.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -44 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,643 4,367 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.80% 6.32% 7.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.29% 32.46% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 3,034 3,799
10th Percentile £39,433 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,175
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.03% +5.29%

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 7,054 13,454 14,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.33% 19.47% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,631 8,790 12,022
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,710 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,153
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.74% +1.77%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -25 481 £80,000 +3.23% 244
North of England -33 468 £60,000 +9.09% 236
North West -29 326 £62,500 +13.64% 136
South East -65 285 £60,000 - 228
Midlands -68 178 £55,000 - 117
West Midlands -28 128 £55,000 - 61
East of England -55 113 £52,500 -12.50% 75
Yorkshire -55 97 £60,000 +9.09% 59
South West -51 80 £52,500 -8.70% 54
East Midlands -75 50 £55,000 +10.00% 55
North East -21 45 £43,500 -27.50% 44
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 67 (4.08%) IIS
2 41 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.77%) CMS
4 23 (1.40%) Confluence
4 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (0.30%) nginx
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.18%) Apache
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.061%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) Documentum
10 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Trello
4 3 (0.18%) S-PLUS
5 2 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 82 (4.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
3 7 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 4 (0.24%) Sage 1000
5 3 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.061%) Endur
7 1 (0.061%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.061%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.061%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.061%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.061%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.061%) Shopify
7 1 (0.061%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,059 (64.46%) Azure
2 568 (34.57%) AWS
3 255 (15.52%) GCP
4 249 (15.16%) Azure DevOps
5 151 (9.19%) SaaS
6 134 (8.16%) Power Platform
7 104 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
8 97 (5.90%) Serverless
9 95 (5.78%) Power Automate
10 83 (5.05%) GitHub
11 78 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 71 (4.32%) Azure Logic Apps
12 71 (4.32%) PowerApps
13 61 (3.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 56 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 45 (2.74%) Azure Functions
18 34 (2.07%) PaaS
19 27 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.79%) HTTP
2 12 (0.73%) Internet
3 11 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.49%) DNS
4 8 (0.49%) VoIP
5 7 (0.43%) DHCP
5 7 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.43%) MQTT
5 7 (0.43%) SAN
5 7 (0.43%) WPA
6 6 (0.37%) Modbus
7 5 (0.30%) LAN
7 5 (0.30%) SSL
7 5 (0.30%) WAN
8 4 (0.24%) VPN
9 3 (0.18%) Firewall
10 2 (0.12%) Broadband
10 2 (0.12%) NAS
10 2 (0.12%) Network Security
10 2 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (25.62%) SQL Server
2 106 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 100 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 79 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.26%) MySQL
6 60 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.65%) Power BI
7 49 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 46 (2.80%) Relational Database
10 30 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.03%) Redis
12 16 (0.97%) RDBMS
12 16 (0.97%) Tableau
13 13 (0.79%) Data Hub
13 13 (0.79%) SQL CLR
14 11 (0.67%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 165 (10.04%) Git
2 75 (4.56%) JIRA
3 44 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
4 40 (2.43%) Visual Studio
5 37 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 34 (2.07%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.64%) GitLab
8 26 (1.58%) Jenkins
9 24 (1.46%) Postman
10 23 (1.40%) NUnit
10 23 (1.40%) Selenium
11 17 (1.03%) MSBuild
12 13 (0.79%) SoapUI
12 13 (0.79%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.67%) SpecFlow
13 11 (0.67%) Storybook
14 10 (0.61%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.49%) MSTest
16 7 (0.43%) PowerBuilder
General
1 364 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 302 (18.38%) Finance
3 254 (15.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (4.69%) Law
5 77 (4.69%) Retail
6 50 (3.04%) Back Office
6 50 (3.04%) Banking
7 41 (2.50%) Front Office
7 41 (2.50%) Legal
8 31 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 25 (1.52%) Public Sector
10 24 (1.46%) Billing
11 22 (1.34%) Automotive
11 22 (1.34%) Marketing
12 17 (1.03%) Games
12 17 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (0.91%) Advertising
14 11 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 842 (51.25%) Developer
2 459 (27.94%) Senior
3 335 (20.39%) Software Engineer
4 316 (19.23%) .NET Developer
5 240 (14.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 189 (11.50%) Software Developer
7 181 (11.02%) C# Developer
8 169 (10.29%) Lead
9 165 (10.04%) Senior Developer
10 139 (8.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 92 (5.60%) C# .NET Developer
12 70 (4.26%) Architect
13 64 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 59 (3.59%) Engineering Manager
15 55 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 54 (3.29%) Senior .NET Developer
17 52 (3.16%) .NET Software Developer
18 46 (2.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
19 45 (2.74%) .NET Software Engineer
20 44 (2.68%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (18.81%) Node.js
2 307 (18.69%) .NET Core
3 298 (18.14%) ASP.NET
4 282 (17.16%) React
5 256 (15.58%) .NET Framework
6 214 (13.02%) HTML
7 209 (12.72%) AngularJS
8 208 (12.66%) CSS
9 159 (9.68%) RESTful
10 125 (7.61%) REST
11 121 (7.36%) Entity Framework
12 94 (5.72%) Vue
13 88 (5.36%) Blazor
14 84 (5.11%) ASP.NET Web API
15 80 (4.87%) ASP.NET MVC
16 70 (4.26%) Web Services
17 69 (4.20%) HTML5
18 55 (3.35%) jQuery
19 53 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
19 53 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 227 (13.82%) Cyberattack
2 207 (12.60%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (10.83%) Linux Command Line
4 103 (6.27%) Cloud Native
5 78 (4.75%) Product Ownership
6 50 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 41 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 41 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (0.97%) Clustering
12 15 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
12 15 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.85%) Derivative
14 13 (0.79%) IoT
14 13 (0.79%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 11 (0.67%) Hedge funds
15 11 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 259 (15.76%) Linux
2 75 (4.56%) Windows
3 65 (3.96%) Android
4 36 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Unix
8 3 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.061%) Solaris
10 1 (0.061%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (52.53%) Agile
2 597 (36.34%) Software Engineering
3 488 (29.70%) Microservices
4 485 (29.52%) CI/CD
5 476 (28.97%) DevOps
6 378 (23.01%) Mentoring
7 358 (21.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 339 (20.63%) Scrum
9 327 (19.90%) User Experience
10 307 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
11 218 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 214 (13.02%) Machine Learning
13 196 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 195 (11.87%) Data Engineering
15 194 (11.81%) Cloud Security
16 192 (11.69%) MVC
17 154 (9.37%) Containerisation
18 151 (9.19%) Design Patterns
19 138 (8.40%) SDLC
20 134 (8.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (66.22%) C#
2 658 (40.05%) JavaScript
3 546 (33.23%) SQL
4 426 (25.93%) Java
5 402 (24.47%) Python
6 276 (16.80%) C++
7 242 (14.73%) Go
8 236 (14.36%) Rust
9 223 (13.57%) TypeScript
10 61 (3.71%) VB.NET
11 58 (3.53%) PowerShell
12 55 (3.35%) PHP
13 42 (2.56%) T-SQL
14 27 (1.64%) Bicep
15 23 (1.40%) Bash
16 12 (0.73%) X++
17 9 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.37%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.37%) VB
19 5 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 228 (13.88%) DV Cleared
3 197 (11.99%) Degree
4 179 (10.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (10.83%) AWS Certification
5 178 (10.83%) AWS Certified Developer
6 100 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 16 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 12 (0.73%) HND
13 10 (0.61%) MCSE
14 9 (0.55%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.49%) HNC
16 7 (0.43%) MCP
17 6 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
17 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.48%) QA
2 33 (2.01%) GDPR
3 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (0.49%) WCAG
7 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.30%) SLA
9 4 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.12%) CDISC
10 2 (0.12%) GRC
10 2 (0.12%) ITGC
10 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.061%) COBIT
11 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.061%) HIPAA
System Software
1 226 (13.76%) Docker
2 23 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) KVM
5 2 (0.12%) Squid
5 2 (0.12%) Xen
6 1 (0.061%) Firmware
6 1 (0.061%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.061%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 144 (8.76%) Terraform
3 54 (3.29%) Ansible
4 23 (1.40%) Grafana
5 16 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.37%) Functional Safety
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
Vendors
1 434 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.68%) Oracle
3 24 (1.46%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.40%) VMware
5 21 (1.28%) Databricks
6 20 (1.22%) Guidewire
7 17 (1.03%) Siebel
8 15 (0.91%) DevExpress
9 14 (0.85%) Google
10 11 (0.67%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.67%) Rollbar
10 11 (0.67%) Xamarin
11 9 (0.55%) IBM
12 8 (0.49%) Trayport
13 7 (0.43%) Facebook
13 7 (0.43%) IFS
13 7 (0.43%) Infor
13 7 (0.43%) Sage
13 7 (0.43%) Splunk
13 7 (0.43%) Telerik