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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,052 1,383 5,252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.91% 4.15% 7.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.81% 26.92% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 1,005 4,401
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 6,070 5,138 13,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 15.42% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,879 3,256 10,082
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.09%

.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 9 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 9 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 +27 656 £57,500 - 174
North of England -2 564 £59,500 -0.83% 180
Midlands +11 322 £55,000 - 74
North West -2 281 £60,000 +1.69% 94
South West +13 206 £55,000 +4.76% 54
East of England +22 192 £65,000 +23.81% 69
West Midlands -17 167 £57,500 +4.55% 42
East Midlands +29 155 £55,000 - 32
North East +2 144 £57,500 +9.52% 36
Yorkshire -2 139 £57,500 -11.54% 52
Scotland +13 59 £57,500 -8.00% 25
Northern Ireland -35 28 - - 27
Wales -53 27 £50,000 -23.95% 14
.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 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.41%) IIS
3 16 (0.78%) ColdFusion
4 13 (0.63%) Confluence
5 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 8 (0.39%) WordPress
7 7 (0.34%) nginx
7 7 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.097%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.049%) Appian
11 1 (0.049%) Drupal
11 1 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.049%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
2 3 (0.15%) Shopify
3 2 (0.097%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.049%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.049%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (50.49%) Azure
2 327 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
3 320 (15.59%) AWS
4 193 (9.41%) SaaS
5 185 (9.02%) GitHub
6 161 (7.85%) Azure AI
7 131 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
8 105 (5.12%) Power Platform
9 87 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 79 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 78 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
12 76 (3.70%) Serverless
13 67 (3.27%) PowerApps
14 41 (2.00%) Azure Functions
15 39 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
18 33 (1.61%) GCP
19 27 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.09%) Internet
2 9 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.39%) Firewall
4 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.24%) DHCP
5 5 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.24%) LAN
5 5 (0.24%) WAN
6 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.15%) RS-232
7 2 (0.097%) HTTP
7 2 (0.097%) Modbus
8 1 (0.049%) AMQP
8 1 (0.049%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.049%) LTE
8 1 (0.049%) Network Security
8 1 (0.049%) SSL
8 1 (0.049%) VLAN
8 1 (0.049%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (23.10%) Azure SQL Database
2 407 (19.83%) MongoDB
3 371 (18.08%) SQL Server
4 152 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 87 (4.24%) Power BI
6 54 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.61%) MySQL
8 31 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (0.63%) Redis
13 11 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.49%) GIS
15 8 (0.39%) DynamoDB
15 8 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
16 5 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.24%) Metadata
17 4 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 112 (5.46%) Git
2 34 (1.66%) JIRA
3 24 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.97%) Postman
5 15 (0.73%) GitLab
6 13 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.63%) NUnit
7 11 (0.54%) Selenium
8 8 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.34%) Moq
9 7 (0.34%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.24%) JMeter
11 5 (0.24%) MSTest
11 5 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 244 (11.89%) Social Skills
2 208 (10.14%) Finance
3 70 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (2.97%) Retail
5 56 (2.73%) Advertising
5 56 (2.73%) Games
6 55 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 49 (2.39%) Manufacturing
7 49 (2.39%) Marketing
8 43 (2.10%) Law
9 42 (2.05%) Legal
10 30 (1.46%) Legal Technology
11 28 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 26 (1.27%) Automotive
12 26 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.02%) Electronics
14 11 (0.54%) Music Industry
15 8 (0.39%) Back Office
15 8 (0.39%) Military
16 7 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,392 (67.84%) Developer
2 860 (41.91%) .NET Developer
3 378 (18.42%) Senior
4 312 (15.20%) Software Engineer
5 301 (14.67%) Software Developer
6 209 (10.19%) Senior Developer
7 205 (9.99%) Lead
8 148 (7.21%) C# Developer
9 147 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 131 (6.38%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.75%) C# .NET Developer
12 114 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 112 (5.46%) C# Software Engineer
14 110 (5.36%) Lead Developer
15 109 (5.31%) .NET Software Developer
16 97 (4.73%) Senior .NET Developer
17 76 (3.70%) Web Developer
18 69 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 64 (3.12%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 57 (2.78%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (34.36%) .NET Core
2 641 (31.24%) ASP.NET
3 529 (25.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 335 (16.33%) HTML
5 334 (16.28%) CSS
6 326 (15.89%) React
7 274 (13.35%) AngularJS
8 252 (12.28%) Entity Framework
9 245 (11.94%) RESTful
10 241 (11.74%) Blazor
11 233 (11.35%) Vue
12 220 (10.72%) Node.js
13 209 (10.19%) .NET Framework
14 192 (9.36%) ASP.NET Web API
15 154 (7.50%) ML.NET
16 124 (6.04%) REST
17 109 (5.31%) LINQ
18 60 (2.92%) jQuery
19 46 (2.24%) JSON
20 45 (2.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 69 (3.36%) Mobile App
4 68 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.27%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.97%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.93%) Hedge funds
11 18 (0.88%) BBC
11 18 (0.88%) Social Media
12 17 (0.83%) iPhone
13 16 (0.78%) AI Agents
13 16 (0.78%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.73%) Social Network
15 14 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (0.63%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.63%) Sports Betting
17 11 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (2.78%) Windows
2 32 (1.56%) Android
3 22 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.88%) Linux
5 9 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.097%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (38.84%) Full-Stack Development
2 711 (34.65%) Agile
3 515 (25.10%) Software Engineering
4 488 (23.78%) CI/CD
5 455 (22.17%) DevOps
6 340 (16.57%) Microservices
7 326 (15.89%) AI
8 241 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
9 204 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 199 (9.70%) Machine Learning
11 175 (8.53%) Multithreading
12 168 (8.19%) SDLC
13 150 (7.31%) TDD
14 147 (7.16%) Scrum
15 146 (7.12%) Mentoring
16 118 (5.75%) OO
17 114 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
18 107 (5.21%) Clean Code
19 102 (4.97%) Technical Leadership
20 99 (4.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,548 (75.44%) C#
2 837 (40.79%) SQL
3 462 (22.51%) JavaScript
4 286 (13.94%) TypeScript
5 122 (5.95%) Python
6 94 (4.58%) Java
7 74 (3.61%) C++
8 64 (3.12%) PowerShell
9 56 (2.73%) PHP
10 49 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 31 (1.51%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.17%) Bicep
12 24 (1.17%) C
13 21 (1.02%) Bash
14 17 (0.83%) VB
15 9 (0.44%) VBA
16 7 (0.34%) Delphi
16 7 (0.34%) XAML
17 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 158 (7.70%) Degree
2 81 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) MBA
11 3 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.097%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.097%) CSQA
12 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.097%) PhD
13 1 (0.049%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.14%) QA
2 43 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.73%) GDPR
4 13 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.58%) WCAG
6 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.24%) NCSC
7 5 (0.24%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 250 (12.18%) Docker
2 13 (0.63%) Firmware
3 11 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 227 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.27%) Terraform
3 6 (0.29%) Grafana
4 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.097%) Ansible
5 2 (0.097%) MIIS
6 1 (0.049%) Consul
6 1 (0.049%) MOM
6 1 (0.049%) Packer
6 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 725 (35.33%) Microsoft
2 64 (3.12%) Google
3 60 (2.92%) Facebook
4 25 (1.22%) Adobe
4 25 (1.22%) OpenAI
5 21 (1.02%) YouTube
6 20 (0.97%) Oracle
7 18 (0.88%) Apple
7 18 (0.88%) Sony
7 18 (0.88%) Xamarin
7 18 (0.88%) Yahoo!
8 11 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.39%) Databricks
10 7 (0.34%) VMware
11 5 (0.24%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.24%) Sage
11 5 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.19%) IBM
13 3 (0.15%) OneLogin