.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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 57 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -35 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,332 1,859 6,901
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.80% 4.69% 7.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.81% 23.83% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,120 1,378 5,832
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
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 8,698 7,802 18,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 19.67% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 5,241 14,808
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,271 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.45% -11.11%

.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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +19 604 £57,500 - 126
London -23 543 £80,000 - 159
North of England -3 527 £60,000 - 113
Midlands 0 294 £55,000 - 61
North West 0 279 £62,500 +13.64% 65
South West +12 181 £55,000 +4.76% 39
East of England +8 161 £65,000 +23.81% 41
West Midlands -18 150 £55,000 +2.44% 39
East Midlands +20 144 £55,000 - 22
North East +1 127 £59,000 +7.27% 31
Yorkshire -11 121 £58,750 -9.62% 19
.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 60 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.07%) CMS
3 24 (1.03%) IIS
4 18 (0.77%) Confluence
5 16 (0.69%) ColdFusion
6 13 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.30%) Apache
8 7 (0.30%) JBoss
9 6 (0.26%) WordPress
10 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.17%) nginx
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.043%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.043%) Kentico
13 1 (0.043%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.086%) Shopify
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.043%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.043%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (47.98%) Azure
2 345 (14.79%) AWS
3 339 (14.54%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (10.12%) SaaS
5 162 (6.95%) GitHub
6 147 (6.30%) Power Platform
7 125 (5.36%) Serverless
8 112 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 100 (4.29%) Azure AI
10 95 (4.07%) GitHub Copilot
11 94 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 87 (3.73%) Power Automate
13 83 (3.56%) PowerApps
14 80 (3.43%) Azure Functions
15 78 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
17 54 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
18 53 (2.27%) Azure AKS
19 52 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
20 49 (2.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.66%) Internet
2 9 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.34%) Firewall
4 6 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.21%) DHCP
5 5 (0.21%) DNS
5 5 (0.21%) LAN
5 5 (0.21%) LTE
5 5 (0.21%) WAN
6 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 4 (0.17%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 2 (0.086%) Modbus
9 1 (0.043%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.043%) HTTP
9 1 (0.043%) MPLS
9 1 (0.043%) Profibus
9 1 (0.043%) SSL
9 1 (0.043%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (19.51%) SQL Server
2 326 (13.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 266 (11.41%) MongoDB
4 94 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
5 93 (3.99%) Power BI
6 62 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 55 (2.36%) MySQL
8 40 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
11 29 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (0.77%) Redis
13 12 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.51%) Db2
14 11 (0.47%) GIS
15 7 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 136 (5.83%) Git
2 48 (2.06%) JIRA
3 32 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 28 (1.20%) Selenium
5 27 (1.16%) Postman
6 16 (0.69%) GitLab
6 16 (0.69%) SpecFlow
7 15 (0.64%) Jenkins
8 14 (0.60%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.56%) NUnit
9 13 (0.56%) SoapUI
9 13 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.56%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.30%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 375 (16.08%) Finance
2 325 (13.94%) Social Skills
3 96 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (2.83%) Retail
5 63 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 46 (1.97%) Banking
7 43 (1.84%) Law
8 41 (1.76%) Manufacturing
9 40 (1.72%) Legal
10 39 (1.67%) Games
11 38 (1.63%) Advertising
12 36 (1.54%) Marketing
13 34 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 24 (1.03%) Automotive
16 20 (0.86%) Electronics
17 12 (0.51%) Back Office
18 11 (0.47%) Legal Technology
19 10 (0.43%) Aviation
19 10 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,387 (59.48%) Developer
2 757 (32.46%) .NET Developer
3 486 (20.84%) Senior
4 400 (17.15%) Software Engineer
5 350 (15.01%) Software Developer
6 256 (10.98%) Lead
7 243 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 206 (8.83%) C# Developer
9 192 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 184 (7.89%) .NET Software Engineer
11 165 (7.08%) C# .NET Developer
12 151 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 148 (6.35%) C# Software Engineer
14 133 (5.70%) .NET Software Developer
15 128 (5.49%) Lead Developer
16 111 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
17 108 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 85 (3.64%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 82 (3.52%) Architect
20 74 (3.17%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 538 (23.07%) ASP.NET
3 372 (15.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 360 (15.44%) React
5 300 (12.86%) HTML
6 296 (12.69%) CSS
7 244 (10.46%) AngularJS
8 231 (9.91%) .NET Framework
9 205 (8.79%) Blazor
10 204 (8.75%) RESTful
11 202 (8.66%) Entity Framework
12 188 (8.06%) Vue
13 178 (7.63%) Node.js
14 175 (7.50%) REST
15 141 (6.05%) ASP.NET Web API
16 89 (3.82%) ML.NET
17 70 (3.00%) LINQ
18 58 (2.49%) JSON
19 57 (2.44%) jQuery
20 47 (2.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 114 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
3 86 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 81 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 74 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 61 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 25 (1.07%) Legacy Code
11 20 (0.86%) Low-Code
12 18 (0.77%) AI Agents
13 17 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.73%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.73%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.69%) Sports Betting
15 15 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (0.64%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.60%) PropTech
17 13 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.34%) Windows
2 26 (1.11%) Android
2 26 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 25 (1.07%) Linux
4 12 (0.51%) VMS
5 9 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.086%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
2 687 (29.46%) Agile
3 635 (27.23%) Software Engineering
4 543 (23.28%) CI/CD
5 531 (22.77%) DevOps
6 364 (15.61%) Microservices
7 332 (14.24%) AI
8 272 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
9 243 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 214 (9.18%) Mentoring
11 190 (8.15%) SDLC
12 180 (7.72%) Test Automation
13 151 (6.48%) Machine Learning
14 142 (6.09%) Scrum
15 141 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
16 140 (6.00%) TDD
17 135 (5.79%) Containerisation
18 133 (5.70%) Clean Code
19 122 (5.23%) Fintech
20 117 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,689 (72.43%) C#
2 818 (35.08%) SQL
3 484 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 305 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 197 (8.45%) Python
6 145 (6.22%) Java
7 80 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 78 (3.34%) C++
9 56 (2.40%) PHP
10 44 (1.89%) VB.NET
11 43 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 40 (1.72%) Bicep
13 23 (0.99%) C
14 20 (0.86%) Bash
14 20 (0.86%) VB
15 15 (0.64%) Apex Code
15 15 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.39%) Go
17 9 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 206 (8.83%) Degree
2 86 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.83%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 7 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.13%) PhD
15 2 (0.086%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.086%) CSQA
15 2 (0.086%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.10%) QA
2 59 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.73%) GDPR
4 16 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.34%) SLA
7 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.17%) NCSC
8 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.086%) ITGC
10 2 (0.086%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 238 (10.21%) Docker
2 16 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.51%) Firmware
4 7 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 229 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 108 (4.63%) Terraform
3 13 (0.56%) Grafana
4 6 (0.26%) Ansible
4 6 (0.26%) Kibana
5 5 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.086%) MIIS
7 1 (0.043%) CASB
7 1 (0.043%) Consul
7 1 (0.043%) MOM
7 1 (0.043%) Packer
7 1 (0.043%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.043%) Puppet
Vendors
1 639 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 39 (1.67%) Google
3 34 (1.46%) Facebook
3 34 (1.46%) Oracle
4 30 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 27 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 26 (1.11%) Adobe
7 21 (0.90%) Xamarin
8 16 (0.69%) ServiceNow
9 13 (0.56%) YouTube
10 12 (0.51%) Databricks
11 11 (0.47%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.39%) iManage
13 8 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.34%) VMware
14 7 (0.30%) Apple
14 7 (0.30%) IBM
14 7 (0.30%) Intapp
14 7 (0.30%) Sony
14 7 (0.30%) Yahoo!