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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 64 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 -39 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,112 1,361 4,411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.89% 4.01% 6.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.66% 27.04% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 1,000 3,629
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 £77,692
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 6,275 5,034 11,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 14.83% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,018 3,171 8,318
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 £85,700 £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 25 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 25 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 +23 672 £57,500 - 136
North of England +1 587 £57,500 -4.17% 125
Midlands +6 321 £55,000 - 59
North West -4 274 £60,000 +1.69% 59
South West +13 201 £52,500 - 37
East of England +27 199 £65,000 +23.81% 47
West Midlands -15 172 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North East +3 157 £55,750 +17.37% 36
Yorkshire +14 156 £57,500 -11.54% 33
East Midlands +24 149 £55,000 - 32
Scotland +24 54 £58,750 -8.91% 8
Northern Ireland -23 54 - - 10
Wales -60 26 £50,000 -20.00% 10
.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 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.61%) IIS
3 16 (0.76%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.66%) CMS
4 14 (0.66%) 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 (0.047%) Appian
9 1 (0.047%) Drupal
9 1 (0.047%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.047%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.047%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.047%) 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 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.047%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (50.43%) Azure
2 331 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
3 327 (15.48%) AWS
4 188 (8.90%) GitHub
5 181 (8.57%) SaaS
6 160 (7.58%) Azure AI
7 134 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
8 112 (5.30%) Power Platform
9 87 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 82 (3.88%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
12 75 (3.55%) Serverless
13 68 (3.22%) PowerApps
14 47 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
15 38 (1.80%) Azure Functions
16 36 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
17 33 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
17 33 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
17 33 (1.56%) GCP
18 29 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.98%) 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 4 (0.19%) HTTP
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 2 (0.095%) Modbus
8 2 (0.095%) SNMP
9 1 (0.047%) AMQP
9 1 (0.047%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.047%) LTE
9 1 (0.047%) Network Security
9 1 (0.047%) SSL
9 1 (0.047%) VLAN
9 1 (0.047%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (22.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 405 (19.18%) MongoDB
3 399 (18.89%) SQL Server
4 155 (7.34%) Elasticsearch
5 90 (4.26%) Power BI
6 54 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 42 (1.99%) MySQL
8 36 (1.70%) Relational Database
9 35 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.80%) 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 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
14 10 (0.47%) GIS
15 6 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.24%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 125 (5.92%) Git
2 33 (1.56%) JIRA
3 25 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 20 (0.95%) Postman
5 16 (0.76%) GitLab
5 16 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.76%) NUnit
6 14 (0.66%) 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 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.28%) MSI
10 6 (0.28%) MSTest
10 6 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.24%) JMeter
11 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 266 (12.59%) Social Skills
2 205 (9.71%) Finance
3 74 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (3.36%) Legal
5 63 (2.98%) Retail
6 57 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 56 (2.65%) Advertising
8 55 (2.60%) Games
9 50 (2.37%) Manufacturing
10 49 (2.32%) Marketing
11 43 (2.04%) Law
12 35 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.42%) Legal Technology
14 26 (1.23%) Automotive
15 25 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 20 (0.95%) Electronics
17 11 (0.52%) Music Industry
18 8 (0.38%) Back Office
19 7 (0.33%) Aviation
19 7 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,433 (67.85%) Developer
2 867 (41.05%) .NET Developer
3 403 (19.08%) Senior
4 312 (14.77%) Software Engineer
5 303 (14.35%) Software Developer
6 244 (11.55%) Senior Developer
7 217 (10.27%) Lead
8 151 (7.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 149 (7.05%) C# Developer
10 130 (6.16%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.59%) C# .NET Developer
12 117 (5.54%) C# Software Engineer
13 115 (5.45%) Lead Developer
14 109 (5.16%) .NET Software Developer
15 106 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
16 97 (4.59%) Senior .NET Developer
17 82 (3.88%) Web Developer
18 77 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 69 (3.27%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 60 (2.84%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (33.19%) .NET Core
2 656 (31.06%) ASP.NET
3 538 (25.47%) ASP.NET Core
4 341 (16.15%) HTML
5 338 (16.00%) CSS
6 325 (15.39%) React
7 271 (12.83%) AngularJS
8 260 (12.31%) Entity Framework
9 247 (11.70%) RESTful
10 245 (11.60%) Blazor
11 233 (11.03%) Vue
12 222 (10.51%) .NET Framework
12 222 (10.51%) Node.js
13 199 (9.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 152 (7.20%) ML.NET
15 132 (6.25%) REST
16 109 (5.16%) LINQ
17 60 (2.84%) jQuery
18 51 (2.41%) JSON
19 50 (2.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
2 94 (4.45%) Cloud Native
3 78 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (2.89%) Mobile App
5 57 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.37%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.95%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 18 (0.85%) AI Agents
12 17 (0.80%) BBC
12 17 (0.80%) iPhone
12 17 (0.80%) Social Media
13 16 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
14 15 (0.71%) Management Information System
15 14 (0.66%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.66%) Social Network
16 13 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.36%) Windows
2 29 (1.37%) Android
3 26 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.95%) Linux
5 6 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.047%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (38.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 740 (35.04%) Agile
3 519 (24.57%) CI/CD
4 512 (24.24%) Software Engineering
5 467 (22.11%) DevOps
6 377 (17.85%) Microservices
7 328 (15.53%) AI
8 292 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
9 240 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 194 (9.19%) Machine Learning
11 176 (8.33%) SDLC
12 175 (8.29%) Multithreading
13 155 (7.34%) Scrum
14 150 (7.10%) TDD
15 149 (7.05%) Mentoring
16 120 (5.68%) OO
17 116 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
18 111 (5.26%) Clean Code
19 108 (5.11%) Technical Leadership
20 106 (5.02%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 1,611 (76.28%) C#
2 835 (39.54%) SQL
3 472 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 291 (13.78%) TypeScript
5 128 (6.06%) Python
6 92 (4.36%) Java
7 77 (3.65%) C++
8 66 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 59 (2.79%) PHP
10 50 (2.37%) T-SQL
11 36 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 29 (1.37%) Bicep
13 23 (1.09%) C
14 22 (1.04%) Bash
15 14 (0.66%) VB
16 9 (0.43%) VBA
17 8 (0.38%) XAML
18 7 (0.33%) Delphi
19 6 (0.28%) Go
20 5 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 164 (7.77%) Degree
2 89 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 57 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 17 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.38%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.19%) MBA
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.095%) CSQA
13 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.095%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.095%) PhD
13 2 (0.095%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.047%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (7.53%) QA
2 44 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.80%) GDPR
4 14 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.57%) 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
11 1 (0.047%) NIST
System Software
1 257 (12.17%) Docker
2 11 (0.52%) Firmware
3 10 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 234 (11.08%) Kubernetes
2 74 (3.50%) Terraform
3 8 (0.38%) Grafana
4 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.095%) Ansible
5 2 (0.095%) MIIS
6 1 (0.047%) Consul
6 1 (0.047%) MOM
6 1 (0.047%) Packer
6 1 (0.047%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.047%) Puppet
Vendors
1 751 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.13%) Google
3 59 (2.79%) Facebook
4 26 (1.23%) Adobe
5 25 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.99%) Oracle
6 21 (0.99%) YouTube
7 17 (0.80%) Apple
7 17 (0.80%) Sony
7 17 (0.80%) Xamarin
7 17 (0.80%) Yahoo!
8 10 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.38%) Databricks
10 7 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (0.33%) VMware
11 5 (0.24%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.24%) Sage
11 5 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.19%) IBM
13 3 (0.14%) Splunk