.NET Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -24
Permanent jobs citing .NET 12 18 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 2.36% 3.83% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.63% 11.54% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 4
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,875 £49,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £67,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £76,750 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +25.31% +11.36%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,625 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridge

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 95 156 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 18.66% 33.19% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 64 79 74
10th Percentile £42,000 - £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,900 -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +8.33%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

.NET job vacancy trend in Cambridge

.NET
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Cambridge over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) MSTest
2 2 (16.67%) NUnit
2 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) React Developer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Development Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Development Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Software Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 3 (25.00%) Playwright
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Material-UI
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 4 (33.33%) Physics
4 4 (33.33%) Presales
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible