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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 74 26
Rank change year-on-year +12 -48 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,593 1,589 3,929
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.49% 3.72% 6.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.19% 21.71% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 1,193 2,615
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,525 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -6.61%

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 10,719 7,319 14,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.29% 17.12% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,703 4,834 8,671
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +44 674 £60,000 - 217
North of England +3 598 £57,500 -4.17% 285
London -34 529 £80,000 - 656
Midlands +31 374 £60,000 +9.09% 151
North West -23 255 £60,000 -7.69% 141
East of England +15 208 £60,000 +9.09% 105
West Midlands +3 206 £60,000 +9.09% 92
South West -1 185 £55,000 +4.76% 56
North East +7 184 £56,500 +29.89% 53
East Midlands +45 168 £58,750 +6.82% 59
Yorkshire +7 159 £55,000 -8.33% 96
.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 61 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) IIS
3 28 (1.08%) Confluence
4 27 (1.04%) CMS
5 11 (0.42%) Umbraco
6 10 (0.39%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
7 8 (0.31%) ColdFusion
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) CICS
8 7 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Kentico
10 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.66%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
3 4 (0.15%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Actimize
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Endur
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,321 (50.94%) Azure
2 473 (18.24%) AWS
3 452 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
4 269 (10.37%) GitHub
5 181 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 173 (6.67%) Azure AI
7 172 (6.63%) SaaS
8 168 (6.48%) GitHub Copilot
9 147 (5.67%) Serverless
10 121 (4.67%) Power Automate
11 106 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 100 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
13 98 (3.78%) PowerApps
14 89 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 78 (3.01%) Azure Functions
16 70 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
16 70 (2.70%) GCP
17 69 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
18 63 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.63%) Internet
2 21 (0.81%) Firewall
3 14 (0.54%) VLAN
4 12 (0.46%) Wireless
5 10 (0.39%) HTTP
5 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.23%) DNS
7 6 (0.23%) SNMP
8 5 (0.19%) DHCP
8 5 (0.19%) LAN
8 5 (0.19%) WAN
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 3 (0.12%) VPN
10 2 (0.077%) LTE
10 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 2 (0.077%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 567 (21.87%) SQL Server
2 471 (18.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 419 (16.16%) MongoDB
4 159 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
5 100 (3.86%) Relational Database
6 96 (3.70%) Power BI
7 81 (3.12%) NoSQL
8 80 (3.09%) MySQL
9 75 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (1.31%) Redis
11 26 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 26 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
13 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.50%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.42%) SQLite
17 10 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 218 (8.41%) Git
2 48 (1.85%) JIRA
3 47 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 44 (1.70%) Claude Code
5 37 (1.43%) Visual Studio
6 32 (1.23%) GitLab
7 28 (1.08%) NUnit
8 18 (0.69%) Selenium
9 17 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 16 (0.62%) Postman
10 16 (0.62%) TeamCity
11 15 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.31%) Moq
14 7 (0.27%) MSI
14 7 (0.27%) Snyk
15 6 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 479 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 386 (14.89%) Finance
3 164 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (4.24%) Public Sector
5 82 (3.16%) Retail
6 76 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 68 (2.62%) Law
8 66 (2.55%) Games
8 66 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 60 (2.31%) Legal
10 59 (2.28%) Advertising
11 52 (2.01%) Marketing
12 29 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.93%) Banking
13 24 (0.93%) Front Office
14 23 (0.89%) Automotive
15 19 (0.73%) Electronics
16 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.54%) Legal Technology
18 12 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,476 (56.92%) Developer
2 908 (35.02%) .NET Developer
3 478 (18.43%) Senior
4 385 (14.85%) Software Engineer
5 280 (10.80%) Lead
6 270 (10.41%) Software Developer
7 246 (9.49%) Senior Developer
8 187 (7.21%) C# Developer
9 175 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 152 (5.86%) C# Software Engineer
11 142 (5.48%) .NET Software Engineer
11 142 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 138 (5.32%) C# .NET Developer
13 126 (4.86%) Senior .NET Developer
14 121 (4.67%) Lead Developer
15 118 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 99 (3.82%) Architect
17 94 (3.63%) .NET Software Developer
18 74 (2.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 73 (2.82%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 740 (28.54%) .NET Core
2 734 (28.31%) ASP.NET
3 570 (21.98%) ASP.NET Core
4 470 (18.13%) React
5 363 (14.00%) HTML
6 361 (13.92%) CSS
7 338 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.42%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.34%) RESTful
10 291 (11.22%) Blazor
11 278 (10.72%) .NET Framework
12 253 (9.76%) Node.js
13 251 (9.68%) REST
14 250 (9.64%) Vue
15 222 (8.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 138 (5.32%) ML.NET
17 135 (5.21%) Terraform
18 109 (4.20%) LINQ
19 93 (3.59%) jQuery
20 75 (2.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.06%) Cloud Native
2 165 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
3 152 (5.86%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
5 105 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 53 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 50 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
11 36 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 34 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 23 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 23 (0.89%) Legacy Code
15 22 (0.85%) Hedge funds
15 22 (0.85%) IoT
16 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
17 18 (0.69%) Mainframe
17 18 (0.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 117 (4.51%) Windows
2 39 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.39%) Linux
4 29 (1.12%) Android
5 10 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) Unix
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 908 (35.02%) Full-Stack Development
2 846 (32.63%) Agile
3 730 (28.15%) CI/CD
4 692 (26.69%) DevOps
5 672 (25.92%) Software Engineering
6 464 (17.89%) AI
7 452 (17.43%) Microservices
8 419 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 287 (11.07%) Mentoring
10 281 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 225 (8.68%) SDLC
12 218 (8.41%) Test Automation
13 201 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
14 196 (7.56%) Machine Learning
15 176 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 168 (6.48%) Scrum
17 166 (6.40%) Multithreading
18 164 (6.32%) Code Quality
19 156 (6.02%) Event-Driven
20 154 (5.94%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 2,031 (78.33%) C#
2 986 (38.03%) SQL
3 599 (23.10%) JavaScript
4 362 (13.96%) TypeScript
5 232 (8.95%) Python
6 164 (6.32%) Java
7 96 (3.70%) C++
8 70 (2.70%) VB.NET
9 66 (2.55%) T-SQL
10 62 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 51 (1.97%) PHP
12 38 (1.47%) Bicep
13 25 (0.96%) C
14 22 (0.85%) COBOL
15 19 (0.73%) Bash
16 18 (0.69%) Go
16 18 (0.69%) JCL
16 18 (0.69%) VB
17 15 (0.58%) VBA
18 10 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 235 (9.06%) Degree
2 118 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 100 (3.86%) Security Cleared
4 78 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 20 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.31%) PhD
11 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.15%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.15%) MBA
15 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
15 3 (0.12%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.12%) OCP
15 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.09%) QA
2 66 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.62%) WCAG
5 15 (0.58%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) PMO
10 1 (0.039%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.039%) GAMP
10 1 (0.039%) GMP
10 1 (0.039%) GRC
10 1 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.039%) SLA
System Software
1 330 (12.73%) Docker
2 29 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.039%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 290 (11.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.58%) Grafana
3 13 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.42%) Ansible
5 3 (0.12%) Kibana
6 2 (0.077%) Bosun
6 2 (0.077%) Control-M
6 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.039%) Argo
7 1 (0.039%) MOM
7 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 941 (36.29%) Microsoft
2 71 (2.74%) Google
3 53 (2.04%) Oracle
4 52 (2.01%) Facebook
5 35 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.81%) YouTube
7 20 (0.77%) VMware
8 18 (0.69%) Adobe
9 17 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.58%) Databricks
11 14 (0.54%) iManage
11 14 (0.54%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) Aderant
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Broadcom
12 11 (0.42%) SAP
13 10 (0.39%) Sony
13 10 (0.39%) Yahoo!
14 8 (0.31%) OneLogin
14 8 (0.31%) Red Hat