.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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -53 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,070 2,485 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.54% 6.55% 7.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.68% 33.72% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 943 1,662 2,014
10th Percentile £38,550 £37,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,344 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%

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 3,865 7,370 6,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.17% 19.41% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 4,198 5,408
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.41%

.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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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
North of England -35 336 £60,500 +10.00% 345
South East -42 330 £60,000 - 389
Midlands -51 179 £57,500 - 215
North West -29 169 £65,000 +16.85% 197
West Midlands -32 117 £55,000 -4.35% 98
Yorkshire -28 115 £57,500 +9.52% 99
South West -67 78 £55,000 -4.35% 121
East of England -70 64 £60,000 +20.00% 142
East Midlands -54 62 £65,000 +25.00% 108
North East -10 52 £50,000 -23.08% 51
Scotland -67 48 £62,250 +24.50% 71
Wales -9 39 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Northern Ireland -1 4 £50,000 - 14
Channel Islands +4 1 £90,000 -
.NET
UK

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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 45 (4.21%) IIS
2 19 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.59%) CMS
4 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.75%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.56%) Confluence
7 5 (0.47%) nginx
8 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.093%) Apache
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.093%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 42 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.093%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.093%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.093%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 574 (53.64%) Azure
2 224 (20.93%) AWS
3 182 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (15.70%) SaaS
5 100 (9.35%) GitHub
6 82 (7.66%) Power Platform
7 73 (6.82%) Serverless
8 51 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (4.67%) GCP
9 50 (4.67%) Power Automate
10 43 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (3.18%) PowerApps
12 33 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 30 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 29 (2.71%) Entra ID
15 26 (2.43%) Azure Functions
16 25 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
17 24 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.06%) Amazon S3
18 22 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.12%) VoIP
2 11 (1.03%) Internet
3 10 (0.93%) DNS
4 9 (0.84%) DHCP
4 9 (0.84%) VPN
5 8 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.56%) SSL
7 5 (0.47%) LAN
7 5 (0.47%) SAN
7 5 (0.47%) WAN
8 4 (0.37%) Firewall
9 3 (0.28%) HTTP
10 2 (0.19%) Intranet
10 2 (0.19%) WPA
11 1 (0.093%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.093%) MPLS
11 1 (0.093%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (29.07%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.79%) NoSQL
3 45 (4.21%) MySQL
4 43 (4.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 39 (3.64%) Power BI
6 37 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.68%) Redis
10 6 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (0.56%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.47%) Tableau
12 4 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.37%) GIS
13 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 101 (9.44%) Git
2 50 (4.67%) JIRA
3 38 (3.55%) Selenium
4 35 (3.27%) Postman
5 34 (3.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 31 (2.90%) Visual Studio
7 30 (2.80%) SoapUI
8 28 (2.62%) WebDriver
9 24 (2.24%) TeamCity
10 20 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.50%) Jenkins
12 12 (1.12%) Storybook
13 9 (0.84%) GitLab
14 8 (0.75%) NUnit
15 7 (0.65%) git-flow
16 6 (0.56%) MSTest
16 6 (0.56%) SpecFlow
17 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
17 3 (0.28%) Moq
17 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 255 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 167 (15.61%) Finance
3 32 (2.99%) Law
3 32 (2.99%) Public Sector
4 31 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (1.68%) Games
5 18 (1.68%) Retail
6 16 (1.50%) Legal
7 15 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.21%) Aviation
10 11 (1.03%) Automotive
10 11 (1.03%) Banking
10 11 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.75%) Marketing
12 7 (0.65%) Publishing
13 5 (0.47%) Electronics
13 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 621 (58.04%) Developer
2 239 (22.34%) Senior
3 224 (20.93%) .NET Developer
4 178 (16.64%) Software Developer
5 149 (13.93%) Software Engineer
6 142 (13.27%) Lead
7 131 (12.24%) Senior Developer
8 118 (11.03%) C# Developer
9 114 (10.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 55 (5.14%) .NET Software Developer
11 53 (4.95%) Lead Developer
12 52 (4.86%) Senior .NET Developer
13 50 (4.67%) .NET Software Engineer
14 48 (4.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 48 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 45 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
16 39 (3.64%) Analyst
17 38 (3.55%) Senior Software Developer
18 33 (3.08%) Applications Developer
19 32 (2.99%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 207 (19.35%) React
3 178 (16.64%) ASP.NET
4 166 (15.51%) .NET Framework
5 140 (13.08%) HTML
6 127 (11.87%) CSS
7 119 (11.12%) AngularJS
8 83 (7.76%) Blazor
9 82 (7.66%) RESTful
10 75 (7.01%) REST
11 60 (5.61%) Entity Framework
12 52 (4.86%) Vue
13 47 (4.39%) ASP.NET Core
14 41 (3.83%) SOAP
15 38 (3.55%) ASP.NET MVC
16 32 (2.99%) Node.js
17 31 (2.90%) ASP.NET Web API
17 31 (2.90%) Web Services
18 26 (2.43%) jQuery
18 26 (2.43%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 90 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 52 (4.86%) Mobile App
4 47 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 21 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.12%) Clustering
10 12 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.84%) Client/Server
11 9 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (0.84%) Driving Licence
11 9 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
12 8 (0.75%) IoT
13 7 (0.65%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.89%) Windows
2 21 (1.96%) Android
3 20 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 19 (1.78%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.59%) Linux
6 9 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.47%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.093%) Fedora
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (39.91%) Agile
2 337 (31.50%) DevOps
3 327 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 322 (30.09%) Software Engineering
5 228 (21.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 213 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 168 (15.70%) Mentoring
8 168 (15.70%) Microservices
9 101 (9.44%) Clean Code
9 101 (9.44%) Scrum
10 99 (9.25%) MVC
11 94 (8.79%) Containerisation
12 92 (8.60%) SDLC
13 89 (8.32%) AI
14 83 (7.76%) User Experience
15 78 (7.29%) Roadmaps
16 72 (6.73%) CRM
17 71 (6.64%) Software Testing
18 67 (6.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 764 (71.40%) C#
2 358 (33.46%) SQL
3 266 (24.86%) JavaScript
4 130 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 93 (8.69%) Java
6 70 (6.54%) Python
7 39 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 39 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.08%) PHP
9 31 (2.90%) C++
9 31 (2.90%) VB.NET
10 16 (1.50%) Bicep
11 12 (1.12%) Bash
12 9 (0.84%) XAML
13 8 (0.75%) Go
14 7 (0.65%) VB
15 6 (0.56%) C
16 5 (0.47%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.37%) Delphi
17 4 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (13.55%) Degree
2 59 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 28 (2.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 19 (1.78%) Security Cleared
6 16 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.50%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.37%) HND
10 4 (0.37%) ISEB
10 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.19%) PhD
12 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.10%) QA
2 25 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.31%) GDPR
4 5 (0.47%) WCAG
5 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.28%) GRC
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.093%) COBIT
7 1 (0.093%) HL7
7 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 120 (11.21%) Docker
2 25 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Firmware
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.093%) HDFS
5 1 (0.093%) Squid
5 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (8.50%) Terraform
2 85 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.15%) Grafana
4 17 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 9 (0.84%) Ansible
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.093%) CASB
8 1 (0.093%) Kibana
8 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 208 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.24%) Xamarin
3 15 (1.40%) Oracle
4 13 (1.21%) Sage
5 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.03%) Google
7 9 (0.84%) Apple
7 9 (0.84%) Databricks
7 9 (0.84%) DevExpress
7 9 (0.84%) Telerik
8 7 (0.65%) Datto
8 7 (0.65%) Freshdesk
9 5 (0.47%) Infor
9 5 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.47%) Syncfusion
9 5 (0.47%) VMware
9 5 (0.47%) Zoho
10 4 (0.37%) Adobe
10 4 (0.37%) ESRI
10 4 (0.37%) New Relic