.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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 77 25
Rank change year-on-year +22 -52 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,206 1,177 3,608
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.59% 3.45% 6.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.12% 25.26% 35.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 848 2,485
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 7,323 4,659 10,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 13.65% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,638 2,814 6,193
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,700 £82,400
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,513 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +5.40% -3.70%

.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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +47 687 £60,000 - 259
North of England +3 600 £57,000 -5.00% 323
Midlands +28 353 £60,000 +9.09% 189
North West -17 266 £60,000 -4.00% 204
East of England +29 216 £60,000 +14.29% 110
South West +1 195 £55,000 +4.76% 79
West Midlands -10 188 £58,750 +6.82% 101
North East +10 181 £57,500 +32.95% 44
East Midlands +46 165 £60,000 +9.09% 88
Yorkshire +4 153 £55,000 -8.33% 78
Scotland +37 67 £60,000 -5.51% 94
Northern Ireland -33 63 £35,000 -30.00% 50
Wales -76 27 £50,000 -9.09% 34
.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 43 (1.95%) IIS
2 31 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.73%) CMS
4 14 (0.63%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.63%) Confluence
5 8 (0.36%) WordPress
6 7 (0.32%) nginx
6 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.18%) Apache
7 4 (0.18%) CICS
7 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.045%) Appian
10 1 (0.045%) Kentico
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.045%) Magento
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,087 (49.27%) Azure
2 357 (16.18%) AWS
3 353 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (9.56%) GitHub
5 172 (7.80%) SaaS
6 160 (7.25%) Azure AI
7 140 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
8 122 (5.53%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.17%) Serverless
10 90 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 84 (3.81%) Power Automate
12 81 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
13 67 (3.04%) PowerApps
14 51 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (1.90%) Azure Functions
17 41 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 39 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
19 38 (1.72%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.94%) Internet
2 18 (0.82%) Firewall
3 11 (0.50%) VLAN
4 10 (0.45%) Wireless
5 9 (0.41%) HTTP
5 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) DNS
7 5 (0.23%) LAN
7 5 (0.23%) WAN
8 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) RS-232
9 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (21.03%) SQL Server
2 453 (20.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 393 (17.82%) MongoDB
4 154 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
5 80 (3.63%) Power BI
6 77 (3.49%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.72%) MySQL
8 59 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 55 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.77%) Redis
12 14 (0.63%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.59%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (0.45%) SQLite
16 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.41%) GIS
17 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 163 (7.39%) Git
2 33 (1.50%) JIRA
2 33 (1.50%) Visual Studio
3 30 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.04%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 20 (0.91%) NUnit
7 17 (0.77%) Postman
8 15 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.50%) Selenium
11 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.36%) Moq
13 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.32%) MSI
14 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.23%) MSTest
16 4 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 335 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 222 (10.06%) Finance
3 104 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.90%) Legal
5 77 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.04%) Retail
7 64 (2.90%) Games
8 59 (2.67%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.45%) Advertising
11 52 (2.36%) Law
11 52 (2.36%) Marketing
12 30 (1.36%) Legal Technology
13 25 (1.13%) Automotive
14 23 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 18 (0.82%) Electronics
16 12 (0.54%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
17 11 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,421 (64.42%) Developer
2 867 (39.30%) .NET Developer
3 408 (18.50%) Senior
4 305 (13.83%) Software Engineer
5 272 (12.33%) Software Developer
6 249 (11.29%) Senior Developer
7 237 (10.74%) Lead
8 150 (6.80%) C# Developer
8 150 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 124 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
10 118 (5.35%) Lead Developer
11 116 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 114 (5.17%) .NET Software Engineer
13 110 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
14 102 (4.62%) Senior .NET Developer
15 97 (4.40%) .NET Software Developer
16 85 (3.85%) Web Developer
17 79 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 62 (2.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 61 (2.77%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (31.37%) .NET Core
2 659 (29.87%) ASP.NET
3 538 (24.39%) ASP.NET Core
4 353 (16.00%) HTML
4 353 (16.00%) React
5 348 (15.78%) CSS
6 271 (12.28%) AngularJS
7 268 (12.15%) Entity Framework
8 246 (11.15%) Blazor
9 244 (11.06%) RESTful
10 232 (10.52%) Vue
11 229 (10.38%) .NET Framework
12 210 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
12 210 (9.52%) Node.js
13 145 (6.57%) ML.NET
14 143 (6.48%) REST
15 107 (4.85%) LINQ
16 86 (3.90%) jQuery
17 78 (3.54%) Terraform
18 58 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
2 117 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 102 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 65 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 34 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 34 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
8 32 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.18%) Legacy Code
10 22 (1.00%) Hedge funds
10 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
13 17 (0.77%) iPhone
14 16 (0.73%) BBC
14 16 (0.73%) Social Media
15 13 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 99 (4.49%) Windows
2 36 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.22%) Android
4 25 (1.13%) Linux
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (36.40%) Full-Stack Development
2 758 (34.36%) Agile
3 571 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 540 (24.48%) Software Engineering
5 497 (22.53%) DevOps
6 374 (16.95%) Microservices
7 358 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
8 355 (16.09%) AI
9 269 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (8.48%) Machine Learning
11 184 (8.34%) Mentoring
11 184 (8.34%) SDLC
12 173 (7.84%) Multithreading
13 150 (6.80%) Scrum
14 139 (6.30%) TDD
15 126 (5.71%) OO
15 126 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
16 121 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
17 120 (5.44%) Test Automation
18 116 (5.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,702 (77.15%) C#
2 851 (38.58%) SQL
3 513 (23.25%) JavaScript
4 291 (13.19%) TypeScript
5 135 (6.12%) Python
6 98 (4.44%) Java
7 90 (4.08%) C++
8 59 (2.67%) PHP
8 59 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 57 (2.58%) VB.NET
10 55 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.22%) Bicep
12 26 (1.18%) C
13 19 (0.86%) Bash
14 16 (0.73%) COBOL
14 16 (0.73%) VB
15 12 (0.54%) JCL
16 11 (0.50%) Delphi
16 11 (0.50%) Go
17 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 184 (8.34%) Degree
2 99 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (3.35%) Security Cleared
4 66 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.091%) CSQA
13 2 (0.091%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.30%) QA
2 46 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.63%) WCAG
6 7 (0.32%) NCSC
7 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.14%) NIST
10 2 (0.091%) PMO
11 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.65%) Docker
2 23 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Firmware
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 222 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.54%) Grafana
2 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.18%) Ansible
3 4 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.091%) Bosun
4 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.045%) MOM
Vendors
1 787 (35.68%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.86%) Google
3 56 (2.54%) Facebook
4 30 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 27 (1.22%) Oracle
6 21 (0.95%) YouTube
7 20 (0.91%) Adobe
8 17 (0.77%) VMware
9 16 (0.73%) Apple
9 16 (0.73%) Sony
9 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
11 9 (0.41%) DevExpress
12 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Sage
13 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 4 (0.18%) IBM