.NET Job Trends in Essex

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 9 31 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 1.29% 6.80% 7.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.37% 41.33% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 34
10th Percentile - £35,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £50,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% +62.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £79,625
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

.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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 49 75 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 7.05% 16.45% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 45 20 84
10th Percentile £25,000 £38,350 £31,475
25th Percentile £27,500 £56,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -9.80% +15.91%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £79,125 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Essex

.NET
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Essex over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Essex

.NET
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Essex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Loughton - 1 £50,000 - 1
.NET
East of England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Graduate
2 4 (44.44%) Graduate Developer
2 4 (44.44%) IT Graduate
2 4 (44.44%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Core
2 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (44.44%) jQuery
2 4 (44.44%) React
2 4 (44.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
1 1 (11.11%) Robotics
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) OOP
3 4 (44.44%) OWASP
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Degree