.NET Job Trends in Durham

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 35 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 +11
Permanent jobs citing .NET 3 1 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.09% 0.56% 10.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.00% 5.26% 60.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 35
10th Percentile - - £37,700
25th Percentile £66,750 £72,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £75,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +37.27% +33.33%
75th Percentile £88,250 £78,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £99,050 - £70,000
North East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Durham

.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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10 19 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 3.64% 10.73% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 55
10th Percentile £61,984 £41,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £66,585 £50,969 £37,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,940 £64,369 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +17.03% +22.22%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,258 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,028 - £70,000
North East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Durham

.NET
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Durham over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Durham

.NET
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Durham region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
Peterlee - 1 £68,500 - 1
.NET
North East

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Blazor
1 2 (66.67%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes