.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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,145 1,356 4,228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.91% 3.97% 6.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.87% 27.23% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 998 3,453
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,125 £83,750 £78,458
UK median annual salary £60,000 £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 6,333 4,979 10,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.59% 14.57% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,064 3,116 7,877
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +24 675 £57,500 - 161
North of England +1 603 £57,500 -4.17% 144
Midlands +10 323 £55,000 - 81
North West -3 281 £60,000 - 78
South West +16 206 £52,500 - 40
East of England +20 204 £65,000 +23.81% 60
West Midlands -17 173 £60,000 +4.35% 41
Yorkshire +22 163 £56,250 -13.46% 33
North East +3 159 £55,750 +29.65% 35
East Midlands +32 150 £55,000 - 40
Scotland +20 55 £58,750 -8.91% 9
Northern Ireland -20 55 £35,000 -46.15% 9
Wales -61 26 £50,000 -16.67% 12
.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 40 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.54%) IIS
3 16 (0.75%) ColdFusion
4 15 (0.70%) CMS
4 15 (0.70%) Confluence
5 8 (0.37%) nginx
5 8 (0.37%) WordPress
6 7 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.14%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.047%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.047%) CICS
9 1 (0.047%) Drupal
9 1 (0.047%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.047%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.047%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.047%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.23%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
3 3 (0.14%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.093%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.047%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,078 (50.26%) Azure
2 335 (15.62%) AWS
3 334 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
4 190 (8.86%) GitHub
5 186 (8.67%) SaaS
6 160 (7.46%) Azure AI
7 134 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 115 (5.36%) Power Platform
9 87 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 84 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
12 76 (3.54%) Serverless
13 68 (3.17%) PowerApps
14 49 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
15 38 (1.77%) Azure Functions
16 36 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
17 33 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 33 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.54%) GCP
17 33 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.92%) Internet
2 9 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.37%) Firewall
4 7 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.28%) HTTP
6 5 (0.23%) DHCP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.23%) WAN
7 4 (0.19%) SNMP
8 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) RS-232
9 2 (0.093%) Modbus
10 1 (0.047%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.047%) LTE
10 1 (0.047%) Network Security
10 1 (0.047%) Profibus
10 1 (0.047%) SSL
10 1 (0.047%) VLAN
10 1 (0.047%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (22.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 409 (19.07%) SQL Server
3 405 (18.88%) MongoDB
4 155 (7.23%) Elasticsearch
5 91 (4.24%) Power BI
6 55 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 44 (2.05%) MySQL
8 38 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 36 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.70%) Redis
12 15 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.51%) GIS
14 11 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (0.33%) Crystal Reports
17 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 129 (6.01%) Git
2 35 (1.63%) JIRA
3 25 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.93%) Postman
5 19 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.75%) GitLab
6 16 (0.75%) NUnit
6 16 (0.75%) Selenium
7 12 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.37%) Moq
8 8 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.28%) MSI
10 6 (0.28%) MSTest
10 6 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.23%) JMeter
11 5 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 276 (12.87%) Social Skills
2 211 (9.84%) Finance
3 77 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (3.36%) Legal
5 63 (2.94%) Retail
6 59 (2.75%) Public Sector
7 56 (2.61%) Advertising
8 54 (2.52%) Games
9 53 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 50 (2.33%) Marketing
11 45 (2.10%) Law
12 38 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.40%) Legal Technology
14 26 (1.21%) Automotive
15 24 (1.12%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.89%) Electronics
17 11 (0.51%) Music Industry
18 8 (0.37%) Aviation
18 8 (0.37%) Back Office
19 7 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,442 (67.23%) Developer
2 869 (40.51%) .NET Developer
3 404 (18.83%) Senior
4 315 (14.69%) Software Engineer
5 307 (14.31%) Software Developer
6 244 (11.38%) Senior Developer
7 220 (10.26%) Lead
8 151 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 149 (6.95%) C# Developer
10 129 (6.01%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.50%) C# .NET Developer
11 118 (5.50%) C# Software Engineer
12 116 (5.41%) Lead Developer
13 111 (5.17%) .NET Software Developer
14 108 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 96 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
16 83 (3.87%) Web Developer
17 81 (3.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 68 (3.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 61 (2.84%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (32.59%) .NET Core
2 664 (30.96%) ASP.NET
3 540 (25.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 348 (16.22%) HTML
5 343 (15.99%) CSS
6 326 (15.20%) React
7 274 (12.77%) AngularJS
8 259 (12.07%) Entity Framework
9 249 (11.61%) Blazor
10 247 (11.52%) RESTful
11 234 (10.91%) Vue
12 223 (10.40%) .NET Framework
13 222 (10.35%) Node.js
14 203 (9.46%) ASP.NET Web API
15 152 (7.09%) ML.NET
16 132 (6.15%) REST
17 109 (5.08%) LINQ
18 62 (2.89%) jQuery
19 53 (2.47%) JSON
20 51 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.29%) Greenfield Project
2 100 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 84 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 56 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.40%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.93%) Digital TV
9 20 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 19 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 19 (0.89%) Hedge funds
11 18 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.79%) BBC
12 17 (0.79%) iPhone
12 17 (0.79%) Social Media
13 15 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.65%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.65%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.50%) Windows
2 29 (1.35%) Android
3 28 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.98%) Linux
5 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.093%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.047%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (37.81%) Full-Stack Development
2 745 (34.73%) Agile
3 527 (24.57%) CI/CD
4 518 (24.15%) Software Engineering
5 477 (22.24%) DevOps
6 380 (17.72%) Microservices
7 332 (15.48%) AI
8 301 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 241 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (9.04%) Machine Learning
11 181 (8.44%) SDLC
12 177 (8.25%) Multithreading
13 155 (7.23%) Scrum
14 154 (7.18%) Mentoring
15 150 (6.99%) TDD
16 122 (5.69%) OO
17 117 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
18 113 (5.27%) Clean Code
19 112 (5.22%) Technical Leadership
20 107 (4.99%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,635 (76.22%) C#
2 846 (39.44%) SQL
3 481 (22.42%) JavaScript
4 293 (13.66%) TypeScript
5 133 (6.20%) Python
6 96 (4.48%) Java
7 76 (3.54%) C++
8 66 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.80%) PHP
10 52 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.77%) VB.NET
12 29 (1.35%) Bicep
13 24 (1.12%) C
14 21 (0.98%) Bash
15 14 (0.65%) VB
16 9 (0.42%) VBA
17 8 (0.37%) Delphi
17 8 (0.37%) Go
17 8 (0.37%) XAML
18 7 (0.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 169 (7.88%) Degree
2 91 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 60 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 14 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.19%) MBA
13 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.093%) CSQA
14 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.093%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.093%) PhD
14 2 (0.093%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.047%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (7.51%) QA
2 44 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.79%) GDPR
4 14 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.56%) WCAG
6 7 (0.33%) NCSC
7 5 (0.23%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.093%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.047%) NIST
System Software
1 257 (11.98%) Docker
2 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.47%) Firmware
3 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 237 (11.05%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.64%) Terraform
3 8 (0.37%) Grafana
4 7 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.14%) Ansible
6 2 (0.093%) MIIS
7 1 (0.047%) Argo
7 1 (0.047%) Consul
7 1 (0.047%) MOM
7 1 (0.047%) Packer
7 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.047%) Puppet
Vendors
1 761 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.03%) Google
3 59 (2.75%) Facebook
4 26 (1.21%) Adobe
5 25 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.98%) YouTube
7 19 (0.89%) Oracle
8 17 (0.79%) Apple
8 17 (0.79%) Sony
8 17 (0.79%) Yahoo!
9 16 (0.75%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.37%) Databricks
12 7 (0.33%) VMware
13 6 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.28%) Sage
14 5 (0.23%) DevExpress
14 5 (0.23%) SYSPRO
15 4 (0.19%) IBM
15 4 (0.19%) Splunk