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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 42 26
Rank change year-on-year -36 -16 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,416 1,412 5,153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.22% 5.28% 7.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.77% 30.09% 37.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,195 4,490
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 4,922 4,693 13,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.73% 17.56% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 3,629 10,233
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,900 £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 £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,500
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 22 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 22 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 -20 465 £60,000 - 174
North of England -15 418 £64,000 +11.30% 139
North West -12 219 £65,000 +13.04% 81
Midlands -49 218 £55,000 +1.21% 65
South West -6 146 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Yorkshire -37 125 £60,000 - 33
West Midlands -53 113 £52,500 -8.70% 32
East Midlands -29 105 £65,000 +23.81% 33
East of England -47 97 £66,250 +29.27% 52
North East -20 74 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Scotland -41 60 £60,000 +20.00% 19
Wales -32 20 £45,000 -30.77% 15
Northern Ireland -37 2 £50,000 - 10
Channel Islands - 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 36 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.55%) IIS
3 11 (0.78%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.71%) CMS
5 8 (0.56%) 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
1 527 (37.22%) Azure
2 219 (15.47%) SaaS
3 198 (13.98%) AWS
4 142 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (6.29%) GitHub
6 85 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 58 (4.10%) Serverless
8 52 (3.67%) Power Automate
9 49 (3.46%) PowerApps
10 44 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 36 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
13 33 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.98%) GCP
15 26 (1.84%) Azure AKS
16 24 (1.69%) Azure Functions
17 23 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.34%) 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
1 315 (22.25%) SQL Server
2 68 (4.80%) NoSQL
2 68 (4.80%) Power BI
3 56 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 21 (1.48%) MySQL
6 21 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.13%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.99%) Redis
10 10 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.42%) GIS
12 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.28%) Metadata
13 4 (0.28%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 91 (6.43%) Git
2 42 (2.97%) JIRA
3 38 (2.68%) 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 7 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.35%) JMeter
13 5 (0.35%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.28%) Appium
14 4 (0.28%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.28%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 213 (15.04%) Social Skills
2 140 (9.89%) Finance
3 60 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (3.18%) Public Sector
5 25 (1.77%) Law
6 22 (1.55%) Games
7 20 (1.41%) Retail
8 15 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 14 (0.99%) Aviation
9 14 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 11 (0.78%) Automotive
11 9 (0.64%) Military
12 8 (0.56%) Electronics
13 7 (0.49%) Back Office
13 7 (0.49%) Marketing
14 6 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.42%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 879 (62.08%) Developer
2 376 (26.55%) .NET Developer
3 341 (24.08%) Senior
4 294 (20.76%) Software Developer
5 247 (17.44%) Software Engineer
6 179 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 164 (11.58%) Lead
8 153 (10.81%) C# Developer
9 146 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 111 (7.84%) .NET Software Engineer
11 102 (7.20%) C# .NET Developer
12 97 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 94 (6.64%) .NET Software Developer
14 86 (6.07%) Senior .NET Developer
15 77 (5.44%) Lead Developer
16 72 (5.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 56 (3.95%) Senior Software Developer
18 53 (3.74%) Applications Developer
18 53 (3.74%) C# Software Developer
19 51 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (23.87%) .NET Core
2 226 (15.96%) ASP.NET
3 180 (12.71%) React
4 172 (12.15%) HTML
5 168 (11.86%) .NET Framework
6 150 (10.59%) CSS
7 121 (8.55%) AngularJS
8 96 (6.78%) REST
9 92 (6.50%) RESTful
10 83 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 77 (5.44%) Vue
12 71 (5.01%) Blazor
12 71 (5.01%) Entity Framework
13 67 (4.73%) Node.js
14 37 (2.61%) SOAP
15 35 (2.47%) jQuery
16 33 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
17 28 (1.98%) JSON
18 25 (1.77%) React Native
19 24 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.01%) Mobile App
3 52 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
5 36 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.34%) Legacy Code
8 17 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 15 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 13 (0.92%) PropTech
11 12 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 11 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.78%) Sports Betting
13 10 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
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 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.04%) Windows
2 19 (1.34%) Android
3 16 (1.13%) Linux
4 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.56%) 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
1 400 (28.25%) Software Engineering
2 371 (26.20%) Agile
3 328 (23.16%) Full-Stack Development
4 274 (19.35%) DevOps
5 271 (19.14%) CI/CD
6 167 (11.79%) Microservices
7 165 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (8.97%) SDLC
10 117 (8.26%) Mentoring
11 111 (7.84%) AI
12 106 (7.49%) Clean Code
13 104 (7.34%) Containerisation
14 89 (6.29%) Scrum
15 85 (6.00%) MVC
16 80 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
17 78 (5.51%) Test Automation
18 76 (5.37%) Business Intelligence
19 67 (4.73%) User Experience
20 66 (4.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 941 (66.45%) C#
2 408 (28.81%) SQL
3 269 (19.00%) JavaScript
4 123 (8.69%) TypeScript
5 106 (7.49%) Python
6 102 (7.20%) Java
7 44 (3.11%) C++
8 40 (2.82%) PHP
9 35 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.13%) Bash
12 15 (1.06%) C
13 14 (0.99%) VB
13 14 (0.99%) VB.NET
14 12 (0.85%) Bicep
15 11 (0.78%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.64%) VBA
17 7 (0.49%) Go
18 6 (0.42%) Delphi
19 4 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 125 (8.83%) Degree
2 54 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 51 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.04%) 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 (0.56%) 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 (5.79%) QA
2 39 (2.75%) 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 (0.56%) 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
1 101 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.45%) Terraform
3 13 (0.92%) Grafana
4 9 (0.64%) 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
1 227 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.84%) Xamarin
3 20 (1.41%) 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