.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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 27 23
Rank change year-on-year -57 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,038 2,575 2,257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.49% 6.61% 7.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.25% 34.11% 32.37%
Number of salaries quoted 918 1,752 2,025
10th Percentile £38,675 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

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 3,809 7,550 6,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.14% 19.38% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,941 4,364 5,450
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%

.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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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
North of England -36 330 £60,000 +5.96% 196
South East -47 305 £60,000 - 249
Midlands -59 171 £57,500 - 88
North West -34 164 £65,000 +13.04% 123
Yorkshire -33 116 £57,500 +9.00% 50
West Midlands -47 112 £57,500 - 41
South West -58 82 £55,000 -2.22% 54
East of England -69 67 £60,000 +20.00% 67
East Midlands -55 59 £65,000 +26.21% 45
North East -19 50 £50,000 -23.08% 24
Scotland -70 47 £61,250 +22.50% 54
Wales -8 39 £55,000 +12.24% 20
Northern Ireland -2 5 £56,250 +12.50% 11
Channel Islands +4 1 £90,000 -
.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 43 (4.14%) IIS
2 18 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.64%) CMS
4 8 (0.77%) Confluence
4 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.77%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.58%) nginx
6 4 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.096%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.29%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.096%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.096%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 43 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 5 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.096%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.096%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 567 (54.62%) Azure
2 226 (21.77%) AWS
3 179 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (15.90%) SaaS
5 92 (8.86%) GitHub
6 82 (7.90%) Power Platform
7 73 (7.03%) Serverless
8 50 (4.82%) GCP
8 50 (4.82%) Power Automate
9 48 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 34 (3.28%) PowerApps
12 33 (3.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 29 (2.79%) Entra ID
14 27 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 27 (2.60%) Azure Functions
15 24 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.02%) Amazon S3
16 21 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.16%) VoIP
2 10 (0.96%) DNS
2 10 (0.96%) Internet
3 9 (0.87%) DHCP
3 9 (0.87%) VPN
4 8 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.58%) SSL
6 5 (0.48%) LAN
6 5 (0.48%) SAN
6 5 (0.48%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) Firewall
7 3 (0.29%) HTTP
7 3 (0.29%) WPA
8 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 1 (0.096%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.096%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (30.15%) SQL Server
2 56 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 44 (4.24%) MySQL
3 44 (4.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 40 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 38 (3.66%) Power BI
6 32 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.31%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.02%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.73%) Redis
11 8 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.58%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.48%) Tableau
14 4 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 103 (9.92%) Git
2 49 (4.72%) JIRA
3 33 (3.18%) Selenium
4 31 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
5 30 (2.89%) Postman
5 30 (2.89%) Visual Studio
6 25 (2.41%) SoapUI
7 24 (2.31%) TeamCity
7 24 (2.31%) WebDriver
8 23 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (1.54%) Jenkins
10 12 (1.16%) Storybook
11 9 (0.87%) GitLab
12 8 (0.77%) NUnit
13 7 (0.67%) git-flow
14 6 (0.58%) MSTest
14 6 (0.58%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.29%) Moq
15 3 (0.29%) MSBuild
General
1 249 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 158 (15.22%) Finance
3 33 (3.18%) Law
4 31 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 28 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.02%) Retail
7 17 (1.64%) Games
7 17 (1.64%) Legal
8 15 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 15 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.16%) Aviation
10 11 (1.06%) Automotive
10 11 (1.06%) Banking
10 11 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.77%) Marketing
12 7 (0.67%) Publishing
13 5 (0.48%) Electronics
13 5 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 601 (57.90%) Developer
2 227 (21.87%) Senior
3 210 (20.23%) .NET Developer
4 170 (16.38%) Software Developer
5 140 (13.49%) Software Engineer
6 138 (13.29%) Lead
7 128 (12.33%) Senior Developer
8 119 (11.46%) C# Developer
9 107 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (4.91%) .NET Software Developer
11 48 (4.62%) Lead Developer
12 46 (4.43%) Senior .NET Developer
13 45 (4.34%) .NET Software Engineer
13 45 (4.34%) C# .NET Developer
14 42 (4.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 42 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 37 (3.56%) Analyst
15 37 (3.56%) Senior Software Developer
16 32 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (20.13%) .NET Core
2 201 (19.36%) React
3 174 (16.76%) ASP.NET
4 164 (15.80%) .NET Framework
5 137 (13.20%) HTML
6 128 (12.33%) CSS
7 118 (11.37%) AngularJS
8 83 (8.00%) Blazor
8 83 (8.00%) RESTful
9 78 (7.51%) REST
10 60 (5.78%) Entity Framework
11 52 (5.01%) Vue
12 45 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 39 (3.76%) ASP.NET MVC
14 37 (3.56%) SOAP
15 33 (3.18%) Web Services
16 32 (3.08%) Node.js
17 31 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
18 26 (2.50%) jQuery
19 25 (2.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (4.43%) Mobile App
4 28 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 24 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.16%) Clustering
9 12 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
9 12 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (0.96%) IoT
11 9 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 9 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 9 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.77%) 3D Graphics
13 7 (0.67%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 65 (6.26%) Windows
2 21 (2.02%) Android
3 20 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.73%) Linux
4 18 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.48%) VMS
8 3 (0.29%) Unix
9 1 (0.096%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (40.46%) Agile
2 337 (32.47%) DevOps
3 327 (31.50%) CI/CD
4 315 (30.35%) Software Engineering
5 215 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 215 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
6 173 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (15.90%) Microservices
8 164 (15.80%) Mentoring
9 105 (10.12%) MVC
10 99 (9.54%) Clean Code
11 94 (9.06%) Scrum
12 93 (8.96%) SDLC
13 90 (8.67%) Containerisation
14 87 (8.38%) AI
15 83 (8.00%) User Experience
16 81 (7.80%) Roadmaps
17 75 (7.23%) CRM
18 66 (6.36%) Computer Science
19 65 (6.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 756 (72.83%) C#
2 355 (34.20%) SQL
3 267 (25.72%) JavaScript
4 129 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 87 (8.38%) Java
6 67 (6.45%) Python
7 40 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 39 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 33 (3.18%) PHP
10 31 (2.99%) VB.NET
11 30 (2.89%) C++
12 17 (1.64%) Bicep
13 12 (1.16%) Bash
14 9 (0.87%) XAML
15 8 (0.77%) Go
16 7 (0.67%) VB
17 6 (0.58%) C
18 5 (0.48%) Apex Code
19 4 (0.39%) Delphi
19 4 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (13.68%) Degree
2 59 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (2.70%) ISTQB
4 24 (2.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 20 (1.93%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 15 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.39%) HND
12 4 (0.39%) ISEB
12 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.19%) PhD
14 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.096%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.03%) QA
2 24 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.45%) GDPR
4 4 (0.39%) WCAG
5 3 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.29%) GRC
5 3 (0.29%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.096%) COBIT
7 1 (0.096%) HL7
7 1 (0.096%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 121 (11.66%) Docker
2 25 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Firmware
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.096%) HDFS
5 1 (0.096%) Squid
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (8.57%) Terraform
2 85 (8.19%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.22%) Grafana
4 17 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.87%) Ansible
6 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.096%) Kibana
8 1 (0.096%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 212 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (2.02%) Xamarin
3 18 (1.73%) Oracle
4 13 (1.25%) Sage
5 12 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.06%) Google
7 10 (0.96%) Databricks
8 9 (0.87%) Apple
8 9 (0.87%) DevExpress
8 9 (0.87%) Telerik
9 7 (0.67%) Datto
9 7 (0.67%) Freshdesk
9 7 (0.67%) Infor
10 5 (0.48%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.48%) Syncfusion
10 5 (0.48%) Zoho
11 4 (0.39%) Adobe
11 4 (0.39%) ESRI
11 4 (0.39%) New Relic
11 4 (0.39%) VMware