.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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -58 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,373 3,439 3,499
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.82% 6.11% 7.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.20% 28.62% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,205 2,368 3,151
10th Percentile £39,775 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,788 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -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 6,184 12,018 11,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.72% 21.36% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,734 7,279 9,840
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -37 408 £80,000 +3.23% 176
North of England -40 324 £60,000 +9.09% 185
South East -52 296 £60,000 - 224
Midlands -61 165 £57,500 +4.55% 75
North West -29 159 £65,000 +16.85% 110
Yorkshire -34 118 £55,000 +4.76% 46
West Midlands -49 108 £55,000 -2.22% 40
South West -63 80 £55,000 - 51
East of England -63 72 £60,000 +20.00% 49
East Midlands -50 57 £66,000 +32.00% 35
North East -19 47 £50,000 -16.67% 30
.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 55 (4.01%) IIS
2 35 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.89%) CMS
4 19 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.17%) Confluence
6 9 (0.66%) JBoss
6 9 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.58%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.073%) Kentico
13 1 (0.073%) SAS
13 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 55 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.073%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.073%) Endur
6 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.073%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.073%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 816 (59.43%) Azure
2 330 (24.03%) AWS
3 238 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (12.82%) SaaS
5 127 (9.25%) Power Platform
6 105 (7.65%) Serverless
7 102 (7.43%) GitHub
8 87 (6.34%) GCP
9 75 (5.46%) Power Automate
10 67 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 62 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 62 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
12 57 (4.15%) PowerApps
13 54 (3.93%) Azure Functions
14 48 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 42 (3.06%) Entra ID
15 42 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (1.97%) Azure App Service
18 26 (1.89%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.02%) DNS
2 12 (0.87%) DHCP
2 12 (0.87%) VoIP
3 11 (0.80%) Internet
3 11 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.73%) Firewall
5 9 (0.66%) VPN
6 7 (0.51%) SAN
7 5 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.36%) HTTP
7 5 (0.36%) LAN
7 5 (0.36%) SSL
7 5 (0.36%) WAN
8 4 (0.29%) Modbus
8 4 (0.29%) MQTT
8 4 (0.29%) WPA
9 3 (0.22%) Intranet
10 2 (0.15%) NAS
10 2 (0.15%) VLAN
10 2 (0.15%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (29.79%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 76 (5.54%) NoSQL
4 71 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 63 (4.59%) MySQL
6 54 (3.93%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.57%) Power BI
8 48 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 44 (3.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
11 27 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.89%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.75%) Redis
14 11 (0.80%) RDBMS
15 10 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.66%) Tableau
17 7 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
18 6 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
18 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
18 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 149 (10.85%) Git
2 66 (4.81%) JIRA
3 37 (2.69%) Selenium
3 37 (2.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 32 (2.33%) Postman
5 29 (2.11%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 23 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 22 (1.60%) SoapUI
9 21 (1.53%) WebDriver
10 20 (1.46%) TeamCity
11 13 (0.95%) GitLab
12 12 (0.87%) Storybook
13 10 (0.73%) NUnit
13 10 (0.73%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.66%) MSTest
15 6 (0.44%) git-flow
16 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.36%) MSBuild
17 4 (0.29%) Artifactory
General
1 359 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 251 (18.28%) Finance
3 74 (5.39%) Law
4 53 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.06%) Retail
6 40 (2.91%) Banking
7 39 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 38 (2.77%) Legal
9 25 (1.82%) Front Office
10 24 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.60%) Marketing
12 21 (1.53%) Back Office
12 21 (1.53%) Billing
13 17 (1.24%) Games
14 13 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.80%) Automotive
15 11 (0.80%) Aviation
15 11 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 776 (56.52%) Developer
2 293 (21.34%) .NET Developer
3 290 (21.12%) Senior
4 181 (13.18%) Software Developer
5 174 (12.67%) Lead
6 170 (12.38%) C# Developer
7 165 (12.02%) Software Engineer
8 159 (11.58%) Senior Developer
9 136 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
11 60 (4.37%) .NET Software Developer
12 58 (4.22%) .NET Software Engineer
13 55 (4.01%) Lead Developer
14 53 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (3.71%) Senior .NET Developer
16 50 (3.64%) Architect
17 47 (3.42%) Analyst
18 46 (3.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 44 (3.20%) Engineering Manager
20 39 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (23.96%) .NET Core
2 306 (22.29%) React
3 264 (19.23%) ASP.NET
4 245 (17.84%) .NET Framework
5 208 (15.15%) HTML
6 195 (14.20%) CSS
7 188 (13.69%) AngularJS
8 139 (10.12%) RESTful
9 125 (9.10%) Entity Framework
10 118 (8.59%) REST
11 98 (7.14%) Blazor
12 85 (6.19%) ASP.NET MVC
13 83 (6.05%) Node.js
14 81 (5.90%) Vue
15 74 (5.39%) ASP.NET Web API
16 60 (4.37%) ASP.NET Core
17 52 (3.79%) HTML5
18 46 (3.35%) SOAP
18 46 (3.35%) Web Services
19 36 (2.62%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 40 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.02%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.95%) Clustering
16 12 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.87%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.87%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.83%) Windows
2 28 (2.04%) Linux
3 26 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.75%) Android
6 11 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.51%) VMS
7 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.073%) Fedora
9 1 (0.073%) Solaris
9 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (44.21%) Agile
2 446 (32.48%) DevOps
3 424 (30.88%) CI/CD
4 389 (28.33%) Software Engineering
5 348 (25.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 293 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
7 284 (20.68%) Microservices
8 246 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 191 (13.91%) Mentoring
10 159 (11.58%) MVC
11 152 (11.07%) Scrum
12 147 (10.71%) User Experience
13 142 (10.34%) Clean Code
14 138 (10.05%) AI
15 125 (9.10%) SDLC
16 118 (8.59%) Computer Science
17 117 (8.52%) TDD
18 113 (8.23%) Test Automation
19 111 (8.08%) Containerisation
20 110 (8.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,023 (74.51%) C#
2 477 (34.74%) SQL
3 415 (30.23%) JavaScript
4 235 (17.12%) TypeScript
5 159 (11.58%) Java
6 124 (9.03%) Python
7 59 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.91%) PHP
8 40 (2.91%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.77%) C++
10 35 (2.55%) VB.NET
11 31 (2.26%) Bicep
12 21 (1.53%) Bash
13 16 (1.17%) Rust
14 14 (1.02%) Go
15 9 (0.66%) XAML
16 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.51%) VB
18 5 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 218 (15.88%) Degree
2 85 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.26%) ISTQB
5 30 (2.18%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.73%) HND
11 10 (0.73%) ISEB
12 9 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.44%) HNC
15 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
16 4 (0.29%) MCSE
17 3 (0.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.55%) QA
2 35 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.31%) GDPR
4 11 (0.80%) WCAG
5 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.29%) GRC
6 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.22%) HL7
7 3 (0.22%) SLA
8 2 (0.15%) ITGC
8 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.073%) COBIT
9 1 (0.073%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (11.87%) Docker
2 30 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.073%) HDFS
7 1 (0.073%) Squid
Systems Management
1 116 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 96 (6.99%) Terraform
3 16 (1.17%) Grafana
4 11 (0.80%) Ansible
5 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.073%) Control-M
8 1 (0.073%) Kibana
Vendors
1 347 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (2.48%) Oracle
3 29 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.38%) Xamarin
5 18 (1.31%) Google
6 15 (1.09%) Databricks
6 15 (1.09%) Guidewire
6 15 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.02%) Sage
8 12 (0.87%) VMware
9 11 (0.80%) New Relic
9 11 (0.80%) Telerik
10 9 (0.66%) Apple
10 9 (0.66%) DevExpress
11 7 (0.51%) Adobe
11 7 (0.51%) Facebook
11 7 (0.51%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.51%) Syncfusion
11 7 (0.51%) YouTube