.NET Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 87 29
Rank change year-on-year +44 -58 -11
Permanent jobs citing .NET 199 119 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.17% 3.29% 6.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.73% 26.44% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 165 111 341
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -15.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

.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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 590 450 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.41% 12.44% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 465 283 776
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +15.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Oxfordshire +15 84 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Buckinghamshire +32 71 £52,500 +5.00% 16
Berkshire +3 44 £60,000 -17.24% 19
.NET
South East

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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 4 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.51%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (46.73%) Azure
2 38 (19.10%) AWS
3 29 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (10.55%) SaaS
5 16 (8.04%) GitHub
6 10 (5.03%) Azure AI
6 10 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.52%) Serverless
9 6 (3.02%) PaaS
10 5 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (2.51%) GCP
11 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
14 1 (0.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
14 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.51%) Internet
2 1 (0.50%) Modbus
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (26.63%) SQL Server
2 30 (15.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (10.05%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.52%) MySQL
6 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Git
2 9 (4.52%) Postman
3 5 (2.51%) GitLab
3 5 (2.51%) Yeoman
4 4 (2.01%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.01%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.51%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.51%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.01%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.50%) NUnit
7 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.07%) Finance
3 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.54%) Manufacturing
4 14 (7.04%) Retail
5 7 (3.52%) Advertising
6 4 (2.01%) Electronics
7 1 (0.50%) Billing
7 1 (0.50%) Games
7 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.50%) Law
7 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (47.24%) Developer
2 75 (37.69%) .NET Developer
3 66 (33.17%) Software Engineer
4 50 (25.13%) Senior
5 30 (15.08%) C# Software Engineer
6 29 (14.57%) .NET Software Engineer
7 27 (13.57%) C# Developer
8 25 (12.56%) C# .NET Developer
9 24 (12.06%) Senior Developer
10 22 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (10.05%) Lead
12 16 (8.04%) Senior .NET Developer
13 13 (6.53%) .NET Web Developer
13 13 (6.53%) Web Developer
14 12 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (5.53%) C# Web Developer
16 10 (5.03%) React Developer
16 10 (5.03%) Support Engineer
17 9 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
17 9 (4.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (25.63%) ASP.NET
2 44 (22.11%) .NET Core
3 33 (16.58%) ASP.NET Core
4 28 (14.07%) .NET Framework
5 25 (12.56%) React
6 24 (12.06%) Blazor
7 19 (9.55%) Entity Framework
8 17 (8.54%) CSS
8 17 (8.54%) HTML
9 15 (7.54%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 13 (6.53%) Node.js
10 13 (6.53%) Vue
11 12 (6.03%) REST
11 12 (6.03%) RESTful
12 9 (4.52%) ML.NET
12 9 (4.52%) Playwright
12 9 (4.52%) WinForms
13 7 (3.52%) LINQ
14 4 (2.01%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.52%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.01%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.01%) Life Science
6 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.01%) Social Network
7 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.50%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Android
2 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (44.22%) Software Engineering
2 67 (33.67%) Agile
3 60 (30.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 41 (20.60%) CI/CD
4 41 (20.60%) DevOps
5 37 (18.59%) AI
6 29 (14.57%) Test Automation
7 27 (13.57%) TDD
8 24 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.55%) Microservices
10 18 (9.05%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.05%) OO
11 16 (8.04%) Design Patterns
11 16 (8.04%) Machine Learning
12 15 (7.54%) BDD
12 15 (7.54%) Clean Code
12 15 (7.54%) Scrum
12 15 (7.54%) Web Development
13 14 (7.04%) Event-Driven
13 14 (7.04%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 145 (72.86%) C#
2 62 (31.16%) SQL
3 21 (10.55%) JavaScript
3 21 (10.55%) TypeScript
4 12 (6.03%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.02%) VB.NET
6 7 (3.52%) C
7 6 (3.02%) C++
8 5 (2.51%) Python
9 3 (1.51%) Java
10 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 36 (18.09%) Degree
2 21 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.01%) CSQA
6 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.01%) PhD
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (9.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (31.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.52%) Facebook
2 7 (3.52%) YouTube
3 6 (3.02%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.51%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle
7 2 (1.01%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.50%) Rollbar