.NET Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 +8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 4 8 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.71% 4.76% 8.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.53% 17.78% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 53
10th Percentile - £48,875 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55,625 £65,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £56,750 £67,325 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

.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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 45 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.73% 26.79% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 166
10th Percentile £38,199 £31,250 £36,375
25th Percentile £46,563 £45,550 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,154 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.76% +2.73%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Cardiff

.NET
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing .NET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 3 (75.00%) Entity Framework
1 3 (75.00%) LINQ
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft