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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 -37 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,095 1,370 4,642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.89% 4.04% 6.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.86% 26.98% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,887 1,002 3,840
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
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 6,187 5,077 12,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 14.96% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 3,211 8,830
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £73,750 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +20 664 £57,500 - 135
North of England +4 582 £58,250 -2.92% 125
Midlands +3 324 £55,000 - 57
North West -4 278 £60,000 +3.00% 59
East of England +26 198 £65,000 +23.81% 47
South West +15 198 £52,500 - 39
West Midlands -15 172 £59,000 +7.27% 26
North East +3 153 £56,500 +13.00% 31
East Midlands +30 152 £55,000 - 31
Yorkshire +10 151 £57,500 -11.54% 38
Scotland +20 57 £57,500 -10.85% 8
Northern Ireland -23 48 - - 8
Wales -60 26 £50,000 -23.95% 7
.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 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.58%) IIS
3 16 (0.76%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.67%) CMS
5 13 (0.62%) Confluence
6 8 (0.38%) nginx
6 8 (0.38%) WordPress
7 7 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Apache
9 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.048%) Appian
10 1 (0.048%) Drupal
10 1 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.048%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.048%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 2 (0.095%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.095%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.048%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (50.21%) Azure
2 322 (15.37%) Azure DevOps
3 319 (15.23%) AWS
4 187 (8.93%) SaaS
5 183 (8.74%) GitHub
6 160 (7.64%) Azure AI
7 133 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
8 108 (5.16%) Power Platform
9 85 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 82 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.53%) Serverless
13 68 (3.25%) PowerApps
14 44 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (1.77%) Azure Functions
16 34 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
17 33 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
18 31 (1.48%) GCP
19 30 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.91%) Internet
2 9 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.38%) Firewall
4 7 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.24%) DHCP
5 5 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.24%) LAN
5 5 (0.24%) WAN
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) RS-232
7 2 (0.095%) HTTP
7 2 (0.095%) Modbus
7 2 (0.095%) SNMP
8 1 (0.048%) AMQP
8 1 (0.048%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.048%) LTE
8 1 (0.048%) Network Security
8 1 (0.048%) SSL
8 1 (0.048%) VLAN
8 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 405 (19.33%) MongoDB
3 385 (18.38%) SQL Server
4 153 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
5 89 (4.25%) Power BI
6 54 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 37 (1.77%) MySQL
8 31 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.72%) Redis
12 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.48%) GIS
15 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.24%) Metadata
18 4 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 117 (5.58%) Git
2 32 (1.53%) JIRA
3 25 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.91%) Postman
5 14 (0.67%) GitLab
5 14 (0.67%) NUnit
6 13 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.62%) Selenium
7 11 (0.53%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.38%) Moq
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.29%) MSTest
11 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.24%) JMeter
11 5 (0.24%) MSI
11 5 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 253 (12.08%) Social Skills
2 208 (9.93%) Finance
3 73 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (3.10%) Legal
5 63 (3.01%) Retail
6 55 (2.63%) Advertising
6 55 (2.63%) Games
7 54 (2.58%) Public Sector
8 49 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.34%) Marketing
9 40 (1.91%) Law
10 30 (1.43%) Legal Technology
11 29 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.24%) Automotive
13 24 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.91%) Electronics
15 11 (0.53%) Music Industry
16 8 (0.38%) Back Office
17 7 (0.33%) Aviation
17 7 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,422 (67.88%) Developer
2 861 (41.10%) .NET Developer
3 397 (18.95%) Senior
4 310 (14.80%) Software Engineer
5 300 (14.32%) Software Developer
6 235 (11.22%) Senior Developer
7 210 (10.02%) Lead
8 153 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 147 (7.02%) C# Developer
10 129 (6.16%) .NET Software Engineer
11 117 (5.58%) C# .NET Developer
12 113 (5.39%) C# Software Engineer
12 113 (5.39%) Lead Developer
13 107 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
14 106 (5.06%) .NET Software Developer
15 96 (4.58%) Senior .NET Developer
16 79 (3.77%) Web Developer
17 76 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 69 (3.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 59 (2.82%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (33.03%) .NET Core
2 648 (30.93%) ASP.NET
3 533 (25.44%) ASP.NET Core
4 336 (16.04%) HTML
5 333 (15.89%) CSS
6 316 (15.08%) React
7 267 (12.74%) AngularJS
8 254 (12.12%) Entity Framework
9 244 (11.65%) RESTful
10 241 (11.50%) Blazor
11 232 (11.07%) Vue
12 221 (10.55%) Node.js
13 215 (10.26%) .NET Framework
14 197 (9.40%) ASP.NET Web API
15 152 (7.26%) ML.NET
16 127 (6.06%) REST
17 109 (5.20%) LINQ
18 58 (2.77%) jQuery
19 50 (2.39%) JSON
20 46 (2.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.59%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.25%) Cloud Native
3 77 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 58 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.34%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.95%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 17 (0.81%) AI Agents
11 17 (0.81%) BBC
11 17 (0.81%) iPhone
11 17 (0.81%) Social Media
12 16 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (0.67%) Social Network
15 13 (0.62%) Management Information System
15 13 (0.62%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 68 (3.25%) Windows
2 30 (1.43%) Android
3 26 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.95%) Linux
5 7 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (38.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 724 (34.56%) Agile
3 506 (24.15%) Software Engineering
4 503 (24.01%) CI/CD
5 453 (21.62%) DevOps
6 365 (17.42%) Microservices
7 329 (15.70%) AI
8 281 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
9 225 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (9.40%) Machine Learning
11 174 (8.31%) Multithreading
12 172 (8.21%) SDLC
13 152 (7.26%) Scrum
14 146 (6.97%) Mentoring
15 145 (6.92%) TDD
16 116 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
16 116 (5.54%) OO
17 108 (5.16%) Clean Code
18 104 (4.96%) Technical Leadership
19 102 (4.87%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,597 (76.23%) C#
2 834 (39.81%) SQL
3 464 (22.15%) JavaScript
4 288 (13.75%) TypeScript
5 126 (6.01%) Python
6 92 (4.39%) Java
7 75 (3.58%) C++
8 66 (3.15%) PowerShell
9 57 (2.72%) PHP
10 48 (2.29%) T-SQL
11 34 (1.62%) VB.NET
12 28 (1.34%) Bicep
13 23 (1.10%) C
14 22 (1.05%) Bash
15 14 (0.67%) VB
16 9 (0.43%) VBA
17 7 (0.33%) Delphi
17 7 (0.33%) XAML
18 5 (0.24%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.24%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 157 (7.49%) Degree
2 83 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 51 (2.43%) SC Cleared
5 17 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.19%) MBA
11 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.095%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.095%) CSQA
12 2 (0.095%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.095%) PhD
12 2 (0.095%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.048%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.02%) QA
2 41 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.76%) GDPR
4 14 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.57%) WCAG
6 6 (0.29%) NCSC
7 5 (0.24%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 251 (11.98%) Docker
2 11 (0.53%) Firmware
3 9 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 71 (3.39%) Terraform
3 7 (0.33%) Grafana
4 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.095%) Ansible
5 2 (0.095%) MIIS
6 1 (0.048%) Consul
6 1 (0.048%) MOM
6 1 (0.048%) Packer
6 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.048%) Puppet
Vendors
1 740 (35.32%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.15%) Google
3 59 (2.82%) Facebook
4 26 (1.24%) Adobe
5 25 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.00%) Oracle
6 21 (1.00%) YouTube
7 18 (0.86%) Xamarin
8 17 (0.81%) Apple
8 17 (0.81%) Sony
8 17 (0.81%) Yahoo!
9 10 (0.48%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.38%) Databricks
11 7 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (0.33%) VMware
12 5 (0.24%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.24%) Sage
12 5 (0.24%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.19%) IBM
14 3 (0.14%) Splunk