.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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 124 154
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 -15
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 30 41 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.66% 1.40% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.92% 6.88% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 30 38 81
10th Percentile £30,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £64,563 £71,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -

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 379 596 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.28% 20.40% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 284 367 907
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -1.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -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 6 March 2026.

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 6 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
Buckinghamshire +11 24 £41,250 -17.50% 1
Oxfordshire -19 4 £65,000 +73.33% 6
Berkshire -13 2 £70,000 +18.39% 2
.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 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.33%) NUnit
3 1 (3.33%) Postman
3 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 14 (46.67%) Developer
3 12 (40.00%) IT Engineer
3 12 (40.00%) IT Support
3 12 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 12 (40.00%) Software Support Engineer
3 12 (40.00%) Support Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (30.00%) .NET Developer
5 9 (30.00%) Senior
6 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 8 (26.67%) Senior Developer
7 5 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (13.33%) React Developer
8 4 (13.33%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
10 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 16 (53.33%) Entity Framework
3 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET
4 12 (40.00%) WinForms
5 10 (33.33%) REST
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (13.33%) gRPC
6 4 (13.33%) htmx
6 4 (13.33%) Kendo UI
6 4 (13.33%) Middleware
6 4 (13.33%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (13.33%) Sass
6 4 (13.33%) SignalR
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.67%) Blazor
7 2 (6.67%) Vue
8 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (3.33%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) DevOps
1 18 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (56.67%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (46.67%) Agile
4 12 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.67%) CAD
6 5 (16.67%) Data Management
6 5 (16.67%) SDLC
7 4 (13.33%) Clean Code
7 4 (13.33%) MVC
7 4 (13.33%) Scrum
7 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.00%) AI
8 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.67%) Coaching
9 2 (6.67%) Extreme Programming
9 2 (6.67%) User Experience
9 2 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) C#
2 17 (56.67%) SQL
3 12 (40.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (23.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Sage
1 12 (40.00%) Xamarin
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (16.67%) Zoho
4 4 (13.33%) Telerik