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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -24 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,627 1,490 5,254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.49% 5.17% 7.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.72% 30.05% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,482 1,107 4,552
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.40% +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 5,130 4,959 13,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.84% 17.21% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,028 3,502 10,301
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £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 £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +8 559 £60,000 - 162
North of England -27 463 £60,000 +4.35% 150
North West -21 247 £60,000 +4.35% 85
Midlands -38 240 £55,000 +2.44% 71
South West +4 158 £55,000 - 38
East of England -2 132 £65,000 +23.81% 58
Yorkshire -26 124 £60,000 +3.45% 35
West Midlands -47 121 £55,000 - 35
East Midlands +2 119 £64,000 +21.90% 36
North East -16 92 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Scotland -15 62 £60,000 +20.00% 18
Wales -36 22 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Northern Ireland -35 1 - - 4
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 41 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.29%) IIS
3 15 (0.92%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.61%) CMS
5 9 (0.55%) Confluence
6 7 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.18%) WordPress
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.061%) Appian
11 1 (0.061%) Drupal
11 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 659 (40.50%) Azure
2 232 (14.26%) AWS
3 228 (14.01%) SaaS
4 188 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (6.95%) GitHub
6 86 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 63 (3.87%) Serverless
8 56 (3.44%) Power Automate
9 55 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
10 53 (3.26%) Azure AI
11 50 (3.07%) PowerApps
12 47 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
13 41 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (1.97%) Azure Functions
15 31 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
16 28 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (1.72%) GCP
17 25 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (1.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.15%) Internet
2 4 (0.25%) Firewall
2 4 (0.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.18%) DNS
3 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.12%) DHCP
4 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.12%) Intranet
5 1 (0.061%) AMQP
5 1 (0.061%) LAN
5 1 (0.061%) LTE
5 1 (0.061%) Modbus
5 1 (0.061%) MPLS
5 1 (0.061%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.061%) RS-232
5 1 (0.061%) SSL
5 1 (0.061%) VoIP
5 1 (0.061%) VPN
5 1 (0.061%) WAN
5 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (20.04%) SQL Server
2 171 (10.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 136 (8.36%) MongoDB
4 71 (4.36%) Power BI
5 64 (3.93%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 40 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.41%) MySQL
9 21 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 11 (0.68%) Redis
13 9 (0.55%) GIS
14 5 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.31%) Metadata
15 4 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.25%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.25%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 97 (5.96%) Git
2 42 (2.58%) JIRA
3 35 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 33 (2.03%) Postman
5 29 (1.78%) Selenium
6 24 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.35%) SoapUI
8 16 (0.98%) WebDriver
9 11 (0.68%) Jenkins
9 11 (0.68%) NUnit
10 9 (0.55%) GitLab
11 8 (0.49%) Moq
12 7 (0.43%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.31%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.31%) JMeter
14 5 (0.31%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.31%) MSTest
15 4 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 218 (13.40%) Social Skills
2 161 (9.90%) Finance
3 65 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (2.64%) Public Sector
5 36 (2.21%) Retail
6 33 (2.03%) Games
7 28 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.48%) Automotive
9 20 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 20 (1.23%) Law
10 18 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.04%) Advertising
11 17 (1.04%) Electronics
12 15 (0.92%) Marketing
13 14 (0.86%) Aviation
14 8 (0.49%) Back Office
14 8 (0.49%) Military
15 7 (0.43%) Banking
15 7 (0.43%) Legal
16 6 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,039 (63.86%) Developer
2 532 (32.70%) .NET Developer
3 354 (21.76%) Senior
4 318 (19.55%) Software Developer
5 268 (16.47%) Software Engineer
6 193 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 176 (10.82%) Lead
8 156 (9.59%) C# Developer
9 149 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (7.62%) .NET Software Engineer
11 112 (6.88%) .NET Software Developer
12 111 (6.82%) C# .NET Developer
13 98 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 96 (5.90%) Senior .NET Developer
15 81 (4.98%) Lead Developer
16 75 (4.61%) C# Software Engineer
17 66 (4.06%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 57 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 57 (3.50%) Senior Software Developer
18 57 (3.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (27.54%) .NET Core
2 345 (21.20%) ASP.NET
3 220 (13.52%) HTML
4 214 (13.15%) React
5 203 (12.48%) ASP.NET Core
5 203 (12.48%) CSS
6 174 (10.69%) .NET Framework
7 158 (9.71%) AngularJS
8 136 (8.36%) RESTful
9 128 (7.87%) Entity Framework
10 119 (7.31%) Vue
11 110 (6.76%) Node.js
12 104 (6.39%) Blazor
13 98 (6.02%) REST
14 71 (4.36%) ASP.NET Web API
15 49 (3.01%) ML.NET
16 45 (2.77%) jQuery
17 39 (2.40%) LINQ
18 37 (2.27%) SOAP
19 31 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 76 (4.67%) Mobile App
3 71 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (2.95%) Product Ownership
5 34 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.35%) Legacy Code
9 17 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 14 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 14 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 14 (0.86%) PropTech
11 13 (0.80%) Hedge funds
12 12 (0.74%) Sports Betting
13 11 (0.68%) Management Information System
14 10 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.55%) Digital TV
15 9 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.27%) Windows
2 21 (1.29%) Android
3 16 (0.98%) Linux
4 11 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) VMS
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.061%) Unix
8 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (28.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 445 (27.35%) Agile
3 432 (26.55%) Software Engineering
4 324 (19.91%) CI/CD
5 308 (18.93%) DevOps
6 191 (11.74%) Microservices
7 177 (10.88%) AI
8 168 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
10 143 (8.79%) SDLC
11 124 (7.62%) Mentoring
12 105 (6.45%) Clean Code
13 103 (6.33%) Containerisation
14 100 (6.15%) Scrum
15 91 (5.59%) Machine Learning
16 89 (5.47%) TDD
17 85 (5.22%) Technical Leadership
18 84 (5.16%) MVC
19 82 (5.04%) Business Intelligence
20 81 (4.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,103 (67.79%) C#
2 536 (32.94%) SQL
3 307 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 171 (10.51%) TypeScript
5 118 (7.25%) Python
6 100 (6.15%) Java
7 54 (3.32%) C++
8 45 (2.77%) PowerShell
9 44 (2.70%) PHP
10 32 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.17%) Bash
12 17 (1.04%) VB
13 15 (0.92%) C
14 14 (0.86%) Bicep
14 14 (0.86%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.61%) VBA
16 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.43%) XAML
18 6 (0.37%) Delphi
18 6 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 146 (8.97%) Degree
2 61 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 58 (3.56%) SC Cleared
4 51 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (1.11%) ISTQB
6 16 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 14 (0.86%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.12%) CSQA
14 1 (0.061%) HND
14 1 (0.061%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.49%) QA
2 37 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.04%) GDPR
4 12 (0.74%) WCAG
5 11 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.31%) SLA
8 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.061%) HL7
10 1 (0.061%) NCSC
System Software
1 160 (9.83%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Firmware
3 5 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 68 (4.18%) Terraform
3 11 (0.68%) Grafana
4 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.12%) MIIS
7 1 (0.061%) CASB
7 1 (0.061%) Consul
7 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.061%) Packer
7 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.061%) Puppet
Vendors
1 359 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.60%) Google
3 24 (1.48%) Adobe
4 22 (1.35%) Xamarin
5 19 (1.17%) Oracle
6 18 (1.11%) Facebook
7 13 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 11 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.49%) Apple
11 6 (0.37%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.37%) Sony
11 6 (0.37%) Yahoo!
11 6 (0.37%) YouTube
12 5 (0.31%) Databricks
12 5 (0.31%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.31%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.31%) Sage
13 4 (0.25%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.25%) SYSPRO