.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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -37 +5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,398 1,845 6,905
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.85% 4.61% 7.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.11% 23.63% 37.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,183 1,369 5,834
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
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 8,846 7,807 18,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.51% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 5,267 14,848
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +22 623 £57,500 - 134
London -21 546 £80,000 - 167
North of England -2 540 £60,000 - 121
Midlands +5 305 £55,000 - 58
North West 0 280 £60,000 +9.09% 63
South West +10 190 £55,000 +4.76% 42
East of England +13 172 £65,000 +23.81% 41
West Midlands -18 157 £55,000 +2.44% 34
East Midlands +32 148 £55,000 - 24
North East -2 133 £58,250 +5.91% 30
Yorkshire -4 127 £58,750 -9.62% 30
.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 60 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 26 (1.08%) CMS
2 26 (1.08%) IIS
3 18 (0.75%) Confluence
4 16 (0.67%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.29%) WordPress
8 6 (0.25%) Apache
8 6 (0.25%) JBoss
9 5 (0.21%) nginx
9 5 (0.21%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.083%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.083%) Kentico
12 2 (0.083%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 2 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.083%) Shopify
4 2 (0.083%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.042%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,186 (49.46%) Azure
2 364 (15.18%) AWS
3 362 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (9.72%) SaaS
5 183 (7.63%) GitHub
6 154 (6.42%) Power Platform
7 127 (5.30%) Serverless
8 118 (4.92%) Azure AI
9 114 (4.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 112 (4.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 101 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 93 (3.88%) Power Automate
13 89 (3.71%) PowerApps
14 81 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 80 (3.34%) Azure Functions
16 78 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
17 56 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (2.25%) Azure AKS
18 54 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
19 53 (2.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.09%) Internet
2 9 (0.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.33%) Firewall
3 8 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.21%) DHCP
4 5 (0.21%) DNS
4 5 (0.21%) LAN
4 5 (0.21%) LTE
4 5 (0.21%) WAN
5 4 (0.17%) Intranet
6 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.13%) RS-232
6 3 (0.13%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.083%) Modbus
8 1 (0.042%) AMQP
8 1 (0.042%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.042%) HTTP
8 1 (0.042%) Profibus
8 1 (0.042%) SSL
8 1 (0.042%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (19.14%) SQL Server
2 379 (15.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 318 (13.26%) MongoDB
4 116 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
5 99 (4.13%) Power BI
6 63 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 56 (2.34%) MySQL
8 40 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (0.79%) Redis
13 13 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.50%) Db2
15 11 (0.46%) GIS
16 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.29%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.25%) Big Data
18 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
18 5 (0.21%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 143 (5.96%) Git
2 47 (1.96%) JIRA
3 33 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 28 (1.17%) Postman
5 27 (1.13%) Selenium
6 16 (0.67%) GitLab
6 16 (0.67%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 13 (0.54%) NUnit
7 13 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 13 (0.54%) WebDriver
8 12 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 12 (0.50%) SoapUI
8 12 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 377 (15.72%) Finance
2 329 (13.72%) Social Skills
3 99 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (2.92%) Retail
5 63 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 46 (1.92%) Games
7 45 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 44 (1.83%) Banking
8 44 (1.83%) Law
9 43 (1.79%) Advertising
10 42 (1.75%) Legal
11 40 (1.67%) Marketing
12 35 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 24 (1.00%) Automotive
15 20 (0.83%) Electronics
16 12 (0.50%) Back Office
16 12 (0.50%) Legal Technology
17 11 (0.46%) Front Office
18 9 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,442 (60.13%) Developer
2 813 (33.90%) .NET Developer
3 485 (20.23%) Senior
4 404 (16.85%) Software Engineer
5 344 (14.35%) Software Developer
6 255 (10.63%) Lead
7 239 (9.97%) Senior Developer
8 207 (8.63%) C# Developer
9 186 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 184 (7.67%) .NET Software Engineer
11 166 (6.92%) C# .NET Developer
12 155 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 150 (6.26%) C# Software Engineer
14 132 (5.50%) .NET Software Developer
15 127 (5.30%) Lead Developer
16 108 (4.50%) Senior .NET Developer
17 105 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 85 (3.54%) Architect
19 81 (3.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 74 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (28.73%) .NET Core
2 595 (24.81%) ASP.NET
3 434 (18.10%) ASP.NET Core
4 377 (15.72%) React
5 320 (13.34%) HTML
6 317 (13.22%) CSS
7 271 (11.30%) AngularJS
8 241 (10.05%) .NET Framework
9 227 (9.47%) Blazor
10 225 (9.38%) Entity Framework
10 225 (9.38%) RESTful
11 215 (8.97%) Vue
12 199 (8.30%) Node.js
13 179 (7.46%) REST
14 165 (6.88%) ASP.NET Web API
15 107 (4.46%) ML.NET
16 82 (3.42%) LINQ
17 61 (2.54%) jQuery
18 60 (2.50%) JSON
19 50 (2.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 125 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
3 87 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 85 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 76 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 70 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 58 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.38%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.88%) Low-Code
11 19 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 19 (0.79%) Onboarding
12 17 (0.71%) Algorithms
12 17 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (0.67%) Digital TV
13 16 (0.67%) Sports Betting
14 15 (0.63%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.58%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.42%) Windows
2 30 (1.25%) Android
3 25 (1.04%) Linux
3 25 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.50%) VMS
5 9 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.083%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (33.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 730 (30.44%) Agile
3 643 (26.81%) Software Engineering
4 564 (23.52%) CI/CD
5 559 (23.31%) DevOps
6 385 (16.06%) Microservices
7 354 (14.76%) AI
8 281 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
9 243 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 213 (8.88%) Mentoring
11 194 (8.09%) SDLC
12 180 (7.51%) Test Automation
13 171 (7.13%) Machine Learning
14 152 (6.34%) Scrum
15 150 (6.26%) TDD
16 140 (5.84%) Technical Leadership
17 136 (5.67%) Clean Code
18 133 (5.55%) Containerisation
18 133 (5.55%) Multithreading
19 126 (5.25%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,761 (73.44%) C#
2 880 (36.70%) SQL
3 507 (21.14%) JavaScript
4 330 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 201 (8.38%) Python
6 146 (6.09%) Java
7 83 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 80 (3.34%) C++
9 56 (2.34%) PHP
10 50 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 45 (1.88%) VB.NET
12 42 (1.75%) Bicep
13 24 (1.00%) C
14 21 (0.88%) Bash
15 20 (0.83%) VB
16 15 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 15 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (0.42%) Go
19 9 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 209 (8.72%) Degree
2 89 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 21 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 7 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.13%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.13%) PhD
12 2 (0.083%) CSQA
12 2 (0.083%) MBA
12 2 (0.083%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.25%) QA
2 59 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 16 (0.67%) GDPR
4 15 (0.63%) WCAG
5 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.33%) SLA
6 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.17%) NCSC
7 4 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.083%) ITGC
9 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 260 (10.84%) Docker
2 16 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.50%) Firmware
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 250 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 109 (4.55%) Terraform
3 14 (0.58%) Grafana
4 7 (0.29%) Ansible
5 6 (0.25%) Kibana
5 6 (0.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.083%) MIIS
7 1 (0.042%) Consul
7 1 (0.042%) MOM
7 1 (0.042%) Packer
7 1 (0.042%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.042%) Puppet
Vendors
1 704 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 46 (1.92%) Google
3 39 (1.63%) Facebook
4 34 (1.42%) Oracle
5 30 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.17%) OpenAI
7 27 (1.13%) Adobe
8 21 (0.88%) Xamarin
9 16 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 15 (0.63%) YouTube
11 12 (0.50%) Databricks
12 11 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.38%) iManage
14 8 (0.33%) Apple
14 8 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.33%) Sony
14 8 (0.33%) VMware
14 8 (0.33%) Yahoo!
15 7 (0.29%) IBM
15 7 (0.29%) Intapp