.NET Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 39 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 14 16 76
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.66% 3.91% 7.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.57% 16.16% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 66
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,125 £42,315
25th Percentile £39,250 £36,875 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £66,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £52,686
% change year-on-year -30.77% +23.37% +12.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

.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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 49 99 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 5.82% 24.21% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 45 76 188
10th Percentile £33,500 - £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £43,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £51,093
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -7.03% +1.04%
75th Percentile £78,790 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,186 £75,375
Wales median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

.NET job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing .NET

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Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in South Wales over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Cardiff -6 4 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Torfaen - 4 £45,000 -
Bridgend -3 3 £55,000 +51.72%
Newport -14 3 £41,500 -13.54% 2
.NET
Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) NetScaler
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) git-flow
2 1 (7.14%) Moq
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Software Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) ICT Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) FHIR
2 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) jQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
5 2 (14.29%) AI
5 2 (14.29%) Culture Change
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (14.29%) OO
5 2 (14.29%) People Management
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) VB.NET
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft