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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,663 1,810 4,686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.83% 4.15% 6.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.65% 23.78% 34.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,362 1,353 3,677
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,688 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 9,632 7,612 13,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.43% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,217 5,082 10,216
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

.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 11 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 11 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 +32 683 £58,000 +0.87% 199
North of England +1 626 £57,500 -4.17% 156
London -25 557 £80,000 - 367
Midlands +10 337 £55,000 - 93
North West -5 285 £60,000 - 89
East of England +22 221 £65,000 +26.83% 58
South West +22 216 £52,500 - 45
West Midlands -11 179 £60,000 +4.35% 45
North East +5 171 £55,750 +25.99% 31
Yorkshire +20 170 £55,000 -13.73% 39
East Midlands +40 158 £55,000 - 48
.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 69 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.39%) IIS
3 32 (1.20%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) 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%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) CICS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) JBoss
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.075%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.038%) Eikon
7 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (52.65%) Azure
2 445 (16.71%) AWS
3 444 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 247 (9.28%) GitHub
5 204 (7.66%) SaaS
6 188 (7.06%) Power Platform
7 171 (6.42%) Azure AI
8 165 (6.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 138 (5.18%) Serverless
10 116 (4.36%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 110 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 99 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 99 (3.72%) PowerApps
14 90 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 81 (3.04%) Azure Functions
16 75 (2.82%) GCP
17 69 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
19 53 (1.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.45%) Internet
2 9 (0.34%) HTTP
2 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.075%) LTE
10 1 (0.038%) Broadband
10 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.038%) Profibus
10 1 (0.038%) SSL
10 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 550 (20.65%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 161 (6.05%) Elasticsearch
5 115 (4.32%) Power BI
6 81 (3.04%) MySQL
7 74 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 72 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 34 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.13%) Redis
13 21 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.45%) Db2
14 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.45%) GIS
15 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 195 (7.32%) Git
2 47 (1.76%) JIRA
3 34 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.13%) Selenium
5 27 (1.01%) Claude Code
5 27 (1.01%) NUnit
6 26 (0.98%) Visual Studio
7 25 (0.94%) Postman
8 24 (0.90%) GitLab
9 12 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.45%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.38%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
12 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.26%) Moq
13 7 (0.26%) MSI
13 7 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 419 (15.73%) Social Skills
2 391 (14.68%) Finance
3 128 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (3.45%) Retail
5 82 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 74 (2.78%) Law
7 69 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (2.33%) Advertising
8 62 (2.33%) Legal
9 60 (2.25%) Games
10 56 (2.10%) Marketing
11 55 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 29 (1.09%) Banking
13 28 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 25 (0.94%) Automotive
15 19 (0.71%) Electronics
16 15 (0.56%) Legal Technology
17 14 (0.53%) Front Office
18 13 (0.49%) Back Office
18 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,625 (61.02%) Developer
2 959 (36.01%) .NET Developer
3 495 (18.59%) Senior
4 410 (15.40%) Software Engineer
5 336 (12.62%) Software Developer
6 309 (11.60%) Lead
7 260 (9.76%) Senior Developer
8 211 (7.92%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 161 (6.05%) .NET Software Engineer
10 161 (6.05%) C# .NET Developer
11 156 (5.86%) C# Software Engineer
12 148 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 145 (5.44%) Lead Developer
14 127 (4.77%) .NET Software Developer
15 117 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
16 110 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 93 (3.49%) Web Developer
18 91 (3.42%) Architect
19 81 (3.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (30.12%) .NET Core
2 763 (28.65%) ASP.NET
3 582 (21.86%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (16.97%) React
5 384 (14.42%) HTML
6 380 (14.27%) CSS
7 330 (12.39%) AngularJS
8 299 (11.23%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.04%) Blazor
10 292 (10.97%) .NET Framework
11 290 (10.89%) RESTful
12 266 (9.99%) Vue
13 258 (9.69%) Node.js
14 222 (8.34%) REST
15 221 (8.30%) ASP.NET Web API
16 145 (5.44%) ML.NET
17 109 (4.09%) LINQ
18 82 (3.08%) JSON
19 71 (2.67%) jQuery
20 62 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 134 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
4 124 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
5 97 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 67 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 38 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 35 (1.31%) AI Agents
10 32 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 31 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 30 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 27 (1.01%) Hedge funds
13 27 (1.01%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
14 20 (0.75%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.64%) iPhone
16 16 (0.60%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.60%) Client/Server
17 14 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 107 (4.02%) Windows
2 36 (1.35%) Linux
3 33 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.13%) Android
5 7 (0.26%) VMS
6 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.075%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (35.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 872 (32.75%) Agile
3 696 (26.14%) Software Engineering
4 688 (25.84%) DevOps
5 676 (25.38%) CI/CD
6 471 (17.69%) Microservices
7 429 (16.11%) AI
8 352 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
9 277 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 259 (9.73%) Mentoring
11 220 (8.26%) SDLC
12 208 (7.81%) Machine Learning
13 202 (7.59%) Test Automation
14 189 (7.10%) Scrum
15 174 (6.53%) Multithreading
16 171 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
17 169 (6.35%) TDD
18 164 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 154 (5.78%) Clean Code
20 149 (5.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,014 (75.63%) C#
2 1,012 (38.00%) SQL
3 600 (22.53%) JavaScript
4 383 (14.38%) TypeScript
5 228 (8.56%) Python
6 169 (6.35%) Java
7 86 (3.23%) C++
8 82 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 66 (2.48%) PHP
10 62 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 61 (2.29%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.65%) Bicep
13 27 (1.01%) C
14 25 (0.94%) Bash
15 22 (0.83%) Go
16 19 (0.71%) VB
17 12 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.45%) VBA
18 11 (0.41%) COBOL
19 10 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 241 (9.05%) Degree
2 115 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 105 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 85 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
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
1 160 (6.01%) QA
2 69 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.68%) GDPR
5 17 (0.64%) WCAG
6 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.30%) NCSC
8 5 (0.19%) SLA
9 3 (0.11%) NIST
10 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.038%) ITGC
11 1 (0.038%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.038%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 336 (12.62%) Docker
2 16 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.34%) Firmware
4 8 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 310 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 132 (4.96%) Terraform
3 15 (0.56%) Grafana
3 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.075%) MIIS
6 1 (0.038%) Argo
6 1 (0.038%) Consul
6 1 (0.038%) Control-M
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) Packer
6 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 936 (35.15%) Microsoft
2 73 (2.74%) Google
3 55 (2.07%) Facebook
4 43 (1.61%) Oracle
5 35 (1.31%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.09%) Adobe
7 25 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.79%) YouTube
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
9 15 (0.56%) iManage
10 13 (0.49%) Intapp
10 13 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
12 11 (0.41%) Apple
12 11 (0.41%) Sony
12 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.38%) Aderant
14 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 9 (0.34%) VMware
15 8 (0.30%) Sage