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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -46 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,616 1,635 4,270
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.54% 3.80% 6.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.13% 21.49% 29.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 1,225 2,891
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £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 £104,300 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

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 10,843 7,607 14,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.52% 17.67% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 5,040 9,314
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,239
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 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -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 24 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 24 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 +37 686 £60,000 - 291
North of England +2 602 £56,500 -5.83% 324
London -26 542 £80,000 - 759
Midlands +29 351 £60,000 +9.09% 186
North West -18 268 £60,000 -4.00% 206
East of England +29 215 £60,000 +14.29% 124
South West -4 195 £55,000 +4.76% 83
West Midlands -14 186 £58,750 +6.82% 99
North East +6 181 £57,000 +31.41% 43
East Midlands +46 165 £60,000 +9.09% 87
Yorkshire +3 153 £55,000 -8.33% 78
.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 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.76%) IIS
3 29 (1.11%) CMS
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 13 (0.50%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.34%) Apache
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 5 (0.19%) CICS
9 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) DNN
11 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) 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 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.076%) 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%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,364 (52.14%) Azure
2 477 (18.23%) AWS
3 457 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (9.82%) GitHub
5 185 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 184 (7.03%) SaaS
7 170 (6.50%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 151 (5.77%) Serverless
10 124 (4.74%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (3.86%) PowerApps
13 100 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 98 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
15 93 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 79 (3.02%) Azure Functions
17 76 (2.91%) GCP
18 68 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
19 57 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
20 51 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.59%) Internet
2 18 (0.69%) Firewall
3 11 (0.42%) VLAN
4 10 (0.38%) Wireless
5 9 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.34%) 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%) Intranet
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.076%) LTE
9 2 (0.076%) Modbus
9 2 (0.076%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (21.52%) SQL Server
2 473 (18.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.79%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 103 (3.94%) Power BI
6 96 (3.67%) Relational Database
7 80 (3.06%) MySQL
8 79 (3.02%) NoSQL
9 70 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.26%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Big Data
17 11 (0.42%) GIS
17 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.42%) SQLite
18 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 213 (8.14%) Git
2 47 (1.80%) JIRA
3 39 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 38 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.07%) GitLab
6 28 (1.07%) NUnit
7 20 (0.76%) Postman
7 20 (0.76%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 12 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Moq
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 453 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 386 (14.76%) Finance
3 152 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.48%) Retail
6 75 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.52%) Law
8 65 (2.48%) Games
9 61 (2.33%) Legal
10 59 (2.26%) Advertising
10 59 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 52 (1.99%) Marketing
12 29 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.92%) Automotive
13 24 (0.92%) Banking
14 21 (0.80%) Front Office
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
16 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.50%) Back Office
17 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,548 (59.17%) Developer
2 934 (35.70%) .NET Developer
3 474 (18.12%) Senior
4 394 (15.06%) Software Engineer
5 294 (11.24%) Lead
6 280 (10.70%) Software Developer
7 245 (9.37%) Senior Developer
8 210 (8.03%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
11 155 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
12 146 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 145 (5.54%) .NET Software Engineer
14 134 (5.12%) Lead Developer
15 120 (4.59%) Senior .NET Developer
16 113 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 102 (3.90%) .NET Software Developer
18 87 (3.33%) Web Developer
19 86 (3.29%) Architect
20 79 (3.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 764 (29.20%) .NET Core
2 745 (28.48%) ASP.NET
3 572 (21.87%) ASP.NET Core
4 466 (17.81%) React
5 382 (14.60%) HTML
6 379 (14.49%) CSS
7 337 (12.88%) AngularJS
8 295 (11.28%) Entity Framework
8 295 (11.28%) RESTful
9 291 (11.12%) Blazor
10 282 (10.78%) .NET Framework
11 262 (10.02%) Vue
12 241 (9.21%) Node.js
13 234 (8.94%) REST
14 219 (8.37%) ASP.NET Web API
15 137 (5.24%) ML.NET
16 132 (5.05%) Terraform
17 107 (4.09%) LINQ
18 92 (3.52%) jQuery
19 83 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
3 147 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
4 142 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
11 38 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 26 (0.99%) Legacy Code
14 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
16 23 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 22 (0.84%) Data Structures
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
18 19 (0.73%) IoT
19 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.32%) Windows
2 37 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.30%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (35.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 852 (32.57%) Agile
3 710 (27.14%) CI/CD
4 690 (26.38%) DevOps
5 687 (26.26%) Software Engineering
6 468 (17.89%) AI
7 454 (17.35%) Microservices
8 397 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
9 284 (10.86%) Mentoring
10 280 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 223 (8.52%) SDLC
12 215 (8.22%) Test Automation
13 201 (7.68%) Machine Learning
14 183 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
15 176 (6.73%) Scrum
16 172 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 166 (6.35%) Multithreading
18 165 (6.31%) Code Quality
19 155 (5.93%) TDD
20 153 (5.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,025 (77.41%) C#
2 1,002 (38.30%) SQL
3 611 (23.36%) JavaScript
4 366 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 231 (8.83%) Python
6 169 (6.46%) Java
7 102 (3.90%) C++
8 67 (2.56%) VB.NET
9 66 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 65 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 59 (2.26%) PHP
12 43 (1.64%) Bicep
13 27 (1.03%) C
14 22 (0.84%) Bash
15 21 (0.80%) VB
16 18 (0.69%) Go
16 18 (0.69%) VBA
17 17 (0.65%) COBOL
18 13 (0.50%) JCL
19 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 244 (9.33%) Degree
2 124 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.76%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (6.19%) QA
2 72 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.49%) 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 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.076%) Basel III
9 2 (0.076%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 324 (12.39%) Docker
2 25 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.038%) HDFS
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 291 (11.12%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.076%) Bosun
4 2 (0.076%) Control-M
4 2 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Kibana
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 934 (35.70%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.71%) Google
3 52 (1.99%) Facebook
4 49 (1.87%) Oracle
5 36 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.88%) Adobe
7 21 (0.80%) YouTube
8 19 (0.73%) VMware
9 16 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.57%) Databricks
11 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.42%) Xamarin
12 10 (0.38%) Apple
12 10 (0.38%) iManage
12 10 (0.38%) Sony
12 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
13 9 (0.34%) Intapp
13 9 (0.34%) SAP
13 9 (0.34%) Splunk