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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -45 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,136 2,281 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 6.47% 8.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.64% 33.01% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,011 1,454 3,320
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,650 £37,500
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 £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 3,967 6,910 9,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.94% 19.61% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,025 3,811 7,832
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -32 353 £60,000 - 364
North of England -32 347 £65,000 +13.04% 230
Midlands -42 199 £52,500 -8.70% 137
North West -24 188 £65,000 +18.18% 132
West Midlands -31 118 £50,000 -13.04% 50
Yorkshire -47 101 £55,000 - 63
South West -57 93 £55,000 -8.33% 131
East Midlands -35 81 £65,000 +23.81% 86
East of England -68 61 £60,000 +20.00% 154
North East -14 58 £70,000 +3.70% 35
Scotland -66 57 £62,500 +25.00% 54
Wales -7 30 £45,000 -25.00% 55
Northern Ireland -9 4 £50,000 - 18
Channel Islands +1 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 (3.35%) IIS
2 17 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.32%) 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%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Apache
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.088%) Kentico
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 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.088%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.088%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 554 (48.77%) Azure
2 211 (18.57%) AWS
3 194 (17.08%) SaaS
4 167 (14.70%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (8.89%) GitHub
6 80 (7.04%) Power Platform
7 72 (6.34%) Serverless
8 53 (4.67%) GCP
9 43 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (3.61%) Power Automate
11 38 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.82%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.73%) Azure Functions
13 31 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 31 (2.73%) Entra ID
14 30 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 25 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 21 (1.85%) Amazon S3
17 20 (1.76%) Azure AKS
17 20 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.97%) Internet
2 10 (0.88%) DNS
3 9 (0.79%) DHCP
3 9 (0.79%) VPN
4 8 (0.70%) VoIP
5 4 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.26%) Firewall
6 3 (0.26%) HTTP
7 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) SSL
8 1 (0.088%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.088%) LAN
8 1 (0.088%) MPLS
8 1 (0.088%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.088%) SAN
8 1 (0.088%) WAN
8 1 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (26.23%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.55%) NoSQL
3 40 (3.52%) Power BI
4 35 (3.08%) MySQL
5 34 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.76%) 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 88 (7.75%) Git
2 48 (4.23%) JIRA
3 38 (3.35%) Selenium
3 38 (3.35%) Visual Studio
4 35 (3.08%) Postman
5 33 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 30 (2.64%) SoapUI
7 27 (2.38%) WebDriver
8 16 (1.41%) TeamCity
9 14 (1.23%) Jenkins
10 8 (0.70%) GitLab
10 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.70%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.70%) Storybook
11 7 (0.62%) git-flow
12 4 (0.35%) NUnit
13 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.26%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.26%) MSTest
13 3 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 246 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 167 (14.70%) Finance
3 38 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.46%) Law
6 16 (1.41%) Games
7 15 (1.32%) Aviation
7 15 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.06%) Banking
9 12 (1.06%) Retail
10 11 (0.97%) Legal
10 11 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.70%) Marketing
13 7 (0.62%) Automotive
13 7 (0.62%) Electronics
13 7 (0.62%) Publishing
14 5 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 671 (59.07%) Developer
2 262 (23.06%) Senior
3 260 (22.89%) .NET Developer
4 211 (18.57%) Software Developer
5 179 (15.76%) Software Engineer
6 138 (12.15%) Lead
7 134 (11.80%) Senior Developer
8 122 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 121 (10.65%) C# Developer
10 70 (6.16%) .NET Software Engineer
11 69 (6.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 68 (5.99%) .NET Software Developer
13 66 (5.81%) Lead Developer
14 61 (5.37%) Senior .NET Developer
15 58 (5.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 56 (4.93%) C# .NET Developer
17 47 (4.14%) Senior Software Developer
18 44 (3.87%) Analyst
19 42 (3.70%) Applications Developer
20 31 (2.73%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (22.01%) .NET Core
2 210 (18.49%) React
3 185 (16.29%) ASP.NET
4 168 (14.79%) .NET Framework
5 137 (12.06%) HTML
6 122 (10.74%) CSS
7 111 (9.77%) AngularJS
8 85 (7.48%) REST
9 83 (7.31%) Blazor
10 73 (6.43%) RESTful
11 58 (5.11%) Entity Framework
12 57 (5.02%) ASP.NET Core
13 50 (4.40%) Vue
14 43 (3.79%) SOAP
15 37 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
16 27 (2.38%) Node.js
17 26 (2.29%) WPF
18 25 (2.20%) jQuery
18 25 (2.20%) WinForms
19 23 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.37%) Mobile App
4 39 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (0.88%) IoT
12 10 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 9 (0.79%) Driving Licence
13 9 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.70%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.70%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 53 (4.67%) Windows
2 24 (2.11%) Android
3 22 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.41%) Linux
5 13 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.62%) 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 (37.50%) Agile
2 344 (30.28%) Software Engineering
3 316 (27.82%) DevOps
4 297 (26.14%) CI/CD
5 253 (22.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 201 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (13.82%) Microservices
9 149 (13.12%) Mentoring
10 105 (9.24%) SDLC
11 104 (9.15%) AI
12 95 (8.36%) Containerisation
13 94 (8.27%) Clean Code
14 92 (8.10%) MVC
15 89 (7.83%) Scrum
16 71 (6.25%) Roadmaps
17 69 (6.07%) CRM
17 69 (6.07%) TDD
17 69 (6.07%) User Experience
18 68 (5.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 793 (69.81%) C#
2 360 (31.69%) SQL
3 264 (23.24%) JavaScript
4 127 (11.18%) TypeScript
5 98 (8.63%) Java
6 79 (6.95%) Python
7 37 (3.26%) T-SQL
8 34 (2.99%) C++
9 32 (2.82%) PHP
9 32 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.67%) VB.NET
11 12 (1.06%) Bash
12 11 (0.97%) Bicep
13 10 (0.88%) C
14 8 (0.70%) VB
14 8 (0.70%) XAML
15 7 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.53%) Go
17 5 (0.44%) Delphi
18 3 (0.26%) VB6
Qualifications
1 138 (12.15%) Degree
2 56 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.73%) ISTQB
4 27 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 25 (2.20%) Security Cleared
6 23 (2.02%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.97%) 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 76 (6.69%) QA
2 31 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.06%) 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
1 112 (9.86%) Docker
2 21 (1.85%) 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 84 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 82 (7.22%) Terraform
3 18 (1.58%) Grafana
4 15 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.62%) Ansible
5 7 (0.62%) 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
1 192 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.38%) Xamarin
3 17 (1.50%) Oracle
4 13 (1.14%) Google
4 13 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.06%) Sage
6 10 (0.88%) Apple
7 9 (0.79%) Telerik
8 7 (0.62%) Datto
8 7 (0.62%) Freshdesk
8 7 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.53%) Databricks
10 5 (0.44%) DevExpress
10 5 (0.44%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.44%) Syncfusion
10 5 (0.44%) Zoho
11 4 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.35%) ESRI
11 4 (0.35%) New Relic
12 3 (0.26%) Dynatrace