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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 70 25
Rank change year-on-year +18 -45 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,244 1,302 3,933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.88% 3.73% 6.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.12% 27.37% 38.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 945 3,115
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £35,190
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 6,577 4,757 10,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 13.64% 17.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,180 2,924 7,151
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,687 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

.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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +39 699 £57,500 - 153
North of England 0 624 £57,500 -4.17% 129
Midlands +15 342 £55,000 - 76
North West -5 281 £60,000 - 63
South West +19 221 £52,500 - 33
East of England +29 220 £65,000 +30.00% 48
West Midlands +4 182 £60,000 +4.35% 33
North East +3 172 £56,500 +29.89% 37
Yorkshire +22 171 £55,000 -10.20% 31
East Midlands +41 160 £55,000 - 43
Northern Ireland -24 59 £35,000 -30.00% 1
Scotland +19 55 £60,000 -6.98% 15
Wales -70 26 £50,000 -14.89% 16
.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 39 (1.74%) IIS
1 39 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.71%) CMS
2 16 (0.71%) ColdFusion
2 16 (0.71%) Confluence
3 9 (0.40%) WordPress
4 8 (0.36%) nginx
5 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.18%) CICS
6 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.13%) Apache
7 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.13%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.089%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.045%) Appian
9 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.089%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.089%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,131 (50.40%) Azure
2 360 (16.04%) Azure DevOps
3 356 (15.86%) AWS
4 213 (9.49%) GitHub
5 190 (8.47%) SaaS
6 166 (7.40%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 129 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 94 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 88 (3.92%) Power Automate
11 85 (3.79%) Serverless
12 81 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
13 71 (3.16%) PowerApps
14 54 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
15 48 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (2.01%) Azure Functions
17 44 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 42 (1.87%) GCP
19 39 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
20 33 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.83%) Internet
2 9 (0.40%) Firewall
2 9 (0.40%) HTTP
2 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.27%) SNMP
5 5 (0.22%) DHCP
5 5 (0.22%) DNS
5 5 (0.22%) LAN
5 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.13%) Modbus
6 3 (0.13%) RS-232
7 2 (0.089%) VLAN
8 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.045%) Network Security
8 1 (0.045%) Profibus
8 1 (0.045%) SSL
8 1 (0.045%) Wireless
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 454 (20.23%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.09%) MongoDB
4 159 (7.09%) Elasticsearch
5 94 (4.19%) Power BI
6 63 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 61 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 58 (2.58%) MySQL
9 45 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.80%) Redis
12 17 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.49%) GIS
15 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.40%) SQLite
18 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 159 (7.09%) Git
2 35 (1.56%) JIRA
3 30 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 29 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.98%) GitLab
5 22 (0.98%) NUnit
6 20 (0.89%) Postman
7 17 (0.76%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.71%) Selenium
9 12 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.40%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
11 8 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (0.31%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) JUnit
13 6 (0.27%) MSTest
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.22%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (14.26%) Social Skills
2 218 (9.71%) Finance
3 94 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (3.70%) Legal
5 69 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 69 (3.07%) Retail
6 58 (2.58%) Games
7 57 (2.54%) Advertising
7 57 (2.54%) Law
8 56 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.41%) Marketing
11 30 (1.34%) Legal Technology
12 26 (1.16%) Automotive
13 22 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.49%) Aviation
15 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
16 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,495 (66.62%) Developer
2 890 (39.66%) .NET Developer
3 418 (18.63%) Senior
4 321 (14.30%) Software Engineer
5 316 (14.08%) Software Developer
6 260 (11.59%) Senior Developer
7 245 (10.92%) Lead
8 158 (7.04%) C# Developer
9 154 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 125 (5.57%) C# Software Engineer
11 124 (5.53%) .NET Software Engineer
11 124 (5.53%) Lead Developer
12 121 (5.39%) C# .NET Developer
13 116 (5.17%) .NET Software Developer
14 111 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
15 99 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
16 89 (3.97%) Web Developer
17 80 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (2.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 64 (2.85%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 726 (32.35%) .NET Core
2 687 (30.61%) ASP.NET
3 553 (24.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 365 (16.27%) HTML
5 359 (16.00%) CSS
6 344 (15.33%) React
7 280 (12.48%) AngularJS
8 276 (12.30%) Entity Framework
9 257 (11.45%) RESTful
10 255 (11.36%) Blazor
11 242 (10.78%) .NET Framework
12 240 (10.70%) Vue
13 230 (10.25%) Node.js
14 212 (9.45%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.82%) ML.NET
16 146 (6.51%) REST
17 109 (4.86%) LINQ
18 70 (3.12%) jQuery
19 57 (2.54%) WPF
20 53 (2.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
2 120 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 94 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 66 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 58 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.43%) Legacy Code
9 29 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
10 25 (1.11%) AI Agents
11 22 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
13 20 (0.89%) Digital TV
14 18 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 18 (0.80%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.80%) Onboarding
15 17 (0.76%) BBC
15 17 (0.76%) iPhone
15 17 (0.76%) Social Media
16 14 (0.62%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.65%) Windows
2 29 (1.29%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.20%) Android
4 26 (1.16%) Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (36.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 778 (34.67%) Agile
3 570 (25.40%) CI/CD
4 551 (24.55%) Software Engineering
5 516 (22.99%) DevOps
6 399 (17.78%) Microservices
7 343 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
8 337 (15.02%) AI
9 277 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (8.78%) Machine Learning
11 194 (8.65%) SDLC
12 180 (8.02%) Multithreading
13 171 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 162 (7.22%) Scrum
15 153 (6.82%) TDD
16 136 (6.06%) OO
17 125 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
18 122 (5.44%) Clean Code
19 121 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
20 118 (5.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,707 (76.07%) C#
2 869 (38.73%) SQL
3 502 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 303 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 142 (6.33%) Python
6 101 (4.50%) Java
7 76 (3.39%) C++
8 66 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 64 (2.85%) PHP
10 54 (2.41%) T-SQL
11 48 (2.14%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.34%) Bicep
13 26 (1.16%) C
14 22 (0.98%) Bash
15 14 (0.62%) VB
16 12 (0.53%) COBOL
16 12 (0.53%) Go
17 9 (0.40%) VBA
17 9 (0.40%) XAML
18 8 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 186 (8.29%) Degree
2 96 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 76 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.13%) OCP
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.089%) PhD
13 2 (0.089%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.33%) QA
2 46 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.71%) GDPR
4 14 (0.62%) WCAG
5 11 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) SLA
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
8 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 272 (12.12%) Docker
2 13 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 243 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.01%) Terraform
3 13 (0.58%) Grafana
4 12 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 2 (0.089%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) MOM
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 798 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 67 (2.99%) Google
3 59 (2.63%) Facebook
4 29 (1.29%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.16%) Adobe
6 23 (1.02%) Oracle
7 21 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
8 17 (0.76%) Sony
8 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
9 12 (0.53%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.40%) Sage
10 9 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) VMware
12 7 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.22%) SYSPRO