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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 61 24
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,608 1,868 4,972
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.30% 6.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.58% 23.93% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,338 1,404 4,037
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 9,455 7,805 14,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.97% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,182 5,251 11,015
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +25 680 £57,500 - 161
North of England +2 607 £57,500 -4.17% 154
London -29 562 £80,000 - 241
Midlands +7 326 £55,000 - 86
North West -2 282 £60,000 - 87
South West +14 207 £52,500 - 43
East of England +19 205 £65,000 +23.81% 59
West Midlands -14 176 £60,000 +4.35% 43
Yorkshire +23 166 £57,500 -11.54% 34
North East +3 159 £55,750 +29.65% 35
East Midlands +33 150 £55,000 - 43
.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 68 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.30%) IIS
3 31 (1.19%) CMS
4 23 (0.88%) Confluence
5 16 (0.61%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.31%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) Apache
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) EPiServer
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.19%) Shopify
4 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.077%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.038%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.038%) Eikon
7 1 (0.038%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.038%) RMDS
7 1 (0.038%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,370 (52.53%) Azure
2 429 (16.45%) AWS
3 427 (16.37%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (8.82%) GitHub
5 207 (7.94%) SaaS
6 183 (7.02%) Power Platform
7 165 (6.33%) Azure AI
8 157 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
9 135 (5.18%) Serverless
10 114 (4.37%) Power Automate
11 112 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 112 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
12 100 (3.83%) PowerApps
13 95 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
14 89 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
15 78 (2.99%) Azure Functions
16 70 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
17 64 (2.45%) GCP
18 56 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
19 54 (2.07%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.49%) Internet
2 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.31%) Firewall
4 7 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.23%) HTTP
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%) LTE
7 4 (0.15%) SNMP
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 1 (0.038%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.038%) Network Security
10 1 (0.038%) Profibus
10 1 (0.038%) SSL
10 1 (0.038%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 524 (20.09%) SQL Server
2 492 (18.87%) Azure SQL Database
3 423 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 160 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
5 113 (4.33%) Power BI
6 68 (2.61%) MySQL
7 66 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 57 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 45 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 26 (1.00%) Redis
13 20 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.46%) Db2
14 12 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.46%) GIS
15 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.31%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 173 (6.63%) Git
2 46 (1.76%) JIRA
3 29 (1.11%) Selenium
4 27 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 23 (0.88%) NUnit
7 22 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.84%) Postman
8 19 (0.73%) GitLab
9 12 (0.46%) SpecFlow
10 10 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.38%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.27%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.23%) MSTest
14 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 393 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 391 (14.99%) Finance
3 116 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.30%) Retail
5 71 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 61 (2.34%) Advertising
7 60 (2.30%) Law
8 58 (2.22%) Legal
9 55 (2.11%) Games
9 55 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.07%) Marketing
11 53 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 30 (1.15%) Banking
13 25 (0.96%) Automotive
14 19 (0.73%) Electronics
15 14 (0.54%) Legal Technology
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
16 13 (0.50%) Front Office
17 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,595 (61.16%) Developer
2 947 (36.31%) .NET Developer
3 490 (18.79%) Senior
4 416 (15.95%) Software Engineer
5 329 (12.62%) Software Developer
6 292 (11.20%) Lead
7 249 (9.55%) Senior Developer
8 214 (8.21%) C# Developer
9 192 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 171 (6.56%) .NET Software Engineer
11 167 (6.40%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (5.87%) C# Software Engineer
13 151 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 139 (5.33%) Lead Developer
15 126 (4.83%) .NET Software Developer
16 115 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
17 114 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 91 (3.49%) Architect
19 89 (3.41%) Web Developer
20 86 (3.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 779 (29.87%) .NET Core
2 748 (28.68%) ASP.NET
3 573 (21.97%) ASP.NET Core
4 437 (16.76%) React
5 373 (14.30%) HTML
6 371 (14.23%) CSS
7 327 (12.54%) AngularJS
8 289 (11.08%) Blazor
8 289 (11.08%) Entity Framework
9 284 (10.89%) .NET Framework
10 279 (10.70%) RESTful
11 260 (9.97%) Vue
12 249 (9.55%) Node.js
13 217 (8.32%) ASP.NET Web API
14 212 (8.13%) REST
15 143 (5.48%) ML.NET
16 110 (4.22%) LINQ
17 83 (3.18%) JSON
18 69 (2.65%) jQuery
19 57 (2.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 165 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 153 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
3 120 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 117 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 34 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
8 30 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 29 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.11%) Hedge funds
10 27 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 25 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (0.77%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.73%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.65%) iPhone
16 16 (0.61%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.61%) Client/Server
17 14 (0.54%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 103 (3.95%) Windows
2 33 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 32 (1.23%) Linux
4 31 (1.19%) Android
5 10 (0.38%) VMS
6 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.038%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 941 (36.08%) Full-Stack Development
2 849 (32.55%) Agile
3 674 (25.84%) Software Engineering
4 658 (25.23%) DevOps
5 644 (24.69%) CI/CD
6 465 (17.83%) Microservices
7 419 (16.07%) AI
8 329 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 248 (9.51%) Mentoring
11 212 (8.13%) SDLC
12 206 (7.90%) Machine Learning
13 191 (7.32%) Test Automation
14 181 (6.94%) Scrum
15 171 (6.56%) Multithreading
16 169 (6.48%) TDD
17 163 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
18 151 (5.79%) Infrastructure as Code
19 146 (5.60%) User Experience
20 145 (5.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,976 (75.77%) C#
2 998 (38.27%) SQL
3 584 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 380 (14.57%) TypeScript
5 224 (8.59%) Python
6 161 (6.17%) Java
7 87 (3.34%) C++
8 82 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.38%) PHP
10 60 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 54 (2.07%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.69%) Bicep
13 26 (1.00%) C
14 23 (0.88%) Bash
15 18 (0.69%) VB
16 17 (0.65%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.42%) VBA
20 9 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 225 (8.63%) Degree
2 108 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 92 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 72 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.15%) MBA
11 3 (0.12%) PhD
11 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.077%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.077%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (5.67%) QA
2 65 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.77%) GDPR
5 15 (0.58%) WCAG
6 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.077%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.038%) ITGC
11 1 (0.038%) NIST
System Software
1 321 (12.31%) Docker
2 14 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.38%) Firmware
4 8 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 302 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 123 (4.72%) Terraform
3 12 (0.46%) Grafana
3 12 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.077%) MIIS
6 1 (0.038%) Consul
6 1 (0.038%) Control-M
6 1 (0.038%) MOM
6 1 (0.038%) Packer
6 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.038%) Puppet
Vendors
1 913 (35.01%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.68%) Google
3 54 (2.07%) Facebook
4 37 (1.42%) Oracle
5 32 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.11%) Adobe
7 27 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.81%) YouTube
9 16 (0.61%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.54%) Databricks
10 14 (0.54%) iManage
10 14 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.46%) Intapp
12 11 (0.42%) Apple
12 11 (0.42%) Sony
12 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
13 9 (0.35%) Aderant
13 9 (0.35%) VMware
14 8 (0.31%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.31%) Splunk