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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 59 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,512 1,910 6,136
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.89% 4.42% 6.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.39% 23.87% 35.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,284 1,422 5,117
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
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 £91,250
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 9,172 8,003 17,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 18.52% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,426 13,770
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.13%

.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 10 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 10 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 +23 656 £57,500 - 172
North of England 0 560 £59,000 -1.67% 161
London -22 547 £80,000 - 202
Midlands +8 325 £55,000 - 68
North West -5 277 £60,000 +1.69% 82
South West +21 207 £52,500 - 50
East of England +25 191 £65,000 +23.81% 65
West Midlands -15 171 £57,500 +4.55% 37
East Midlands +30 154 £55,000 - 31
North East -1 144 £56,500 +7.62% 35
Yorkshire +3 139 £57,500 -11.54% 46
.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 64 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.23%) IIS
3 28 (1.11%) CMS
4 20 (0.80%) Confluence
5 16 (0.64%) ColdFusion
6 15 (0.60%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 8 (0.32%) WordPress
8 7 (0.28%) Apache
8 7 (0.28%) nginx
9 5 (0.20%) JBoss
9 5 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.12%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Kentico
11 3 (0.12%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.12%) Magento
3 3 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.080%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.040%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.040%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.040%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,318 (52.47%) Azure
2 404 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
3 400 (15.92%) AWS
4 220 (8.76%) GitHub
5 219 (8.72%) SaaS
6 171 (6.81%) Power Platform
7 160 (6.37%) Azure AI
8 151 (6.01%) GitHub Copilot
9 138 (5.49%) Serverless
10 122 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
11 110 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 105 (4.18%) Power Automate
13 98 (3.90%) PowerApps
14 91 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
15 85 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
16 83 (3.30%) Azure Functions
17 61 (2.43%) GCP
18 59 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
19 54 (2.15%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.58%) 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%) LTE
5 5 (0.20%) WAN
6 4 (0.16%) Intranet
7 3 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.12%) RS-232
8 2 (0.080%) HTTP
8 2 (0.080%) Modbus
8 2 (0.080%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.040%) AMQP
9 1 (0.040%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.040%) Profibus
9 1 (0.040%) SSL
9 1 (0.040%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (19.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 474 (18.87%) SQL Server
3 419 (16.68%) MongoDB
4 155 (6.17%) Elasticsearch
5 109 (4.34%) Power BI
6 63 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 58 (2.31%) MySQL
8 41 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 39 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.84%) Redis
13 15 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.48%) Db2
15 11 (0.44%) GIS
15 11 (0.44%) NonStop SQL
16 8 (0.32%) Big Data
16 8 (0.32%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (0.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 149 (5.93%) Git
2 43 (1.71%) JIRA
3 25 (1.00%) Visual Studio
4 21 (0.84%) Postman
5 19 (0.76%) GitLab
5 19 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 19 (0.76%) Selenium
6 16 (0.64%) Claude Code
6 16 (0.64%) SpecFlow
7 14 (0.56%) NUnit
8 8 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (0.32%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.24%) JMeter
10 6 (0.24%) Moq
10 6 (0.24%) TestRail
10 6 (0.24%) WebDriver
General
1 391 (15.57%) Finance
2 353 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 103 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (3.26%) Retail
5 67 (2.67%) Public Sector
6 60 (2.39%) Advertising
7 56 (2.23%) Games
8 52 (2.07%) Marketing
9 48 (1.91%) Law
10 47 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 46 (1.83%) Legal
12 40 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (1.55%) Banking
14 34 (1.35%) Aerospace
15 25 (1.00%) Automotive
16 21 (0.84%) Electronics
17 13 (0.52%) Legal Technology
18 12 (0.48%) Back Office
19 11 (0.44%) Front Office
19 11 (0.44%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,547 (61.58%) Developer
2 925 (36.82%) .NET Developer
3 475 (18.91%) Senior
4 406 (16.16%) Software Engineer
5 324 (12.90%) Software Developer
6 271 (10.79%) Lead
7 230 (9.16%) Senior Developer
8 204 (8.12%) C# Developer
9 187 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 174 (6.93%) .NET Software Engineer
11 165 (6.57%) C# .NET Developer
12 153 (6.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 148 (5.89%) C# Software Engineer
14 132 (5.25%) Lead Developer
15 124 (4.94%) .NET Software Developer
16 109 (4.34%) Senior .NET Developer
17 97 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 89 (3.54%) Architect
19 82 (3.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 82 (3.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (30.77%) .NET Core
2 714 (28.42%) ASP.NET
3 556 (22.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 417 (16.60%) React
5 364 (14.49%) CSS
6 360 (14.33%) HTML
7 312 (12.42%) AngularJS
8 274 (10.91%) Blazor
9 272 (10.83%) Entity Framework
10 267 (10.63%) RESTful
11 263 (10.47%) .NET Framework
12 257 (10.23%) Vue
13 244 (9.71%) Node.js
14 205 (8.16%) ASP.NET Web API
15 193 (7.68%) REST
16 143 (5.69%) ML.NET
17 110 (4.38%) LINQ
18 74 (2.95%) JSON
19 65 (2.59%) jQuery
20 52 (2.07%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 155 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 99 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 89 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 73 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 53 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.27%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 26 (1.04%) Legacy Code
11 25 (1.00%) AI Agents
12 22 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 22 (0.88%) Onboarding
13 21 (0.84%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.80%) Digital TV
15 18 (0.72%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.68%) iPhone
16 17 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (0.64%) Client/Server
18 15 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 88 (3.50%) Windows
2 33 (1.31%) Android
3 30 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.07%) Linux
5 12 (0.48%) VMS
6 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.080%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 913 (36.35%) Full-Stack Development
2 828 (32.96%) Agile
3 655 (26.07%) Software Engineering
4 622 (24.76%) CI/CD
5 614 (24.44%) DevOps
6 441 (17.56%) Microservices
7 398 (15.84%) AI
8 294 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (9.16%) Mentoring
11 207 (8.24%) Machine Learning
12 199 (7.92%) SDLC
13 190 (7.56%) Test Automation
14 170 (6.77%) TDD
15 169 (6.73%) Scrum
16 167 (6.65%) Multithreading
17 150 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
18 137 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
18 137 (5.45%) Fintech
19 136 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,892 (75.32%) C#
2 984 (39.17%) SQL
3 564 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 369 (14.69%) TypeScript
5 212 (8.44%) Python
6 152 (6.05%) Java
7 87 (3.46%) C++
8 82 (3.26%) PowerShell
9 58 (2.31%) PHP
10 52 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 46 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 42 (1.67%) Bicep
13 28 (1.11%) C
14 22 (0.88%) Bash
15 20 (0.80%) VB
16 15 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.56%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.44%) Go
18 11 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (8.40%) Degree
2 97 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 85 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.59%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.32%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.20%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.16%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.12%) MBA
12 3 (0.12%) PhD
13 2 (0.080%) CSQA
13 2 (0.080%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.45%) QA
2 64 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 22 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.76%) GDPR
5 15 (0.60%) WCAG
6 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.32%) SLA
8 5 (0.20%) NCSC
9 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.080%) ITGC
11 2 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 306 (12.18%) Docker
2 16 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.52%) Firmware
4 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 110 (4.38%) Terraform
3 13 (0.52%) Grafana
4 9 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.080%) Kibana
6 2 (0.080%) MIIS
7 1 (0.040%) Consul
7 1 (0.040%) MOM
7 1 (0.040%) Packer
7 1 (0.040%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.040%) Puppet
Vendors
1 860 (34.24%) Microsoft
2 65 (2.59%) Google
3 54 (2.15%) Facebook
4 35 (1.39%) Oracle
5 29 (1.15%) OpenAI
5 29 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.11%) Adobe
7 21 (0.84%) YouTube
8 18 (0.72%) Xamarin
9 15 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.48%) Databricks
10 12 (0.48%) iManage
11 11 (0.44%) Apple
11 11 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.44%) Sony
11 11 (0.44%) Yahoo!
12 10 (0.40%) Intapp
13 8 (0.32%) Aderant
13 8 (0.32%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.32%) VMware