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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 28 21
Rank change year-on-year -50 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,099 2,351 2,839
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.60% 6.50% 8.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.49% 33.52% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 977 1,534 2,577
10th Percentile £39,250 £38,225 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,219 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 3,857 7,014 7,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.11% 19.39% 23.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 3,899 6,154
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 January 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 January 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
North of England -31 344 £62,500 +13.64% 231
South East -37 341 £60,000 - 326
Midlands -41 187 £56,250 -2.17% 126
North West -24 182 £65,000 +18.18% 122
West Midlands -31 119 £50,000 -13.04% 50
Yorkshire -38 105 £60,000 +14.29% 67
South West -64 85 £55,000 -6.38% 99
East Midlands -47 68 £65,000 +30.00% 74
East of England -71 61 £60,000 +20.00% 142
North East -5 57 £68,500 +5.38% 42
Scotland -63 51 £65,000 +30.00% 37
Wales -3 34 £50,000 - 49
Northern Ireland -6 4 £50,000 - 19
Channel Islands +3 1 £90,000 -
.NET
UK

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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 (3.55%) IIS
2 17 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.46%) CMS
4 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.73%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.45%) Confluence
7 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.091%) Apache
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.091%) Kentico
10 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.091%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.091%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.091%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 562 (51.14%) Azure
2 213 (19.38%) AWS
3 177 (16.11%) SaaS
4 168 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (8.83%) GitHub
6 80 (7.28%) Power Platform
7 71 (6.46%) Serverless
8 50 (4.55%) GCP
9 45 (4.09%) Power Automate
10 43 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 29 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 28 (2.55%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.46%) Azure Functions
16 21 (1.91%) Amazon S3
16 21 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 21 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (1.73%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.91%) DNS
1 10 (0.91%) Internet
1 10 (0.91%) VoIP
2 9 (0.82%) DHCP
2 9 (0.82%) VPN
3 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.36%) SSL
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
5 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 3 (0.27%) LAN
5 3 (0.27%) SAN
5 3 (0.27%) WAN
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 1 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.091%) MPLS
7 1 (0.091%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (28.03%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.73%) NoSQL
3 42 (3.82%) MySQL
4 39 (3.55%) Power BI
4 39 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.64%) Redis
10 6 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.45%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.45%) Tableau
12 4 (0.36%) GIS
13 3 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 92 (8.37%) Git
2 49 (4.46%) JIRA
3 42 (3.82%) Selenium
4 37 (3.37%) Postman
5 36 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 36 (3.28%) Visual Studio
6 33 (3.00%) SoapUI
7 31 (2.82%) WebDriver
8 20 (1.82%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.36%) Jenkins
10 12 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.91%) Storybook
12 8 (0.73%) GitLab
13 7 (0.64%) git-flow
13 7 (0.64%) NUnit
14 6 (0.55%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.45%) MSTest
16 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.27%) Snyk
17 2 (0.18%) Android Studio
General
1 248 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.20%) Finance
3 34 (3.09%) Public Sector
4 32 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (2.46%) Law
6 18 (1.64%) Games
7 16 (1.46%) Aviation
7 16 (1.46%) Legal
8 14 (1.27%) Retail
9 13 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.00%) Banking
12 10 (0.91%) Automotive
13 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.73%) Marketing
14 7 (0.64%) Publishing
15 5 (0.45%) Electronics
15 5 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 645 (58.69%) Developer
2 255 (23.20%) Senior
3 243 (22.11%) .NET Developer
4 200 (18.20%) Software Developer
5 160 (14.56%) Software Engineer
6 138 (12.56%) Lead
6 138 (12.56%) Senior Developer
7 122 (11.10%) C# Developer
8 121 (11.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (5.82%) .NET Software Developer
10 59 (5.37%) Lead Developer
11 58 (5.28%) .NET Software Engineer
11 58 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (5.19%) Senior .NET Developer
13 54 (4.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 53 (4.82%) C# .NET Developer
15 48 (4.37%) Senior Software Developer
16 41 (3.73%) Analyst
17 37 (3.37%) Applications Developer
18 32 (2.91%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (21.20%) .NET Core
2 205 (18.65%) React
3 184 (16.74%) ASP.NET
4 172 (15.65%) .NET Framework
5 140 (12.74%) HTML
6 123 (11.19%) CSS
7 115 (10.46%) AngularJS
8 81 (7.37%) Blazor
9 79 (7.19%) REST
10 78 (7.10%) RESTful
11 59 (5.37%) Entity Framework
12 51 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
13 50 (4.55%) Vue
14 44 (4.00%) SOAP
15 34 (3.09%) ASP.NET MVC
16 29 (2.64%) ASP.NET Web API
17 27 (2.46%) Node.js
17 27 (2.46%) Web Services
18 26 (2.37%) WinForms
18 26 (2.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.92%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.19%) Mobile App
4 40 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.82%) Client/Server
13 9 (0.82%) Clustering
13 9 (0.82%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.73%) 3D Graphics
14 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.73%) IoT
14 8 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.10%) Windows
2 21 (1.91%) Android
3 19 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.27%) Linux
6 9 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.091%) Fedora
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (38.67%) Agile
2 323 (29.39%) Software Engineering
3 318 (28.94%) DevOps
4 306 (27.84%) CI/CD
5 245 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 206 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (14.56%) Microservices
9 158 (14.38%) Mentoring
10 102 (9.28%) Scrum
11 99 (9.01%) Clean Code
11 99 (9.01%) SDLC
12 97 (8.83%) AI
13 93 (8.46%) Containerisation
14 90 (8.19%) MVC
15 72 (6.55%) Roadmaps
15 72 (6.55%) User Experience
16 71 (6.46%) Software Testing
17 70 (6.37%) CRM
18 65 (5.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 781 (71.06%) C#
2 351 (31.94%) SQL
3 260 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 129 (11.74%) TypeScript
5 96 (8.74%) Java
6 70 (6.37%) Python
7 37 (3.37%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.82%) PHP
10 30 (2.73%) C++
11 25 (2.27%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.09%) Bicep
13 11 (1.00%) Bash
14 8 (0.73%) XAML
15 7 (0.64%) VB
16 6 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.55%) C
16 6 (0.55%) Go
17 4 (0.36%) Delphi
18 3 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 140 (12.74%) Degree
2 56 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (3.18%) ISTQB
4 31 (2.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 24 (2.18%) Security Cleared
6 21 (1.91%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.27%) HND
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
14 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.10%) QA
2 27 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.09%) GDPR
4 8 (0.73%) WCAG
5 3 (0.27%) GRC
5 3 (0.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.091%) COBIT
7 1 (0.091%) HL7
7 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (10.10%) Docker
2 22 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.091%) HDFS
5 1 (0.091%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (7.55%) Terraform
2 81 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.82%) Grafana
4 15 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.73%) Ansible
6 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.091%) CASB
8 1 (0.091%) Kibana
8 1 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 202 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.37%) Xamarin
3 15 (1.36%) Oracle
4 13 (1.18%) Sage
5 12 (1.09%) Google
5 12 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 9 (0.82%) Apple
6 9 (0.82%) Telerik
7 7 (0.64%) Databricks
7 7 (0.64%) Datto
7 7 (0.64%) DevExpress
7 7 (0.64%) Freshdesk
8 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.45%) Syncfusion
9 5 (0.45%) Zoho
10 4 (0.36%) ESRI
10 4 (0.36%) Infor
10 4 (0.36%) New Relic
10 4 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.36%) VMware