.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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 82 25
Rank change year-on-year +27 -57 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,203 1,181 3,548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.54% 3.41% 6.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.37% 25.60% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,896 848 2,365
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,175 £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 £72,500 £69,500
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% -6.25%

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 7,253 4,614 10,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.38% 13.34% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,555 2,774 5,907
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +44 684 £60,000 - 325
North of England +4 599 £55,000 -8.33% 385
Midlands +37 358 £60,000 +9.09% 243
North West -17 263 £60,000 -4.00% 212
East of England +17 208 £60,000 +9.09% 160
West Midlands -2 192 £57,500 +4.55% 123
South West -2 187 £55,000 +4.76% 111
North East +14 180 £57,500 +32.18% 70
East Midlands +45 166 £60,000 +9.09% 120
Yorkshire +1 156 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Scotland +38 73 £60,000 -6.98% 243
Northern Ireland -29 67 £35,000 -30.00% 93
Wales -74 30 £51,500 -6.36% 92
.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 45 (2.04%) IIS
2 27 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.82%) CMS
4 14 (0.64%) Confluence
5 11 (0.50%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.27%) CICS
9 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.18%) Apache
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.045%) Appian
13 1 (0.045%) Kentico
13 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.64%) 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
5 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (49.02%) Azure
2 356 (16.16%) AWS
3 353 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 217 (9.85%) GitHub
5 168 (7.63%) SaaS
6 160 (7.26%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 116 (5.27%) Power Platform
9 90 (4.09%) Serverless
10 86 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 78 (3.54%) Power Automate
12 76 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
13 62 (2.81%) PowerApps
14 54 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
15 50 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
16 42 (1.91%) Azure Functions
17 41 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
19 37 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
19 37 (1.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.90%) Internet
2 19 (0.86%) Firewall
3 13 (0.59%) VLAN
4 11 (0.50%) 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%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 447 (20.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 393 (17.84%) MongoDB
4 154 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 71 (3.22%) Power BI
7 63 (2.86%) MySQL
8 59 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 56 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.73%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.45%) SQLite
15 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.36%) GIS
17 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 165 (7.49%) Git
2 34 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 34 (1.54%) Visual Studio
3 32 (1.45%) JIRA
4 26 (1.18%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 18 (0.82%) NUnit
7 16 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.68%) Postman
9 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.45%) Selenium
10 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.18%) MSTest
15 4 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 343 (15.57%) Social Skills
2 225 (10.21%) Finance
3 110 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.90%) Legal
5 78 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.91%) Retail
7 63 (2.86%) Games
7 63 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (2.45%) Advertising
10 52 (2.36%) Marketing
11 51 (2.32%) Law
12 30 (1.36%) Legal Technology
13 24 (1.09%) Automotive
14 23 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 20 (0.91%) Electronics
16 12 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.50%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 10 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,389 (63.05%) Developer
2 862 (39.13%) .NET Developer
3 414 (18.79%) Senior
4 311 (14.12%) Software Engineer
5 262 (11.89%) Software Developer
6 251 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 233 (10.58%) Lead
8 147 (6.67%) C# Developer
9 141 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 127 (5.76%) C# Software Engineer
11 115 (5.22%) .NET Software Engineer
12 114 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
13 113 (5.13%) Lead Developer
14 110 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
15 105 (4.77%) Senior .NET Developer
16 94 (4.27%) .NET Software Developer
17 84 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 79 (3.59%) Web Developer
19 58 (2.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 57 (2.59%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 682 (30.96%) .NET Core
2 653 (29.64%) ASP.NET
3 537 (24.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 361 (16.39%) React
5 345 (15.66%) HTML
6 341 (15.48%) CSS
7 271 (12.30%) AngularJS
8 269 (12.21%) Entity Framework
9 246 (11.17%) Blazor
10 243 (11.03%) RESTful
11 229 (10.39%) .NET Framework
12 223 (10.12%) Vue
13 214 (9.71%) Node.js
14 210 (9.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 145 (6.58%) ML.NET
16 143 (6.49%) REST
17 108 (4.90%) LINQ
18 85 (3.86%) jQuery
19 77 (3.50%) Terraform
20 58 (2.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
2 118 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 108 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 69 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 47 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 38 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
10 35 (1.59%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 21 (0.95%) Hedge funds
13 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
15 17 (0.77%) iPhone
16 16 (0.73%) BBC
16 16 (0.73%) Mainframe
16 16 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.54%) Windows
2 37 (1.68%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.18%) Android
3 26 (1.18%) Linux
4 9 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 755 (34.27%) Agile
3 576 (26.15%) CI/CD
4 545 (24.74%) Software Engineering
5 498 (22.61%) DevOps
6 375 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 370 (16.80%) Microservices
8 356 (16.16%) AI
9 267 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.53%) Mentoring
11 185 (8.40%) Machine Learning
12 183 (8.31%) SDLC
13 172 (7.81%) Multithreading
14 148 (6.72%) Scrum
15 137 (6.22%) TDD
16 127 (5.76%) OO
17 125 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
18 122 (5.54%) Test Automation
19 115 (5.22%) Software Architecture
20 114 (5.17%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,702 (77.26%) C#
2 840 (38.13%) SQL
3 511 (23.20%) JavaScript
4 290 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 137 (6.22%) Python
6 100 (4.54%) Java
7 88 (3.99%) C++
8 61 (2.77%) VB.NET
9 57 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 55 (2.50%) PHP
11 52 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.23%) C
13 25 (1.13%) Bicep
14 20 (0.91%) COBOL
15 19 (0.86%) Bash
16 17 (0.77%) VB
17 16 (0.73%) JCL
18 12 (0.54%) Go
19 10 (0.45%) Delphi
20 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 183 (8.31%) Degree
2 101 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 62 (2.81%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.68%) 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 5 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.091%) CSQA
14 2 (0.091%) PhD
15 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.22%) QA
2 44 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) GDPR
5 13 (0.59%) 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%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.045%) GAMP
11 1 (0.045%) GMP
11 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.67%) Docker
2 25 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 220 (9.99%) 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
5 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.045%) SCCM
Vendors
1 780 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.86%) Google
3 56 (2.54%) Facebook
4 31 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 30 (1.36%) Oracle
6 21 (0.95%) YouTube
7 18 (0.82%) VMware
8 17 (0.77%) Adobe
8 17 (0.77%) Apple
9 16 (0.73%) Sony
9 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.45%) Broadcom
11 9 (0.41%) Xamarin
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
13 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
14 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.27%) Sage
14 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 4 (0.18%) IBM