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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 67 24
Rank change year-on-year +15 -43 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,236 1,288 3,863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.78% 3.69% 6.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.74% 25.71% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,959 932 2,903
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
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% -2.34%
75th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,274 5,010 10,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.04% 14.34% 18.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,719 3,111 7,151
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,468 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +38 705 £60,000 +4.35% 167
North of England +3 616 £57,500 -4.17% 145
Midlands +21 346 £58,250 +5.91% 99
North West -13 270 £60,000 - 88
East of England +33 219 £65,000 +26.83% 62
South West +9 209 £55,000 +4.76% 56
North East +4 184 £57,000 +34.12% 25
West Midlands -3 183 £60,000 +9.09% 45
East Midlands +42 163 £55,000 - 53
Yorkshire +6 162 £55,000 -8.33% 34
Northern Ireland -32 60 £35,000 -30.00% 13
Scotland +18 57 £60,000 -6.98% 19
Wales -71 26 £50,000 -9.09% 20
.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 42 (1.88%) IIS
2 37 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
3 16 (0.72%) 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%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.089%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.089%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Drupal
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 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.089%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.089%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,123 (50.22%) Azure
2 363 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
3 357 (15.97%) AWS
4 213 (9.53%) GitHub
5 184 (8.23%) SaaS
6 166 (7.42%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.35%) GitHub Copilot
8 131 (5.86%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 89 (3.98%) Power Automate
11 88 (3.94%) Serverless
12 83 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
13 74 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 54 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.97%) Azure Functions
17 43 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
18 41 (1.83%) GCP
19 40 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
20 32 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.89%) Internet
2 12 (0.54%) Firewall
3 9 (0.40%) HTTP
3 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.22%) DHCP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) LAN
6 5 (0.22%) VLAN
6 5 (0.22%) WAN
7 4 (0.18%) Wireless
8 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.13%) Modbus
8 3 (0.13%) RS-232
9 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.045%) Network Security
9 1 (0.045%) Profibus
9 1 (0.045%) SSL
9 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 450 (20.13%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.16%) MongoDB
4 160 (7.16%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (4.20%) Power BI
6 66 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 61 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.50%) MySQL
9 49 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.81%) Redis
12 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.49%) GIS
14 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.40%) SQLite
17 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 165 (7.38%) Git
2 34 (1.52%) JIRA
3 32 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.98%) GitLab
5 22 (0.98%) NUnit
6 20 (0.89%) Claude Code
7 18 (0.81%) Postman
8 14 (0.63%) Selenium
9 13 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.45%) 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%) MSTest
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.22%) JUnit
General
1 326 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 220 (9.84%) Finance
3 100 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.76%) Legal
5 72 (3.22%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.00%) Retail
7 64 (2.86%) Games
8 57 (2.55%) Advertising
9 56 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (2.50%) Law
9 56 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.42%) Marketing
11 30 (1.34%) Legal Technology
12 25 (1.12%) Automotive
13 22 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.49%) Aviation
15 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
16 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,472 (65.83%) Developer
2 882 (39.45%) .NET Developer
3 408 (18.25%) Senior
4 310 (13.86%) Software Engineer
5 299 (13.37%) Software Developer
6 254 (11.36%) Senior Developer
7 245 (10.96%) Lead
8 156 (6.98%) C# Developer
9 151 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.55%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.46%) C# Software Engineer
12 119 (5.32%) C# .NET Developer
13 113 (5.05%) .NET Software Engineer
14 108 (4.83%) .NET Software Developer
15 107 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
16 98 (4.38%) Senior .NET Developer
17 86 (3.85%) Web Developer
18 81 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 64 (2.86%) Lead Software Developer
20 61 (2.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (31.98%) .NET Core
2 686 (30.68%) ASP.NET
3 555 (24.82%) ASP.NET Core
4 359 (16.06%) HTML
5 354 (15.83%) CSS
6 345 (15.43%) React
7 270 (12.08%) AngularJS
8 269 (12.03%) Entity Framework
9 257 (11.49%) RESTful
10 253 (11.31%) Blazor
11 237 (10.60%) Vue
12 233 (10.42%) Node.js
13 231 (10.33%) .NET Framework
14 214 (9.57%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.84%) ML.NET
16 135 (6.04%) REST
17 109 (4.87%) LINQ
18 88 (3.94%) Terraform
19 72 (3.22%) jQuery
20 58 (2.59%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 132 (5.90%) Greenfield Project
2 121 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 97 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.46%) Mobile App
7 53 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 29 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.30%) Legacy Code
10 26 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.89%) Digital TV
12 20 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 18 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 18 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.76%) BBC
14 17 (0.76%) iPhone
14 17 (0.76%) Social Media
15 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.89%) Windows
2 31 (1.39%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.21%) Android
3 27 (1.21%) Linux
4 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.18%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (36.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 773 (34.57%) Agile
3 570 (25.49%) CI/CD
4 547 (24.46%) Software Engineering
5 512 (22.90%) DevOps
6 395 (17.67%) Microservices
7 351 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 339 (15.16%) AI
9 276 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (8.81%) Machine Learning
11 188 (8.41%) SDLC
12 180 (8.05%) Multithreading
13 175 (7.83%) Mentoring
14 160 (7.16%) Scrum
15 151 (6.75%) TDD
16 132 (5.90%) OO
17 128 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
18 125 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
19 115 (5.14%) Clean Code
19 115 (5.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,701 (76.07%) C#
2 867 (38.77%) SQL
3 502 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 301 (13.46%) TypeScript
5 140 (6.26%) Python
6 100 (4.47%) Java
7 82 (3.67%) C++
8 66 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.91%) PHP
10 55 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 50 (2.24%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.34%) Bicep
13 26 (1.16%) C
14 22 (0.98%) Bash
15 14 (0.63%) COBOL
15 14 (0.63%) VB
16 11 (0.49%) Go
17 10 (0.45%) JCL
18 9 (0.40%) Delphi
18 9 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 183 (8.18%) Degree
2 96 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 73 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.58%) 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 (0.089%) CSQA
13 2 (0.089%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.36%) QA
2 47 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.72%) Data Quality
3 16 (0.72%) GDPR
4 14 (0.63%) WCAG
5 8 (0.36%) NCSC
6 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.13%) NIST
7 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.045%) GRC
8 1 (0.045%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (11.90%) Docker
2 16 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
3 9 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 239 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.58%) Grafana
3 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.089%) MIIS
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
1 803 (35.91%) Microsoft
2 67 (3.00%) Google
3 59 (2.64%) Facebook
4 27 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.16%) Adobe
6 24 (1.07%) Oracle
7 21 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
8 17 (0.76%) Sony
8 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
9 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 11 (0.49%) VMware
11 9 (0.40%) Sage
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
12 8 (0.36%) DevExpress
12 8 (0.36%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.27%) Broadcom
14 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk