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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -47 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,569 3,719 3,877
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.60% 6.10% 8.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.94% 29.84% 29.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 2,545 3,480
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,100 £90,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 6,841 12,464 13,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.70% 20.45% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 7,499 10,735
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,553 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,300 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.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 November 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 November 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
North of England -23 476 £60,000 +9.09% 188
London -30 432 £80,000 +6.67% 274
North West -9 325 £65,000 +18.18% 119
South East -56 280 £57,500 -4.17% 289
Midlands -65 164 £55,000 - 101
West Midlands -34 112 £55,000 - 58
Yorkshire -46 104 £60,000 +14.29% 35
East of England -41 98 £57,500 +15.00% 68
South West -62 78 £52,500 -4.55% 61
East Midlands -63 52 £55,000 +10.00% 43
North East -21 47 £47,500 -20.83% 36
.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 69 (4.40%) IIS
2 35 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.04%) CMS
4 22 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.21%) Confluence
6 11 (0.70%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.32%) nginx
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.19%) JBoss
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Apache
9 2 (0.13%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.064%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.064%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.19%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 72 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 5 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
4 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.25%) Sage 1000
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.064%) Carpe Diem
6 1 (0.064%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.064%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.064%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.064%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.064%) Magento
6 1 (0.064%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.064%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.064%) Shopify
6 1 (0.064%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (66.09%) Azure
2 523 (33.33%) AWS
3 270 (17.21%) GCP
4 254 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
5 163 (10.39%) SaaS
6 132 (8.41%) Power Platform
7 111 (7.07%) Serverless
8 99 (6.31%) GitHub
9 94 (5.99%) Power Automate
10 89 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
11 74 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 71 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 67 (4.27%) PowerApps
14 56 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 55 (3.51%) Azure Functions
16 50 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.36%) Entra ID
18 34 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
19 29 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
20 28 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.83%) Internet
1 13 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 11 (0.70%) DNS
3 10 (0.64%) DHCP
3 10 (0.64%) VoIP
4 7 (0.45%) Ethernet
4 7 (0.45%) Firewall
4 7 (0.45%) MQTT
4 7 (0.45%) SAN
4 7 (0.45%) VPN
4 7 (0.45%) WPA
5 6 (0.38%) Modbus
6 5 (0.32%) HTTP
6 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 5 (0.32%) SSL
6 5 (0.32%) WAN
7 2 (0.13%) Broadband
7 2 (0.13%) NAS
7 2 (0.13%) VLAN
8 1 (0.064%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (25.69%) SQL Server
2 92 (5.86%) MongoDB
3 76 (4.84%) MySQL
4 74 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 68 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 57 (3.63%) Relational Database
7 54 (3.44%) Power BI
7 54 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (3.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 44 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
10 34 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (1.34%) Redis
12 19 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.76%) Tableau
15 9 (0.57%) Data Hub
15 9 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.57%) SQL CLR
16 8 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 171 (10.90%) Git
2 71 (4.53%) JIRA
3 35 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 34 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 33 (2.10%) Visual Studio
6 32 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 29 (1.85%) Postman
8 28 (1.78%) Selenium
9 23 (1.47%) Jenkins
10 17 (1.08%) GitLab
11 16 (1.02%) NUnit
11 16 (1.02%) SoapUI
11 16 (1.02%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.83%) Storybook
13 12 (0.76%) SpecFlow
14 10 (0.64%) MSBuild
15 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.51%) MSTest
16 6 (0.38%) Jasmine
16 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 389 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 271 (17.27%) Finance
3 203 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (5.61%) Law
5 68 (4.33%) Retail
6 60 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 52 (3.31%) Banking
8 42 (2.68%) Legal
9 37 (2.36%) Back Office
10 36 (2.29%) Public Sector
11 33 (2.10%) Front Office
12 27 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.59%) Billing
14 20 (1.27%) Automotive
14 20 (1.27%) Marketing
15 17 (1.08%) Games
16 16 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (0.70%) Advertising
18 11 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 783 (49.90%) Developer
2 446 (28.43%) Senior
3 320 (20.40%) Software Engineer
4 290 (18.48%) .NET Developer
5 221 (14.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 164 (10.45%) Lead
7 162 (10.33%) C# Developer
8 155 (9.88%) Senior Developer
9 153 (9.75%) Software Developer
10 146 (9.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 68 (4.33%) C# .NET Developer
12 60 (3.82%) Architect
12 60 (3.82%) Lead Developer
13 52 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
14 50 (3.19%) .NET Software Developer
14 50 (3.19%) .NET Software Engineer
15 46 (2.93%) Analyst
15 46 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 45 (2.87%) Senior .NET Developer
17 44 (2.80%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (20.01%) React
2 299 (19.06%) .NET Core
3 274 (17.46%) ASP.NET
4 264 (16.83%) .NET Framework
5 261 (16.63%) Node.js
6 227 (14.47%) HTML
7 224 (14.28%) CSS
8 208 (13.26%) AngularJS
9 155 (9.88%) RESTful
10 136 (8.67%) Entity Framework
11 115 (7.33%) REST
12 101 (6.44%) Vue
13 87 (5.54%) Blazor
14 76 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
15 72 (4.59%) ASP.NET Web API
16 68 (4.33%) HTML5
17 61 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
17 61 (3.89%) Web Services
18 44 (2.80%) CSS3
19 43 (2.74%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 209 (13.32%) Self-Motivation
2 176 (11.22%) Cyberattack
2 176 (11.22%) Linux Command Line
3 121 (7.71%) Cloud Native
4 83 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 52 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.61%) Mobile App
9 37 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
15 15 (0.96%) Clustering
16 14 (0.89%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 13 (0.83%) IoT
18 12 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 207 (13.19%) Linux
2 84 (5.35%) Windows
3 32 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.66%) Android
5 25 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 3 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.064%) Fedora
10 1 (0.064%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (50.99%) Agile
2 527 (33.59%) Software Engineering
3 473 (30.15%) Microservices
4 471 (30.02%) DevOps
5 439 (27.98%) CI/CD
6 377 (24.03%) Mentoring
7 355 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 340 (21.67%) Scrum
9 335 (21.35%) User Experience
10 323 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 249 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 213 (13.58%) Machine Learning
13 190 (12.11%) Cloud Security
14 189 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 187 (11.92%) Data Engineering
16 167 (10.64%) MVC
17 143 (9.11%) Clean Code
18 133 (8.48%) SDLC
19 132 (8.41%) AI
20 124 (7.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (67.18%) C#
2 625 (39.83%) JavaScript
3 529 (33.72%) SQL
4 347 (22.12%) Java
5 333 (21.22%) Python
6 241 (15.36%) TypeScript
7 219 (13.96%) C++
8 192 (12.24%) Rust
9 191 (12.17%) Go
10 65 (4.14%) PowerShell
11 53 (3.38%) VB.NET
12 47 (3.00%) PHP
13 44 (2.80%) T-SQL
14 28 (1.78%) Bicep
15 25 (1.59%) Bash
16 9 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.57%) XAML
17 8 (0.51%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.38%) Swift
18 6 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 211 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 205 (13.07%) Degree
3 181 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 178 (11.34%) AWS Certified Developer
5 177 (11.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 177 (11.28%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.85%) SC Cleared
8 24 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.02%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 13 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.76%) HND
14 11 (0.70%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.51%) HNC
15 8 (0.51%) ISEB
16 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
17 6 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (5.86%) QA
2 29 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.53%) GDPR
4 16 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (0.51%) WCAG
7 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.25%) GRC
9 3 (0.19%) HL7
9 3 (0.19%) SLA
10 2 (0.13%) ITGC
11 1 (0.064%) COBIT
11 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.064%) SOC 2
System Software
1 174 (11.09%) Docker
2 28 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.13%) KVM
6 2 (0.13%) Squid
6 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Xen
7 1 (0.064%) Firmware
7 1 (0.064%) HDFS
7 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 127 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.37%) Terraform
3 18 (1.15%) Grafana
4 12 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.45%) Ansible
7 6 (0.38%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Argo
9 2 (0.13%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.13%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 400 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.80%) Oracle
3 34 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 23 (1.47%) Xamarin
5 20 (1.27%) VMware
6 19 (1.21%) Google
6 19 (1.21%) Guidewire
7 17 (1.08%) Sage
8 15 (0.96%) Databricks
9 14 (0.89%) DevExpress
10 13 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.70%) Siebel
12 9 (0.57%) IBM
13 8 (0.51%) New Relic
14 7 (0.45%) Facebook
14 7 (0.45%) IFS
14 7 (0.45%) Infor
14 7 (0.45%) Telerik
14 7 (0.45%) Trayport
14 7 (0.45%) YouTube