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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,635 1,863 4,685
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.27% 6.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.56% 23.83% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,357 1,398 3,757
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 £93,450
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 9,562 7,818 13,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 17.91% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,247 5,264 10,459
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,713
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 2 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 2 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 +25 689 £57,500 - 165
North of England +2 614 £57,500 -4.17% 150
London -27 566 £80,000 - 284
Midlands +10 330 £55,000 - 88
North West -6 283 £60,000 - 77
South West +19 210 £52,500 - 40
East of England +23 204 £65,000 +23.81% 53
West Midlands -18 178 £60,000 +4.35% 43
Yorkshire +20 169 £55,000 -15.38% 40
North East +1 162 £55,750 +29.65% 35
East Midlands +32 152 £55,000 - 45
.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 68 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.33%) IIS
3 31 (1.18%) 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%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) EPiServer
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%) CICS
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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 1,377 (52.26%) Azure
2 436 (16.55%) AWS
3 431 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (8.84%) GitHub
5 211 (8.01%) SaaS
6 185 (7.02%) Power Platform
7 167 (6.34%) Azure AI
8 159 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
9 135 (5.12%) Serverless
10 115 (4.36%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 111 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 101 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 96 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 91 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (3.00%) Azure Functions
17 72 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
18 69 (2.62%) GCP
19 55 (2.09%) Azure AKS
19 55 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.49%) 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
1 536 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 494 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 425 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 160 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
5 112 (4.25%) Power BI
6 72 (2.73%) MySQL
7 66 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 63 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 49 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (1.10%) Redis
13 21 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.49%) Db2
14 13 (0.49%) GIS
15 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 181 (6.87%) Git
2 47 (1.78%) JIRA
3 29 (1.10%) Selenium
4 28 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 25 (0.95%) NUnit
6 24 (0.91%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.83%) Postman
8 19 (0.72%) GitLab
9 11 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 10 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 401 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 392 (14.88%) Finance
3 122 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (3.34%) Retail
5 75 (2.85%) Public Sector
6 63 (2.39%) 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 31 (1.18%) Banking
12 30 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.95%) Automotive
14 19 (0.72%) Electronics
15 14 (0.53%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Front Office
17 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,610 (61.10%) Developer
2 956 (36.28%) .NET Developer
3 496 (18.82%) Senior
4 421 (15.98%) Software Engineer
5 328 (12.45%) Software Developer
6 300 (11.39%) Lead
7 255 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 218 (8.27%) C# Developer
9 191 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 170 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
11 167 (6.34%) C# .NET Developer
12 154 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
13 153 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 141 (5.35%) Lead Developer
15 128 (4.86%) .NET Software Developer
16 117 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
17 113 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 92 (3.49%) Architect
19 91 (3.45%) Web Developer
20 84 (3.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 785 (29.79%) .NET Core
2 754 (28.61%) ASP.NET
3 577 (21.90%) ASP.NET Core
4 440 (16.70%) React
5 380 (14.42%) HTML
6 378 (14.35%) CSS
7 330 (12.52%) AngularJS
8 293 (11.12%) Entity Framework
9 292 (11.08%) Blazor
10 289 (10.97%) .NET Framework
11 284 (10.78%) RESTful
12 264 (10.02%) Vue
13 252 (9.56%) Node.js
14 219 (8.31%) ASP.NET Web API
15 214 (8.12%) REST
16 145 (5.50%) ML.NET
17 110 (4.17%) LINQ
18 83 (3.15%) JSON
19 71 (2.69%) jQuery
20 59 (2.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 171 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 154 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
3 123 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 117 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
9 31 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 30 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.10%) Hedge funds
12 28 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.76%) Digital TV
16 17 (0.65%) iPhone
17 16 (0.61%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.61%) Client/Server
18 14 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.98%) Windows
2 33 (1.25%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.21%) Android
3 32 (1.21%) Linux
4 9 (0.34%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) 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 (35.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 857 (32.52%) Agile
3 686 (26.03%) Software Engineering
4 668 (25.35%) DevOps
5 654 (24.82%) CI/CD
6 468 (17.76%) Microservices
7 419 (15.90%) AI
8 336 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 265 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 254 (9.64%) Mentoring
11 217 (8.24%) SDLC
12 207 (7.86%) Machine Learning
13 195 (7.40%) Test Automation
14 183 (6.94%) Scrum
15 173 (6.57%) Multithreading
16 170 (6.45%) TDD
17 165 (6.26%) Technical Leadership
18 155 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
19 148 (5.62%) Clean Code
19 148 (5.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,992 (75.60%) C#
2 1,009 (38.29%) SQL
3 592 (22.47%) JavaScript
4 384 (14.57%) TypeScript
5 225 (8.54%) Python
6 159 (6.03%) Java
7 87 (3.30%) C++
8 82 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.43%) PHP
10 61 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 60 (2.28%) VB.NET
12 45 (1.71%) Bicep
13 27 (1.02%) C
14 23 (0.87%) Bash
15 19 (0.72%) VB
16 18 (0.68%) Go
17 14 (0.53%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.42%) VBA
20 9 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 234 (8.88%) Degree
2 111 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 75 (2.85%) 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
10 7 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.11%) PhD
13 3 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.076%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (5.77%) QA
2 67 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.83%) 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 6 (0.23%) SLA
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.076%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.076%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.038%) ITGC
12 1 (0.038%) NIST
System Software
1 327 (12.41%) 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 (11.61%) Kubernetes
2 126 (4.78%) Terraform
3 12 (0.46%) Grafana
3 12 (0.46%) 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
1 926 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.69%) Google
3 55 (2.09%) Facebook
4 38 (1.44%) Oracle
5 32 (1.21%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.10%) Adobe
7 27 (1.02%) 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