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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 56 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -33 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,151 1,771 6,376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.60% 4.62% 7.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.94% 23.55% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,953 1,295 5,500
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £63,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.20% +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 8,293 7,519 17,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 19.62% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,285 5,151 14,195
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,550 £45,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,235 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.39% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +11 578 £60,000 - 135
London -17 538 £82,500 +3.13% 189
North of England -12 482 £60,000 +1.69% 147
North West -14 258 £62,500 +13.64% 86
Midlands -16 246 £55,000 +2.44% 66
South West -2 157 £55,000 - 43
East of England -8 129 £67,500 +28.57% 46
West Midlands -40 128 £55,000 +2.44% 33
Yorkshire -9 123 £60,000 -7.69% 32
East Midlands +6 118 £55,000 - 33
North East -4 101 £60,000 +6.67% 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 54 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.35%) IIS
3 21 (0.98%) CMS
4 16 (0.74%) ColdFusion
5 14 (0.65%) Confluence
6 11 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 10 (0.46%) JBoss
8 8 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.33%) Apache
9 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) nginx
12 2 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.093%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.046%) CICS
13 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.046%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.046%) Endur
4 1 (0.046%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.046%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.046%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.046%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 950 (44.17%) Azure
2 318 (14.78%) AWS
3 284 (13.20%) Azure DevOps
4 251 (11.67%) SaaS
5 136 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 128 (5.95%) GitHub
7 125 (5.81%) Serverless
8 111 (5.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 76 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 75 (3.49%) Power Automate
11 74 (3.44%) Azure Functions
11 74 (3.44%) PowerApps
12 69 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 63 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
14 56 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
15 54 (2.51%) Azure AI
15 54 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
16 50 (2.32%) Azure AKS
17 49 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
18 48 (2.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.81%) Internet
2 8 (0.37%) WinSCP
3 7 (0.33%) Firewall
3 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.23%) LTE
5 4 (0.19%) DNS
5 4 (0.19%) Intranet
6 3 (0.14%) DHCP
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.093%) LAN
7 2 (0.093%) RS-232
7 2 (0.093%) WAN
8 1 (0.046%) AMQP
8 1 (0.046%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.046%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.046%) Modbus
8 1 (0.046%) MPLS
8 1 (0.046%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (20.13%) SQL Server
2 200 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 157 (7.30%) MongoDB
4 90 (4.18%) Power BI
5 70 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 50 (2.32%) MySQL
7 47 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
8 46 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
9 45 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 38 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.74%) Redis
13 12 (0.56%) DB2
14 11 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.46%) GIS
16 9 (0.42%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
18 5 (0.23%) Big Data
19 4 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
19 4 (0.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 141 (6.56%) Git
2 51 (2.37%) JIRA
3 39 (1.81%) Postman
3 39 (1.81%) Selenium
4 37 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 25 (1.16%) SoapUI
5 25 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (1.12%) WebDriver
7 15 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.60%) GitLab
9 12 (0.56%) NUnit
10 11 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 6 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 359 (16.69%) Finance
2 331 (15.39%) Social Skills
3 93 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (2.79%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.28%) Banking
6 47 (2.19%) Retail
7 45 (2.09%) Law
8 33 (1.53%) Legal
9 32 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 30 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.30%) Games
12 23 (1.07%) Automotive
13 20 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.88%) Advertising
14 19 (0.88%) Marketing
15 18 (0.84%) Electronics
16 13 (0.60%) Aviation
17 12 (0.56%) Back Office
17 12 (0.56%) Front Office
18 8 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,225 (56.95%) Developer
2 626 (29.10%) .NET Developer
3 473 (21.99%) Senior
4 391 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 339 (15.76%) Software Developer
6 252 (11.72%) Lead
7 233 (10.83%) Senior Developer
8 216 (10.04%) C# Developer
9 192 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 187 (8.69%) .NET Software Engineer
11 171 (7.95%) C# .NET Developer
12 149 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 138 (6.42%) C# Software Engineer
14 133 (6.18%) .NET Software Developer
15 110 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 106 (4.93%) Senior .NET Developer
17 102 (4.74%) Lead Developer
18 87 (4.04%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 81 (3.77%) Architect
20 76 (3.53%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (24.08%) .NET Core
2 400 (18.60%) ASP.NET
3 308 (14.32%) React
4 258 (11.99%) HTML
5 243 (11.30%) CSS
6 231 (10.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 214 (9.95%) .NET Framework
8 179 (8.32%) AngularJS
9 165 (7.67%) RESTful
10 156 (7.25%) REST
11 152 (7.07%) Blazor
12 149 (6.93%) Entity Framework
13 137 (6.37%) Vue
14 133 (6.18%) Node.js
15 93 (4.32%) ASP.NET Web API
16 55 (2.56%) JSON
17 54 (2.51%) jQuery
18 52 (2.42%) SOAP
19 46 (2.14%) ML.NET
20 43 (2.00%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 145 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 84 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
3 74 (3.44%) Mobile App
4 70 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (1.67%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (1.02%) Legacy Code
10 22 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 17 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 16 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 16 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 15 (0.70%) Sports Betting
14 14 (0.65%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.65%) PropTech
15 12 (0.56%) Client/Server
15 12 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.49%) Windows
2 26 (1.21%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.12%) Linux
4 19 (0.88%) Android
5 15 (0.70%) VMS
6 9 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.093%) Unix
7 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.046%) Solaris
8 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (28.87%) Software Engineering
2 607 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 582 (27.06%) Agile
4 483 (22.45%) CI/CD
5 464 (21.57%) DevOps
6 307 (14.27%) Microservices
7 262 (12.18%) AI
8 253 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 235 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (9.11%) Mentoring
11 178 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 173 (8.04%) SDLC
13 134 (6.23%) Clean Code
13 134 (6.23%) Containerisation
14 130 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
15 127 (5.90%) Scrum
16 113 (5.25%) TDD
17 112 (5.21%) User Experience
18 111 (5.16%) Fintech
18 111 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1,510 (70.20%) C#
2 694 (32.26%) SQL
3 430 (19.99%) JavaScript
4 255 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 195 (9.07%) Python
6 168 (7.81%) Java
7 80 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 73 (3.39%) C++
9 49 (2.28%) PHP
10 38 (1.77%) VB.NET
11 36 (1.67%) Bicep
12 31 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.93%) C
14 19 (0.88%) Bash
14 19 (0.88%) VB
15 16 (0.74%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.56%) VBA
18 9 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 207 (9.62%) Degree
2 83 (3.86%) Security Cleared
3 75 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (3.02%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 23 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 15 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.23%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.19%) PhD
14 3 (0.14%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.093%) CSQA
15 2 (0.093%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.79%) QA
2 50 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.84%) GDPR
4 15 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.51%) WCAG
6 9 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.33%) SLA
8 5 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.093%) ITGC
11 1 (0.046%) NCSC
11 1 (0.046%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 194 (9.02%) Docker
2 14 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.46%) Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.093%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.046%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 182 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.21%) Terraform
3 16 (0.74%) Grafana
4 7 (0.33%) Kibana
5 5 (0.23%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.093%) MIIS
8 1 (0.046%) CASB
8 1 (0.046%) Consul
8 1 (0.046%) Packer
8 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 474 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 31 (1.44%) Google
2 31 (1.44%) Oracle
3 28 (1.30%) Adobe
3 28 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 20 (0.93%) OpenAI
4 20 (0.93%) Xamarin
5 16 (0.74%) Facebook
5 16 (0.74%) ServiceNow
6 12 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 11 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (0.42%) Databricks
8 9 (0.42%) iManage
9 7 (0.33%) IBM
9 7 (0.33%) Intapp
9 7 (0.33%) VMware
10 6 (0.28%) YouTube
11 5 (0.23%) Aderant
11 5 (0.23%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.23%) Sage