.NET Software Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median .NET Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 518 510
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 113 32 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.094% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.10% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 107 28 120
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,500 £73,425
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +20.77% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,937 30,549 53,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.32% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 52,800 17,475 33,507
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

.NET Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

.NET Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 +24 71 £70,000 -22.22% 9
North of England -34 36 £60,000 -12.41% 7
Yorkshire -25 26 £50,000 -27.01% 2
North East -55 8 £100,000 +25.00% 5
North West -18 2 £65,000 -9.41%
West Midlands -27 2 £45,000 -15.89% 3
Midlands -40 2 £45,000 -18.18% 4
South West -74 2 - - 3
East of England - 1 £100,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
.NET Software Engineer
UK

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 September 2026, .NET Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 113 (100.00%) .NET
1 113 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 105 (92.92%) C#
3 43 (38.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (30.09%) Azure
5 31 (27.43%) AWS
6 30 (26.55%) SaaS
7 28 (24.78%) Microservices
8 26 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (21.24%) Fintech
9 24 (21.24%) SDLC
10 22 (19.47%) Vue
11 21 (18.58%) CI/CD
11 21 (18.58%) Degree
12 20 (17.70%) Agile
12 20 (17.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (17.70%) CQRS
12 20 (17.70%) CSS
12 20 (17.70%) HTML
12 20 (17.70%) Product Vision
12 20 (17.70%) Resource Allocation
13 19 (16.81%) SQL
14 14 (12.39%) .NET Core
14 14 (12.39%) DevOps
15 11 (9.73%) Blazor
15 11 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
16 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
17 9 (7.96%) ASP.NET
18 8 (7.08%) Microsoft

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 34 (30.09%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) AWS
3 30 (26.55%) SaaS
4 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.19%) PaaS
5 3 (2.65%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.65%) Serverless
6 2 (1.77%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 9 (7.96%) Finance
1 9 (7.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.54%) Games
4 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.65%) Tech for Good
5 2 (1.77%) Advertising
5 2 (1.77%) Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Law
5 2 (1.77%) Legal
5 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (19.47%) Vue
3 20 (17.70%) CSS
3 20 (17.70%) HTML
4 14 (12.39%) .NET Core
5 11 (9.73%) Blazor
6 9 (7.96%) ASP.NET
7 8 (7.08%) React
8 4 (3.54%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.65%) Next.js
9 3 (2.65%) RESTful
9 3 (2.65%) Terraform
10 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.77%) REST
11 1 (0.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Hedge funds
2 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Life Science
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 43 (38.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 28 (24.78%) Microservices
4 26 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (21.24%) Fintech
5 24 (21.24%) SDLC
6 21 (18.58%) CI/CD
7 20 (17.70%) Agile
7 20 (17.70%) CQRS
7 20 (17.70%) Product Vision
7 20 (17.70%) Resource Allocation
8 14 (12.39%) DevOps
9 11 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (6.19%) Clean Code
10 7 (6.19%) Code Quality
11 6 (5.31%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (5.31%) Design Patterns
11 6 (5.31%) OOP
11 6 (5.31%) TDD
11 6 (5.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (92.92%) C#
2 19 (16.81%) SQL
3 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.65%) C++
5 3 (2.65%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.77%) Python
7 1 (0.88%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (18.58%) Degree
2 20 (17.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle
4 1 (0.88%) Google
4 1 (0.88%) Workday