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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 -46 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,605 1,606 4,185
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.51% 3.75% 6.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.16% 21.66% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,267 1,197 2,808
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,850 £40,000
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 £97,500 £104,500 £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 10,781 7,414 14,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.31% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 4,885 9,077
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £49,750
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 29 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 29 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 +47 687 £60,000 - 207
North of England +2 604 £55,750 -7.08% 270
London -31 532 £80,000 - 543
Midlands +26 357 £60,000 +9.09% 164
North West -13 269 £60,000 -5.88% 168
East of England +22 208 £60,000 +14.29% 112
South West -7 193 £55,000 +4.76% 59
West Midlands +4 192 £57,500 +4.55% 85
North East +11 179 £56,500 +30.26% 36
East Midlands +39 165 £60,000 +9.09% 79
Yorkshire +7 156 £55,000 -8.33% 70
.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 62 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.80%) IIS
3 31 (1.19%) CMS
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
5 15 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.35%) Apache
7 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,351 (51.86%) Azure
2 476 (18.27%) AWS
3 456 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
4 258 (9.90%) GitHub
5 185 (7.10%) SaaS
6 179 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.53%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 150 (5.76%) Serverless
10 121 (4.64%) Power Automate
11 109 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 97 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 97 (3.72%) PowerApps
13 96 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
14 85 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (2.99%) Azure Functions
16 74 (2.84%) GCP
17 67 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
19 50 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.61%) Internet
2 19 (0.73%) Firewall
3 13 (0.50%) VLAN
4 11 (0.42%) Wireless
5 9 (0.35%) HTTP
5 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 4 (0.15%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
10 2 (0.077%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.077%) LTE
10 2 (0.077%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.077%) VPN
10 2 (0.077%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (21.54%) SQL Server
2 469 (18.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.85%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (3.80%) Power BI
6 98 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 81 (3.11%) MySQL
8 80 (3.07%) NoSQL
9 72 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.31%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 25 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
13 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.46%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.42%) SQLite
17 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 215 (8.25%) Git
2 47 (1.80%) JIRA
3 41 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 34 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.11%) GitLab
7 28 (1.07%) NUnit
8 20 (0.77%) Postman
8 20 (0.77%) Selenium
9 16 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
12 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.35%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.31%) Moq
14 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.27%) MSI
15 7 (0.27%) Snyk
16 6 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 453 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 379 (14.55%) Finance
3 157 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.88%) Public Sector
5 89 (3.42%) Retail
6 76 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (2.50%) Games
7 65 (2.50%) Law
8 62 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 60 (2.30%) Legal
10 59 (2.26%) Advertising
11 52 (2.00%) Marketing
12 30 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.92%) Automotive
14 22 (0.84%) Banking
15 21 (0.81%) Front Office
16 19 (0.73%) Electronics
17 14 (0.54%) Back Office
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,523 (58.46%) Developer
2 927 (35.59%) .NET Developer
3 472 (18.12%) Senior
4 393 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 291 (11.17%) Lead
6 275 (10.56%) Software Developer
7 242 (9.29%) Senior Developer
8 203 (7.79%) C# Developer
9 182 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 156 (5.99%) C# Software Engineer
11 154 (5.91%) C# .NET Developer
12 145 (5.57%) .NET Software Engineer
13 144 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
14 131 (5.03%) Lead Developer
15 121 (4.64%) Senior .NET Developer
16 114 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 98 (3.76%) .NET Software Developer
18 84 (3.22%) Web Developer
19 83 (3.19%) Architect
20 76 (2.92%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 756 (29.02%) .NET Core
2 742 (28.48%) ASP.NET
3 572 (21.96%) ASP.NET Core
4 465 (17.85%) React
5 375 (14.40%) HTML
6 372 (14.28%) CSS
7 339 (13.01%) AngularJS
8 297 (11.40%) Entity Framework
9 295 (11.32%) RESTful
10 289 (11.09%) Blazor
11 282 (10.83%) .NET Framework
12 258 (9.90%) Vue
13 246 (9.44%) Node.js
14 238 (9.14%) REST
15 220 (8.45%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.26%) ML.NET
17 133 (5.11%) Terraform
18 107 (4.11%) LINQ
19 91 (3.49%) jQuery
20 80 (3.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 182 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.72%) Greenfield Project
4 142 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 69 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 49 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
11 37 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 24 (0.92%) Legacy Code
15 23 (0.88%) Hedge funds
16 22 (0.84%) Data Structures
17 21 (0.81%) Low-Code
18 20 (0.77%) IoT
19 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
20 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 115 (4.41%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.31%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.038%) Unix
8 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (35.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 846 (32.48%) Agile
3 718 (27.56%) CI/CD
4 690 (26.49%) DevOps
5 684 (26.26%) Software Engineering
6 464 (17.81%) AI
7 454 (17.43%) Microservices
8 402 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 278 (10.67%) Mentoring
11 223 (8.56%) SDLC
12 222 (8.52%) Test Automation
13 195 (7.49%) Machine Learning
14 184 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.72%) Scrum
16 174 (6.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 167 (6.41%) Code Quality
18 166 (6.37%) Multithreading
19 154 (5.91%) TDD
20 153 (5.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,017 (77.43%) C#
2 993 (38.12%) SQL
3 603 (23.15%) JavaScript
4 363 (13.93%) TypeScript
5 229 (8.79%) Python
6 168 (6.45%) Java
7 101 (3.88%) C++
8 69 (2.65%) VB.NET
9 64 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 62 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 58 (2.23%) PHP
12 41 (1.57%) Bicep
13 27 (1.04%) C
14 22 (0.84%) Bash
14 22 (0.84%) VB
15 18 (0.69%) COBOL
15 18 (0.69%) VBA
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) JCL
18 10 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 242 (9.29%) Degree
2 123 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 97 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 78 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.18%) QA
2 72 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.69%) WCAG
5 16 (0.61%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.038%) GAMP
10 1 (0.038%) GMP
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 326 (12.51%) Docker
2 27 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Firmware
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 287 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.077%) Bosun
4 2 (0.077%) Control-M
4 2 (0.077%) Kibana
4 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
5 1 (0.038%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.038%) SCCM
Vendors
1 934 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.69%) Google
3 52 (2.00%) Facebook
4 49 (1.88%) Oracle
5 36 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.81%) Adobe
6 21 (0.81%) YouTube
7 19 (0.73%) VMware
8 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.58%) Databricks
10 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 10 (0.38%) iManage
11 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.38%) Sony
11 10 (0.38%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.35%) Broadcom
12 9 (0.35%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.35%) Intapp
12 9 (0.35%) Splunk