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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 79 25
Rank change year-on-year +24 -54 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,208 1,194 3,638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.58% 3.48% 6.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.13% 25.40% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 863 2,450
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.34%

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 7,328 4,701 10,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 13.71% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,640 2,850 6,108
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,700 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -3.70%

.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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +37 686 £60,000 - 275
North of England +2 602 £56,500 -5.83% 312
Midlands +29 351 £60,000 +9.09% 175
North West -18 268 £60,000 -4.00% 198
East of England +29 215 £60,000 +14.29% 125
South West -4 195 £55,000 +4.76% 70
West Midlands -14 186 £58,750 +6.82% 94
North East +6 181 £57,000 +31.41% 42
East Midlands +46 165 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Yorkshire +3 153 £55,000 -8.33% 75
Scotland +37 70 £60,000 -5.51% 89
Northern Ireland -34 63 £35,000 -30.00% 58
Wales -78 28 £50,000 -9.09% 33
.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 43 (1.95%) IIS
2 30 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
4 13 (0.59%) ColdFusion
4 13 (0.59%) Confluence
5 8 (0.36%) WordPress
6 7 (0.32%) nginx
6 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.18%) Apache
7 4 (0.18%) CICS
7 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.045%) Appian
10 1 (0.045%) Kentico
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.045%) Magento
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,090 (49.37%) Azure
2 361 (16.35%) AWS
3 353 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
4 213 (9.65%) GitHub
5 174 (7.88%) SaaS
6 160 (7.25%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.39%) GitHub Copilot
8 121 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.21%) Serverless
10 89 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 84 (3.80%) Power Automate
12 80 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 67 (3.03%) PowerApps
14 51 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
14 51 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.90%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 40 (1.81%) GCP
18 39 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.94%) Internet
2 18 (0.82%) Firewall
3 11 (0.50%) VLAN
4 10 (0.45%) Wireless
5 9 (0.41%) HTTP
5 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) DNS
7 5 (0.23%) LAN
7 5 (0.23%) WAN
8 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) RS-232
9 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 452 (20.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 393 (17.80%) MongoDB
4 154 (6.97%) Elasticsearch
5 79 (3.58%) Power BI
5 79 (3.58%) Relational Database
6 60 (2.72%) MySQL
7 59 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.77%) Redis
11 14 (0.63%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.63%) Spark SQL
12 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.45%) SQLite
15 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.41%) GIS
16 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 164 (7.43%) Git
2 33 (1.49%) Visual Studio
3 32 (1.45%) JIRA
4 30 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 24 (1.09%) Claude Code
6 22 (1.00%) GitLab
7 20 (0.91%) NUnit
8 17 (0.77%) Postman
9 15 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
11 11 (0.50%) Selenium
12 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.36%) Moq
14 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.32%) MSI
15 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.23%) MSTest
17 4 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 338 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 223 (10.10%) Finance
3 105 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.89%) Legal
5 77 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.03%) Retail
7 63 (2.85%) Games
8 60 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.45%) Advertising
11 52 (2.36%) Marketing
12 51 (2.31%) Law
13 30 (1.36%) Legal Technology
14 25 (1.13%) Automotive
15 23 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.86%) Electronics
17 12 (0.54%) Aviation
18 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 11 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,415 (64.09%) Developer
2 866 (39.22%) .NET Developer
3 412 (18.66%) Senior
4 311 (14.09%) Software Engineer
5 271 (12.27%) Software Developer
6 251 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 236 (10.69%) Lead
8 150 (6.79%) C# Developer
9 148 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 127 (5.75%) C# Software Engineer
11 117 (5.30%) C# .NET Developer
12 116 (5.25%) .NET Software Engineer
12 116 (5.25%) Lead Developer
13 111 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
14 102 (4.62%) Senior .NET Developer
15 98 (4.44%) .NET Software Developer
16 84 (3.80%) Web Developer
17 81 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 61 (2.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 60 (2.72%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 691 (31.30%) .NET Core
2 657 (29.76%) ASP.NET
3 537 (24.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 357 (16.17%) React
5 353 (15.99%) HTML
6 348 (15.76%) CSS
7 272 (12.32%) AngularJS
8 268 (12.14%) Entity Framework
9 246 (11.14%) Blazor
10 244 (11.05%) RESTful
11 232 (10.51%) Vue
12 230 (10.42%) .NET Framework
13 210 (9.51%) Node.js
14 209 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 145 (6.57%) ML.NET
16 143 (6.48%) REST
17 107 (4.85%) LINQ
18 86 (3.89%) jQuery
19 78 (3.53%) Terraform
20 57 (2.58%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
2 118 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 101 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 66 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 51 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 34 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 34 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
7 34 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.18%) Legacy Code
9 22 (1.00%) Hedge funds
9 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
11 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
12 17 (0.77%) iPhone
13 16 (0.72%) BBC
13 16 (0.72%) Social Media
14 13 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 99 (4.48%) Windows
2 36 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.22%) Android
4 25 (1.13%) Linux
5 7 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (36.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 760 (34.42%) Agile
3 574 (26.00%) CI/CD
4 548 (24.82%) Software Engineering
5 499 (22.60%) DevOps
6 376 (17.03%) Microservices
7 364 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
8 359 (16.26%) AI
9 269 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.51%) Machine Learning
10 188 (8.51%) Mentoring
11 185 (8.38%) SDLC
12 172 (7.79%) Multithreading
13 150 (6.79%) Scrum
14 140 (6.34%) TDD
15 126 (5.71%) OO
16 125 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
17 121 (5.48%) Test Automation
18 120 (5.43%) Business Intelligence
19 115 (5.21%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,702 (77.08%) C#
2 853 (38.63%) SQL
3 515 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 293 (13.27%) TypeScript
5 136 (6.16%) Python
6 98 (4.44%) Java
7 90 (4.08%) C++
8 60 (2.72%) PowerShell
9 58 (2.63%) PHP
9 58 (2.63%) VB.NET
10 55 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.22%) Bicep
12 26 (1.18%) C
13 19 (0.86%) Bash
14 16 (0.72%) COBOL
14 16 (0.72%) VB
15 12 (0.54%) JCL
16 11 (0.50%) Delphi
16 11 (0.50%) Go
17 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 187 (8.47%) Degree
2 102 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 73 (3.31%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.091%) CSQA
13 2 (0.091%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (8.38%) QA
2 46 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.72%) GDPR
5 14 (0.63%) WCAG
6 7 (0.32%) NCSC
7 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.14%) NIST
10 2 (0.091%) PMO
11 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 258 (11.68%) Docker
2 23 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 223 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.54%) Grafana
2 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.18%) Ansible
3 4 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.091%) Bosun
4 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.045%) MOM
Vendors
1 784 (35.51%) Microsoft
2 64 (2.90%) Google
3 56 (2.54%) Facebook
4 30 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 27 (1.22%) Oracle
6 21 (0.95%) YouTube
7 20 (0.91%) Adobe
8 17 (0.77%) VMware
9 16 (0.72%) Apple
9 16 (0.72%) Sony
9 16 (0.72%) Yahoo!
10 11 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 9 (0.41%) DevExpress
12 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Sage
13 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 4 (0.18%) IBM