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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 62 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -37 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,105 1,375 4,581
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.90% 4.06% 6.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.84% 27.17% 38.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,889 1,007 3,788
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 6,220 5,060 11,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.56% 14.94% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 3,190 8,715
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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 23 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 23 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 +22 668 £57,500 - 145
North of England +5 585 £57,500 -4.17% 129
Midlands +8 324 £55,000 - 70
North West -5 275 £60,000 +1.69% 60
South West +15 199 £52,500 - 40
East of England +30 197 £65,000 +26.83% 58
West Midlands -16 172 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Yorkshire +14 155 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North East 0 155 £56,500 +18.95% 36
East Midlands +28 152 £55,000 - 39
Scotland +26 55 £57,500 -10.85% 10
Northern Ireland -24 53 - - 8
Wales -56 26 £50,000 -23.08% 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 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.62%) IIS
3 16 (0.76%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.67%) CMS
4 14 (0.67%) Confluence
5 8 (0.38%) nginx
5 8 (0.38%) WordPress
6 7 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.048%) Appian
9 1 (0.048%) Drupal
9 1 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.048%) WebSphere
9 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 (0.71%) 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 1,056 (50.17%) Azure
2 325 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
3 319 (15.15%) AWS
4 185 (8.79%) GitHub
5 183 (8.69%) SaaS
6 160 (7.60%) Azure AI
7 134 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 109 (5.18%) Power Platform
9 87 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 82 (3.90%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.52%) Serverless
13 68 (3.23%) PowerApps
14 45 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (1.76%) Azure Functions
16 35 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 34 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
18 33 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (1.52%) GCP
20 27 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.99%) 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%) HTTP
6 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) RS-232
7 2 (0.095%) Modbus
7 2 (0.095%) SNMP
8 1 (0.048%) AMQP
8 1 (0.048%) LTE
8 1 (0.048%) Network Security
8 1 (0.048%) Profibus
8 1 (0.048%) SSL
8 1 (0.048%) VLAN
8 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (22.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 405 (19.24%) MongoDB
3 391 (18.57%) SQL Server
4 155 (7.36%) Elasticsearch
5 89 (4.23%) Power BI
6 54 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 39 (1.85%) MySQL
8 32 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 31 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (0.71%) Redis
12 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.52%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.48%) GIS
15 6 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.24%) Metadata
16 5 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 120 (5.70%) Git
2 33 (1.57%) JIRA
3 25 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.90%) Postman
5 14 (0.67%) GitLab
5 14 (0.67%) NUnit
6 13 (0.62%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.62%) Selenium
7 12 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 8 (0.38%) Moq
8 8 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.29%) MSI
9 6 (0.29%) MSTest
10 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.24%) JMeter
10 5 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 259 (12.30%) Social Skills
2 208 (9.88%) Finance
3 73 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (3.37%) Legal
5 63 (2.99%) Retail
6 56 (2.66%) Advertising
7 55 (2.61%) Games
7 55 (2.61%) Public Sector
8 49 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.33%) Marketing
9 40 (1.90%) Law
10 32 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.43%) Legal Technology
12 26 (1.24%) Automotive
13 25 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.90%) Electronics
15 11 (0.52%) Music Industry
16 8 (0.38%) Back Office
17 7 (0.33%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.29%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,429 (67.89%) Developer
2 864 (41.05%) .NET Developer
3 404 (19.19%) Senior
4 311 (14.77%) Software Engineer
5 300 (14.25%) Software Developer
6 242 (11.50%) Senior Developer
7 212 (10.07%) Lead
8 149 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 148 (7.03%) C# Developer
10 129 (6.13%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.61%) C# .NET Developer
12 114 (5.42%) C# Software Engineer
12 114 (5.42%) Lead Developer
13 109 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 106 (5.04%) .NET Software Developer
15 96 (4.56%) Senior .NET Developer
16 82 (3.90%) Web Developer
17 77 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 68 (3.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 59 (2.80%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 696 (33.06%) .NET Core
2 651 (30.93%) ASP.NET
3 533 (25.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 338 (16.06%) HTML
5 335 (15.91%) CSS
6 318 (15.11%) React
7 267 (12.68%) AngularJS
8 253 (12.02%) Entity Framework
9 245 (11.64%) RESTful
10 244 (11.59%) Blazor
11 232 (11.02%) Vue
12 221 (10.50%) Node.js
13 214 (10.17%) .NET Framework
14 198 (9.41%) ASP.NET Web API
15 152 (7.22%) ML.NET
16 129 (6.13%) REST
17 109 (5.18%) LINQ
18 60 (2.85%) jQuery
19 51 (2.42%) JSON
20 48 (2.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
2 91 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 77 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (2.95%) Mobile App
5 58 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 52 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 45 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.33%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.95%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.90%) 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%) Legacy Applications
13 15 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.71%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 14 (0.67%) Social Network
15 13 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (3.28%) Windows
2 29 (1.38%) Android
3 26 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.95%) Linux
5 6 (0.29%) 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
1 804 (38.19%) Full-Stack Development
2 729 (34.63%) Agile
3 511 (24.28%) CI/CD
4 504 (23.94%) Software Engineering
5 457 (21.71%) DevOps
6 375 (17.81%) Microservices
7 327 (15.53%) AI
8 286 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
9 231 (10.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 195 (9.26%) Machine Learning
11 175 (8.31%) Multithreading
12 171 (8.12%) SDLC
13 152 (7.22%) Scrum
14 147 (6.98%) Mentoring
15 145 (6.89%) TDD
16 116 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
16 116 (5.51%) OO
17 108 (5.13%) Clean Code
18 105 (4.99%) API Development
18 105 (4.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,603 (76.15%) C#
2 836 (39.71%) SQL
3 467 (22.19%) JavaScript
4 289 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 126 (5.99%) Python
6 91 (4.32%) Java
7 76 (3.61%) C++
8 66 (3.14%) PowerShell
9 59 (2.80%) PHP
10 48 (2.28%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.71%) VB.NET
12 29 (1.38%) Bicep
13 23 (1.09%) 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%) COBOL
18 5 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 160 (7.60%) Degree
2 87 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (2.85%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.52%) SC Cleared
5 17 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.52%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.095%) CSQA
12 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.095%) PhD
12 2 (0.095%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.048%) HND
13 1 (0.048%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (7.32%) QA
2 45 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.76%) GDPR
4 14 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 13 (0.62%) WCAG
6 7 (0.33%) 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
1 253 (12.02%) Docker
2 11 (0.52%) 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
1 232 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.42%) 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
1 745 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.14%) Google
3 59 (2.80%) Facebook
4 26 (1.24%) Adobe
5 25 (1.19%) OpenAI
6 22 (1.05%) Oracle
7 21 (1.00%) YouTube
8 18 (0.86%) Xamarin
9 17 (0.81%) Apple
9 17 (0.81%) Sony
9 17 (0.81%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.48%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.38%) Databricks
12 7 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.33%) VMware
13 5 (0.24%) DevExpress
13 5 (0.24%) Sage
13 5 (0.24%) SYSPRO
14 4 (0.19%) IBM
15 3 (0.14%) Splunk