.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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 52 25
Rank change year-on-year -19 -27 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,645 1,326 5,287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.46% 4.65% 7.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.74% 27.53% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 955 4,578
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 5,183 4,816 13,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.76% 16.89% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,083 3,120 10,309
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £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 £89,550 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +12 573 £60,000 - 151
North of England -15 479 £60,000 +0.84% 161
North West -14 256 £62,500 +8.70% 93
Midlands -22 240 £55,000 +2.44% 71
South West +1 157 £55,000 - 43
East of England -1 128 £67,500 +27.96% 57
West Midlands -40 124 £55,000 +2.44% 36
Yorkshire -9 122 £60,000 -7.69% 39
East Midlands +2 116 £55,000 +2.33% 35
North East -2 101 £60,000 +6.67% 30
Scotland -16 55 £60,000 +16.50% 11
Wales -49 17 £47,500 -27.76% 6
Northern Ireland -36 1 - - 17
.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 39 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.40%) IIS
3 16 (0.97%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.55%) CMS
5 8 (0.49%) Confluence
6 7 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.24%) WordPress
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) nginx
9 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.061%) Appian
11 1 (0.061%) Drupal
11 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 670 (40.73%) Azure
2 231 (14.04%) AWS
3 222 (13.50%) SaaS
4 194 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
5 107 (6.50%) GitHub
6 83 (5.05%) Power Platform
7 67 (4.07%) Serverless
8 56 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
9 54 (3.28%) Azure AI
9 54 (3.28%) Power Automate
10 47 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 47 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 40 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (2.13%) Azure Functions
13 28 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.46%) GCP
15 23 (1.40%) Azure AKS
15 23 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.25%) Internet
2 6 (0.36%) Firewall
3 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.12%) DHCP
5 2 (0.12%) LAN
5 2 (0.12%) RS-232
5 2 (0.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.061%) AMQP
6 1 (0.061%) LTE
6 1 (0.061%) Modbus
6 1 (0.061%) MPLS
6 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 178 (10.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 142 (8.63%) MongoDB
4 70 (4.26%) Power BI
5 59 (3.59%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.40%) MySQL
9 20 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.61%) GIS
13 9 (0.55%) Redis
14 8 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.24%) Metadata
15 4 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 96 (5.84%) Git
2 40 (2.43%) JIRA
3 34 (2.07%) Postman
4 32 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.76%) Selenium
6 24 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.34%) SoapUI
8 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
9 11 (0.67%) GitLab
9 11 (0.67%) NUnit
10 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
11 7 (0.43%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.43%) Moq
11 7 (0.43%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.30%) JMeter
13 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.30%) MSTest
13 5 (0.30%) Yeoman
General
1 218 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 167 (10.15%) Finance
3 63 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (2.98%) Public Sector
5 37 (2.25%) Retail
6 32 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 28 (1.70%) Games
8 24 (1.46%) Automotive
9 19 (1.16%) Aerospace
9 19 (1.16%) Electronics
10 17 (1.03%) Advertising
10 17 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.03%) Law
11 15 (0.91%) Marketing
12 12 (0.73%) Aviation
13 8 (0.49%) Back Office
13 8 (0.49%) Military
14 6 (0.36%) Banking
14 6 (0.36%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,026 (62.37%) Developer
2 541 (32.89%) .NET Developer
3 353 (21.46%) Senior
4 317 (19.27%) Software Developer
5 299 (18.18%) Software Engineer
6 180 (10.94%) Senior Developer
7 179 (10.88%) Lead
8 153 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 152 (9.24%) C# Developer
10 140 (8.51%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (7.17%) .NET Software Developer
11 118 (7.17%) C# .NET Developer
12 109 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 97 (5.90%) C# Software Engineer
14 95 (5.78%) Senior .NET Developer
15 83 (5.05%) Lead Developer
16 69 (4.19%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 66 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 63 (3.83%) C# Software Developer
19 58 (3.53%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (26.57%) .NET Core
2 336 (20.43%) ASP.NET
3 227 (13.80%) HTML
4 211 (12.83%) CSS
5 210 (12.77%) React
6 205 (12.46%) ASP.NET Core
7 166 (10.09%) .NET Framework
8 161 (9.79%) AngularJS
9 139 (8.45%) RESTful
10 129 (7.84%) Entity Framework
11 126 (7.66%) Vue
12 110 (6.69%) Node.js
13 109 (6.63%) Blazor
14 100 (6.08%) REST
15 75 (4.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 51 (3.10%) jQuery
17 49 (2.98%) ML.NET
18 40 (2.43%) LINQ
19 37 (2.25%) SOAP
20 32 (1.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 78 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.50%) Mobile App
3 70 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 47 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.34%) Legacy Code
9 17 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 15 (0.91%) Hedge funds
12 14 (0.85%) PropTech
13 13 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.73%) Sports Betting
15 11 (0.67%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.67%) Onboarding
16 9 (0.55%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.55%) Digital TV
16 9 (0.55%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.19%) Windows
2 19 (1.16%) Android
3 15 (0.91%) Linux
4 11 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.061%) Unix
7 1 (0.061%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (29.42%) Full-Stack Development
2 448 (27.23%) Software Engineering
3 441 (26.81%) Agile
4 329 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 311 (18.91%) DevOps
6 190 (11.55%) Microservices
7 186 (11.31%) AI
8 168 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 163 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (8.81%) SDLC
11 126 (7.66%) Mentoring
12 104 (6.32%) Clean Code
13 101 (6.14%) Scrum
14 98 (5.96%) Containerisation
15 92 (5.59%) Machine Learning
16 90 (5.47%) TDD
17 87 (5.29%) Technical Leadership
18 85 (5.17%) Test Automation
19 83 (5.05%) Business Intelligence
20 78 (4.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,122 (68.21%) C#
2 534 (32.46%) SQL
3 312 (18.97%) JavaScript
4 170 (10.33%) TypeScript
5 121 (7.36%) Python
6 107 (6.50%) Java
7 64 (3.89%) C++
8 46 (2.80%) PHP
8 46 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.70%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.16%) Bash
11 17 (1.03%) VB
12 16 (0.97%) C
13 14 (0.85%) VB.NET
14 13 (0.79%) Bicep
15 10 (0.61%) VBA
16 8 (0.49%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.43%) XAML
18 4 (0.24%) Delphi
18 4 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 154 (9.36%) Degree
2 60 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 60 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 56 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 18 (1.09%) ISTQB
5 17 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 13 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.18%) PhD
12 2 (0.12%) CSQA
12 2 (0.12%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.061%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.061%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.74%) QA
2 35 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.97%) GDPR
4 10 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.61%) WCAG
5 9 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.30%) SLA
7 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.061%) NCSC
System Software
1 158 (9.60%) Docker
2 10 (0.61%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.26%) Terraform
3 9 (0.55%) Grafana
4 5 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.12%) MIIS
6 1 (0.061%) Ansible
6 1 (0.061%) CASB
6 1 (0.061%) Consul
6 1 (0.061%) Packer
6 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.061%) Puppet
Vendors
1 360 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (1.52%) Google
3 24 (1.46%) Adobe
4 21 (1.28%) Xamarin
5 19 (1.16%) Oracle
6 18 (1.09%) Facebook
7 16 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 12 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.36%) Apple
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.36%) Sony
10 6 (0.36%) Yahoo!
10 6 (0.36%) YouTube
11 5 (0.30%) Databricks
11 5 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.30%) Sage
12 4 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.24%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.24%) VMware