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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 58 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 -33 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,530 1,910 5,715
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 4.39% 6.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.46% 23.97% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 1,430 4,742
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,550
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
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 9,213 7,968 16,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.33% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,065 5,402 12,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 July 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 July 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 +23 667 £57,500 - 128
North of England +4 582 £59,000 -1.67% 107
London -26 542 £80,000 - 154
Midlands +6 320 £55,000 - 56
North West -6 278 £60,000 +3.00% 51
South West +16 199 £52,500 - 41
East of England +22 197 £65,000 +23.81% 45
West Midlands -14 170 £58,250 +5.91% 24
Yorkshire +18 152 £57,500 -11.54% 31
North East +3 152 £56,500 +10.24% 28
East Midlands +35 150 £55,000 - 32
.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 65 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.34%) IIS
3 30 (1.19%) CMS
4 21 (0.83%) Confluence
5 16 (0.63%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.32%) nginx
7 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.16%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.20%) Shopify
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.079%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.040%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.040%) Eikon
6 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.040%) RMDS
6 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.040%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,328 (52.49%) Azure
2 401 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
3 399 (15.77%) AWS
4 218 (8.62%) GitHub
5 211 (8.34%) SaaS
6 170 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 162 (6.40%) Azure AI
8 153 (6.05%) GitHub Copilot
9 134 (5.30%) Serverless
10 115 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 107 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 105 (4.15%) Power Automate
13 97 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 90 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
15 86 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 62 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (2.33%) GCP
19 55 (2.17%) Azure AKS
20 54 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 89 (3.52%) Internet
2 9 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.32%) Firewall
4 7 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.20%) DHCP
5 5 (0.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) LAN
5 5 (0.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.079%) HTTP
8 2 (0.079%) Modbus
8 2 (0.079%) SNMP
9 1 (0.040%) AMQP
9 1 (0.040%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.040%) Profibus
9 1 (0.040%) SSL
9 1 (0.040%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (19.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 484 (19.13%) SQL Server
3 420 (16.60%) MongoDB
4 157 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
5 108 (4.27%) Power BI
6 64 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 61 (2.41%) MySQL
8 44 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.91%) Redis
13 17 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.47%) Db2
15 11 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
15 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.36%) Big Data
16 9 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 152 (6.01%) Git
2 43 (1.70%) JIRA
3 26 (1.03%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.95%) Selenium
5 21 (0.83%) Postman
6 20 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 19 (0.75%) Jenkins
8 18 (0.71%) GitLab
9 16 (0.63%) NUnit
10 12 (0.47%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.28%) Moq
12 7 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.24%) MSTest
13 6 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 385 (15.22%) Finance
2 361 (14.27%) Social Skills
3 107 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (3.28%) Retail
5 65 (2.57%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.33%) Advertising
7 55 (2.17%) Games
8 53 (2.09%) Marketing
9 49 (1.94%) Legal
10 48 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 47 (1.86%) Law
12 44 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.42%) Banking
14 32 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 25 (0.99%) Automotive
16 20 (0.79%) Electronics
17 14 (0.55%) Front Office
18 13 (0.51%) Back Office
18 13 (0.51%) Legal Technology
19 11 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,561 (61.70%) Developer
2 931 (36.80%) .NET Developer
3 478 (18.89%) Senior
4 408 (16.13%) Software Engineer
5 322 (12.73%) Software Developer
6 279 (11.03%) Lead
7 236 (9.33%) Senior Developer
8 206 (8.14%) C# Developer
9 193 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 173 (6.84%) .NET Software Engineer
11 164 (6.48%) C# .NET Developer
12 149 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
12 149 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 135 (5.34%) Lead Developer
14 121 (4.78%) .NET Software Developer
15 109 (4.31%) Senior .NET Developer
16 105 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 88 (3.48%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 87 (3.44%) Architect
19 83 (3.28%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 761 (30.08%) .NET Core
2 721 (28.50%) ASP.NET
3 562 (22.21%) ASP.NET Core
4 417 (16.48%) React
5 361 (14.27%) CSS
5 361 (14.27%) HTML
6 314 (12.41%) AngularJS
7 278 (10.99%) Blazor
8 274 (10.83%) Entity Framework
9 270 (10.67%) RESTful
10 264 (10.43%) .NET Framework
11 258 (10.20%) Vue
12 246 (9.72%) Node.js
13 209 (8.26%) ASP.NET Web API
14 194 (7.67%) REST
15 143 (5.65%) ML.NET
16 110 (4.35%) LINQ
17 78 (3.08%) JSON
18 63 (2.49%) jQuery
19 52 (2.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 156 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 152 (6.01%) Greenfield Project
3 105 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (3.56%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 55 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.19%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 27 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.07%) Legacy Code
11 25 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 21 (0.83%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.79%) Digital TV
13 20 (0.79%) Low-Code
13 20 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (0.67%) Algorithms
14 17 (0.67%) iPhone
15 16 (0.63%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (3.75%) Windows
2 31 (1.23%) Android
3 30 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.15%) Linux
5 11 (0.43%) VMS
6 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.079%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.040%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 929 (36.72%) Full-Stack Development
2 828 (32.73%) Agile
3 652 (25.77%) Software Engineering
4 619 (24.47%) DevOps
5 616 (24.35%) CI/CD
6 447 (17.67%) Microservices
7 404 (15.97%) AI
8 307 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
9 243 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 234 (9.25%) Mentoring
11 207 (8.18%) Machine Learning
12 203 (8.02%) SDLC
13 186 (7.35%) Test Automation
14 175 (6.92%) Scrum
15 168 (6.64%) Multithreading
16 165 (6.52%) TDD
17 152 (6.01%) Technical Leadership
18 138 (5.45%) Fintech
19 137 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
20 135 (5.34%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,913 (75.61%) C#
2 982 (38.81%) SQL
3 567 (22.41%) JavaScript
4 372 (14.70%) TypeScript
5 216 (8.54%) Python
6 154 (6.09%) Java
7 88 (3.48%) C++
8 83 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.37%) PHP
10 53 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.90%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.74%) Bicep
13 29 (1.15%) C
14 23 (0.91%) Bash
15 18 (0.71%) VB
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.51%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.47%) Go
19 10 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
20 9 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 213 (8.42%) Degree
2 101 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (3.16%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.36%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.16%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.16%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) PhD
14 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.079%) CSQA
15 2 (0.079%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.34%) QA
2 62 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.79%) GDPR
5 15 (0.59%) WCAG
6 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 6 (0.24%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.24%) NCSC
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.079%) ITGC
11 2 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 305 (12.06%) Docker
2 14 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.47%) Firmware
4 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 293 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.47%) Terraform
3 13 (0.51%) Grafana
4 11 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.36%) Ansible
6 2 (0.079%) MIIS
7 1 (0.040%) Consul
7 1 (0.040%) Control-M
7 1 (0.040%) Kibana
7 1 (0.040%) MOM
7 1 (0.040%) Packer
7 1 (0.040%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.040%) Puppet
Vendors
1 875 (34.58%) Microsoft
2 67 (2.65%) Google
3 54 (2.13%) Facebook
4 36 (1.42%) Oracle
5 30 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.15%) Adobe
7 28 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.83%) YouTube
9 18 (0.71%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.47%) Databricks
11 12 (0.47%) iManage
12 11 (0.43%) Apple
12 11 (0.43%) Sony
12 11 (0.43%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.40%) Intapp
13 10 (0.40%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.36%) VMware
15 8 (0.32%) Aderant
15 8 (0.32%) Splunk