.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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 393 179
Rank change year-on-year -60 -214 +12
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 227 152 724
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.44% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 3.29% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 201 126 497
10th Percentile £38,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,375 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 7,198 4,626 9,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.33% 13.29% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,507 2,779 5,705
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,424 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.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 9 October 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 9 October 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
South East -17 72 £57,500 +15.00% 40
South West -52 43 £45,000 -10.00% 16
North of England -73 42 £56,250 -4.26% 54
East of England -18 31 £50,000 - 19
Midlands -56 25 £54,000 -10.00% 18
North West -29 17 £57,500 -4.17% 25
Yorkshire -29 14 £57,500 -4.17% 24
West Midlands -56 14 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Scotland +17 11 £45,000 -14.29% 11
East Midlands -30 11 £54,000 -1.82% 5
North East -65 11 £47,500 - 6
Wales -72 6 £45,000 +8.43% 2
.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 11 (4.85%) IIS
2 7 (3.08%) Confluence
2 7 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) CMS
3 3 (1.32%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) Magento
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (56.39%) Azure
2 86 (37.89%) AWS
3 41 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (15.86%) GitHub
5 18 (7.93%) SaaS
6 17 (7.49%) Serverless
7 16 (7.05%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.41%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.52%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.08%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (2.64%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (2.20%) Power Platform
16 4 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
2 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (50.22%) SQL Server
2 58 (25.55%) MongoDB
3 49 (21.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 48 (21.15%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (12.78%) Relational Database
6 22 (9.69%) MySQL
7 16 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (4.41%) NoSQL
9 9 (3.96%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (2.20%) Redis
11 5 (2.20%) SQLite
12 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.88%) Power BI
14 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (23.79%) Git
2 14 (6.17%) JIRA
3 13 (5.73%) Visual Studio
4 11 (4.85%) NUnit
4 11 (4.85%) TeamCity
5 8 (3.52%) Postman
6 7 (3.08%) Moq
6 7 (3.08%) MSI
7 5 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.76%) GitLab
9 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.88%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.44%) Selenium
11 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (18.50%) Finance
2 22 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.93%) Social Skills
5 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.96%) Electronics
6 9 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.08%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.08%) Automotive
7 7 (3.08%) Law
8 4 (1.76%) Aviation
9 3 (1.32%) Banking
9 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Advertising
10 2 (0.88%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 158 (69.60%) Developer
2 113 (49.78%) .NET Developer
3 39 (17.18%) Senior
4 36 (15.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (15.42%) Senior Developer
6 29 (12.78%) Software Engineer
7 24 (10.57%) C# Developer
8 22 (9.69%) Software Developer
9 21 (9.25%) Lead
10 20 (8.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 16 (7.05%) Senior .NET Developer
12 14 (6.17%) .NET Web Developer
12 14 (6.17%) Web Developer
13 13 (5.73%) .NET Software Developer
13 13 (5.73%) C# .NET Developer
14 12 (5.29%) Analyst
14 12 (5.29%) Senior C# Developer
14 12 (5.29%) Support Analyst
15 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Web Developer
16 9 (3.96%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (100.00%) .NET
2 119 (52.42%) Entity Framework
3 117 (51.54%) ASP.NET
4 108 (47.58%) .NET Core
5 89 (39.21%) ASP.NET Core
6 69 (30.40%) React
7 66 (29.07%) CSS
7 66 (29.07%) HTML
8 62 (27.31%) AngularJS
9 60 (26.43%) ASP.NET Web API
10 56 (24.67%) Node.js
11 44 (19.38%) REST
12 38 (16.74%) Vue
13 37 (16.30%) XML
14 36 (15.86%) Blazor
15 28 (12.33%) WPF
16 24 (10.57%) RESTful
17 23 (10.13%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (10.13%) WinForms
18 21 (9.25%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (3.08%) Acoustics
6 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.88%) IoT
10 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.88%) Robotics
10 2 (0.88%) Tandem
11 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.94%) Windows
2 19 (8.37%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.64%) Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Android
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.39%) Agile
2 118 (51.98%) Full-Stack Development
3 69 (30.40%) Microservices
4 67 (29.52%) CI/CD
5 62 (27.31%) Scrum
6 54 (23.79%) Software Engineering
7 52 (22.91%) DevOps
7 52 (22.91%) TDD
8 38 (16.74%) Test Automation
9 37 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (15.86%) AI
11 31 (13.66%) BDD
11 31 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (13.22%) MVC
13 29 (12.78%) Kanban
14 24 (10.57%) Code Quality
14 24 (10.57%) Mentoring
15 23 (10.13%) API Development
15 23 (10.13%) SDLC
15 23 (10.13%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 206 (90.75%) C#
2 119 (52.42%) JavaScript
3 114 (50.22%) SQL
4 74 (32.60%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.93%) Python
6 11 (4.85%) C++
7 10 (4.41%) VB.NET
8 9 (3.96%) XAML
9 7 (3.08%) Bicep
9 7 (3.08%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.76%) C
11 4 (1.76%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.76%) VBA
12 3 (1.32%) Bash
12 3 (1.32%) Java
13 2 (0.88%) Delphi
13 2 (0.88%) XPath
14 1 (0.44%) PHP
14 1 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 32 (14.10%) Degree
2 17 (7.49%) SC Cleared
2 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.08%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (2.64%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.01%) QA
2 7 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.08%) NCSC
2 7 (3.08%) WCAG
3 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (18.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (14.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 131 (57.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.41%) Google
3 6 (2.64%) DevExpress
4 4 (1.76%) Telerik
5 3 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.32%) Splunk
6 2 (0.88%) IFS
6 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.88%) Veracode
7 1 (0.44%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.44%) Intapp
7 1 (0.44%) SAP
7 1 (0.44%) Xamarin