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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 68 25
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,215 1,326 3,967
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.91% 3.85% 6.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.02% 27.06% 37.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 969 3,165
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,298 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £78,458
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 6,511 4,900 10,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 14.24% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,162 3,049 7,299
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,750 £73,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

.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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +30 688 £57,500 - 185
North of England +4 624 £57,500 -4.17% 158
Midlands +13 331 £55,000 - 91
North West -3 286 £60,000 - 87
East of England +29 219 £63,750 +21.43% 57
South West +23 216 £52,500 - 46
West Midlands -16 179 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Yorkshire +22 170 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North East +6 168 £55,750 +28.16% 32
East Midlands +38 152 £55,000 - 49
Northern Ireland -24 57 £35,000 -30.00% 19
Scotland +30 56 £60,000 -6.98% 17
Wales -66 26 £50,000 -16.67% 16
.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 39 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.67%) IIS
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
3 16 (0.72%) ColdFusion
3 16 (0.72%) Confluence
4 9 (0.41%) WordPress
5 8 (0.36%) nginx
6 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.14%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.090%) CICS
9 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.045%) Drupal
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.045%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.23%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.14%) Magento
5 2 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,111 (50.16%) Azure
2 349 (15.76%) AWS
3 348 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 204 (9.21%) GitHub
5 186 (8.40%) SaaS
6 162 (7.31%) Azure AI
7 138 (6.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 123 (5.55%) Power Platform
9 91 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 86 (3.88%) Power Automate
11 82 (3.70%) Serverless
12 79 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.12%) PowerApps
14 53 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
15 43 (1.94%) Azure Functions
15 43 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 41 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 40 (1.81%) GCP
18 36 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.84%) Internet
2 9 (0.41%) HTTP
2 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.36%) Firewall
4 7 (0.32%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.23%) DHCP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) Modbus
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.045%) Network Security
8 1 (0.045%) Profibus
8 1 (0.045%) SSL
8 1 (0.045%) VLAN
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (21.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 436 (19.68%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.33%) MongoDB
4 157 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
5 92 (4.15%) Power BI
6 57 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 55 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.35%) MySQL
9 42 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.81%) Redis
12 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.50%) GIS
14 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.41%) SQLite
17 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 146 (6.59%) Git
2 36 (1.63%) JIRA
3 27 (1.22%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.99%) Postman
6 21 (0.95%) GitLab
7 20 (0.90%) NUnit
8 18 (0.81%) Selenium
9 15 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 11 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 7 (0.32%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.27%) JUnit
14 6 (0.27%) MSTest
14 6 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
15 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 307 (13.86%) Social Skills
2 221 (9.98%) Finance
3 87 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (3.57%) Legal
5 64 (2.89%) Retail
6 63 (2.84%) Public Sector
7 58 (2.62%) Games
8 57 (2.57%) Advertising
9 56 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.44%) Marketing
11 53 (2.39%) Law
12 50 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.35%) Legal Technology
14 26 (1.17%) Automotive
15 24 (1.08%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.90%) Electronics
17 11 (0.50%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 8 (0.36%) Back Office
18 8 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,477 (66.68%) Developer
2 888 (40.09%) .NET Developer
3 414 (18.69%) Senior
4 320 (14.45%) Software Engineer
5 315 (14.22%) Software Developer
6 253 (11.42%) Senior Developer
7 240 (10.84%) Lead
8 154 (6.95%) C# Developer
9 149 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 128 (5.78%) .NET Software Engineer
11 122 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
12 121 (5.46%) Lead Developer
13 120 (5.42%) C# .NET Developer
14 116 (5.24%) .NET Software Developer
15 109 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
16 98 (4.42%) Senior .NET Developer
17 88 (3.97%) Web Developer
18 80 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 65 (2.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 63 (2.84%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 719 (32.46%) .NET Core
2 677 (30.56%) ASP.NET
3 546 (24.65%) ASP.NET Core
4 359 (16.21%) HTML
5 353 (15.94%) CSS
6 340 (15.35%) React
7 279 (12.60%) AngularJS
8 269 (12.14%) Entity Framework
9 257 (11.60%) RESTful
10 255 (11.51%) Blazor
11 238 (10.74%) Vue
12 233 (10.52%) .NET Framework
13 227 (10.25%) Node.js
14 209 (9.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.91%) ML.NET
16 141 (6.37%) REST
17 109 (4.92%) LINQ
18 67 (3.02%) jQuery
19 57 (2.57%) WPF
20 53 (2.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 137 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
2 116 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 90 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 57 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
5 57 (2.57%) Mobile App
6 55 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (1.44%) Legacy Code
8 24 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 21 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 20 (0.90%) Digital TV
10 20 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 19 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 19 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 17 (0.77%) BBC
12 17 (0.77%) iPhone
12 17 (0.77%) Onboarding
12 17 (0.77%) Social Media
13 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.61%) Windows
2 28 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.22%) Android
4 24 (1.08%) Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.090%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (36.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 766 (34.58%) Agile
3 554 (25.01%) CI/CD
4 543 (24.51%) Software Engineering
5 504 (22.75%) DevOps
6 391 (17.65%) Microservices
7 335 (15.12%) AI
8 323 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 263 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (8.85%) SDLC
11 194 (8.76%) Machine Learning
12 180 (8.13%) Multithreading
13 164 (7.40%) Mentoring
14 161 (7.27%) Scrum
15 153 (6.91%) TDD
16 133 (6.00%) OO
17 119 (5.37%) Clean Code
18 118 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
19 117 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
20 115 (5.19%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,681 (75.89%) C#
2 864 (39.01%) SQL
3 495 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 302 (13.63%) TypeScript
5 139 (6.28%) Python
6 102 (4.60%) Java
7 78 (3.52%) C++
8 65 (2.93%) PowerShell
9 63 (2.84%) PHP
10 54 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 44 (1.99%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.35%) Bicep
13 27 (1.22%) C
14 21 (0.95%) Bash
15 14 (0.63%) VB
16 13 (0.59%) Go
17 9 (0.41%) COBOL
17 9 (0.41%) VBA
17 9 (0.41%) XAML
18 8 (0.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 185 (8.35%) Degree
2 96 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 71 (3.21%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (0.45%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
13 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.090%) CSQA
14 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.090%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (8.13%) QA
2 47 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 18 (0.81%) GDPR
4 14 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.63%) WCAG
5 8 (0.36%) NCSC
6 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.14%) NIST
7 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.090%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 270 (12.19%) Docker
2 11 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.45%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 243 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 86 (3.88%) Terraform
3 12 (0.54%) Grafana
4 11 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.23%) Ansible
6 3 (0.14%) Argo
7 2 (0.090%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) MOM
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 789 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 66 (2.98%) Google
3 59 (2.66%) Facebook
4 26 (1.17%) Adobe
5 25 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 23 (1.04%) Oracle
7 21 (0.95%) YouTube
8 17 (0.77%) Apple
8 17 (0.77%) Sony
8 17 (0.77%) Yahoo!
9 13 (0.59%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.50%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Sage
12 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.32%) VMware
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.23%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.23%) SYSPRO