.NET Framework Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 157 114
Rank change year-on-year -36 -43 +13
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 23 79 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.30% 1.24% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.65% 7.44% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 21 52 122
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +2.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,188
90th Percentile - £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

.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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 630 1,062 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.12% 16.65% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 517 583 948
10th Percentile £32,125 £34,502 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,400 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the Midlands

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

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

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the Midlands

.NET Framework
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands -12 18 £61,750 +7.39% 12
East Midlands -28 5 £60,000 +20.00% 19
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 2 (8.70%) CMS
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) Power Platform
3 14 (60.87%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (43.48%) Power Automate
5 10 (43.48%) PowerApps
6 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
6 4 (17.39%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (17.39%) Serverless
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (8.70%) Azure API Management
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (8.70%) npm
8 2 (8.70%) NuGet
8 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 2 (8.70%) SonarCloud
9 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.35%) GCP
9 1 (4.35%) IaaS
9 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Intranet
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) MS Access
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MSTest
1 3 (13.04%) NUnit
2 2 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Moq
3 1 (4.35%) NSubstitute
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Law
2 2 (8.70%) Legal
2 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) C# Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Applications Developer
3 8 (34.78%) CRM Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 7 (30.43%) C# Application Developer
4 7 (30.43%) Senior
5 5 (21.74%) Automation Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Lead
5 5 (21.74%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
6 4 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Lead Developer
6 4 (17.39%) Web Developer
7 3 (13.04%) .NET Applications Developer
7 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
7 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
8 2 (8.70%) C# Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (34.78%) Entity Framework
3 7 (30.43%) .NET Core
3 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) HTML
4 5 (21.74%) YAML
5 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
6 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (13.04%) Blazor
6 3 (13.04%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (8.70%) ADO
7 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (8.70%) Node.js
7 2 (8.70%) React
7 2 (8.70%) REST
7 2 (8.70%) RESTful
7 2 (8.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Migration
3 9 (39.13%) CRM
4 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (34.78%) Data Migration
4 8 (34.78%) SOA
5 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (26.09%) MVC
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (21.74%) TDD
8 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
9 3 (13.04%) AI
9 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 3 (13.04%) Bicep
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Delphi
6 2 (8.70%) Java
6 2 (8.70%) XAML
7 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.70%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) WCAG
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.35%) Google