.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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 40 25
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,385 1,402 5,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.24% 5.39% 7.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.65% 29.73% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 1,222 4,472
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £83,750 £79,900
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 4,835 4,715 13,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.82% 18.13% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 3,660 10,190
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -23 447 £60,000 - 166
North of England -32 421 £65,000 +16.07% 159
North West -26 222 £65,000 +18.18% 85
Midlands -43 214 £55,000 - 68
South West -5 139 £55,000 -8.33% 66
Yorkshire -36 126 £60,000 +7.14% 46
West Midlands -47 111 £50,000 -13.04% 32
East Midlands -30 103 £64,000 +21.90% 36
East of England -46 91 £65,000 +30.00% 60
North East -11 73 £70,000 +21.74% 29
Scotland -36 62 £60,000 +20.00% 21
Wales -37 19 £45,000 -30.77% 17
Northern Ireland -38 2 £50,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 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 29 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.73%) IIS
3 11 (0.79%) CMS
4 8 (0.58%) ColdFusion
4 8 (0.58%) Umbraco
5 7 (0.51%) Confluence
6 6 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.36%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Apache
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.072%) Appian
11 1 (0.072%) Drupal
11 1 (0.072%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.072%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.072%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.072%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 525 (37.91%) Azure
2 215 (15.52%) SaaS
3 203 (14.66%) AWS
4 139 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (6.64%) GitHub
6 75 (5.42%) Power Platform
7 63 (4.55%) Serverless
8 40 (2.89%) Power Automate
9 39 (2.82%) PowerApps
10 37 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 37 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (2.24%) GCP
12 30 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (1.95%) Azure AKS
13 27 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (1.88%) Azure Functions
15 22 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.30%) Internet
2 4 (0.29%) DNS
3 3 (0.22%) DHCP
3 3 (0.22%) Firewall
3 3 (0.22%) VoIP
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.072%) AMQP
5 1 (0.072%) HTTP
5 1 (0.072%) LTE
5 1 (0.072%) Modbus
5 1 (0.072%) MPLS
5 1 (0.072%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.072%) SSL
5 1 (0.072%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.072%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (22.60%) SQL Server
2 68 (4.91%) NoSQL
3 59 (4.26%) Power BI
4 52 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 24 (1.73%) MySQL
7 24 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 21 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.23%) DynamoDB
9 17 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.16%) Redis
11 9 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.43%) GIS
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.29%) QGIS
15 3 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (6.14%) Git
2 42 (3.03%) JIRA
3 38 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 36 (2.60%) Selenium
5 32 (2.31%) Postman
6 26 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 21 (1.52%) SoapUI
8 16 (1.16%) WebDriver
9 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 10 (0.72%) NUnit
9 10 (0.72%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.36%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.29%) Appium
12 4 (0.29%) git-flow
12 4 (0.29%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.22%) GitLab
General
1 214 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 142 (10.25%) Finance
3 57 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (3.25%) Public Sector
5 27 (1.95%) Law
6 23 (1.66%) Games
7 19 (1.37%) Retail
8 15 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.01%) Aviation
10 13 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.65%) Automotive
12 9 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.65%) Electronics
12 9 (0.65%) Military
13 7 (0.51%) Marketing
14 6 (0.43%) Back Office
14 6 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 862 (62.24%) Developer
2 371 (26.79%) .NET Developer
3 332 (23.97%) Senior
4 285 (20.58%) Software Developer
5 242 (17.47%) Software Engineer
6 175 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 159 (11.48%) Lead
8 155 (11.19%) C# Developer
9 149 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 109 (7.87%) .NET Software Engineer
11 102 (7.36%) C# .NET Developer
12 94 (6.79%) .NET Software Developer
12 94 (6.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 83 (5.99%) Senior .NET Developer
14 76 (5.49%) Lead Developer
15 74 (5.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 56 (4.04%) Senior Software Developer
17 53 (3.83%) C# Software Developer
18 52 (3.75%) Applications Developer
19 49 (3.54%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (23.97%) .NET Core
2 230 (16.61%) ASP.NET
3 185 (13.36%) React
4 172 (12.42%) HTML
5 170 (12.27%) .NET Framework
6 150 (10.83%) CSS
7 123 (8.88%) AngularJS
8 100 (7.22%) REST
9 93 (6.71%) RESTful
10 83 (5.99%) ASP.NET Core
11 74 (5.34%) Vue
12 73 (5.27%) Blazor
13 71 (5.13%) Entity Framework
14 64 (4.62%) Node.js
15 37 (2.67%) SOAP
16 34 (2.45%) ASP.NET MVC
17 33 (2.38%) jQuery
18 25 (1.81%) React Native
19 24 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
20 23 (1.66%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 82 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 70 (5.05%) Mobile App
3 51 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
5 33 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (1.30%) Legacy Code
7 17 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 16 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 12 (0.87%) Hedge funds
9 12 (0.87%) PropTech
10 11 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 11 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (0.79%) Sports Betting
11 10 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.65%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.25%) Windows
2 19 (1.37%) Android
3 16 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.16%) Linux
4 9 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.29%) VMS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.072%) Unix
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (28.45%) Software Engineering
2 375 (27.08%) Agile
3 327 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 274 (19.78%) DevOps
5 264 (19.06%) CI/CD
6 171 (12.35%) Microservices
7 167 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 126 (9.10%) SDLC
10 114 (8.23%) Mentoring
11 105 (7.58%) Clean Code
12 103 (7.44%) Containerisation
13 102 (7.36%) AI
14 86 (6.21%) Scrum
15 85 (6.14%) MVC
16 71 (5.13%) Technical Leadership
17 70 (5.05%) Test Automation
18 68 (4.91%) TDD
19 66 (4.77%) User Experience
20 65 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 929 (67.08%) C#
2 405 (29.24%) SQL
3 269 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 120 (8.66%) TypeScript
5 102 (7.36%) Java
6 101 (7.29%) Python
7 44 (3.18%) C++
8 36 (2.60%) PHP
9 34 (2.45%) T-SQL
10 27 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.08%) C
11 15 (1.08%) VB.NET
12 13 (0.94%) Bash
12 13 (0.94%) VB
13 12 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.87%) Bicep
14 8 (0.58%) VBA
15 7 (0.51%) Go
16 6 (0.43%) Delphi
17 4 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (8.88%) Degree
2 51 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 48 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 40 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 16 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 11 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.22%) ISEB
11 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.14%) PhD
13 1 (0.072%) CSQA
13 1 (0.072%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.85%) QA
2 38 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.87%) GDPR
3 12 (0.87%) WCAG
4 9 (0.65%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.58%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.36%) SLA
7 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.072%) HL7
8 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.072%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (9.31%) Docker
2 8 (0.58%) Firmware
3 7 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.072%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 64 (4.62%) Terraform
3 14 (1.01%) Grafana
4 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.36%) Ansible
6 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.14%) MIIS
8 1 (0.072%) Argo
8 1 (0.072%) CASB
8 1 (0.072%) Consul
8 1 (0.072%) Packer
8 1 (0.072%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.072%) Puppet
Vendors
1 217 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.88%) Xamarin
3 16 (1.16%) Adobe
4 14 (1.01%) Google
5 12 (0.87%) Oracle
5 12 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 10 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
7 8 (0.58%) MuleSoft
7 8 (0.58%) Sage
8 6 (0.43%) Apple
8 6 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.43%) Telerik
9 5 (0.36%) Databricks
9 5 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.29%) DevExpress
10 4 (0.29%) Facebook
10 4 (0.29%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.29%) SYSPRO
11 3 (0.22%) Foundry
11 3 (0.22%) VMware