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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 60 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 -35 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,595 1,885 5,067
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.88% 4.34% 6.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.62% 24.08% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 1,417 4,129
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 £93,250
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 9,396 7,829 14,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 18.03% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,139 5,279 11,248
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 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
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 28 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 28 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 +23 678 £57,500 - 167
North of England +3 601 £57,500 -4.17% 155
London -28 557 £80,000 - 240
Midlands +10 322 £55,000 - 75
North West -3 280 £60,000 +0.84% 82
South West +19 208 £52,500 - 50
East of England +22 206 £65,000 +23.81% 65
West Midlands -14 172 £60,000 +9.09% 36
Yorkshire +15 161 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North East +2 160 £56,500 +29.89% 41
East Midlands +29 150 £55,000 - 39
.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 (2.62%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.27%) IIS
3 31 (1.19%) CMS
4 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 16 (0.62%) 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%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) EPiServer
10 4 (0.15%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
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 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.19%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.19%) Shopify
3 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.077%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.077%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,361 (52.45%) Azure
2 426 (16.42%) AWS
3 419 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (8.79%) GitHub
5 205 (7.90%) SaaS
6 181 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 164 (6.32%) Azure AI
8 156 (6.01%) GitHub Copilot
9 135 (5.20%) Serverless
10 114 (4.39%) Power Automate
11 113 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 109 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 100 (3.85%) PowerApps
14 94 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
15 88 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (2.97%) Azure Functions
17 68 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
18 64 (2.47%) GCP
19 55 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.47%) 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
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 3 (0.12%) SNMP
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
10 1 (0.039%) AMQP
10 1 (0.039%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.039%) Profibus
10 1 (0.039%) SSL
10 1 (0.039%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 513 (19.77%) SQL Server
2 492 (18.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 422 (16.26%) MongoDB
4 159 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
5 113 (4.35%) Power BI
6 68 (2.62%) MySQL
7 65 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 52 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 46 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (0.96%) Redis
13 19 (0.73%) 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 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 167 (6.44%) Git
2 45 (1.73%) JIRA
3 27 (1.04%) Selenium
4 26 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 22 (0.85%) Postman
6 21 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 20 (0.77%) NUnit
8 19 (0.73%) GitLab
9 12 (0.46%) SpecFlow
10 10 (0.39%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.31%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.27%) Moq
13 7 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.23%) MSTest
14 6 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 391 (15.07%) Finance
2 383 (14.76%) Social Skills
3 113 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (3.28%) Retail
5 73 (2.81%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.31%) Advertising
7 57 (2.20%) Law
8 56 (2.16%) Legal
9 55 (2.12%) Games
9 55 (2.12%) Marketing
10 53 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 52 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 31 (1.19%) Banking
14 25 (0.96%) Automotive
15 20 (0.77%) Electronics
16 13 (0.50%) Back Office
16 13 (0.50%) Legal Technology
17 12 (0.46%) Front Office
18 11 (0.42%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,592 (61.35%) Developer
2 942 (36.30%) .NET Developer
3 489 (18.84%) Senior
4 414 (15.95%) Software Engineer
5 331 (12.76%) Software Developer
6 288 (11.10%) Lead
7 249 (9.60%) Senior Developer
8 211 (8.13%) C# Developer
9 193 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 170 (6.55%) .NET Software Engineer
11 166 (6.40%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (5.90%) C# Software Engineer
13 148 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 138 (5.32%) Lead Developer
15 126 (4.86%) .NET Software Developer
16 115 (4.43%) Senior .NET Developer
17 111 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 91 (3.51%) Architect
19 87 (3.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 87 (3.35%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (29.90%) .NET Core
2 743 (28.63%) ASP.NET
3 571 (22.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 431 (16.61%) React
5 371 (14.30%) CSS
5 371 (14.30%) HTML
6 325 (12.52%) AngularJS
7 286 (11.02%) Blazor
8 284 (10.94%) Entity Framework
9 279 (10.75%) .NET Framework
10 278 (10.71%) RESTful
11 260 (10.02%) Vue
12 251 (9.67%) Node.js
13 216 (8.32%) ASP.NET Web API
14 209 (8.05%) REST
15 143 (5.51%) ML.NET
16 110 (4.24%) LINQ
17 83 (3.20%) JSON
18 67 (2.58%) jQuery
19 56 (2.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 165 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 153 (5.90%) Greenfield Project
3 117 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 112 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 61 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 30 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 30 (1.16%) Legacy Code
9 29 (1.12%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 26 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 24 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (0.77%) Digital TV
13 19 (0.73%) Low-Code
14 17 (0.66%) iPhone
15 16 (0.62%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.62%) Client/Server
16 14 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.85%) Windows
2 33 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 30 (1.16%) Android
3 30 (1.16%) Linux
4 10 (0.39%) VMS
5 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.077%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (36.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 848 (32.68%) Agile
3 670 (25.82%) Software Engineering
4 647 (24.93%) DevOps
5 639 (24.62%) CI/CD
6 461 (17.76%) Microservices
7 415 (15.99%) AI
8 324 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
9 258 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 246 (9.48%) Mentoring
11 210 (8.09%) SDLC
12 205 (7.90%) Machine Learning
13 188 (7.24%) Test Automation
14 180 (6.94%) Scrum
15 171 (6.59%) Multithreading
16 170 (6.55%) TDD
17 159 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
19 142 (5.47%) Clean Code
20 141 (5.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,967 (75.80%) C#
2 992 (38.23%) SQL
3 587 (22.62%) JavaScript
4 379 (14.61%) TypeScript
5 225 (8.67%) Python
6 159 (6.13%) Java
7 91 (3.51%) C++
8 82 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 61 (2.35%) PHP
10 59 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 53 (2.04%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.70%) Bicep
13 28 (1.08%) C
14 22 (0.85%) Bash
15 18 (0.69%) VB
16 16 (0.62%) Go
17 14 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.50%) Apex Code
19 11 (0.42%) VBA
20 9 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 225 (8.67%) Degree
2 108 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 71 (2.74%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 17 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.15%) MBA
12 3 (0.12%) PhD
12 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.077%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.077%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (5.51%) QA
2 65 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.81%) GDPR
5 15 (0.58%) WCAG
6 10 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.077%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.039%) ITGC
11 1 (0.039%) NIST
System Software
1 317 (12.22%) Docker
2 15 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.42%) 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
1 299 (11.52%) Kubernetes
2 121 (4.66%) Terraform
3 12 (0.46%) Grafana
3 12 (0.46%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.077%) MIIS
6 1 (0.039%) Consul
6 1 (0.039%) Control-M
6 1 (0.039%) MOM
6 1 (0.039%) Packer
6 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.039%) Puppet
Vendors
1 906 (34.91%) Microsoft
2 69 (2.66%) Google
3 54 (2.08%) Facebook
4 37 (1.43%) Oracle
5 31 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.12%) Adobe
6 29 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 21 (0.81%) YouTube
8 16 (0.62%) Xamarin
9 14 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 13 (0.50%) Databricks
10 13 (0.50%) iManage
11 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 11 (0.42%) Intapp
11 11 (0.42%) Sony
11 11 (0.42%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.35%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.35%) VMware
13 8 (0.31%) Aderant
13 8 (0.31%) Splunk