.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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -55 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,410 3,761 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.05% 6.11% 7.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.23% 29.66% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 2,595 3,278
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £41,944
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +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 6,342 12,679 12,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.73% 20.61% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,764 7,688 10,190
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +0.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -40 418 £80,000 +3.23% 163
North of England -44 324 £60,000 +9.09% 154
South East -56 293 £60,000 - 215
Midlands -48 177 £57,500 +4.55% 90
North West -37 163 £65,000 +18.18% 101
West Midlands -34 117 £55,000 - 51
Yorkshire -33 114 £55,000 +3.77% 37
East of England -57 85 £57,500 +15.00% 59
South West -64 82 £52,500 -4.55% 64
East Midlands -49 60 £62,500 +25.00% 35
North East -17 47 £47,500 -20.83% 16
.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 60 (4.26%) IIS
2 40 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.13%) CMS
4 19 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.28%) Confluence
6 12 (0.85%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.43%) JBoss
7 6 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.35%) nginx
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) Kentico
11 1 (0.071%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 66 (4.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 1000
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.071%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.071%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.071%) Magento
6 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 851 (60.35%) Azure
2 348 (24.68%) AWS
3 244 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (11.63%) SaaS
5 138 (9.79%) Power Platform
6 106 (7.52%) Serverless
7 98 (6.95%) GitHub
8 95 (6.74%) GCP
9 84 (5.96%) Power Automate
10 83 (5.89%) Dynamics 365
11 65 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 65 (4.61%) PowerApps
12 64 (4.54%) Azure Logic Apps
13 55 (3.90%) Azure Functions
14 47 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 43 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (2.77%) Entra ID
17 37 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (1.91%) Azure App Service
18 27 (1.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.92%) DNS
1 13 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 12 (0.85%) DHCP
2 12 (0.85%) VoIP
3 11 (0.78%) Internet
4 10 (0.71%) Firewall
5 9 (0.64%) VPN
6 7 (0.50%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.50%) SAN
6 7 (0.50%) WPA
7 6 (0.43%) Modbus
7 6 (0.43%) MQTT
8 5 (0.35%) HTTP
8 5 (0.35%) LAN
8 5 (0.35%) SSL
8 5 (0.35%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Intranet
10 2 (0.14%) NAS
10 2 (0.14%) VLAN
11 1 (0.071%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (29.93%) SQL Server
2 87 (6.17%) MongoDB
3 75 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 74 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 72 (5.11%) MySQL
6 61 (4.33%) Relational Database
7 56 (3.97%) Power BI
8 52 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 40 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 39 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
12 25 (1.77%) Redis
13 23 (1.63%) DynamoDB
14 16 (1.13%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.92%) Tableau
16 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
18 7 (0.50%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
19 6 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 168 (11.91%) Git
2 69 (4.89%) JIRA
3 32 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 31 (2.20%) Selenium
4 31 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 28 (1.99%) Postman
5 28 (1.99%) TeamCity
6 27 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 26 (1.84%) Jenkins
8 16 (1.13%) SoapUI
8 16 (1.13%) WebDriver
9 15 (1.06%) GitLab
9 15 (1.06%) NUnit
10 12 (0.85%) Storybook
11 11 (0.78%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.57%) MSTest
13 7 (0.50%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.50%) MSBuild
14 6 (0.43%) git-flow
15 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 388 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.23%) Finance
3 85 (6.03%) Law
4 63 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (4.04%) Retail
6 52 (3.69%) Banking
7 41 (2.91%) Legal
7 41 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 29 (2.06%) Front Office
8 29 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.70%) Back Office
11 23 (1.63%) Billing
12 21 (1.49%) Games
12 21 (1.49%) Marketing
13 20 (1.42%) Automotive
14 18 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.85%) Publishing
17 9 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 817 (57.94%) Developer
2 297 (21.06%) Senior
3 290 (20.57%) .NET Developer
4 173 (12.27%) C# Developer
5 170 (12.06%) Lead
6 169 (11.99%) Software Developer
7 168 (11.91%) Senior Developer
8 153 (10.85%) Software Engineer
9 147 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (4.47%) Lead Developer
11 62 (4.40%) C# .NET Developer
12 55 (3.90%) .NET Software Developer
13 54 (3.83%) Architect
14 52 (3.69%) .NET Software Engineer
15 49 (3.48%) Engineering Manager
16 48 (3.40%) Senior .NET Developer
16 48 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
17 46 (3.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 44 (3.12%) Analyst
19 40 (2.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (22.84%) .NET Core
2 309 (21.91%) React
3 281 (19.93%) ASP.NET
4 260 (18.44%) .NET Framework
5 223 (15.82%) HTML
6 218 (15.46%) CSS
7 205 (14.54%) AngularJS
8 155 (10.99%) RESTful
9 131 (9.29%) Entity Framework
10 120 (8.51%) REST
11 98 (6.95%) Vue
12 96 (6.81%) Blazor
13 84 (5.96%) ASP.NET MVC
14 81 (5.74%) Node.js
15 74 (5.25%) ASP.NET Web API
16 69 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
17 62 (4.40%) HTML5
18 57 (4.04%) Web Services
19 41 (2.91%) CSS3
20 39 (2.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 82 (5.82%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 44 (3.12%) Mobile App
6 37 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.99%) Clustering
13 14 (0.99%) IoT
13 14 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
14 13 (0.92%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.92%) Derivative
14 13 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.96%) Windows
2 28 (1.99%) Android
2 28 (1.99%) Linux
3 27 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
9 1 (0.071%) Fedora
9 1 (0.071%) Solaris
9 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (44.18%) Agile
2 471 (33.40%) DevOps
3 442 (31.35%) CI/CD
4 374 (26.52%) Software Engineering
5 358 (25.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 314 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
7 296 (20.99%) Microservices
8 246 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 201 (14.26%) Mentoring
10 169 (11.99%) MVC
11 159 (11.28%) Scrum
12 148 (10.50%) User Experience
13 146 (10.35%) Clean Code
14 136 (9.65%) AI
15 128 (9.08%) SDLC
16 123 (8.72%) Computer Science
16 123 (8.72%) TDD
17 115 (8.16%) Test Automation
18 113 (8.01%) Containerisation
19 112 (7.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,057 (74.96%) C#
2 523 (37.09%) SQL
3 451 (31.99%) JavaScript
4 234 (16.60%) TypeScript
5 162 (11.49%) Java
6 143 (10.14%) Python
7 59 (4.18%) PowerShell
8 48 (3.40%) VB.NET
9 47 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 44 (3.12%) PHP
11 41 (2.91%) C++
12 30 (2.13%) Bicep
13 21 (1.49%) Bash
14 16 (1.13%) Rust
15 15 (1.06%) Go
16 9 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.64%) XAML
17 8 (0.57%) C
18 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 218 (15.46%) Degree
2 92 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 26 (1.84%) ISTQB
6 20 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 13 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (0.85%) HND
11 11 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.71%) ISEB
13 9 (0.64%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.57%) HNC
15 6 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
16 5 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.28%) MCSE
18 3 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.74%) QA
2 34 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.56%) GDPR
4 10 (0.71%) WCAG
5 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.28%) GRC
9 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.21%) HL7
9 3 (0.21%) SLA
10 2 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.071%) COBIT
11 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 169 (11.99%) Docker
2 29 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) Squid
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.071%) Firmware
7 1 (0.071%) HDFS
7 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (8.72%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.88%) Terraform
3 15 (1.06%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.43%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.14%) Kibana
6 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.071%) Control-M
Vendors
1 380 (26.95%) Microsoft
2 41 (2.91%) Oracle
3 34 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.63%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.42%) Google
6 17 (1.21%) Databricks
6 17 (1.21%) Guidewire
7 16 (1.13%) Sage
8 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 13 (0.92%) DevExpress
9 13 (0.92%) VMware
10 11 (0.78%) New Relic
10 11 (0.78%) Telerik
11 9 (0.64%) Apple
12 7 (0.50%) Facebook
12 7 (0.50%) Freshdesk
12 7 (0.50%) IFS
12 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.50%) Syncfusion
12 7 (0.50%) YouTube