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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -56 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,353 3,478 3,535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 6.07% 7.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.95% 28.79% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 2,379 3,185
10th Percentile £39,250 £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 £80,313 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -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 6,164 12,079 11,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.07% 21.09% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,305 9,919
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,450
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 £110,556 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

.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 2 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 2 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 -41 412 £80,000 +3.23% 169
North of England -41 318 £60,000 +9.09% 184
South East -55 285 £60,000 - 249
Midlands -53 159 £58,500 +6.36% 85
North West -34 154 £65,000 +18.18% 123
Yorkshire -33 118 £53,750 +1.42% 36
West Midlands -39 105 £57,500 +4.55% 44
South West -64 80 £55,000 - 55
East of England -61 72 £60,000 +20.00% 51
East Midlands -49 54 £66,000 +32.00% 39
North East -19 46 £47,500 -20.83% 26
.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 54 (3.99%) IIS
2 36 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.85%) CMS
4 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.18%) Confluence
6 9 (0.67%) JBoss
6 9 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
8 6 (0.44%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) Kentico
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SAS
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 56 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.074%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.074%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.074%) Sage 1000
6 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 816 (60.31%) Azure
2 328 (24.24%) AWS
3 231 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (12.49%) SaaS
5 128 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 103 (7.61%) Serverless
7 98 (7.24%) GitHub
8 88 (6.50%) GCP
9 76 (5.62%) Power Automate
10 65 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 64 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 58 (4.29%) PowerApps
14 53 (3.92%) Azure Functions
15 46 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.96%) Entra ID
16 40 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (2.00%) Azure App Service
18 25 (1.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.03%) DNS
2 12 (0.89%) DHCP
2 12 (0.89%) VoIP
3 11 (0.81%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Internet
3 11 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.67%) VPN
5 7 (0.52%) SAN
5 7 (0.52%) WPA
6 5 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.37%) HTTP
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
6 5 (0.37%) SSL
6 5 (0.37%) WAN
7 4 (0.30%) Modbus
7 4 (0.30%) MQTT
8 3 (0.22%) Intranet
9 2 (0.15%) NAS
9 2 (0.15%) VLAN
10 1 (0.074%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (29.64%) SQL Server
2 79 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 72 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 62 (4.58%) MySQL
5 53 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 50 (3.70%) Power BI
7 48 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 42 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (1.85%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.55%) Redis
13 12 (0.89%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.67%) Tableau
16 7 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
17 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
17 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 145 (10.72%) Git
2 62 (4.58%) JIRA
3 34 (2.51%) Selenium
4 33 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 29 (2.14%) Postman
6 28 (2.07%) Visual Studio
7 26 (1.92%) Jenkins
8 24 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
9 21 (1.55%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.33%) SoapUI
10 18 (1.33%) WebDriver
11 14 (1.03%) GitLab
12 12 (0.89%) Storybook
13 10 (0.74%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.67%) NUnit
15 8 (0.59%) MSTest
16 6 (0.44%) git-flow
16 6 (0.44%) MSBuild
17 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.30%) Artifactory
General
1 360 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 253 (18.70%) Finance
3 74 (5.47%) Law
4 54 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.10%) Retail
6 41 (3.03%) Banking
7 39 (2.88%) Legal
7 39 (2.88%) Public Sector
8 27 (2.00%) Front Office
9 25 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.63%) Marketing
12 21 (1.55%) Back Office
12 21 (1.55%) Billing
13 17 (1.26%) Games
14 13 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.81%) Automotive
15 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.74%) Aviation
17 9 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 762 (56.32%) Developer
2 290 (21.43%) Senior
3 284 (20.99%) .NET Developer
4 178 (13.16%) Software Developer
5 169 (12.49%) Lead
6 165 (12.20%) C# Developer
7 162 (11.97%) Software Engineer
8 155 (11.46%) Senior Developer
9 135 (9.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (4.58%) C# .NET Developer
11 58 (4.29%) .NET Software Developer
12 57 (4.21%) Lead Developer
13 56 (4.14%) .NET Software Engineer
14 53 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 50 (3.70%) Architect
16 48 (3.55%) Senior .NET Developer
17 46 (3.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 45 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
19 44 (3.25%) Analyst
20 39 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (23.73%) .NET Core
2 304 (22.47%) React
3 258 (19.07%) ASP.NET
4 243 (17.96%) .NET Framework
5 200 (14.78%) HTML
6 191 (14.12%) AngularJS
6 191 (14.12%) CSS
7 136 (10.05%) RESTful
8 124 (9.16%) Entity Framework
9 114 (8.43%) REST
10 94 (6.95%) Blazor
11 83 (6.13%) ASP.NET MVC
12 82 (6.06%) Node.js
13 81 (5.99%) Vue
14 72 (5.32%) ASP.NET Web API
15 57 (4.21%) ASP.NET Core
16 51 (3.77%) HTML5
17 48 (3.55%) Web Services
18 42 (3.10%) SOAP
19 35 (2.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 41 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.03%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.96%) Clustering
15 12 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.89%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (5.84%) Windows
2 26 (1.92%) Linux
3 25 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 24 (1.77%) Android
4 24 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.52%) VMS
6 7 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.074%) Fedora
8 1 (0.074%) Solaris
8 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (43.90%) Agile
2 446 (32.96%) DevOps
3 423 (31.26%) CI/CD
4 386 (28.53%) Software Engineering
5 349 (25.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 292 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (20.92%) Microservices
8 239 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 189 (13.97%) Mentoring
10 157 (11.60%) MVC
11 149 (11.01%) Scrum
12 146 (10.79%) User Experience
13 138 (10.20%) AI
13 138 (10.20%) Clean Code
14 122 (9.02%) SDLC
15 117 (8.65%) Computer Science
16 115 (8.50%) TDD
17 113 (8.35%) Containerisation
17 113 (8.35%) Test Automation
18 109 (8.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,005 (74.28%) C#
2 474 (35.03%) SQL
3 415 (30.67%) JavaScript
4 232 (17.15%) TypeScript
5 156 (11.53%) Java
6 126 (9.31%) Python
7 58 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.96%) PHP
8 40 (2.96%) T-SQL
9 38 (2.81%) C++
9 38 (2.81%) VB.NET
10 31 (2.29%) Bicep
11 22 (1.63%) Bash
12 16 (1.18%) Rust
13 15 (1.11%) Go
14 9 (0.67%) XAML
15 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.52%) VB
17 5 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 214 (15.82%) Degree
2 85 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.29%) SC Cleared
5 28 (2.07%) ISTQB
6 18 (1.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 18 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.74%) HND
10 10 (0.74%) ISEB
11 9 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.44%) HNC
14 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.30%) MCSE
16 3 (0.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.65%) QA
2 34 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.40%) GDPR
4 10 (0.74%) WCAG
5 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.30%) GRC
6 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.074%) COBIT
9 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (11.97%) Docker
2 30 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) HDFS
7 1 (0.074%) Squid
Systems Management
1 117 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 96 (7.10%) Terraform
3 15 (1.11%) Grafana
4 11 (0.81%) Ansible
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.30%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) Control-M
8 1 (0.074%) Kibana
Vendors
1 347 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 35 (2.59%) Oracle
3 30 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.40%) Xamarin
5 18 (1.33%) Google
6 16 (1.18%) Databricks
7 15 (1.11%) Guidewire
7 15 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.03%) Sage
9 12 (0.89%) VMware
10 11 (0.81%) New Relic
10 11 (0.81%) Telerik
11 10 (0.74%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.67%) Apple
13 7 (0.52%) Adobe
13 7 (0.52%) Facebook
13 7 (0.52%) Freshdesk
13 7 (0.52%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.52%) Syncfusion
13 7 (0.52%) YouTube