.NET Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 65 25
Rank change year-on-year +13 -40 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,167 1,348 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.91% 3.94% 6.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.79% 27.13% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 990 3,444
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,350 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

.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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,413 4,968 10,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 14.52% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,116 3,108 7,848
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,471
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

.NET
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

.NET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

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 31 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
South East +25 680 £57,500 - 155
North of England +3 611 £57,500 -4.17% 128
Midlands +2 328 £55,000 - 76
North West -3 283 £60,000 - 71
South West +24 209 £52,500 - 37
East of England +23 205 £65,000 +23.81% 56
West Midlands -10 177 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Yorkshire +22 168 £55,000 -15.38% 29
North East +3 160 £55,750 +29.65% 30
East Midlands +31 151 £55,000 - 36
Scotland +20 55 £58,750 -8.91% 9
Northern Ireland -18 55 £35,000 -46.15% 7
Wales -63 26 £50,000 -16.67% 13
.NET
UK

.NET
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 40 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.57%) IIS
3 16 (0.74%) ColdFusion
4 15 (0.69%) CMS
4 15 (0.69%) Confluence
5 9 (0.42%) WordPress
6 8 (0.37%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Apache
9 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.14%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.046%) CICS
10 1 (0.046%) Drupal
10 1 (0.046%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.046%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.046%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.23%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 3 (0.14%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.092%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.092%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,087 (50.16%) Azure
2 340 (15.69%) AWS
3 338 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
4 193 (8.91%) GitHub
5 187 (8.63%) SaaS
6 161 (7.43%) Azure AI
7 135 (6.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 118 (5.45%) Power Platform
9 90 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 85 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 80 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 77 (3.55%) Serverless
13 69 (3.18%) PowerApps
14 51 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
15 39 (1.80%) Azure Functions
16 37 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
17 36 (1.66%) GCP
18 35 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
19 34 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
20 33 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.88%) Internet
2 9 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.37%) Firewall
4 7 (0.32%) HTTP
4 7 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.23%) DHCP
5 5 (0.23%) DNS
5 5 (0.23%) LAN
5 5 (0.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.18%) SNMP
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) Modbus
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 1 (0.046%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.046%) LTE
8 1 (0.046%) Network Security
8 1 (0.046%) Profibus
8 1 (0.046%) SSL
8 1 (0.046%) VLAN
8 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (21.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 420 (19.38%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.74%) MongoDB
4 156 (7.20%) Elasticsearch
5 91 (4.20%) Power BI
6 56 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 45 (2.08%) MySQL
8 44 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.74%) Redis
11 16 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.51%) GIS
14 11 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
16 7 (0.32%) SQLite
17 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 135 (6.23%) Git
2 35 (1.62%) JIRA
3 26 (1.20%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.92%) Postman
5 19 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.83%) NUnit
7 16 (0.74%) GitLab
7 16 (0.74%) Selenium
8 13 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (0.37%) Moq
10 8 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.28%) MSI
11 6 (0.28%) MSTest
11 6 (0.28%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.23%) JMeter
12 5 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 5 (0.23%) Yeoman
General
1 286 (13.20%) Social Skills
2 211 (9.74%) Finance
3 79 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (3.37%) Legal
5 63 (2.91%) Retail
6 60 (2.77%) Public Sector
7 57 (2.63%) Advertising
8 55 (2.54%) Games
8 55 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 51 (2.35%) Marketing
10 46 (2.12%) Law
11 40 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (1.38%) Legal Technology
13 26 (1.20%) Automotive
14 24 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.88%) Electronics
16 11 (0.51%) Music Industry
17 8 (0.37%) Aviation
17 8 (0.37%) Back Office
18 7 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,453 (67.05%) Developer
2 879 (40.56%) .NET Developer
3 408 (18.83%) Senior
4 318 (14.67%) Software Engineer
5 308 (14.21%) Software Developer
6 247 (11.40%) Senior Developer
7 227 (10.48%) Lead
8 154 (7.11%) C# Developer
9 150 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 130 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
11 121 (5.58%) C# .NET Developer
12 119 (5.49%) C# Software Engineer
13 118 (5.45%) Lead Developer
14 114 (5.26%) .NET Software Developer
15 110 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
16 98 (4.52%) Senior .NET Developer
17 85 (3.92%) Web Developer
18 81 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 68 (3.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 62 (2.86%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 706 (32.58%) .NET Core
2 670 (30.92%) ASP.NET
3 543 (25.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 349 (16.11%) HTML
5 344 (15.87%) CSS
6 331 (15.27%) React
7 278 (12.83%) AngularJS
8 264 (12.18%) Entity Framework
9 252 (11.63%) Blazor
10 251 (11.58%) RESTful
11 236 (10.89%) Vue
12 228 (10.52%) .NET Framework
13 223 (10.29%) Node.js
14 204 (9.41%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (7.06%) ML.NET
16 135 (6.23%) REST
17 109 (5.03%) LINQ
18 62 (2.86%) jQuery
19 53 (2.45%) JSON
19 53 (2.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 136 (6.28%) Greenfield Project
2 104 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 85 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.77%) Mobile App
6 56 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 53 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.43%) Legacy Code
9 22 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 20 (0.92%) Digital TV
11 19 (0.88%) AI Agents
11 19 (0.88%) Hedge funds
11 19 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.78%) BBC
12 17 (0.78%) iPhone
12 17 (0.78%) Social Media
13 16 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.65%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.65%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.51%) Windows
2 29 (1.34%) Android
3 28 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.97%) Linux
5 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 812 (37.47%) Full-Stack Development
2 752 (34.70%) Agile
3 533 (24.60%) CI/CD
4 527 (24.32%) Software Engineering
5 485 (22.38%) DevOps
6 385 (17.77%) Microservices
7 332 (15.32%) AI
8 304 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 246 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (8.95%) Machine Learning
11 187 (8.63%) SDLC
12 178 (8.21%) Multithreading
13 159 (7.34%) Mentoring
14 156 (7.20%) Scrum
15 151 (6.97%) TDD
16 124 (5.72%) OO
17 117 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
18 115 (5.31%) Clean Code
19 114 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
20 109 (5.03%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,653 (76.28%) C#
2 857 (39.55%) SQL
3 483 (22.29%) JavaScript
4 297 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 131 (6.05%) Python
6 96 (4.43%) Java
7 76 (3.51%) C++
8 66 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 61 (2.81%) PHP
10 53 (2.45%) T-SQL
11 42 (1.94%) VB.NET
12 29 (1.34%) Bicep
13 25 (1.15%) C
14 21 (0.97%) Bash
15 14 (0.65%) VB
16 9 (0.42%) Go
16 9 (0.42%) VBA
17 8 (0.37%) Delphi
17 8 (0.37%) XAML
18 7 (0.32%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 172 (7.94%) Degree
2 92 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 14 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
13 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.092%) CSQA
14 2 (0.092%) HND
14 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.092%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.092%) PhD
14 2 (0.092%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (7.80%) QA
2 44 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.78%) GDPR
4 14 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.55%) WCAG
6 7 (0.32%) NCSC
7 5 (0.23%) SLA
8 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.092%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.092%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.046%) NIST
System Software
1 260 (12.00%) Docker
2 10 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.46%) Firmware
3 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 239 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 79 (3.65%) Terraform
3 8 (0.37%) Grafana
4 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.14%) Ansible
6 2 (0.092%) MIIS
7 1 (0.046%) Argo
7 1 (0.046%) Consul
7 1 (0.046%) MOM
7 1 (0.046%) Packer
7 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 771 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.05%) Google
3 59 (2.72%) Facebook
4 26 (1.20%) Adobe
5 25 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.97%) YouTube
7 20 (0.92%) Oracle
8 17 (0.78%) Apple
8 17 (0.78%) Sony
8 17 (0.78%) Yahoo!
9 16 (0.74%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.37%) Databricks
11 8 (0.37%) Sage
12 7 (0.32%) VMware
13 6 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.28%) DevExpress
14 5 (0.23%) SYSPRO
15 4 (0.18%) IBM
15 4 (0.18%) Splunk