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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -36 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,460 1,863 6,602
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.87% 4.53% 7.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.37% 23.80% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,240 1,382 5,549
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,550 £37,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 8,987 7,829 17,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.50% 19.05% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,875 5,281 14,423
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%

.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 June 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 June 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 +20 637 £57,500 - 148
North of England -4 559 £60,000 - 128
London -21 548 £80,000 - 166
Midlands +7 313 £55,000 - 69
North West -1 283 £60,000 +4.35% 62
South West +15 196 £55,000 +4.76% 32
East of England +20 184 £65,000 +23.22% 42
West Midlands -19 161 £57,500 +4.55% 37
East Midlands +28 152 £55,000 - 32
North East +4 143 £57,500 +6.98% 32
Yorkshire -3 133 £57,500 -14.81% 37
.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 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.14%) CMS
2 28 (1.14%) IIS
3 19 (0.77%) Confluence
4 16 (0.65%) ColdFusion
5 15 (0.61%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.33%) WordPress
7 6 (0.24%) Apache
7 6 (0.24%) JBoss
7 6 (0.24%) nginx
8 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
10 3 (0.12%) Kentico
10 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.081%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.081%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.081%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.041%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.041%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,270 (51.63%) Azure
2 392 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
3 385 (15.65%) AWS
4 227 (9.23%) SaaS
5 204 (8.29%) GitHub
6 160 (6.50%) Power Platform
7 144 (5.85%) Azure AI
8 134 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
9 127 (5.16%) Serverless
10 114 (4.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 107 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 99 (4.02%) Power Automate
13 94 (3.82%) PowerApps
14 83 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 82 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (3.25%) Azure Functions
17 58 (2.36%) GCP
18 56 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
18 56 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
19 54 (2.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.33%) Internet
2 9 (0.37%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.20%) DHCP
4 5 (0.20%) DNS
4 5 (0.20%) LAN
4 5 (0.20%) LTE
4 5 (0.20%) WAN
5 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.12%) RS-232
6 3 (0.12%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.081%) HTTP
7 2 (0.081%) Modbus
8 1 (0.041%) AMQP
8 1 (0.041%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.041%) SSL
8 1 (0.041%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.041%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (18.86%) SQL Server
2 447 (18.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 380 (15.45%) MongoDB
4 140 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
5 105 (4.27%) Power BI
6 63 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 56 (2.28%) MySQL
8 42 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.85%) Redis
12 13 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.49%) Db2
14 11 (0.45%) GIS
15 9 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
16 7 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
17 6 (0.24%) Big Data
17 6 (0.24%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 147 (5.98%) Git
2 44 (1.79%) JIRA
3 30 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.98%) Postman
5 22 (0.89%) Selenium
6 19 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 18 (0.73%) GitLab
8 16 (0.65%) SpecFlow
9 13 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.53%) NUnit
10 12 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.33%) SoapUI
12 8 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.24%) Moq
General
1 389 (15.81%) Finance
2 344 (13.98%) Social Skills
3 99 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (3.09%) Retail
5 63 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 53 (2.15%) Advertising
7 51 (2.07%) Games
8 47 (1.91%) Manufacturing
9 46 (1.87%) Marketing
10 45 (1.83%) Law
11 44 (1.79%) Legal
12 42 (1.71%) Banking
13 37 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 25 (1.02%) Automotive
16 20 (0.81%) Electronics
17 12 (0.49%) Back Office
17 12 (0.49%) Legal Technology
18 11 (0.45%) Front Office
19 9 (0.37%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,498 (60.89%) Developer
2 875 (35.57%) .NET Developer
3 476 (19.35%) Senior
4 409 (16.63%) Software Engineer
5 334 (13.58%) Software Developer
6 260 (10.57%) Lead
7 228 (9.27%) Senior Developer
8 204 (8.29%) C# Developer
9 183 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 182 (7.40%) .NET Software Engineer
11 164 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
12 156 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 153 (6.22%) C# Software Engineer
14 129 (5.24%) .NET Software Developer
14 129 (5.24%) Lead Developer
15 107 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
16 101 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 87 (3.54%) Architect
18 78 (3.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 74 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 747 (30.37%) .NET Core
2 664 (26.99%) ASP.NET
3 508 (20.65%) ASP.NET Core
4 408 (16.59%) React
5 340 (13.82%) CSS
5 340 (13.82%) HTML
6 297 (12.07%) AngularJS
7 255 (10.37%) Blazor
8 250 (10.16%) Entity Framework
8 250 (10.16%) RESTful
9 247 (10.04%) .NET Framework
10 240 (9.76%) Vue
11 222 (9.02%) Node.js
12 188 (7.64%) ASP.NET Web API
13 187 (7.60%) REST
14 131 (5.33%) ML.NET
15 98 (3.98%) LINQ
16 63 (2.56%) jQuery
17 61 (2.48%) JSON
18 52 (2.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (6.22%) Cloud Native
2 138 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
3 93 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
4 87 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 78 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 74 (3.01%) Mobile App
7 58 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.34%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.06%) Legacy Code
10 22 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 21 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 20 (0.81%) Digital TV
12 20 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 18 (0.73%) Management Information System
14 17 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 17 (0.69%) iPhone
14 17 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.65%) Client/Server
15 16 (0.65%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.33%) Windows
2 33 (1.34%) Android
3 26 (1.06%) Linux
4 25 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.49%) VMS
6 9 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.081%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (35.49%) Full-Stack Development
2 783 (31.83%) Agile
3 651 (26.46%) Software Engineering
4 602 (24.47%) CI/CD
5 598 (24.31%) DevOps
6 416 (16.91%) Microservices
7 382 (15.53%) AI
8 287 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
9 244 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 215 (8.74%) Mentoring
11 197 (8.01%) SDLC
12 194 (7.89%) Machine Learning
13 179 (7.28%) Test Automation
14 163 (6.63%) Scrum
15 162 (6.59%) TDD
16 156 (6.34%) Multithreading
17 141 (5.73%) Technical Leadership
18 136 (5.53%) Clean Code
19 132 (5.37%) Containerisation
20 131 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,831 (74.43%) C#
2 948 (38.54%) SQL
3 533 (21.67%) JavaScript
4 355 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 203 (8.25%) Python
6 145 (5.89%) Java
7 85 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 82 (3.33%) C++
9 58 (2.36%) PHP
10 51 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 42 (1.71%) Bicep
13 24 (0.98%) C
14 21 (0.85%) Bash
15 20 (0.81%) VB
16 15 (0.61%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
19 10 (0.41%) Go
20 9 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 206 (8.37%) Degree
2 91 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 64 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.12%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.12%) PhD
13 2 (0.081%) CSQA
13 2 (0.081%) MBA
13 2 (0.081%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.37%) QA
2 59 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.57%) WCAG
6 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.33%) SLA
8 4 (0.16%) NCSC
8 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.081%) ITGC
10 2 (0.081%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 287 (11.67%) Docker
2 17 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.49%) Firmware
4 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 274 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 111 (4.51%) Terraform
3 14 (0.57%) Grafana
4 8 (0.33%) Ansible
5 7 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.20%) Kibana
7 2 (0.081%) MIIS
8 1 (0.041%) Consul
8 1 (0.041%) MOM
8 1 (0.041%) Packer
8 1 (0.041%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.041%) Puppet
Vendors
1 785 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 55 (2.24%) Google
3 48 (1.95%) Facebook
4 34 (1.38%) Oracle
5 29 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.14%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.10%) Adobe
8 19 (0.77%) YouTube
9 18 (0.73%) Xamarin
10 16 (0.65%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.49%) Databricks
12 11 (0.45%) iManage
13 10 (0.41%) Apple
13 10 (0.41%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.41%) Sony
13 10 (0.41%) Yahoo!
14 9 (0.37%) Intapp
15 8 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (0.33%) VMware
16 7 (0.28%) IBM