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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,310 7,887 15,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.38% 7.86% 9.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.75% 26.08% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6,021 6,138 9,362
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,900
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 £91,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +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 21,036 30,236 65,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15,734 18,665 30,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 6,464 £60,000 -7.69% 1,404
UK excluding London +2 5,498 £55,000 -2.65% 1,039
Work from Home +2 3,444 £57,500 -4.17% 1,143
North of England +18 1,499 £55,000 - 351
London +1 1,487 £77,500 - 447
South East +4 1,439 £60,000 - 179
Midlands +36 953 £50,000 -9.09% 216
North West +23 843 £55,000 -4.35% 198
South West +14 615 £55,000 - 111
West Midlands +36 501 £52,500 -4.55% 130
Yorkshire +19 496 £55,000 - 107
East Midlands +19 450 £50,000 -4.76% 85
East of England +14 419 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Scotland -42 349 £60,000 - 68
North East +20 160 £60,000 +9.09% 50
Wales -3 138 £52,686 +17.96% 40
Northern Ireland -8 86 £55,000 +15.79% 21
Channel Islands -3 1 £57,500 +64.29% 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
1 300 (4.10%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.86%) GeoServer
3 225 (3.08%) CMS
4 192 (2.63%) IIS
5 167 (2.28%) SharePoint
6 133 (1.82%) Umbraco
7 58 (0.79%) Kentico
8 53 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
9 42 (0.57%) Confluence
10 41 (0.56%) Apache
10 41 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 20 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
12 17 (0.23%) NServiceBus
13 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 10 (0.14%) nginx
14 10 (0.14%) WordPress
15 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 88 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.096%) Trello
6 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.027%) Sketch
7 2 (0.027%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.014%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.014%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.014%) Revit
Business Applications
1 122 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 27 (0.37%) SDL Web 8
5 25 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.15%) Shopify
7 9 (0.12%) Maximo
8 5 (0.068%) Endur
8 5 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.068%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.055%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.041%) Magento
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.041%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,265 (58.34%) Azure
2 1,502 (20.55%) AWS
3 1,027 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
4 441 (6.03%) Power Platform
5 404 (5.53%) Serverless
6 313 (4.28%) SaaS
7 294 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
8 281 (3.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 269 (3.68%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
11 235 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 204 (2.79%) GCP
13 201 (2.75%) PowerApps
14 196 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
15 192 (2.63%) GitHub
16 161 (2.20%) Power Automate
17 153 (2.09%) Azure API Management
18 118 (1.61%) PaaS
19 97 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 88 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 184 (2.52%) Internet
2 70 (0.96%) DNS
3 64 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.52%) Firewall
5 31 (0.42%) HTTP
6 30 (0.41%) SSL
7 18 (0.25%) RS-232
8 16 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
9 15 (0.21%) Network Security
10 14 (0.19%) Broadband
10 14 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 14 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
10 14 (0.19%) Modbus
11 10 (0.14%) CTI
12 9 (0.12%) FTP
13 8 (0.11%) DHCP
13 8 (0.11%) LAN
13 8 (0.11%) SAN
13 8 (0.11%) VPN
13 8 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,432 (33.27%) SQL Server
2 689 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (8.32%) MongoDB
4 520 (7.11%) NoSQL
5 362 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 312 (4.27%) GIS
7 282 (3.86%) QGIS
8 278 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 272 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.45%) DB2
11 212 (2.90%) MySQL
12 186 (2.54%) Power BI
13 132 (1.81%) Redis
14 111 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 108 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 88 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.62%) MS Access
18 45 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 36 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 687 (9.40%) Git
2 511 (6.99%) Visual Studio
3 198 (2.71%) JIRA
4 163 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 134 (1.83%) NUnit
6 122 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 104 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 91 (1.24%) GitLab
9 83 (1.14%) Selenium
10 71 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 70 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
12 65 (0.89%) Moq
13 64 (0.88%) Postman
14 60 (0.82%) Jasmine
15 48 (0.66%) SpecFlow
16 45 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
17 38 (0.52%) SoapUI
18 37 (0.51%) MSTest
19 35 (0.48%) Bitbucket
20 33 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,126 (15.40%) Social Skills
2 970 (13.27%) Finance
3 387 (5.29%) Public Sector
4 366 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
5 293 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 263 (3.60%) Marketing
7 224 (3.06%) Retail
8 215 (2.94%) Law
9 167 (2.28%) Games
10 143 (1.96%) Front Office
11 140 (1.92%) Banking
12 134 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 116 (1.59%) Legal
14 107 (1.46%) Back Office
15 105 (1.44%) Advertising
16 78 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 73 (1.00%) Aerospace
19 60 (0.82%) Automotive
20 59 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,768 (65.23%) Developer
2 2,561 (35.03%) .NET Developer
3 1,533 (20.97%) Senior
4 1,207 (16.51%) C# Developer
5 1,100 (15.05%) Software Engineer
6 921 (12.60%) Senior Developer
7 872 (11.93%) Software Developer
8 838 (11.46%) C# .NET Developer
9 684 (9.36%) Lead
10 622 (8.51%) Full Stack Developer
11 481 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
12 429 (5.87%) Senior .NET Developer
13 326 (4.46%) Lead Developer
14 307 (4.20%) .NET Software Developer
15 304 (4.16%) Architect
16 266 (3.64%) .NET Software Engineer
17 254 (3.47%) Senior Software Developer
18 253 (3.46%) Azure Developer
19 231 (3.16%) Senior C# Developer
20 214 (2.93%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,381 (32.57%) ASP.NET
2 2,337 (31.97%) .NET Core
3 1,995 (27.29%) AngularJS
4 1,938 (26.51%) React
5 1,843 (25.21%) CSS
6 1,833 (25.08%) HTML
7 1,647 (22.53%) .NET Framework
8 1,231 (16.84%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,129 (15.44%) Entity Framework
10 1,088 (14.88%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,008 (13.79%) Vue
12 706 (9.66%) REST
13 700 (9.58%) Web Services
14 697 (9.53%) RESTful
15 641 (8.77%) HTML5
16 569 (7.78%) jQuery
17 561 (7.67%) Node.js
18 550 (7.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 489 (6.69%) Blazor
20 451 (6.17%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 437 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
2 342 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 327 (4.47%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.47%) Blockchain
6 209 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 170 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 169 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 148 (2.02%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.78%) e-Learning
11 126 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 125 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
13 122 (1.67%) Cloud Native
14 113 (1.55%) Derivative
15 110 (1.50%) Equities
16 105 (1.44%) Fixed Income
17 103 (1.41%) Management Information System
18 97 (1.33%) Client/Server
19 80 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
20 71 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 620 (8.48%) Windows
2 445 (6.09%) Linux
3 373 (5.10%) Android
4 326 (4.46%) Apple iOS
5 42 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.30%) AIX
8 17 (0.23%) VMS
9 16 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.15%) Unix
12 9 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.068%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.014%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.014%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.014%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.014%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,350 (45.83%) Agile
2 2,388 (32.67%) Full Stack Development
3 1,972 (26.98%) DevOps
4 1,888 (25.83%) MVC
5 1,857 (25.40%) Software Engineering
6 1,364 (18.66%) Microservices
7 990 (13.54%) Web Development
8 950 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
9 894 (12.23%) TDD
10 828 (11.33%) Scrum
11 744 (10.18%) CI/CD
12 709 (9.70%) OO
13 687 (9.40%) Computer Science
14 672 (9.19%) Design Patterns
15 631 (8.63%) Mentoring
16 572 (7.82%) SOLID
17 539 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence
18 494 (6.76%) OOP
19 465 (6.36%) BDD
20 455 (6.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5,841 (79.90%) C#
2 3,446 (47.14%) JavaScript
3 2,639 (36.10%) SQL
4 1,103 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 847 (11.59%) Python
6 529 (7.24%) Java
7 391 (5.35%) T-SQL
8 271 (3.71%) VB.NET
9 220 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 219 (3.00%) C++
11 174 (2.38%) VB
12 144 (1.97%) C
13 76 (1.04%) PHP
14 45 (0.62%) VB6
15 44 (0.60%) Bicep
16 43 (0.59%) XAML
16 43 (0.59%) XPath
17 42 (0.57%) VBA
18 36 (0.49%) Go
19 27 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 971 (13.28%) Degree
2 526 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 463 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 358 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 54 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 42 (0.57%) DBS Check
8 38 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 18 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (0.21%) HNC
12 13 (0.18%) PhD
13 12 (0.16%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.12%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
16 8 (0.11%) CIPD
16 8 (0.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (5.36%) QA
2 85 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 25 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (0.31%) SLA
6 21 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.21%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.16%) PMO
9 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.096%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.096%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.082%) HL7
12 4 (0.055%) DICOM
12 4 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 4 (0.055%) WCAG
13 3 (0.041%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.041%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.027%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 584 (7.99%) Docker
2 82 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.18%) Firmware
6 9 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.11%) vSphere
8 7 (0.096%) VMware Server
9 4 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.027%) NFS
11 1 (0.014%) GridGain
11 1 (0.014%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 493 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 213 (2.91%) Terraform
3 64 (0.88%) Ansible
4 40 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.45%) Grafana
6 24 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 23 (0.31%) Puppet
8 16 (0.22%) Consul
9 11 (0.15%) MIIS
10 6 (0.082%) Kibana
11 5 (0.068%) Control-M
11 5 (0.068%) Istio
11 5 (0.068%) Packer
11 5 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.041%) SCOM
12 3 (0.041%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.041%) vMotion
13 2 (0.027%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,151 (29.43%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.05%) ESRI
3 263 (3.60%) IBM
4 254 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 175 (2.39%) Oracle
6 160 (2.19%) Google
7 102 (1.40%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.31%) Facebook
9 87 (1.19%) Sitecore
10 48 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 47 (0.64%) Apple
11 47 (0.64%) SAP
12 41 (0.56%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.49%) Sony
13 36 (0.49%) Yahoo!
14 32 (0.44%) DevExpress
14 32 (0.44%) Sparx
14 32 (0.44%) VMware
15 28 (0.38%) Dynatrace
15 28 (0.38%) Splunk