.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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 37 23
Rank change year-on-year -41 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,550 2,542 5,275
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 5.84% 7.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.14% 26.14% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,744 4,812
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,525
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,919 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.98% +3.20% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £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 6,697 9,726 15,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.01% 22.33% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 6,006 12,937
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -27 429 £80,000 +6.67% 202
South East -35 380 £60,000 - 195
North of England -38 352 £65,000 +13.04% 154
Midlands -38 204 £52,500 -8.70% 67
North West -29 186 £65,000 +13.04% 95
West Midlands -35 117 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire -39 108 £60,000 +13.21% 33
South West -54 98 £55,000 -8.33% 69
East Midlands -34 87 £64,000 +23.08% 31
East of England -60 63 £60,000 +20.00% 45
North East -7 58 £70,000 +12.00% 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 44 (2.84%) IIS
2 24 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.84%) JBoss
5 13 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.32%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.065%) Apache
10 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.065%) Kentico
10 1 (0.065%) SAS
10 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 45 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.065%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.065%) Endur
3 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 759 (48.97%) Azure
2 293 (18.90%) AWS
3 234 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (14.45%) SaaS
5 123 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 103 (6.65%) GitHub
7 102 (6.58%) Serverless
8 75 (4.84%) GCP
9 59 (3.81%) Azure Functions
10 58 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 58 (3.74%) Power Automate
11 57 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (3.23%) PowerApps
13 46 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 41 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (2.52%) Entra ID
15 39 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (2.00%) Azure AKS
17 28 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.90%) Internet
2 12 (0.77%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) DHCP
4 10 (0.65%) Firewall
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 8 (0.52%) WinSCP
6 6 (0.39%) VoIP
7 5 (0.32%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.26%) HTTP
9 3 (0.19%) Intranet
9 3 (0.19%) LTE
10 2 (0.13%) NAS
10 2 (0.13%) SAN
10 2 (0.13%) VLAN
11 1 (0.065%) AMQP
11 1 (0.065%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.065%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.065%) IPv6
11 1 (0.065%) MPLS
11 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (25.42%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 53 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (3.42%) Power BI
4 51 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 45 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 42 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 40 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (2.32%) MySQL
10 21 (1.35%) DynamoDB
11 20 (1.29%) Redis
12 12 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.45%) DB2
14 7 (0.45%) Tableau
15 5 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
16 3 (0.19%) GIS
16 3 (0.19%) NonStop SQL
16 3 (0.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 133 (8.58%) Git
2 47 (3.03%) JIRA
3 46 (2.97%) Selenium
4 41 (2.65%) Visual Studio
5 34 (2.19%) Postman
6 30 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 27 (1.74%) WebDriver
8 26 (1.68%) SoapUI
9 19 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.16%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
12 15 (0.97%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.45%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.39%) git-flow
15 6 (0.39%) GitLab
16 5 (0.32%) NUnit
17 4 (0.26%) MSTest
17 4 (0.26%) Storybook
General
1 329 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 282 (18.19%) Finance
3 67 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (4.26%) Law
5 52 (3.35%) Banking
6 49 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 36 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.68%) Legal
9 20 (1.29%) Games
9 20 (1.29%) Marketing
9 20 (1.29%) Retail
10 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.03%) Aviation
12 15 (0.97%) Front Office
13 11 (0.71%) Electronics
13 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.58%) Military
14 9 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 833 (53.74%) Developer
2 359 (23.16%) Senior
3 343 (22.13%) .NET Developer
4 271 (17.48%) Software Engineer
5 257 (16.58%) Software Developer
6 182 (11.74%) Lead
7 174 (11.23%) C# Developer
8 160 (10.32%) Senior Developer
9 157 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 129 (8.32%) .NET Software Engineer
11 110 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (5.87%) .NET Software Developer
12 91 (5.87%) C# .NET Developer
13 76 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 75 (4.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 70 (4.52%) Senior .NET Developer
16 68 (4.39%) Lead Developer
17 58 (3.74%) C# Software Engineer
18 53 (3.42%) Analyst
19 46 (2.97%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (23.29%) .NET Core
2 292 (18.84%) React
3 225 (14.52%) ASP.NET
4 206 (13.29%) .NET Framework
5 187 (12.06%) HTML
6 159 (10.26%) CSS
7 150 (9.68%) AngularJS
8 132 (8.52%) REST
9 107 (6.90%) RESTful
10 89 (5.74%) Entity Framework
11 88 (5.68%) Blazor
12 65 (4.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 64 (4.13%) Node.js
14 63 (4.06%) Vue
15 59 (3.81%) SOAP
16 49 (3.16%) ASP.NET MVC
17 45 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
18 38 (2.45%) HTML5
19 36 (2.32%) Middleware
20 34 (2.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.94%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.48%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
12 16 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.90%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.84%) DataPower
15 12 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.42%) Windows
2 27 (1.74%) Android
3 26 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.68%) Linux
4 24 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.97%) VMS
6 10 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.065%) Fedora
9 1 (0.065%) Solaris
9 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (35.03%) Agile
2 494 (31.87%) Software Engineering
3 398 (25.68%) DevOps
4 389 (25.10%) CI/CD
5 378 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 268 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
7 266 (17.16%) Microservices
8 206 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (11.10%) Mentoring
10 162 (10.45%) AI
11 136 (8.77%) SDLC
12 132 (8.52%) Scrum
13 124 (8.00%) Clean Code
14 122 (7.87%) Containerisation
15 115 (7.42%) User Experience
16 113 (7.29%) Test Automation
17 108 (6.97%) MVC
18 98 (6.32%) Computer Science
19 97 (6.26%) TDD
20 95 (6.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (68.52%) C#
2 483 (31.16%) SQL
3 376 (24.26%) JavaScript
4 213 (13.74%) TypeScript
5 153 (9.87%) Java
6 135 (8.71%) Python
7 63 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.19%) C++
9 31 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.94%) VB.NET
11 24 (1.55%) PHP
12 23 (1.48%) Bicep
13 17 (1.10%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.97%) C
15 13 (0.84%) Bash
16 12 (0.77%) Rust
17 9 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.45%) Go
19 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 197 (12.71%) Degree
2 56 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (3.29%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 30 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 23 (1.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.45%) ISEB
12 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.19%) MCSE
15 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.77%) QA
2 45 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.97%) GDPR
3 15 (0.97%) WCAG
4 9 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.26%) SLA
8 3 (0.19%) GRC
8 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.065%) ITGC
9 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (9.87%) Docker
2 26 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.065%) HDFS
6 1 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 123 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 89 (5.74%) Terraform
3 14 (0.90%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Ansible
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.13%) Argo
7 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.065%) CASB
8 1 (0.065%) Control-M
Vendors
1 278 (17.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (1.94%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.87%) Xamarin
4 19 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 18 (1.16%) Google
5 18 (1.16%) Oracle
6 12 (0.77%) Sage
7 10 (0.65%) New Relic
8 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.58%) Telerik
9 8 (0.52%) Apple
9 8 (0.52%) Databricks
10 7 (0.45%) Adobe
11 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.39%) Datto
11 6 (0.39%) Freshdesk
11 6 (0.39%) VMware
12 5 (0.32%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.32%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.32%) OpenAI