.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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -56 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,377 3,109 3,338
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.67% 6.04% 7.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.27% 27.84% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 2,148 2,993
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

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 6,184 11,167 11,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.01% 21.70% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,781 6,800 9,365
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%

.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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -40 391 £80,000 +3.23% 165
North of England -35 329 £60,000 +9.09% 154
South East -49 309 £60,000 - 217
Midlands -55 171 £57,500 - 64
North West -33 165 £65,000 +13.04% 98
Yorkshire -39 114 £57,500 +9.52% 31
West Midlands -45 112 £57,500 - 30
South West -67 83 £55,000 -2.22% 39
East of England -66 66 £60,000 +20.00% 44
East Midlands -52 59 £65,000 +23.81% 34
North East -19 50 £50,000 -23.08% 26
.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 51 (3.70%) IIS
2 29 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.67%) CMS
4 15 (1.09%) Confluence
4 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.65%) JBoss
5 9 (0.65%) WebSphere
6 8 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.073%) Kentico
12 1 (0.073%) SAS
12 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 51 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.15%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.073%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.073%) Endur
5 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.073%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 794 (57.66%) Azure
2 334 (24.26%) AWS
3 237 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (12.93%) SaaS
5 124 (9.01%) Power Platform
6 102 (7.41%) GitHub
6 102 (7.41%) Serverless
7 89 (6.46%) GCP
8 71 (5.16%) Power Automate
9 61 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 53 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 51 (3.70%) Azure Functions
14 44 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (3.05%) Entra ID
16 40 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 33 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.89%) Azure AKS
19 25 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.02%) DNS
2 12 (0.87%) DHCP
2 12 (0.87%) VoIP
3 11 (0.80%) Internet
3 11 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.73%) Firewall
5 9 (0.65%) VPN
6 7 (0.51%) SAN
7 5 (0.36%) HTTP
7 5 (0.36%) LAN
7 5 (0.36%) SSL
7 5 (0.36%) WAN
8 4 (0.29%) WinSCP
9 3 (0.22%) Intranet
9 3 (0.22%) WPA
10 2 (0.15%) NAS
10 2 (0.15%) VLAN
11 1 (0.073%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.073%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.073%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (28.83%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 72 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (4.14%) MySQL
6 50 (3.63%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.49%) Power BI
7 48 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 42 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (1.96%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.67%) Redis
12 21 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.73%) Tableau
14 7 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (0.51%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 152 (11.04%) Git
2 69 (5.01%) JIRA
3 41 (2.98%) Selenium
4 38 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 35 (2.54%) Postman
6 28 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 28 (2.03%) Visual Studio
7 26 (1.89%) SoapUI
8 25 (1.82%) WebDriver
9 21 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 21 (1.53%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.87%) GitLab
10 12 (0.87%) Storybook
11 9 (0.65%) NUnit
11 9 (0.65%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.58%) MSTest
13 6 (0.44%) git-flow
14 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.29%) Artifactory
15 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 356 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 245 (17.79%) Finance
3 75 (5.45%) Law
4 57 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (2.98%) Public Sector
6 39 (2.83%) Banking
7 37 (2.69%) Retail
8 35 (2.54%) Legal
9 27 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.60%) Front Office
11 21 (1.53%) Marketing
12 20 (1.45%) Billing
13 17 (1.23%) Games
14 16 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.02%) Back Office
16 13 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.87%) Automotive
17 12 (0.87%) Aviation
18 9 (0.65%) Publishing
19 8 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 768 (55.77%) Developer
2 300 (21.79%) Senior
3 292 (21.21%) .NET Developer
4 186 (13.51%) Software Developer
5 178 (12.93%) Lead
6 176 (12.78%) Software Engineer
7 166 (12.06%) C# Developer
8 159 (11.55%) Senior Developer
9 138 (10.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 66 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
11 63 (4.58%) .NET Software Developer
12 60 (4.36%) .NET Software Engineer
13 58 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
14 54 (3.92%) Senior .NET Developer
15 53 (3.85%) Lead Developer
16 50 (3.63%) Analyst
16 50 (3.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 47 (3.41%) Architect
18 46 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 43 (3.12%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (23.38%) .NET Core
2 310 (22.51%) React
3 251 (18.23%) ASP.NET
4 228 (16.56%) .NET Framework
5 202 (14.67%) HTML
6 179 (13.00%) AngularJS
7 177 (12.85%) CSS
8 136 (9.88%) RESTful
9 113 (8.21%) REST
10 110 (7.99%) Entity Framework
11 98 (7.12%) Blazor
12 82 (5.95%) Node.js
13 79 (5.74%) ASP.NET MVC
13 79 (5.74%) Vue
14 67 (4.87%) ASP.NET Web API
15 63 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
16 48 (3.49%) HTML5
16 48 (3.49%) SOAP
17 44 (3.20%) Web Services
18 33 (2.40%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 75 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 56 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (3.56%) Mobile App
5 48 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.02%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.87%) Clustering
15 12 (0.87%) Fixed Income
16 11 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.80%) Hedge funds
17 10 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 78 (5.66%) Windows
2 28 (2.03%) Linux
3 25 (1.82%) Android
3 25 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 24 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.58%) VMS
7 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.073%) Fedora
9 1 (0.073%) Solaris
9 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (43.43%) Agile
2 441 (32.03%) DevOps
3 425 (30.86%) CI/CD
4 394 (28.61%) Software Engineering
5 344 (24.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 289 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
7 278 (20.19%) Microservices
8 232 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 188 (13.65%) Mentoring
10 151 (10.97%) Scrum
11 146 (10.60%) MVC
12 144 (10.46%) User Experience
13 142 (10.31%) Clean Code
14 137 (9.95%) AI
15 124 (9.01%) SDLC
16 116 (8.42%) Computer Science
17 110 (7.99%) Test Automation
18 109 (7.92%) Containerisation
18 109 (7.92%) Roadmaps
18 109 (7.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,009 (73.28%) C#
2 474 (34.42%) SQL
3 402 (29.19%) JavaScript
4 234 (16.99%) TypeScript
5 157 (11.40%) Java
6 121 (8.79%) Python
7 59 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.83%) T-SQL
9 36 (2.61%) C++
10 34 (2.47%) PHP
10 34 (2.47%) VB.NET
11 29 (2.11%) Bicep
12 21 (1.53%) Bash
13 15 (1.09%) Rust
14 13 (0.94%) Go
15 9 (0.65%) XAML
16 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.44%) C
17 6 (0.44%) VB
18 5 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (15.69%) Degree
2 79 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (2.76%) Security Cleared
4 35 (2.54%) ISTQB
5 32 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 25 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.73%) ISEB
12 9 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.44%) HND
14 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.29%) MCSE
16 3 (0.22%) MCSA
16 3 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.54%) QA
2 37 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.23%) GDPR
4 12 (0.87%) WCAG
5 4 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.29%) GRC
6 3 (0.22%) HL7
6 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.073%) COBIT
8 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.073%) SOC 2
System Software
1 158 (11.47%) Docker
2 30 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
5 1 (0.073%) Firmware
5 1 (0.073%) HDFS
5 1 (0.073%) Squid
Systems Management
1 113 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 100 (7.26%) Terraform
3 18 (1.31%) Grafana
4 11 (0.80%) Ansible
5 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.073%) Control-M
8 1 (0.073%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 322 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.25%) Oracle
3 27 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 21 (1.53%) Xamarin
5 18 (1.31%) Google
6 14 (1.02%) Databricks
6 14 (1.02%) Guidewire
6 14 (1.02%) MuleSoft
7 13 (0.94%) Sage
8 11 (0.80%) Telerik
9 10 (0.73%) New Relic
10 9 (0.65%) Apple
10 9 (0.65%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.58%) Adobe
12 7 (0.51%) Datto
12 7 (0.51%) Freshdesk
12 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.51%) Syncfusion
13 6 (0.44%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.44%) YouTube