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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 76 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -50 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,564 1,603 4,027
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.47% 3.69% 6.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.20% 21.62% 28.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,217 1,197 2,681
10th Percentile £41,400 £39,575 £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 £106,250 £90,000
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 10,593 7,414 14,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 17.09% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,666 4,888 8,848
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 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 9 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 9 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 +45 679 £60,000 - 236
North of England +3 592 £57,500 -4.17% 309
London -33 522 £80,000 - 813
Midlands +37 360 £60,000 +9.09% 185
North West -14 259 £60,000 -7.69% 168
East of England +23 205 £60,000 +9.09% 111
West Midlands +8 195 £58,750 +6.82% 101
South West -1 182 £55,000 +4.76% 76
North East +12 178 £56,500 +24.18% 49
East Midlands +42 165 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Yorkshire +5 155 £55,000 -8.33% 97
.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 58 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.83%) IIS
3 27 (1.05%) CMS
4 26 (1.01%) Confluence
5 11 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.35%) ColdFusion
6 9 (0.35%) nginx
7 8 (0.31%) Apache
7 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.31%) WordPress
8 7 (0.27%) CICS
8 7 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.20%) EPiServer
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.16%) Kentico
10 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.59%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.16%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.16%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.16%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.078%) 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%) Magento
6 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,307 (50.98%) Azure
2 473 (18.45%) AWS
3 445 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
4 264 (10.30%) GitHub
5 175 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 174 (6.79%) SaaS
7 171 (6.67%) Azure AI
8 167 (6.51%) GitHub Copilot
9 149 (5.81%) Serverless
10 115 (4.49%) Power Automate
11 107 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 95 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 94 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
14 92 (3.59%) PowerApps
15 79 (3.08%) Azure Functions
16 75 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
17 70 (2.73%) GCP
18 64 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
18 64 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
19 47 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.59%) Internet
2 21 (0.82%) Firewall
3 14 (0.55%) VLAN
4 12 (0.47%) Wireless
5 10 (0.39%) HTTP
6 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.23%) DNS
7 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.23%) SNMP
8 5 (0.20%) DHCP
8 5 (0.20%) LAN
8 5 (0.20%) WAN
9 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.12%) Intranet
9 3 (0.12%) RS-232
10 2 (0.078%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.078%) LTE
10 2 (0.078%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.078%) VPN
10 2 (0.078%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (21.68%) SQL Server
2 465 (18.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 415 (16.19%) MongoDB
4 157 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
5 97 (3.78%) Relational Database
6 94 (3.67%) Power BI
7 81 (3.16%) NoSQL
8 80 (3.12%) MySQL
9 71 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
10 33 (1.29%) Redis
11 25 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 24 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (0.66%) Spark SQL
14 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.51%) Big Data
17 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.43%) SQLite
18 10 (0.39%) GIS
19 9 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 212 (8.27%) Git
2 47 (1.83%) JIRA
3 46 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.64%) Claude Code
5 35 (1.37%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.21%) GitLab
7 27 (1.05%) NUnit
8 19 (0.74%) Selenium
9 16 (0.62%) Postman
10 15 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 14 (0.55%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.23%) Mocha
General
1 459 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 381 (14.86%) Finance
3 157 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (4.13%) Public Sector
5 84 (3.28%) Retail
6 75 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (2.54%) Games
8 64 (2.50%) Law
8 64 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 59 (2.30%) Legal
10 58 (2.26%) Advertising
11 52 (2.03%) Marketing
12 29 (1.13%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.98%) Banking
14 23 (0.90%) Automotive
14 23 (0.90%) Front Office
15 19 (0.74%) Electronics
16 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (0.43%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,464 (57.10%) Developer
2 904 (35.26%) .NET Developer
3 465 (18.14%) Senior
4 390 (15.21%) Software Engineer
5 280 (10.92%) Lead
6 259 (10.10%) Software Developer
7 234 (9.13%) Senior Developer
8 186 (7.25%) C# Developer
9 176 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 154 (6.01%) C# Software Engineer
11 144 (5.62%) .NET Software Engineer
11 144 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 137 (5.34%) C# .NET Developer
13 123 (4.80%) Senior .NET Developer
14 122 (4.76%) Lead Developer
15 116 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 92 (3.59%) .NET Software Developer
17 86 (3.35%) Architect
18 75 (2.93%) Web Developer
19 73 (2.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 738 (28.78%) .NET Core
2 726 (28.32%) ASP.NET
3 565 (22.04%) ASP.NET Core
4 464 (18.10%) React
5 361 (14.08%) HTML
6 360 (14.04%) CSS
7 335 (13.07%) AngularJS
8 294 (11.47%) Entity Framework
9 292 (11.39%) RESTful
10 288 (11.23%) Blazor
11 274 (10.69%) .NET Framework
12 251 (9.79%) Node.js
13 250 (9.75%) Vue
14 242 (9.44%) REST
15 219 (8.54%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.34%) ML.NET
17 132 (5.15%) Terraform
18 108 (4.21%) LINQ
19 90 (3.51%) jQuery
20 74 (2.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 160 (6.24%) Enterprise Software
3 149 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
4 143 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (3.98%) Product Ownership
6 70 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 53 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 53 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
9 36 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 23 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 23 (0.90%) Hedge funds
13 22 (0.86%) Legacy Code
14 21 (0.82%) IoT
15 19 (0.74%) Digital TV
15 19 (0.74%) Low-Code
16 18 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.45%) Windows
2 39 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 35 (1.37%) Linux
4 29 (1.13%) Android
5 10 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.078%) Unix
8 1 (0.039%) Solaris
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 906 (35.34%) Full-Stack Development
2 835 (32.57%) Agile
3 718 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 683 (26.64%) DevOps
5 672 (26.21%) Software Engineering
6 462 (18.02%) AI
7 448 (17.47%) Microservices
8 411 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 281 (10.96%) Mentoring
10 277 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 221 (8.62%) SDLC
12 215 (8.39%) Test Automation
13 194 (7.57%) Machine Learning
14 188 (7.33%) Technical Leadership
15 175 (6.83%) Infrastructure as Code
16 169 (6.59%) Scrum
17 165 (6.44%) Multithreading
18 163 (6.36%) Code Quality
19 159 (6.20%) Event-Driven
20 150 (5.85%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,993 (77.73%) C#
2 975 (38.03%) SQL
3 596 (23.24%) JavaScript
4 361 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 231 (9.01%) Python
6 165 (6.44%) Java
7 96 (3.74%) C++
8 71 (2.77%) VB.NET
9 66 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 59 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 52 (2.03%) PHP
12 38 (1.48%) Bicep
13 25 (0.98%) C
14 22 (0.86%) COBOL
15 21 (0.82%) VB
16 20 (0.78%) Bash
17 18 (0.70%) Go
17 18 (0.70%) JCL
18 15 (0.59%) VBA
19 10 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 237 (9.24%) Degree
2 119 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.77%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (0.78%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.31%) PhD
11 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.16%) MBA
13 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (6.16%) QA
2 66 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.62%) WCAG
5 15 (0.59%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.078%) Basel III
9 2 (0.078%) 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
1 327 (12.75%) Docker
2 28 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.78%) 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 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.039%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 288 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.59%) Grafana
3 13 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.078%) Bosun
5 2 (0.078%) Control-M
5 2 (0.078%) Kibana
5 2 (0.078%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.039%) Argo
6 1 (0.039%) MOM
6 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 918 (35.80%) Microsoft
2 69 (2.69%) Google
3 52 (2.03%) Facebook
4 51 (1.99%) Oracle
5 35 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.82%) YouTube
7 20 (0.78%) VMware
8 19 (0.74%) Adobe
9 17 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 15 (0.59%) Databricks
11 12 (0.47%) Intapp
12 11 (0.43%) Apple
12 11 (0.43%) Broadcom
12 11 (0.43%) iManage
12 11 (0.43%) SAP
13 10 (0.39%) Sony
13 10 (0.39%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.35%) Aderant
15 8 (0.31%) OneLogin
15 8 (0.31%) Splunk