Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 September 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for .NET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET over the 6 months to 22 September 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > UK excluding London
6 months to
22 Sep 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 12,020 16,356 18,074
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.00% 17.42% 18.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 41.07% 43.78% 44.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,336 14,545 16,187
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,750 £27,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -

.NET is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 29,265 37,356 40,423
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.53% 39.79% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23,756 31,358 34,051
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.88% +2.41%
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £63,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +1.05%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

.NET
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing .NET in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for .NET in the UK excluding London

.NET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing .NET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK excluding London

.NET
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
South East -1 3,989 £47,500 +5.56% 689
North of England +1 2,751 £45,000 +2.27% 719
Midlands +2 1,769 £45,000 +5.88% 467
South West -2 1,521 £45,000 +5.88% 333
North West +1 1,517 £45,000 - 410
Yorkshire 0 1,057 £42,500 -1.50% 256
West Midlands 0 1,016 £45,000 +1.24% 256
East of England -6 868 £48,000 +6.67% 255
East Midlands -1 749 £42,500 +6.25% 208
Scotland -2 730 £43,750 -2.78% 172
Wales +8 297 £45,000 +5.88% 71
North East -6 179 £43,500 +2.35% 53
Northern Ireland +1 95 £37,500 - 34
Channel Islands +14 9 £52,500 -25.00%
Isle of Man +3 4 £55,000 +41.94%
.NET
UK

For the 6 months to 22 September 2019, IT jobs citing .NET also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for .NET.

1 10,081 (83.87%) C#
2 5,598 (46.57%) JavaScript
3 5,455 (45.38%) Agile Software Development
4 5,306 (44.14%) ASP.NET
5 5,046 (41.98%) SQL
6 4,609 (38.34%) SQL Server
7 4,364 (36.31%) MVC
8 3,670 (30.53%) HTML
9 3,495 (29.08%) Azure
10 3,463 (28.81%) Microsoft
11 3,426 (28.50%) CSS
12 2,641 (21.97%) AngularJS
13 2,400 (19.97%) .NET Framework
14 2,271 (18.89%) ASP.NET MVC
15 2,203 (18.33%) Software Engineering
16 1,950 (16.22%) jQuery
17 1,930 (16.06%) .NET Core
18 1,904 (15.84%) Scrum
19 1,749 (14.55%) Degree
20 1,643 (13.67%) TDD
21 1,635 (13.60%) DevOps
22 1,603 (13.34%) ASP.NET Web API
23 1,530 (12.73%) Git (software)
24 1,460 (12.15%) Web Services
25 1,359 (11.31%) AWS
26 1,355 (11.27%) Web Development
27 1,328 (11.05%) React
28 1,320 (10.98%) Visual Studio
29 1,282 (10.67%) Finance
30 1,272 (10.58%) Problem-Solving

.NET
Co-occurring IT Skills in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 443 (3.69%) IIS
2 417 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 332 (2.76%) CMS
4 223 (1.86%) Umbraco
5 157 (1.31%) Confluence
6 147 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
7 122 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
8 102 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
9 71 (0.59%) WordPress
10 57 (0.47%) NServiceBus
11 44 (0.37%) EPiServer
12 42 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 40 (0.33%) Apache Spark
14 39 (0.32%) WebSphere
15 38 (0.32%) Drupal
16 36 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
17 35 (0.29%) Apache
18 30 (0.25%) Kentico
18 30 (0.25%) MS Exchange
19 29 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 82 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.23%) Photoshop
4 16 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.13%) S-PLUS
5 15 (0.12%) InfoPath
6 13 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.050%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.042%) GIMP
8 5 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.033%) EngageOne
9 4 (0.033%) Fireworks
9 4 (0.033%) Moqups
10 3 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.008%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.008%) Sketch
11 1 (0.008%) SPSS
11 1 (0.008%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 289 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 46 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 23 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 23 (0.19%) WebTrends
5 18 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 16 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 13 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 11 (0.092%) SAP BPC
9 9 (0.075%) Magento
10 8 (0.067%) nopCommerce
10 8 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
10 8 (0.067%) Visualfiles
11 7 (0.058%) Sage CRM
12 6 (0.050%) Salesforce.com CRM
13 5 (0.042%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.033%) Maximo
14 4 (0.033%) Oracle BPM
15 3 (0.025%) OPENHousing
15 3 (0.025%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 3,495 (29.08%) Azure
2 1,359 (11.31%) AWS
3 510 (4.24%) SaaS
4 269 (2.24%) GCP
5 249 (2.07%) Serverless
6 201 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 195 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 179 (1.49%) PaaS
9 145 (1.21%) Office 365
10 143 (1.19%) GitHub
11 123 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
12 93 (0.77%) npm
13 88 (0.73%) IaaS
14 84 (0.70%) Azure Functions
15 62 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (0.48%) OpenShift
17 48 (0.40%) Azure Active Directory
18 44 (0.37%) NuGet
19 42 (0.35%) PowerApps
20 33 (0.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 156 (1.30%) Internet
2 144 (1.20%) HTTP
3 86 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 82 (0.68%) Broadband
5 80 (0.67%) Firewall
6 51 (0.42%) HTTPS
7 42 (0.35%) Intranet
8 36 (0.30%) DNS
9 33 (0.27%) SMTP
10 27 (0.22%) FTP
11 26 (0.22%) Network Security
12 20 (0.17%) SSL
13 15 (0.12%) Skype
14 14 (0.12%) MQTT
14 14 (0.12%) SSH
15 13 (0.11%) DHCP
16 12 (0.100%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (0.100%) VoIP
17 11 (0.092%) Ethernet
18 10 (0.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4,609 (38.34%) SQL Server
2 526 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 450 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 443 (3.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 425 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 403 (3.35%) MySQL
7 273 (2.27%) MongoDB
8 231 (1.92%) Big Data
9 193 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
10 183 (1.52%) Power BI
11 174 (1.45%) SQL Server 2008
12 166 (1.38%) SQL Server 2012
13 157 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 146 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 134 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
16 97 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 94 (0.78%) Cosmos DB
18 93 (0.77%) Redis
19 85 (0.71%) GIS
20 83 (0.69%) SQL Server 2016
Development Applications
1 1,530 (12.73%) Git (software)
2 1,320 (10.98%) Visual Studio
3 817 (6.80%) Team Foundation Server
4 562 (4.68%) JIRA
5 468 (3.89%) Selenium
6 348 (2.90%) Jenkins
7 295 (2.45%) TeamCity
8 282 (2.35%) Visual Studio Team System
9 270 (2.25%) NUnit
10 249 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
11 225 (1.87%) Subversion
12 187 (1.56%) SpecFlow
13 158 (1.31%) Bitbucket
14 145 (1.21%) WebDriver
15 120 (1.00%) SoapUI
16 119 (0.99%) webpack
17 93 (0.77%) Cucumber
18 88 (0.73%) git-flow
19 84 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 77 (0.64%) gulp
General
1 1,282 (10.67%) Finance
2 489 (4.07%) Retail
3 422 (3.51%) Marketing
4 300 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 267 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 197 (1.64%) Telecoms
7 185 (1.54%) Games
8 152 (1.26%) Banking
9 90 (0.75%) Electronics
10 88 (0.73%) Automotive
11 81 (0.67%) Legal
12 56 (0.47%) Law
13 50 (0.42%) Aerospace
14 49 (0.41%) Financial Institution
15 44 (0.37%) Advertising
15 44 (0.37%) Back Office
16 35 (0.29%) Local Government
17 33 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
18 32 (0.27%) Publishing
19 25 (0.21%) Police
Job Titles
1 8,558 (71.20%) Developer
2 4,246 (35.32%) .NET Developer
3 3,083 (25.65%) C# Developer
4 2,417 (20.11%) Software Developer
5 2,028 (16.87%) C# .NET Developer
6 1,609 (13.39%) Senior Developer
7 1,174 (9.77%) Software Engineer
8 859 (7.15%) .NET Software Developer
9 835 (6.95%) C# Software Developer
10 809 (6.73%) Senior .NET Developer
11 690 (5.74%) Full Stack Developer
12 669 (5.57%) ASP.NET Developer
13 645 (5.37%) Junior
14 613 (5.10%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 580 (4.83%) Junior Developer
16 567 (4.72%) Web Developer
17 515 (4.28%) Senior C# Developer
18 492 (4.09%) SQL Developer
19 458 (3.81%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
20 450 (3.74%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5,306 (44.14%) ASP.NET
2 3,670 (30.53%) HTML
3 3,426 (28.50%) CSS
4 2,641 (21.97%) AngularJS
5 2,400 (19.97%) .NET Framework
6 2,271 (18.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1,950 (16.22%) jQuery
8 1,930 (16.06%) .NET Core
9 1,603 (13.34%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1,460 (12.15%) Web Services
11 1,328 (11.05%) React
12 1,084 (9.02%) WCF
13 992 (8.25%) Entity Framework
14 986 (8.20%) HTML5
15 906 (7.54%) XML
16 904 (7.52%) REST
17 788 (6.56%) RESTful
18 621 (5.17%) WPF
19 613 (5.10%) SOAP
20 584 (4.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 913 (7.60%) Greenfield Project
2 606 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
3 467 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 463 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 431 (3.59%) User Experience
6 399 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
7 123 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 122 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 122 (1.01%) Robotics
9 85 (0.71%) Virtual Team
10 84 (0.70%) Client/Server
11 68 (0.57%) Driving Licence
12 64 (0.53%) NHS
13 63 (0.52%) Cloud Native
14 62 (0.52%) Public Cloud
15 54 (0.45%) N-Tier
16 53 (0.44%) Data Structures
17 48 (0.40%) EPoS
18 47 (0.39%) Data Centre
19 46 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1,100 (9.15%) Windows
2 502 (4.18%) Linux
3 366 (3.04%) Android
4 292 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 204 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 100 (0.83%) Unix
7 47 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 37 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 36 (0.30%) Windows 7
9 36 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.13%) Windows 8
11 15 (0.12%) CentOS
12 13 (0.11%) Windows Mobile
13 9 (0.075%) Windows Server 2003
14 8 (0.067%) VMS
15 5 (0.042%) Mac OS X
15 5 (0.042%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 4 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.033%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5,455 (45.38%) Agile Software Development
2 4,364 (36.31%) MVC
3 2,203 (18.33%) Software Engineering
4 1,904 (15.84%) Scrum
5 1,643 (13.67%) TDD
6 1,635 (13.60%) DevOps
7 1,355 (11.27%) Web Development
8 1,272 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
9 1,201 (9.99%) Test Automation
10 1,126 (9.37%) SDLC
11 1,009 (8.39%) Computer Science
12 997 (8.29%) Microservices
13 946 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
14 931 (7.75%) OO
15 926 (7.70%) Unit Testing
16 909 (7.56%) Mentoring
17 712 (5.92%) SOLID
18 580 (4.83%) BDD
19 533 (4.43%) E-Commerce
20 511 (4.25%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10,081 (83.87%) C#
2 5,598 (46.57%) JavaScript
3 5,046 (41.98%) SQL
4 1,247 (10.37%) Java
5 953 (7.93%) T-SQL
6 934 (7.77%) VB.NET
7 743 (6.18%) TypeScript
8 642 (5.34%) C++
9 625 (5.20%) Python
10 423 (3.52%) PHP
11 421 (3.50%) PowerShell
12 353 (2.94%) VB
13 283 (2.35%) C
14 129 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 121 (1.01%) Ruby
16 110 (0.92%) VBA
17 109 (0.91%) ES6
18 101 (0.84%) VB6
19 77 (0.64%) Objective-C
20 66 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,749 (14.55%) Degree
2 598 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 220 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 181 (1.51%) Security Cleared
5 112 (0.93%) ISTQB
6 104 (0.87%) SC Cleared
7 88 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
8 75 (0.62%) HND
9 55 (0.46%) ISEB
10 44 (0.37%) CISSP
10 44 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 44 (0.37%) MCSE
11 39 (0.32%) CCNA
11 39 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
13 35 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 34 (0.28%) GIAC
14 34 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
14 34 (0.28%) SANS
14 34 (0.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (4.98%) QA
2 68 (0.57%) GDPR
3 46 (0.38%) SLA
4 29 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.20%) PMO
6 20 (0.17%) DICOM
7 18 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 15 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.075%) CRD IV
11 8 (0.067%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 7 (0.058%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.050%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.025%) COBIT
14 3 (0.025%) MiFID
14 3 (0.025%) NCSC
15 2 (0.017%) GAMP
15 2 (0.017%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.017%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.017%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 741 (6.16%) Docker
2 168 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 30 (0.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 19 (0.16%) Firmware
7 18 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.14%) LXC
9 5 (0.042%) vSphere
10 4 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.025%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.017%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.017%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.017%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.017%) XenApp
13 1 (0.008%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.008%) NFS
Systems Management
1 432 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 111 (0.92%) Puppet
3 102 (0.85%) Opscode Chef
4 87 (0.72%) Ansible
5 76 (0.63%) Terraform
6 30 (0.25%) Tivoli
7 27 (0.22%) Kibana
8 24 (0.20%) CA Service Virtualization
9 17 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
9 17 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.13%) Grafana
11 15 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 14 (0.12%) SCCM
13 12 (0.100%) Backup Exec
13 12 (0.100%) logstash
13 12 (0.100%) SCOM
14 9 (0.075%) Rancher
15 8 (0.067%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
16 7 (0.058%) Plesk
Vendors
1 3,463 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 506 (4.21%) Oracle
3 320 (2.66%) Google
4 289 (2.40%) Xamarin
5 183 (1.52%) SAP
6 157 (1.31%) Sitecore
7 137 (1.14%) Salesforce.com
8 120 (1.00%) Sage
9 116 (0.97%) IBM
10 69 (0.57%) VMware
11 55 (0.46%) Atlassian
12 52 (0.43%) Pega
13 36 (0.30%) Apple
14 35 (0.29%) UiPath
15 34 (0.28%) Telerik
16 30 (0.25%) Tableau
17 28 (0.23%) CA
18 25 (0.21%) DevExpress
19 24 (0.20%) Micro Focus
20 22 (0.18%) ForgeRock