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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 74 23
Rank change year-on-year +20 -51 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,225 1,193 3,731
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.68% 3.45% 6.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.34% 25.25% 34.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,953 856 2,664
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £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 £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
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 7,333 4,725 10,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.82% 13.66% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,731 2,855 6,572
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,075 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 11 September 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 September 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 +44 699 £60,000 - 172
North of England +4 607 £55,750 -7.08% 171
Midlands +35 355 £60,000 +9.09% 112
North West -9 267 £60,000 -4.00% 88
East of England +26 218 £62,500 +19.05% 67
South West +11 201 £55,000 +6.80% 65
West Midlands 0 188 £59,000 +7.27% 54
North East +9 185 £56,500 +30.64% 34
East Midlands +39 167 £60,000 +9.09% 57
Yorkshire +5 155 £55,000 -8.33% 52
Scotland +34 61 £60,000 -5.51% 44
Northern Ireland -30 60 £35,000 -30.00% 18
Wales -71 26 £50,000 -9.09% 18
.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 44 (1.98%) IIS
2 35 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
4 15 (0.67%) ColdFusion
4 15 (0.67%) Confluence
5 9 (0.40%) WordPress
6 8 (0.36%) nginx
7 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.18%) CICS
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) Apache
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Drupal
11 1 (0.045%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.090%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.090%) Magento
4 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,118 (50.25%) Azure
2 365 (16.40%) AWS
3 362 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (9.66%) GitHub
5 176 (7.91%) SaaS
6 166 (7.46%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
8 128 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 95 (4.27%) Serverless
10 93 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 87 (3.91%) Power Automate
12 84 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
13 72 (3.24%) PowerApps
14 53 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.98%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.80%) GCP
19 39 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 88 (3.96%) Internet
2 16 (0.72%) Firewall
3 9 (0.40%) HTTP
3 9 (0.40%) VLAN
4 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.36%) Wireless
5 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
7 5 (0.22%) DHCP
7 5 (0.22%) DNS
7 5 (0.22%) LAN
7 5 (0.22%) WAN
8 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.13%) RS-232
9 2 (0.090%) Modbus
10 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
10 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (21.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 457 (20.54%) SQL Server
3 407 (18.29%) MongoDB
4 160 (7.19%) Elasticsearch
5 88 (3.96%) Power BI
6 71 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 62 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 55 (2.47%) MySQL
9 50 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.81%) Redis
12 14 (0.63%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
16 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.40%) GIS
16 9 (0.40%) SQLite
17 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 166 (7.46%) Git
2 35 (1.57%) JIRA
3 33 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.99%) GitLab
6 21 (0.94%) NUnit
7 20 (0.90%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.81%) Postman
9 14 (0.63%) Selenium
9 14 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.31%) MSI
12 7 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.22%) MSTest
General
1 331 (14.88%) Social Skills
2 224 (10.07%) Finance
3 104 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.78%) Legal
5 79 (3.55%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.10%) Retail
7 66 (2.97%) Games
8 57 (2.56%) Advertising
9 56 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 55 (2.47%) Law
11 54 (2.43%) Marketing
12 30 (1.35%) Legal Technology
13 24 (1.08%) Automotive
14 22 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.85%) Electronics
16 11 (0.49%) Aviation
16 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
17 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,456 (65.44%) Developer
2 876 (39.37%) .NET Developer
3 402 (18.07%) Senior
4 304 (13.66%) Software Engineer
5 290 (13.03%) Software Developer
6 250 (11.24%) Senior Developer
7 242 (10.88%) Lead
8 154 (6.92%) C# Developer
9 152 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
10 125 (5.62%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.48%) C# Software Engineer
12 119 (5.35%) C# .NET Developer
13 112 (5.03%) .NET Software Engineer
14 108 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 101 (4.54%) .NET Software Developer
16 97 (4.36%) Senior .NET Developer
17 86 (3.87%) Web Developer
18 80 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 65 (2.92%) Lead Software Developer
20 63 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (31.96%) .NET Core
2 685 (30.79%) ASP.NET
3 556 (24.99%) ASP.NET Core
4 362 (16.27%) HTML
5 357 (16.04%) CSS
6 347 (15.60%) React
7 275 (12.36%) AngularJS
8 273 (12.27%) Entity Framework
9 257 (11.55%) RESTful
10 252 (11.33%) Blazor
11 240 (10.79%) Vue
12 233 (10.47%) .NET Framework
13 221 (9.93%) Node.js
14 214 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.88%) ML.NET
16 136 (6.11%) REST
17 109 (4.90%) LINQ
18 85 (3.82%) Terraform
19 81 (3.64%) jQuery
20 59 (2.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 128 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
2 118 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 100 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 54 (2.43%) Mobile App
7 34 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 30 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 30 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.26%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
11 20 (0.90%) Digital TV
11 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 18 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 17 (0.76%) BBC
13 17 (0.76%) iPhone
13 17 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 17 (0.76%) Social Media
14 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.18%) Windows
2 35 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.26%) Android
4 26 (1.17%) Linux
5 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (36.99%) Full-Stack Development
2 773 (34.74%) Agile
3 575 (25.84%) CI/CD
4 536 (24.09%) Software Engineering
5 507 (22.79%) DevOps
6 387 (17.39%) Microservices
7 356 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 341 (15.33%) AI
9 280 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 196 (8.81%) Machine Learning
11 189 (8.49%) SDLC
12 183 (8.22%) Mentoring
13 180 (8.09%) Multithreading
14 154 (6.92%) Scrum
15 143 (6.43%) TDD
16 131 (5.89%) OO
17 129 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
18 126 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
19 119 (5.35%) Test Automation
20 113 (5.08%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,714 (77.03%) C#
2 871 (39.15%) SQL
3 514 (23.10%) JavaScript
4 299 (13.44%) TypeScript
5 133 (5.98%) Python
6 103 (4.63%) Java
7 91 (4.09%) C++
8 63 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 62 (2.79%) PHP
10 56 (2.52%) T-SQL
11 52 (2.34%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.35%) Bicep
13 26 (1.17%) C
14 21 (0.94%) Bash
15 16 (0.72%) COBOL
16 14 (0.63%) VB
17 12 (0.54%) JCL
18 10 (0.45%) Delphi
18 10 (0.45%) Go
19 9 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 182 (8.18%) Degree
2 97 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.13%) OCP
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.090%) CSQA
13 2 (0.090%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (8.27%) QA
2 48 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.76%) GDPR
5 14 (0.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
9 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 264 (11.87%) Docker
2 21 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Firmware
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 235 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.58%) Grafana
3 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.090%) Bosun
6 2 (0.090%) MIIS
6 2 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.045%) Consul
7 1 (0.045%) MOM
7 1 (0.045%) Packer
7 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 801 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 66 (2.97%) Google
3 59 (2.65%) Facebook
4 27 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.12%) Oracle
6 24 (1.08%) Adobe
7 21 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
8 17 (0.76%) Sony
8 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
9 15 (0.67%) VMware
10 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.36%) Sage
12 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk