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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 75 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -49 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,596 1,617 4,178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.50% 3.74% 6.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.11% 21.70% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 1,208 2,801
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,275 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 10,769 7,452 14,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.23% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 4,917 9,120
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,857 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,600
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 2 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 2 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 +44 682 £60,000 - 302
North of England +4 597 £55,000 -8.33% 338
London -31 533 £80,000 - 838
Midlands +29 360 £60,000 +9.09% 215
North West -16 263 £60,000 -4.00% 198
East of England +18 208 £60,000 +12.68% 141
West Midlands -2 194 £58,750 +6.82% 108
South West +3 190 £54,500 +3.81% 93
North East +12 179 £56,500 +29.89% 51
East Midlands +45 166 £60,000 +9.09% 107
Yorkshire +6 155 £55,000 -8.33% 95
.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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.81%) IIS
3 29 (1.12%) CMS
4 24 (0.92%) Confluence
5 13 (0.50%) Umbraco
6 12 (0.46%) ColdFusion
7 9 (0.35%) Apache
7 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 8 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.31%) WordPress
9 6 (0.23%) CICS
9 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.12%) DNN
12 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.12%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.54%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.15%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.077%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.077%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Actimize
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Endur
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Magento
6 1 (0.039%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,343 (51.73%) Azure
2 475 (18.30%) AWS
3 456 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
4 261 (10.05%) GitHub
5 182 (7.01%) SaaS
6 179 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 170 (6.55%) Azure AI
8 166 (6.39%) GitHub Copilot
9 150 (5.78%) Serverless
10 120 (4.62%) Power Automate
11 108 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 96 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 96 (3.70%) PowerApps
13 94 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
14 80 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 78 (3.00%) Azure Functions
16 74 (2.85%) GCP
17 67 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
18 62 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.58%) Internet
2 19 (0.73%) Firewall
3 13 (0.50%) VLAN
4 11 (0.42%) Wireless
5 9 (0.35%) HTTP
5 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.23%) SNMP
7 5 (0.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.19%) DNS
7 5 (0.19%) LAN
7 5 (0.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.12%) Intranet
8 3 (0.12%) RS-232
9 2 (0.077%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.077%) LTE
9 2 (0.077%) Modbus
9 2 (0.077%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.077%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 561 (21.61%) SQL Server
2 467 (17.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 413 (15.91%) MongoDB
4 158 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
5 98 (3.78%) Power BI
6 97 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 81 (3.12%) MySQL
7 81 (3.12%) NoSQL
8 71 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (1.31%) Redis
10 25 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.65%) Spark SQL
13 16 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.46%) Big Data
16 11 (0.42%) NonStop SQL
16 11 (0.42%) SQLite
17 10 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 215 (8.28%) Git
2 49 (1.89%) JIRA
3 43 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 34 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.16%) GitLab
7 26 (1.00%) NUnit
8 20 (0.77%) Postman
9 19 (0.73%) Selenium
10 16 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (0.35%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.35%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.31%) Moq
14 8 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.27%) MSI
15 7 (0.27%) Snyk
16 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 455 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 385 (14.83%) Finance
3 161 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 88 (3.39%) Retail
6 75 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (2.50%) Games
7 65 (2.50%) Law
8 62 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 60 (2.31%) Legal
10 59 (2.27%) Advertising
11 51 (1.96%) Marketing
12 29 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 24 (0.92%) Banking
14 23 (0.89%) Automotive
15 21 (0.81%) Front Office
16 20 (0.77%) Electronics
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Back Office
18 13 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,506 (58.01%) Developer
2 922 (35.52%) .NET Developer
3 469 (18.07%) Senior
4 394 (15.18%) Software Engineer
5 286 (11.02%) Lead
6 271 (10.44%) Software Developer
7 236 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 200 (7.70%) C# Developer
9 181 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 155 (5.97%) C# Software Engineer
11 151 (5.82%) C# .NET Developer
12 145 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
13 143 (5.51%) .NET Software Engineer
14 127 (4.89%) Lead Developer
15 120 (4.62%) Senior .NET Developer
16 114 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 96 (3.70%) .NET Software Developer
18 84 (3.24%) Architect
19 83 (3.20%) Web Developer
20 75 (2.89%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 753 (29.01%) .NET Core
2 738 (28.43%) ASP.NET
3 569 (21.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 464 (17.87%) React
5 370 (14.25%) HTML
6 367 (14.14%) CSS
7 336 (12.94%) AngularJS
8 296 (11.40%) Entity Framework
9 294 (11.33%) RESTful
10 289 (11.13%) Blazor
11 279 (10.75%) .NET Framework
12 254 (9.78%) Vue
13 248 (9.55%) Node.js
14 238 (9.17%) REST
15 219 (8.44%) ASP.NET Web API
16 137 (5.28%) ML.NET
17 135 (5.20%) Terraform
18 108 (4.16%) LINQ
19 90 (3.47%) jQuery
20 79 (3.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 184 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 156 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 150 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
4 145 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 103 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 59 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 53 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 52 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 43 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
11 36 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 25 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 23 (0.89%) Hedge funds
14 23 (0.89%) Legacy Code
15 22 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 21 (0.81%) Low-Code
17 20 (0.77%) IoT
18 19 (0.73%) Digital TV
19 17 (0.65%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 115 (4.43%) Windows
2 38 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 35 (1.35%) Linux
4 29 (1.12%) Android
5 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.039%) Unix
7 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (35.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 847 (32.63%) Agile
3 720 (27.73%) CI/CD
4 690 (26.58%) DevOps
5 683 (26.31%) Software Engineering
6 468 (18.03%) AI
7 450 (17.33%) Microservices
8 408 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
9 283 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 281 (10.82%) Mentoring
11 222 (8.55%) SDLC
11 222 (8.55%) Test Automation
12 196 (7.55%) Machine Learning
13 185 (7.13%) Technical Leadership
14 176 (6.78%) Scrum
15 174 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 166 (6.39%) Code Quality
16 166 (6.39%) Multithreading
17 154 (5.93%) Event-Driven
18 153 (5.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2,011 (77.47%) C#
2 986 (37.98%) SQL
3 599 (23.07%) JavaScript
4 360 (13.87%) TypeScript
5 233 (8.98%) Python
6 170 (6.55%) Java
7 100 (3.85%) C++
8 69 (2.66%) VB.NET
9 64 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 63 (2.43%) T-SQL
11 57 (2.20%) PHP
12 39 (1.50%) Bicep
13 27 (1.04%) C
14 22 (0.85%) Bash
14 22 (0.85%) VB
15 20 (0.77%) COBOL
16 17 (0.65%) Go
16 17 (0.65%) VBA
17 16 (0.62%) JCL
18 10 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 241 (9.28%) Degree
2 123 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 96 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 77 (2.97%) SC Cleared
5 23 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 17 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.23%) PhD
12 5 (0.19%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.15%) MBA
13 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.12%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.12%) OCP
14 3 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (6.05%) QA
2 70 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 40 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.65%) WCAG
5 15 (0.58%) GDPR
6 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.27%) NCSC
8 3 (0.12%) NIST
9 2 (0.077%) Basel III
9 2 (0.077%) 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
1 328 (12.63%) Docker
2 27 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.039%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 290 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (0.58%) Grafana
3 14 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.46%) Ansible
5 2 (0.077%) Bosun
5 2 (0.077%) Control-M
5 2 (0.077%) Kibana
5 2 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.039%) Argo
6 1 (0.039%) MOM
6 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 930 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 70 (2.70%) Google
3 52 (2.00%) Facebook
4 50 (1.93%) Oracle
5 37 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.81%) Adobe
6 21 (0.81%) YouTube
7 19 (0.73%) VMware
8 18 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 15 (0.58%) Databricks
10 11 (0.42%) Apple
11 10 (0.39%) Broadcom
11 10 (0.39%) iManage
11 10 (0.39%) Intapp
11 10 (0.39%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.39%) Sony
11 10 (0.39%) Xamarin
11 10 (0.39%) Yahoo!
12 9 (0.35%) SAP
12 9 (0.35%) Splunk