.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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 71 24
Rank change year-on-year +20 -47 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,230 1,275 3,867
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.77% 3.66% 6.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.70% 25.68% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,954 922 2,901
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% -2.65%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 7,265 4,965 10,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.04% 14.24% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,702 3,071 7,150
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 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,437 £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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +41 704 £60,000 +4.35% 216
North of England +3 615 £57,500 -4.17% 206
Midlands +21 345 £57,500 +4.55% 120
North West -13 270 £60,000 - 120
East of England +32 220 £63,750 +21.43% 82
South West +11 206 £55,000 +5.67% 80
North East +6 184 £56,500 +32.94% 42
West Midlands -3 184 £59,500 +8.18% 54
East Midlands +45 161 £55,000 - 65
Yorkshire +2 161 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Northern Ireland -29 60 £35,000 -30.00% 33
Scotland +17 56 £60,000 -6.98% 43
Wales -70 26 £50,000 -9.09% 28
.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 41 (1.84%) IIS
2 37 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
4 15 (0.67%) 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 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Appian
11 1 (0.045%) Drupal
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
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 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.090%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.090%) Magento
4 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,121 (50.27%) Azure
2 362 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
3 356 (15.96%) AWS
4 212 (9.51%) GitHub
5 183 (8.21%) SaaS
6 166 (7.44%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 132 (5.92%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 91 (4.08%) Power Automate
11 89 (3.99%) Serverless
12 85 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
13 76 (3.41%) PowerApps
14 55 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
15 48 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.97%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
18 41 (1.84%) GCP
19 40 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
20 32 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.90%) Internet
2 13 (0.58%) Firewall
3 9 (0.40%) HTTP
3 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
5 6 (0.27%) VLAN
6 5 (0.22%) DHCP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) LAN
6 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 5 (0.22%) Wireless
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) Modbus
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.045%) Network Security
8 1 (0.045%) Profibus
8 1 (0.045%) SSL
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 448 (20.09%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.21%) MongoDB
4 160 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (4.22%) Power BI
6 67 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 55 (2.47%) MySQL
9 49 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.90%) 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 (7.40%) Git
2 34 (1.52%) JIRA
3 32 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.99%) GitLab
5 22 (0.99%) NUnit
6 20 (0.90%) 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%) Yeoman
General
1 326 (14.62%) Social Skills
2 221 (9.91%) Finance
3 99 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.77%) Legal
5 74 (3.32%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.00%) Retail
7 64 (2.87%) Games
8 57 (2.56%) Advertising
9 56 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (2.51%) Law
9 56 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.42%) Marketing
11 30 (1.35%) Legal Technology
12 24 (1.08%) Automotive
13 22 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.49%) Aviation
15 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
16 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,467 (65.78%) Developer
2 881 (39.51%) .NET Developer
3 406 (18.21%) Senior
4 310 (13.90%) Software Engineer
5 296 (13.27%) Software Developer
6 253 (11.35%) Senior Developer
7 245 (10.99%) Lead
8 157 (7.04%) C# Developer
9 149 (6.68%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.47%) C# Software Engineer
12 121 (5.43%) C# .NET Developer
13 113 (5.07%) .NET Software Engineer
14 107 (4.80%) .NET Software Developer
14 107 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 98 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
16 85 (3.81%) Web Developer
17 81 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (2.87%) Lead Software Developer
19 61 (2.74%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 710 (31.84%) .NET Core
2 687 (30.81%) ASP.NET
3 557 (24.98%) ASP.NET Core
4 360 (16.14%) HTML
5 355 (15.92%) CSS
6 344 (15.43%) React
7 271 (12.15%) Entity Framework
8 270 (12.11%) AngularJS
9 257 (11.52%) RESTful
10 252 (11.30%) Blazor
11 236 (10.58%) Vue
12 232 (10.40%) .NET Framework
12 232 (10.40%) Node.js
13 214 (9.60%) ASP.NET Web API
14 153 (6.86%) ML.NET
15 135 (6.05%) REST
16 109 (4.89%) LINQ
17 87 (3.90%) Terraform
18 74 (3.32%) jQuery
19 59 (2.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 132 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
2 121 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 97 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 52 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 29 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.30%) Legacy Code
10 26 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.90%) Digital TV
12 20 (0.90%) 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 88 (3.95%) Windows
2 32 (1.43%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.21%) Android
4 26 (1.17%) Linux
5 5 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (36.77%) Full-Stack Development
2 776 (34.80%) Agile
3 571 (25.61%) CI/CD
4 548 (24.57%) Software Engineering
5 512 (22.96%) DevOps
6 393 (17.62%) Microservices
7 350 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
8 339 (15.20%) AI
9 275 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (8.83%) Machine Learning
11 189 (8.48%) SDLC
12 180 (8.07%) Multithreading
13 176 (7.89%) Mentoring
14 161 (7.22%) Scrum
15 151 (6.77%) TDD
16 132 (5.92%) OO
17 129 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
18 127 (5.70%) Business Intelligence
19 117 (5.25%) Test Automation
20 114 (5.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,701 (76.28%) C#
2 868 (38.92%) SQL
3 504 (22.60%) JavaScript
4 300 (13.45%) TypeScript
5 140 (6.28%) Python
6 101 (4.53%) Java
7 83 (3.72%) C++
8 65 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.87%) PHP
10 54 (2.42%) T-SQL
11 50 (2.24%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.35%) Bicep
13 26 (1.17%) C
14 21 (0.94%) 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
1 182 (8.16%) Degree
2 96 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (3.59%) Security Cleared
4 72 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.63%) 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 (0.090%) CSQA
13 2 (0.090%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.39%) QA
2 47 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.72%) GDPR
5 14 (0.63%) WCAG
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
8 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 265 (11.88%) Docker
2 17 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Firmware
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 238 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.58%) Grafana
3 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.090%) 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
1 806 (36.14%) Microsoft
2 67 (3.00%) Google
3 59 (2.65%) Facebook
4 27 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.17%) Adobe
6 24 (1.08%) 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%) VMware
9 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.40%) DevExpress
10 9 (0.40%) Sage
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.27%) Broadcom
12 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.27%) Splunk