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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 28 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,433 7,756 15,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.36% 7.87% 9.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.10% 26.05% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,112 6,049 9,325
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,000
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 £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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £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 23 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 23 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 6,567 £60,000 -7.69% 1,352
UK excluding London +2 5,613 £55,000 -2.65% 1,033
Work from Home +1 3,475 £57,500 -4.17% 1,165
North of England +18 1,545 £55,000 - 345
London +2 1,485 £75,000 -3.23% 397
South East +6 1,467 £60,000 - 197
Midlands +33 984 £50,000 -9.09% 228
North West +22 860 £55,000 -4.35% 190
South West +16 614 £55,000 - 102
Yorkshire +19 518 £55,000 - 111
West Midlands +38 515 £52,500 -4.55% 134
East Midlands +19 466 £50,000 -4.76% 94
East of England +16 419 £55,000 -4.35% 64
Scotland -36 354 £60,000 - 61
North East +25 167 £60,000 +9.09% 50
Wales -6 143 £53,843 +23.07% 38
Northern Ireland -8 86 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Channel Islands -3 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 (4.04%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.79%) GeoServer
3 233 (3.13%) CMS
4 192 (2.58%) IIS
5 156 (2.10%) SharePoint
6 130 (1.75%) Umbraco
7 56 (0.75%) Kentico
8 54 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
9 45 (0.61%) Confluence
10 41 (0.55%) Apache
10 41 (0.55%) Headless CMS
11 23 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 19 (0.26%) NServiceBus
13 17 (0.23%) EPiServer
14 11 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
14 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
15 10 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 10 (0.13%) Apache Spark
15 10 (0.13%) nginx
15 10 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 85 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.30%) Photoshop
4 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.094%) Trello
7 5 (0.067%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.040%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.027%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.027%) Revit
10 2 (0.027%) 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
1 122 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.44%) SDL Web 8
3 30 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 29 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 25 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.15%) Shopify
7 6 (0.081%) Maximo
8 5 (0.067%) Endur
8 5 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.067%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.054%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.040%) Magento
10 3 (0.040%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.027%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.027%) nopCommerce
11 2 (0.027%) SAP Business ByDesign
11 2 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.027%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,316 (58.07%) Azure
2 1,520 (20.45%) AWS
3 1,024 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
4 436 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 402 (5.41%) Serverless
6 322 (4.33%) SaaS
7 294 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
8 280 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
9 268 (3.61%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.39%) IBM Cloud
11 232 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 203 (2.73%) PowerApps
13 199 (2.68%) GCP
14 193 (2.60%) GitHub
15 183 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
16 163 (2.19%) Power Automate
17 147 (1.98%) Azure API Management
18 115 (1.55%) PaaS
19 96 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 90 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 186 (2.50%) Internet
2 71 (0.96%) DNS
3 64 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.51%) Firewall
5 30 (0.40%) HTTP
5 30 (0.40%) SSL
6 17 (0.23%) RS-232
7 16 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
7 16 (0.22%) Network Security
8 15 (0.20%) Broadband
8 15 (0.20%) Mobile Broadband
9 14 (0.19%) Ethernet
10 13 (0.17%) Modbus
11 10 (0.13%) CTI
12 9 (0.12%) FTP
12 9 (0.12%) SAN
13 8 (0.11%) LAN
13 8 (0.11%) VPN
13 8 (0.11%) WAN
14 7 (0.094%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,464 (33.15%) SQL Server
2 685 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
3 608 (8.18%) MongoDB
4 517 (6.96%) NoSQL
5 364 (4.90%) Relational Database
6 309 (4.16%) GIS
7 282 (3.79%) QGIS
8 280 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 268 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.39%) DB2
11 211 (2.84%) MySQL
12 185 (2.49%) Power BI
13 134 (1.80%) Redis
14 110 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 110 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 83 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
16 51 (0.69%) DynamoDB
17 45 (0.61%) MS Access
18 44 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 33 (0.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 706 (9.50%) Git
2 522 (7.02%) Visual Studio
3 205 (2.76%) JIRA
4 167 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 144 (1.94%) NUnit
6 124 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 101 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 90 (1.21%) GitLab
9 86 (1.16%) Selenium
10 71 (0.96%) Moq
10 71 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
11 70 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
12 62 (0.83%) Jasmine
13 61 (0.82%) Postman
14 53 (0.71%) SpecFlow
15 45 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
16 38 (0.51%) MSTest
17 37 (0.50%) SoapUI
18 35 (0.47%) Bitbucket
19 34 (0.46%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,146 (15.42%) Social Skills
2 966 (13.00%) Finance
3 393 (5.29%) Public Sector
4 363 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 291 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 273 (3.67%) Marketing
7 223 (3.00%) Retail
8 216 (2.91%) Law
9 172 (2.31%) Games
10 140 (1.88%) Front Office
11 138 (1.86%) Banking
12 134 (1.80%) Manufacturing
13 123 (1.65%) Legal
14 109 (1.47%) Back Office
15 106 (1.43%) Advertising
16 82 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 78 (1.05%) Tech for Good
18 77 (1.04%) Aerospace
19 63 (0.85%) Automotive
20 60 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4,872 (65.55%) Developer
2 2,631 (35.40%) .NET Developer
3 1,570 (21.12%) Senior
4 1,248 (16.79%) C# Developer
5 1,120 (15.07%) Software Engineer
6 961 (12.93%) Senior Developer
7 895 (12.04%) Software Developer
8 868 (11.68%) C# .NET Developer
9 694 (9.34%) Lead
10 647 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
11 488 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 456 (6.13%) Senior .NET Developer
13 327 (4.40%) Lead Developer
14 320 (4.31%) .NET Software Developer
15 311 (4.18%) Architect
16 271 (3.65%) .NET Software Engineer
17 269 (3.62%) Azure Developer
18 263 (3.54%) Senior Software Developer
19 244 (3.28%) Senior C# Developer
20 232 (3.12%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,407 (32.38%) ASP.NET
2 2,349 (31.60%) .NET Core
3 2,030 (27.31%) AngularJS
4 1,958 (26.34%) React
5 1,867 (25.12%) CSS
6 1,854 (24.94%) HTML
7 1,681 (22.62%) .NET Framework
8 1,261 (16.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,158 (15.58%) Entity Framework
10 1,098 (14.77%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,022 (13.75%) Vue
12 721 (9.70%) RESTful
13 713 (9.59%) Web Services
14 701 (9.43%) REST
15 644 (8.66%) HTML5
16 578 (7.78%) jQuery
17 565 (7.60%) Node.js
18 555 (7.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 497 (6.69%) Blazor
20 453 (6.09%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 441 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.61%) Data Structures
3 329 (4.43%) Algorithms
4 263 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.42%) Blockchain
6 210 (2.83%) Mobile App
7 172 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 168 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 149 (2.00%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.75%) e-Learning
11 128 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
12 124 (1.67%) Cloud Native
13 123 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 112 (1.51%) Derivative
15 110 (1.48%) Equities
16 103 (1.39%) Fixed Income
17 101 (1.36%) Management Information System
18 98 (1.32%) Client/Server
19 82 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
20 79 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 628 (8.45%) Windows
2 441 (5.93%) Linux
3 376 (5.06%) Android
4 328 (4.41%) Apple iOS
5 43 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.30%) AIX
8 17 (0.23%) VMS
9 15 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (0.16%) Unix
12 8 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.067%) Windows Mobile
14 2 (0.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.027%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.013%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.013%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.013%) tvOS
15 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,390 (45.61%) Agile
2 2,448 (32.93%) Full Stack Development
3 1,980 (26.64%) DevOps
4 1,898 (25.53%) MVC
5 1,886 (25.37%) Software Engineering
6 1,382 (18.59%) Microservices
7 988 (13.29%) Web Development
8 964 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 915 (12.31%) TDD
10 830 (11.17%) Scrum
11 771 (10.37%) CI/CD
12 717 (9.65%) OO
13 700 (9.42%) Computer Science
14 676 (9.09%) Design Patterns
15 639 (8.60%) Mentoring
16 580 (7.80%) SOLID
17 540 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence
18 496 (6.67%) OOP
19 475 (6.39%) BDD
20 466 (6.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5,935 (79.85%) C#
2 3,478 (46.79%) JavaScript
3 2,653 (35.69%) SQL
4 1,115 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 837 (11.26%) Python
6 530 (7.13%) Java
7 400 (5.38%) T-SQL
8 272 (3.66%) VB.NET
9 220 (2.96%) C++
10 217 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 171 (2.30%) VB
12 145 (1.95%) C
13 76 (1.02%) PHP
14 45 (0.61%) VB6
15 44 (0.59%) XAML
15 44 (0.59%) XPath
16 43 (0.58%) VBA
17 41 (0.55%) Bicep
18 37 (0.50%) Go
19 30 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 979 (13.17%) Degree
2 525 (7.06%) Security Cleared
3 460 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 362 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 92 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 52 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 51 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 43 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 36 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 36 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 14 (0.19%) HNC
12 14 (0.19%) PhD
13 12 (0.16%) DV Cleared
13 12 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.13%) CIPD
15 8 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
15 8 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (5.34%) QA
2 90 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.38%) GDPR
4 26 (0.35%) SLA
5 25 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 15 (0.20%) WAI
8 12 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.15%) PMO
10 8 (0.11%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.094%) ISO 13485
11 7 (0.094%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.081%) HL7
13 4 (0.054%) DICOM
13 4 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 4 (0.054%) WCAG
14 3 (0.040%) MiFID
14 3 (0.040%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.040%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 581 (7.82%) Docker
2 82 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 40 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.17%) Firmware
6 9 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.11%) VMware Server
8 7 (0.094%) vSphere
9 4 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.027%) NFS
10 2 (0.027%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.013%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 483 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 203 (2.73%) Terraform
3 66 (0.89%) Ansible
4 40 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 32 (0.43%) Grafana
6 23 (0.31%) Progress Chef
7 22 (0.30%) Puppet
8 15 (0.20%) Consul
9 12 (0.16%) MIIS
10 7 (0.094%) Control-M
11 6 (0.081%) Kibana
12 5 (0.067%) Packer
12 5 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.054%) SCOM
13 4 (0.054%) SCOrch
13 4 (0.054%) vMotion
14 3 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.027%) Foglight
15 2 (0.027%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.027%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,154 (28.98%) Microsoft
2 296 (3.98%) ESRI
3 260 (3.50%) IBM
4 254 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 177 (2.38%) Oracle
6 163 (2.19%) Google
7 106 (1.43%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.30%) Facebook
9 86 (1.16%) Sitecore
10 49 (0.66%) SAP
11 48 (0.65%) Salesforce
12 47 (0.63%) Apple
13 41 (0.55%) Optimizely
14 36 (0.48%) Sony
14 36 (0.48%) Yahoo!
15 33 (0.44%) VMware
16 32 (0.43%) DevExpress
17 30 (0.40%) Adobe
17 30 (0.40%) Sparx
18 29 (0.39%) Splunk