.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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 71 26
Rank change year-on-year +17 -45 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,614 1,646 4,376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 3.79% 6.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.55% 21.42% 29.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,309 1,225 3,115
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,550 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £103,900 £90,750
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 10,648 7,683 14,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.64% 17.71% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,852 5,073 9,802
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,979
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +51 691 £60,000 - 180
North of England 0 600 £56,500 -5.83% 172
London -28 532 £80,000 - 495
Midlands +39 351 £60,000 +9.09% 110
North West -14 261 £60,000 -4.00% 89
East of England +27 216 £62,500 +19.05% 70
South West +5 199 £55,000 +6.80% 65
West Midlands -4 186 £59,000 +7.27% 52
North East +9 184 £56,500 +29.89% 34
East Midlands +41 165 £60,000 +9.09% 57
Yorkshire -1 155 £55,000 -8.33% 52
.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 70 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.80%) IIS
3 28 (1.07%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.27%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) DNN
11 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Magento
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,377 (52.68%) Azure
2 473 (18.09%) AWS
3 460 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
4 248 (9.49%) GitHub
5 189 (7.23%) Power Platform
6 188 (7.19%) SaaS
7 169 (6.47%) Azure AI
8 162 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 148 (5.66%) Serverless
10 123 (4.71%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 103 (3.94%) PowerApps
13 100 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
14 99 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 98 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (3.02%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.91%) GCP
18 65 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
20 53 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.60%) Internet
2 16 (0.61%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
3 9 (0.34%) VLAN
4 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.31%) Wireless
5 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) LTE
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 1 (0.038%) Profibus
10 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
10 1 (0.038%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 560 (21.42%) SQL Server
2 485 (18.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 416 (15.91%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 110 (4.21%) Power BI
6 87 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 78 (2.98%) MySQL
8 76 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 63 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.15%) Redis
12 22 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
15 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.42%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.42%) GIS
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 208 (7.96%) Git
2 46 (1.76%) JIRA
3 38 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.30%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.26%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.03%) NUnit
7 25 (0.96%) GitLab
8 21 (0.80%) Selenium
9 20 (0.77%) Postman
10 14 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 440 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 381 (14.58%) Finance
3 149 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.86%) Public Sector
5 92 (3.52%) Retail
6 74 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (2.60%) Law
8 65 (2.49%) Games
9 62 (2.37%) Legal
10 59 (2.26%) Advertising
11 54 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 51 (1.95%) Marketing
13 28 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 23 (0.88%) Automotive
14 23 (0.88%) Banking
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
15 19 (0.73%) Front Office
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
16 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,563 (59.79%) Developer
2 931 (35.62%) .NET Developer
3 470 (17.98%) Senior
4 387 (14.80%) Software Engineer
5 304 (11.63%) Lead
6 302 (11.55%) Software Developer
7 245 (9.37%) Senior Developer
8 210 (8.03%) C# Developer
9 187 (7.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
11 151 (5.78%) C# Software Engineer
12 144 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.47%) Lead Developer
14 140 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
15 116 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
16 111 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 110 (4.21%) .NET Software Developer
18 90 (3.44%) Web Developer
19 87 (3.33%) Architect
20 80 (3.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (29.57%) .NET Core
2 758 (29.00%) ASP.NET
3 578 (22.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 445 (17.02%) React
5 385 (14.73%) HTML
6 382 (14.61%) CSS
7 331 (12.66%) AngularJS
8 299 (11.44%) Entity Framework
9 293 (11.21%) RESTful
10 291 (11.13%) Blazor
11 282 (10.79%) .NET Framework
12 263 (10.06%) Vue
13 245 (9.37%) Node.js
14 220 (8.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 220 (8.42%) REST
15 139 (5.32%) ML.NET
16 131 (5.01%) Terraform
17 108 (4.13%) LINQ
18 88 (3.37%) jQuery
19 83 (3.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 178 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 145 (5.55%) Enterprise Software
4 132 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 45 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 41 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
11 34 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.07%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
15 23 (0.88%) Algorithms
15 23 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 21 (0.80%) Data Structures
17 20 (0.77%) Digital TV
18 18 (0.69%) Client/Server
19 17 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.32%) Windows
2 38 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.38%) Linux
4 31 (1.19%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) VMS
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (35.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 852 (32.59%) Agile
3 692 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 682 (26.09%) DevOps
5 673 (25.75%) Software Engineering
6 457 (17.48%) Microservices
7 435 (16.64%) AI
8 385 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (10.75%) Mentoring
10 279 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 220 (8.42%) SDLC
12 205 (7.84%) Test Automation
13 204 (7.80%) Machine Learning
14 178 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
15 176 (6.73%) Scrum
16 168 (6.43%) Multithreading
17 166 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
18 158 (6.04%) TDD
19 155 (5.93%) Code Quality
20 154 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,016 (77.12%) C#
2 1,008 (38.56%) SQL
3 605 (23.14%) JavaScript
4 364 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 230 (8.80%) Python
6 171 (6.54%) Java
7 103 (3.94%) C++
8 72 (2.75%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.45%) T-SQL
9 64 (2.45%) VB.NET
10 61 (2.33%) PHP
11 41 (1.57%) Bicep
12 28 (1.07%) C
13 24 (0.92%) Bash
14 19 (0.73%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.65%) COBOL
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 13 (0.50%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.22%) Degree
2 119 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.19%) PhD
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.11%) OCP
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.04%) QA
2 72 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.69%) GDPR
5 17 (0.65%) WCAG
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.31%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.038%) Basel III
9 1 (0.038%) GRC
9 1 (0.038%) ITGC
9 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 322 (12.32%) Docker
2 23 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 292 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Consul
5 1 (0.038%) Control-M
5 1 (0.038%) MIIS
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) Packer
5 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 933 (35.69%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.75%) Google
3 53 (2.03%) Facebook
4 47 (1.80%) Oracle
5 33 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 26 (0.99%) Adobe
7 21 (0.80%) YouTube
8 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 17 (0.65%) VMware
9 15 (0.57%) Databricks
10 12 (0.46%) iManage
10 12 (0.46%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 11 (0.42%) Intapp
11 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.42%) Sony
11 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.34%) SAP
13 8 (0.31%) Aderant
13 8 (0.31%) Sage