.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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -46 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,616 1,633 4,282
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 3.79% 6.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.11% 21.55% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,287 1,219 2,912
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £104,500 £92,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10,850 7,576 14,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 17.57% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 5,012 9,370
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -3.70%

.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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +43 685 £60,000 - 276
North of England -1 603 £55,750 -7.08% 305
London -28 541 £80,000 - 764
Midlands +29 352 £60,000 +9.09% 179
North West -14 268 £60,000 -4.00% 194
East of England +30 214 £60,000 +14.29% 127
South West +2 194 £55,000 +4.76% 67
West Midlands -10 187 £57,500 +4.55% 94
North East +8 181 £57,000 +25.27% 43
East Midlands +44 165 £60,000 +9.09% 85
Yorkshire +2 154 £55,000 -8.33% 71
.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 65 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.76%) IIS
3 29 (1.11%) CMS
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
5 14 (0.54%) Umbraco
6 13 (0.50%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.34%) Apache
8 8 (0.31%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) DNN
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.076%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.038%) Eikon
6 1 (0.038%) Endur
6 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.038%) Magento
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,364 (52.14%) Azure
2 475 (18.16%) AWS
3 459 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
4 259 (9.90%) GitHub
5 184 (7.03%) Power Platform
6 183 (7.00%) SaaS
7 170 (6.50%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 150 (5.73%) Serverless
10 123 (4.70%) Power Automate
11 111 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 100 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 100 (3.82%) PowerApps
13 97 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
14 92 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
15 79 (3.02%) Azure Functions
16 74 (2.83%) GCP
17 68 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
18 59 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
19 51 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.59%) Internet
2 18 (0.69%) Firewall
3 11 (0.42%) VLAN
4 10 (0.38%) Wireless
5 9 (0.34%) HTTP
5 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) Intranet
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
9 2 (0.076%) LTE
9 2 (0.076%) Modbus
9 2 (0.076%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (21.48%) SQL Server
2 472 (18.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.79%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
5 102 (3.90%) Power BI
6 97 (3.71%) Relational Database
7 80 (3.06%) MySQL
8 79 (3.02%) NoSQL
9 71 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.30%) Redis
11 25 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Big Data
17 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.42%) SQLite
18 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (0.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 214 (8.18%) Git
2 47 (1.80%) JIRA
3 40 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.49%) Claude Code
5 34 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.07%) GitLab
6 28 (1.07%) NUnit
7 20 (0.76%) Postman
7 20 (0.76%) Selenium
8 15 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 12 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Moq
12 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.27%) MSI
13 7 (0.27%) Snyk
14 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 453 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 388 (14.83%) Finance
3 154 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.86%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.48%) Retail
6 76 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.52%) Law
8 65 (2.48%) Games
9 61 (2.33%) Legal
10 59 (2.26%) Advertising
10 59 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 52 (1.99%) Marketing
12 29 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.92%) Automotive
13 24 (0.92%) Banking
14 21 (0.80%) Front Office
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
16 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.50%) Back Office
17 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,544 (59.02%) Developer
2 933 (35.67%) .NET Developer
3 472 (18.04%) Senior
4 392 (14.98%) Software Engineer
5 293 (11.20%) Lead
6 279 (10.67%) Software Developer
7 245 (9.37%) Senior Developer
8 210 (8.03%) C# Developer
9 189 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 160 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
11 155 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
12 145 (5.54%) .NET Software Engineer
13 144 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 134 (5.12%) Lead Developer
15 121 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
16 114 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 100 (3.82%) .NET Software Developer
18 87 (3.33%) Web Developer
19 86 (3.29%) Architect
20 79 (3.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 763 (29.17%) .NET Core
2 745 (28.48%) ASP.NET
3 572 (21.87%) ASP.NET Core
4 466 (17.81%) React
5 380 (14.53%) HTML
6 377 (14.41%) CSS
7 338 (12.92%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.31%) RESTful
9 295 (11.28%) Entity Framework
10 291 (11.12%) Blazor
11 283 (10.82%) .NET Framework
12 261 (9.98%) Vue
13 241 (9.21%) Node.js
14 235 (8.98%) REST
15 219 (8.37%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.24%) ML.NET
17 132 (5.05%) Terraform
18 107 (4.09%) LINQ
19 92 (3.52%) jQuery
20 82 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 151 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
4 140 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 50 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 48 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
11 38 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.22%) Management Information System
13 26 (0.99%) Legacy Code
14 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 24 (0.92%) Hedge funds
16 23 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 22 (0.84%) Data Structures
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
18 19 (0.73%) IoT
19 17 (0.65%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 113 (4.32%) Windows
2 37 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.26%) Linux
4 30 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.038%) Unix
7 1 (0.038%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (35.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 851 (32.53%) Agile
3 713 (27.26%) CI/CD
4 691 (26.41%) DevOps
5 683 (26.11%) Software Engineering
6 467 (17.85%) AI
7 454 (17.35%) Microservices
8 398 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 281 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 222 (8.49%) SDLC
12 214 (8.18%) Test Automation
13 200 (7.65%) Machine Learning
14 182 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
15 176 (6.73%) Scrum
16 172 (6.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 166 (6.35%) Multithreading
18 164 (6.27%) Code Quality
19 155 (5.93%) TDD
20 153 (5.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,028 (77.52%) C#
2 1,001 (38.26%) SQL
3 609 (23.28%) JavaScript
4 366 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 230 (8.79%) Python
6 168 (6.42%) Java
7 102 (3.90%) C++
8 68 (2.60%) VB.NET
9 65 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 59 (2.26%) PHP
11 43 (1.64%) Bicep
12 27 (1.03%) C
13 22 (0.84%) Bash
14 21 (0.80%) VB
15 19 (0.73%) COBOL
16 18 (0.69%) VBA
17 16 (0.61%) Go
18 15 (0.57%) JCL
19 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 244 (9.33%) Degree
2 124 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 98 (3.75%) Security Cleared
4 79 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.11%) OCP
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.15%) QA
2 72 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.69%) WCAG
5 16 (0.61%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.11%) NIST
9 2 (0.076%) Basel III
9 2 (0.076%) PMO
10 1 (0.038%) GRC
10 1 (0.038%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.038%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (12.42%) Docker
2 25 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.038%) HDFS
6 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 290 (11.09%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.54%) Grafana
2 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.076%) Bosun
4 2 (0.076%) Control-M
4 2 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.038%) Argo
5 1 (0.038%) Kibana
5 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 933 (35.67%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.71%) Google
3 52 (1.99%) Facebook
4 49 (1.87%) Oracle
5 36 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 22 (0.84%) Adobe
7 21 (0.80%) YouTube
8 19 (0.73%) VMware
9 17 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.57%) Databricks
11 10 (0.38%) Apple
11 10 (0.38%) iManage
11 10 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.38%) Sony
11 10 (0.38%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.34%) Broadcom
12 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
12 9 (0.34%) SAP
12 9 (0.34%) Splunk