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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -43 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,548 2,611 5,242
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 5.88% 7.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.42% 26.41% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,388 1,747 4,799
10th Percentile £41,039 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,339 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +2.23% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 6,609 9,888 15,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.14% 22.25% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,080 5,959 12,923
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

.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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -32 426 £80,000 +3.23% 155
South East -33 381 £60,000 - 197
North of England -43 354 £65,000 +13.04% 158
Midlands -42 202 £52,500 -8.70% 70
North West -25 189 £65,000 +13.04% 99
West Midlands -39 117 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire -45 107 £60,000 +13.21% 35
South West -51 95 £55,000 -8.33% 60
East Midlands -35 85 £65,000 +30.00% 34
East of England -62 64 £60,000 +20.00% 50
North East -4 58 £70,000 +12.00% 26
.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 45 (2.91%) IIS
2 23 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.03%) CMS
4 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.84%) JBoss
5 13 (0.84%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.39%) Confluence
8 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.065%) Apache
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.065%) Kentico
11 1 (0.065%) SAS
11 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.19%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.065%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.065%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 44 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.065%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.065%) Endur
3 1 (0.065%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 778 (50.26%) Azure
2 305 (19.70%) AWS
3 242 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (14.60%) SaaS
5 124 (8.01%) Power Platform
6 108 (6.98%) GitHub
7 104 (6.72%) Serverless
8 81 (5.23%) GCP
9 60 (3.88%) Azure Functions
9 60 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 58 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 53 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (3.29%) PowerApps
13 47 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 41 (2.65%) Entra ID
15 40 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 39 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (1.87%) Azure AKS
18 28 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
19 25 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.84%) Internet
2 12 (0.78%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) DHCP
4 10 (0.65%) Firewall
5 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 8 (0.52%) WinSCP
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.39%) VoIP
7 4 (0.26%) HTTP
8 3 (0.19%) Intranet
8 3 (0.19%) LTE
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.065%) AMQP
10 1 (0.065%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.065%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.065%) IPv6
10 1 (0.065%) MPLS
10 1 (0.065%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (25.45%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 58 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 58 (3.75%) MongoDB
4 54 (3.49%) Power BI
5 45 (2.91%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 41 (2.65%) MySQL
8 40 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (1.36%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.23%) Redis
11 15 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.52%) Tableau
14 5 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.32%) DB2
15 4 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.26%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.19%) GIS
Development Applications
1 134 (8.66%) Git
2 51 (3.29%) JIRA
3 46 (2.97%) Selenium
4 41 (2.65%) Visual Studio
5 37 (2.39%) Postman
6 33 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (1.81%) SoapUI
7 28 (1.81%) WebDriver
8 20 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 19 (1.23%) Jenkins
10 16 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (0.90%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.45%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 7 (0.45%) Storybook
13 6 (0.39%) git-flow
13 6 (0.39%) GitLab
13 6 (0.39%) NUnit
14 5 (0.32%) MSTest
General
1 338 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 299 (19.32%) Finance
3 67 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (4.13%) Law
5 51 (3.29%) Banking
6 50 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 35 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.61%) Legal
9 21 (1.36%) Marketing
10 20 (1.29%) Games
10 20 (1.29%) Retail
11 17 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.03%) Aviation
12 16 (1.03%) Front Office
13 11 (0.71%) Electronics
13 11 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.65%) Billing
15 9 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.58%) Military
15 9 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 836 (54.01%) Developer
2 354 (22.87%) Senior
3 345 (22.29%) .NET Developer
4 260 (16.80%) Software Engineer
5 257 (16.60%) Software Developer
6 181 (11.69%) Lead
7 170 (10.98%) C# Developer
8 157 (10.14%) Senior Developer
9 155 (10.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 120 (7.75%) .NET Software Engineer
11 105 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 94 (6.07%) .NET Software Developer
13 86 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
14 75 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 73 (4.72%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 68 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
17 67 (4.33%) Lead Developer
18 56 (3.62%) C# Software Engineer
19 54 (3.49%) Analyst
20 46 (2.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (23.39%) .NET Core
2 299 (19.32%) React
3 235 (15.18%) ASP.NET
4 212 (13.70%) .NET Framework
5 193 (12.47%) HTML
6 165 (10.66%) CSS
7 156 (10.08%) AngularJS
8 130 (8.40%) REST
9 110 (7.11%) RESTful
10 92 (5.94%) Entity Framework
11 90 (5.81%) Blazor
12 66 (4.26%) Node.js
12 66 (4.26%) Vue
13 65 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
14 59 (3.81%) SOAP
15 56 (3.62%) ASP.NET MVC
16 51 (3.29%) ASP.NET Web API
17 41 (2.65%) HTML5
18 38 (2.45%) WPF
19 36 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 139 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 62 (4.01%) Mobile App
4 52 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.42%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 18 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 15 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
13 14 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.84%) DataPower
14 13 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.49%) Windows
2 29 (1.87%) Android
3 28 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.74%) Linux
5 24 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.84%) VMS
7 10 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.065%) Fedora
10 1 (0.065%) Solaris
10 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (36.76%) Agile
2 489 (31.59%) Software Engineering
3 408 (26.36%) DevOps
4 395 (25.52%) CI/CD
5 379 (24.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 276 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
7 270 (17.44%) Microservices
8 208 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 173 (11.18%) Mentoring
10 167 (10.79%) AI
11 137 (8.85%) Scrum
12 135 (8.72%) SDLC
13 127 (8.20%) Clean Code
14 122 (7.88%) User Experience
15 118 (7.62%) Containerisation
16 117 (7.56%) MVC
17 113 (7.30%) Test Automation
18 107 (6.91%) Computer Science
19 105 (6.78%) TDD
20 99 (6.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,059 (68.41%) C#
2 490 (31.65%) SQL
3 387 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 220 (14.21%) TypeScript
5 159 (10.27%) Java
6 136 (8.79%) Python
7 65 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 39 (2.52%) C++
9 31 (2.00%) PHP
9 31 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.81%) VB.NET
11 26 (1.68%) Bicep
12 16 (1.03%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.97%) C
14 14 (0.90%) Bash
15 12 (0.78%) Rust
16 7 (0.45%) Go
16 7 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.45%) XAML
17 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (13.31%) Degree
2 65 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 41 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 33 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 25 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 15 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (0.52%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.52%) ISEB
13 7 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.26%) MCSE
16 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.19%) MCSA
16 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.59%) QA
2 47 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.03%) GDPR
3 16 (1.03%) WCAG
4 9 (0.58%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.26%) GRC
6 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.26%) SLA
7 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.065%) ITGC
8 1 (0.065%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (9.75%) Docker
2 26 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.065%) HDFS
6 1 (0.065%) Squid
Systems Management
1 123 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 96 (6.20%) Terraform
3 14 (0.90%) Grafana
4 11 (0.71%) Ansible
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.13%) Argo
7 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.065%) CASB
8 1 (0.065%) Control-M
8 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 282 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.13%) Salesforce
3 29 (1.87%) Xamarin
4 19 (1.23%) Google
4 19 (1.23%) Oracle
5 18 (1.16%) MuleSoft
6 12 (0.78%) Sage
7 11 (0.71%) Telerik
8 10 (0.65%) New Relic
9 9 (0.58%) Databricks
10 8 (0.52%) Apple
10 8 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.45%) Adobe
11 7 (0.45%) Syncfusion
12 6 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.39%) Datto
12 6 (0.39%) Freshdesk
12 6 (0.39%) VMware
13 5 (0.32%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.32%) Guidewire