.NET Framework Job Trends in England

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 395 204
Rank change year-on-year -99 -191 -13
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 276 255 852
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.59% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 3.46% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 236 204 565
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £40,200
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £106,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Framework 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,656 7,380 14,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.08% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 4,861 8,875
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in England

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in England

.NET Framework
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
South East -11 69 £57,500 +15.00% 39
London -115 62 £75,000 - 118
South West -47 44 £45,000 -10.00% 15
North of England -66 42 £56,250 -6.25% 47
East of England -7 31 £50,000 - 16
Midlands -66 26 £54,000 -8.09% 17
North West -36 17 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Yorkshire -28 14 £57,500 -4.17% 19
West Midlands -49 14 £55,000 -8.33% 10
East Midlands -26 12 £54,000 -1.82% 7
North East -65 11 £47,500 - 7
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (5.43%) IIS
1 15 (5.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.54%) Confluence
3 6 (2.17%) CMS
3 6 (2.17%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) DNN
4 3 (1.09%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.09%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Kentico
4 3 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.45%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.36%) Magento
3 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 175 (63.41%) Azure
2 93 (33.70%) AWS
3 61 (22.10%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (16.30%) GitHub
5 25 (9.06%) Serverless
6 21 (7.61%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 19 (6.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 19 (6.88%) Power Automate
9 16 (5.80%) PowerApps
10 15 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.99%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.62%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.26%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.26%) SaaS
14 8 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.09%) Intranet
2 2 (0.72%) HTTP
2 2 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (49.64%) SQL Server
2 66 (23.91%) MongoDB
3 58 (21.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 50 (18.12%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (12.32%) Relational Database
6 26 (9.42%) MySQL
7 20 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (5.07%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.99%) Power BI
9 11 (3.99%) Redis
10 10 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (3.26%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (1.81%) SQLite
14 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.36%) Apache Ignite
15 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (23.55%) Git
2 14 (5.07%) JIRA
3 13 (4.71%) NUnit
4 11 (3.99%) TeamCity
4 11 (3.99%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.90%) Postman
6 7 (2.54%) MSI
7 6 (2.17%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.17%) Moq
8 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.45%) GitLab
9 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.36%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 54 (19.57%) Finance
2 36 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (9.42%) Social Skills
5 19 (6.88%) Law
5 19 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.35%) Legal
7 10 (3.62%) Banking
8 8 (2.90%) Electronics
8 8 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.17%) Automotive
10 4 (1.45%) Aviation
10 4 (1.45%) Games
10 4 (1.45%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Advertising
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (69.20%) Developer
2 127 (46.01%) .NET Developer
3 58 (21.01%) Senior
4 46 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 38 (13.77%) C# Developer
5 38 (13.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.78%) Software Developer
8 25 (9.06%) Lead
9 22 (7.97%) C# .NET Developer
10 19 (6.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 19 (6.88%) Senior .NET Developer
10 19 (6.88%) Senior C# Developer
11 17 (6.16%) .NET Software Developer
12 13 (4.71%) .NET Web Developer
12 13 (4.71%) C# Software Developer
12 13 (4.71%) Web Developer
13 12 (4.35%) Analyst
13 12 (4.35%) Support Analyst
14 9 (3.26%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (100.00%) .NET
2 144 (52.17%) Entity Framework
3 143 (51.81%) .NET Core
4 140 (50.72%) ASP.NET
5 104 (37.68%) ASP.NET Core
6 89 (32.25%) React
7 80 (28.99%) AngularJS
7 80 (28.99%) CSS
7 80 (28.99%) HTML
8 73 (26.45%) ASP.NET Web API
9 58 (21.01%) Node.js
10 57 (20.65%) REST
11 46 (16.67%) Blazor
11 46 (16.67%) Vue
12 39 (14.13%) RESTful
12 39 (14.13%) XML
13 35 (12.68%) Terraform
14 28 (10.14%) WPF
15 25 (9.06%) JSON
16 24 (8.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.99%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.54%) Tandem
8 6 (2.17%) Acoustics
8 6 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.30%) Windows
2 19 (6.88%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.54%) Linux
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (54.35%) Agile
2 128 (46.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 96 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 85 (30.80%) DevOps
5 80 (28.99%) Microservices
6 69 (25.00%) Scrum
7 63 (22.83%) Software Engineering
8 55 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (18.48%) AI
9 51 (18.48%) TDD
10 49 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.58%) Test Automation
12 38 (13.77%) Mentoring
13 37 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (12.32%) BDD
15 33 (11.96%) Code Quality
16 32 (11.59%) Kanban
17 30 (10.87%) MVC
18 29 (10.51%) API Development
19 27 (9.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 255 (92.39%) C#
2 134 (48.55%) JavaScript
3 127 (46.01%) SQL
4 86 (31.16%) TypeScript
5 18 (6.52%) Python
6 12 (4.35%) VB.NET
7 11 (3.99%) C++
7 11 (3.99%) VBA
8 9 (3.26%) Bicep
8 9 (3.26%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.90%) XAML
10 6 (2.17%) Bash
10 6 (2.17%) C
11 4 (1.45%) Java
11 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.09%) VBScript
12 3 (1.09%) XPath
13 2 (0.72%) Delphi
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (15.22%) Degree
2 21 (7.61%) SC Cleared
2 21 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.54%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.42%) QA
2 7 (2.54%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.54%) NCSC
2 7 (2.54%) WCAG
3 4 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.09%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 169 (61.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.26%) Google
3 6 (2.17%) DevExpress
4 4 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (1.45%) Splunk
4 4 (1.45%) Telerik
5 3 (1.09%) Alterian
5 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
5 3 (1.09%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.09%) Workday
6 2 (0.72%) Blue Prism
6 2 (0.72%) Databricks
6 2 (0.72%) IFS
6 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.72%) Veracode
7 1 (0.36%) Aderant
7 1 (0.36%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (0.36%) Intapp
7 1 (0.36%) UiPath
7 1 (0.36%) Xamarin