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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 77 24
Rank change year-on-year +23 -53 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,230 1,193 3,712
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.71% 3.45% 6.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.46% 25.29% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,958 855 2,651
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,774 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
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 7,321 4,717 10,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 13.66% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,734 2,856 6,534
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.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 September 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 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 +51 702 £60,000 - 204
North of England +2 609 £56,500 -5.83% 209
Midlands +33 351 £58,250 +5.91% 118
North West -13 269 £60,000 -4.00% 106
East of England +28 221 £62,500 +19.05% 78
South West +11 203 £55,000 +6.80% 81
West Midlands -1 187 £59,000 +7.27% 60
North East +5 185 £56,500 +31.78% 43
East Midlands +43 164 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Yorkshire -1 155 £55,000 -8.33% 61
Scotland +31 60 £60,000 -6.98% 52
Northern Ireland -29 60 £35,000 -30.00% 18
Wales -73 26 £50,000 -9.09% 22
.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 44 (1.97%) IIS
2 36 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
4 15 (0.67%) ColdFusion
4 15 (0.67%) Confluence
5 9 (0.40%) WordPress
6 8 (0.36%) nginx
7 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.18%) CICS
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Drupal
11 1 (0.045%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.090%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.090%) Magento
4 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,122 (50.31%) Azure
2 363 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
3 362 (16.23%) AWS
4 214 (9.60%) GitHub
5 178 (7.98%) SaaS
6 166 (7.44%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 131 (5.87%) Power Platform
9 95 (4.26%) Serverless
10 93 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 89 (3.99%) Power Automate
12 83 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
13 74 (3.32%) PowerApps
14 54 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.97%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
18 40 (1.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 88 (3.95%) Internet
2 14 (0.63%) Firewall
3 9 (0.40%) HTTP
4 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 7 (0.31%) VLAN
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 6 (0.27%) Wireless
7 5 (0.22%) DHCP
7 5 (0.22%) DNS
7 5 (0.22%) LAN
7 5 (0.22%) WAN
8 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.13%) RS-232
9 2 (0.090%) Modbus
10 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
10 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 454 (20.36%) SQL Server
3 407 (18.25%) MongoDB
4 160 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
5 91 (4.08%) Power BI
6 71 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.51%) MySQL
9 50 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.81%) Redis
12 14 (0.63%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.40%) GIS
16 9 (0.40%) SQLite
17 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 166 (7.44%) Git
2 34 (1.52%) JIRA
3 33 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.03%) NUnit
6 22 (0.99%) GitLab
7 21 (0.94%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.81%) Postman
9 14 (0.63%) Selenium
9 14 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.31%) MSI
12 7 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.27%) MSTest
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 332 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 226 (10.13%) Finance
3 103 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.77%) Legal
5 79 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.05%) Retail
7 66 (2.96%) Games
8 57 (2.56%) Advertising
9 56 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (2.47%) Law
10 55 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.42%) Marketing
12 30 (1.35%) Legal Technology
13 24 (1.08%) Automotive
14 22 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.85%) Electronics
16 11 (0.49%) Aviation
16 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
17 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,463 (65.61%) Developer
2 880 (39.46%) .NET Developer
3 404 (18.12%) Senior
4 304 (13.63%) Software Engineer
5 289 (12.96%) Software Developer
6 253 (11.35%) Senior Developer
7 242 (10.85%) Lead
8 154 (6.91%) C# Developer
9 153 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.47%) C# Software Engineer
12 119 (5.34%) C# .NET Developer
13 113 (5.07%) .NET Software Engineer
14 107 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 101 (4.53%) .NET Software Developer
16 99 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
17 87 (3.90%) Web Developer
18 80 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 64 (2.87%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 64 (2.87%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (32.06%) .NET Core
2 689 (30.90%) ASP.NET
3 559 (25.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 365 (16.37%) HTML
5 360 (16.14%) CSS
6 346 (15.52%) React
7 276 (12.38%) AngularJS
8 275 (12.33%) Entity Framework
9 259 (11.61%) RESTful
10 252 (11.30%) Blazor
11 240 (10.76%) Vue
12 236 (10.58%) .NET Framework
13 222 (9.96%) Node.js
14 215 (9.64%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.86%) ML.NET
16 136 (6.10%) REST
17 109 (4.89%) LINQ
18 85 (3.81%) Terraform
19 81 (3.63%) jQuery
20 59 (2.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 129 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
2 119 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 100 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 34 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
8 30 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.26%) Legacy Code
11 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.90%) Digital TV
13 19 (0.85%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.81%) Algorithms
15 17 (0.76%) BBC
15 17 (0.76%) iPhone
15 17 (0.76%) Onboarding
15 17 (0.76%) Social Media
16 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 91 (4.08%) Windows
2 34 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.26%) Android
4 26 (1.17%) Linux
5 5 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (37.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 777 (34.84%) Agile
3 576 (25.83%) CI/CD
4 537 (24.08%) Software Engineering
5 511 (22.91%) DevOps
6 388 (17.40%) Microservices
7 354 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 340 (15.25%) AI
9 279 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (8.79%) Machine Learning
11 191 (8.57%) SDLC
12 183 (8.21%) Mentoring
13 180 (8.07%) Multithreading
14 155 (6.95%) Scrum
15 144 (6.46%) TDD
16 133 (5.96%) OO
17 132 (5.92%) Business Intelligence
18 128 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (5.29%) Test Automation
20 115 (5.16%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,714 (76.86%) C#
2 875 (39.24%) SQL
3 516 (23.14%) JavaScript
4 301 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 132 (5.92%) Python
6 104 (4.66%) Java
7 91 (4.08%) C++
8 64 (2.87%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.78%) PHP
10 55 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 51 (2.29%) VB.NET
12 31 (1.39%) Bicep
13 26 (1.17%) C
14 21 (0.94%) Bash
15 16 (0.72%) COBOL
16 14 (0.63%) VB
17 12 (0.54%) JCL
18 11 (0.49%) Delphi
19 10 (0.45%) Go
20 9 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 182 (8.16%) Degree
2 96 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 70 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.13%) OCP
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.090%) CSQA
13 2 (0.090%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (8.30%) QA
2 48 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.72%) GDPR
5 14 (0.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
8 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 265 (11.88%) Docker
2 18 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Firmware
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 237 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.58%) Grafana
3 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.090%) MIIS
7 1 (0.045%) Bosun
7 1 (0.045%) Consul
7 1 (0.045%) MOM
7 1 (0.045%) Packer
7 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.045%) Puppet
7 1 (0.045%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 805 (36.10%) Microsoft
2 67 (3.00%) Google
3 59 (2.65%) Facebook
4 27 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.12%) Adobe
5 25 (1.12%) Oracle
6 21 (0.94%) YouTube
7 17 (0.76%) Apple
7 17 (0.76%) Sony
7 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
8 13 (0.58%) VMware
9 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.40%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Sage
12 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk