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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 44 25
Rank change year-on-year -35 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,427 1,398 5,173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.22% 5.20% 7.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 29.15% 30.16% 37.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 1,180 4,508
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 4,896 4,635 13,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.62% 17.23% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 3,607 10,274
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £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 £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -19 472 £60,000 - 174
North of England -12 420 £62,500 +8.70% 145
North West -10 220 £65,000 +13.04% 89
Midlands -39 216 £55,000 +2.44% 69
South West -7 147 £55,000 -8.33% 38
Yorkshire -37 128 £60,000 - 31
West Midlands -53 112 £52,500 -8.70% 35
East Midlands -31 104 £65,000 +23.81% 33
East of England -47 98 £67,500 +28.57% 47
North East -25 72 £70,000 +21.74% 25
Scotland -39 62 £60,000 +18.81% 19
Wales -37 20 £45,000 -30.77% 14
Northern Ireland -35 2 £50,000 - 10
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
.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 38 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.40%) IIS
3 12 (0.84%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.70%) CMS
5 8 (0.56%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.49%) Confluence
7 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.21%) Apache
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.070%) Appian
11 1 (0.070%) Drupal
11 1 (0.070%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.070%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 526 (36.86%) Azure
2 222 (15.56%) SaaS
3 198 (13.88%) AWS
4 139 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 85 (5.96%) GitHub
7 59 (4.13%) Serverless
8 52 (3.64%) Power Automate
9 49 (3.43%) PowerApps
10 46 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (1.89%) GCP
15 26 (1.82%) Azure Functions
16 25 (1.75%) Azure AKS
17 23 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.33%) Internet
2 3 (0.21%) DNS
3 2 (0.14%) DHCP
3 2 (0.14%) Firewall
3 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.14%) Intranet
3 2 (0.14%) VoIP
3 2 (0.14%) VPN
4 1 (0.070%) AMQP
4 1 (0.070%) HTTP
4 1 (0.070%) LTE
4 1 (0.070%) Modbus
4 1 (0.070%) MPLS
4 1 (0.070%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.070%) SSL
4 1 (0.070%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.070%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (21.93%) SQL Server
2 70 (4.91%) Power BI
3 67 (4.70%) NoSQL
4 57 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.40%) MySQL
7 20 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.98%) Redis
12 10 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.42%) GIS
14 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.28%) Metadata
15 4 (0.28%) QGIS
16 3 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 88 (6.17%) Git
2 42 (2.94%) JIRA
3 36 (2.52%) Visual Studio
4 33 (2.31%) Postman
4 33 (2.31%) Selenium
5 27 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 22 (1.54%) SoapUI
7 16 (1.12%) WebDriver
8 10 (0.70%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.70%) NUnit
9 8 (0.56%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.35%) JMeter
11 5 (0.35%) LabVIEW
12 4 (0.28%) Appium
12 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 209 (14.65%) Social Skills
2 140 (9.81%) Finance
3 60 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (3.15%) Public Sector
5 24 (1.68%) Law
6 22 (1.54%) Games
7 20 (1.40%) Retail
8 16 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 14 (0.98%) Aviation
9 14 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 12 (0.84%) Automotive
11 9 (0.63%) Electronics
11 9 (0.63%) Military
12 7 (0.49%) Back Office
12 7 (0.49%) Marketing
13 6 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.42%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 887 (62.16%) Developer
2 382 (26.77%) .NET Developer
3 343 (24.04%) Senior
4 295 (20.67%) Software Developer
5 251 (17.59%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.68%) Senior Developer
7 163 (11.42%) Lead
8 155 (10.86%) C# Developer
9 145 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 116 (8.13%) .NET Software Engineer
11 104 (7.29%) C# .NET Developer
12 98 (6.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 95 (6.66%) .NET Software Developer
14 88 (6.17%) Senior .NET Developer
15 76 (5.33%) Lead Developer
16 71 (4.98%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 57 (3.99%) C# Software Engineer
17 57 (3.99%) Senior Software Developer
18 55 (3.85%) Applications Developer
19 54 (3.78%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (23.48%) .NET Core
2 226 (15.84%) ASP.NET
3 177 (12.40%) React
4 173 (12.12%) HTML
5 164 (11.49%) .NET Framework
6 151 (10.58%) CSS
7 120 (8.41%) AngularJS
8 95 (6.66%) REST
9 91 (6.38%) RESTful
10 83 (5.82%) ASP.NET Core
11 77 (5.40%) Vue
12 72 (5.05%) Entity Framework
13 71 (4.98%) Blazor
14 67 (4.70%) Node.js
15 38 (2.66%) SOAP
16 37 (2.59%) jQuery
17 32 (2.24%) ASP.NET MVC
18 27 (1.89%) JSON
19 25 (1.75%) React Native
20 24 (1.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.05%) Mobile App
3 52 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.33%) Legacy Code
8 17 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 15 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 14 (0.98%) PropTech
11 11 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 11 (0.77%) Hedge funds
11 11 (0.77%) Sports Betting
12 10 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.70%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.73%) Windows
2 19 (1.33%) Android
3 15 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.05%) Linux
4 7 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.21%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.070%) Unix
7 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (28.24%) Software Engineering
2 368 (25.79%) Agile
3 329 (23.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 270 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 268 (18.78%) DevOps
6 166 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (11.56%) Microservices
8 162 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (9.04%) SDLC
10 115 (8.06%) Mentoring
11 111 (7.78%) AI
12 105 (7.36%) Clean Code
13 102 (7.15%) Containerisation
14 87 (6.10%) Scrum
15 86 (6.03%) MVC
16 80 (5.61%) Technical Leadership
17 79 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
18 76 (5.33%) Test Automation
19 68 (4.77%) User Experience
20 66 (4.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 939 (65.80%) C#
2 411 (28.80%) SQL
3 269 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 121 (8.48%) TypeScript
5 108 (7.57%) Python
6 101 (7.08%) Java
7 44 (3.08%) C++
8 42 (2.94%) PHP
9 36 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.12%) Bash
12 15 (1.05%) C
12 15 (1.05%) VB.NET
13 14 (0.98%) VB
14 12 (0.84%) Bicep
15 11 (0.77%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.70%) VBA
17 7 (0.49%) Go
18 6 (0.42%) Delphi
19 4 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 125 (8.76%) Degree
2 57 (3.99%) Security Cleared
3 54 (3.78%) SC Cleared
4 42 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.33%) ISTQB
6 16 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 11 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.14%) CSQA
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.070%) HND
14 1 (0.070%) ISEB
14 1 (0.070%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.61%) QA
2 38 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 13 (0.91%) GDPR
4 12 (0.84%) WCAG
5 11 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.35%) SLA
8 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.070%) HL7
9 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.070%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (8.69%) Docker
2 8 (0.56%) Firmware
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.070%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.41%) Terraform
3 13 (0.91%) Grafana
4 9 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.28%) Ansible
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) MIIS
7 1 (0.070%) CASB
7 1 (0.070%) Consul
7 1 (0.070%) Packer
7 1 (0.070%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.070%) Puppet
Vendors
1 229 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.75%) Xamarin
3 22 (1.54%) Adobe
4 14 (0.98%) Oracle
5 13 (0.91%) Google
6 11 (0.77%) Salesforce
7 10 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.35%) Apple
10 5 (0.35%) Databricks
10 5 (0.35%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.35%) Sage
10 5 (0.35%) Telerik
11 4 (0.28%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.28%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) SYSPRO
12 3 (0.21%) Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) Syncfusion