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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,332 7,828 15,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.39% 7.85% 9.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.80% 26.06% 23.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,035 6,083 9,291
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,900
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,750 £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 £56,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.10% +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 21,067 30,042 65,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,745 18,509 29,882
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 £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 15 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 15 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 +4 6,488 £60,000 -7.69% 1,341
UK excluding London +2 5,516 £55,000 -3.08% 999
Work from Home +1 3,453 £57,500 -4.17% 1,139
North of England +19 1,505 £55,000 - 340
London 0 1,492 £75,000 -3.23% 422
South East +4 1,445 £60,000 - 177
Midlands +35 955 £50,000 -9.09% 205
North West +24 844 £55,000 -4.35% 189
South West +17 619 £55,000 - 105
West Midlands +40 501 £52,500 -4.55% 123
Yorkshire +20 499 £55,000 - 105
East Midlands +17 451 £50,000 -4.76% 81
East of England +15 419 £55,000 -4.35% 64
Scotland -41 348 £60,000 - 63
North East +22 162 £60,000 +9.09% 50
Wales -3 138 £52,686 +17.96% 39
Northern Ireland -7 86 £55,000 +15.79% 20
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 (4.09%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.85%) GeoServer
3 228 (3.11%) CMS
4 192 (2.62%) IIS
5 166 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 133 (1.81%) Umbraco
7 56 (0.76%) Kentico
8 53 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
9 44 (0.60%) Confluence
10 41 (0.56%) Apache
10 41 (0.56%) Headless CMS
11 21 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 18 (0.25%) NServiceBus
13 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
14 12 (0.16%) Apache Spark
15 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
15 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
16 10 (0.14%) nginx
16 10 (0.14%) WordPress
17 9 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 88 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.29%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.095%) Trello
6 4 (0.055%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.041%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.027%) Revit
8 2 (0.027%) Sketch
9 1 (0.014%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.014%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.014%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.014%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.014%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 124 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 30 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 29 (0.40%) 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 4,277 (58.33%) Azure
2 1,508 (20.57%) AWS
3 1,035 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
4 444 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 405 (5.52%) Serverless
6 311 (4.24%) SaaS
7 296 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
8 284 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 270 (3.68%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.44%) IBM Cloud
11 236 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 204 (2.78%) GCP
13 203 (2.77%) PowerApps
14 195 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
15 194 (2.65%) GitHub
16 163 (2.22%) Power Automate
17 152 (2.07%) Azure API Management
18 115 (1.57%) PaaS
19 99 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 88 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 185 (2.52%) Internet
2 70 (0.95%) DNS
3 64 (0.87%) 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 (0.20%) Broadband
9 15 (0.20%) Mobile Broadband
9 15 (0.20%) Network Security
10 14 (0.19%) Ethernet
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 2,444 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 688 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 609 (8.31%) MongoDB
4 520 (7.09%) NoSQL
5 362 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 312 (4.26%) GIS
7 282 (3.85%) QGIS
8 278 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
9 273 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.44%) DB2
11 212 (2.89%) MySQL
12 187 (2.55%) Power BI
13 134 (1.83%) Redis
14 112 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 109 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 88 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (0.68%) DynamoDB
18 45 (0.61%) MS Access
18 45 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 36 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 691 (9.42%) Git
2 518 (7.06%) Visual Studio
3 203 (2.77%) JIRA
4 165 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 138 (1.88%) NUnit
6 124 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 104 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 91 (1.24%) GitLab
9 83 (1.13%) Selenium
10 73 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
11 71 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
12 67 (0.91%) Moq
13 65 (0.89%) Postman
14 61 (0.83%) Jasmine
15 49 (0.67%) SpecFlow
16 45 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
17 38 (0.52%) MSTest
18 37 (0.50%) SoapUI
19 35 (0.48%) Bitbucket
20 33 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,134 (15.47%) Social Skills
2 970 (13.23%) Finance
3 388 (5.29%) Public Sector
4 366 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
5 293 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 267 (3.64%) Marketing
7 223 (3.04%) Retail
8 216 (2.95%) Law
9 169 (2.30%) Games
10 142 (1.94%) Front Office
11 139 (1.90%) Banking
12 134 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 116 (1.58%) Legal
14 107 (1.46%) Back Office
15 105 (1.43%) Advertising
16 80 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 75 (1.02%) Aerospace
19 60 (0.82%) Automotive
20 59 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,785 (65.26%) Developer
2 2,574 (35.11%) .NET Developer
3 1,537 (20.96%) Senior
4 1,218 (16.61%) C# Developer
5 1,110 (15.14%) Software Engineer
6 927 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 876 (11.95%) Software Developer
8 845 (11.52%) C# .NET Developer
9 685 (9.34%) Lead
10 626 (8.54%) Full Stack Developer
11 484 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 434 (5.92%) Senior .NET Developer
13 325 (4.43%) Lead Developer
14 311 (4.24%) .NET Software Developer
15 302 (4.12%) Architect
16 268 (3.66%) .NET Software Engineer
17 257 (3.51%) Azure Developer
18 256 (3.49%) Senior Software Developer
19 235 (3.21%) Senior C# Developer
20 220 (3.00%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,390 (32.60%) ASP.NET
2 2,342 (31.94%) .NET Core
3 2,002 (27.30%) AngularJS
4 1,941 (26.47%) React
5 1,846 (25.18%) CSS
6 1,837 (25.05%) HTML
7 1,660 (22.64%) .NET Framework
8 1,237 (16.87%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,140 (15.55%) Entity Framework
10 1,093 (14.91%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,009 (13.76%) Vue
12 707 (9.64%) REST
13 703 (9.59%) Web Services
14 702 (9.57%) RESTful
15 643 (8.77%) HTML5
16 573 (7.82%) jQuery
17 562 (7.67%) Node.js
18 552 (7.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 492 (6.71%) Blazor
20 451 (6.15%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 442 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.68%) Data Structures
3 327 (4.46%) Algorithms
4 264 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.46%) Blockchain
6 210 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 172 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 170 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 149 (2.03%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 127 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 126 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 121 (1.65%) Cloud Native
14 113 (1.54%) Derivative
15 111 (1.51%) Equities
16 105 (1.43%) Fixed Income
17 101 (1.38%) Management Information System
18 98 (1.34%) Client/Server
19 81 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
20 73 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 623 (8.50%) Windows
2 444 (6.06%) Linux
3 374 (5.10%) Android
4 327 (4.46%) Apple iOS
5 43 (0.59%) 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 3,358 (45.80%) Agile
2 2,403 (32.77%) Full Stack Development
3 1,984 (27.06%) DevOps
4 1,893 (25.82%) MVC
5 1,867 (25.46%) Software Engineering
6 1,374 (18.74%) Microservices
7 987 (13.46%) Web Development
8 955 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
9 906 (12.36%) TDD
10 832 (11.35%) Scrum
11 754 (10.28%) CI/CD
12 712 (9.71%) OO
13 689 (9.40%) Computer Science
14 680 (9.27%) Design Patterns
15 637 (8.69%) Mentoring
16 574 (7.83%) SOLID
17 536 (7.31%) Artificial Intelligence
18 496 (6.76%) OOP
19 469 (6.40%) BDD
20 462 (6.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5,861 (79.94%) C#
2 3,450 (47.05%) JavaScript
3 2,643 (36.05%) SQL
4 1,098 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 842 (11.48%) Python
6 532 (7.26%) Java
7 394 (5.37%) T-SQL
8 270 (3.68%) VB.NET
9 221 (3.01%) C++
9 221 (3.01%) PowerShell
10 174 (2.37%) VB
11 145 (1.98%) C
12 76 (1.04%) PHP
13 45 (0.61%) VB6
14 44 (0.60%) XPath
15 43 (0.59%) Bicep
15 43 (0.59%) XAML
16 42 (0.57%) VBA
17 35 (0.48%) Go
18 28 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 973 (13.27%) Degree
2 527 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 464 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 358 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 55 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 54 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 42 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 38 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (0.48%) AWS Certification
12 18 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.20%) HNC
14 13 (0.18%) PhD
15 12 (0.16%) DV Cleared
16 11 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.14%) CIPD
18 9 (0.12%) ISTQB
19 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
19 8 (0.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (5.41%) QA
2 86 (1.17%) 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 (0.20%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.16%) PMO
9 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.11%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.095%) ISO 13485
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%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 583 (7.95%) 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 (0.095%) 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
1 490 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 210 (2.86%) Terraform
3 64 (0.87%) Ansible
4 40 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 33 (0.45%) Grafana
6 23 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 23 (0.31%) Puppet
7 16 (0.22%) Consul
8 11 (0.15%) MIIS
9 6 (0.082%) Control-M
9 6 (0.082%) Kibana
10 5 (0.068%) Packer
10 5 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.055%) Istio
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 2,161 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 296 (4.04%) ESRI
3 263 (3.59%) IBM
4 254 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 176 (2.40%) Oracle
6 161 (2.20%) Google
7 103 (1.40%) Xamarin
8 96 (1.31%) Facebook
9 87 (1.19%) Sitecore
10 48 (0.65%) 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