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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -46 -12 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,155 2,244 3,978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.55% 6.51% 8.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.70% 32.67% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 1,422 3,649
10th Percentile £39,975 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £81,300 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 4,024 6,868 10,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.89% 19.91% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 3,776 8,515
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,700 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

.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 1 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 1 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 -34 363 £60,000 - 210
North of England -35 349 £65,000 +13.04% 167
Midlands -45 198 £52,500 -8.70% 88
North West -21 190 £65,000 +14.29% 107
West Midlands -32 116 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire -48 101 £55,000 +3.77% 34
South West -49 97 £55,000 -8.33% 59
East Midlands -38 82 £65,000 +23.81% 52
East of England -60 65 £60,000 +20.00% 53
North East -12 58 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Scotland -61 57 £60,000 +20.00% 39
Wales -11 30 £45,000 -25.00% 21
Northern Ireland -13 4 £50,000 - 6
Channel Islands 0 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 (3.29%) IIS
2 16 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.30%) CMS
4 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.69%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.52%) Confluence
7 5 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.35%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.087%) Apache
11 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.087%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.087%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.087%) Kentico
11 1 (0.087%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.087%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 37 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.087%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.087%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.087%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.087%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 552 (47.79%) Azure
2 213 (18.44%) AWS
3 197 (17.06%) SaaS
4 167 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.66%) GitHub
6 75 (6.49%) Power Platform
7 69 (5.97%) Serverless
8 55 (4.76%) GCP
9 43 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (3.29%) Power Automate
11 33 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (2.68%) Azure Functions
13 30 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 30 (2.60%) Entra ID
14 29 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (2.42%) PowerApps
16 24 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (1.90%) Azure AKS
18 21 (1.82%) Amazon S3
19 20 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.95%) Internet
2 10 (0.87%) DNS
3 9 (0.78%) DHCP
3 9 (0.78%) VPN
4 7 (0.61%) VoIP
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) HTTP
5 3 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 1 (0.087%) AMQP
7 1 (0.087%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.087%) MPLS
7 1 (0.087%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.087%) SSL
7 1 (0.087%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (25.97%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 40 (3.46%) Power BI
4 33 (2.86%) MySQL
5 32 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.25%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.73%) DynamoDB
11 19 (1.65%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.56%) Redis
13 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.43%) Tableau
15 4 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.35%) GIS
16 3 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (7.71%) Git
2 45 (3.90%) JIRA
3 38 (3.29%) Visual Studio
4 36 (3.12%) Selenium
5 33 (2.86%) Postman
6 31 (2.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 28 (2.42%) SoapUI
8 25 (2.16%) WebDriver
9 15 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 14 (1.21%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.69%) GitLab
11 8 (0.69%) SpecFlow
11 8 (0.69%) Storybook
12 7 (0.61%) git-flow
12 7 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.35%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.35%) NUnit
14 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.26%) MSTest
14 3 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 243 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 170 (14.72%) Finance
3 39 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (2.77%) Public Sector
5 26 (2.25%) Law
6 17 (1.47%) Games
6 17 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 16 (1.39%) Aviation
8 14 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.04%) Banking
10 11 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (0.95%) Retail
11 10 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.69%) Electronics
12 8 (0.69%) Marketing
13 7 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.61%) Automotive
13 7 (0.61%) Legal
13 7 (0.61%) Military
13 7 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 683 (59.13%) Developer
2 265 (22.94%) .NET Developer
3 264 (22.86%) Senior
4 214 (18.53%) Software Developer
5 184 (15.93%) Software Engineer
6 136 (11.77%) Lead
7 132 (11.43%) Senior Developer
8 128 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 124 (10.74%) C# Developer
10 74 (6.41%) .NET Software Engineer
11 72 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 69 (5.97%) .NET Software Developer
13 64 (5.54%) Lead Developer
14 62 (5.37%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 60 (5.19%) Senior .NET Developer
16 57 (4.94%) C# .NET Developer
17 44 (3.81%) Senior Software Developer
18 43 (3.72%) Analyst
19 42 (3.64%) Applications Developer
20 33 (2.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (22.34%) .NET Core
2 210 (18.18%) React
3 183 (15.84%) ASP.NET
4 166 (14.37%) .NET Framework
5 136 (11.77%) HTML
6 124 (10.74%) CSS
7 109 (9.44%) AngularJS
8 88 (7.62%) REST
9 77 (6.67%) Blazor
10 74 (6.41%) RESTful
11 58 (5.02%) ASP.NET Core
12 57 (4.94%) Entity Framework
13 47 (4.07%) Vue
14 41 (3.55%) SOAP
15 33 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
16 31 (2.68%) Node.js
17 27 (2.34%) jQuery
18 26 (2.25%) WPF
19 25 (2.16%) WinForms
20 23 (1.99%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.37%) Mobile App
4 37 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 11 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 10 (0.87%) IoT
13 9 (0.78%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.69%) 3D Graphics
14 8 (0.69%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 8 (0.69%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.68%) Windows
2 24 (2.08%) Android
3 22 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.56%) Linux
5 12 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.35%) VMS
9 2 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.087%) Fedora
10 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (36.80%) Agile
2 356 (30.82%) Software Engineering
3 313 (27.10%) DevOps
4 293 (25.37%) CI/CD
5 260 (22.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 199 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (13.51%) Microservices
9 146 (12.64%) Mentoring
10 106 (9.18%) AI
11 105 (9.09%) SDLC
12 99 (8.57%) Containerisation
13 92 (7.97%) Clean Code
14 88 (7.62%) MVC
15 86 (7.45%) Scrum
16 71 (6.15%) Roadmaps
17 70 (6.06%) Computer Science
18 69 (5.97%) User Experience
19 68 (5.89%) TDD
20 66 (5.71%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 803 (69.52%) C#
2 359 (31.08%) SQL
3 266 (23.03%) JavaScript
4 125 (10.82%) TypeScript
5 99 (8.57%) Java
6 82 (7.10%) Python
7 37 (3.20%) C++
8 36 (3.12%) T-SQL
9 33 (2.86%) PHP
9 33 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.65%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.21%) Bash
12 12 (1.04%) C
13 11 (0.95%) Bicep
14 8 (0.69%) XAML
15 7 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.61%) VB
16 6 (0.52%) Go
17 5 (0.43%) Delphi
18 3 (0.26%) VB6
Qualifications
1 138 (11.95%) Degree
2 57 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (2.51%) ISTQB
4 25 (2.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 24 (2.08%) Security Cleared
6 23 (1.99%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.35%) ISEB
10 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.26%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.49%) QA
2 32 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.04%) GDPR
4 10 (0.87%) WCAG
5 7 (0.61%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.17%) SLA
8 1 (0.087%) HL7
8 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 116 (10.04%) Docker
2 20 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.52%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.087%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) Squid
5 1 (0.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 82 (7.10%) Terraform
3 19 (1.65%) Grafana
4 15 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.61%) Ansible
5 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.087%) CASB
7 1 (0.087%) Kibana
7 1 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 187 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.42%) Xamarin
3 18 (1.56%) Oracle
4 14 (1.21%) Google
5 13 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.04%) Sage
7 10 (0.87%) Apple
8 9 (0.78%) Telerik
9 7 (0.61%) Datto
9 7 (0.61%) Freshdesk
9 7 (0.61%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (0.52%) Databricks
10 6 (0.52%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.43%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.43%) Syncfusion
11 5 (0.43%) Zoho
12 4 (0.35%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.35%) ESRI
12 4 (0.35%) New Relic