.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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,405 3,633 3,782
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.07% 5.98% 7.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.03% 29.48% 29.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 2,478 3,398
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,294
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,400 £100,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +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 6,377 12,324 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 20.29% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,719 7,387 10,483
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.21% +1.23%

.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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -35 424 £80,000 +3.23% 385
North of England -42 319 £60,000 +9.09% 251
South East -53 288 £57,500 -4.17% 263
Midlands -54 165 £57,500 +4.55% 141
North West -35 161 £65,000 +18.18% 160
West Midlands -31 113 £56,250 +2.27% 79
Yorkshire -37 112 £55,000 - 60
East of England -44 94 £57,500 +15.00% 82
South West -66 79 £52,500 -4.55% 91
East Midlands -61 52 £60,000 +20.00% 60
North East -22 46 £47,500 -20.83% 31
.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 66 (4.70%) IIS
2 38 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.14%) CMS
4 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.28%) Confluence
6 11 (0.78%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.43%) JBoss
7 6 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.36%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.071%) Kentico
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 70 (4.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
3 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.21%) Sage 1000
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.071%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.071%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.071%) Magento
6 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 863 (61.42%) Azure
2 351 (24.98%) AWS
3 250 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (11.67%) SaaS
5 132 (9.40%) Power Platform
6 106 (7.54%) Serverless
7 103 (7.33%) GitHub
8 95 (6.76%) GCP
9 85 (6.05%) Power Automate
10 83 (5.91%) Dynamics 365
11 66 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 64 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 64 (4.56%) PowerApps
13 55 (3.91%) Azure Functions
14 52 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 47 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (2.70%) Entra ID
17 36 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
18 27 (1.92%) Azure App Service
19 25 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.93%) DNS
1 13 (0.93%) TCP/IP
2 12 (0.85%) DHCP
2 12 (0.85%) Internet
2 12 (0.85%) VoIP
3 9 (0.64%) Firewall
3 9 (0.64%) VPN
4 7 (0.50%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.50%) SAN
4 7 (0.50%) WPA
5 6 (0.43%) Modbus
5 6 (0.43%) MQTT
6 5 (0.36%) HTTP
6 5 (0.36%) LAN
6 5 (0.36%) SSL
6 5 (0.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.14%) NAS
7 2 (0.14%) VLAN
8 1 (0.071%) RS-232
8 1 (0.071%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (29.89%) SQL Server
2 89 (6.33%) MongoDB
3 75 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 74 (5.27%) MySQL
5 73 (5.20%) NoSQL
6 60 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 53 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 52 (3.70%) Power BI
9 49 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 41 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
12 24 (1.71%) Redis
13 22 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 17 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.93%) Tableau
16 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
18 7 (0.50%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
18 7 (0.50%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 169 (12.03%) Git
2 69 (4.91%) JIRA
3 32 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
3 32 (2.28%) Visual Studio
4 30 (2.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 30 (2.14%) Selenium
4 30 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 29 (2.06%) Postman
6 23 (1.64%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.14%) GitLab
7 16 (1.14%) NUnit
7 16 (1.14%) SoapUI
7 16 (1.14%) WebDriver
8 12 (0.85%) Storybook
9 11 (0.78%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.57%) MSBuild
11 8 (0.57%) MSTest
12 6 (0.43%) git-flow
12 6 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 394 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 265 (18.86%) Finance
3 87 (6.19%) Law
4 62 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.34%) Retail
6 54 (3.84%) Banking
7 40 (2.85%) Legal
8 39 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.35%) Front Office
10 32 (2.28%) Back Office
11 28 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.71%) Billing
14 21 (1.49%) Automotive
15 20 (1.42%) Marketing
16 18 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.21%) Games
18 13 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
19 12 (0.85%) Publishing
20 10 (0.71%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 796 (56.65%) Developer
2 292 (20.78%) .NET Developer
3 290 (20.64%) Senior
4 172 (12.24%) Lead
5 165 (11.74%) C# Developer
6 160 (11.39%) Senior Developer
6 160 (11.39%) Software Developer
7 150 (10.68%) Software Engineer
8 149 (10.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
10 63 (4.48%) Lead Developer
11 60 (4.27%) Architect
12 52 (3.70%) Engineering Manager
13 51 (3.63%) .NET Software Developer
13 51 (3.63%) .NET Software Engineer
14 48 (3.42%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 48 (3.42%) Senior .NET Developer
14 48 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
15 43 (3.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 42 (2.99%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (22.21%) React
2 310 (22.06%) .NET Core
3 277 (19.72%) ASP.NET
4 264 (18.79%) .NET Framework
5 226 (16.09%) HTML
6 223 (15.87%) CSS
7 209 (14.88%) AngularJS
8 155 (11.03%) RESTful
9 134 (9.54%) Entity Framework
10 120 (8.54%) REST
11 100 (7.12%) Vue
12 94 (6.69%) Blazor
13 80 (5.69%) ASP.NET MVC
14 79 (5.62%) Node.js
15 74 (5.27%) ASP.NET Web API
16 67 (4.77%) ASP.NET Core
17 66 (4.70%) HTML5
18 59 (4.20%) Web Services
19 43 (3.06%) CSS3
20 41 (2.92%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 83 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 44 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 37 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 18 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.14%) Client/Server
13 15 (1.07%) Clustering
13 15 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
14 13 (0.93%) Derivative
14 13 (0.93%) IoT
15 11 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (0.78%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.91%) Windows
2 28 (1.99%) Linux
2 28 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.85%) Android
4 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.14%) Unix
9 1 (0.071%) Fedora
9 1 (0.071%) Solaris
9 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (44.98%) Agile
2 476 (33.88%) DevOps
3 440 (31.32%) CI/CD
4 365 (25.98%) Software Engineering
5 360 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 318 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
7 302 (21.49%) Microservices
8 251 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 200 (14.23%) Mentoring
10 168 (11.96%) MVC
11 163 (11.60%) Scrum
12 149 (10.60%) User Experience
13 147 (10.46%) Clean Code
14 134 (9.54%) AI
15 126 (8.97%) SDLC
16 125 (8.90%) Computer Science
16 125 (8.90%) TDD
17 120 (8.54%) Test Automation
18 116 (8.26%) Roadmaps
19 112 (7.97%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,059 (75.37%) C#
2 525 (37.37%) SQL
3 449 (31.96%) JavaScript
4 239 (17.01%) TypeScript
5 164 (11.67%) Java
6 143 (10.18%) Python
7 59 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 49 (3.49%) VB.NET
9 45 (3.20%) PHP
10 44 (3.13%) C++
10 44 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 29 (2.06%) Bicep
12 21 (1.49%) Bash
13 16 (1.14%) Rust
14 14 (1.00%) Go
15 9 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.64%) XAML
16 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.50%) C
17 6 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 216 (15.37%) Degree
2 94 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 32 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 25 (1.78%) ISTQB
6 20 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 12 (0.85%) HND
10 11 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.64%) ISEB
12 8 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.57%) HNC
12 8 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.28%) MCSE
14 4 (0.28%) PMP
15 3 (0.21%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.76%) QA
2 32 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.64%) GDPR
4 9 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 8 (0.57%) WCAG
6 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.28%) GRC
8 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.21%) HL7
8 3 (0.21%) SLA
9 2 (0.14%) ITGC
10 1 (0.071%) COBIT
10 1 (0.071%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 171 (12.17%) Docker
2 29 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.14%) Squid
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.071%) Firmware
7 1 (0.071%) HDFS
7 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.98%) Terraform
3 15 (1.07%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.57%) Ansible
6 6 (0.43%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.14%) Kibana
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 381 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 41 (2.92%) Oracle
3 34 (2.42%) Salesforce
4 22 (1.57%) Xamarin
5 19 (1.35%) Google
6 18 (1.28%) Databricks
6 18 (1.28%) Guidewire
7 16 (1.14%) Sage
7 16 (1.14%) VMware
8 14 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 13 (0.93%) DevExpress
10 11 (0.78%) Telerik
11 10 (0.71%) New Relic
12 8 (0.57%) Apple
13 7 (0.50%) Facebook
13 7 (0.50%) Freshdesk
13 7 (0.50%) IFS
13 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.50%) Siebel
13 7 (0.50%) Trayport