.NET Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 25 15
Rank change year-on-year -49 -10 +8
Permanent jobs citing .NET 73 147 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.88% 6.63% 10.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.20% 39.62% 47.62%
Number of salaries quoted 70 80 196
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -0.98% -2.38%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,775 £75,000 £76,875
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -1.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

.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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 234 371 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.25% 16.74% 22.30%
Number of salaries quoted 173 211 366
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

.NET
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the East Midlands

.NET
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Nottinghamshire -3 37 £65,000 - 19
Northamptonshire +10 17 £52,000 +1.46% 12
Derbyshire -22 11 £45,000 -10.00% 10
Leicestershire -24 8 £67,250 +49.44% 14
.NET
England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (8.22%) IIS
2 4 (5.48%) CMS
3 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.16%) Azure
2 27 (36.99%) AWS
3 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.96%) SaaS
4 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.48%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) npm
6 3 (4.11%) NuGet
6 3 (4.11%) SonarCloud
7 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.37%) Figma
8 1 (1.37%) Sage Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.10%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.85%) Power BI
3 5 (6.85%) Redis
4 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.74%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.74%) MySQL
6 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) GitLab
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Postman
2 2 (2.74%) Selenium
General
1 10 (13.70%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Games
2 6 (8.22%) Law
3 4 (5.48%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Billing
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (71.23%) Developer
2 26 (35.62%) C# Developer
3 23 (31.51%) Senior
4 19 (26.03%) .NET Developer
5 16 (21.92%) C# .NET Developer
6 14 (19.18%) Software Developer
7 12 (16.44%) Senior Developer
8 11 (15.07%) Senior C# Developer
9 10 (13.70%) Lead
9 10 (13.70%) React Developer
10 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
11 7 (9.59%) .NET Web Developer
11 7 (9.59%) ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (9.59%) C# Web Developer
11 7 (9.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (9.59%) Web Developer
12 6 (8.22%) Architect
12 6 (8.22%) Azure Developer
12 6 (8.22%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (8.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (46.58%) .NET Core
2 18 (24.66%) React
3 16 (21.92%) ASP.NET
4 15 (20.55%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (13.70%) CSS
5 10 (13.70%) HTML
6 9 (12.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (8.22%) .NET Framework
7 6 (8.22%) DirectX
7 6 (8.22%) OpenGL
8 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.48%) Entity Framework
10 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 3 (4.11%) Node.js
10 3 (4.11%) YAML
11 2 (2.74%) CSS3
11 2 (2.74%) HTML5
11 2 (2.74%) JSON
11 2 (2.74%) Playwright
11 2 (2.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) 3D Graphics
2 4 (5.48%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) Software Engineering
2 20 (27.40%) MVC
3 19 (26.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.18%) DevOps
6 13 (17.81%) Agile
6 13 (17.81%) Microservices
7 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.59%) Web Development
9 6 (8.22%) Analytics
9 6 (8.22%) CAD
9 6 (8.22%) Event-Driven
9 6 (8.22%) Mathematics
9 6 (8.22%) Physics
9 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.22%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.22%) Technical Debt
10 5 (6.85%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (84.93%) C#
2 24 (32.88%) SQL
3 22 (30.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.22%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.11%) Bash
6 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.11%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.11%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle
4 1 (1.37%) Adobe
4 1 (1.37%) HubSpot