182 (6.91%) Git
2 47 (1.79%) JIRA
3 31 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.18%) Selenium
4 28 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 27 (1.03%) NUnit
6 25 (0.95%) Claude Code
7 24 (0.91%) Postman
8 22 (0.84%) GitLab
9 12 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.27%) Moq
14 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 401 (15.23%) Social Skills
2 387 (14.70%) Finance
3 121 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.34%) Retail
5 76 (2.89%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.43%) Law
7 62 (2.35%) Advertising
8 58 (2.20%) Games
8 58 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (2.20%) Legal
9 56 (2.13%) Marketing
10 54 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 30 (1.14%) Banking
12 25 (0.95%) Automotive
13 20 (0.76%) Electronics
14 14 (0.53%) Legal Technology
15 13 (0.49%) Back Office
15 13 (0.49%) Front Office
16 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,611 (61.18%) Developer
2 955 (36.27%) .NET Developer
3 493 (18.72%) Senior
4 414 (15.72%) Software Engineer
5 331 (12.57%) Software Developer
6 301 (11.43%) Lead
7 255 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 215 (8.17%) C# Developer
9 188 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 165 (6.27%) .NET Software Engineer
10 165 (6.27%) C# .NET Developer
11 152 (5.77%) C# Software Engineer
12 149 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (5.39%) Lead Developer
14 126 (4.79%) .NET Software Developer
15 116 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
16 113 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 90 (3.42%) Architect
17 90 (3.42%) Web Developer
18 82 (3.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (29.97%) .NET Core
2 755 (28.67%) ASP.NET
3 576 (21.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 439 (16.67%) React
5 378 (14.36%) HTML
6 376 (14.28%) CSS
7 330 (12.53%) AngularJS
8 294 (11.17%) Entity Framework
9 292 (11.09%) Blazor
10 286 (10.86%) .NET Framework
10 286 (10.86%) RESTful
11 262 (9.95%) Vue
12 255 (9.68%) Node.js
13 220 (8.36%) ASP.NET Web API
14 216 (8.20%) REST
15 145 (5.51%) ML.NET
16 110 (4.18%) LINQ
17 83 (3.15%) JSON
18 71 (2.70%) jQuery
19 60 (2.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 153 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
3 124 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 118 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 31 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 30 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.10%) Hedge funds
11 29 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 28 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 20 (0.76%) Digital TV
15 17 (0.65%) iPhone
16 16 (0.61%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.61%) Client/Server
17 14 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.99%) Windows
2 33 (1.25%) Android
2 33 (1.25%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.22%) Linux
4 9 (0.34%) VMS
5 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.076%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (35.70%) Full-Stack Development
2 858 (32.59%) Agile
3 683 (25.94%) Software Engineering
4 667 (25.33%) DevOps
5 658 (24.99%) CI/CD
6 466 (17.70%) Microservices
7 418 (15.88%) AI
8 335 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 251 (9.53%) Mentoring
11 215 (8.17%) SDLC
12 205 (7.79%) Machine Learning
13 197 (7.48%) Test Automation
14 182 (6.91%) Scrum
15 173 (6.57%) Multithreading
16 170 (6.46%) TDD
17 165 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
18 156 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
19 147 (5.58%) Clean Code
19 147 (5.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,988 (75.50%) C#
2 1,001 (38.02%) SQL
3 593 (22.52%) JavaScript
4 385 (14.62%) TypeScript
5 226 (8.58%) Python
6 164 (6.23%) Java
7 88 (3.34%) C++
8 82 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 63 (2.39%) PHP
10 61 (2.32%) T-SQL
11 60 (2.28%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.71%) Bicep
13 27 (1.03%) C
14 23 (0.87%) Bash
15 20 (0.76%) Go
16 19 (0.72%) VB
17 13 (0.49%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.46%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.46%) VBA
19 9 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 234 (8.89%) Degree
2 110 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 78 (2.96%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.77%) QA
2 66 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.76%) GDPR
5 16 (0.61%) 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
10 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.076%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.038%) ITGC
System Software
1 329 (12.50%) Docker
2 16 (0.61%) 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
1 306 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.86%) Terraform
3 14 (0.53%) Grafana
3 14 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.076%) 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
1 925 (35.13%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.73%) Google
3 55 (2.09%) Facebook
4 40 (1.52%) Oracle
5 32 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.10%) Adobe
7 27 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.80%) YouTube
9 16 (0.61%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.53%) Databricks
10 14 (0.53%) iManage
11 13 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.46%) Intapp
13 11 (0.42%) Apple
13 11 (0.42%) Sony
13 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.34%) Aderant
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.34%) VMware
15 8 (0.30%) Sage