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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 34 22
Rank change year-on-year -44 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,452 2,840 3,982
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.75% 5.90% 8.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.20% 27.30% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,304 1,885 3,615
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 6,259 10,404 12,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.84% 21.61% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 6,107 10,094
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,663
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -37 395 £80,000 +6.67% 189
North of England -33 352 £62,500 +13.64% 211
South East -36 345 £60,000 - 301
North West -19 192 £65,000 +18.18% 125
Midlands -43 188 £55,000 -4.35% 111
West Midlands -33 116 £50,000 -13.04% 45
Yorkshire -39 103 £55,000 +4.76% 55
South West -54 88 £55,000 -6.38% 92
East Midlands -42 72 £65,000 +28.08% 65
East of England -70 59 £60,000 +20.00% 110
North East -2 57 £68,500 +5.38% 31
.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 44 (3.03%) IIS
2 25 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.24%) CMS
4 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.83%) Confluence
6 11 (0.76%) JBoss
6 11 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) nginx
10 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.069%) Apache
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.069%) Kentico
12 1 (0.069%) SAS
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.14%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.14%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.069%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.069%) Endur
4 1 (0.069%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.069%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.069%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 783 (53.93%) Azure
2 316 (21.76%) AWS
3 236 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
4 204 (14.05%) SaaS
5 119 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 110 (7.58%) GitHub
7 106 (7.30%) Serverless
8 79 (5.44%) GCP
9 66 (4.55%) Power Automate
10 56 (3.86%) Azure Functions
10 56 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
11 55 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 53 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (3.58%) PowerApps
14 42 (2.89%) Entra ID
15 41 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 29 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.79%) Azure AKS
19 24 (1.65%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.96%) DNS
2 12 (0.83%) DHCP
2 12 (0.83%) Internet
3 10 (0.69%) Firewall
4 9 (0.62%) VoIP
4 9 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.55%) WinSCP
6 4 (0.28%) HTTP
6 4 (0.28%) SAN
7 3 (0.21%) Intranet
8 2 (0.14%) LAN
8 2 (0.14%) NAS
8 2 (0.14%) SSL
8 2 (0.14%) VLAN
8 2 (0.14%) WAN
9 1 (0.069%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.069%) IPv6
9 1 (0.069%) MPLS
9 1 (0.069%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (27.13%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.72%) NoSQL
3 76 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 72 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (3.79%) MySQL
6 49 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 48 (3.31%) Power BI
8 44 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 43 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.52%) Redis
13 21 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.62%) Tableau
16 6 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
18 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
18 3 (0.21%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 137 (9.44%) Git
2 68 (4.68%) JIRA
3 50 (3.44%) Selenium
4 44 (3.03%) Postman
5 42 (2.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 40 (2.75%) Visual Studio
7 35 (2.41%) SoapUI
8 32 (2.20%) WebDriver
9 24 (1.65%) Jenkins
10 22 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 17 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (0.69%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.62%) Storybook
14 8 (0.55%) GitLab
15 7 (0.48%) MSTest
15 7 (0.48%) NUnit
16 6 (0.41%) git-flow
17 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.28%) Cypress.io
18 4 (0.28%) LabVIEW
General
1 343 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 263 (18.11%) Finance
3 63 (4.34%) Law
4 56 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (3.17%) Banking
6 43 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 30 (2.07%) Legal
8 29 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (1.93%) Retail
10 20 (1.38%) Marketing
11 18 (1.24%) Games
12 17 (1.17%) Billing
12 17 (1.17%) Front Office
13 16 (1.10%) Aviation
14 15 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.76%) Back Office
17 10 (0.69%) Automotive
18 9 (0.62%) Publishing
18 9 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 808 (55.65%) Developer
2 326 (22.45%) .NET Developer
2 326 (22.45%) Senior
3 228 (15.70%) Software Developer
4 213 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 184 (12.67%) Lead
6 166 (11.43%) C# Developer
7 164 (11.29%) Senior Developer
8 147 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 87 (5.99%) .NET Software Engineer
10 81 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 80 (5.51%) .NET Software Developer
12 73 (5.03%) C# .NET Developer
13 68 (4.68%) Lead Developer
14 67 (4.61%) Senior .NET Developer
15 62 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 58 (3.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 57 (3.93%) Analyst
18 46 (3.17%) Senior Software Developer
19 41 (2.82%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (24.24%) .NET Core
2 308 (21.21%) React
3 257 (17.70%) ASP.NET
4 223 (15.36%) .NET Framework
5 197 (13.57%) HTML
6 173 (11.91%) AngularJS
7 162 (11.16%) CSS
8 124 (8.54%) RESTful
9 114 (7.85%) REST
10 104 (7.16%) Entity Framework
11 98 (6.75%) Blazor
12 77 (5.30%) Vue
13 76 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
14 70 (4.82%) Node.js
15 66 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
16 65 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
17 59 (4.06%) SOAP
18 43 (2.96%) HTML5
19 38 (2.62%) WPF
20 30 (2.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.99%) Cloud Native
2 77 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 65 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 50 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.86%) Virtual Team
8 25 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (0.96%) Client/Server
12 14 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.76%) DataPower
15 10 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.51%) Windows
2 27 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.79%) Linux
4 25 (1.72%) Android
5 24 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.48%) VMS
7 7 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.21%) Unix
9 1 (0.069%) Fedora
9 1 (0.069%) Solaris
9 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (40.43%) Agile
2 426 (29.34%) Software Engineering
3 408 (28.10%) DevOps
4 406 (27.96%) CI/CD
5 370 (25.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 277 (19.08%) Microservices
7 276 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 176 (12.12%) Mentoring
10 154 (10.61%) Scrum
11 149 (10.26%) AI
12 134 (9.23%) MVC
13 133 (9.16%) Clean Code
14 130 (8.95%) SDLC
15 123 (8.47%) User Experience
16 117 (8.06%) TDD
17 110 (7.58%) Containerisation
18 109 (7.51%) Computer Science
19 98 (6.75%) Roadmaps
19 98 (6.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (71.35%) C#
2 490 (33.75%) SQL
3 383 (26.38%) JavaScript
4 225 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 156 (10.74%) Java
6 111 (7.64%) Python
7 59 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 32 (2.20%) C++
9 32 (2.20%) PHP
10 29 (2.00%) VB.NET
11 25 (1.72%) Bicep
12 16 (1.10%) Bash
13 13 (0.90%) Rust
14 8 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.55%) C
14 8 (0.55%) Go
14 8 (0.55%) XAML
15 5 (0.34%) Swift
15 5 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 206 (14.19%) Degree
2 72 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (2.89%) ISTQB
4 38 (2.62%) Security Cleared
5 34 (2.34%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.69%) ISEB
12 9 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.28%) HND
15 4 (0.28%) MCSE
16 3 (0.21%) MCSA
17 2 (0.14%) HNC
17 2 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (6.13%) QA
2 41 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.03%) WCAG
4 14 (0.96%) GDPR
5 4 (0.28%) GRC
6 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.21%) HL7
6 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.069%) SOC 2
System Software
1 143 (9.85%) Docker
2 26 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.14%) vSphere
5 1 (0.069%) HDFS
5 1 (0.069%) Squid
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.82%) Terraform
3 16 (1.10%) Grafana
4 11 (0.76%) Ansible
5 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.14%) Argo
8 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.069%) CASB
9 1 (0.069%) Control-M
9 1 (0.069%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 301 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.86%) Salesforce
3 25 (1.72%) Xamarin
4 22 (1.52%) Oracle
5 16 (1.10%) Google
6 14 (0.96%) MuleSoft
7 13 (0.90%) Sage
8 11 (0.76%) Guidewire
8 11 (0.76%) Telerik
9 10 (0.69%) Databricks
9 10 (0.69%) New Relic
10 9 (0.62%) Apple
11 7 (0.48%) Adobe
11 7 (0.48%) Datto
11 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.48%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.48%) Syncfusion
12 6 (0.41%) Facebook
12 6 (0.41%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.41%) YouTube