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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -35 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,856 1,348 5,921
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.75% 4.49% 7.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.13% 26.93% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,712 974 5,025
10th Percentile £40,025 £34,300 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 5,603 5,006 14,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.29% 16.67% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,518 3,147 10,950
10th Percentile £37,250 £32,289 £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 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

.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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +21 609 £57,500 - 129
North of England -3 532 £60,000 - 116
Midlands +6 299 £55,000 - 61
North West -2 278 £62,500 +13.64% 61
South West +14 183 £55,000 +4.76% 39
East of England +10 162 £65,000 +23.81% 42
West Midlands -15 154 £55,000 +2.44% 37
East Midlands +22 145 £55,000 - 24
North East +6 128 £59,000 +7.27% 31
Yorkshire -12 126 £57,500 -11.54% 26
Scotland +7 52 £57,500 -4.17% 16
Wales -52 20 £50,000 -33.33% 7
Northern Ireland -31 1 - - 13
.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 41 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.24%) IIS
3 16 (0.86%) ColdFusion
4 11 (0.59%) CMS
4 11 (0.59%) Confluence
5 7 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.32%) WordPress
7 4 (0.22%) Apache
7 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.22%) nginx
7 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.054%) Appian
10 1 (0.054%) Drupal
10 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Magento
3 2 (0.11%) Shopify
3 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.054%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.054%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 856 (46.12%) Azure
2 271 (14.60%) AWS
3 261 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
4 210 (11.31%) SaaS
5 140 (7.54%) GitHub
6 107 (5.77%) Azure AI
7 92 (4.96%) Power Platform
8 85 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
9 73 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
10 69 (3.72%) Power Automate
11 68 (3.66%) Serverless
12 67 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 60 (3.23%) PowerApps
14 38 (2.05%) Azure Functions
14 38 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.35%) GCP
17 24 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
19 22 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.45%) Internet
2 9 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.43%) Firewall
4 7 (0.38%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.27%) DHCP
5 5 (0.27%) DNS
5 5 (0.27%) LAN
5 5 (0.27%) WAN
6 3 (0.16%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.16%) RS-232
7 2 (0.11%) Modbus
8 1 (0.054%) AMQP
8 1 (0.054%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.054%) HTTP
8 1 (0.054%) LTE
8 1 (0.054%) MPLS
8 1 (0.054%) Profibus
8 1 (0.054%) SSL
8 1 (0.054%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.054%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (19.07%) SQL Server
2 321 (17.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 269 (14.49%) MongoDB
4 96 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
5 75 (4.04%) Power BI
6 54 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.56%) MySQL
9 22 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.59%) Redis
14 10 (0.54%) GIS
15 7 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
17 5 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.27%) Metadata
18 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 95 (5.12%) Git
2 35 (1.89%) JIRA
3 28 (1.51%) Visual Studio
4 24 (1.29%) Postman
5 18 (0.97%) Selenium
6 13 (0.70%) NUnit
7 12 (0.65%) GitLab
7 12 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.54%) SoapUI
9 9 (0.48%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.38%) Moq
10 7 (0.38%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.32%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.32%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.27%) JMeter
12 5 (0.27%) MSTest
12 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 220 (11.85%) Social Skills
2 177 (9.54%) Finance
3 65 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 49 (2.64%) Retail
6 44 (2.37%) Manufacturing
7 39 (2.10%) Games
8 37 (1.99%) Advertising
9 32 (1.72%) Marketing
10 25 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.35%) Automotive
11 21 (1.13%) Electronics
12 20 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (0.86%) Law
14 14 (0.75%) Legal
15 9 (0.48%) Aviation
16 8 (0.43%) Back Office
16 8 (0.43%) Military
17 6 (0.32%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.32%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,205 (64.92%) Developer
2 702 (37.82%) .NET Developer
3 362 (19.50%) Senior
4 322 (17.35%) Software Developer
5 310 (16.70%) Software Engineer
6 193 (10.40%) Lead
7 189 (10.18%) Senior Developer
8 148 (7.97%) C# Developer
8 148 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
9 137 (7.38%) .NET Software Engineer
10 118 (6.36%) .NET Software Developer
11 116 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
12 114 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
13 106 (5.71%) C# Software Engineer
14 104 (5.60%) Lead Developer
15 100 (5.39%) Senior .NET Developer
16 74 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 66 (3.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 63 (3.39%) Web Developer
19 60 (3.23%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (31.03%) .NET Core
2 484 (26.08%) ASP.NET
3 364 (19.61%) ASP.NET Core
4 279 (15.03%) HTML
5 274 (14.76%) CSS
5 274 (14.76%) React
6 221 (11.91%) AngularJS
7 191 (10.29%) Entity Framework
8 187 (10.08%) RESTful
9 181 (9.75%) .NET Framework
10 176 (9.48%) Blazor
10 176 (9.48%) Vue
11 162 (8.73%) Node.js
12 132 (7.11%) ASP.NET Web API
13 119 (6.41%) REST
14 102 (5.50%) ML.NET
15 72 (3.88%) LINQ
16 55 (2.96%) jQuery
17 40 (2.16%) WPF
18 35 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
2 84 (4.53%) Cloud Native
3 75 (4.04%) Mobile App
4 57 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 50 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.40%) Legacy Code
9 17 (0.92%) Hedge funds
10 16 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (0.75%) AI Agents
12 14 (0.75%) Digital TV
13 13 (0.70%) iPhone
13 13 (0.70%) PropTech
13 13 (0.70%) Social Network
13 13 (0.70%) Sports Betting
14 12 (0.65%) BBC
14 12 (0.65%) Social Media
14 12 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.59%) Windows
2 27 (1.45%) Android
3 18 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.86%) Linux
5 9 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.054%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.054%) VMS
7 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (35.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 557 (30.01%) Agile
3 469 (25.27%) Software Engineering
4 397 (21.39%) CI/CD
5 381 (20.53%) DevOps
6 268 (14.44%) AI
7 249 (13.42%) Microservices
8 194 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 163 (8.78%) SDLC
11 146 (7.87%) Machine Learning
12 141 (7.60%) Mentoring
13 123 (6.63%) TDD
14 121 (6.52%) Multithreading
15 119 (6.41%) Scrum
16 109 (5.87%) Clean Code
17 98 (5.28%) Business Intelligence
17 98 (5.28%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (5.06%) Test Automation
19 91 (4.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,340 (72.20%) C#
2 682 (36.75%) SQL
3 387 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 229 (12.34%) TypeScript
5 123 (6.63%) Python
6 92 (4.96%) Java
7 70 (3.77%) C++
8 57 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.80%) PHP
10 42 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.45%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.08%) Bash
12 20 (1.08%) C
13 18 (0.97%) Bicep
14 17 (0.92%) VB
15 9 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.38%) XAML
17 6 (0.32%) Delphi
18 5 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 157 (8.46%) Degree
2 73 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 58 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.43%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.16%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.16%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.11%) CSQA
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.11%) PhD
12 1 (0.054%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.85%) QA
2 41 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.81%) GDPR
4 12 (0.65%) WCAG
5 11 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.22%) NCSC
9 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 195 (10.51%) Docker
2 12 (0.65%) Firmware
3 10 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 176 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.61%) Terraform
3 4 (0.22%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) MIIS
4 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.054%) Ansible
5 1 (0.054%) CASB
5 1 (0.054%) Consul
5 1 (0.054%) MOM
5 1 (0.054%) Packer
5 1 (0.054%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.054%) Puppet
Vendors
1 538 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 40 (2.16%) Facebook
3 39 (2.10%) Google
4 24 (1.29%) OpenAI
5 23 (1.24%) Adobe
6 22 (1.19%) Xamarin
7 20 (1.08%) Oracle
8 14 (0.75%) YouTube
9 12 (0.65%) Apple
9 12 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 12 (0.65%) Sony
9 12 (0.65%) Yahoo!
10 8 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.43%) Databricks
11 7 (0.38%) VMware
12 5 (0.27%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.27%) Sage
12 5 (0.27%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.27%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.22%) IBM