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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,113 2,341 2,876
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.61% 6.51% 8.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.54% 33.36% 35.95%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1,520 2,615
10th Percentile £39,800 £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 £68,325
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 3,900 7,018 8,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.51% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 3,911 6,293
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £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 15 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 15 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 -29 350 £62,500 +13.64% 211
South East -36 346 £60,000 - 302
North West -20 191 £65,000 +18.18% 125
Midlands -40 189 £55,000 -4.35% 111
West Midlands -35 116 £50,000 -13.04% 45
Yorkshire -38 102 £56,250 +7.14% 55
South West -59 88 £55,000 -6.38% 94
East Midlands -49 73 £65,000 +28.08% 65
East of England -65 60 £60,000 +20.00% 110
North East -7 57 £68,500 +5.38% 31
Scotland -62 51 £65,000 +30.00% 34
Wales -5 33 £47,500 -13.64% 44
Northern Ireland -9 4 £50,000 - 11
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 37 (3.32%) IIS
2 17 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.35%) CMS
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.72%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.45%) Confluence
7 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) Apache
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.090%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.090%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.090%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.090%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.090%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 559 (50.22%) Azure
2 219 (19.68%) AWS
3 185 (16.62%) SaaS
4 166 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
5 98 (8.81%) GitHub
6 79 (7.10%) Power Platform
7 75 (6.74%) Serverless
8 53 (4.76%) GCP
9 44 (3.95%) Power Automate
10 42 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 31 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (2.79%) PowerApps
14 30 (2.70%) Azure Functions
15 29 (2.61%) Entra ID
16 25 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.89%) Amazon S3
17 21 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.99%) Internet
2 10 (0.90%) DNS
3 9 (0.81%) DHCP
3 9 (0.81%) VoIP
3 9 (0.81%) VPN
4 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
5 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) LAN
6 2 (0.18%) SAN
6 2 (0.18%) WAN
7 1 (0.090%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.090%) MPLS
7 1 (0.090%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.090%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (27.49%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.84%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.50%) MySQL
3 39 (3.50%) Power BI
4 37 (3.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 30 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 21 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.80%) DynamoDB
9 18 (1.62%) Redis
10 6 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.45%) Tableau
12 4 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.36%) GIS
13 3 (0.27%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 87 (7.82%) Git
2 49 (4.40%) JIRA
3 41 (3.68%) Selenium
4 38 (3.41%) Postman
5 36 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 36 (3.23%) Visual Studio
6 33 (2.96%) SoapUI
7 30 (2.70%) WebDriver
8 18 (1.62%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.44%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.72%) Storybook
12 7 (0.63%) git-flow
12 7 (0.63%) GitLab
12 7 (0.63%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.54%) NUnit
14 5 (0.45%) MSTest
15 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.27%) Snyk
16 2 (0.18%) Android Studio
General
1 245 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 162 (14.56%) Finance
3 35 (3.14%) Public Sector
4 33 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (2.43%) Law
6 18 (1.62%) Games
7 16 (1.44%) Aviation
8 13 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.17%) Legal
8 13 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.17%) Retail
9 11 (0.99%) Banking
9 11 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.81%) Automotive
11 8 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.72%) Marketing
12 7 (0.63%) Publishing
13 6 (0.54%) Electronics
14 5 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 659 (59.21%) Developer
2 259 (23.27%) Senior
3 252 (22.64%) .NET Developer
4 206 (18.51%) Software Developer
5 168 (15.09%) Software Engineer
6 140 (12.58%) Lead
7 139 (12.49%) Senior Developer
8 125 (11.23%) C# Developer
9 123 (11.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 67 (6.02%) .NET Software Developer
11 64 (5.75%) Lead Developer
12 62 (5.57%) .NET Software Engineer
12 62 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 60 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
14 55 (4.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 54 (4.85%) C# .NET Developer
16 48 (4.31%) Senior Software Developer
17 42 (3.77%) Analyst
18 39 (3.50%) Applications Developer
19 31 (2.79%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (21.83%) .NET Core
2 210 (18.87%) React
3 186 (16.71%) ASP.NET
4 172 (15.45%) .NET Framework
5 142 (12.76%) HTML
6 124 (11.14%) CSS
7 117 (10.51%) AngularJS
8 84 (7.55%) Blazor
9 82 (7.37%) REST
10 77 (6.92%) RESTful
11 59 (5.30%) Entity Framework
12 54 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
13 50 (4.49%) Vue
14 44 (3.95%) SOAP
15 36 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
16 28 (2.52%) Node.js
17 27 (2.43%) ASP.NET Web API
18 26 (2.34%) WinForms
18 26 (2.34%) WPF
19 23 (2.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.57%) Mobile App
4 41 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 12 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (0.81%) Client/Server
10 9 (0.81%) Driving Licence
10 9 (0.81%) IoT
11 8 (0.72%) 3D Graphics
11 8 (0.72%) Clustering
11 8 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.85%) Windows
2 20 (1.80%) Android
3 18 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.35%) Linux
5 14 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.090%) Fedora
10 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (38.19%) Agile
2 331 (29.74%) Software Engineering
3 319 (28.66%) DevOps
4 304 (27.31%) CI/CD
5 251 (22.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 201 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 169 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (14.38%) Microservices
9 156 (14.02%) Mentoring
10 104 (9.34%) SDLC
11 100 (8.98%) AI
12 98 (8.81%) Scrum
13 97 (8.72%) Clean Code
14 96 (8.63%) Containerisation
15 90 (8.09%) MVC
16 70 (6.29%) Roadmaps
16 70 (6.29%) TDD
17 69 (6.20%) User Experience
18 68 (6.11%) Software Testing
19 67 (6.02%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 790 (70.98%) C#
2 360 (32.35%) SQL
3 265 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 129 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 96 (8.63%) Java
6 73 (6.56%) Python
7 38 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.79%) PHP
10 30 (2.70%) C++
11 22 (1.98%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.08%) Bicep
13 11 (0.99%) Bash
14 8 (0.72%) C
14 8 (0.72%) XAML
15 6 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.54%) Go
15 6 (0.54%) VB
16 4 (0.36%) Delphi
17 3 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 137 (12.31%) Degree
2 55 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (3.05%) ISTQB
4 30 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 23 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 21 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.18%) HND
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
14 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.65%) QA
2 27 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.08%) GDPR
4 8 (0.72%) WCAG
5 3 (0.27%) GRC
5 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
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 (0.090%) HL7
7 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (10.15%) Docker
2 20 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.090%) HDFS
5 1 (0.090%) Squid
5 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (7.46%) Terraform
2 82 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.71%) Grafana
4 15 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.63%) Ansible
5 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
7 1 (0.090%) CASB
7 1 (0.090%) Kibana
7 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.34%) Xamarin
3 14 (1.26%) Oracle
4 12 (1.08%) Google
4 12 (1.08%) Sage
4 12 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.90%) Apple
6 9 (0.81%) Telerik
7 7 (0.63%) Databricks
7 7 (0.63%) Datto
7 7 (0.63%) Freshdesk
8 6 (0.54%) DevExpress
8 6 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.45%) Syncfusion
9 5 (0.45%) Zoho
10 4 (0.36%) ESRI
10 4 (0.36%) New Relic
10 4 (0.36%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.27%) Dynatrace