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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -47 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,181 2,134 4,078
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.52% 6.53% 8.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.54% 32.46% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 1,392 3,741
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,025 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.13% - -

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 4,138 6,574 10,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.82% 20.11% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,153 3,765 8,769
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

.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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -32 383 £60,000 - 186
North of England -39 348 £65,000 +13.04% 171
Midlands -46 201 £52,500 -8.70% 74
North West -22 185 £65,000 +13.04% 114
West Midlands -41 116 £50,000 -13.04% 34
Yorkshire -44 105 £57,500 +8.49% 34
South West -49 100 £55,000 -8.33% 61
East Midlands -39 85 £65,000 +26.21% 40
East of England -62 65 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Scotland -59 59 £60,000 +20.00% 41
North East -9 58 £70,000 +9.80% 24
Wales -10 29 £45,000 -25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -16 4 £56,250 +12.50% 5
Channel Islands -1 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 (3.22%) IIS
2 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.10%) CMS
4 8 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.59%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.51%) Confluence
6 6 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.34%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.25%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.085%) Apache
10 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.085%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.085%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.085%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.085%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 35 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.085%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.085%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 551 (46.66%) Azure
2 216 (18.29%) AWS
3 201 (17.02%) SaaS
4 169 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.47%) GitHub
6 74 (6.27%) Power Platform
7 66 (5.59%) Serverless
8 55 (4.66%) GCP
9 42 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (3.22%) Power Automate
11 32 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.54%) Azure Functions
13 29 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 29 (2.46%) Entra ID
14 28 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 27 (2.29%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (2.12%) Azure AKS
17 22 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.78%) Amazon S3
19 20 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.02%) Internet
2 9 (0.76%) DNS
3 8 (0.68%) DHCP
3 8 (0.68%) VPN
4 6 (0.51%) VoIP
5 3 (0.25%) Firewall
5 3 (0.25%) HTTP
5 3 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 1 (0.085%) AMQP
7 1 (0.085%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.085%) LTE
7 1 (0.085%) MPLS
7 1 (0.085%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.085%) SSL
7 1 (0.085%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (25.83%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.50%) NoSQL
3 40 (3.39%) Power BI
4 31 (2.62%) MySQL
4 31 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.52%) Redis
11 6 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.42%) Tableau
13 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.34%) GIS
14 3 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (7.71%) Git
2 44 (3.73%) JIRA
3 40 (3.39%) Visual Studio
4 34 (2.88%) Selenium
5 31 (2.62%) Postman
6 30 (2.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 26 (2.20%) SoapUI
8 23 (1.95%) WebDriver
9 14 (1.19%) Jenkins
10 13 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.68%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.59%) git-flow
12 7 (0.59%) GitLab
13 6 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.51%) Storybook
14 5 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.42%) NUnit
15 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.25%) MSTest
15 3 (0.25%) Snyk
General
1 243 (20.58%) Social Skills
2 172 (14.56%) Finance
3 42 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 25 (2.12%) Law
6 17 (1.44%) Games
7 16 (1.35%) Aviation
7 16 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (0.93%) Banking
9 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (0.93%) Retail
10 10 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 9 (0.76%) Electronics
11 9 (0.76%) Military
12 8 (0.68%) Marketing
13 7 (0.59%) Automotive
13 7 (0.59%) Publishing
14 5 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 688 (58.26%) Developer
2 272 (23.03%) Senior
3 268 (22.69%) .NET Developer
4 225 (19.05%) Software Developer
5 201 (17.02%) Software Engineer
6 137 (11.60%) Lead
7 130 (11.01%) Senior Developer
8 129 (10.92%) C# Developer
8 129 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 84 (7.11%) .NET Software Engineer
10 79 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 76 (6.44%) .NET Software Developer
12 65 (5.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 63 (5.33%) Lead Developer
14 60 (5.08%) C# .NET Developer
15 59 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
16 46 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
17 44 (3.73%) Analyst
18 42 (3.56%) Applications Developer
19 36 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (22.18%) .NET Core
2 210 (17.78%) React
3 184 (15.58%) ASP.NET
4 167 (14.14%) .NET Framework
5 143 (12.11%) HTML
6 129 (10.92%) CSS
7 117 (9.91%) AngularJS
8 88 (7.45%) REST
9 75 (6.35%) Blazor
10 74 (6.27%) RESTful
11 58 (4.91%) Entity Framework
12 57 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
13 49 (4.15%) Vue
14 38 (3.22%) SOAP
15 33 (2.79%) Node.js
16 32 (2.71%) ASP.NET MVC
17 28 (2.37%) jQuery
18 26 (2.20%) WinForms
18 26 (2.20%) WPF
19 22 (1.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.17%) Mobile App
4 40 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (0.85%) IoT
13 8 (0.68%) 3D Graphics
13 8 (0.68%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.68%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.68%) Client/Server
13 8 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.68%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.68%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.57%) Windows
2 25 (2.12%) Android
3 23 (1.95%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.44%) Linux
5 11 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.085%) Fedora
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (35.90%) Agile
2 374 (31.67%) Software Engineering
3 315 (26.67%) DevOps
4 288 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 269 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 199 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 156 (13.21%) Microservices
8 155 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (12.11%) Mentoring
10 110 (9.31%) SDLC
11 106 (8.98%) AI
12 103 (8.72%) Containerisation
13 95 (8.04%) Clean Code
14 89 (7.54%) Scrum
15 87 (7.37%) MVC
16 72 (6.10%) User Experience
17 70 (5.93%) Computer Science
18 69 (5.84%) Roadmaps
19 66 (5.59%) CRM
19 66 (5.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 815 (69.01%) C#
2 366 (30.99%) SQL
3 273 (23.12%) JavaScript
4 126 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 100 (8.47%) Java
6 85 (7.20%) Python
7 39 (3.30%) C++
8 36 (3.05%) T-SQL
9 33 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.71%) PHP
11 20 (1.69%) VB.NET
12 14 (1.19%) C
13 13 (1.10%) Bash
14 11 (0.93%) Bicep
15 8 (0.68%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.68%) XAML
16 6 (0.51%) Go
16 6 (0.51%) VB
17 5 (0.42%) Delphi
18 3 (0.25%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 138 (11.69%) Degree
2 56 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (2.29%) ISTQB
4 24 (2.03%) Security Cleared
5 23 (1.95%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 22 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.51%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.34%) ISEB
10 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.17%) PhD
12 2 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.085%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.60%) QA
2 33 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.10%) GDPR
4 10 (0.85%) WCAG
5 9 (0.76%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.17%) SLA
9 1 (0.085%) HL7
9 1 (0.085%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (9.99%) Docker
2 19 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.51%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.085%) HDFS
5 1 (0.085%) Squid
5 1 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 78 (6.60%) Terraform
3 18 (1.52%) Grafana
4 15 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.59%) Ansible
6 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.085%) CASB
8 1 (0.085%) Kibana
Vendors
1 191 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.54%) Xamarin
3 17 (1.44%) Oracle
4 14 (1.19%) Google
4 14 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.02%) Sage
6 9 (0.76%) Apple
6 9 (0.76%) Telerik
7 7 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (0.51%) Databricks
8 6 (0.51%) Datto
8 6 (0.51%) Freshdesk
8 6 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.42%) DevExpress
9 5 (0.42%) Syncfusion
9 5 (0.42%) Zoho
10 4 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.34%) New Relic
11 3 (0.25%) VMware