Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 28 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,647 7,528 16,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.27% 7.94% 9.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.46% 27.26% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,252 5,939 9,324
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £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 is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +4 6,745 £60,000 -7.69% 1,367
UK excluding London +3 5,815 £55,000 - 1,024
Work from Home +1 3,564 £57,500 -4.17% 929
North of England +18 1,617 £55,000 - 317
South East +2 1,501 £60,000 - 192
London -1 1,485 £75,000 -3.23% 422
Midlands +29 1,037 £50,000 -9.09% 220
North West +21 894 £55,000 -4.35% 184
South West +19 625 £55,000 - 106
West Midlands +33 540 £52,500 -4.55% 132
Yorkshire +17 540 £55,000 - 89
East Midlands +17 494 £50,000 -4.76% 88
East of England +13 425 £55,000 -4.35% 86
Scotland -36 367 £60,000 - 64
North East +24 183 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Wales -5 151 £55,000 +23.14% 37
Northern Ireland -10 91 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Channel Islands -2 1 £57,500 +64.29%

.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
1 300 (3.92%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.69%) GeoServer
3 242 (3.16%) CMS
4 192 (2.51%) IIS
5 147 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 130 (1.70%) Umbraco
7 57 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
8 56 (0.73%) Kentico
9 45 (0.59%) Confluence
10 42 (0.55%) Apache
11 41 (0.54%) Headless CMS
12 25 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
13 19 (0.25%) NServiceBus
14 17 (0.22%) EPiServer
15 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
15 11 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
16 10 (0.13%) Apache Solr
16 10 (0.13%) nginx
16 10 (0.13%) WordPress
17 9 (0.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 82 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 12 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.092%) Trello
7 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.039%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.026%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.026%) Revit
10 2 (0.026%) Sketch
11 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.013%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.013%) Fusion 360
11 1 (0.013%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 123 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.47%) SDL Web 8
3 30 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 28 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 25 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.14%) Shopify
7 6 (0.078%) Maximo
7 6 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.065%) Endur
8 5 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.052%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.039%) Magento
10 3 (0.039%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.026%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.026%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.026%) SAP Business ByDesign
11 2 (0.026%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.026%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.026%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,390 (57.41%) Azure
2 1,537 (20.10%) AWS
3 1,031 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 435 (5.69%) Power Platform
5 401 (5.24%) Serverless
6 339 (4.43%) SaaS
7 297 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 282 (3.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 266 (3.48%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.30%) IBM Cloud
11 236 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 205 (2.68%) PowerApps
13 196 (2.56%) GCP
14 191 (2.50%) GitHub
15 178 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
16 169 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 144 (1.88%) Azure API Management
18 114 (1.49%) PaaS
19 93 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 89 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 190 (2.48%) Internet
2 70 (0.92%) DNS
3 64 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.50%) Firewall
5 30 (0.39%) SSL
6 29 (0.38%) HTTP
7 17 (0.22%) RS-232
8 16 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
8 16 (0.21%) Network Security
9 15 (0.20%) Broadband
9 15 (0.20%) Ethernet
9 15 (0.20%) Mobile Broadband
10 13 (0.17%) Modbus
11 10 (0.13%) CTI
12 9 (0.12%) FTP
12 9 (0.12%) SAN
13 8 (0.10%) LAN
13 8 (0.10%) WAN
14 7 (0.092%) DHCP
14 7 (0.092%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,491 (32.57%) SQL Server
2 681 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 511 (6.68%) NoSQL
5 369 (4.83%) Relational Database
6 308 (4.03%) GIS
7 282 (3.69%) QGIS
8 279 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 266 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.30%) DB2
11 212 (2.77%) MySQL
12 182 (2.38%) Power BI
13 133 (1.74%) Redis
14 111 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 110 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 78 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
17 51 (0.67%) DynamoDB
18 48 (0.63%) MS Access
19 44 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 32 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 721 (9.43%) Git
2 528 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 205 (2.68%) JIRA
4 163 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 145 (1.90%) NUnit
6 127 (1.66%) TeamCity
7 105 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 90 (1.18%) GitLab
9 89 (1.16%) Selenium
10 76 (0.99%) Moq
10 76 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
11 68 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
12 61 (0.80%) Jasmine
13 60 (0.78%) Postman
14 57 (0.75%) SpecFlow
15 43 (0.56%) Karma Test Runner
16 40 (0.52%) MSTest
17 38 (0.50%) SoapUI
18 35 (0.46%) Cypress.io
19 34 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 1,166 (15.25%) Social Skills
2 970 (12.68%) Finance
3 396 (5.18%) Public Sector
4 371 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 292 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 282 (3.69%) Marketing
7 225 (2.94%) Retail
8 215 (2.81%) Law
9 181 (2.37%) Games
10 138 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 137 (1.79%) Front Office
12 130 (1.70%) Banking
13 124 (1.62%) Legal
14 113 (1.48%) Back Office
15 110 (1.44%) Advertising
16 85 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 81 (1.06%) Tech for Good
18 76 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 62 (0.81%) Automotive
20 61 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5,051 (66.05%) Developer
2 2,760 (36.09%) .NET Developer
3 1,621 (21.20%) Senior
4 1,313 (17.17%) C# Developer
5 1,139 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 1,007 (13.17%) Senior Developer
7 936 (12.24%) Software Developer
8 922 (12.06%) C# .NET Developer
9 712 (9.31%) Lead
10 675 (8.83%) Full Stack Developer
11 495 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 485 (6.34%) Senior .NET Developer
13 341 (4.46%) .NET Software Developer
14 329 (4.30%) Lead Developer
15 303 (3.96%) Architect
16 285 (3.73%) Azure Developer
17 273 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
18 271 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
19 260 (3.40%) Senior C# Developer
20 250 (3.27%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,444 (31.96%) ASP.NET
2 2,384 (31.18%) .NET Core
3 2,076 (27.15%) AngularJS
4 1,970 (25.76%) React
5 1,889 (24.70%) CSS
6 1,874 (24.51%) HTML
7 1,706 (22.31%) .NET Framework
8 1,282 (16.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,177 (15.39%) Entity Framework
10 1,098 (14.36%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,030 (13.47%) Vue
12 736 (9.62%) RESTful
13 720 (9.42%) Web Services
14 704 (9.21%) REST
15 651 (8.51%) HTML5
16 584 (7.64%) jQuery
17 572 (7.48%) Node.js
18 559 (7.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 504 (6.59%) Blazor
20 454 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 443 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 329 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 263 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.32%) Blockchain
6 210 (2.75%) Mobile App
7 176 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 165 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 147 (1.92%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.70%) e-Learning
11 127 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 121 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 119 (1.56%) Cloud Native
14 112 (1.46%) Derivative
15 110 (1.44%) Equities
16 102 (1.33%) Fixed Income
17 101 (1.32%) Management Information System
18 98 (1.28%) Client/Server
19 84 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
19 84 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 632 (8.26%) Windows
2 441 (5.77%) Linux
3 374 (4.89%) Android
4 324 (4.24%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.29%) AIX
8 18 (0.24%) VMS
9 16 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 15 (0.20%) Unix
11 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.065%) Windows Mobile
14 3 (0.039%) VxWorks
15 2 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.013%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.013%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.013%) tvOS
16 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,425 (44.79%) Agile
2 2,532 (33.11%) Full Stack Development
3 1,993 (26.06%) DevOps
4 1,922 (25.13%) Software Engineering
5 1,909 (24.96%) MVC
6 1,397 (18.27%) Microservices
7 995 (13.01%) Web Development
8 981 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
9 931 (12.17%) TDD
10 837 (10.95%) Scrum
11 789 (10.32%) CI/CD
12 729 (9.53%) OO
13 707 (9.25%) Computer Science
14 685 (8.96%) Design Patterns
15 644 (8.42%) Mentoring
16 595 (7.78%) SOLID
17 533 (6.97%) Artificial Intelligence
18 503 (6.58%) OOP
19 479 (6.26%) BDD
19 479 (6.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6,078 (79.48%) C#
2 3,519 (46.02%) JavaScript
3 2,693 (35.22%) SQL
4 1,116 (14.59%) TypeScript
5 836 (10.93%) Python
6 532 (6.96%) Java
7 395 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 289 (3.78%) VB.NET
9 229 (2.99%) C++
10 215 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 173 (2.26%) VB
12 149 (1.95%) C
13 79 (1.03%) PHP
14 47 (0.61%) XPath
15 45 (0.59%) VB6
16 44 (0.58%) XAML
17 43 (0.56%) VBA
18 41 (0.54%) Bicep
19 38 (0.50%) Go
20 33 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 992 (12.97%) Degree
2 532 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 462 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 358 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 96 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 53 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 43 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 36 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 16 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 14 (0.18%) HNC
13 14 (0.18%) PhD
14 13 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.16%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.13%) CIPD
17 8 (0.10%) Chartered Engineer
17 8 (0.10%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (5.14%) QA
2 87 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.37%) GDPR
4 26 (0.34%) SLA
5 24 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.25%) Data Quality
7 13 (0.17%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.14%) PMO
10 7 (0.092%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.092%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.078%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.078%) HL7
11 6 (0.078%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.052%) DICOM
12 4 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 4 (0.052%) MiFID
12 4 (0.052%) WCAG
13 3 (0.039%) EMIR
13 3 (0.039%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 569 (7.44%) Docker
2 83 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 42 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.17%) Firmware
6 8 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.10%) VMware Server
7 7 (0.092%) vSphere
8 4 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.039%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.013%) GridGain
10 1 (0.013%) NFS
Systems Management
1 478 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 197 (2.58%) Terraform
3 62 (0.81%) Ansible
4 40 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.42%) Grafana
6 21 (0.27%) Progress Chef
6 21 (0.27%) Puppet
7 14 (0.18%) Consul
8 12 (0.16%) MIIS
9 8 (0.10%) Control-M
10 6 (0.078%) Kibana
11 5 (0.065%) Packer
11 5 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.052%) SCOM
12 4 (0.052%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.052%) vMotion
13 2 (0.026%) Backup Exec
13 2 (0.026%) Foglight
13 2 (0.026%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.026%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,157 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 296 (3.87%) ESRI
3 261 (3.41%) IBM
4 254 (3.32%) Red Hat
5 181 (2.37%) Oracle
6 166 (2.17%) Google
7 107 (1.40%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.26%) Facebook
9 88 (1.15%) Sitecore
10 49 (0.64%) Salesforce
11 47 (0.61%) Apple
11 47 (0.61%) SAP
12 41 (0.54%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.47%) Sony
13 36 (0.47%) Yahoo!
14 34 (0.44%) VMware
15 33 (0.43%) Adobe
16 32 (0.42%) DevExpress
17 30 (0.39%) Sparx
18 29 (0.38%) Splunk