.NET Framework Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 150 158
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 28 52 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.78% 1.20% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.41% 5.94% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 46 32
10th Percentile £30,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -31.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59,375 £64,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £66,850 £73,750 £86,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.80% +1.74% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 333 875 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.23% 20.20% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 220 517 628
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the Thames Valley

.NET Framework
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +25 19 £35,000 -41.67% 8
Oxfordshire +11 5 £50,000 +33.33% 7
Berkshire -12 4 £62,500 +5.71% 5
.NET Framework
South East

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (42.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS
7 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.57%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (39.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) NUnit
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Law
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) IT Support
2 12 (42.86%) IT Support Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Software Support Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) .NET Developer
4 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 6 (21.43%) Senior
6 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
7 5 (17.86%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (10.71%) C# Developer
9 3 (10.71%) React Developer
9 3 (10.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (10.71%) Senior React Developer
10 2 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 14 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 12 (42.86%) WinForms
4 8 (28.57%) REST
5 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (14.29%) gRPC
6 4 (14.29%) htmx
6 4 (14.29%) Kendo UI
6 4 (14.29%) Middleware
6 4 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (14.29%) Sass
6 4 (14.29%) SignalR
7 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (3.57%) CSS3
8 1 (3.57%) HTML5
8 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.57%) IoT
1 1 (3.57%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
5 10 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (25.00%) Data Management
6 7 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) CAD
7 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.86%) MVC
7 5 (17.86%) SDLC
7 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Clean Code
9 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (7.14%) Change Control
9 2 (7.14%) Migration
9 2 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
9 2 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (75.00%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Sage
1 12 (42.86%) Xamarin
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) Google
3 5 (17.86%) Zoho
4 4 (14.29%) Telerik
5 1 (3.57%) IONA
5 1 (3.57%) Rollbar