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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -46 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,620 1,623 4,191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 3.79% 6.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.15% 21.46% 29.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 1,213 2,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £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 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 10,851 7,563 14,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.55% 17.66% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,918 4,995 9,257
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
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 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 23 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 23 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 +47 688 £60,000 - 258
North of England -1 602 £56,500 -5.83% 315
London -25 542 £80,000 - 588
Midlands +23 352 £60,000 +9.09% 180
North West -17 267 £60,000 -4.00% 201
East of England +26 216 £60,000 +14.29% 115
South West 0 195 £55,000 +4.76% 75
West Midlands -4 187 £57,500 +4.55% 96
North East +8 182 £57,500 +32.56% 43
East Midlands +45 165 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Yorkshire 0 153 £55,000 -8.33% 74
.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 67 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.76%) IIS
3 29 (1.11%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 14 (0.53%) 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 5 (0.19%) CICS
9 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.11%) JBoss
11 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.53%) 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%) 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%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.038%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.038%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (52.14%) Azure
2 476 (18.17%) AWS
3 458 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
4 257 (9.81%) GitHub
5 187 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 182 (6.95%) SaaS
7 170 (6.49%) Azure AI
8 168 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 152 (5.80%) Serverless
10 124 (4.73%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 101 (3.85%) PowerApps
13 99 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
14 95 (3.63%) Azure Logic Apps
15 80 (3.05%) Azure Functions
16 76 (2.90%) GCP
17 68 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (1.98%) 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%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 563 (21.49%) SQL Server
2 475 (18.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 414 (15.80%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
5 105 (4.01%) Power BI
6 96 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 80 (3.05%) MySQL
7 80 (3.05%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.26%) Redis
10 27 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
12 17 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.53%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.46%) Big Data
15 11 (0.42%) GIS
15 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
15 11 (0.42%) SQLite
16 10 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 213 (8.13%) Git
2 47 (1.79%) JIRA
3 39 (1.49%) Claude Code
4 38 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.07%) NUnit
7 27 (1.03%) GitLab
8 20 (0.76%) Postman
8 20 (0.76%) Selenium
9 15 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
9 15 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
11 11 (0.42%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.31%) 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
1 451 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 388 (14.81%) Finance
3 152 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 91 (3.47%) Retail
6 75 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (2.56%) Law
8 66 (2.52%) Games
9 62 (2.37%) Legal
10 59 (2.25%) Advertising
11 58 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 52 (1.98%) Marketing
13 29 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 24 (0.92%) Automotive
15 23 (0.88%) Banking
16 21 (0.80%) Front Office
17 19 (0.73%) Electronics
18 14 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.50%) Back Office
19 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,551 (59.20%) Developer
2 936 (35.73%) .NET Developer
3 476 (18.17%) Senior
4 391 (14.92%) Software Engineer
5 295 (11.26%) Lead
6 281 (10.73%) Software Developer
7 245 (9.35%) Senior Developer
8 209 (7.98%) C# Developer
9 188 (7.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 159 (6.07%) C# .NET Developer
11 153 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
12 146 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.46%) .NET Software Engineer
14 136 (5.19%) Lead Developer
15 121 (4.62%) Senior .NET Developer
16 111 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 102 (3.89%) .NET Software Developer
18 87 (3.32%) Architect
18 87 (3.32%) Web Developer
19 79 (3.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 766 (29.24%) .NET Core
2 748 (28.55%) ASP.NET
3 573 (21.87%) ASP.NET Core
4 464 (17.71%) React
5 382 (14.58%) HTML
6 379 (14.47%) CSS
7 337 (12.86%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.30%) Entity Framework
9 295 (11.26%) RESTful
10 292 (11.15%) Blazor
11 283 (10.80%) .NET Framework
12 264 (10.08%) Vue
13 240 (9.16%) Node.js
14 232 (8.85%) REST
15 220 (8.40%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.23%) ML.NET
17 133 (5.08%) Terraform
18 107 (4.08%) LINQ
19 92 (3.51%) jQuery
20 83 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 149 (5.69%) Greenfield Project
3 148 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 141 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
5 104 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 41 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
11 38 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 26 (0.99%) Legacy Code
14 25 (0.95%) 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%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.35%) Windows
2 38 (1.45%) Windows Server
3 35 (1.34%) 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
1 926 (35.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 852 (32.52%) Agile
3 706 (26.95%) CI/CD
4 690 (26.34%) DevOps
5 683 (26.07%) Software Engineering
6 464 (17.71%) AI
7 455 (17.37%) Microservices
8 395 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (10.76%) Mentoring
10 280 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 222 (8.47%) SDLC
12 213 (8.13%) Test Automation
13 200 (7.63%) Machine Learning
14 184 (7.02%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.68%) Scrum
16 173 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 167 (6.37%) Multithreading
18 165 (6.30%) Code Quality
19 155 (5.92%) TDD
20 153 (5.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2,030 (77.48%) C#
2 1,003 (38.28%) SQL
3 611 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 366 (13.97%) TypeScript
5 232 (8.85%) Python
6 170 (6.49%) Java
7 103 (3.93%) C++
8 67 (2.56%) VB.NET
9 66 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 65 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 59 (2.25%) PHP
12 44 (1.68%) Bicep
13 27 (1.03%) C
14 22 (0.84%) Bash
15 21 (0.80%) VB
16 19 (0.73%) VBA
17 18 (0.69%) Go
18 17 (0.65%) COBOL
19 13 (0.50%) JCL
20 11 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 242 (9.24%) Degree
2 122 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 100 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 80 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 24 (0.92%) 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
1 162 (6.18%) QA
2 71 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) 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
1 324 (12.37%) Docker
2 25 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) 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
1 292 (11.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.50%) Grafana
4 12 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.076%) Bosun
5 2 (0.076%) Control-M
5 2 (0.076%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.038%) Argo
6 1 (0.038%) Kibana
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 938 (35.80%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.67%) Google
3 52 (1.98%) Facebook
4 48 (1.83%) Oracle
5 36 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 23 (0.88%) Adobe
7 21 (0.80%) YouTube
8 19 (0.73%) VMware
9 16 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.57%) Databricks
11 11 (0.42%) iManage
11 11 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.42%) Xamarin
12 10 (0.38%) Apple
12 10 (0.38%) Intapp
12 10 (0.38%) Sony
12 10 (0.38%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.34%) DevExpress
13 9 (0.34%) SAP
13 9 (0.34%) Splunk