.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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 61 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -37 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,673 1,802 4,646
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.81% 4.12% 6.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.77% 22.21% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,366 1,349 3,626
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,608 £48,500 £45,000
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 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
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 10,793 8,114 14,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.34% 18.55% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,026 5,447 10,939
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%

.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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +35 700 £58,500 +1.74% 157
North of England +1 618 £57,500 -4.17% 135
London -30 548 £80,000 - 173
Midlands +23 346 £56,250 +2.27% 71
North West -10 278 £60,000 - 65
East of England +30 218 £65,000 +30.00% 49
South West +18 218 £52,500 +0.86% 37
West Midlands -6 183 £60,000 +4.35% 33
North East +7 172 £56,500 +29.89% 39
Yorkshire +15 168 £55,000 -8.33% 33
East Midlands +37 163 £55,000 - 37
.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 68 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.53%) IIS
3 32 (1.20%) CMS
4 25 (0.94%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.037%) Eikon
7 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.037%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,420 (53.12%) Azure
2 460 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
3 456 (17.06%) AWS
4 251 (9.39%) GitHub
5 208 (7.78%) SaaS
6 191 (7.15%) Power Platform
7 172 (6.43%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
9 138 (5.16%) Serverless
10 120 (4.49%) Power Automate
11 115 (4.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 111 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 104 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
14 102 (3.82%) PowerApps
15 95 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (3.03%) Azure Functions
17 77 (2.88%) GCP
18 67 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
19 57 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.55%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) Firewall
2 9 (0.34%) HTTP
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.22%) SNMP
5 5 (0.19%) DHCP
5 5 (0.19%) DNS
5 5 (0.19%) LAN
5 5 (0.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) Intranet
7 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.11%) Modbus
7 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 2 (0.075%) LTE
8 2 (0.075%) VLAN
9 1 (0.037%) Broadband
9 1 (0.037%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.037%) Network Security
9 1 (0.037%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 566 (21.17%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 427 (15.97%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
5 116 (4.34%) Power BI
6 84 (3.14%) MySQL
7 81 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 74 (2.77%) NoSQL
9 58 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.12%) Redis
11 30 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.45%) GIS
14 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.37%) Db2
15 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 10 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 210 (7.86%) Git
2 47 (1.76%) JIRA
3 38 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.16%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.12%) NUnit
6 28 (1.05%) Claude Code
7 26 (0.97%) Selenium
8 24 (0.90%) GitLab
9 23 (0.86%) Postman
10 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.34%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
14 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.26%) MSI
15 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 435 (16.27%) Social Skills
2 393 (14.70%) Finance
3 138 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (3.52%) Retail
5 88 (3.29%) Public Sector
6 74 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (2.69%) Law
8 62 (2.32%) Advertising
8 62 (2.32%) Legal
9 61 (2.28%) Games
10 57 (2.13%) Marketing
11 55 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 27 (1.01%) Banking
14 25 (0.94%) Automotive
15 19 (0.71%) Electronics
16 17 (0.64%) Front Office
17 14 (0.52%) Back Office
17 14 (0.52%) Legal Technology
18 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,624 (60.76%) Developer
2 955 (35.73%) .NET Developer
3 494 (18.48%) Senior
4 411 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 334 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 314 (11.75%) Lead
7 259 (9.69%) Senior Developer
8 213 (7.97%) C# Developer
9 192 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (5.99%) C# .NET Developer
11 157 (5.87%) C# Software Engineer
12 153 (5.72%) .NET Software Engineer
13 150 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 147 (5.50%) Lead Developer
15 126 (4.71%) .NET Software Developer
16 115 (4.30%) Senior .NET Developer
17 112 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 94 (3.52%) Web Developer
19 92 (3.44%) Architect
20 80 (2.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 776 (29.03%) ASP.NET
3 586 (21.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 451 (16.87%) React
5 393 (14.70%) HTML
6 389 (14.55%) CSS
7 336 (12.57%) AngularJS
8 305 (11.41%) Entity Framework
9 302 (11.30%) Blazor
10 300 (11.22%) .NET Framework
11 294 (11.00%) RESTful
12 266 (9.95%) Vue
13 261 (9.76%) Node.js
14 227 (8.49%) REST
15 223 (8.34%) ASP.NET Web API
16 145 (5.42%) ML.NET
17 134 (5.01%) Terraform
18 109 (4.08%) LINQ
19 82 (3.07%) JSON
20 77 (2.88%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 185 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 153 (5.72%) Greenfield Project
3 139 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
4 129 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 69 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 40 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
9 39 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 36 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (1.16%) Legacy Code
11 31 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 30 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 26 (0.97%) Hedge funds
14 22 (0.82%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
16 18 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 18 (0.67%) Client/Server
17 17 (0.64%) iPhone
18 16 (0.60%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.00%) Windows
2 37 (1.38%) Linux
3 34 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.12%) Android
5 5 (0.19%) VMS
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.037%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (35.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 878 (32.85%) Agile
3 703 (26.30%) DevOps
4 701 (26.23%) Software Engineering
5 689 (25.78%) CI/CD
6 478 (17.88%) Microservices
7 432 (16.16%) AI
8 377 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 268 (10.03%) Mentoring
11 220 (8.23%) SDLC
12 212 (7.93%) Machine Learning
13 203 (7.59%) Test Automation
14 190 (7.11%) Scrum
15 179 (6.70%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.51%) Multithreading
17 169 (6.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 167 (6.25%) TDD
19 154 (5.76%) Clean Code
20 151 (5.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,032 (76.02%) C#
2 1,012 (37.86%) SQL
3 603 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 381 (14.25%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.79%) Python
6 170 (6.36%) Java
7 86 (3.22%) C++
8 80 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 68 (2.54%) PHP
10 63 (2.36%) T-SQL
11 60 (2.24%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.65%) Bicep
13 28 (1.05%) C
14 25 (0.94%) Bash
15 22 (0.82%) Go
16 19 (0.71%) VB
17 15 (0.56%) VBA
18 14 (0.52%) COBOL
19 10 (0.37%) JCL
20 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (9.05%) Degree
2 116 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 86 (3.22%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (6.10%) QA
2 72 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 18 (0.67%) GDPR
4 17 (0.64%) WCAG
5 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 5 (0.19%) SLA
8 3 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.037%) ITGC
10 1 (0.037%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 337 (12.61%) Docker
2 17 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.34%) Firmware
3 9 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 308 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.56%) Grafana
2 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.075%) MIIS
5 1 (0.037%) Argo
5 1 (0.037%) Consul
5 1 (0.037%) Control-M
5 1 (0.037%) MOM
5 1 (0.037%) Packer
5 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 946 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.81%) Google
3 55 (2.06%) Facebook
4 44 (1.65%) Oracle
5 35 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.08%) Adobe
7 22 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.79%) YouTube
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
10 14 (0.52%) iManage
11 12 (0.45%) Intapp
11 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.41%) Apple
12 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.41%) Sony
12 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.37%) VMware
14 9 (0.34%) Aderant
14 9 (0.34%) Sage
14 9 (0.34%) SAP