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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 -36 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,978 1,373 5,494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.83% 4.24% 7.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.60% 26.87% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 996 4,635
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
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 5,887 5,109 14,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 15.76% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,747 3,234 10,409
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 £87,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%

.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 4 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 4 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 +21 639 £57,500 - 171
North of England -1 557 £60,000 - 166
Midlands +1 309 £55,000 - 76
North West -4 286 £60,000 +4.35% 76
South West +16 195 £55,000 +4.76% 45
East of England +19 185 £65,000 +23.81% 59
West Midlands -22 158 £58,250 +5.91% 41
East Midlands +29 151 £55,000 - 35
North East +2 140 £57,500 +6.98% 38
Yorkshire -3 131 £57,500 -14.81% 55
Scotland +20 59 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Wales -52 24 £50,000 -24.81% 11
Northern Ireland -38 12 - - 21
.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 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.42%) IIS
3 16 (0.81%) ColdFusion
4 13 (0.66%) Confluence
5 12 (0.61%) CMS
6 8 (0.40%) WordPress
7 7 (0.35%) nginx
7 7 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.051%) Appian
11 1 (0.051%) Drupal
11 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
2 3 (0.15%) Shopify
3 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.051%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 991 (50.10%) Azure
2 309 (15.62%) Azure DevOps
3 307 (15.52%) AWS
4 199 (10.06%) SaaS
5 167 (8.44%) GitHub
6 146 (7.38%) Azure AI
7 115 (5.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 104 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 83 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 78 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 76 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.74%) Serverless
13 66 (3.34%) PowerApps
14 41 (2.07%) Azure Functions
15 39 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 37 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
17 35 (1.77%) GCP
18 33 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
19 27 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
20 24 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.94%) Internet
2 9 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.40%) Firewall
3 8 (0.40%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.25%) DHCP
4 5 (0.25%) DNS
4 5 (0.25%) LAN
4 5 (0.25%) WAN
5 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.15%) RS-232
6 2 (0.10%) HTTP
6 2 (0.10%) Modbus
7 1 (0.051%) AMQP
7 1 (0.051%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.051%) LTE
7 1 (0.051%) Network Security
7 1 (0.051%) SSL
7 1 (0.051%) VLAN
7 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (21.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 364 (18.40%) MongoDB
3 361 (18.25%) SQL Server
4 136 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
5 86 (4.35%) Power BI
6 53 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.67%) MySQL
8 31 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.66%) Redis
13 10 (0.51%) GIS
14 9 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
15 8 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.25%) Metadata
18 4 (0.20%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 110 (5.56%) Git
2 33 (1.67%) JIRA
3 23 (1.16%) Visual Studio
4 20 (1.01%) Postman
5 15 (0.76%) GitLab
6 13 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 13 (0.66%) NUnit
7 11 (0.56%) Selenium
8 8 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.35%) Moq
9 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.25%) JMeter
11 5 (0.25%) MSTest
11 5 (0.25%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.25%) Yeoman
General
1 240 (12.13%) Social Skills
2 195 (9.86%) Finance
3 68 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (2.83%) Retail
5 55 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 52 (2.63%) Games
7 49 (2.48%) Advertising
7 49 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.12%) Marketing
9 27 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.37%) Law
10 26 (1.31%) Automotive
10 26 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.31%) Legal
11 21 (1.06%) Electronics
12 14 (0.71%) Legal Technology
13 9 (0.46%) Music Industry
14 8 (0.40%) Back Office
14 8 (0.40%) Military
15 7 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,322 (66.84%) Developer
2 807 (40.80%) .NET Developer
3 364 (18.40%) Senior
4 312 (15.77%) Software Engineer
5 306 (15.47%) Software Developer
6 206 (10.41%) Lead
7 191 (9.66%) Senior Developer
8 151 (7.63%) C# Developer
9 140 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 130 (6.57%) .NET Software Engineer
11 121 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
12 116 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 112 (5.66%) .NET Software Developer
13 112 (5.66%) Lead Developer
14 110 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
15 95 (4.80%) Senior .NET Developer
16 71 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 67 (3.39%) Web Developer
18 58 (2.93%) C# Software Developer
18 58 (2.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (33.67%) .NET Core
2 588 (29.73%) ASP.NET
3 477 (24.12%) ASP.NET Core
4 314 (15.87%) HTML
5 313 (15.82%) CSS
6 310 (15.67%) React
7 256 (12.94%) AngularJS
8 230 (11.63%) RESTful
9 228 (11.53%) Entity Framework
10 218 (11.02%) Blazor
10 218 (11.02%) Vue
11 201 (10.16%) Node.js
12 194 (9.81%) .NET Framework
13 172 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
14 139 (7.03%) ML.NET
15 123 (6.22%) REST
16 97 (4.90%) LINQ
17 59 (2.98%) jQuery
18 43 (2.17%) WPF
19 38 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 122 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 70 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 64 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.31%) Legacy Code
9 20 (1.01%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 17 (0.86%) iPhone
12 16 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 16 (0.81%) BBC
12 16 (0.81%) Social Media
12 16 (0.81%) Social Network
13 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (0.66%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.66%) Sports Betting
16 11 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 55 (2.78%) Windows
2 32 (1.62%) Android
3 20 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.91%) Linux
5 9 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (37.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 650 (32.86%) Agile
3 496 (25.08%) Software Engineering
4 453 (22.90%) CI/CD
5 437 (22.09%) DevOps
6 306 (15.47%) AI
7 303 (15.32%) Microservices
8 220 (11.12%) Problem-Solving
9 184 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 184 (9.30%) Machine Learning
10 167 (8.44%) SDLC
11 160 (8.09%) Multithreading
12 144 (7.28%) Mentoring
13 140 (7.08%) TDD
14 135 (6.83%) Scrum
15 111 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
16 109 (5.51%) OO
17 108 (5.46%) Clean Code
18 100 (5.06%) Technical Leadership
19 96 (4.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,474 (74.52%) C#
2 792 (40.04%) SQL
3 434 (21.94%) JavaScript
4 271 (13.70%) TypeScript
5 124 (6.27%) Python
6 92 (4.65%) Java
7 75 (3.79%) C++
8 64 (3.24%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.78%) PHP
10 48 (2.43%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.21%) Bicep
12 24 (1.21%) C
13 21 (1.06%) Bash
14 17 (0.86%) VB
15 9 (0.46%) VBA
16 7 (0.35%) Delphi
16 7 (0.35%) XAML
17 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 154 (7.79%) Degree
2 78 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 55 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.15%) MBA
11 3 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.10%) CSQA
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.10%) PhD
13 1 (0.051%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.46%) QA
2 42 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.76%) GDPR
4 13 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.56%) WCAG
6 8 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.25%) NCSC
7 5 (0.25%) SLA
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 235 (11.88%) Docker
2 13 (0.66%) Firmware
3 11 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 213 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.39%) Terraform
3 6 (0.30%) Grafana
4 4 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.10%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) MIIS
6 1 (0.051%) Consul
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
6 1 (0.051%) Packer
6 1 (0.051%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.051%) Puppet
Vendors
1 666 (33.67%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.73%) Google
3 53 (2.68%) Facebook
4 25 (1.26%) Adobe
4 25 (1.26%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.01%) Oracle
6 19 (0.96%) YouTube
7 18 (0.91%) Xamarin
8 16 (0.81%) Apple
8 16 (0.81%) Sony
8 16 (0.81%) Yahoo!
9 11 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.40%) Databricks
11 7 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.25%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.25%) Sage
12 5 (0.25%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.20%) IBM
13 4 (0.20%) ServiceNow