.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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -48 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,094 2,333 2,899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.61% 6.49% 8.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.56% 33.40% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,514 2,637
10th Percentile £39,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,830 6,986 8,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.13% 19.42% 23.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,932 3,883 6,349
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,800 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 12 January 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 12 January 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
North of England -28 345 £62,500 +13.64% 242
South East -38 340 £60,000 - 367
Midlands -40 187 £55,000 -4.35% 133
North West -18 185 £65,000 +18.18% 129
West Midlands -31 116 £50,000 -13.04% 52
Yorkshire -39 102 £55,000 +4.76% 67
South West -56 84 £55,000 -6.38% 117
East Midlands -40 71 £65,000 +30.00% 78
East of England -69 59 £60,000 +20.00% 167
North East -5 58 £68,500 +5.38% 46
Scotland -65 50 £65,000 +30.00% 41
Wales -7 33 £47,500 -5.00% 60
Northern Ireland -10 4 £50,000 - 22
Channel Islands +3 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 38 (3.47%) IIS
2 17 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.37%) CMS
4 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.73%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.46%) Confluence
7 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.091%) Apache
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.091%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.091%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.091%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.091%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.091%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 550 (50.27%) Azure
2 214 (19.56%) AWS
3 179 (16.36%) SaaS
4 163 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (8.78%) GitHub
6 78 (7.13%) Power Platform
7 70 (6.40%) Serverless
8 51 (4.66%) GCP
9 44 (4.02%) Power Automate
10 41 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (2.83%) PowerApps
13 29 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 28 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 28 (2.56%) Entra ID
15 26 (2.38%) Azure Functions
16 22 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
17 21 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (1.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.91%) DNS
1 10 (0.91%) Internet
1 10 (0.91%) VoIP
2 9 (0.82%) DHCP
2 9 (0.82%) VPN
3 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.37%) SSL
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
5 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 3 (0.27%) LAN
5 3 (0.27%) SAN
5 3 (0.27%) WAN
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 1 (0.091%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.091%) MPLS
7 1 (0.091%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (27.51%) SQL Server
2 64 (5.85%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.56%) MySQL
3 39 (3.56%) Power BI
4 38 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 30 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.83%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.65%) Redis
11 6 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.46%) Tableau
13 4 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.37%) GIS
14 3 (0.27%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 88 (8.04%) Git
2 49 (4.48%) JIRA
3 41 (3.75%) Selenium
4 38 (3.47%) Postman
5 36 (3.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 36 (3.29%) Visual Studio
6 33 (3.02%) SoapUI
7 30 (2.74%) WebDriver
8 18 (1.65%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.46%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (0.82%) Storybook
12 7 (0.64%) git-flow
12 7 (0.64%) GitLab
12 7 (0.64%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.55%) NUnit
14 5 (0.46%) MSTest
15 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.27%) Snyk
16 2 (0.18%) Android Studio
General
1 245 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 163 (14.90%) Finance
3 34 (3.11%) Public Sector
4 31 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (2.38%) Law
6 18 (1.65%) Games
7 16 (1.46%) Aviation
8 14 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.19%) Legal
9 13 (1.19%) Retail
10 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.01%) Banking
12 9 (0.82%) Automotive
13 8 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.73%) Marketing
14 7 (0.64%) Publishing
15 5 (0.46%) Electronics
15 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 648 (59.23%) Developer
2 254 (23.22%) Senior
3 248 (22.67%) .NET Developer
4 203 (18.56%) Software Developer
5 163 (14.90%) Software Engineer
6 137 (12.52%) Lead
6 137 (12.52%) Senior Developer
7 123 (11.24%) C# Developer
8 121 (11.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 66 (6.03%) .NET Software Developer
10 62 (5.67%) Lead Developer
11 60 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 59 (5.39%) .NET Software Engineer
12 59 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
13 55 (5.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 53 (4.84%) C# .NET Developer
15 47 (4.30%) Senior Software Developer
16 42 (3.84%) Analyst
17 37 (3.38%) Applications Developer
18 32 (2.93%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (21.48%) .NET Core
2 207 (18.92%) React
3 183 (16.73%) ASP.NET
4 169 (15.45%) .NET Framework
5 139 (12.71%) HTML
6 121 (11.06%) CSS
7 116 (10.60%) AngularJS
8 82 (7.50%) Blazor
9 77 (7.04%) REST
10 75 (6.86%) RESTful
11 57 (5.21%) Entity Framework
12 54 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
13 51 (4.66%) Vue
14 44 (4.02%) SOAP
15 34 (3.11%) ASP.NET MVC
16 28 (2.56%) ASP.NET Web API
16 28 (2.56%) Node.js
17 26 (2.38%) WinForms
17 26 (2.38%) WPF
18 23 (2.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.30%) Mobile App
4 41 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.82%) Client/Server
10 9 (0.82%) Clustering
10 9 (0.82%) Driving Licence
11 8 (0.73%) 3D Graphics
11 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.73%) IoT
11 8 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.03%) Windows
2 21 (1.92%) Android
3 19 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.28%) Linux
6 9 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.64%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.091%) Fedora
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (38.30%) Agile
2 323 (29.52%) Software Engineering
3 313 (28.61%) DevOps
4 297 (27.15%) CI/CD
5 248 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 202 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (14.44%) Microservices
9 157 (14.35%) Mentoring
10 102 (9.32%) SDLC
11 99 (9.05%) AI
11 99 (9.05%) Scrum
12 95 (8.68%) Clean Code
13 92 (8.41%) Containerisation
14 88 (8.04%) MVC
15 71 (6.49%) Roadmaps
16 69 (6.31%) User Experience
17 68 (6.22%) CRM
17 68 (6.22%) Software Testing
18 66 (6.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 776 (70.93%) C#
2 352 (32.18%) SQL
3 263 (24.04%) JavaScript
4 128 (11.70%) TypeScript
5 95 (8.68%) Java
6 73 (6.67%) Python
7 37 (3.38%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.93%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.74%) PHP
10 27 (2.47%) C++
11 23 (2.10%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.10%) Bicep
13 11 (1.01%) Bash
14 8 (0.73%) XAML
15 6 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.55%) C
15 6 (0.55%) Go
15 6 (0.55%) VB
16 4 (0.37%) Delphi
17 3 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 135 (12.34%) Degree
2 54 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (3.11%) ISTQB
4 30 (2.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 21 (1.92%) Security Cleared
6 19 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.37%) ISEB
12 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.27%) HND
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
14 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.091%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.67%) QA
2 27 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.10%) GDPR
4 8 (0.73%) WCAG
5 3 (0.27%) GRC
6 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.091%) HL7
7 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (9.96%) Docker
2 21 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.091%) HDFS
5 1 (0.091%) Squid
5 1 (0.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (7.50%) Terraform
2 79 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.74%) Grafana
4 15 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.64%) Ansible
5 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.091%) CASB
7 1 (0.091%) Kibana
7 1 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.38%) Xamarin
3 14 (1.28%) Oracle
4 13 (1.19%) Sage
5 12 (1.10%) Google
5 12 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 10 (0.91%) Apple
7 9 (0.82%) Telerik
8 7 (0.64%) Databricks
8 7 (0.64%) Datto
8 7 (0.64%) Freshdesk
9 6 (0.55%) DevExpress
9 6 (0.55%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.46%) Syncfusion
10 5 (0.46%) Zoho
11 4 (0.37%) ESRI
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic
11 4 (0.37%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.27%) Dynatrace