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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 41 26
Rank change year-on-year -34 -15 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,415 1,422 5,128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.22% 5.35% 7.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.73% 30.16% 37.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,205 4,483
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £79,000
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 4,925 4,715 13,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.74% 17.72% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,806 3,644 10,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,230 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,875
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 21 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 21 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 -20 463 £60,000 - 180
North of England -16 422 £63,000 +9.57% 150
North West -9 222 £65,000 +13.04% 84
Midlands -41 218 £55,000 - 72
South West -10 144 £55,000 -8.33% 61
Yorkshire -36 126 £60,000 - 39
West Midlands -49 113 £52,500 -8.70% 33
East Midlands -36 105 £65,000 +23.81% 39
East of England -47 96 £65,000 +30.00% 59
North East -16 74 £70,000 +21.74% 28
Scotland -36 61 £60,000 +20.00% 24
Wales -42 19 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Northern Ireland -40 2 £50,000 - 12
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 35 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.55%) IIS
3 11 (0.78%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.71%) CMS
5 8 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.49%) Confluence
7 5 (0.35%) NServiceBus
7 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.14%) Apache
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.071%) Appian
11 1 (0.071%) Drupal
11 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.071%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.21%) Magento
3 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 531 (37.53%) Azure
2 218 (15.41%) SaaS
3 201 (14.20%) AWS
4 143 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (6.43%) GitHub
6 85 (6.01%) Power Platform
7 59 (4.17%) Serverless
8 51 (3.60%) Power Automate
9 48 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 43 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.98%) GCP
15 26 (1.84%) Azure AKS
16 24 (1.70%) Azure Functions
17 23 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 21 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.27%) 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 (0.071%) AMQP
4 1 (0.071%) HTTP
4 1 (0.071%) LTE
4 1 (0.071%) Modbus
4 1 (0.071%) MPLS
4 1 (0.071%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.071%) SSL
4 1 (0.071%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.071%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (22.12%) SQL Server
2 68 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 67 (4.73%) Power BI
4 55 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (2.05%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.55%) MySQL
8 21 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.06%) Redis
13 10 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.42%) GIS
15 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
16 4 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.28%) Metadata
16 4 (0.28%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 88 (6.22%) Git
2 43 (3.04%) JIRA
3 38 (2.69%) Visual Studio
4 35 (2.47%) Selenium
5 33 (2.33%) Postman
6 27 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.55%) SoapUI
8 16 (1.13%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.71%) Jenkins
9 10 (0.71%) NUnit
10 9 (0.64%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.35%) JMeter
12 5 (0.35%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.28%) Appium
13 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 215 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 141 (9.96%) Finance
3 60 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (3.11%) Public Sector
5 26 (1.84%) Law
6 22 (1.55%) Games
7 20 (1.41%) Retail
8 15 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 14 (0.99%) Aviation
10 13 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.78%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.71%) Automotive
13 9 (0.64%) Military
14 8 (0.57%) Electronics
15 7 (0.49%) Back Office
15 7 (0.49%) Marketing
16 6 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 874 (61.77%) Developer
2 372 (26.29%) .NET Developer
3 339 (23.96%) Senior
4 293 (20.71%) Software Developer
5 249 (17.60%) Software Engineer
6 177 (12.51%) Senior Developer
7 165 (11.66%) Lead
8 153 (10.81%) C# Developer
9 147 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 113 (7.99%) .NET Software Engineer
11 102 (7.21%) C# .NET Developer
12 97 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 94 (6.64%) .NET Software Developer
14 84 (5.94%) Senior .NET Developer
15 77 (5.44%) Lead Developer
16 72 (5.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 57 (4.03%) Senior Software Developer
18 53 (3.75%) Applications Developer
18 53 (3.75%) C# Software Developer
19 51 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (23.60%) .NET Core
2 229 (16.18%) ASP.NET
3 181 (12.79%) React
4 173 (12.23%) HTML
5 168 (11.87%) .NET Framework
6 150 (10.60%) CSS
7 122 (8.62%) AngularJS
8 95 (6.71%) REST
9 91 (6.43%) RESTful
10 84 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
11 77 (5.44%) Vue
12 72 (5.09%) Blazor
13 71 (5.02%) Entity Framework
14 66 (4.66%) Node.js
15 37 (2.61%) SOAP
16 34 (2.40%) jQuery
17 33 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
18 27 (1.91%) JSON
19 25 (1.77%) React Native
20 24 (1.70%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.80%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.95%) Mobile App
3 53 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.27%) Legacy Code
8 17 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 16 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 13 (0.92%) PropTech
11 12 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 11 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (0.78%) Sports Betting
13 10 (0.71%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.64%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.64%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.97%) Windows
2 19 (1.34%) Android
3 16 (1.13%) Linux
4 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.28%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.071%) Unix
9 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (28.55%) Software Engineering
2 374 (26.43%) Agile
3 329 (23.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 277 (19.58%) DevOps
5 270 (19.08%) CI/CD
6 169 (11.94%) Microservices
7 167 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (8.98%) SDLC
10 117 (8.27%) Mentoring
11 110 (7.77%) AI
12 105 (7.42%) Clean Code
13 104 (7.35%) Containerisation
14 89 (6.29%) Scrum
15 84 (5.94%) MVC
16 80 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
17 76 (5.37%) Test Automation
18 75 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
19 67 (4.73%) User Experience
20 64 (4.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 944 (66.71%) C#
2 408 (28.83%) SQL
3 271 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 122 (8.62%) TypeScript
5 106 (7.49%) Python
6 102 (7.21%) Java
7 44 (3.11%) C++
8 39 (2.76%) PHP
9 33 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.06%) Bash
11 15 (1.06%) C
11 15 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 14 (0.99%) VB
13 12 (0.85%) Bicep
14 11 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.64%) VBA
16 7 (0.49%) Go
17 6 (0.42%) Delphi
18 4 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 122 (8.62%) Degree
2 53 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 50 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.41%) ISTQB
6 16 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 11 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.42%) 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%) ISEB
13 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PhD
14 1 (0.071%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.80%) QA
2 38 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.85%) GDPR
3 12 (0.85%) WCAG
4 10 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.35%) SLA
7 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.071%) HL7
8 1 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.071%) NCSC
System Software
1 126 (8.90%) Docker
2 8 (0.57%) Firmware
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.071%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.45%) Terraform
3 14 (0.99%) Grafana
4 10 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.35%) Ansible
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.14%) MIIS
7 1 (0.071%) CASB
7 1 (0.071%) Consul
7 1 (0.071%) Packer
7 1 (0.071%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 229 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.84%) Xamarin
3 19 (1.34%) Adobe
4 14 (0.99%) Oracle
5 13 (0.92%) Google
6 11 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 10 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (0.49%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.42%) Sage
9 6 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.42%) Telerik
10 5 (0.35%) Apple
10 5 (0.35%) Databricks
10 5 (0.35%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.28%) DevExpress
11 4 (0.28%) Facebook
11 4 (0.28%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.28%) SYSPRO
12 3 (0.21%) Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) VMware