.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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,265 1,739 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.39% 6.21% 7.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.10% 31.39% 37.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 1,339 4,180
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 4,502 5,540 12,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.49% 19.79% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,451 3,800 9,607
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,340 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -32 409 £60,000 - 190
North of England -33 386 £65,000 +18.18% 148
North West -28 206 £65,000 +18.18% 80
Midlands -40 205 £52,500 -8.70% 82
Yorkshire -34 120 £60,000 - 45
South West -20 116 £55,000 -8.33% 67
West Midlands -41 110 £50,000 -14.16% 48
East Midlands -35 95 £60,000 +14.29% 34
East of England -55 70 £60,000 +20.00% 52
Scotland -40 61 £60,000 +20.00% 23
North East -9 60 £70,000 +16.67% 26
Wales -25 22 £45,000 -30.77% 10
Northern Ireland -27 4 £56,250 +12.50% 3
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 31 (2.45%) IIS
2 18 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.11%) CMS
4 9 (0.71%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.40%) Confluence
6 5 (0.40%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) Apache
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.079%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.079%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.079%) Magento
3 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 516 (40.79%) Azure
2 204 (16.13%) SaaS
3 192 (15.18%) AWS
4 141 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (7.51%) GitHub
6 73 (5.77%) Power Platform
7 64 (5.06%) Serverless
8 38 (3.00%) GCP
9 36 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 33 (2.61%) PowerApps
12 32 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (2.45%) Power Automate
14 29 (2.29%) Azure Functions
14 29 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (2.21%) Azure AKS
16 25 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (1.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.19%) Internet
2 7 (0.55%) DNS
3 6 (0.47%) DHCP
4 5 (0.40%) VPN
5 4 (0.32%) VoIP
6 3 (0.24%) Firewall
6 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.16%) HTTP
7 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.16%) Intranet
8 1 (0.079%) AMQP
8 1 (0.079%) LTE
8 1 (0.079%) Modbus
8 1 (0.079%) MPLS
8 1 (0.079%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.079%) SSL
8 1 (0.079%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 47 (3.72%) Power BI
4 40 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (2.85%) MongoDB
6 33 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 31 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (2.06%) MySQL
9 23 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.50%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.34%) Redis
11 17 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.47%) GIS
14 5 (0.40%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
16 3 (0.24%) QGIS
16 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (6.88%) Git
2 42 (3.32%) JIRA
3 40 (3.16%) Visual Studio
4 38 (3.00%) Selenium
5 32 (2.53%) Postman
6 28 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 23 (1.82%) SoapUI
8 20 (1.58%) WebDriver
9 13 (1.03%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.79%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.71%) NUnit
12 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.47%) git-flow
14 5 (0.40%) GitLab
14 5 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.32%) Appium
15 4 (0.32%) JMeter
15 4 (0.32%) REST Assured
16 3 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 222 (17.55%) Social Skills
2 148 (11.70%) Finance
3 49 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (3.00%) Public Sector
5 27 (2.13%) Law
6 22 (1.74%) Games
7 17 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 15 (1.19%) Aviation
8 15 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.11%) Retail
10 11 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (0.87%) Marketing
11 9 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.71%) Banking
11 9 (0.71%) Electronics
11 9 (0.71%) Military
11 9 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.47%) Automotive
12 6 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 762 (60.24%) Developer
2 314 (24.82%) .NET Developer
3 297 (23.48%) Senior
4 250 (19.76%) Software Developer
5 227 (17.94%) Software Engineer
6 150 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 145 (11.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 140 (11.07%) Lead
9 136 (10.75%) C# Developer
10 98 (7.75%) .NET Software Engineer
11 85 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 79 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
13 76 (6.01%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 73 (5.77%) C# .NET Developer
15 69 (5.45%) Senior .NET Developer
16 66 (5.22%) Lead Developer
17 52 (4.11%) Senior Software Developer
18 49 (3.87%) Applications Developer
19 43 (3.40%) React Developer
20 40 (3.16%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (23.72%) .NET Core
2 206 (16.28%) ASP.NET
2 206 (16.28%) React
3 175 (13.83%) .NET Framework
4 161 (12.73%) HTML
5 140 (11.07%) CSS
6 118 (9.33%) AngularJS
7 97 (7.67%) REST
8 87 (6.88%) RESTful
9 79 (6.25%) Blazor
10 75 (5.93%) ASP.NET Core
11 72 (5.69%) Entity Framework
12 55 (4.35%) Vue
13 53 (4.19%) Node.js
14 40 (3.16%) SOAP
15 31 (2.45%) ASP.NET MVC
16 26 (2.06%) React Native
17 25 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
17 25 (1.98%) jQuery
18 23 (1.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.30%) Mobile App
3 61 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 13 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 11 (0.87%) Legacy Code
11 9 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.71%) IoT
12 8 (0.63%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.63%) PropTech
12 8 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.87%) Windows
2 24 (1.90%) Android
3 21 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.19%) Linux
5 9 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.079%) Fedora
9 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (31.62%) Agile
2 386 (30.51%) Software Engineering
3 311 (24.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 293 (23.16%) DevOps
5 275 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 170 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
7 165 (13.04%) Microservices
8 151 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (10.20%) Mentoring
10 115 (9.09%) SDLC
11 105 (8.30%) Clean Code
12 103 (8.14%) Containerisation
13 99 (7.83%) AI
14 93 (7.35%) Scrum
15 84 (6.64%) MVC
16 67 (5.30%) User Experience
17 66 (5.22%) TDD
18 59 (4.66%) Computer Science
19 58 (4.58%) Software Testing
19 58 (4.58%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 859 (67.91%) C#
2 385 (30.43%) SQL
3 266 (21.03%) JavaScript
4 124 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 101 (7.98%) Java
6 85 (6.72%) Python
7 37 (2.92%) T-SQL
8 33 (2.61%) C++
9 24 (1.90%) PHP
10 18 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.11%) C
11 14 (1.11%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.79%) Bash
14 9 (0.71%) Bicep
15 8 (0.63%) Go
16 7 (0.55%) Delphi
17 6 (0.47%) VB
17 6 (0.47%) XAML
18 3 (0.24%) VB6
Qualifications
1 126 (9.96%) Degree
2 41 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 31 (2.45%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 20 (1.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.32%) ISEB
11 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.079%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.48%) QA
2 35 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.95%) GDPR
4 10 (0.79%) WCAG
5 9 (0.71%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.40%) SLA
8 2 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.079%) HL7
9 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 121 (9.57%) Docker
2 17 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.40%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.079%) Squid
5 1 (0.079%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.82%) Terraform
3 13 (1.03%) Grafana
4 10 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.47%) Ansible
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.079%) Argo
7 1 (0.079%) CASB
7 1 (0.079%) Kibana
7 1 (0.079%) MIIS
Vendors
1 205 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 31 (2.45%) Xamarin
3 16 (1.26%) Google
4 15 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.11%) Sage
6 12 (0.95%) Oracle
7 8 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 7 (0.55%) Adobe
8 7 (0.55%) Apple
8 7 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.47%) Telerik
10 5 (0.40%) Databricks
10 5 (0.40%) Zoho
11 4 (0.32%) Datto
11 4 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.32%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.32%) New Relic
12 3 (0.24%) Facebook
12 3 (0.24%) Foundry