.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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 53 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -30 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,694 1,363 5,592
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.53% 4.65% 7.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.81% 27.29% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,550 987 4,788
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5,325 4,995 14,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.96% 17.06% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,250 3,184 10,570
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +14 578 £58,000 -3.33% 170
North of England -19 493 £60,000 - 198
North West -14 263 £62,500 +8.70% 116
Midlands -12 260 £55,000 - 91
South West +3 163 £55,000 +4.76% 52
East of England -9 139 £65,000 +23.81% 59
West Midlands -37 136 £57,500 +7.10% 44
East Midlands +12 124 £55,000 - 47
Yorkshire -20 119 £60,000 -7.69% 46
North East -6 111 £59,500 +8.18% 37
Scotland -11 44 £60,000 +7.62% 27
Wales -52 18 £45,000 -30.77% 15
Northern Ireland -36 1 - - 20
.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 39 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.36%) IIS
3 16 (0.94%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.59%) CMS
5 8 (0.47%) Confluence
6 7 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.30%) WordPress
8 4 (0.24%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 1 (0.059%) Appian
11 1 (0.059%) Drupal
11 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.059%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Magento
3 2 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 716 (42.27%) Azure
2 241 (14.23%) AWS
3 215 (12.69%) SaaS
4 208 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (6.55%) GitHub
6 82 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 69 (4.07%) Serverless
8 64 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (3.72%) Azure AI
10 58 (3.42%) Power Automate
11 54 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 50 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 50 (2.95%) PowerApps
13 37 (2.18%) Azure Functions
13 37 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
14 26 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (1.42%) GCP
16 21 (1.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.54%) Internet
2 9 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.47%) Firewall
4 5 (0.30%) DHCP
4 5 (0.30%) DNS
4 5 (0.30%) LAN
4 5 (0.30%) WAN
5 3 (0.18%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.18%) RS-232
6 1 (0.059%) AMQP
6 1 (0.059%) LTE
6 1 (0.059%) Modbus
6 1 (0.059%) MPLS
6 1 (0.059%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.059%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (20.13%) SQL Server
2 206 (12.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 164 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 67 (3.96%) Power BI
5 59 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 56 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
7 33 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.36%) MySQL
9 20 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.59%) GIS
13 7 (0.41%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.35%) Redis
15 4 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.24%) Metadata
15 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 93 (5.49%) Git
2 37 (2.18%) JIRA
3 31 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 29 (1.71%) Postman
5 23 (1.36%) Selenium
6 18 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 16 (0.94%) SoapUI
8 11 (0.65%) GitLab
8 11 (0.65%) NUnit
8 11 (0.65%) WebDriver
9 9 (0.53%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.41%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.41%) Moq
10 7 (0.41%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.30%) JMeter
12 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
12 5 (0.30%) MSTest
General
1 226 (13.34%) Social Skills
2 172 (10.15%) Finance
3 62 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 42 (2.48%) Retail
6 37 (2.18%) Manufacturing
7 31 (1.83%) Games
8 25 (1.48%) Automotive
9 22 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 22 (1.30%) Electronics
10 21 (1.24%) Advertising
11 18 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.06%) Marketing
12 17 (1.00%) Law
13 11 (0.65%) Aviation
14 10 (0.59%) Legal
15 8 (0.47%) Back Office
15 8 (0.47%) Military
16 6 (0.35%) Banking
16 6 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,060 (62.57%) Developer
2 573 (33.83%) .NET Developer
3 355 (20.96%) Senior
4 317 (18.71%) Software Developer
5 305 (18.00%) Software Engineer
6 182 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 181 (10.68%) Lead
8 150 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 145 (8.56%) C# Developer
10 136 (8.03%) .NET Software Engineer
11 116 (6.85%) .NET Software Developer
12 114 (6.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 111 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 101 (5.96%) C# Software Engineer
15 96 (5.67%) Senior .NET Developer
16 92 (5.43%) Lead Developer
17 69 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 68 (4.01%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 59 (3.48%) C# Software Developer
19 59 (3.48%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (26.92%) .NET Core
2 364 (21.49%) ASP.NET
3 238 (14.05%) ASP.NET Core
4 237 (13.99%) HTML
5 228 (13.46%) CSS
5 228 (13.46%) React
6 178 (10.51%) AngularJS
7 170 (10.04%) .NET Framework
8 148 (8.74%) RESTful
9 143 (8.44%) Entity Framework
10 140 (8.26%) Vue
11 121 (7.14%) Node.js
12 120 (7.08%) Blazor
13 102 (6.02%) REST
14 88 (5.19%) ASP.NET Web API
15 59 (3.48%) ML.NET
16 51 (3.01%) jQuery
17 45 (2.66%) LINQ
18 34 (2.01%) JSON
19 31 (1.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.60%) Cloud Native
1 78 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
2 71 (4.19%) Mobile App
3 51 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.36%) Legacy Code
8 16 (0.94%) Hedge funds
9 15 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 14 (0.83%) PropTech
10 14 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 11 (0.65%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.65%) Sports Betting
12 10 (0.59%) Client/Server
12 10 (0.59%) Social Network
13 9 (0.53%) Digital TV
13 9 (0.53%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.54%) Windows
2 22 (1.30%) Android
3 19 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.89%) Linux
5 9 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.059%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.059%) VMS
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (30.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 465 (27.45%) Agile
3 453 (26.74%) Software Engineering
4 341 (20.13%) CI/CD
5 327 (19.30%) DevOps
6 209 (12.34%) AI
7 203 (11.98%) Microservices
8 182 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 154 (9.09%) SDLC
11 135 (7.97%) Mentoring
12 104 (6.14%) Scrum
13 103 (6.08%) Clean Code
13 103 (6.08%) Machine Learning
14 99 (5.84%) TDD
15 92 (5.43%) Containerisation
16 91 (5.37%) Technical Leadership
17 89 (5.25%) Test Automation
18 86 (5.08%) Business Intelligence
19 84 (4.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,172 (69.19%) C#
2 567 (33.47%) SQL
3 328 (19.36%) JavaScript
4 181 (10.68%) TypeScript
5 121 (7.14%) Python
6 98 (5.79%) Java
7 68 (4.01%) C++
8 52 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 49 (2.89%) PHP
10 36 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.24%) VB.NET
12 19 (1.12%) Bash
12 19 (1.12%) C
13 18 (1.06%) VB
14 13 (0.77%) Bicep
15 10 (0.59%) VBA
16 8 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.41%) XAML
18 5 (0.30%) Delphi
18 5 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 161 (9.50%) Degree
2 70 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 59 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 19 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 13 (0.77%) ISTQB
6 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.12%) CSQA
12 2 (0.12%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.12%) PhD
13 1 (0.059%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.90%) QA
2 35 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.89%) GDPR
4 11 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.53%) ISO 9001
5 9 (0.53%) WCAG
6 5 (0.30%) SLA
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.059%) NCSC
System Software
1 158 (9.33%) Docker
2 12 (0.71%) Firmware
3 8 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.84%) Terraform
3 4 (0.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.12%) MIIS
4 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.059%) Ansible
5 1 (0.059%) CASB
5 1 (0.059%) Consul
5 1 (0.059%) Packer
5 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.059%) Puppet
Vendors
1 401 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (1.59%) Google
3 23 (1.36%) Xamarin
4 22 (1.30%) Adobe
4 22 (1.30%) Facebook
5 20 (1.18%) Oracle
6 19 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 13 (0.77%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.47%) YouTube
10 7 (0.41%) Apple
10 7 (0.41%) Databricks
10 7 (0.41%) Sony
10 7 (0.41%) VMware
10 7 (0.41%) Yahoo!
11 6 (0.35%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.30%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.30%) Sage
13 4 (0.24%) IBM
13 4 (0.24%) SYSPRO