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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 22
Rank change year-on-year -41 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,483 2,782 4,793
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.69% 5.85% 8.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.22% 27.00% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 1,824 4,369
10th Percentile £40,088 £42,150 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 6,386 10,305 14,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.57% 21.67% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 6,040 11,896
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

.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 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 25 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 -31 402 £80,000 +6.67% 219
South East -32 353 £60,000 - 361
North of England -32 347 £65,000 +13.04% 228
Midlands -42 199 £52,500 -8.70% 136
North West -24 188 £65,000 +18.18% 133
West Midlands -31 118 £50,000 -13.04% 50
Yorkshire -47 101 £55,000 - 61
South West -57 93 £55,000 -8.33% 131
East Midlands -35 81 £65,000 +23.81% 85
East of England -68 61 £60,000 +20.00% 154
North East -14 58 £70,000 +3.70% 34
.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 46 (3.10%) IIS
2 24 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.21%) CMS
4 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.88%) JBoss
5 13 (0.88%) WebSphere
6 12 (0.81%) Confluence
7 8 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.13%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.067%) Apache
12 1 (0.067%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.067%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.067%) Kentico
12 1 (0.067%) SAS
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.067%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 50 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.13%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.13%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.067%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.067%) Endur
3 1 (0.067%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.067%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 783 (52.80%) Azure
2 308 (20.77%) AWS
3 242 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (14.63%) SaaS
5 125 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 111 (7.48%) GitHub
7 107 (7.22%) Serverless
8 81 (5.46%) GCP
9 63 (4.25%) Power Automate
10 59 (3.98%) Azure Functions
11 57 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (3.84%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (3.57%) PowerApps
13 52 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 43 (2.90%) Entra ID
15 42 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (1.75%) Azure AKS
19 24 (1.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.88%) DNS
2 12 (0.81%) DHCP
2 12 (0.81%) Internet
3 10 (0.67%) Firewall
4 9 (0.61%) VPN
5 8 (0.54%) VoIP
5 8 (0.54%) WinSCP
6 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.27%) HTTP
8 3 (0.20%) Intranet
8 3 (0.20%) SAN
9 2 (0.13%) NAS
9 2 (0.13%) VLAN
10 1 (0.067%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.067%) IPv6
10 1 (0.067%) LAN
10 1 (0.067%) LTE
10 1 (0.067%) MPLS
10 1 (0.067%) SSL
10 1 (0.067%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (26.64%) SQL Server
2 78 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 69 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 67 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (3.51%) MySQL
6 51 (3.44%) Power BI
7 47 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (1.55%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.42%) Redis
13 18 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.61%) Tableau
16 6 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
17 5 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.34%) RDBMS
18 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
18 3 (0.20%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 135 (9.10%) Git
2 66 (4.45%) JIRA
3 46 (3.10%) Selenium
4 42 (2.83%) Visual Studio
5 40 (2.70%) Postman
6 38 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (2.16%) SoapUI
8 29 (1.96%) WebDriver
9 22 (1.48%) TeamCity
10 20 (1.35%) Jenkins
11 17 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.88%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.54%) GitLab
13 8 (0.54%) Storybook
14 6 (0.40%) git-flow
15 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.34%) MSTest
15 5 (0.34%) NUnit
15 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 349 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 278 (18.75%) Finance
3 65 (4.38%) Law
4 59 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (3.30%) Banking
6 44 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 32 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (1.89%) Legal
9 25 (1.69%) Retail
10 20 (1.35%) Marketing
11 19 (1.28%) Front Office
12 16 (1.08%) Games
12 16 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.01%) Aviation
13 15 (1.01%) Billing
14 11 (0.74%) Back Office
14 11 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Electronics
15 9 (0.61%) Publishing
15 9 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 810 (54.62%) Developer
2 336 (22.66%) Senior
3 327 (22.05%) .NET Developer
4 232 (15.64%) Software Developer
5 229 (15.44%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.20%) Lead
7 160 (10.79%) C# Developer
8 158 (10.65%) Senior Developer
9 146 (9.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 98 (6.61%) .NET Software Engineer
11 93 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 79 (5.33%) .NET Software Developer
13 75 (5.06%) C# .NET Developer
14 69 (4.65%) Lead Developer
15 67 (4.52%) Senior .NET Developer
16 66 (4.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 61 (4.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 58 (3.91%) Analyst
19 47 (3.17%) C# Software Engineer
20 45 (3.03%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (24.07%) .NET Core
2 302 (20.36%) React
3 250 (16.86%) ASP.NET
4 216 (14.57%) .NET Framework
5 189 (12.74%) HTML
6 160 (10.79%) AngularJS
7 159 (10.72%) CSS
8 123 (8.29%) REST
9 115 (7.75%) RESTful
10 98 (6.61%) Entity Framework
11 95 (6.41%) Blazor
12 71 (4.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 71 (4.79%) Vue
13 68 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
14 64 (4.32%) Node.js
15 61 (4.11%) SOAP
16 55 (3.71%) ASP.NET Web API
17 43 (2.90%) HTML5
18 39 (2.63%) WPF
19 32 (2.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.12%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.25%) Mobile App
4 51 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 26 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (1.15%) Hedge funds
13 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.88%) Client/Server
13 13 (0.88%) DataPower
13 13 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.39%) Windows
2 28 (1.89%) Android
3 27 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 27 (1.82%) Linux
4 26 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.61%) VMS
7 7 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.20%) Unix
9 1 (0.067%) Fedora
9 1 (0.067%) Solaris
9 1 (0.067%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (38.98%) Agile
2 448 (30.21%) Software Engineering
3 412 (27.78%) DevOps
4 406 (27.38%) CI/CD
5 366 (24.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 281 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 274 (18.48%) Microservices
8 217 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 171 (11.53%) Mentoring
10 158 (10.65%) AI
11 140 (9.44%) Scrum
12 131 (8.83%) MVC
13 130 (8.77%) SDLC
14 127 (8.56%) Clean Code
15 121 (8.16%) User Experience
16 113 (7.62%) TDD
17 111 (7.48%) Computer Science
18 109 (7.35%) Containerisation
19 105 (7.08%) Test Automation
20 103 (6.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (70.47%) C#
2 495 (33.38%) SQL
3 377 (25.42%) JavaScript
4 220 (14.83%) TypeScript
5 155 (10.45%) Java
6 118 (7.96%) Python
7 60 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.43%) C++
9 35 (2.36%) T-SQL
10 33 (2.23%) PHP
11 27 (1.82%) VB.NET
12 25 (1.69%) Bicep
13 15 (1.01%) Bash
14 13 (0.88%) Rust
15 10 (0.67%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.67%) C
16 8 (0.54%) XAML
17 7 (0.47%) Go
17 7 (0.47%) VB
18 5 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 208 (14.03%) Degree
2 71 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 38 (2.56%) ISTQB
5 37 (2.49%) SC Cleared
6 29 (1.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 18 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (0.61%) ISEB
12 8 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.27%) MCSE
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) MCSA
15 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.27%) QA
2 44 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.08%) WCAG
4 14 (0.94%) GDPR
5 5 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.27%) GRC
7 3 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.20%) SLA
8 2 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.067%) ITGC
9 1 (0.067%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (9.78%) Docker
2 27 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.067%) HDFS
6 1 (0.067%) Squid
Systems Management
1 111 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.74%) Terraform
3 15 (1.01%) Grafana
4 11 (0.74%) Ansible
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.54%) Kibana
7 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.13%) Argo
8 2 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.067%) CASB
9 1 (0.067%) Control-M
9 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 291 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (1.89%) Salesforce
3 26 (1.75%) Xamarin
4 24 (1.62%) Oracle
5 17 (1.15%) Google
6 16 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 12 (0.81%) Sage
8 11 (0.74%) Telerik
9 10 (0.67%) New Relic
10 9 (0.61%) Apple
10 9 (0.61%) Databricks
10 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.47%) Adobe
11 7 (0.47%) Datto
11 7 (0.47%) Freshdesk
11 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.47%) Syncfusion
12 6 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.40%) VMware
13 5 (0.34%) IBM