.NET Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 40 28
Rank change year-on-year -53 -12 -4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 92 208 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.77% 5.12% 7.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.47% 26.13% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 88 115 349
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,218
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.58% - -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 498 796 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.61% 19.60% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 366 454 1,076
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,188
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,938 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +0.75%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the South West

.NET
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the South West over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the South West

.NET
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Bristol -3 43 £57,500 -9.45% 28
Devon +7 21 £47,500 -17.39% 19
Wiltshire -19 12 £62,500 -5.66% 16
Somerset -30 10 £47,500 -17.39% 24
Gloucestershire +3 4 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Dorset -30 2 £70,000 +40.00% 15
.NET
England

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (4.35%) Umbraco
2 3 (3.26%) CMS
3 2 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.57%) Azure
2 13 (14.13%) AWS
3 12 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.04%) GitHub
3 12 (13.04%) Serverless
4 9 (9.78%) Azure AKS
5 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.52%) SaaS
7 5 (5.43%) Azure App Service
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.26%) GCP
9 3 (3.26%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.17%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.17%) MySQL
3 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) Git
3 3 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.17%) Retail
5 1 (1.09%) Finance
5 1 (1.09%) Military
5 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (61.96%) Developer
2 30 (32.61%) Software Developer
3 26 (28.26%) .NET Developer
4 19 (20.65%) Software Engineer
5 17 (18.48%) .NET Software Engineer
6 16 (17.39%) Senior
7 14 (15.22%) .NET Software Developer
8 11 (11.96%) Senior Developer
9 9 (9.78%) C# Developer
10 6 (6.52%) Azure Developer
10 6 (6.52%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
10 6 (6.52%) Software Manager
11 5 (5.43%) Applications Developer
11 5 (5.43%) Development Manager
11 5 (5.43%) Lead
12 4 (4.35%) Blazor Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Business Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.78%) .NET Core
2 26 (28.26%) .NET Framework
3 16 (17.39%) ASP.NET
4 14 (15.22%) Entity Framework
5 13 (14.13%) CSS
6 12 (13.04%) Blazor
6 12 (13.04%) HTML
6 12 (13.04%) React
7 10 (10.87%) RESTful
8 9 (9.78%) WPF
9 8 (8.70%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.52%) REST
11 5 (5.43%) Universal Windows Platform
11 5 (5.43%) WinUI
12 4 (4.35%) Autofac
12 4 (4.35%) CSS3
12 4 (4.35%) HTML5
12 4 (4.35%) Razor View Engine
13 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Android
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.04%) Agile
1 35 (38.04%) Software Engineering
2 33 (35.87%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.00%) DevOps
4 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.48%) Containerisation
5 17 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (18.48%) MVC
6 15 (16.30%) Clean Code
7 13 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.13%) SDLC
8 8 (8.70%) Design Patterns
8 8 (8.70%) Migration
9 7 (7.61%) AI
9 7 (7.61%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (7.61%) OWASP
10 6 (6.52%) B2B
10 6 (6.52%) CRM
10 6 (6.52%) Release Management
10 6 (6.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.78%) C#
2 27 (29.35%) SQL
3 18 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.26%) Python
5 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.17%) C++
6 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.17%) VB
6 2 (2.17%) XAML
7 1 (1.09%) Bash
7 1 (1.09%) Bicep
7 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (16.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.43%) Syncfusion
2 5 (5.43%) Telerik