.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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 32 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -25 +21
Permanent jobs citing .NET 23 5 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 4.63% 2.35% 12.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 76.67% 33.33% 68.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 52
10th Percentile £45,750 £29,725 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £46,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,650 -
North East median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% +9.09%

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 30 15 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 6.04% 7.04% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 74
10th Percentile £38,100 £28,208 £38,251
25th Percentile £45,750 £32,175 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -15.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,500 - £72,125
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

.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
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 10 July 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 -2 3 £59,000 +91.87%
Stockton-on-Tees - 3 £46,500 -
.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 18 (78.26%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) Redis
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) .NET Developer
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Entity Framework
1 9 (39.13%) YAML
2 7 (30.43%) ARM Templates
3 5 (21.74%) .NET Core
3 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
3 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
3 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (21.74%) LINQ
3 5 (21.74%) RESTful
3 5 (21.74%) Vue
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
5 3 (13.04%) SignalR
6 1 (4.35%) Blazor
6 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Full-Stack Development
2 13 (56.52%) AI
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Observability
4 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Kanban
5 8 (34.78%) Scrum
6 6 (26.09%) Customer Experience
7 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 5 (21.74%) Multithreading
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Refactoring
9 3 (13.04%) FinOps
9 3 (13.04%) Migration
9 3 (13.04%) Prototyping
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) Bash
2 9 (39.13%) Bicep
2 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) TypeScript
4 6 (26.09%) SQL
5 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft