.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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 49 24
Rank change year-on-year -29 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,849 1,933 6,188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.37% 5.17% 7.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.85% 24.82% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,663 1,607 5,407
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
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 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 7,751 7,789 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 20.85% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 5,913 14,024
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -30 483 £82,500 +6.45% 204
South East -20 463 £60,000 - 180
North of England -16 422 £63,000 +9.57% 149
North West -9 222 £65,000 +13.04% 84
Midlands -41 218 £55,000 - 72
South West -10 144 £55,000 -8.33% 61
Yorkshire -36 126 £60,000 - 39
West Midlands -49 113 £52,500 -8.70% 33
East Midlands -36 105 £65,000 +23.81% 39
East of England -47 96 £65,000 +30.00% 60
North East -16 74 £70,000 +21.74% 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 49 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.46%) IIS
3 19 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (0.76%) JBoss
5 13 (0.70%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.65%) WebSphere
7 11 (0.59%) ColdFusion
8 9 (0.49%) Confluence
9 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.27%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.16%) Apache
12 3 (0.16%) nginx
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.054%) Appian
14 1 (0.054%) Drupal
14 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.054%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 28 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.054%) Endur
3 1 (0.054%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.054%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.054%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 791 (42.78%) Azure
2 282 (15.25%) AWS
3 243 (13.14%) SaaS
4 223 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
5 143 (7.73%) Power Platform
6 111 (6.00%) Serverless
7 104 (5.62%) GitHub
8 96 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 75 (4.06%) PowerApps
10 74 (4.00%) Power Automate
11 61 (3.30%) Azure Functions
12 59 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
13 58 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 50 (2.70%) GCP
15 49 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
16 45 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 43 (2.33%) Azure AKS
18 37 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
19 35 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
20 28 (1.51%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 18 (0.97%) Internet
2 9 (0.49%) Firewall
3 8 (0.43%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.32%) Intranet
5 4 (0.22%) DNS
5 4 (0.22%) LTE
6 3 (0.16%) DHCP
7 2 (0.11%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.11%) VoIP
7 2 (0.11%) VPN
8 1 (0.054%) AMQP
8 1 (0.054%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.054%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.054%) HTTP
8 1 (0.054%) Modbus
8 1 (0.054%) MPLS
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (22.66%) SQL Server
2 86 (4.65%) Power BI
3 83 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 77 (4.16%) NoSQL
5 47 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 39 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 37 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 36 (1.95%) MySQL
11 17 (0.92%) Redis
12 16 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.65%) DB2
15 6 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.32%) GIS
16 5 (0.27%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 123 (6.65%) Git
2 51 (2.76%) JIRA
3 47 (2.54%) Selenium
4 41 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.95%) Postman
6 29 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.35%) SoapUI
8 24 (1.30%) WebDriver
9 17 (0.92%) SpecFlow
10 16 (0.87%) Jenkins
11 15 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.59%) NUnit
14 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 6 (0.32%) JMeter
16 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
17 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.27%) LabVIEW
18 4 (0.22%) Appium
General
1 331 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 301 (16.28%) Finance
3 86 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (3.19%) Law
5 55 (2.97%) Public Sector
6 54 (2.92%) Banking
7 30 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.62%) Retail
8 27 (1.46%) Legal
9 22 (1.19%) Games
10 16 (0.87%) Front Office
10 16 (0.87%) Marketing
11 15 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 14 (0.76%) Aviation
13 11 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.54%) Automotive
14 10 (0.54%) Back Office
14 10 (0.54%) Tech for Good
15 9 (0.49%) Military
16 8 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,031 (55.76%) Developer
2 447 (24.18%) Senior
3 439 (23.74%) .NET Developer
4 331 (17.90%) Software Engineer
5 304 (16.44%) Software Developer
6 233 (12.60%) Lead
7 219 (11.84%) Senior Developer
8 214 (11.57%) C# Developer
9 173 (9.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 155 (8.38%) .NET Software Engineer
11 146 (7.90%) C# .NET Developer
12 133 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 103 (5.57%) .NET Software Developer
14 93 (5.03%) Lead Developer
14 93 (5.03%) Senior .NET Developer
15 86 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 85 (4.60%) C# Software Engineer
17 83 (4.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 78 (4.22%) Architect
19 65 (3.52%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (22.39%) .NET Core
2 279 (15.09%) ASP.NET
3 261 (14.12%) React
4 209 (11.30%) .NET Framework
5 208 (11.25%) HTML
6 182 (9.84%) CSS
7 142 (7.68%) REST
8 131 (7.08%) AngularJS
9 123 (6.65%) RESTful
10 100 (5.41%) ASP.NET Core
11 97 (5.25%) Blazor
12 95 (5.14%) Node.js
13 90 (4.87%) Entity Framework
14 78 (4.22%) Vue
15 57 (3.08%) SOAP
16 42 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
17 41 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
18 39 (2.11%) Playwright
19 38 (2.06%) JSON
20 36 (1.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.89%) Mobile App
3 65 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.68%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
9 21 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 18 (0.97%) Legacy Code
12 17 (0.92%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 14 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.76%) Sports Betting
14 13 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 13 (0.70%) PropTech
15 12 (0.65%) DataPower
15 12 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 82 (4.43%) Windows
2 27 (1.46%) Linux
3 24 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.03%) Android
5 18 (0.97%) VMS
6 16 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.16%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.054%) Solaris
9 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (29.96%) Software Engineering
2 505 (27.31%) Agile
3 429 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 398 (21.53%) DevOps
5 387 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 265 (14.33%) Microservices
7 242 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 176 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 159 (8.60%) AI
11 158 (8.55%) Test Automation
12 148 (8.00%) SDLC
13 134 (7.25%) Clean Code
14 130 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
15 129 (6.98%) Containerisation
16 124 (6.71%) Scrum
17 110 (5.95%) MVC
18 106 (5.73%) User Experience
19 97 (5.25%) Business Intelligence
20 95 (5.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (68.31%) C#
2 555 (30.02%) SQL
3 382 (20.66%) JavaScript
4 208 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 168 (9.09%) Java
6 152 (8.22%) Python
7 70 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 48 (2.60%) C++
9 41 (2.22%) PHP
10 36 (1.95%) Bicep
11 35 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 33 (1.78%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.92%) C
15 15 (0.81%) Bash
15 15 (0.81%) VB
16 13 (0.70%) Go
17 12 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 180 (9.73%) Degree
2 77 (4.16%) Security Cleared
3 63 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.27%) ISEB
12 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.62%) QA
2 48 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.76%) GDPR
5 13 (0.70%) WCAG
6 9 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.38%) SLA
8 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.054%) NCSC
12 1 (0.054%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (8.11%) Docker
2 13 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.43%) Firmware
4 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.054%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.87%) Terraform
3 15 (0.81%) Grafana
4 10 (0.54%) Ansible
5 7 (0.38%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.11%) MIIS
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.054%) CASB
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Control-M
8 1 (0.054%) Packer
8 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 332 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.46%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.35%) Xamarin
4 23 (1.24%) Adobe
5 19 (1.03%) Google
6 18 (0.97%) Oracle
7 16 (0.87%) MuleSoft
8 14 (0.76%) ServiceNow
9 10 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.43%) New Relic
11 7 (0.38%) Databricks
11 7 (0.38%) iManage
11 7 (0.38%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.32%) Sage
12 6 (0.32%) Telerik
12 6 (0.32%) VMware
13 5 (0.27%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.27%) IBM
13 5 (0.27%) Intapp
14 4 (0.22%) Facebook