.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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -51 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,402 3,006 3,306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.70% 5.98% 7.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.50% 27.60% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 2,042 2,968
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 6,232 10,891 11,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.99% 21.66% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,802 6,529 9,258
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.26% -1.48%
75th Percentile £85,925 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.89%

.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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -39 390 £80,000 +3.23% 306
North of England -36 337 £60,000 +9.09% 312
South East -43 325 £60,000 - 346
Midlands -50 176 £57,500 - 180
North West -28 170 £65,000 +16.85% 180
West Midlands -31 115 £55,000 -4.35% 78
Yorkshire -34 115 £57,500 +9.52% 89
South West -65 82 £55,000 -4.35% 102
East of England -70 64 £60,000 +20.00% 122
East Midlands -52 61 £65,000 +25.00% 95
North East -7 52 £50,000 -23.08% 44
.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 52 (3.71%) IIS
2 31 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.64%) CMS
4 17 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.00%) Confluence
6 10 (0.71%) JBoss
6 10 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.57%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.36%) nginx
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.071%) Apache
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.071%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.071%) Kentico
12 1 (0.071%) SAS
12 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.14%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.071%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.071%) Endur
5 1 (0.071%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 799 (56.99%) Azure
2 332 (23.68%) AWS
3 237 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 184 (13.12%) SaaS
5 123 (8.77%) Power Platform
6 103 (7.35%) GitHub
6 103 (7.35%) Serverless
7 87 (6.21%) GCP
8 71 (5.06%) Power Automate
9 60 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 59 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (4.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 53 (3.78%) PowerApps
13 50 (3.57%) Azure Functions
14 45 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (3.07%) Entra ID
16 41 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 35 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
18 25 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) DNS
2 13 (0.93%) DHCP
3 12 (0.86%) Firewall
3 12 (0.86%) Internet
3 12 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.86%) VoIP
4 9 (0.64%) VPN
5 7 (0.50%) SAN
6 5 (0.36%) HTTP
6 5 (0.36%) LAN
6 5 (0.36%) SSL
6 5 (0.36%) WAN
6 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
7 3 (0.21%) Intranet
8 2 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.14%) NAS
8 2 (0.14%) VLAN
8 2 (0.14%) WPA
9 1 (0.071%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (28.10%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.92%) NoSQL
3 71 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 65 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 60 (4.28%) MySQL
6 49 (3.50%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.42%) Power BI
7 48 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 44 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 43 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (2.00%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.57%) Redis
12 21 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (0.64%) Tableau
15 7 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.36%) RDBMS
18 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 152 (10.84%) Git
2 70 (4.99%) JIRA
3 43 (3.07%) Selenium
4 41 (2.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 38 (2.71%) Postman
6 30 (2.14%) Visual Studio
7 29 (2.07%) SoapUI
8 27 (1.93%) WebDriver
9 25 (1.78%) Jenkins
10 20 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
10 20 (1.43%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.86%) Storybook
12 11 (0.78%) GitLab
13 9 (0.64%) NUnit
13 9 (0.64%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.57%) MSTest
15 6 (0.43%) git-flow
16 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
18 3 (0.21%) MSBuild
General
1 358 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.33%) Finance
3 75 (5.35%) Law
4 57 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (3.00%) Public Sector
6 41 (2.92%) Banking
7 36 (2.57%) Retail
8 35 (2.50%) Legal
9 27 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.50%) Front Office
11 20 (1.43%) Marketing
12 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 18 (1.28%) Games
14 15 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.00%) Back Office
16 13 (0.93%) Aviation
16 13 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.86%) Automotive
18 9 (0.64%) Publishing
19 8 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 782 (55.78%) Developer
2 308 (21.97%) Senior
3 301 (21.47%) .NET Developer
4 194 (13.84%) Software Developer
5 184 (13.12%) Lead
5 184 (13.12%) Software Engineer
6 164 (11.70%) C# Developer
7 161 (11.48%) Senior Developer
8 142 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (4.64%) .NET Software Developer
9 65 (4.64%) C# .NET Developer
10 64 (4.56%) .NET Software Engineer
11 62 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 58 (4.14%) Senior .NET Developer
13 57 (4.07%) Lead Developer
14 54 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 54 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 52 (3.71%) Analyst
16 44 (3.14%) Architect
17 43 (3.07%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (23.25%) .NET Core
2 314 (22.40%) React
3 254 (18.12%) ASP.NET
4 231 (16.48%) .NET Framework
5 204 (14.55%) HTML
6 179 (12.77%) AngularJS
7 177 (12.62%) CSS
8 135 (9.63%) RESTful
9 113 (8.06%) REST
10 110 (7.85%) Entity Framework
11 97 (6.92%) Blazor
12 80 (5.71%) Node.js
13 78 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
14 77 (5.49%) Vue
15 67 (4.78%) ASP.NET Web API
16 64 (4.56%) ASP.NET Core
17 52 (3.71%) SOAP
18 47 (3.35%) HTML5
19 43 (3.07%) Web Services
20 33 (2.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 154 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 73 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (3.78%) Mobile App
5 49 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 27 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 19 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.00%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.86%) Clustering
15 11 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (0.78%) Fixed Income
15 11 (0.78%) Hedge funds
16 10 (0.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 79 (5.63%) Windows
2 29 (2.07%) Linux
3 27 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.78%) Android
4 25 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.57%) VMS
7 7 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.14%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.071%) Fedora
10 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (42.94%) Agile
2 434 (30.96%) DevOps
3 423 (30.17%) CI/CD
4 400 (28.53%) Software Engineering
5 357 (25.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 290 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
7 280 (19.97%) Microservices
8 229 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (13.55%) Mentoring
10 154 (10.98%) Scrum
11 144 (10.27%) Clean Code
11 144 (10.27%) MVC
12 143 (10.20%) User Experience
13 138 (9.84%) AI
14 123 (8.77%) SDLC
15 117 (8.35%) Computer Science
16 114 (8.13%) Test Automation
17 111 (7.92%) Containerisation
18 109 (7.77%) TDD
19 108 (7.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (72.54%) C#
2 480 (34.24%) SQL
3 403 (28.74%) JavaScript
4 234 (16.69%) TypeScript
5 160 (11.41%) Java
6 119 (8.49%) Python
7 59 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.85%) T-SQL
9 36 (2.57%) VB.NET
10 35 (2.50%) C++
10 35 (2.50%) PHP
11 29 (2.07%) Bicep
12 20 (1.43%) Bash
13 14 (1.00%) Rust
14 12 (0.86%) Go
15 9 (0.64%) XAML
16 7 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.43%) C
17 6 (0.43%) VB
18 5 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 219 (15.62%) Degree
2 79 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (2.71%) Security Cleared
4 37 (2.64%) ISTQB
5 32 (2.28%) SC Cleared
6 27 (1.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.71%) ISEB
13 9 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.43%) HND
16 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.36%) MCSE
17 4 (0.29%) MCSA
18 3 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
19 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (6.56%) QA
2 36 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.28%) GDPR
4 11 (0.78%) WCAG
5 4 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.29%) GRC
6 3 (0.21%) HL7
6 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.21%) SLA
7 1 (0.071%) COBIT
7 1 (0.071%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 155 (11.06%) Docker
2 31 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.071%) Firmware
6 1 (0.071%) HDFS
6 1 (0.071%) Squid
Systems Management
1 108 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 100 (7.13%) Terraform
3 16 (1.14%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Ansible
4 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.14%) Argo
6 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.071%) CASB
7 1 (0.071%) Control-M
7 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 321 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.93%) Oracle
2 27 (1.93%) Salesforce
3 23 (1.64%) Xamarin
4 18 (1.28%) Google
5 14 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 13 (0.93%) Databricks
6 13 (0.93%) Guidewire
6 13 (0.93%) Sage
7 11 (0.78%) Telerik
8 10 (0.71%) New Relic
9 9 (0.64%) Apple
9 9 (0.64%) DevExpress
10 8 (0.57%) Adobe
10 8 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.50%) Datto
11 7 (0.50%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.50%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.50%) Syncfusion