.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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 63 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -38 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,679 1,789 4,654
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.78% 4.09% 6.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.86% 22.21% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 1,337 3,577
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,823 £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 £96,250 £102,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -5.29%

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 10,775 8,055 14,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.18% 18.41% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,030 5,396 10,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%

.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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +36 708 £60,000 +4.35% 75
North of England 0 628 £57,500 -4.17% 82
London -28 540 £80,000 - 162
Midlands +24 348 £57,500 +4.55% 61
North West -8 278 £60,000 - 39
East of England +28 219 £65,000 +30.00% 33
South West +12 211 £55,000 +4.76% 36
West Midlands -5 185 £60,000 +9.09% 26
North East +4 181 £56,500 +31.78% 18
Yorkshire +8 169 £55,000 -8.33% 27
East Midlands +45 163 £55,000 - 34
.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 66 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.57%) IIS
3 32 (1.19%) CMS
4 24 (0.90%) Confluence
5 16 (0.60%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.56%) Umbraco
7 9 (0.34%) WordPress
8 8 (0.30%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.26%) Apache
10 5 (0.19%) CICS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.11%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.11%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Kentico
12 3 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.075%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.037%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.037%) Eikon
7 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.037%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.037%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,411 (52.67%) Azure
2 467 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
3 465 (17.36%) AWS
4 253 (9.44%) GitHub
5 208 (7.76%) SaaS
6 190 (7.09%) Power Platform
7 171 (6.38%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 142 (5.30%) Serverless
10 121 (4.52%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 109 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 103 (3.84%) PowerApps
14 102 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
15 97 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (2.95%) Azure Functions
17 78 (2.91%) GCP
18 67 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
19 56 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
20 55 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.51%) Internet
2 11 (0.41%) Firewall
3 9 (0.34%) HTTP
3 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.22%) SNMP
6 5 (0.19%) DHCP
6 5 (0.19%) DNS
6 5 (0.19%) LAN
6 5 (0.19%) WAN
7 4 (0.15%) Intranet
7 4 (0.15%) VLAN
8 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.11%) Modbus
8 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 3 (0.11%) Wireless
9 2 (0.075%) LTE
10 1 (0.037%) Profibus
10 1 (0.037%) SSL
10 1 (0.037%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (20.87%) SQL Server
2 497 (18.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 426 (15.90%) MongoDB
4 164 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 116 (4.33%) Power BI
6 82 (3.06%) MySQL
7 81 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 76 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 61 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (1.12%) Redis
12 29 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.45%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.45%) GIS
15 11 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.37%) Db2
16 10 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
16 10 (0.37%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 213 (7.95%) Git
2 48 (1.79%) JIRA
3 39 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.16%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.12%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.08%) NUnit
7 25 (0.93%) GitLab
7 25 (0.93%) Selenium
8 23 (0.86%) Postman
9 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.30%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.26%) Moq
14 7 (0.26%) MSI
14 7 (0.26%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 431 (16.09%) Social Skills
2 395 (14.74%) Finance
3 146 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (3.47%) Retail
5 92 (3.43%) Public Sector
6 73 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (2.72%) Law
7 64 (2.39%) Games
8 62 (2.31%) Advertising
8 62 (2.31%) Legal
9 57 (2.13%) Marketing
10 55 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 24 (0.90%) Automotive
12 24 (0.90%) Banking
13 19 (0.71%) Electronics
14 17 (0.63%) Front Office
15 14 (0.52%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.45%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,609 (60.06%) Developer
2 951 (35.50%) .NET Developer
3 496 (18.51%) Senior
4 406 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 324 (12.09%) Software Developer
6 313 (11.68%) Lead
7 261 (9.74%) Senior Developer
8 209 (7.80%) C# Developer
9 190 (7.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 158 (5.90%) C# .NET Developer
11 156 (5.82%) C# Software Engineer
12 149 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
13 146 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 145 (5.41%) Lead Developer
15 122 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
16 117 (4.37%) Senior .NET Developer
17 114 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 97 (3.62%) Architect
19 92 (3.43%) Web Developer
20 80 (2.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 792 (29.56%) .NET Core
2 775 (28.93%) ASP.NET
3 588 (21.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 452 (16.87%) React
5 386 (14.41%) HTML
6 383 (14.30%) CSS
7 331 (12.36%) AngularJS
8 301 (11.24%) Entity Framework
9 299 (11.16%) Blazor
10 295 (11.01%) RESTful
11 294 (10.97%) .NET Framework
12 267 (9.97%) Vue
13 264 (9.85%) Node.js
14 224 (8.36%) ASP.NET Web API
15 221 (8.25%) REST
16 145 (5.41%) ML.NET
17 133 (4.96%) Terraform
18 109 (4.07%) LINQ
19 80 (2.99%) JSON
20 76 (2.84%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 184 (6.87%) Cloud Native
2 152 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
3 141 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 130 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.43%) Mobile App
8 43 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
9 41 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 38 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 33 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 31 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.12%) Legacy Code
14 24 (0.90%) Hedge funds
15 21 (0.78%) Low-Code
16 20 (0.75%) Digital TV
17 18 (0.67%) Algorithms
17 18 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 17 (0.63%) iPhone
19 16 (0.60%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.07%) Windows
2 38 (1.42%) Linux
3 34 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 30 (1.12%) Android
5 4 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.15%) VMS
5 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.037%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (35.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 875 (32.66%) Agile
3 703 (26.24%) DevOps
4 698 (26.05%) Software Engineering
5 694 (25.91%) CI/CD
6 479 (17.88%) Microservices
7 438 (16.35%) AI
8 377 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
9 286 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 275 (10.27%) Mentoring
11 222 (8.29%) SDLC
12 212 (7.91%) Machine Learning
13 207 (7.73%) Test Automation
14 187 (6.98%) Scrum
15 183 (6.83%) Technical Leadership
16 174 (6.49%) Multithreading
17 171 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 168 (6.27%) TDD
19 155 (5.79%) Code Quality
20 154 (5.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 2,030 (75.77%) C#
2 1,016 (37.92%) SQL
3 601 (22.43%) JavaScript
4 375 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 235 (8.77%) Python
6 173 (6.46%) Java
7 94 (3.51%) C++
8 79 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 67 (2.50%) PHP
10 64 (2.39%) T-SQL
10 64 (2.39%) VB.NET
11 44 (1.64%) Bicep
12 28 (1.05%) C
13 25 (0.93%) Bash
14 21 (0.78%) Go
15 19 (0.71%) VB
16 15 (0.56%) COBOL
16 15 (0.56%) VBA
17 11 (0.41%) JCL
18 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (8.88%) Degree
2 116 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 105 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 85 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 18 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.11%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.11%) OCP
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (6.01%) QA
2 72 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 24 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.67%) GDPR
5 17 (0.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.30%) NCSC
7 3 (0.11%) NIST
7 3 (0.11%) SLA
8 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.037%) GRC
9 1 (0.037%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (12.54%) Docker
2 19 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 309 (11.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.56%) Grafana
2 15 (0.56%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.075%) MIIS
5 1 (0.037%) Argo
5 1 (0.037%) Consul
5 1 (0.037%) Control-M
5 1 (0.037%) MOM
5 1 (0.037%) Packer
5 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 946 (35.31%) Microsoft
2 75 (2.80%) Google
3 55 (2.05%) Facebook
4 44 (1.64%) Oracle
5 34 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.08%) Adobe
7 21 (0.78%) YouTube
8 19 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.56%) Databricks
10 12 (0.45%) iManage
10 12 (0.45%) VMware
10 12 (0.45%) Xamarin
11 11 (0.41%) Apple
11 11 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.41%) Sony
11 11 (0.41%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.37%) Intapp
13 9 (0.34%) Sage
13 9 (0.34%) SAP
14 8 (0.30%) Splunk