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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 28 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 7,817 7,357 16,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.17% 7.92% 9.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 35.70% 27.30% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,345 5,828 9,313
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
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 £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 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 21,897 26,947 70,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.09% 29.01% 41.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,228 17,607 29,861
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
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 £106,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +6 6,887 £60,000 -7.69% 1,201
UK excluding London +5 5,973 £55,000 - 924
Work from Home +2 3,637 £57,000 -5.00% 830
North of England +18 1,666 £55,000 - 315
South East +3 1,528 £60,000 - 155
London -1 1,493 £77,500 - 346
Midlands +27 1,077 £50,000 -9.09% 208
North West +21 917 £55,000 -4.35% 184
South West +15 633 £55,000 +1.85% 83
West Midlands +33 555 £52,500 -4.55% 117
Yorkshire +19 555 £55,000 - 86
East Midlands +19 519 £50,000 -4.76% 91
East of England +16 435 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Scotland -28 382 £60,000 - 61
North East +23 194 £60,000 +9.09% 49
Wales -2 157 £55,000 +23.14% 28
Northern Ireland -9 94 £55,000 +10.00% 21
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 (3.84%) ArcGIS
2 282 (3.61%) GeoServer
3 247 (3.16%) CMS
4 193 (2.47%) IIS
5 138 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 132 (1.69%) Umbraco
7 58 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
8 56 (0.72%) Kentico
9 45 (0.58%) Confluence
10 42 (0.54%) Apache
11 41 (0.52%) Headless CMS
12 27 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
13 20 (0.26%) NServiceBus
14 17 (0.22%) EPiServer
15 13 (0.17%) WordPress
16 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
16 11 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
17 10 (0.13%) Apache Solr
17 10 (0.13%) nginx
18 8 (0.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 80 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.32%) Photoshop
4 12 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.090%) Trello
7 6 (0.077%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.051%) Revit
8 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.038%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.038%) Autodesk Inventor
9 3 (0.038%) Fusion 360
9 3 (0.038%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.026%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.026%) Sketch
11 1 (0.013%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 129 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.47%) SDL Web 8
3 29 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 28 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 24 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
6 11 (0.14%) Shopify
7 7 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.064%) Endur
8 5 (0.064%) Maximo
8 5 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.051%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.051%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.038%) Magento
10 3 (0.038%) 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%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.026%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4,472 (57.21%) Azure
2 1,545 (19.76%) AWS
3 1,033 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 442 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 402 (5.14%) Serverless
6 352 (4.50%) SaaS
7 302 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
8 285 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 267 (3.42%) Azure Functions
10 252 (3.22%) IBM Cloud
11 237 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 210 (2.69%) PowerApps
13 196 (2.51%) GCP
14 189 (2.42%) GitHub
15 180 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
16 173 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 143 (1.83%) Azure API Management
18 115 (1.47%) PaaS
19 94 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 88 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 191 (2.44%) Internet
2 70 (0.90%) DNS
3 64 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 38 (0.49%) Firewall
5 30 (0.38%) HTTP
5 30 (0.38%) SSL
6 17 (0.22%) RS-232
7 16 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
7 16 (0.20%) Network Security
8 15 (0.19%) Broadband
8 15 (0.19%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.19%) Mobile Broadband
9 13 (0.17%) Modbus
10 10 (0.13%) CTI
10 10 (0.13%) SAN
11 9 (0.12%) FTP
12 8 (0.10%) LAN
12 8 (0.10%) VPN
12 8 (0.10%) WAN
12 8 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2,521 (32.25%) SQL Server
2 687 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 610 (7.80%) MongoDB
4 511 (6.54%) NoSQL
5 377 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 307 (3.93%) GIS
7 282 (3.61%) QGIS
8 280 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
9 268 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 252 (3.22%) DB2
11 219 (2.80%) MySQL
12 184 (2.35%) Power BI
13 131 (1.68%) Redis
14 114 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 114 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 78 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
16 51 (0.65%) DynamoDB
17 48 (0.61%) MS Access
18 46 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 31 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 731 (9.35%) Git
2 527 (6.74%) Visual Studio
3 206 (2.64%) JIRA
4 158 (2.02%) Jenkins
5 147 (1.88%) NUnit
6 127 (1.62%) TeamCity
7 106 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 90 (1.15%) GitLab
8 90 (1.15%) Selenium
9 78 (1.00%) Moq
10 75 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
11 62 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
12 58 (0.74%) Postman
13 57 (0.73%) SpecFlow
14 56 (0.72%) Jasmine
15 42 (0.54%) MSTest
16 38 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
16 38 (0.49%) SoapUI
17 35 (0.45%) Cypress.io
18 34 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,184 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 987 (12.63%) Finance
3 396 (5.07%) Public Sector
4 378 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 294 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 288 (3.68%) Marketing
7 229 (2.93%) Retail
8 210 (2.69%) Law
9 186 (2.38%) Games
10 142 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 135 (1.73%) Front Office
12 128 (1.64%) Legal
13 126 (1.61%) Banking
14 115 (1.47%) Advertising
14 115 (1.47%) Back Office
15 85 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (1.01%) Tech for Good
17 75 (0.96%) Aerospace
18 62 (0.79%) Automotive
18 62 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5,189 (66.38%) Developer
2 2,857 (36.55%) .NET Developer
3 1,672 (21.39%) Senior
4 1,361 (17.41%) C# Developer
5 1,161 (14.85%) Software Engineer
6 1,045 (13.37%) Senior Developer
7 972 (12.43%) Software Developer
8 964 (12.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 723 (9.25%) Lead
10 689 (8.81%) Full Stack Developer
11 511 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
12 507 (6.49%) Senior .NET Developer
13 364 (4.66%) .NET Software Developer
14 327 (4.18%) Lead Developer
15 303 (3.88%) Architect
16 294 (3.76%) Azure Developer
17 283 (3.62%) .NET Software Engineer
18 272 (3.48%) Senior Software Developer
19 269 (3.44%) C# Software Developer
20 267 (3.42%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2,472 (31.62%) ASP.NET
2 2,413 (30.87%) .NET Core
3 2,119 (27.11%) AngularJS
4 2,000 (25.59%) React
5 1,903 (24.34%) CSS
6 1,890 (24.18%) HTML
7 1,730 (22.13%) .NET Framework
8 1,317 (16.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1,200 (15.35%) Entity Framework
10 1,097 (14.03%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1,051 (13.45%) Vue
12 747 (9.56%) RESTful
13 729 (9.33%) Web Services
14 706 (9.03%) REST
15 652 (8.34%) HTML5
16 582 (7.45%) jQuery
17 580 (7.42%) Node.js
18 561 (7.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 512 (6.55%) Blazor
20 461 (5.90%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 442 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
2 343 (4.39%) Data Structures
3 330 (4.22%) Algorithms
4 263 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 254 (3.25%) Blockchain
6 212 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 180 (2.30%) Product Ownership
8 162 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 147 (1.88%) Hedge funds
10 130 (1.66%) e-Learning
11 125 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 118 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 113 (1.45%) Derivative
14 112 (1.43%) Cloud Native
15 109 (1.39%) Equities
16 101 (1.29%) Fixed Income
17 100 (1.28%) Client/Server
17 100 (1.28%) Management Information System
18 91 (1.16%) Onboarding
19 84 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 637 (8.15%) Windows
2 442 (5.65%) Linux
3 373 (4.77%) Android
4 323 (4.13%) Apple iOS
5 41 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 25 (0.32%) Windows 10
7 22 (0.28%) AIX
8 19 (0.24%) VMS
9 17 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 16 (0.20%) Unix
11 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.064%) Windows Mobile
14 3 (0.038%) VxWorks
15 2 (0.026%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.013%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.013%) NetWare
16 1 (0.013%) Solaris
16 1 (0.013%) SUSE
16 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,466 (44.34%) Agile
2 2,593 (33.17%) Full Stack Development
3 1,994 (25.51%) DevOps
4 1,962 (25.10%) Software Engineering
5 1,915 (24.50%) MVC
6 1,418 (18.14%) Microservices
7 1,014 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
8 1,005 (12.86%) Web Development
9 940 (12.03%) TDD
10 843 (10.78%) Scrum
11 793 (10.14%) CI/CD
12 743 (9.50%) OO
13 724 (9.26%) Computer Science
14 691 (8.84%) Design Patterns
15 647 (8.28%) Mentoring
16 602 (7.70%) SOLID
17 536 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence
18 511 (6.54%) OOP
19 489 (6.26%) Unit Testing
20 483 (6.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6,218 (79.54%) C#
2 3,569 (45.66%) JavaScript
3 2,719 (34.78%) SQL
4 1,130 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 838 (10.72%) Python
6 526 (6.73%) Java
7 384 (4.91%) T-SQL
8 295 (3.77%) VB.NET
9 229 (2.93%) C++
10 209 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 172 (2.20%) VB
12 150 (1.92%) C
13 82 (1.05%) PHP
14 47 (0.60%) XPath
15 46 (0.59%) XAML
16 45 (0.58%) VB6
17 42 (0.54%) VBA
18 41 (0.52%) Bicep
19 37 (0.47%) Go
20 32 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,016 (13.00%) Degree
2 534 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 461 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 371 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 101 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 56 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 42 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 35 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 34 (0.43%) AWS Certification
12 15 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (0.19%) PhD
13 14 (0.18%) HNC
14 13 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.15%) 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
1 395 (5.05%) QA
2 84 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 28 (0.36%) GDPR
4 26 (0.33%) SLA
5 24 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (0.24%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.14%) PMO
9 8 (0.10%) WAI
10 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.090%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.077%) HL7
11 6 (0.077%) MiFID
11 6 (0.077%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.051%) DICOM
12 4 (0.051%) EMIR
12 4 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 4 (0.051%) WCAG
13 3 (0.038%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 567 (7.25%) Docker
2 83 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 42 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.17%) Firmware
6 8 (0.10%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.10%) VMware Server
7 7 (0.090%) vSphere
8 4 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.038%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.013%) GridGain
10 1 (0.013%) NFS
Systems Management
1 481 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 194 (2.48%) Terraform
3 57 (0.73%) Ansible
4 40 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 31 (0.40%) Grafana
6 20 (0.26%) Progress Chef
6 20 (0.26%) Puppet
7 13 (0.17%) Consul
8 12 (0.15%) MIIS
9 7 (0.090%) Control-M
10 6 (0.077%) Kibana
11 5 (0.064%) Packer
11 5 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.051%) SCOM
12 4 (0.051%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.051%) vMotion
13 3 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.026%) cPanel
14 2 (0.026%) linkerd
14 2 (0.026%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,177 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 296 (3.79%) ESRI
3 260 (3.33%) IBM
4 254 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 184 (2.35%) Oracle
6 167 (2.14%) Google
7 108 (1.38%) Xamarin
8 97 (1.24%) Facebook
9 89 (1.14%) Sitecore
10 48 (0.61%) SAP
11 47 (0.60%) Apple
11 47 (0.60%) Salesforce
12 41 (0.52%) Optimizely
13 36 (0.46%) Sony
13 36 (0.46%) Yahoo!
14 35 (0.45%) Adobe
15 34 (0.43%) VMware
16 31 (0.40%) DevExpress
17 29 (0.37%) Dynatrace
17 29 (0.37%) Sparx