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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 49 23
Rank change year-on-year -29 -26 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,692 1,973 5,944
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.48% 5.36% 7.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.62% 24.52% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 1,679 5,298
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -3.23%

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 7,162 8,048 16,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 21.86% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,452 5,950 13,789
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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
London -27 456 £82,500 +10.00% 218
South East -29 412 £60,000 - 174
North of England -32 393 £65,000 +13.04% 164
Midlands -37 208 £55,000 - 87
North West -31 205 £65,000 +18.18% 89
Yorkshire -25 124 £60,000 +9.09% 48
South West -13 121 £55,000 -8.33% 64
West Midlands -34 111 £50,000 -15.97% 50
East Midlands -32 97 £60,000 +14.29% 37
East of England -53 75 £60,000 +20.00% 63
North East -13 64 £70,000 +16.67% 33
.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 34 (2.01%) IIS
2 33 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.06%) CMS
4 13 (0.77%) JBoss
4 13 (0.77%) WebSphere
5 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.65%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.47%) Confluence
7 5 (0.30%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.18%) ColdFusion
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Apache
10 2 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.059%) Drupal
11 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.059%) SAS
11 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.059%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.18%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 33 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) Magento
3 1 (0.059%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.059%) Endur
3 1 (0.059%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.059%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 753 (44.50%) Azure
2 281 (16.61%) AWS
3 228 (13.48%) SaaS
4 214 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
5 132 (7.80%) Power Platform
6 109 (6.44%) Serverless
7 105 (6.21%) GitHub
8 74 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 62 (3.66%) Azure Functions
9 62 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 60 (3.55%) Power Automate
11 57 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
11 57 (3.37%) GCP
12 48 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 44 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 38 (2.25%) Azure AKS
15 36 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
17 29 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
17 29 (1.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.00%) Internet
2 10 (0.59%) Firewall
3 8 (0.47%) WinSCP
4 7 (0.41%) DNS
5 6 (0.35%) DHCP
6 4 (0.24%) VoIP
6 4 (0.24%) VPN
7 3 (0.18%) LTE
7 3 (0.18%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.12%) Intranet
9 1 (0.059%) AMQP
9 1 (0.059%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.059%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.059%) HTTP
9 1 (0.059%) Modbus
9 1 (0.059%) MPLS
9 1 (0.059%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (24.70%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 70 (4.14%) Power BI
5 50 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 49 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 46 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 45 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 41 (2.42%) MySQL
10 40 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.18%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.06%) Redis
13 16 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.71%) DB2
15 7 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.41%) GIS
16 5 (0.30%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
17 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
17 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 128 (7.57%) Git
2 50 (2.96%) JIRA
3 48 (2.84%) Selenium
4 45 (2.66%) Visual Studio
5 33 (1.95%) Postman
6 28 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (1.48%) WebDriver
8 23 (1.36%) SoapUI
9 20 (1.18%) Jenkins
9 20 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 17 (1.00%) SpecFlow
11 14 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.59%) NUnit
13 8 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.30%) git-flow
15 5 (0.30%) GitLab
15 5 (0.30%) JMeter
16 4 (0.24%) Appium
General
1 334 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 287 (16.96%) Finance
3 85 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (3.84%) Law
5 61 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.37%) Banking
7 39 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.36%) Games
8 23 (1.36%) Legal
9 22 (1.30%) Marketing
10 21 (1.24%) Retail
11 17 (1.00%) Front Office
12 15 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.83%) Aviation
14 12 (0.71%) Tech for Good
15 11 (0.65%) Electronics
16 9 (0.53%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.53%) Military
16 9 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 918 (54.26%) Developer
2 413 (24.41%) Senior
3 377 (22.28%) .NET Developer
4 306 (18.09%) Software Engineer
5 276 (16.31%) Software Developer
6 203 (12.00%) Lead
7 194 (11.47%) Senior Developer
8 193 (11.41%) C# Developer
9 171 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 140 (8.27%) .NET Software Engineer
11 120 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 114 (6.74%) C# .NET Developer
13 92 (5.44%) .NET Software Developer
14 83 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 82 (4.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 78 (4.61%) Senior .NET Developer
17 76 (4.49%) Lead Developer
18 65 (3.84%) C# Software Engineer
19 62 (3.66%) Architect
20 57 (3.37%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (23.76%) .NET Core
2 292 (17.26%) React
3 262 (15.48%) ASP.NET
4 218 (12.88%) .NET Framework
5 205 (12.12%) HTML
6 180 (10.64%) CSS
7 143 (8.45%) AngularJS
7 143 (8.45%) REST
8 117 (6.91%) RESTful
9 100 (5.91%) Entity Framework
10 92 (5.44%) Node.js
11 91 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
11 91 (5.38%) Blazor
12 69 (4.08%) Vue
13 61 (3.61%) SOAP
14 45 (2.66%) ASP.NET MVC
15 44 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
16 39 (2.30%) Middleware
17 35 (2.07%) HTML5
18 32 (1.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.84%) Mobile App
3 63 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 25 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
11 18 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 16 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.77%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.77%) DataPower
16 12 (0.71%) Legacy Code
16 12 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.20%) Windows
2 27 (1.60%) Linux
3 25 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.24%) Android
5 19 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.06%) VMS
7 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.059%) Fedora
10 1 (0.059%) Solaris
10 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (31.21%) Software Engineering
2 524 (30.97%) Agile
3 426 (25.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 398 (23.52%) DevOps
5 381 (22.52%) CI/CD
6 276 (16.31%) Microservices
7 254 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (9.87%) Mentoring
10 148 (8.75%) AI
11 142 (8.39%) SDLC
12 137 (8.10%) Clean Code
13 127 (7.51%) Test Automation
14 126 (7.45%) Scrum
15 125 (7.39%) Containerisation
16 115 (6.80%) User Experience
17 114 (6.74%) MVC
18 109 (6.44%) Technical Leadership
19 98 (5.79%) Computer Science
19 98 (5.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (68.44%) C#
2 531 (31.38%) SQL
3 376 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 203 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 164 (9.69%) Java
6 148 (8.75%) Python
7 63 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.48%) C++
9 34 (2.01%) T-SQL
10 29 (1.71%) PHP
11 28 (1.65%) Bicep
11 28 (1.65%) VB.NET
12 21 (1.24%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.95%) C
14 15 (0.89%) Go
15 14 (0.83%) Bash
16 12 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.47%) Rust
17 8 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 193 (11.41%) Degree
2 63 (3.72%) Security Cleared
3 51 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (3.01%) SC Cleared
4 27 (1.60%) ISTQB
5 20 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 19 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (0.47%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.41%) ISEB
11 7 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.97%) QA
2 45 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.77%) GDPR
4 12 (0.71%) WCAG
5 9 (0.53%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.47%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.41%) SLA
8 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.059%) NCSC
12 1 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (9.46%) Docker
2 20 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.41%) Firmware
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.059%) Squid
Systems Management
1 134 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 93 (5.50%) Terraform
3 15 (0.89%) Grafana
4 11 (0.65%) Ansible
5 8 (0.47%) Kibana
6 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.12%) MIIS
7 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.059%) Argo
8 1 (0.059%) CASB
8 1 (0.059%) Consul
8 1 (0.059%) Control-M
8 1 (0.059%) Packer
8 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.059%) Puppet
Vendors
1 304 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 33 (1.95%) Salesforce
3 30 (1.77%) Xamarin
4 23 (1.36%) Google
5 19 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 13 (0.77%) Oracle
6 13 (0.77%) Sage
7 12 (0.71%) Adobe
7 12 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.59%) New Relic
9 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.47%) Databricks
11 7 (0.41%) Apple
12 6 (0.35%) Telerik
12 6 (0.35%) VMware
13 5 (0.30%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.30%) Facebook
13 5 (0.30%) iManage
13 5 (0.30%) Intapp
13 5 (0.30%) OpenAI