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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 49 24
Rank change year-on-year -28 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,737 1,929 6,024
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.45% 5.28% 7.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.50% 24.35% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 1,654 5,361
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -3.23%

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 7,393 7,922 16,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 21.67% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,613 5,947 13,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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
London -29 468 £82,500 +10.00% 218
South East -30 419 £60,000 - 174
North of England -32 403 £65,000 +13.04% 164
Midlands -34 210 £55,000 - 87
North West -32 209 £65,000 +15.56% 89
South West +8 132 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Yorkshire -31 123 £60,000 +4.35% 48
West Midlands -46 111 £51,250 -14.58% 50
East Midlands -28 99 £60,000 +14.29% 37
East of England -58 82 £65,000 +30.00% 63
North East -10 71 £68,750 +19.57% 33
.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 37 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.78%) IIS
3 19 (1.09%) CMS
4 13 (0.75%) JBoss
4 13 (0.75%) WebSphere
5 12 (0.69%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.46%) Confluence
8 5 (0.29%) ColdFusion
8 5 (0.29%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) Apache
11 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.058%) CICS
12 1 (0.058%) Drupal
12 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.058%) SAS
12 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 32 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.058%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.058%) Endur
3 1 (0.058%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.058%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.058%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 770 (44.33%) Azure
2 286 (16.47%) AWS
3 233 (13.41%) SaaS
4 216 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 109 (6.28%) Serverless
7 106 (6.10%) GitHub
8 84 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 67 (3.86%) PowerApps
10 65 (3.74%) Power Automate
11 62 (3.57%) Azure Functions
12 60 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
13 58 (3.34%) GCP
14 51 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 47 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.30%) Azure AKS
16 40 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
18 33 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
19 27 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.04%) Internet
2 10 (0.58%) Firewall
3 8 (0.46%) WinSCP
4 5 (0.29%) DNS
5 4 (0.23%) DHCP
5 4 (0.23%) Intranet
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 3 (0.17%) VoIP
6 3 (0.17%) VPN
7 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.058%) AMQP
8 1 (0.058%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.058%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.058%) HTTP
8 1 (0.058%) Modbus
8 1 (0.058%) MPLS
8 1 (0.058%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (23.78%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 77 (4.43%) NoSQL
4 76 (4.38%) Power BI
5 49 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 45 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 40 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (2.13%) MySQL
11 19 (1.09%) Redis
12 18 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.75%) DB2
15 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.35%) GIS
16 5 (0.29%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.23%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 123 (7.08%) Git
2 49 (2.82%) Selenium
3 47 (2.71%) JIRA
4 44 (2.53%) Visual Studio
5 35 (2.01%) Postman
6 28 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.44%) WebDriver
8 24 (1.38%) SoapUI
9 19 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 19 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 18 (1.04%) Jenkins
11 13 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (0.69%) NUnit
13 10 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 7 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 6 (0.35%) JMeter
17 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.23%) git-flow
18 4 (0.23%) MSTest
General
1 337 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 292 (16.81%) Finance
3 80 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.51%) Law
5 59 (3.40%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.22%) Banking
7 37 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.38%) Games
9 23 (1.32%) Retail
10 22 (1.27%) Legal
11 21 (1.21%) Marketing
12 16 (0.92%) Front Office
13 15 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 14 (0.81%) Aviation
15 11 (0.63%) Electronics
16 10 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.58%) Tech for Good
17 9 (0.52%) Automotive
17 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 956 (55.04%) Developer
2 422 (24.29%) Senior
3 399 (22.97%) .NET Developer
4 305 (17.56%) Software Engineer
5 280 (16.12%) Software Developer
6 212 (12.20%) Lead
7 204 (11.74%) Senior Developer
8 201 (11.57%) C# Developer
9 174 (10.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 142 (8.18%) .NET Software Engineer
11 125 (7.20%) C# .NET Developer
12 120 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 96 (5.53%) .NET Software Developer
14 85 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 83 (4.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 83 (4.78%) Senior .NET Developer
16 80 (4.61%) Lead Developer
17 69 (3.97%) C# Software Engineer
18 67 (3.86%) Architect
19 59 (3.40%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 409 (23.55%) .NET Core
2 286 (16.47%) React
3 270 (15.54%) ASP.NET
4 217 (12.49%) .NET Framework
5 212 (12.20%) HTML
6 184 (10.59%) CSS
7 146 (8.41%) REST
8 140 (8.06%) AngularJS
9 123 (7.08%) RESTful
10 97 (5.58%) Entity Framework
11 95 (5.47%) Blazor
12 93 (5.35%) ASP.NET Core
13 92 (5.30%) Node.js
14 76 (4.38%) Vue
15 59 (3.40%) SOAP
16 47 (2.71%) ASP.NET MVC
17 43 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
18 38 (2.19%) Middleware
19 36 (2.07%) HTML5
20 35 (2.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 147 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 67 (3.86%) Mobile App
3 63 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 29 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
9 25 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.09%) Low-Code
11 17 (0.98%) Legacy Code
11 17 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 16 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.75%) Client/Server
15 13 (0.75%) DataPower
15 13 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.95%) Windows
2 25 (1.44%) Linux
3 24 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.21%) Android
5 19 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.04%) VMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.17%) Unix
8 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.058%) Solaris
9 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (30.45%) Software Engineering
2 513 (29.53%) Agile
3 434 (24.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 398 (22.91%) DevOps
5 377 (21.70%) CI/CD
6 276 (15.89%) Microservices
7 248 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (9.67%) Mentoring
10 149 (8.58%) AI
11 148 (8.52%) SDLC
12 137 (7.89%) Clean Code
13 136 (7.83%) Test Automation
14 123 (7.08%) Containerisation
15 121 (6.97%) Scrum
16 117 (6.74%) MVC
17 116 (6.68%) User Experience
18 112 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
19 99 (5.70%) TDD
20 97 (5.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,195 (68.80%) C#
2 544 (31.32%) SQL
3 388 (22.34%) JavaScript
4 206 (11.86%) TypeScript
5 162 (9.33%) Java
6 145 (8.35%) Python
7 61 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 44 (2.53%) C++
9 34 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 33 (1.90%) Bicep
11 31 (1.78%) PHP
12 29 (1.67%) VB.NET
13 20 (1.15%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.86%) C
14 15 (0.86%) Go
15 12 (0.69%) Bash
15 12 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 8 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 186 (10.71%) Degree
2 64 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 52 (2.99%) SC Cleared
4 49 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (1.55%) ISTQB
6 19 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 19 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.40%) ISEB
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.29%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.70%) QA
2 45 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.75%) GDPR
4 12 (0.69%) WCAG
5 9 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.40%) SLA
7 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.058%) NCSC
11 1 (0.058%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 157 (9.04%) Docker
2 15 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Firmware
4 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 92 (5.30%) Terraform
3 15 (0.86%) Grafana
4 10 (0.58%) Ansible
5 7 (0.40%) Kibana
6 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.058%) Argo
8 1 (0.058%) CASB
8 1 (0.058%) Consul
8 1 (0.058%) Control-M
8 1 (0.058%) Packer
8 1 (0.058%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.058%) Puppet
Vendors
1 318 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 32 (1.84%) Salesforce
3 28 (1.61%) Xamarin
4 21 (1.21%) Google
5 17 (0.98%) MuleSoft
6 14 (0.81%) Adobe
6 14 (0.81%) Oracle
7 12 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 11 (0.63%) Sage
9 9 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (0.52%) New Relic
10 7 (0.40%) Databricks
11 6 (0.35%) Telerik
11 6 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.29%) Apple
12 5 (0.29%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.29%) Facebook
12 5 (0.29%) IBM
12 5 (0.29%) iManage
12 5 (0.29%) Intapp