.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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 13 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +10
Permanent jobs citing .NET 14 28 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 5.49% 9.79% 14.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 60.87% 40.58% 56.25%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 18
10th Percentile £29,263 £46,125 £38,525
25th Percentile £32,500 £52,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,625 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.82% +40.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 - £55,000
90th Percentile £75,325 - -
North East median annual salary £45,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -24.17% +20.00% +5.26%

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 23 69 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 9.02% 24.13% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 48 26
10th Percentile £27,875 £46,713 £38,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £69,308 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.04% +38.62% +19.05%
75th Percentile £61,375 £74,144 £56,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £69,800
North East median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -

.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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 0 3 £30,750 -41.43%
.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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
1 5 (35.71%) LAN
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
1 5 (35.71%) SSL
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
1 5 (35.71%) VoIP
1 5 (35.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Support
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Junior
5 2 (14.29%) Junior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) .NET Framework
2 7 (50.00%) Blazor
3 5 (35.71%) Entity Framework
4 4 (28.57%) WebAssembly
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 2 (14.29%) React
5 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
1 5 (35.71%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
1 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) SOLID
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Change Control
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) CRM
2 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (35.71%) Release Management
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft