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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -34 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,533 1,900 5,440
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.86% 4.38% 6.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.52% 23.98% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,294 1,422 4,475
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,700
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 9,203 7,923 15,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.38% 18.28% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,062 5,363 12,217
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +20 664 £57,500 - 145
North of England +4 582 £58,250 -2.92% 135
London -20 544 £80,000 - 220
Midlands +3 324 £55,000 - 64
North West -4 278 £60,000 +3.00% 63
East of England +26 198 £65,000 +23.81% 50
South West +15 198 £52,500 - 40
West Midlands -15 172 £59,000 +7.27% 27
North East +3 153 £56,500 +13.00% 35
East Midlands +30 152 £55,000 - 37
Yorkshire +10 151 £57,500 -11.54% 41
.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 65 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.30%) IIS
3 30 (1.18%) CMS
4 20 (0.79%) Confluence
5 16 (0.63%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.32%) nginx
7 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
9 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.16%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) DNN
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.20%) Shopify
3 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.12%) Magento
5 2 (0.079%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.079%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.039%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.039%) Eikon
6 1 (0.039%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.039%) RMDS
6 1 (0.039%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.039%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,330 (52.51%) Azure
2 404 (15.95%) AWS
3 400 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (8.65%) GitHub
5 211 (8.33%) SaaS
6 169 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 163 (6.44%) Azure AI
8 153 (6.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 134 (5.29%) Serverless
10 114 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 107 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 105 (4.15%) Power Automate
13 97 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 89 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 86 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 77 (3.04%) Azure Functions
17 62 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
18 60 (2.37%) GCP
19 54 (2.13%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 89 (3.51%) Internet
2 9 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.32%) Firewall
4 7 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.20%) DHCP
5 5 (0.20%) DNS
5 5 (0.20%) LAN
5 5 (0.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
6 4 (0.16%) LTE
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.079%) HTTP
8 2 (0.079%) Modbus
8 2 (0.079%) SNMP
9 1 (0.039%) AMQP
9 1 (0.039%) Profibus
9 1 (0.039%) VLAN
9 1 (0.039%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.039%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (19.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 485 (19.15%) SQL Server
3 421 (16.62%) MongoDB
4 157 (6.20%) Elasticsearch
5 108 (4.26%) Power BI
6 64 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 61 (2.41%) MySQL
8 45 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.91%) Redis
13 17 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.47%) Db2
15 11 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
15 11 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.36%) Big Data
16 9 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 152 (6.00%) Git
2 42 (1.66%) JIRA
3 26 (1.03%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.95%) Selenium
5 21 (0.83%) Postman
6 20 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 18 (0.71%) GitLab
8 16 (0.63%) NUnit
9 12 (0.47%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.28%) Moq
11 7 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.24%) MSTest
12 6 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 386 (15.24%) Finance
2 362 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 108 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (3.28%) Retail
5 65 (2.57%) Public Sector
6 59 (2.33%) Advertising
7 55 (2.17%) Games
8 53 (2.09%) Marketing
9 50 (1.97%) Legal
10 47 (1.86%) Law
10 47 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 44 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.38%) Banking
13 30 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 25 (0.99%) Automotive
15 19 (0.75%) Electronics
16 14 (0.55%) Front Office
17 13 (0.51%) Back Office
17 13 (0.51%) Legal Technology
18 11 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,562 (61.67%) Developer
2 930 (36.72%) .NET Developer
3 478 (18.87%) Senior
4 405 (15.99%) Software Engineer
5 321 (12.67%) Software Developer
6 279 (11.01%) Lead
7 238 (9.40%) Senior Developer
8 206 (8.13%) C# Developer
9 194 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 171 (6.75%) .NET Software Engineer
11 164 (6.47%) C# .NET Developer
12 150 (5.92%) C# Software Engineer
13 147 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 135 (5.33%) Lead Developer
15 120 (4.74%) .NET Software Developer
16 110 (4.34%) Senior .NET Developer
17 107 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 89 (3.51%) Architect
18 89 (3.51%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 84 (3.32%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 763 (30.12%) .NET Core
2 722 (28.50%) ASP.NET
3 564 (22.27%) ASP.NET Core
4 417 (16.46%) React
5 361 (14.25%) CSS
5 361 (14.25%) HTML
6 313 (12.36%) AngularJS
7 279 (11.01%) Blazor
8 275 (10.86%) Entity Framework
9 270 (10.66%) RESTful
10 264 (10.42%) .NET Framework
11 257 (10.15%) Vue
12 246 (9.71%) Node.js
13 209 (8.25%) ASP.NET Web API
14 194 (7.66%) REST
15 143 (5.65%) ML.NET
16 110 (4.34%) LINQ
17 78 (3.08%) JSON
18 63 (2.49%) jQuery
19 52 (2.05%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 156 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 154 (6.08%) Greenfield Project
3 106 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.68%) Mobile App
7 54 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 29 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
10 28 (1.11%) Legacy Code
11 27 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 25 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 21 (0.83%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.79%) Digital TV
14 20 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (0.75%) Low-Code
16 17 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.67%) iPhone
17 16 (0.63%) Client/Server
18 14 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (3.75%) Windows
2 31 (1.22%) Android
3 30 (1.18%) Linux
3 30 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.43%) VMS
5 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.079%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.039%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 933 (36.83%) Full-Stack Development
2 824 (32.53%) Agile
3 650 (25.66%) Software Engineering
4 617 (24.36%) CI/CD
4 617 (24.36%) DevOps
5 450 (17.77%) Microservices
6 405 (15.99%) AI
7 310 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 245 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (9.28%) Mentoring
10 207 (8.17%) Machine Learning
11 204 (8.05%) SDLC
12 186 (7.34%) Test Automation
13 173 (6.83%) Scrum
14 168 (6.63%) Multithreading
15 164 (6.47%) TDD
16 154 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
17 139 (5.49%) Fintech
18 138 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
19 135 (5.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 1,919 (75.76%) C#
2 982 (38.77%) SQL
3 567 (22.38%) JavaScript
4 371 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 217 (8.57%) Python
6 154 (6.08%) Java
7 87 (3.43%) C++
8 82 (3.24%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.37%) PHP
10 53 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 48 (1.89%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.74%) Bicep
13 27 (1.07%) C
14 23 (0.91%) Bash
15 17 (0.67%) VB
16 15 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 12 (0.47%) Go
18 10 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (8.33%) Degree
2 100 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (3.16%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.36%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.16%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.16%) MBA
14 3 (0.12%) PhD
14 3 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.079%) CSQA
15 2 (0.079%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (5.37%) QA
2 62 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 20 (0.79%) GDPR
5 15 (0.59%) WCAG
6 10 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 6 (0.24%) NCSC
9 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.079%) ITGC
11 2 (0.079%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 308 (12.16%) Docker
2 14 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.43%) Firmware
4 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 295 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 114 (4.50%) Terraform
3 13 (0.51%) Grafana
4 11 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.36%) Ansible
6 2 (0.079%) MIIS
7 1 (0.039%) Consul
7 1 (0.039%) Control-M
7 1 (0.039%) Kibana
7 1 (0.039%) MOM
7 1 (0.039%) Packer
7 1 (0.039%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.039%) Puppet
Vendors
1 876 (34.58%) Microsoft
2 68 (2.68%) Google
3 54 (2.13%) Facebook
4 36 (1.42%) Oracle
5 30 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.14%) Adobe
7 27 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 21 (0.83%) YouTube
9 18 (0.71%) Xamarin
10 14 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.47%) Databricks
11 12 (0.47%) iManage
12 11 (0.43%) Apple
12 11 (0.43%) Sony
12 11 (0.43%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.39%) Intapp
14 9 (0.36%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.36%) VMware
15 8 (0.32%) Aderant
15 8 (0.32%) Splunk