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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 43 26
Rank change year-on-year -33 -17 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,418 1,407 5,165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.22% 5.26% 7.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.82% 30.17% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,279 1,189 4,502
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 4,920 4,664 13,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.70% 17.44% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,801 3,628 10,270
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,850 £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 £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,575
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 23 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 23 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 -21 467 £60,000 - 169
North of England -11 419 £63,000 +9.57% 141
North West -9 220 £65,000 +13.04% 82
Midlands -46 216 £55,000 - 69
South West -3 146 £55,000 -8.33% 46
Yorkshire -35 126 £60,000 - 33
West Midlands -53 112 £52,500 -8.70% 31
East Midlands -28 104 £65,000 +23.81% 37
East of England -53 97 £66,250 +26.19% 51
North East -22 73 £70,000 +21.74% 26
Scotland -41 61 £60,000 +20.00% 18
Wales -34 20 £45,000 -30.77% 16
Northern Ireland -37 2 £50,000 - 10
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 37 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.55%) IIS
3 12 (0.85%) 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%) Apache
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.21%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
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 15 (1.06%) 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 (37.17%) Azure
2 220 (15.51%) SaaS
3 197 (13.89%) AWS
4 141 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (6.21%) GitHub
6 84 (5.92%) Power Platform
7 58 (4.09%) Serverless
8 51 (3.60%) Power Automate
9 49 (3.46%) PowerApps
10 45 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
11 39 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.97%) GCP
15 26 (1.83%) Azure AKS
16 24 (1.69%) Azure Functions
17 23 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 23 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
18 22 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
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
1 313 (22.07%) SQL Server
2 68 (4.80%) NoSQL
2 68 (4.80%) Power BI
3 57 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 32 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 22 (1.55%) MySQL
7 21 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.99%) Redis
11 10 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.42%) GIS
13 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.28%) Metadata
14 4 (0.28%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 89 (6.28%) Git
2 42 (2.96%) JIRA
3 38 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 35 (2.47%) Selenium
5 33 (2.33%) Postman
6 27 (1.90%) 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 (0.63%) 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 (15.02%) Social Skills
2 140 (9.87%) Finance
3 60 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 25 (1.76%) Law
6 22 (1.55%) Games
7 20 (1.41%) Retail
8 15 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 14 (0.99%) Aviation
10 13 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 11 (0.78%) Automotive
12 9 (0.63%) Military
13 8 (0.56%) Electronics
14 7 (0.49%) Back Office
14 7 (0.49%) Marketing
15 6 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.42%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 879 (61.99%) Developer
2 377 (26.59%) .NET Developer
3 342 (24.12%) Senior
4 295 (20.80%) Software Developer
5 248 (17.49%) Software Engineer
6 181 (12.76%) Senior Developer
7 163 (11.50%) Lead
8 153 (10.79%) C# Developer
9 145 (10.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 112 (7.90%) .NET Software Engineer
11 102 (7.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 97 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 94 (6.63%) .NET Software Developer
14 88 (6.21%) Senior .NET Developer
15 76 (5.36%) Lead Developer
16 71 (5.01%) 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 52 (3.67%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (23.77%) .NET Core
2 226 (15.94%) ASP.NET
3 178 (12.55%) React
4 172 (12.13%) HTML
5 167 (11.78%) .NET Framework
6 150 (10.58%) CSS
7 120 (8.46%) AngularJS
8 96 (6.77%) REST
9 91 (6.42%) RESTful
10 82 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
11 76 (5.36%) Vue
12 71 (5.01%) Entity Framework
13 70 (4.94%) Blazor
14 67 (4.72%) Node.js
15 37 (2.61%) SOAP
16 35 (2.47%) jQuery
17 33 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
18 28 (1.97%) JSON
19 25 (1.76%) React Native
20 24 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.01%) Mobile App
3 53 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.03%) 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 11 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 11 (0.78%) Hedge funds
11 11 (0.78%) Sports Betting
12 10 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (0.71%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.63%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.03%) 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
1 401 (28.28%) Software Engineering
2 371 (26.16%) Agile
3 329 (23.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 272 (19.18%) DevOps
5 270 (19.04%) CI/CD
6 167 (11.78%) Microservices
7 164 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (8.96%) SDLC
10 116 (8.18%) Mentoring
11 110 (7.76%) AI
12 106 (7.48%) Clean Code
13 104 (7.33%) Containerisation
14 88 (6.21%) Scrum
15 84 (5.92%) MVC
16 81 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
17 78 (5.50%) Test Automation
18 76 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
19 68 (4.80%) User Experience
20 66 (4.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 939 (66.22%) C#
2 409 (28.84%) SQL
3 268 (18.90%) JavaScript
4 124 (8.74%) TypeScript
5 107 (7.55%) Python
6 102 (7.19%) Java
7 43 (3.03%) C++
8 42 (2.96%) PHP
9 36 (2.54%) 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 (0.63%) VBA
17 7 (0.49%) Go
18 6 (0.42%) Delphi
19 4 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (8.89%) Degree
2 56 (3.95%) Security Cleared
3 53 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 43 (3.03%) 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 (5.78%) QA
2 39 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.85%) GDPR
3 12 (0.85%) WCAG
4 10 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.63%) 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 (8.89%) 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 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.44%) Terraform
3 13 (0.92%) Grafana
4 9 (0.63%) 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
1 229 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.83%) Xamarin
3 22 (1.55%) 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