.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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 39 23
Rank change year-on-year -39 -16 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,616 2,285 5,679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 5.77% 7.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.60% 25.75% 35.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 1,751 5,152
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 6,848 8,874 16,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.74% 22.42% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 6,096 13,608
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,175
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -24 441 £80,000 +6.67% 221
South East -32 399 £60,000 - 214
North of England -31 373 £65,000 +18.18% 175
Midlands -35 201 £52,500 -8.70% 77
North West -34 199 £65,000 +18.18% 101
Yorkshire -29 119 £60,000 +9.09% 52
South West -21 111 £55,000 -8.33% 87
West Midlands -43 110 £50,000 -14.16% 47
East Midlands -29 91 £60,000 +15.38% 28
East of England -66 63 £60,000 +20.00% 60
North East -8 55 £70,000 +16.67% 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 40 (2.48%) IIS
2 25 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.99%) CMS
4 13 (0.80%) JBoss
4 13 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.31%) Confluence
7 5 (0.31%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.062%) Apache
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.062%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.062%) Kentico
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.062%) SAS
10 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.062%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 34 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.12%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.062%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.062%) Endur
3 1 (0.062%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.062%) Magento
3 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 740 (45.79%) Azure
2 276 (17.08%) AWS
3 227 (14.05%) SaaS
4 221 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
5 120 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 105 (6.50%) Serverless
7 102 (6.31%) GitHub
8 62 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 59 (3.65%) Azure Functions
9 59 (3.65%) GCP
10 55 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 52 (3.22%) PowerApps
12 49 (3.03%) Power Automate
13 48 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 43 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 37 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (2.17%) Azure AKS
17 32 (1.98%) Entra ID
18 28 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
19 25 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.93%) Internet
2 10 (0.62%) Firewall
3 9 (0.56%) DNS
4 8 (0.50%) DHCP
4 8 (0.50%) WinSCP
5 5 (0.31%) VPN
6 4 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.25%) VoIP
7 3 (0.19%) HTTP
7 3 (0.19%) LTE
8 2 (0.12%) Intranet
9 1 (0.062%) AMQP
9 1 (0.062%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.062%) IPv6
9 1 (0.062%) Modbus
9 1 (0.062%) MPLS
9 1 (0.062%) NAS
9 1 (0.062%) SAN
9 1 (0.062%) VLAN
9 1 (0.062%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (25.31%) SQL Server
2 82 (5.07%) NoSQL
3 53 (3.28%) Power BI
4 49 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 49 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 46 (2.85%) MongoDB
5 46 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 45 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 43 (2.66%) MySQL
8 40 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 20 (1.24%) Redis
10 10 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.56%) DB2
12 5 (0.31%) GIS
12 5 (0.31%) Tableau
13 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
14 3 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 134 (8.29%) Git
2 49 (3.03%) JIRA
3 48 (2.97%) Selenium
4 40 (2.48%) Visual Studio
5 35 (2.17%) Postman
6 31 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.73%) WebDriver
8 26 (1.61%) SoapUI
9 21 (1.30%) Jenkins
9 21 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.11%) SpecFlow
11 16 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 6 (0.37%) git-flow
15 6 (0.37%) GitLab
15 6 (0.37%) NUnit
16 4 (0.25%) MSTest
16 4 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 334 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 280 (17.33%) Finance
3 75 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (4.02%) Law
5 55 (3.40%) Public Sector
6 54 (3.34%) Banking
7 39 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.49%) Legal
9 22 (1.36%) Marketing
10 20 (1.24%) Games
11 18 (1.11%) Retail
12 17 (1.05%) Front Office
12 17 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 15 (0.93%) Aviation
14 11 (0.68%) Electronics
14 11 (0.68%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.56%) Military
15 9 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 868 (53.71%) Developer
2 388 (24.01%) Senior
3 354 (21.91%) .NET Developer
4 293 (18.13%) Software Engineer
5 266 (16.46%) Software Developer
6 191 (11.82%) C# Developer
7 190 (11.76%) Lead
8 179 (11.08%) Senior Developer
9 166 (10.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 137 (8.48%) .NET Software Engineer
11 115 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
12 106 (6.56%) C# .NET Developer
13 91 (5.63%) .NET Software Developer
14 81 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 79 (4.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 75 (4.64%) Senior .NET Developer
17 74 (4.58%) Lead Developer
18 60 (3.71%) C# Software Engineer
19 52 (3.22%) Applications Developer
19 52 (3.22%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (22.96%) .NET Core
2 290 (17.95%) React
3 231 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 211 (13.06%) .NET Framework
5 191 (11.82%) HTML
6 164 (10.15%) CSS
7 140 (8.66%) AngularJS
7 140 (8.66%) REST
8 101 (6.25%) RESTful
9 89 (5.51%) Blazor
9 89 (5.51%) Entity Framework
10 77 (4.76%) Node.js
11 67 (4.15%) ASP.NET Core
12 63 (3.90%) SOAP
13 61 (3.77%) Vue
14 43 (2.66%) ASP.NET MVC
15 40 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
16 37 (2.29%) Middleware
17 35 (2.17%) HTML5
18 34 (2.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 141 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.96%) Mobile App
3 62 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 29 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.55%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
11 18 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.87%) Onboarding
13 14 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 13 (0.80%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 86 (5.32%) Windows
2 25 (1.55%) Android
3 24 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 23 (1.42%) Linux
4 23 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.99%) VMS
6 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.062%) Fedora
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
9 1 (0.062%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (32.49%) Agile
2 512 (31.68%) Software Engineering
3 398 (24.63%) DevOps
4 392 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 389 (24.07%) CI/CD
6 260 (16.09%) Microservices
7 259 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (10.46%) Mentoring
10 146 (9.03%) AI
11 135 (8.35%) Scrum
12 132 (8.17%) Clean Code
13 130 (8.04%) SDLC
14 123 (7.61%) Containerisation
15 116 (7.18%) Test Automation
16 111 (6.87%) User Experience
17 108 (6.68%) MVC
18 100 (6.19%) Computer Science
19 98 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
20 95 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (68.44%) C#
2 495 (30.63%) SQL
3 365 (22.59%) JavaScript
4 200 (12.38%) TypeScript
5 158 (9.78%) Java
6 136 (8.42%) Python
7 61 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.23%) C++
9 32 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.73%) VB.NET
11 23 (1.42%) Bicep
11 23 (1.42%) PHP
12 20 (1.24%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.93%) C
14 13 (0.80%) Bash
15 11 (0.68%) Go
16 10 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.62%) Rust
17 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 198 (12.25%) Degree
2 57 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 54 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 47 (2.91%) SC Cleared
5 30 (1.86%) ISTQB
6 23 (1.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.43%) ISEB
12 7 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.19%) MCSE
15 3 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.81%) QA
2 43 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.80%) GDPR
4 12 (0.74%) WCAG
5 9 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.43%) SLA
8 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.12%) GRC
10 1 (0.062%) ITGC
System Software
1 152 (9.41%) Docker
2 23 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.062%) Squid
Systems Management
1 123 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 90 (5.57%) Terraform
3 14 (0.87%) Grafana
4 11 (0.68%) Ansible
5 8 (0.50%) Kibana
6 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) Argo
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.062%) CASB
8 1 (0.062%) Control-M
Vendors
1 264 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.10%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.79%) Xamarin
4 19 (1.18%) Google
4 19 (1.18%) MuleSoft
5 14 (0.87%) Oracle
6 13 (0.80%) Sage
7 10 (0.62%) New Relic
7 10 (0.62%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.56%) Telerik
9 8 (0.50%) Databricks
10 7 (0.43%) Adobe
10 7 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (0.37%) Apple
11 6 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.37%) VMware
12 5 (0.31%) SAP
12 5 (0.31%) Syncfusion
12 5 (0.31%) Zoho
13 4 (0.25%) IBM