.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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 58 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 -35 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,473 1,897 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.48% 7.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.42% 23.84% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 1,411 5,406
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 9,020 7,957 17,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 18.81% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,897 5,392 14,278
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,322 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

.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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +25 646 £57,500 - 171
North of England -2 559 £60,000 - 166
London -26 547 £80,000 - 232
Midlands +9 311 £55,000 - 76
North West -4 286 £60,000 +3.00% 76
South West +14 197 £55,000 +4.76% 45
East of England +21 187 £65,000 +23.81% 59
West Midlands -18 161 £57,500 +4.55% 41
East Midlands +27 150 £55,000 - 35
North East +3 141 £57,500 +9.52% 38
Yorkshire -4 132 £57,500 -13.21% 55
.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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.17%) IIS
3 28 (1.13%) CMS
4 20 (0.81%) Confluence
5 16 (0.65%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
8 7 (0.28%) nginx
9 6 (0.24%) JBoss
10 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
10 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.081%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,288 (52.08%) Azure
2 398 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
3 396 (16.01%) AWS
4 224 (9.06%) SaaS
5 206 (8.33%) GitHub
6 166 (6.71%) Power Platform
7 150 (6.07%) Azure AI
8 137 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 133 (5.38%) Serverless
10 118 (4.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 108 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 102 (4.12%) Power Automate
13 97 (3.92%) PowerApps
14 90 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 83 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
16 82 (3.32%) Azure Functions
17 64 (2.59%) GCP
18 58 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
20 55 (2.22%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.40%) Internet
2 9 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.32%) Firewall
3 8 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.20%) DHCP
4 5 (0.20%) DNS
4 5 (0.20%) LAN
4 5 (0.20%) LTE
4 5 (0.20%) WAN
5 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.12%) RS-232
7 2 (0.081%) HTTP
7 2 (0.081%) Modbus
7 2 (0.081%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.040%) AMQP
8 1 (0.040%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.040%) Network Security
8 1 (0.040%) SSL
8 1 (0.040%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (18.80%) SQL Server
2 456 (18.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 388 (15.69%) MongoDB
4 146 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
5 108 (4.37%) Power BI
6 62 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 58 (2.35%) MySQL
8 41 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.85%) Redis
13 13 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.49%) Db2
15 11 (0.44%) GIS
16 9 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
17 8 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
18 7 (0.28%) Big Data
18 7 (0.28%) Metadata
19 6 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 149 (6.03%) Git
2 43 (1.74%) JIRA
3 26 (1.05%) Visual Studio
4 22 (0.89%) Postman
5 20 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 19 (0.77%) GitLab
6 19 (0.77%) Selenium
7 16 (0.65%) SpecFlow
8 14 (0.57%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.53%) NUnit
10 10 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.28%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.24%) Moq
14 6 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 388 (15.69%) Finance
2 351 (14.19%) Social Skills
3 99 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (3.15%) Retail
5 67 (2.71%) Public Sector
6 54 (2.18%) Advertising
7 52 (2.10%) Games
8 47 (1.90%) Law
8 47 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 47 (1.90%) Marketing
9 46 (1.86%) Legal
10 41 (1.66%) Banking
10 41 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 25 (1.01%) Automotive
13 21 (0.85%) Electronics
14 13 (0.53%) Legal Technology
15 12 (0.49%) Back Office
16 11 (0.44%) Front Office
17 9 (0.36%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,512 (61.14%) Developer
2 888 (35.91%) .NET Developer
3 481 (19.45%) Senior
4 411 (16.62%) Software Engineer
5 330 (13.34%) Software Developer
6 272 (11.00%) Lead
7 230 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 208 (8.41%) C# Developer
9 182 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 176 (7.12%) .NET Software Engineer
11 167 (6.75%) C# .NET Developer
12 157 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 151 (6.11%) C# Software Engineer
14 135 (5.46%) Lead Developer
15 127 (5.14%) .NET Software Developer
16 109 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
17 102 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 87 (3.52%) Architect
19 78 (3.15%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 75 (3.03%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 746 (30.17%) .NET Core
2 673 (27.21%) ASP.NET
3 517 (20.91%) ASP.NET Core
4 417 (16.86%) React
5 344 (13.91%) CSS
6 342 (13.83%) HTML
7 300 (12.13%) AngularJS
8 262 (10.59%) Blazor
9 256 (10.35%) RESTful
10 251 (10.15%) Entity Framework
11 250 (10.11%) .NET Framework
12 244 (9.87%) Vue
13 233 (9.42%) Node.js
14 190 (7.68%) ASP.NET Web API
15 188 (7.60%) REST
16 134 (5.42%) ML.NET
17 98 (3.96%) LINQ
18 65 (2.63%) JSON
19 64 (2.59%) jQuery
20 52 (2.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 158 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 139 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 97 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 88 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 79 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.95%) Mobile App
7 56 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.33%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.05%) Legacy Code
10 23 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 22 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 21 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 20 (0.81%) Digital TV
13 20 (0.81%) Management Information System
14 17 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 17 (0.69%) iPhone
14 17 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.65%) Client/Server
15 16 (0.65%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.36%) Windows
2 33 (1.33%) Android
3 27 (1.09%) Linux
4 26 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.49%) VMS
6 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.081%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (35.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 799 (32.31%) Agile
3 657 (26.57%) Software Engineering
4 608 (24.59%) CI/CD
4 608 (24.59%) DevOps
5 434 (17.55%) Microservices
6 382 (15.45%) AI
7 288 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 228 (9.22%) Mentoring
10 197 (7.97%) Machine Learning
11 196 (7.93%) SDLC
12 183 (7.40%) Test Automation
13 166 (6.71%) TDD
14 165 (6.67%) Scrum
15 159 (6.43%) Multithreading
16 147 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
17 135 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
17 135 (5.46%) Clean Code
18 134 (5.42%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,845 (74.61%) C#
2 954 (38.58%) SQL
3 547 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 360 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 210 (8.49%) Python
6 151 (6.11%) Java
7 85 (3.44%) C++
8 84 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 58 (2.35%) PHP
10 51 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.78%) VB.NET
12 43 (1.74%) Bicep
13 28 (1.13%) C
14 22 (0.89%) Bash
15 20 (0.81%) VB
16 15 (0.61%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
19 10 (0.40%) Go
20 9 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 207 (8.37%) Degree
2 93 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 86 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 22 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.32%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.12%) MBA
12 3 (0.12%) PhD
13 2 (0.081%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.081%) CSQA
13 2 (0.081%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.46%) QA
2 62 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 21 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.77%) GDPR
5 15 (0.61%) WCAG
6 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 5 (0.20%) NCSC
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.081%) ITGC
11 2 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 298 (12.05%) Docker
2 17 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.53%) Firmware
4 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 283 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.57%) Terraform
3 14 (0.57%) Grafana
4 9 (0.36%) Ansible
4 9 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.12%) Kibana
6 2 (0.081%) MIIS
7 1 (0.040%) Consul
7 1 (0.040%) MOM
7 1 (0.040%) Packer
7 1 (0.040%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.040%) Puppet
Vendors
1 809 (32.71%) Microsoft
2 59 (2.39%) Google
3 50 (2.02%) Facebook
4 35 (1.42%) Oracle
5 29 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.13%) Adobe
6 28 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 19 (0.77%) YouTube
8 18 (0.73%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.65%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.49%) Databricks
10 12 (0.49%) iManage
11 11 (0.44%) Apple
11 11 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.44%) Sony
11 11 (0.44%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.40%) Intapp
13 8 (0.32%) Aderant
13 8 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.32%) VMware