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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 57 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 -36 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,886 1,336 5,937
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.78% 4.43% 7.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.30% 26.73% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 964 5,039
10th Percentile £40,800 £35,000 £35,534
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 5,664 4,998 14,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.34% 16.58% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,581 3,146 10,970
10th Percentile £37,250 £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 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -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 June 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 June 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 +24 620 £57,500 - 128
North of England -3 538 £60,000 - 112
Midlands +8 302 £55,000 - 60
North West -1 279 £60,000 +9.09% 61
South West +14 187 £55,000 +4.76% 37
East of England +11 166 £65,000 +23.81% 40
West Midlands -22 155 £55,000 +2.44% 36
East Midlands +24 147 £55,000 - 24
North East +2 132 £58,250 +5.91% 31
Yorkshire -9 127 £58,750 -9.62% 22
Scotland +2 53 £57,500 -6.12% 14
Wales -56 21 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Northern Ireland -30 1 - - 31
.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 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.27%) IIS
3 16 (0.85%) ColdFusion
4 11 (0.58%) CMS
4 11 (0.58%) Confluence
5 7 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.37%) WordPress
6 5 (0.27%) nginx
7 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.21%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.16%) Apache
8 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.053%) Appian
10 1 (0.053%) Drupal
10 1 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.053%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 892 (47.30%) Azure
2 279 (14.79%) AWS
3 273 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (11.08%) SaaS
5 148 (7.85%) GitHub
6 115 (6.10%) Azure AI
7 96 (5.09%) Power Platform
8 94 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
9 74 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 73 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
11 71 (3.76%) Power Automate
12 70 (3.71%) Serverless
13 61 (3.23%) PowerApps
14 38 (2.01%) Azure Functions
14 38 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 30 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (1.54%) GCP
17 26 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (1.27%) Azure AKS
19 23 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.55%) Internet
2 9 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.42%) Firewall
4 7 (0.37%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 5 (0.27%) DNS
5 5 (0.27%) LAN
5 5 (0.27%) WAN
6 3 (0.16%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.16%) RS-232
7 2 (0.11%) Modbus
8 1 (0.053%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.053%) HTTP
8 1 (0.053%) LTE
8 1 (0.053%) Network Security
8 1 (0.053%) Profibus
8 1 (0.053%) SSL
8 1 (0.053%) VLAN
8 1 (0.053%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.053%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (18.88%) SQL Server
2 348 (18.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 290 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 106 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
5 79 (4.19%) Power BI
6 54 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (1.59%) MySQL
9 22 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.58%) Redis
13 10 (0.53%) GIS
14 7 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
15 5 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
15 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.27%) Metadata
16 4 (0.21%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 101 (5.36%) Git
2 35 (1.86%) JIRA
3 29 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 23 (1.22%) Postman
5 17 (0.90%) Selenium
6 13 (0.69%) NUnit
7 12 (0.64%) GitLab
8 11 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.48%) Jenkins
9 9 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 7 (0.37%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.37%) Moq
10 7 (0.37%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.27%) MSTest
12 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.27%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 225 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 178 (9.44%) Finance
3 67 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (2.92%) Public Sector
5 51 (2.70%) Retail
6 47 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 45 (2.39%) Games
8 39 (2.07%) Advertising
9 35 (1.86%) Marketing
10 25 (1.33%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.33%) Automotive
11 21 (1.11%) Electronics
11 21 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (0.85%) Law
13 14 (0.74%) Legal
14 9 (0.48%) Aviation
15 8 (0.42%) Back Office
15 8 (0.42%) Military
16 6 (0.32%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.32%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,229 (65.16%) Developer
2 726 (38.49%) .NET Developer
3 360 (19.09%) Senior
4 318 (16.86%) Software Developer
5 310 (16.44%) Software Engineer
6 193 (10.23%) Lead
7 186 (9.86%) Senior Developer
8 151 (8.01%) C# Developer
9 145 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 136 (7.21%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (6.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 117 (6.20%) .NET Software Developer
13 116 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 106 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
15 105 (5.57%) Lead Developer
16 97 (5.14%) Senior .NET Developer
17 72 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (3.39%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 63 (3.34%) Web Developer
20 60 (3.18%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (31.92%) .NET Core
2 511 (27.09%) ASP.NET
3 392 (20.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 288 (15.27%) HTML
5 284 (15.06%) CSS
6 280 (14.85%) React
7 233 (12.35%) AngularJS
8 201 (10.66%) Entity Framework
9 199 (10.55%) RESTful
10 189 (10.02%) Vue
11 185 (9.81%) Blazor
12 184 (9.76%) .NET Framework
13 171 (9.07%) Node.js
14 142 (7.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 121 (6.42%) REST
16 110 (5.83%) ML.NET
17 79 (4.19%) LINQ
18 56 (2.97%) jQuery
19 40 (2.12%) WPF
20 36 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 111 (5.89%) Greenfield Project
2 84 (4.45%) Cloud Native
3 73 (3.87%) Mobile App
4 59 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.38%) Legacy Code
9 17 (0.90%) Hedge funds
10 16 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.80%) Digital TV
11 15 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (0.74%) AI Agents
12 14 (0.74%) Social Network
13 13 (0.69%) BBC
13 13 (0.69%) iPhone
13 13 (0.69%) Social Media
13 13 (0.69%) Sports Betting
14 12 (0.64%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.64%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.65%) Windows
2 27 (1.43%) Android
3 19 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.85%) Linux
5 9 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.053%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (35.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 575 (30.49%) Agile
3 473 (25.08%) Software Engineering
4 409 (21.69%) CI/CD
5 397 (21.05%) DevOps
6 280 (14.85%) AI
7 260 (13.79%) Microservices
8 198 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
9 177 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 164 (8.70%) SDLC
11 155 (8.22%) Machine Learning
12 140 (7.42%) Mentoring
13 131 (6.95%) Multithreading
14 126 (6.68%) TDD
15 121 (6.42%) Scrum
16 110 (5.83%) Clean Code
17 102 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
18 99 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
19 96 (5.09%) Test Automation
20 93 (4.93%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1,378 (73.06%) C#
2 715 (37.91%) SQL
3 396 (21.00%) JavaScript
4 242 (12.83%) TypeScript
5 124 (6.57%) Python
6 92 (4.88%) Java
7 72 (3.82%) C++
8 59 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 53 (2.81%) PHP
10 45 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 21 (1.11%) Bash
12 21 (1.11%) C
13 20 (1.06%) Bicep
14 17 (0.90%) VB
15 9 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.37%) XAML
17 6 (0.32%) Delphi
18 5 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 158 (8.38%) Degree
2 75 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.34%) Security Cleared
4 58 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 4 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.21%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.11%) CSQA
13 2 (0.11%) MBA
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.88%) QA
2 41 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.80%) GDPR
4 12 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.64%) WCAG
5 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.27%) SLA
7 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.21%) NCSC
8 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 205 (10.87%) Docker
2 12 (0.64%) Firmware
3 10 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 186 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.50%) Terraform
3 4 (0.21%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) MIIS
4 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.053%) Ansible
5 1 (0.053%) Consul
5 1 (0.053%) MOM
5 1 (0.053%) Packer
5 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.053%) Puppet
Vendors
1 569 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 43 (2.28%) Facebook
2 43 (2.28%) Google
3 25 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.27%) Adobe
5 21 (1.11%) Xamarin
6 20 (1.06%) Oracle
7 15 (0.80%) YouTube
8 13 (0.69%) Apple
8 13 (0.69%) Sony
8 13 (0.69%) Yahoo!
9 12 (0.64%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.42%) Databricks
11 7 (0.37%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.27%) Sage
12 5 (0.27%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.27%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.21%) IBM