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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -47 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,228 1,763 4,615
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.35% 6.26% 7.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.31% 31.38% 37.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 1,343 4,174
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 £81,250 £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 4,337 5,618 12,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.30% 19.95% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,302 3,824 9,627
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,113 £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 £84,988 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 11 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 11 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 -32 400 £60,000 - 224
North of England -32 373 £65,000 +18.18% 175
North West -31 199 £65,000 +18.18% 93
Midlands -37 199 £52,500 -8.70% 92
Yorkshire -33 119 £60,000 +9.09% 56
South West -16 113 £55,000 -8.33% 98
West Midlands -45 107 £50,000 -14.16% 51
East Midlands -36 92 £62,000 +19.23% 40
East of England -62 65 £60,000 +20.00% 70
Scotland -46 60 £60,000 +20.00% 29
North East -11 55 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Wales -24 22 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Northern Ireland -23 4 £56,250 +12.50% 5
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 (2.52%) IIS
2 17 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.90%) CMS
4 7 (0.57%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.49%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.41%) Confluence
6 5 (0.41%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.081%) Apache
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.081%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.081%) Kentico
Applications
1 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 22 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.081%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.081%) Magento
3 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 494 (40.23%) Azure
2 203 (16.53%) SaaS
3 189 (15.39%) AWS
4 138 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (7.33%) GitHub
6 67 (5.46%) Power Platform
7 63 (5.13%) Serverless
8 39 (3.18%) GCP
9 36 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 30 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (2.36%) Azure AKS
12 29 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 28 (2.28%) Azure Functions
13 28 (2.28%) PowerApps
14 27 (2.20%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.71%) Amazon S3
17 21 (1.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.22%) Internet
2 7 (0.57%) DNS
3 6 (0.49%) DHCP
4 5 (0.41%) VPN
5 4 (0.33%) VoIP
6 3 (0.24%) Firewall
6 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.16%) HTTP
7 2 (0.16%) Intranet
8 1 (0.081%) AMQP
8 1 (0.081%) Hyperconnected
8 1 (0.081%) LTE
8 1 (0.081%) Modbus
8 1 (0.081%) MPLS
8 1 (0.081%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.081%) SSL
8 1 (0.081%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (24.43%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.54%) NoSQL
3 42 (3.42%) Power BI
4 34 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.12%) MySQL
7 24 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.55%) DynamoDB
11 18 (1.47%) Redis
12 17 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.49%) GIS
14 5 (0.41%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
16 3 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
16 3 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 83 (6.76%) Git
2 41 (3.34%) JIRA
3 37 (3.01%) Visual Studio
4 36 (2.93%) Selenium
5 31 (2.52%) Postman
6 28 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 23 (1.87%) SoapUI
8 20 (1.63%) WebDriver
9 14 (1.14%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.81%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.57%) NUnit
11 7 (0.57%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.49%) git-flow
12 6 (0.49%) GitLab
13 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.24%) Appium
14 3 (0.24%) JMeter
14 3 (0.24%) MSTest
14 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 219 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 142 (11.56%) Finance
3 48 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 25 (2.04%) Law
6 20 (1.63%) Games
7 16 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 15 (1.22%) Aviation
8 15 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (0.90%) Retail
10 10 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.73%) Banking
11 9 (0.73%) Electronics
11 9 (0.73%) Military
11 9 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.65%) Marketing
13 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.49%) Automotive
15 5 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 732 (59.61%) Developer
2 297 (24.19%) .NET Developer
3 292 (23.78%) Senior
4 246 (20.03%) Software Developer
5 224 (18.24%) Software Engineer
6 146 (11.89%) Senior Developer
7 141 (11.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 138 (11.24%) Lead
9 135 (10.99%) C# Developer
10 99 (8.06%) .NET Software Engineer
11 85 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 80 (6.51%) .NET Software Developer
13 74 (6.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 73 (5.94%) C# .NET Developer
15 68 (5.54%) Senior .NET Developer
16 64 (5.21%) Lead Developer
17 51 (4.15%) Senior Software Developer
18 50 (4.07%) Applications Developer
19 41 (3.34%) React Developer
20 40 (3.26%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (22.96%) .NET Core
2 198 (16.12%) React
3 183 (14.90%) ASP.NET
4 169 (13.76%) .NET Framework
5 152 (12.38%) HTML
6 131 (10.67%) CSS
7 113 (9.20%) AngularJS
8 96 (7.82%) REST
9 74 (6.03%) RESTful
10 73 (5.94%) Blazor
11 64 (5.21%) Entity Framework
12 58 (4.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 49 (3.99%) Vue
14 47 (3.83%) Node.js
15 39 (3.18%) SOAP
16 30 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
17 25 (2.04%) jQuery
17 25 (2.04%) React Native
18 23 (1.87%) WinForms
19 22 (1.79%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.29%) Mobile App
3 59 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
4 35 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 13 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 13 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 9 (0.73%) IoT
10 8 (0.65%) 3D Graphics
10 8 (0.65%) Algorithms
10 8 (0.65%) Client/Server
10 8 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (0.65%) Legacy Code
10 8 (0.65%) PropTech
10 8 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.07%) Windows
2 23 (1.87%) Android
3 21 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.22%) Linux
5 9 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.33%) VMS
7 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.081%) Fedora
9 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (31.68%) Agile
2 382 (31.11%) Software Engineering
3 289 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 283 (23.05%) DevOps
5 264 (21.50%) CI/CD
6 166 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (12.54%) Microservices
8 147 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 110 (8.96%) SDLC
11 102 (8.31%) Clean Code
11 102 (8.31%) Containerisation
12 92 (7.49%) AI
13 91 (7.41%) Scrum
14 82 (6.68%) MVC
15 64 (5.21%) TDD
16 63 (5.13%) User Experience
17 59 (4.80%) Computer Science
18 57 (4.64%) Software Testing
19 56 (4.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 829 (67.51%) C#
2 364 (29.64%) SQL
3 256 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 115 (9.36%) TypeScript
5 98 (7.98%) Java
6 82 (6.68%) Python
7 35 (2.85%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.61%) C++
9 22 (1.79%) PHP
10 19 (1.55%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.14%) C
11 14 (1.14%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.81%) Bash
14 8 (0.65%) Go
15 7 (0.57%) Bicep
16 6 (0.49%) Delphi
16 6 (0.49%) VB
16 6 (0.49%) XAML
17 3 (0.24%) VB6
Qualifications
1 126 (10.26%) Degree
2 42 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (2.52%) Security Cleared
4 30 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 24 (1.95%) ISTQB
6 20 (1.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.33%) ISEB
11 4 (0.33%) 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 (0.081%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.68%) QA
2 33 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.90%) GDPR
4 10 (0.81%) WCAG
5 9 (0.73%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.081%) HL7
9 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 114 (9.28%) Docker
2 17 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.41%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.081%) Squid
5 1 (0.081%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.97%) Terraform
3 13 (1.06%) Grafana
4 10 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.49%) Ansible
6 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.081%) Argo
7 1 (0.081%) CASB
7 1 (0.081%) Kibana
Vendors
1 183 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.44%) Xamarin
3 15 (1.22%) Google
3 15 (1.22%) Salesforce
4 13 (1.06%) Sage
5 12 (0.98%) Oracle
6 8 (0.65%) MuleSoft
6 8 (0.65%) Telerik
7 7 (0.57%) Apple
7 7 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.41%) Adobe
9 5 (0.41%) Databricks
9 5 (0.41%) Zoho
10 4 (0.33%) Datto
10 4 (0.33%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.33%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.33%) New Relic
10 4 (0.33%) Syncfusion
11 3 (0.24%) Foundry