.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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 29 25
Rank change year-on-year -58 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,357 3,402 3,511
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.76% 6.11% 7.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.07% 28.52% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,189 2,357 3,160
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.92% -7.69% +8.33%

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 6,149 11,929 11,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.49% 21.43% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 7,260 9,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -36 406 £80,000 +3.23% 194
North of England -40 318 £60,000 +9.09% 332
South East -49 295 £60,000 - 377
Midlands -62 163 £57,500 +4.55% 204
North West -33 158 £65,000 +18.18% 185
Yorkshire -39 115 £56,250 +7.14% 111
West Midlands -51 106 £55,000 -4.35% 93
South West -65 80 £55,000 - 126
East of England -68 68 £60,000 +20.00% 158
East Midlands -53 57 £66,000 +32.00% 99
North East -20 45 £50,000 -16.67% 37
.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 55 (4.05%) IIS
2 35 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.92%) CMS
4 19 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.18%) Confluence
6 9 (0.66%) JBoss
6 9 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.59%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.52%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) Kentico
12 1 (0.074%) SAS
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.15%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.074%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 53 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.15%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.074%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.074%) Endur
5 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.074%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.074%) Sage 1000
5 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 804 (59.25%) Azure
2 327 (24.10%) AWS
3 237 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (12.82%) SaaS
5 126 (9.29%) Power Platform
6 103 (7.59%) Serverless
7 101 (7.44%) GitHub
8 86 (6.34%) GCP
9 75 (5.53%) Power Automate
10 67 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 61 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 61 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
12 57 (4.20%) PowerApps
13 54 (3.98%) Azure Functions
14 48 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 41 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 41 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
17 27 (1.99%) Azure App Service
18 26 (1.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.03%) DNS
2 12 (0.88%) DHCP
2 12 (0.88%) VoIP
3 11 (0.81%) Internet
3 11 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (0.74%) Firewall
5 9 (0.66%) VPN
6 7 (0.52%) SAN
7 5 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 5 (0.37%) HTTP
7 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 5 (0.37%) SSL
7 5 (0.37%) WAN
8 4 (0.29%) Modbus
8 4 (0.29%) MQTT
8 4 (0.29%) WPA
9 3 (0.22%) Intranet
10 2 (0.15%) NAS
10 2 (0.15%) VLAN
10 2 (0.15%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (29.48%) SQL Server
2 80 (5.90%) MongoDB
3 76 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 71 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 57 (4.20%) MySQL
6 53 (3.91%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.61%) Power BI
8 48 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
11 26 (1.92%) DynamoDB
11 26 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.77%) Redis
13 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.66%) Tableau
15 7 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
16 6 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
16 6 (0.44%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 149 (10.98%) Git
2 66 (4.86%) JIRA
3 37 (2.73%) Selenium
3 37 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
4 32 (2.36%) Postman
5 29 (2.14%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.92%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 22 (1.62%) SoapUI
8 21 (1.55%) WebDriver
9 20 (1.47%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.96%) GitLab
11 12 (0.88%) Storybook
12 10 (0.74%) NUnit
12 10 (0.74%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.66%) MSTest
14 6 (0.44%) git-flow
15 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.37%) MSBuild
16 4 (0.29%) Artifactory
General
1 353 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 245 (18.05%) Finance
3 74 (5.45%) Law
4 53 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (2.95%) Banking
5 40 (2.95%) Retail
6 38 (2.80%) Legal
6 38 (2.80%) Public Sector
7 25 (1.84%) Front Office
8 24 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 22 (1.62%) Marketing
10 21 (1.55%) Back Office
10 21 (1.55%) Billing
11 17 (1.25%) Games
12 12 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (0.81%) Automotive
13 11 (0.81%) Aviation
13 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 766 (56.45%) Developer
2 292 (21.52%) .NET Developer
3 289 (21.30%) Senior
4 180 (13.26%) Software Developer
5 173 (12.75%) Lead
6 167 (12.31%) C# Developer
7 164 (12.09%) Software Engineer
8 158 (11.64%) Senior Developer
9 135 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (4.79%) C# .NET Developer
11 60 (4.42%) .NET Software Developer
12 57 (4.20%) .NET Software Engineer
13 55 (4.05%) Lead Developer
14 53 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 51 (3.76%) Senior .NET Developer
16 49 (3.61%) Architect
17 47 (3.46%) Analyst
18 46 (3.39%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 44 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
20 39 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (24.10%) .NET Core
2 305 (22.48%) React
3 258 (19.01%) ASP.NET
4 243 (17.91%) .NET Framework
5 208 (15.33%) HTML
6 189 (13.93%) CSS
7 187 (13.78%) AngularJS
8 137 (10.10%) RESTful
9 123 (9.06%) Entity Framework
10 118 (8.70%) REST
11 97 (7.15%) Blazor
12 85 (6.26%) ASP.NET MVC
13 82 (6.04%) Node.js
14 81 (5.97%) Vue
15 73 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
16 60 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
17 52 (3.83%) HTML5
18 46 (3.39%) SOAP
18 46 (3.39%) Web Services
19 32 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (3.24%) Mobile App
6 39 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 36 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.03%) Client/Server
14 14 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.96%) Clustering
16 12 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.88%) Fixed Income
16 12 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.90%) Windows
2 28 (2.06%) Linux
3 26 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.84%) Apple iOS
5 24 (1.77%) Android
6 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.52%) VMS
7 7 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.22%) Unix
9 1 (0.074%) Fedora
9 1 (0.074%) Solaris
9 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (44.14%) Agile
2 445 (32.79%) DevOps
3 422 (31.10%) CI/CD
4 386 (28.45%) Software Engineering
5 346 (25.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 287 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
7 283 (20.85%) Microservices
8 237 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 190 (14.00%) Mentoring
10 153 (11.27%) MVC
11 152 (11.20%) Scrum
12 146 (10.76%) User Experience
13 141 (10.39%) Clean Code
14 137 (10.10%) AI
15 125 (9.21%) SDLC
16 117 (8.62%) TDD
17 113 (8.33%) Test Automation
18 112 (8.25%) Computer Science
19 110 (8.11%) Containerisation
19 110 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (74.65%) C#
2 469 (34.56%) SQL
3 415 (30.58%) JavaScript
4 235 (17.32%) TypeScript
5 150 (11.05%) Java
6 122 (8.99%) Python
7 58 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.95%) T-SQL
9 35 (2.58%) VB.NET
10 34 (2.51%) PHP
11 32 (2.36%) C++
12 30 (2.21%) Bicep
13 21 (1.55%) Bash
14 16 (1.18%) Rust
15 14 (1.03%) Go
16 9 (0.66%) XAML
17 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.44%) VB
19 5 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 211 (15.55%) Degree
2 79 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.28%) ISTQB
5 29 (2.14%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.81%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.74%) HND
12 10 (0.74%) ISEB
13 9 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (0.44%) HNC
16 5 (0.37%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
17 4 (0.29%) MCSE
18 3 (0.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.63%) QA
2 35 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.33%) GDPR
4 11 (0.81%) WCAG
5 4 (0.29%) GRC
5 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.22%) HL7
6 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.15%) ITGC
8 1 (0.074%) COBIT
8 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (11.94%) Docker
2 30 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.15%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) HDFS
7 1 (0.074%) Squid
Systems Management
1 115 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 95 (7.00%) Terraform
3 16 (1.18%) Grafana
4 11 (0.81%) Ansible
5 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.29%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.15%) Argo
7 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) Control-M
8 1 (0.074%) Kibana
Vendors
1 341 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 33 (2.43%) Oracle
3 29 (2.14%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.40%) Xamarin
5 17 (1.25%) Google
6 15 (1.11%) Databricks
6 15 (1.11%) Guidewire
7 14 (1.03%) MuleSoft
7 14 (1.03%) Sage
8 12 (0.88%) VMware
9 11 (0.81%) Telerik
10 10 (0.74%) New Relic
11 9 (0.66%) Apple
11 9 (0.66%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.52%) Adobe
12 7 (0.52%) Facebook
12 7 (0.52%) Freshdesk
12 7 (0.52%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.52%) Syncfusion
12 7 (0.52%) YouTube