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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 56 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,218 1,779 6,446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 4.65% 7.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.28% 23.69% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,019 1,309 5,554
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 8,439 7,508 17,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 19.61% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 5,127 14,254
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +14 593 £59,000 -1.67% 118
London -17 536 £81,500 +1.88% 117
North of England -16 498 £60,000 - 114
North West -13 266 £62,500 +13.64% 68
Midlands -15 264 £55,000 +2.44% 62
South West +9 167 £55,000 - 30
West Midlands -37 139 £55,000 +2.44% 32
East of England +1 138 £65,000 +23.81% 46
East Midlands +9 125 £55,000 - 30
Yorkshire -23 121 £60,000 -7.69% 19
North East -2 111 £59,000 +4.89% 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 54 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.26%) IIS
3 23 (1.04%) CMS
4 16 (0.72%) ColdFusion
5 15 (0.68%) Confluence
6 12 (0.54%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.32%) Apache
8 7 (0.32%) JBoss
9 5 (0.23%) WordPress
10 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.18%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.090%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.045%) Appian
13 1 (0.045%) CICS
Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.045%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.090%) Shopify
4 1 (0.045%) Endur
4 1 (0.045%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.045%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.045%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (45.13%) Azure
2 326 (14.70%) AWS
3 304 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (11.36%) SaaS
5 137 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 136 (6.13%) GitHub
7 128 (5.77%) Serverless
8 111 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 81 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 79 (3.56%) Azure Functions
11 77 (3.47%) Power Automate
12 74 (3.34%) PowerApps
13 70 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 68 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
16 62 (2.80%) Azure AI
17 54 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
19 50 (2.25%) Azure AKS
20 47 (2.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.03%) Internet
2 9 (0.41%) Firewall
2 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.36%) WinSCP
4 5 (0.23%) DHCP
4 5 (0.23%) DNS
4 5 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.18%) Intranet
5 4 (0.18%) LAN
5 4 (0.18%) WAN
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.14%) RS-232
7 1 (0.045%) AMQP
7 1 (0.045%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.045%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.045%) Modbus
7 1 (0.045%) MPLS
7 1 (0.045%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (20.38%) SQL Server
2 228 (10.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 181 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 90 (4.06%) Power BI
5 73 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 57 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
7 51 (2.30%) MySQL
8 46 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 44 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 34 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (0.68%) Redis
13 12 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.54%) DB2
14 11 (0.50%) GIS
15 8 (0.36%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.27%) Data Lake
17 5 (0.23%) Big Data
18 4 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
18 4 (0.18%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 142 (6.40%) Git
2 50 (2.25%) JIRA
3 38 (1.71%) Visual Studio
4 37 (1.67%) Postman
5 36 (1.62%) Selenium
6 23 (1.04%) SoapUI
6 23 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (0.99%) WebDriver
8 15 (0.68%) SpecFlow
9 14 (0.63%) Jenkins
9 14 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.59%) GitLab
11 12 (0.54%) NUnit
12 10 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.41%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 362 (16.32%) Finance
2 337 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 94 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (2.80%) Public Sector
5 51 (2.30%) Retail
6 48 (2.16%) Banking
7 44 (1.98%) Law
8 36 (1.62%) Legal
8 36 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 32 (1.44%) Games
10 30 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.08%) Automotive
12 23 (1.04%) Advertising
13 22 (0.99%) Marketing
14 21 (0.95%) Electronics
15 12 (0.54%) Aviation
15 12 (0.54%) Back Office
16 11 (0.50%) Front Office
17 8 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,277 (57.57%) Developer
2 666 (30.03%) .NET Developer
3 479 (21.60%) Senior
4 395 (17.81%) Software Engineer
5 345 (15.55%) Software Developer
6 250 (11.27%) Lead
7 238 (10.73%) Senior Developer
8 211 (9.51%) C# Developer
9 194 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 188 (8.48%) .NET Software Engineer
11 168 (7.57%) C# .NET Developer
12 147 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (6.45%) C# Software Engineer
14 134 (6.04%) .NET Software Developer
15 109 (4.91%) Lead Developer
15 109 (4.91%) Senior .NET Developer
16 108 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 88 (3.97%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 80 (3.61%) Architect
19 76 (3.43%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 543 (24.48%) .NET Core
2 433 (19.52%) ASP.NET
3 321 (14.47%) React
4 275 (12.40%) HTML
5 265 (11.95%) ASP.NET Core
6 263 (11.86%) CSS
7 221 (9.96%) .NET Framework
8 194 (8.75%) AngularJS
9 174 (7.84%) RESTful
10 165 (7.44%) Blazor
11 164 (7.39%) Entity Framework
12 156 (7.03%) REST
13 152 (6.85%) Vue
14 144 (6.49%) Node.js
15 106 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
16 55 (2.48%) JSON
16 55 (2.48%) ML.NET
17 54 (2.43%) jQuery
18 50 (2.25%) LINQ
19 48 (2.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 90 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
3 77 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (3.38%) Mobile App
5 71 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 49 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.58%) Hedge funds
9 27 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (0.99%) Legacy Code
11 21 (0.95%) Low-Code
12 17 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.72%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.68%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.68%) Sports Betting
14 15 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 14 (0.63%) PropTech
16 13 (0.59%) Client/Server
16 13 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.65%) Windows
2 30 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.17%) Linux
4 22 (0.99%) Android
5 14 (0.63%) VMS
6 9 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.090%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.090%) Unix
8 2 (0.090%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.045%) Solaris
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (29.13%) Full-Stack Development
2 627 (28.27%) Software Engineering
3 616 (27.77%) Agile
4 496 (22.36%) CI/CD
5 483 (21.78%) DevOps
6 316 (14.25%) Microservices
7 278 (12.53%) AI
8 264 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (9.15%) Mentoring
11 182 (8.21%) SDLC
12 179 (8.07%) Test Automation
13 135 (6.09%) Clean Code
14 134 (6.04%) Containerisation
15 133 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
16 132 (5.95%) Scrum
17 120 (5.41%) TDD
18 117 (5.28%) Machine Learning
19 115 (5.18%) Infrastructure as Code
20 110 (4.96%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,576 (71.06%) C#
2 735 (33.14%) SQL
3 453 (20.42%) JavaScript
4 266 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 199 (8.97%) Python
6 159 (7.17%) Java
7 84 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 76 (3.43%) C++
9 52 (2.34%) PHP
10 43 (1.94%) VB.NET
11 39 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.71%) Bicep
13 22 (0.99%) C
14 20 (0.90%) Bash
14 20 (0.90%) VB
15 16 (0.72%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.54%) VBA
18 9 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 208 (9.38%) Degree
2 87 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 78 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 16 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 14 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.23%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.14%) PhD
13 2 (0.090%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.64%) QA
2 49 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.77%) GDPR
4 16 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.50%) WCAG
6 9 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.32%) SLA
8 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.090%) ITGC
11 1 (0.045%) NCSC
11 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 200 (9.02%) Docker
2 15 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.54%) Firmware
4 7 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.045%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 189 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.14%) Terraform
3 15 (0.68%) Grafana
4 7 (0.32%) Kibana
5 4 (0.18%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.090%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) CASB
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 521 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.49%) Oracle
3 32 (1.44%) Google
4 31 (1.40%) Salesforce
5 26 (1.17%) Adobe
6 22 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.99%) Xamarin
7 19 (0.86%) Facebook
8 16 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 12 (0.54%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.45%) Databricks
12 9 (0.41%) iManage
13 8 (0.36%) IBM
13 8 (0.36%) VMware
13 8 (0.36%) YouTube
14 7 (0.32%) Intapp
15 5 (0.23%) Aderant
15 5 (0.23%) DevExpress
15 5 (0.23%) Sage