Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 4,892 5,090 14,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.93% 7.96% 9.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.37% 29.34% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,380 4,333 8,601
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15,596 17,346 57,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.89% 27.12% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,720 13,481 27,471
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,999
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET.

Salary trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
England -3 4,354 £60,000 -7.69% 1,119
UK excluding London 0 3,732 £55,000 - 865
Work from Home -8 1,906 £57,500 -4.17% 761
North of England +3 1,041 £55,000 -4.35% 297
South East 0 1,004 £60,000 - 183
London -27 976 £77,500 -0.64% 302
Midlands +2 685 £55,000 - 178
North West +10 506 £55,000 -8.33% 164
Yorkshire +1 392 £55,000 -4.35% 87
South West +2 354 £57,500 +5.50% 73
West Midlands -4 349 £55,000 - 105
East Midlands +2 335 £50,000 -13.04% 73
Scotland -3 284 £55,000 - 49
East of England +21 241 £60,000 +4.35% 73
North East +7 143 £60,000 +20.00% 51
Wales +1 94 £56,250 +19.68% 20
Northern Ireland -18 29 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 129 (2.64%) CMS
2 94 (1.92%) IIS
3 82 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 79 (1.61%) Umbraco
5 67 (1.37%) ArcGIS
6 58 (1.19%) GeoServer
7 29 (0.59%) Apache
8 28 (0.57%) Confluence
9 26 (0.53%) WinCC
10 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 19 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
12 14 (0.29%) NServiceBus
13 12 (0.25%) nginx
14 10 (0.20%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) Moodle
16 7 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
17 6 (0.12%) Appian
18 5 (0.10%) Apache Solr
18 5 (0.10%) Apache Spark
18 5 (0.10%) Mendix
Applications
1 41 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.39%) Photoshop
4 15 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 14 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.082%) Revit
8 3 (0.061%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.061%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.061%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.041%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.041%) Trello
10 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 124 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.70%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (0.39%) Sage 200
4 16 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 14 (0.29%) Sage 50
6 11 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.14%) Maximo
8 7 (0.14%) SystmOne
9 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
10 4 (0.082%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 3 (0.061%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.041%) Magento
12 2 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.041%) SAP Business ByDesign
12 2 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
12 2 (0.041%) TIBCO iProcess
12 2 (0.041%) Towers Watson Igloo
12 2 (0.041%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2,627 (53.70%) Azure
2 747 (15.27%) AWS
3 693 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 337 (6.89%) SaaS
5 335 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 257 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 244 (4.99%) Serverless
8 233 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 194 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 188 (3.84%) PowerApps
11 181 (3.70%) Azure Functions
11 181 (3.70%) GitHub
12 170 (3.48%) IBM Cloud
13 157 (3.21%) Power Automate
14 117 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 103 (2.11%) Azure API Management
16 95 (1.94%) GCP
17 91 (1.86%) PaaS
18 80 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
19 79 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (1.37%) Internet
2 25 (0.51%) DNS
3 22 (0.45%) Network Security
4 18 (0.37%) HTTP
4 18 (0.37%) SSL
5 17 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (0.20%) Firewall
7 10 (0.20%) Wireless
8 9 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 7 (0.14%) FTP
10 6 (0.12%) Modbus
10 6 (0.12%) RS-232
10 6 (0.12%) RS-485
10 6 (0.12%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.10%) SAN
12 4 (0.082%) BGP
13 3 (0.061%) Broadband
13 3 (0.061%) Mobile Broadband
13 3 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,279 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 358 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 346 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
4 297 (6.07%) MongoDB
5 284 (5.81%) Relational Database
6 171 (3.50%) DB2
7 156 (3.19%) Power BI
8 145 (2.96%) MySQL
9 136 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 101 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 81 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 80 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 66 (1.35%) GIS
14 58 (1.19%) QGIS
15 47 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 40 (0.82%) Redis
17 28 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
18 24 (0.49%) SQLite
19 22 (0.45%) MS Access
20 18 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 560 (11.45%) Git
2 309 (6.32%) Visual Studio
3 159 (3.25%) JIRA
4 114 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 89 (1.82%) TeamCity
6 87 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 86 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 85 (1.74%) NUnit
9 73 (1.49%) Selenium
10 56 (1.14%) Moq
11 51 (1.04%) GitLab
12 42 (0.86%) SoapUI
13 41 (0.84%) MSBuild
14 39 (0.80%) CircleCI
15 34 (0.70%) SpecFlow
16 33 (0.67%) Postman
17 31 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
18 30 (0.61%) Cypress.io
18 30 (0.61%) Jasmine
19 24 (0.49%) MSTest
General
1 909 (18.58%) Social Skills
2 637 (13.02%) Finance
3 288 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.74%) Public Sector
5 234 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 163 (3.33%) Marketing
7 156 (3.19%) Retail
8 138 (2.82%) Law
9 125 (2.56%) Legal
10 86 (1.76%) Games
11 84 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 75 (1.53%) Automotive
13 66 (1.35%) Banking
14 62 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 58 (1.19%) Front Office
16 52 (1.06%) Back Office
17 51 (1.04%) Tech for Good
18 45 (0.92%) Advertising
19 38 (0.78%) Electronics
20 35 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 3,068 (62.71%) Developer
2 1,483 (30.31%) .NET Developer
3 1,043 (21.32%) Senior
4 837 (17.11%) C# Developer
5 741 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 740 (15.13%) Senior Developer
7 668 (13.65%) Software Developer
8 534 (10.92%) C# .NET Developer
9 444 (9.08%) Lead
10 437 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 368 (7.52%) Senior .NET Developer
12 260 (5.31%) .NET Software Developer
13 233 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 221 (4.52%) C# Software Developer
15 213 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
16 193 (3.95%) Architect
17 188 (3.84%) Azure Developer
18 175 (3.58%) Senior C# Developer
19 167 (3.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 163 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,213 (24.80%) ASP.NET
2 1,166 (23.83%) HTML
3 1,147 (23.45%) CSS
4 1,125 (23.00%) AngularJS
5 1,100 (22.49%) React
6 1,044 (21.34%) .NET Core
7 1,014 (20.73%) .NET Framework
8 572 (11.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 510 (10.43%) Entity Framework
10 505 (10.32%) REST
11 479 (9.79%) Vue
12 462 (9.44%) Web Services
13 439 (8.97%) RESTful
14 367 (7.50%) jQuery
15 342 (6.99%) Blazor
16 305 (6.23%) ASP.NET Core
17 268 (5.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 258 (5.27%) HTML5
19 249 (5.09%) ASP.NET MVC
20 237 (4.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 211 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
2 190 (3.88%) Algorithms
3 175 (3.58%) Data Structures
4 172 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 171 (3.50%) Blockchain
6 154 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 132 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 103 (2.11%) e-Learning
9 80 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 78 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (1.53%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.49%) Hedge funds
13 71 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
14 70 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
15 57 (1.17%) Robotics
16 56 (1.14%) Public Cloud
17 52 (1.06%) Management Information System
18 47 (0.96%) Legacy Code
19 46 (0.94%) Derivative
20 43 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 422 (8.63%) Windows
2 293 (5.99%) Linux
3 243 (4.97%) Android
4 225 (4.60%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.51%) Unix
7 16 (0.33%) VMS
8 13 (0.27%) AIX
9 12 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
10 7 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.061%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.020%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.020%) NetWare
14 1 (0.020%) Solaris
14 1 (0.020%) SUSE
14 1 (0.020%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (34.73%) Agile
2 1,365 (27.90%) Full-Stack Development
3 1,238 (25.31%) Software Engineering
4 1,214 (24.82%) DevOps
5 796 (16.27%) MVC
6 763 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
7 712 (14.55%) CI/CD
8 681 (13.92%) Microservices
9 553 (11.30%) Computer Science
10 501 (10.24%) Web Development
11 485 (9.91%) Mentoring
12 459 (9.38%) Design Patterns
13 444 (9.08%) TDD
14 441 (9.01%) OO
15 435 (8.89%) SOLID
16 407 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
17 384 (7.85%) Scrum
18 354 (7.24%) Unit Testing
19 348 (7.11%) OOP
20 312 (6.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3,942 (80.58%) C#
2 1,878 (38.39%) JavaScript
3 1,835 (37.51%) SQL
4 614 (12.55%) TypeScript
5 420 (8.59%) Python
6 309 (6.32%) Java
7 223 (4.56%) T-SQL
8 220 (4.50%) C++
9 186 (3.80%) VB.NET
10 132 (2.70%) C
11 107 (2.19%) PowerShell
12 103 (2.11%) VB
13 76 (1.55%) PHP
14 42 (0.86%) Bicep
15 36 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 35 (0.72%) Go
17 23 (0.47%) PL/1
18 22 (0.45%) XAML
19 21 (0.43%) VBA
20 19 (0.39%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 781 (15.96%) Degree
2 272 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 215 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 140 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 56 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 54 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 45 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.49%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
11 18 (0.37%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.31%) PhD
15 14 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.14%) CIPD
16 7 (0.14%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (5.19%) QA
2 64 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 34 (0.70%) GDPR
4 31 (0.63%) SLA
5 23 (0.47%) MiFID
6 20 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.39%) HL7
8 14 (0.29%) IEC 61131
9 7 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.10%) NCSC
12 4 (0.082%) EMIR
12 4 (0.082%) WCAG
13 3 (0.061%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.061%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.041%) COBIT
15 1 (0.020%) DICOM
15 1 (0.020%) JTAG
15 1 (0.020%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 426 (8.71%) Docker
2 33 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.18%) Firmware
6 4 (0.082%) VMware Server
6 4 (0.082%) vSphere
7 3 (0.061%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.061%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.020%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.020%) GridGain
9 1 (0.020%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 332 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 114 (2.33%) Terraform
3 29 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 25 (0.51%) Grafana
5 19 (0.39%) Ansible
6 10 (0.20%) MIIS
7 6 (0.12%) Consul
7 6 (0.12%) Puppet
8 4 (0.082%) Control-M
8 4 (0.082%) SCOM
8 4 (0.082%) SCOrch
8 4 (0.082%) vMotion
9 3 (0.061%) MOM
10 2 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.041%) Kibana
10 2 (0.041%) linkerd
10 2 (0.041%) Packer
11 1 (0.020%) cPanel
11 1 (0.020%) Istio
11 1 (0.020%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,050 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 184 (3.76%) IBM
3 173 (3.54%) Red Hat
4 151 (3.09%) Oracle
5 74 (1.51%) Xamarin
6 64 (1.31%) ESRI
7 59 (1.21%) Google
8 43 (0.88%) Databricks
9 39 (0.80%) Adobe
9 39 (0.80%) Sitecore
10 29 (0.59%) Salesforce
11 27 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 26 (0.53%) Siemens
13 19 (0.39%) Sage
13 19 (0.39%) SAP
14 16 (0.33%) Cognizant
15 14 (0.29%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.27%) BT
16 13 (0.27%) F5
17 12 (0.25%) Splunk