.NET Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 46 18
Rank change year-on-year -47 -28 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET 216 253 914
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.80% 5.22% 8.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.50% 35.19% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 202 216 813
10th Percentile £40,566 £36,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,188 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £77,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 758 719 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.31% 14.83% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 605 584 1,639
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,150
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the Midlands

.NET
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the Midlands

.NET
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 April 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 -53 112 £51,250 -10.87% 32
East Midlands -28 104 £64,500 +22.86% 35
.NET
England

.NET
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 11 (5.09%) IIS
2 4 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.46%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.37%) Azure
2 36 (16.67%) AWS
3 30 (13.89%) SaaS
4 25 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (10.19%) Power Platform
6 19 (8.80%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (6.02%) GitHub
7 13 (6.02%) Power Automate
8 11 (5.09%) NuGet
8 11 (5.09%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.63%) npm
9 10 (4.63%) SonarCloud
10 9 (4.17%) Figma
10 9 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.85%) Serverless
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.39%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.93%) Intranet
2 1 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
2 1 (0.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (24.54%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.87%) Power BI
4 10 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.85%) Redis
8 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.93%) Metadata
10 1 (0.46%) Power Query
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.94%) Git
2 12 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.39%) Selenium
3 3 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.93%) Postman
5 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (8.80%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.41%) Law
3 14 (6.48%) Finance
4 9 (4.17%) Games
5 6 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.39%) Legal
7 3 (1.39%) Retail
8 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Automotive
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Police
9 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 166 (76.85%) Developer
2 65 (30.09%) Software Developer
3 49 (22.69%) .NET Developer
4 45 (20.83%) Senior
5 31 (14.35%) C# Developer
6 25 (11.57%) Lead
7 23 (10.65%) Senior Developer
8 18 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.02%) Xamarin Developer
11 12 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.56%) Systems Developer
12 11 (5.09%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.63%) Business Developer
13 10 (4.63%) React Developer
13 10 (4.63%) Senior C# Developer
13 10 (4.63%) Software Engineer
14 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (28.70%) .NET Core
2 33 (15.28%) React
3 28 (12.96%) .NET Framework
4 26 (12.04%) AngularJS
5 25 (11.57%) ASP.NET
6 18 (8.33%) Blazor
7 16 (7.41%) Node.js
8 12 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 11 (5.09%) YAML
10 10 (4.63%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (4.63%) CSS
10 10 (4.63%) HTML
10 10 (4.63%) WPF
11 8 (3.70%) Material Design
11 8 (3.70%) WebAssembly
12 6 (2.78%) DirectX
12 6 (2.78%) Entity Framework
12 6 (2.78%) OpenGL
13 5 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
1 14 (6.48%) Mobile App
2 13 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.02%) PropTech
3 11 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.78%) 3D Graphics
5 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.39%) Photography
7 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.46%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.46%) EPoS
8 1 (0.46%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.02%) Windows
2 10 (4.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Android
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 46 (21.30%) DevOps
3 40 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 30 (13.89%) Agile
5 26 (12.04%) MVC
6 25 (11.57%) Microservices
7 22 (10.19%) Software Engineering
8 21 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (9.26%) CRM
10 18 (8.33%) AI
10 18 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.41%) Logistics
12 15 (6.94%) Mentoring
12 15 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (6.48%) SDLC
13 14 (6.48%) Test Automation
14 13 (6.02%) User Experience
15 12 (5.56%) Data Integration
15 12 (5.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 172 (79.63%) C#
2 49 (22.69%) SQL
3 47 (21.76%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.63%) Bash
4 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.63%) T-SQL
4 10 (4.63%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.85%) C++
5 4 (1.85%) Java
5 4 (1.85%) Python
6 3 (1.39%) PHP
6 3 (1.39%) Rust
7 2 (0.93%) Bicep
7 2 (0.93%) Go
7 2 (0.93%) Scala
8 1 (0.46%) C
8 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.46%) Delphi
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
1 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
1 2 (0.93%) Degree
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.63%) WCAG
3 9 (4.17%) QA
4 5 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (6.94%) Kubernetes
1 15 (6.94%) Terraform
2 2 (0.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.94%) Xamarin
3 10 (4.63%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (0.93%) Databricks
4 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe
5 1 (0.46%) Facebook
5 1 (0.46%) HubSpot