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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 54 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -31 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,659 1,318 5,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.47% 4.63% 7.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.78% 27.46% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 946 4,652
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,625 £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% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5,220 4,800 13,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 16.85% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,122 3,089 10,388
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £89,975 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 25 May 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 May 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 +15 577 £60,000 - 142
North of England -15 480 £60,000 +1.69% 141
North West -15 257 £62,500 +13.64% 83
Midlands -21 248 £55,000 +2.44% 65
South West +3 158 £55,000 - 41
West Midlands -39 130 £55,000 +2.44% 35
East of England -3 129 £67,500 +28.57% 49
Yorkshire -12 122 £60,000 -7.69% 29
East Midlands +10 118 £55,000 - 30
North East -4 101 £60,000 +6.67% 30
Scotland -14 53 £60,000 +16.50% 10
Wales -45 18 £45,000 -31.56% 7
Northern Ireland -38 1 - - 14
.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 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.51%) IIS
3 16 (0.96%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.54%) CMS
5 8 (0.48%) Confluence
6 7 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.24%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.24%) WordPress
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.060%) Appian
11 1 (0.060%) Drupal
11 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.060%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.060%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.060%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 677 (40.81%) Azure
2 233 (14.04%) AWS
3 221 (13.32%) SaaS
4 193 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 108 (6.51%) GitHub
6 83 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 70 (4.22%) Serverless
8 57 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 53 (3.19%) Azure AI
9 53 (3.19%) Power Automate
10 48 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
11 47 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 47 (2.83%) PowerApps
12 39 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 37 (2.23%) Azure Functions
14 29 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (1.45%) GCP
16 23 (1.39%) Azure AKS
16 23 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.23%) Internet
2 6 (0.36%) Firewall
2 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.18%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.12%) DHCP
4 2 (0.12%) DNS
4 2 (0.12%) LAN
4 2 (0.12%) RS-232
4 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.060%) AMQP
5 1 (0.060%) LTE
5 1 (0.060%) Modbus
5 1 (0.060%) MPLS
5 1 (0.060%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.060%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (19.89%) SQL Server
2 177 (10.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 143 (8.62%) MongoDB
4 70 (4.22%) Power BI
5 60 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
7 37 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (1.33%) MySQL
9 20 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.60%) GIS
13 9 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.54%) Redis
14 4 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.24%) Metadata
14 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 99 (5.97%) Git
2 40 (2.41%) JIRA
3 35 (2.11%) Postman
4 33 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.75%) Selenium
6 24 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.33%) SoapUI
8 16 (0.96%) WebDriver
9 12 (0.72%) GitLab
10 11 (0.66%) NUnit
11 10 (0.60%) Jenkins
12 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.42%) Moq
12 7 (0.42%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.30%) JMeter
14 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.30%) MSTest
General
1 220 (13.26%) Social Skills
2 168 (10.13%) Finance
3 62 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 38 (2.29%) Retail
6 35 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 28 (1.69%) Games
8 24 (1.45%) Automotive
9 20 (1.21%) Electronics
10 19 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.02%) Advertising
12 17 (1.02%) Law
13 15 (0.90%) Marketing
14 13 (0.78%) Aviation
15 8 (0.48%) Military
16 7 (0.42%) Back Office
17 6 (0.36%) Banking
17 6 (0.36%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,028 (61.97%) Developer
2 543 (32.73%) .NET Developer
3 357 (21.52%) Senior
4 317 (19.11%) Software Developer
5 305 (18.38%) Software Engineer
6 182 (10.97%) Lead
7 181 (10.91%) Senior Developer
8 153 (9.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 151 (9.10%) C# Developer
10 142 (8.56%) .NET Software Engineer
11 119 (7.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 118 (7.11%) .NET Software Developer
13 111 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 100 (6.03%) C# Software Engineer
15 95 (5.73%) Senior .NET Developer
16 83 (5.00%) Lead Developer
17 69 (4.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 66 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 62 (3.74%) C# Software Developer
20 58 (3.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (26.40%) .NET Core
2 339 (20.43%) ASP.NET
3 228 (13.74%) HTML
4 212 (12.78%) CSS
5 211 (12.72%) React
6 209 (12.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 168 (10.13%) .NET Framework
8 163 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 141 (8.50%) RESTful
10 131 (7.90%) Entity Framework
11 129 (7.78%) Vue
12 112 (6.75%) Blazor
13 111 (6.69%) Node.js
14 100 (6.03%) REST
15 76 (4.58%) ASP.NET Web API
16 51 (3.07%) jQuery
17 49 (2.95%) ML.NET
18 40 (2.41%) LINQ
19 37 (2.23%) SOAP
20 34 (2.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.34%) Mobile App
3 71 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 33 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.27%) Legacy Code
8 16 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
8 16 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 15 (0.90%) Hedge funds
10 14 (0.84%) PropTech
11 13 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.72%) Sports Betting
13 11 (0.66%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.66%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.60%) Client/Server
15 9 (0.54%) Digital TV
15 9 (0.54%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.35%) Windows
2 19 (1.15%) Android
3 16 (0.96%) Linux
4 13 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.12%) VMS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.060%) Unix
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (29.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 456 (27.49%) Software Engineering
3 446 (26.88%) Agile
4 334 (20.13%) CI/CD
5 315 (18.99%) DevOps
6 192 (11.57%) Microservices
7 191 (11.51%) AI
8 172 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
10 148 (8.92%) SDLC
11 129 (7.78%) Mentoring
12 106 (6.39%) Clean Code
13 101 (6.09%) Scrum
14 98 (5.91%) Containerisation
15 92 (5.55%) Machine Learning
15 92 (5.55%) TDD
16 88 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
16 88 (5.30%) Test Automation
17 86 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
18 80 (4.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (68.17%) C#
2 532 (32.07%) SQL
3 315 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 170 (10.25%) TypeScript
5 123 (7.41%) Python
6 108 (6.51%) Java
7 65 (3.92%) C++
8 47 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 45 (2.71%) PHP
10 27 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.15%) Bash
12 17 (1.02%) C
12 17 (1.02%) VB
13 16 (0.96%) VB.NET
14 13 (0.78%) Bicep
15 10 (0.60%) VBA
16 8 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.42%) XAML
18 4 (0.24%) RPG IV
18 4 (0.24%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 159 (9.58%) Degree
2 62 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (3.68%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.44%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 17 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 16 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 14 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.12%) CSQA
14 2 (0.12%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.12%) PhD
15 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.060%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.88%) QA
2 36 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.90%) GDPR
4 10 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.60%) WCAG
5 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.30%) SLA
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.060%) NCSC
System Software
1 159 (9.58%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 71 (4.28%) Terraform
3 9 (0.54%) Grafana
4 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.12%) MIIS
6 1 (0.060%) Ansible
6 1 (0.060%) CASB
6 1 (0.060%) Consul
6 1 (0.060%) Packer
6 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.060%) Puppet
Vendors
1 360 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.51%) Google
3 24 (1.45%) Adobe
4 21 (1.27%) Xamarin
5 19 (1.15%) Oracle
6 18 (1.08%) Facebook
7 16 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 13 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.36%) Apple
10 6 (0.36%) Databricks
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.36%) Sony
10 6 (0.36%) Yahoo!
10 6 (0.36%) YouTube
11 5 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.30%) Sage
12 4 (0.24%) IBM
12 4 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.24%) VMware