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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -43 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,546 2,625 5,233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.63% 5.85% 7.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.33% 26.38% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,760 4,789
10th Percentile £40,575 £41,475 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,063 £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 6,627 9,949 15,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.27% 22.18% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,082 6,007 12,869
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 £110,000 £111,250 £101,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -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 13 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 13 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 -29 424 £80,000 +3.23% 177
South East -33 380 £60,000 - 196
North of England -39 350 £65,000 +13.04% 164
Midlands -39 203 £52,500 -8.70% 71
North West -24 188 £65,000 +13.04% 102
West Midlands -41 117 £50,000 -13.04% 35
Yorkshire -46 104 £60,000 +13.21% 37
South West -51 98 £55,000 -8.33% 64
East Midlands -40 86 £64,500 +29.00% 36
East of England -64 65 £60,000 +20.00% 47
North East -9 58 £70,000 +9.80% 27
.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 45 (2.91%) IIS
2 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.84%) JBoss
5 13 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.45%) Confluence
6 7 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.26%) 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 8 (0.52%) 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
4 1 (0.065%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 45 (2.91%) 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%) Endur
3 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 782 (50.58%) Azure
2 306 (19.79%) AWS
3 244 (15.78%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (14.55%) SaaS
5 123 (7.96%) Power Platform
6 109 (7.05%) GitHub
7 103 (6.66%) Serverless
8 82 (5.30%) GCP
9 60 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 59 (3.82%) Azure Functions
11 57 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
12 53 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 47 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
15 41 (2.65%) Entra ID
16 40 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 39 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 30 (1.94%) Azure AKS
19 28 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
20 24 (1.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.84%) Internet
2 12 (0.78%) 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%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.39%) VoIP
7 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.19%) Intranet
8 3 (0.19%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.065%) AMQP
10 1 (0.065%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.065%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.065%) IPv6
10 1 (0.065%) MPLS
10 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 58 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 53 (3.43%) Power BI
5 45 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.78%) MySQL
7 42 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 39 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.23%) Redis
12 15 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.52%) Tableau
15 5 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.26%) DB2
16 4 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.26%) RDBMS
17 3 (0.19%) GIS
Development Applications
1 137 (8.86%) Git
2 54 (3.49%) JIRA
3 44 (2.85%) Selenium
4 42 (2.72%) Visual Studio
5 36 (2.33%) Postman
6 34 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.81%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
9 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
11 16 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.45%) GitLab
13 7 (0.45%) LabVIEW
13 7 (0.45%) Storybook
14 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.39%) git-flow
14 6 (0.39%) NUnit
14 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 341 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 296 (19.15%) Finance
3 67 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (4.14%) Law
5 52 (3.36%) Banking
6 49 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 34 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.62%) Legal
9 21 (1.36%) Marketing
10 20 (1.29%) Retail
11 19 (1.23%) Games
12 18 (1.16%) Front Office
13 16 (1.03%) Aviation
13 16 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 12 (0.78%) Billing
15 11 (0.71%) Electronics
15 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.58%) Military
16 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 834 (53.95%) Developer
2 354 (22.90%) Senior
3 342 (22.12%) .NET Developer
4 258 (16.69%) Software Engineer
5 254 (16.43%) Software Developer
6 183 (11.84%) Lead
7 171 (11.06%) C# Developer
8 156 (10.09%) Senior Developer
9 152 (9.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 119 (7.70%) .NET Software Engineer
11 104 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 91 (5.89%) .NET Software Developer
13 86 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
14 77 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 71 (4.59%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 68 (4.40%) Lead Developer
16 68 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
17 56 (3.62%) C# Software Engineer
18 53 (3.43%) Analyst
19 46 (2.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (23.54%) .NET Core
2 302 (19.53%) React
3 240 (15.52%) ASP.NET
4 216 (13.97%) .NET Framework
5 196 (12.68%) HTML
6 167 (10.80%) CSS
7 158 (10.22%) AngularJS
8 130 (8.41%) REST
9 111 (7.18%) RESTful
10 93 (6.02%) Entity Framework
11 90 (5.82%) Blazor
12 68 (4.40%) Vue
13 66 (4.27%) Node.js
14 65 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
15 59 (3.82%) ASP.NET MVC
16 58 (3.75%) SOAP
17 51 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
18 42 (2.72%) HTML5
19 38 (2.46%) WPF
20 35 (2.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.12%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.01%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.42%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.16%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 13 (0.84%) DataPower
14 12 (0.78%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.43%) Windows
2 29 (1.88%) Android
3 28 (1.81%) Apple iOS
3 28 (1.81%) Linux
4 24 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.78%) 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
1 570 (36.87%) Agile
2 487 (31.50%) Software Engineering
3 409 (26.46%) DevOps
4 396 (25.61%) CI/CD
5 379 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 278 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (17.59%) Microservices
8 210 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 175 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 166 (10.74%) AI
11 137 (8.86%) Scrum
12 133 (8.60%) SDLC
13 128 (8.28%) Clean Code
14 122 (7.89%) User Experience
15 119 (7.70%) MVC
16 117 (7.57%) Containerisation
17 110 (7.12%) Test Automation
18 108 (6.99%) Computer Science
19 104 (6.73%) TDD
20 101 (6.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (68.82%) C#
2 492 (31.82%) SQL
3 388 (25.10%) JavaScript
4 220 (14.23%) TypeScript
5 155 (10.03%) Java
6 135 (8.73%) Python
7 65 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.52%) C++
9 32 (2.07%) T-SQL
10 31 (2.01%) PHP
11 28 (1.81%) VB.NET
12 27 (1.75%) Bicep
13 15 (0.97%) Bash
13 15 (0.97%) C
14 14 (0.91%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.84%) Rust
16 7 (0.45%) Go
16 7 (0.45%) XAML
17 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 205 (13.26%) Degree
2 66 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 40 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 25 (1.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.52%) ISEB
13 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.26%) MCSE
16 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.19%) MCSA
16 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.40%) QA
2 46 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.03%) GDPR
3 16 (1.03%) WCAG
4 9 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.26%) GRC
6 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.26%) SLA
7 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.065%) ITGC
8 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (9.77%) 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
1 124 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.27%) Terraform
3 14 (0.91%) 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%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.065%) CASB
8 1 (0.065%) Control-M
Vendors
1 284 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.01%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.88%) Xamarin
4 21 (1.36%) Oracle
5 20 (1.29%) Google
6 17 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 12 (0.78%) Sage
8 11 (0.71%) Telerik
9 10 (0.65%) New Relic
10 9 (0.58%) Databricks
11 8 (0.52%) Apple
12 7 (0.45%) Adobe
12 7 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.45%) Syncfusion
13 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.39%) Datto
13 6 (0.39%) Freshdesk
13 6 (0.39%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.39%) VMware
14 5 (0.32%) IBM