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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 79 24
Rank change year-on-year +23 -55 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,185 1,182 3,699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.62% 3.43% 6.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.50% 25.20% 34.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 849 2,629
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,200 £36,250
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% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £67,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 7,165 4,691 10,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.60% 13.61% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,573 2,829 6,513
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 14 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 14 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 +50 689 £60,000 - 245
North of England 0 595 £57,500 -4.17% 248
Midlands +37 349 £60,000 +9.09% 136
North West -11 261 £60,000 -4.00% 118
East of England +28 213 £61,250 +16.67% 93
South West 0 195 £55,000 +7.84% 86
West Midlands +4 185 £58,750 +6.82% 66
North East +7 180 £57,000 +31.03% 56
East Midlands +43 164 £60,000 +9.09% 69
Yorkshire +11 154 £55,000 -8.33% 77
Scotland +30 61 £60,000 -5.51% 79
Northern Ireland -30 60 £35,000 -30.00% 23
Wales -75 25 £50,000 -9.09% 27
.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 44 (2.01%) IIS
2 34 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.69%) Confluence
4 14 (0.64%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.59%) CMS
6 9 (0.41%) WordPress
7 8 (0.37%) nginx
8 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.18%) CICS
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.092%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.092%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.092%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.092%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.046%) Appian
12 1 (0.046%) Drupal
12 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.092%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.092%) Magento
4 2 (0.092%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,090 (49.89%) Azure
2 361 (16.52%) AWS
3 355 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (9.52%) GitHub
5 174 (7.96%) SaaS
6 159 (7.28%) Azure AI
7 136 (6.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 122 (5.58%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.26%) Serverless
10 92 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 83 (3.80%) Power Automate
12 81 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
13 67 (3.07%) PowerApps
14 51 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (1.97%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.83%) GCP
19 39 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.98%) Internet
2 16 (0.73%) Firewall
3 9 (0.41%) HTTP
3 9 (0.41%) VLAN
4 8 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.37%) Wireless
5 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.23%) DHCP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 2 (0.092%) Modbus
9 1 (0.046%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.046%) Network Security
9 1 (0.046%) Profibus
9 1 (0.046%) SSL
9 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (20.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 449 (20.55%) SQL Server
3 394 (18.03%) MongoDB
4 155 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
5 83 (3.80%) Power BI
6 71 (3.25%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.56%) MySQL
9 50 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.82%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.41%) GIS
17 9 (0.41%) SQLite
18 8 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 162 (7.41%) Git
2 34 (1.56%) JIRA
3 31 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 22 (1.01%) GitLab
5 20 (0.92%) Claude Code
5 20 (0.92%) NUnit
6 17 (0.78%) Postman
7 14 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (0.55%) Selenium
9 11 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.37%) Moq
12 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.23%) MSTest
15 4 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 327 (14.97%) Social Skills
2 218 (9.98%) Finance
3 103 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.84%) Legal
5 78 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.02%) Retail
7 63 (2.88%) Games
8 56 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.47%) Advertising
11 53 (2.43%) Law
12 51 (2.33%) Marketing
13 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
14 24 (1.10%) Automotive
15 22 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.87%) Electronics
17 11 (0.50%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 9 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,422 (65.08%) Developer
2 857 (39.22%) .NET Developer
3 398 (18.22%) Senior
4 301 (13.78%) Software Engineer
5 281 (12.86%) Software Developer
6 246 (11.26%) Senior Developer
7 240 (10.98%) Lead
8 151 (6.91%) C# Developer
9 149 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 123 (5.63%) C# Software Engineer
10 123 (5.63%) Lead Developer
11 118 (5.40%) C# .NET Developer
12 113 (5.17%) .NET Software Engineer
13 109 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
14 100 (4.58%) .NET Software Developer
15 96 (4.39%) Senior .NET Developer
16 85 (3.89%) Web Developer
17 78 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (2.93%) Lead Software Developer
19 62 (2.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (31.67%) .NET Core
2 662 (30.30%) ASP.NET
3 539 (24.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 354 (16.20%) HTML
5 349 (15.97%) CSS
6 339 (15.51%) React
7 269 (12.31%) AngularJS
8 267 (12.22%) Entity Framework
9 245 (11.21%) Blazor
10 243 (11.12%) RESTful
11 233 (10.66%) Vue
12 226 (10.34%) .NET Framework
13 216 (9.89%) Node.js
14 210 (9.61%) ASP.NET Web API
15 146 (6.68%) ML.NET
16 133 (6.09%) REST
17 107 (4.90%) LINQ
18 83 (3.80%) Terraform
19 82 (3.75%) jQuery
20 58 (2.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
2 116 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 98 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 66 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 53 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 33 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
9 30 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.14%) Legacy Code
12 21 (0.96%) Hedge funds
13 20 (0.92%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.87%) Digital TV
15 18 (0.82%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.78%) BBC
16 17 (0.78%) iPhone
16 17 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 17 (0.78%) Social Media
17 12 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 92 (4.21%) Windows
2 35 (1.60%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.24%) Android
3 27 (1.24%) Linux
4 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (36.61%) Full-Stack Development
2 757 (34.65%) Agile
3 558 (25.54%) CI/CD
4 530 (24.26%) Software Engineering
5 492 (22.52%) DevOps
6 376 (17.21%) Microservices
7 352 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
8 332 (15.19%) AI
9 275 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.60%) Machine Learning
11 183 (8.38%) SDLC
12 182 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 174 (7.96%) Multithreading
14 151 (6.91%) Scrum
15 140 (6.41%) TDD
16 127 (5.81%) OO
17 124 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
17 124 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
18 114 (5.22%) Test Automation
19 113 (5.17%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,684 (77.07%) C#
2 847 (38.76%) SQL
3 503 (23.02%) JavaScript
4 289 (13.23%) TypeScript
5 131 (6.00%) Python
6 100 (4.58%) Java
7 91 (4.16%) C++
8 62 (2.84%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.75%) PHP
10 54 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 52 (2.38%) VB.NET
12 28 (1.28%) Bicep
13 26 (1.19%) C
14 21 (0.96%) Bash
15 16 (0.73%) COBOL
16 14 (0.64%) VB
17 12 (0.55%) JCL
18 10 (0.46%) Go
19 9 (0.41%) Delphi
19 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 180 (8.24%) Degree
2 96 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 67 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.092%) CSQA
13 2 (0.092%) PhD
14 1 (0.046%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.33%) QA
2 46 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.37%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.046%) GRC
System Software
1 256 (11.72%) Docker
2 21 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Firmware
5 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 226 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.59%) Grafana
3 12 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.092%) Bosun
6 2 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.046%) Consul
7 1 (0.046%) MIIS
7 1 (0.046%) MOM
7 1 (0.046%) Packer
7 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 778 (35.61%) Microsoft
2 65 (2.97%) Google
3 57 (2.61%) Facebook
4 27 (1.24%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.14%) Oracle
6 22 (1.01%) Adobe
7 21 (0.96%) YouTube
8 17 (0.78%) Apple
8 17 (0.78%) Sony
8 17 (0.78%) Yahoo!
9 15 (0.69%) VMware
10 11 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.37%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.37%) Databricks
12 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.32%) Sage
12 7 (0.32%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk