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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -32 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,780 1,361 5,719
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.68% 4.62% 7.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 32.64% 27.07% 39.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 984 4,866
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £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 5,454 5,027 14,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.22% 17.07% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,370 3,165 10,713
10th Percentile £36,250 £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 £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 11 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 11 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 +17 601 £57,500 - 143
North of England -5 518 £60,000 - 143
North West -1 276 £62,500 +13.64% 83
Midlands 0 273 £55,000 - 76
South West +12 174 £55,000 +4.76% 46
East of England +3 147 £65,000 +26.83% 56
West Midlands -20 142 £55,000 +2.44% 42
East Midlands +16 131 £55,000 - 34
Yorkshire -11 122 £60,000 -7.69% 26
North East 0 120 £59,000 +7.27% 35
Scotland +3 49 £57,500 +1.77% 9
Wales -51 19 £47,500 -28.57% 11
Northern Ireland -34 1 - - 6
.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 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.29%) IIS
3 16 (0.90%) ColdFusion
4 10 (0.56%) CMS
5 9 (0.51%) Confluence
6 7 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.34%) WordPress
8 4 (0.22%) Apache
8 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.22%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.056%) Appian
11 1 (0.056%) Drupal
11 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Magento
3 2 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.056%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.056%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 784 (44.04%) Azure
2 254 (14.27%) AWS
3 229 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (12.08%) SaaS
5 122 (6.85%) GitHub
6 87 (4.89%) Power Platform
7 79 (4.44%) Azure AI
8 70 (3.93%) Serverless
9 68 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
10 67 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 62 (3.48%) Power Automate
12 56 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 54 (3.03%) PowerApps
14 38 (2.13%) Azure Functions
14 38 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.40%) GCP
17 24 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
18 23 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
19 21 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.03%) Internet
2 9 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.45%) Firewall
4 5 (0.28%) DHCP
4 5 (0.28%) DNS
4 5 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.28%) LAN
4 5 (0.28%) WAN
5 3 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.17%) RS-232
6 1 (0.056%) AMQP
6 1 (0.056%) LTE
6 1 (0.056%) Modbus
6 1 (0.056%) MPLS
6 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (19.89%) SQL Server
2 255 (14.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 210 (11.80%) MongoDB
4 74 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
5 70 (3.93%) Power BI
6 59 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.52%) MySQL
9 21 (1.18%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.56%) GIS
13 9 (0.51%) Redis
14 6 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.28%) Metadata
15 5 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
16 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 93 (5.22%) Git
2 40 (2.25%) JIRA
3 30 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 29 (1.63%) Postman
5 23 (1.29%) Selenium
6 18 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 16 (0.90%) SoapUI
8 12 (0.67%) NUnit
9 11 (0.62%) GitLab
9 11 (0.62%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.51%) Jenkins
11 7 (0.39%) Moq
11 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.34%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.34%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.28%) JMeter
13 5 (0.28%) MSTest
13 5 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 228 (12.81%) Social Skills
2 178 (10.00%) Finance
3 65 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (2.98%) Public Sector
5 46 (2.58%) Retail
6 39 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 35 (1.97%) Games
8 28 (1.57%) Advertising
9 25 (1.40%) Automotive
10 24 (1.35%) Marketing
11 23 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.18%) Electronics
13 17 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.90%) Law
15 12 (0.67%) Legal
16 10 (0.56%) Aviation
17 8 (0.45%) Back Office
17 8 (0.45%) Military
18 6 (0.34%) Banking
18 6 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,126 (63.26%) Developer
2 635 (35.67%) .NET Developer
3 364 (20.45%) Senior
4 319 (17.92%) Software Developer
5 311 (17.47%) Software Engineer
6 189 (10.62%) Senior Developer
7 188 (10.56%) Lead
8 150 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 147 (8.26%) C# Developer
10 138 (7.75%) .NET Software Engineer
11 116 (6.52%) .NET Software Developer
12 115 (6.46%) C# .NET Developer
13 114 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
14 104 (5.84%) C# Software Engineer
15 101 (5.67%) Senior .NET Developer
16 98 (5.51%) Lead Developer
17 74 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 70 (3.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 61 (3.43%) Web Developer
20 60 (3.37%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (28.60%) .NET Core
2 420 (23.60%) ASP.NET
3 293 (16.46%) ASP.NET Core
4 259 (14.55%) HTML
5 249 (13.99%) CSS
5 249 (13.99%) React
6 200 (11.24%) AngularJS
7 179 (10.06%) .NET Framework
8 167 (9.38%) Entity Framework
9 164 (9.21%) RESTful
10 158 (8.88%) Vue
11 142 (7.98%) Blazor
12 141 (7.92%) Node.js
13 110 (6.18%) REST
14 107 (6.01%) ASP.NET Web API
15 75 (4.21%) ML.NET
16 57 (3.20%) LINQ
17 52 (2.92%) jQuery
18 35 (1.97%) WPF
19 34 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
2 82 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 75 (4.21%) Mobile App
4 54 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 16 (0.90%) Hedge funds
9 15 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 15 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (0.79%) PropTech
11 13 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 11 (0.62%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.62%) Digital TV
12 11 (0.62%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.62%) Onboarding
12 11 (0.62%) Sports Betting
13 10 (0.56%) Client/Server
13 10 (0.56%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.42%) Windows
2 24 (1.35%) Android
3 18 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.90%) Linux
5 9 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (32.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 512 (28.76%) Agile
3 464 (26.07%) Software Engineering
4 368 (20.67%) CI/CD
5 351 (19.72%) DevOps
6 232 (13.03%) AI
7 225 (12.64%) Microservices
8 190 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 157 (8.82%) SDLC
11 142 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 119 (6.69%) Machine Learning
13 113 (6.35%) Scrum
14 111 (6.24%) TDD
15 109 (6.12%) Clean Code
16 97 (5.45%) Multithreading
17 95 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (5.28%) Business Intelligence
19 92 (5.17%) Containerisation
19 92 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,253 (70.39%) C#
2 627 (35.22%) SQL
3 352 (19.78%) JavaScript
4 206 (11.57%) TypeScript
5 123 (6.91%) Python
6 98 (5.51%) Java
7 70 (3.93%) C++
8 53 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.92%) PHP
10 40 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.46%) VB.NET
12 19 (1.07%) Bash
12 19 (1.07%) C
13 17 (0.96%) VB
14 14 (0.79%) Bicep
15 10 (0.56%) VBA
16 7 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.39%) XAML
17 5 (0.28%) Delphi
17 5 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 161 (9.04%) Degree
2 71 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (3.48%) Security Cleared
4 57 (3.20%) SC Cleared
5 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
6 13 (0.73%) ISTQB
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.17%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.11%) CSQA
13 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.11%) PhD
14 1 (0.056%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.89%) QA
2 37 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.96%) GDPR
4 11 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.56%) WCAG
6 8 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.28%) SLA
8 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.11%) NCSC
10 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 172 (9.66%) Docker
2 12 (0.67%) Firmware
3 10 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.65%) Terraform
3 4 (0.22%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) MIIS
4 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.056%) Ansible
5 1 (0.056%) CASB
5 1 (0.056%) Consul
5 1 (0.056%) Packer
5 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.056%) Puppet
Vendors
1 462 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (1.69%) Google
3 29 (1.63%) Facebook
4 24 (1.35%) Xamarin
5 23 (1.29%) Adobe
6 22 (1.24%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.12%) Oracle
8 12 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.62%) YouTube
10 9 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (0.45%) Apple
11 8 (0.45%) Databricks
11 8 (0.45%) Sony
11 8 (0.45%) Yahoo!
12 7 (0.39%) VMware
13 6 (0.34%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.28%) DevExpress
14 5 (0.28%) Sage
15 4 (0.22%) IBM
15 4 (0.22%) SYSPRO