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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -33 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,792 1,358 5,743
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.69% 4.60% 7.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 32.72% 27.05% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 981 4,879
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
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 5,476 5,021 14,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.23% 17.02% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,388 3,160 10,727
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 12 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 12 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 +15 605 £57,500 - 135
North of England -6 519 £60,000 - 119
North West +4 277 £62,500 +11.11% 69
Midlands -3 274 £55,000 - 65
South West +7 174 £55,000 +4.76% 49
East of England +6 150 £65,000 +30.00% 48
West Midlands -27 141 £55,000 +2.44% 37
East Midlands +14 133 £55,000 - 28
Yorkshire -8 124 £60,000 -7.69% 21
North East +2 118 £59,000 +7.27% 30
Scotland +2 51 £57,500 +3.14% 15
Wales -48 20 £50,000 -29.33% 7
Northern Ireland -33 1 - - 8
.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 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.28%) IIS
3 16 (0.89%) ColdFusion
4 11 (0.61%) CMS
5 9 (0.50%) Confluence
6 7 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.33%) 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%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.17%) nginx
9 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.056%) Appian
10 1 (0.056%) Drupal
10 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.67%) 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 7 (0.39%) 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
1 796 (44.42%) Azure
2 257 (14.34%) AWS
3 232 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
4 216 (12.05%) SaaS
5 125 (6.98%) GitHub
6 86 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 83 (4.63%) Azure AI
8 70 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
8 70 (3.91%) Serverless
9 68 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
10 62 (3.46%) Power Automate
11 59 (3.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 54 (3.01%) PowerApps
13 38 (2.12%) Azure Functions
13 38 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 26 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
15 25 (1.40%) GCP
16 24 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.07%) Internet
2 9 (0.50%) 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 2 (0.11%) Modbus
7 1 (0.056%) AMQP
7 1 (0.056%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.056%) LTE
7 1 (0.056%) MPLS
7 1 (0.056%) Profibus
7 1 (0.056%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.056%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 270 (15.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 223 (12.44%) MongoDB
4 80 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 70 (3.91%) Power BI
6 58 (3.24%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.51%) MySQL
9 20 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.56%) GIS
13 9 (0.50%) Redis
14 6 (0.33%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.28%) Geospatial Data
15 5 (0.28%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
16 4 (0.22%) Metadata
16 4 (0.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 95 (5.30%) Git
2 37 (2.06%) JIRA
3 30 (1.67%) Visual Studio
4 26 (1.45%) Postman
5 20 (1.12%) Selenium
6 15 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
7 13 (0.73%) SoapUI
8 12 (0.67%) NUnit
9 11 (0.61%) GitLab
10 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.45%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.39%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.39%) Moq
12 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.28%) JMeter
14 5 (0.28%) MSTest
14 5 (0.28%) Yeoman
General
1 224 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 177 (9.88%) Finance
3 65 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 46 (2.57%) Retail
6 41 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 37 (2.06%) Games
8 28 (1.56%) Advertising
9 26 (1.45%) Marketing
10 24 (1.34%) Automotive
11 23 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.17%) Electronics
13 16 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (0.84%) Law
15 12 (0.67%) Legal
16 10 (0.56%) Aviation
17 8 (0.45%) Back Office
17 8 (0.45%) Military
18 6 (0.33%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.33%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 1,139 (63.56%) Developer
2 651 (36.33%) .NET Developer
3 364 (20.31%) Senior
4 315 (17.58%) Software Developer
5 314 (17.52%) Software Engineer
6 189 (10.55%) Senior Developer
7 185 (10.32%) Lead
8 150 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
9 147 (8.20%) C# Developer
10 140 (7.81%) .NET Software Engineer
11 116 (6.47%) .NET Software Developer
12 115 (6.42%) C# .NET Developer
12 115 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 104 (5.80%) C# Software Engineer
14 101 (5.64%) Senior .NET Developer
15 97 (5.41%) Lead Developer
16 75 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 70 (3.91%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 61 (3.40%) Web Developer
19 60 (3.35%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (29.19%) .NET Core
2 433 (24.16%) ASP.NET
3 309 (17.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 257 (14.34%) HTML
5 254 (14.17%) React
6 250 (13.95%) CSS
7 208 (11.61%) AngularJS
8 178 (9.93%) .NET Framework
9 173 (9.65%) Entity Framework
9 173 (9.65%) RESTful
10 166 (9.26%) Vue
11 150 (8.37%) Blazor
12 147 (8.20%) Node.js
13 115 (6.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 110 (6.14%) REST
15 79 (4.41%) ML.NET
16 62 (3.46%) LINQ
17 52 (2.90%) jQuery
18 35 (1.95%) WPF
19 34 (1.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
2 80 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 74 (4.13%) Mobile App
4 56 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.40%) Legacy Code
9 16 (0.89%) Hedge funds
10 15 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 15 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
10 15 (0.84%) PropTech
11 13 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 11 (0.61%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.61%) Digital TV
12 11 (0.61%) Management Information System
12 11 (0.61%) Onboarding
12 11 (0.61%) Social Network
12 11 (0.61%) Sports Betting
13 10 (0.56%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.40%) Windows
2 24 (1.34%) Android
3 18 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 16 (0.89%) Linux
5 9 (0.50%) 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
1 598 (33.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 521 (29.07%) Agile
3 467 (26.06%) Software Engineering
4 369 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 354 (19.75%) DevOps
6 238 (13.28%) AI
7 232 (12.95%) Microservices
8 190 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
9 173 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 157 (8.76%) SDLC
11 141 (7.87%) Mentoring
12 123 (6.86%) Machine Learning
13 114 (6.36%) TDD
14 113 (6.31%) Scrum
15 109 (6.08%) Clean Code
16 105 (5.86%) Multithreading
17 94 (5.25%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (5.25%) Test Automation
18 92 (5.13%) Business Intelligence
18 92 (5.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (70.59%) C#
2 635 (35.44%) SQL
3 359 (20.03%) JavaScript
4 215 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 122 (6.81%) Python
6 95 (5.30%) Java
7 71 (3.96%) C++
8 53 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 52 (2.90%) PHP
10 40 (2.23%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.51%) VB.NET
12 20 (1.12%) C
13 19 (1.06%) Bash
14 17 (0.95%) VB
15 13 (0.73%) Bicep
16 10 (0.56%) VBA
17 7 (0.39%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.39%) XAML
18 5 (0.28%) Delphi
18 5 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 158 (8.82%) Degree
2 72 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 56 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 9 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.17%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
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 (4.85%) QA
2 38 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.89%) GDPR
4 10 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.56%) WCAG
5 8 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.28%) SLA
7 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.11%) NCSC
9 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 175 (9.77%) Docker
2 12 (0.67%) Firmware
3 10 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 155 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 64 (3.57%) 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%) MOM
5 1 (0.056%) Packer
5 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.056%) Puppet
Vendors
1 475 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 34 (1.90%) Google
3 31 (1.73%) Facebook
4 24 (1.34%) Xamarin
5 23 (1.28%) Adobe
6 22 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 20 (1.12%) Oracle
8 12 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 11 (0.61%) YouTube
10 10 (0.56%) Apple
10 10 (0.56%) Sony
10 10 (0.56%) Yahoo!
11 9 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.39%) Databricks
12 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.39%) VMware
13 5 (0.28%) DevExpress
13 5 (0.28%) Sage
14 4 (0.22%) IBM
14 4 (0.22%) SYSPRO