.NET Framework Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 188 140
Rank change year-on-year -181 -48 +22
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 171 466 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 1.58% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 7.94% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 156 339 1,029
10th Percentile £36,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,344 5,868 11,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.47% 19.87% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,325 3,684 9,055
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the UK excluding London

.NET Framework
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
North of England -66 49 £55,000 +10.00% 26
South East -55 47 £55,000 +1.85% 33
North West -22 39 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West -47 33 £47,500 -20.83% 19
Midlands -30 29 £60,000 +4.35% 10
West Midlands -20 17 £52,500 -8.70% 6
East Midlands -29 12 £62,500 -3.85% 4
Yorkshire -66 7 £42,039 -11.50% 8
Wales -12 5 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland -76 5 £40,000 +1.27% 6
East of England -82 4 £72,500 +45.00% 11
North East -15 3 £68,500 +24.55% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
.NET Framework
UK

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (11.11%) IIS
2 3 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.17%) CMS
3 2 (1.17%) nginx
3 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (63.16%) Azure
2 35 (20.47%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (17.54%) SaaS
4 22 (12.87%) Azure AKS
5 16 (9.36%) Serverless
6 14 (8.19%) AWS
6 14 (8.19%) Entra ID
7 11 (6.43%) Azure App Service
7 11 (6.43%) GitHub
7 11 (6.43%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.68%) Azure Functions
9 8 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (4.68%) PowerApps
10 7 (4.09%) GCP
10 7 (4.09%) PaaS
11 6 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.51%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.92%) npm
12 5 (2.92%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Internet
2 2 (1.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.17%) Intranet
3 1 (0.58%) AMQP
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (47.95%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.09%) MySQL
5 5 (2.92%) Power BI
6 4 (2.34%) Redis
7 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.17%) MS Access
7 2 (1.17%) PostHog
7 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (14.04%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.17%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.17%) NUnit
3 2 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.58%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.58%) Postman
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
4 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 28 (16.37%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.19%) Finance
3 6 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.75%) Retail
7 2 (1.17%) Games
7 2 (1.17%) Law
7 2 (1.17%) Legal
7 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.58%) Back Office
8 1 (0.58%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Marketing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (62.57%) Developer
2 56 (32.75%) Software Developer
3 50 (29.24%) Senior
4 44 (25.73%) Software Engineer
5 36 (21.05%) .NET Developer
6 27 (15.79%) Lead
7 25 (14.62%) Senior Developer
8 24 (14.04%) C# Developer
9 22 (12.87%) .NET Software Engineer
10 18 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (9.94%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 15 (8.77%) .NET Software Developer
13 14 (8.19%) Applications Developer
14 13 (7.60%) C# .NET Developer
14 13 (7.60%) Lead Developer
15 12 (7.02%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 12 (7.02%) IT Engineer
15 12 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (100.00%) .NET
2 63 (36.84%) .NET Core
3 55 (32.16%) Entity Framework
4 50 (29.24%) ASP.NET
5 30 (17.54%) REST
6 29 (16.96%) React
7 26 (15.20%) CSS
8 25 (14.62%) HTML
9 19 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 18 (10.53%) WinForms
11 17 (9.94%) RESTful
12 14 (8.19%) Blazor
13 13 (7.60%) ASP.NET MVC
14 11 (6.43%) Dapper ORM
14 11 (6.43%) Vue
15 10 (5.85%) Razor View Engine
15 10 (5.85%) WPF
16 9 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
17 8 (4.68%) Web Services
18 7 (4.09%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.62%) Windows
2 5 (2.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) VMS
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (48.54%) Agile
2 74 (43.27%) DevOps
3 62 (36.26%) Software Engineering
4 54 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 36 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (18.13%) Microservices
8 30 (17.54%) Clean Code
9 29 (16.96%) MVC
10 27 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 26 (15.20%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.87%) Computer Science
13 20 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (11.11%) Scrum
15 18 (10.53%) RAD
16 17 (9.94%) Performance Optimisation
16 17 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
17 16 (9.36%) Migration
17 16 (9.36%) User Experience
18 15 (8.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 138 (80.70%) C#
2 95 (55.56%) SQL
3 40 (23.39%) JavaScript
4 30 (17.54%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.77%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.92%) Bash
8 4 (2.34%) Python
8 4 (2.34%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.17%) Delphi
9 2 (1.17%) Java
9 2 (1.17%) PHP
9 2 (1.17%) XAML
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 30 (17.54%) Degree
2 21 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.58%) HND
4 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.77%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.17%) WCAG
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (16.37%) Docker
2 9 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (19.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.17%) Ansible
3 2 (1.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.02%) Sage
2 12 (7.02%) Xamarin
3 8 (4.68%) Telerik
4 6 (3.51%) Google
5 5 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (2.92%) Zoho
6 4 (2.34%) Syncfusion
7 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle
7 1 (0.58%) Perforce
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce