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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 30 21
Rank change year-on-year -46 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,141 2,259 3,709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 6.47% 8.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.60% 32.67% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 1,437 3,386
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,800 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,038 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.06% - -

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 3,989 6,915 10,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.94% 19.81% 22.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,035 3,821 8,003
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

.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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -37 356 £60,000 - 312
North of England -33 345 £65,000 +13.04% 205
Midlands -41 201 £52,500 -8.70% 109
North West -24 189 £65,000 +16.85% 125
West Midlands -35 119 £50,000 -13.04% 44
Yorkshire -46 99 £55,000 - 52
South West -46 96 £55,000 -8.33% 96
East Midlands -39 82 £65,000 +23.81% 65
East of England -67 61 £60,000 +20.00% 112
North East -16 57 £70,000 +5.66% 28
Scotland -67 56 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Wales -8 30 £45,000 -25.00% 40
Northern Ireland -10 4 £50,000 - 14
Channel Islands 0 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 (3.33%) IIS
2 16 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.31%) CMS
4 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.70%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.53%) Confluence
7 5 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.088%) Apache
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.088%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.088%) Kentico
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.088%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.088%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.088%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.088%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 556 (48.73%) Azure
2 215 (18.84%) AWS
3 197 (17.27%) SaaS
4 170 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.76%) GitHub
6 78 (6.84%) Power Platform
7 70 (6.13%) Serverless
8 55 (4.82%) GCP
9 43 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (3.59%) Power Automate
11 37 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.80%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.72%) Azure Functions
13 31 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 31 (2.72%) Entra ID
14 29 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (1.93%) Azure AKS
17 21 (1.84%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.96%) Internet
2 10 (0.88%) DNS
3 9 (0.79%) DHCP
3 9 (0.79%) VPN
4 7 (0.61%) VoIP
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) HTTP
5 3 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 1 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.088%) MPLS
7 1 (0.088%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.088%) SSL
7 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (26.38%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.70%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.42%) Power BI
4 35 (3.07%) MySQL
5 32 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.37%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.75%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.58%) Redis
13 6 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.44%) Tableau
15 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.35%) GIS
16 3 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (7.80%) Git
2 48 (4.21%) JIRA
3 38 (3.33%) Selenium
3 38 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 35 (3.07%) Postman
5 33 (2.89%) Team Foundation Server
6 30 (2.63%) SoapUI
7 27 (2.37%) WebDriver
8 16 (1.40%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.23%) Jenkins
10 9 (0.79%) GitLab
11 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.70%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.70%) Storybook
12 7 (0.61%) git-flow
13 4 (0.35%) NUnit
14 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.26%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.26%) MSTest
14 3 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 246 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 167 (14.64%) Finance
3 40 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (2.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (2.37%) Law
6 17 (1.49%) Games
7 15 (1.31%) Aviation
7 15 (1.31%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.05%) Banking
9 12 (1.05%) Retail
10 11 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.70%) Legal
12 8 (0.70%) Marketing
13 7 (0.61%) Automotive
13 7 (0.61%) Electronics
13 7 (0.61%) Publishing
14 5 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 673 (58.98%) Developer
2 265 (23.23%) Senior
3 261 (22.87%) .NET Developer
4 209 (18.32%) Software Developer
5 180 (15.78%) Software Engineer
6 139 (12.18%) Lead
7 133 (11.66%) Senior Developer
8 123 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 122 (10.69%) C# Developer
10 72 (6.31%) .NET Software Engineer
10 72 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
11 68 (5.96%) .NET Software Developer
12 67 (5.87%) Lead Developer
13 61 (5.35%) Senior .NET Developer
14 59 (5.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 56 (4.91%) C# .NET Developer
16 46 (4.03%) Senior Software Developer
17 43 (3.77%) Analyst
18 42 (3.68%) Applications Developer
19 32 (2.80%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (22.35%) .NET Core
2 212 (18.58%) React
3 182 (15.95%) ASP.NET
4 167 (14.64%) .NET Framework
5 139 (12.18%) HTML
6 124 (10.87%) CSS
7 110 (9.64%) AngularJS
8 85 (7.45%) REST
9 79 (6.92%) Blazor
10 73 (6.40%) RESTful
11 58 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
12 57 (5.00%) Entity Framework
13 48 (4.21%) Vue
14 43 (3.77%) SOAP
15 34 (2.98%) ASP.NET MVC
16 29 (2.54%) Node.js
17 26 (2.28%) jQuery
17 26 (2.28%) WPF
18 25 (2.19%) WinForms
19 23 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.43%) Mobile App
4 40 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (0.96%) IoT
13 10 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 9 (0.79%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.70%) AI Agents
15 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.73%) Windows
2 24 (2.10%) Android
3 22 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.58%) Linux
5 12 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.35%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.088%) Fedora
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (37.34%) Agile
2 348 (30.50%) Software Engineering
3 318 (27.87%) DevOps
4 300 (26.29%) CI/CD
5 254 (22.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 201 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (14.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (13.85%) Microservices
9 149 (13.06%) Mentoring
10 105 (9.20%) SDLC
11 104 (9.11%) AI
12 100 (8.76%) Containerisation
13 95 (8.33%) Clean Code
14 88 (7.71%) MVC
14 88 (7.71%) Scrum
15 72 (6.31%) Roadmaps
16 70 (6.13%) Computer Science
17 69 (6.05%) TDD
17 69 (6.05%) User Experience
18 68 (5.96%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 795 (69.68%) C#
2 361 (31.64%) SQL
3 263 (23.05%) JavaScript
4 127 (11.13%) TypeScript
5 97 (8.50%) Java
6 77 (6.75%) Python
7 36 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 34 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 33 (2.89%) C++
9 33 (2.89%) PHP
10 19 (1.67%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.23%) Bash
12 11 (0.96%) Bicep
13 10 (0.88%) C
14 8 (0.70%) VB
14 8 (0.70%) XAML
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.53%) Go
17 5 (0.44%) Delphi
18 3 (0.26%) VB6
Qualifications
1 140 (12.27%) Degree
2 57 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.72%) ISTQB
4 27 (2.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 24 (2.10%) Security Cleared
6 23 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.35%) ISEB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.18%) PhD
11 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (6.75%) QA
2 32 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.05%) GDPR
4 10 (0.88%) WCAG
5 5 (0.44%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.18%) SLA
8 1 (0.088%) HL7
8 1 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (9.99%) Docker
2 20 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.088%) HDFS
5 1 (0.088%) Squid
5 1 (0.088%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 84 (7.36%) Terraform
3 19 (1.67%) Grafana
4 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.61%) Ansible
5 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.088%) CASB
7 1 (0.088%) Kibana
7 1 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 188 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.45%) Xamarin
3 17 (1.49%) Oracle
4 14 (1.23%) Google
5 13 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.05%) Sage
7 10 (0.88%) Apple
8 9 (0.79%) Telerik
9 7 (0.61%) Datto
9 7 (0.61%) Freshdesk
9 7 (0.61%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.53%) Databricks
11 5 (0.44%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.44%) Syncfusion
11 5 (0.44%) Zoho
12 4 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.35%) ESRI
12 4 (0.35%) New Relic