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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 73 24
Rank change year-on-year +19 -49 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,193 1,193 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.62% 3.47% 6.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.27% 25.35% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,920 859 2,583
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,200 £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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,458
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 7,244 4,706 10,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.66% 13.70% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,608 2,846 6,409
10th Percentile £40,000 £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 £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,668 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 16 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 16 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 +44 684 £60,000 - 297
North of England +1 599 £56,500 -5.83% 357
Midlands +34 352 £60,000 +9.09% 190
North West -13 263 £60,000 -4.00% 207
East of England +32 215 £60,000 +14.29% 114
South West +2 194 £55,000 +5.77% 92
West Midlands +2 188 £58,750 +6.82% 102
North East +7 181 £57,000 +31.41% 65
East Midlands +44 164 £60,000 +9.09% 87
Yorkshire +11 155 £55,000 -8.33% 88
Scotland +31 65 £60,000 -4.00% 103
Northern Ireland -25 60 £35,000 -30.00% 51
Wales -78 26 £50,000 -9.09% 40
.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 (2.01%) IIS
2 33 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.68%) CMS
4 14 (0.64%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.64%) Confluence
5 9 (0.41%) WordPress
6 8 (0.36%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.18%) Apache
8 4 (0.18%) CICS
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.046%) Drupal
11 1 (0.046%) Kentico
11 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.046%) 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%) Magento
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (49.98%) Azure
2 358 (16.32%) AWS
3 357 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 210 (9.58%) GitHub
5 175 (7.98%) SaaS
6 159 (7.25%) Azure AI
7 138 (6.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 125 (5.70%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 92 (4.20%) Serverless
10 87 (3.97%) Power Automate
11 83 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
12 70 (3.19%) PowerApps
13 52 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
14 51 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (1.96%) Azure Functions
16 42 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
17 39 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
18 38 (1.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.92%) Internet
2 17 (0.78%) Firewall
3 10 (0.46%) VLAN
4 9 (0.41%) HTTP
4 9 (0.41%) Wireless
5 8 (0.36%) 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%) Modbus
10 1 (0.046%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.046%) Network Security
10 1 (0.046%) Profibus
10 1 (0.046%) SSL
10 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (20.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 454 (20.70%) SQL Server
3 394 (17.97%) MongoDB
4 155 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (3.83%) Power BI
6 73 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.55%) MySQL
9 51 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.82%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.46%) GIS
16 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (0.46%) SQLite
17 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 164 (7.48%) Git
2 33 (1.50%) JIRA
3 32 (1.46%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 21 (0.96%) Claude Code
7 20 (0.91%) NUnit
8 16 (0.73%) Postman
9 14 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.55%) Selenium
11 11 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
12 10 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.36%) Moq
14 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.32%) MSI
14 7 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.23%) MSTest
17 4 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 330 (15.05%) Social Skills
2 221 (10.08%) Finance
3 101 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.92%) Legal
5 79 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.10%) Retail
7 64 (2.92%) Games
8 57 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.46%) Advertising
11 52 (2.37%) Law
11 52 (2.37%) Marketing
12 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
13 25 (1.14%) Automotive
14 22 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.87%) Electronics
16 11 (0.50%) Aviation
16 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
17 10 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,428 (65.12%) Developer
2 864 (39.40%) .NET Developer
3 404 (18.42%) Senior
4 303 (13.82%) Software Engineer
5 279 (12.72%) Software Developer
6 251 (11.45%) Senior Developer
7 236 (10.76%) Lead
8 152 (6.93%) C# Developer
9 149 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.65%) C# Software Engineer
11 121 (5.52%) Lead Developer
12 118 (5.38%) C# .NET Developer
13 115 (5.24%) .NET Software Engineer
14 110 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
15 102 (4.65%) Senior .NET Developer
16 101 (4.61%) .NET Software Developer
17 85 (3.88%) Web Developer
18 79 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.87%) Lead Software Developer
20 62 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (31.69%) .NET Core
2 662 (30.19%) ASP.NET
3 541 (24.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 356 (16.23%) HTML
5 351 (16.01%) CSS
6 345 (15.73%) React
7 269 (12.27%) AngularJS
8 268 (12.22%) Entity Framework
9 247 (11.26%) Blazor
10 245 (11.17%) RESTful
11 234 (10.67%) Vue
12 230 (10.49%) .NET Framework
13 214 (9.76%) Node.js
14 209 (9.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 146 (6.66%) ML.NET
16 138 (6.29%) REST
17 107 (4.88%) LINQ
18 82 (3.74%) jQuery
18 82 (3.74%) Terraform
19 57 (2.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.70%) Greenfield Project
2 115 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 99 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 36 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 31 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 31 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.19%) Legacy Code
10 21 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 21 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 20 (0.91%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 19 (0.87%) Digital TV
13 17 (0.78%) BBC
13 17 (0.78%) iPhone
13 17 (0.78%) Social Media
14 12 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (4.38%) Windows
2 36 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.23%) Android
4 26 (1.19%) Linux
5 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (36.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 760 (34.66%) Agile
3 564 (25.72%) CI/CD
4 535 (24.40%) Software Engineering
5 496 (22.62%) DevOps
6 377 (17.19%) Microservices
7 353 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 338 (15.41%) AI
9 274 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.57%) Machine Learning
11 183 (8.34%) Mentoring
12 182 (8.30%) SDLC
13 174 (7.93%) Multithreading
14 151 (6.89%) Scrum
15 141 (6.43%) TDD
16 127 (5.79%) OO
17 125 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
18 124 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
19 116 (5.29%) Test Automation
20 114 (5.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (77.29%) C#
2 850 (38.76%) SQL
3 510 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 293 (13.36%) TypeScript
5 132 (6.02%) Python
6 99 (4.51%) Java
7 90 (4.10%) C++
8 61 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 59 (2.69%) PHP
10 55 (2.51%) VB.NET
11 54 (2.46%) T-SQL
12 28 (1.28%) Bicep
13 26 (1.19%) C
14 20 (0.91%) Bash
15 16 (0.73%) COBOL
16 14 (0.64%) VB
17 12 (0.55%) JCL
18 11 (0.50%) Delphi
19 10 (0.46%) Go
20 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 180 (8.21%) Degree
2 96 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 66 (3.01%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.091%) CSQA
13 2 (0.091%) PhD
14 1 (0.046%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.25%) QA
2 45 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.046%) GRC
9 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 256 (11.67%) Docker
2 22 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 225 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.55%) Grafana
2 12 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 5 (0.23%) Ansible
4 4 (0.18%) Argo
5 2 (0.091%) Bosun
5 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.046%) Consul
6 1 (0.046%) MIIS
6 1 (0.046%) MOM
6 1 (0.046%) Packer
6 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 784 (35.75%) Microsoft
2 65 (2.96%) Google
3 57 (2.60%) Facebook
4 27 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.14%) Oracle
6 22 (1.00%) Adobe
7 21 (0.96%) YouTube
8 17 (0.78%) Apple
8 17 (0.78%) Sony
8 17 (0.78%) Yahoo!
9 16 (0.73%) VMware
10 11 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 9 (0.41%) DevExpress
12 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
13 7 (0.32%) Sage
14 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 5 (0.23%) CrowdStrike