.NET Job Trends in Leicester

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester 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 30 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +29
Permanent jobs citing .NET 8 25 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 2.34% 13.37% 16.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 36.36% 51.02% 54.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 50
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.44% -14.29% +20.13%
75th Percentile £70,875 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,125 £62,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £67,250 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +49.44% -14.29% +15.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicester

.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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 49 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 6.43% 26.20% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 84
10th Percentile £44,125 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -5.07% +14.21%
75th Percentile £67,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,050 £64,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £61,250 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.93% -1.90% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Leicester

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Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing .NET

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Salary Histogram in Leicester

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

Salary histogram for .NET in Leicester

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 3 (37.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) npm
3 3 (37.50%) NuGet
3 3 (37.50%) SonarCloud
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Games
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) 3D Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) YAML
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) DirectX
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (12.50%) Next.js
4 1 (12.50%) OpenGL
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) CAD
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 1 (12.50%) Physics
4 1 (12.50%) Volume Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (12.50%) HubSpot