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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 69 25
Rank change year-on-year +18 -44 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,238 1,291 3,959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.86% 3.72% 6.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.10% 27.30% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 936 3,115
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,500 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £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 6,563 4,729 10,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.39% 13.62% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,161 2,909 7,145
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,497 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +37 698 £58,000 +0.87% 205
North of England +7 620 £57,500 -4.17% 184
Midlands +14 343 £55,000 - 92
North West -9 278 £60,000 - 90
East of England +35 219 £65,000 +30.00% 70
South West +24 219 £52,500 +1.74% 56
West Midlands -4 182 £60,000 +4.35% 40
North East +4 172 £56,500 +29.89% 55
Yorkshire +21 170 £55,000 -10.20% 41
East Midlands +38 161 £55,000 - 52
Northern Ireland -33 60 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Scotland +14 55 £60,000 -6.98% 31
Wales -63 26 £50,000 -13.04% 22
.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 39 (1.74%) IIS
2 38 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 16 (0.71%) CMS
3 16 (0.71%) ColdFusion
3 16 (0.71%) Confluence
4 9 (0.40%) WordPress
5 8 (0.36%) nginx
6 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.18%) CICS
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.089%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.045%) Drupal
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.13%) Magento
4 3 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.089%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.089%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,129 (50.45%) Azure
2 361 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
3 353 (15.77%) AWS
4 214 (9.56%) GitHub
5 190 (8.49%) SaaS
6 166 (7.42%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
8 128 (5.72%) Power Platform
9 94 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 87 (3.89%) Power Automate
11 85 (3.80%) Serverless
12 81 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
13 71 (3.17%) PowerApps
14 52 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (2.01%) Azure Functions
17 44 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
18 41 (1.83%) GCP
19 39 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
20 33 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.89%) Internet
2 9 (0.40%) Firewall
2 9 (0.40%) HTTP
2 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
4 6 (0.27%) SNMP
5 5 (0.22%) DHCP
5 5 (0.22%) DNS
5 5 (0.22%) LAN
5 5 (0.22%) WAN
6 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.13%) Modbus
6 3 (0.13%) RS-232
7 2 (0.089%) VLAN
8 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.045%) Network Security
8 1 (0.045%) Profibus
8 1 (0.045%) SSL
8 1 (0.045%) Wireless
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 454 (20.29%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.14%) MongoDB
4 159 (7.10%) Elasticsearch
5 93 (4.16%) Power BI
6 63 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 61 (2.73%) NoSQL
8 57 (2.55%) MySQL
9 45 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.80%) Redis
12 16 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.49%) GIS
15 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
16 10 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
17 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.40%) SQLite
18 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 160 (7.15%) Git
2 35 (1.56%) JIRA
3 31 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 30 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.03%) NUnit
6 22 (0.98%) GitLab
7 20 (0.89%) Postman
8 17 (0.76%) Claude Code
9 16 (0.71%) Selenium
10 12 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.36%) Moq
13 8 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (0.31%) MSI
14 7 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.27%) JUnit
15 6 (0.27%) MSTest
15 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.22%) Yeoman
General
1 320 (14.30%) Social Skills
2 217 (9.70%) Finance
3 96 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.75%) Legal
5 69 (3.08%) Retail
6 68 (3.04%) Public Sector
7 60 (2.68%) Games
8 57 (2.55%) Advertising
9 56 (2.50%) Law
10 55 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 55 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.41%) Marketing
12 30 (1.34%) Legal Technology
13 26 (1.16%) Automotive
14 22 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.85%) Electronics
16 11 (0.49%) Aviation
16 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
17 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,491 (66.62%) Developer
2 888 (39.68%) .NET Developer
3 418 (18.68%) Senior
4 318 (14.21%) Software Engineer
5 315 (14.08%) Software Developer
6 261 (11.66%) Senior Developer
7 246 (10.99%) Lead
8 157 (7.02%) C# Developer
9 153 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.54%) C# Software Engineer
10 124 (5.54%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.45%) .NET Software Engineer
12 120 (5.36%) C# .NET Developer
13 116 (5.18%) .NET Software Developer
14 110 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 99 (4.42%) Senior .NET Developer
16 89 (3.98%) Web Developer
17 82 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (2.86%) Lead Software Developer
19 63 (2.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 723 (32.31%) .NET Core
2 686 (30.65%) ASP.NET
3 553 (24.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 366 (16.35%) HTML
5 360 (16.09%) CSS
6 343 (15.33%) React
7 278 (12.42%) AngularJS
8 274 (12.24%) Entity Framework
9 257 (11.48%) RESTful
10 255 (11.39%) Blazor
11 241 (10.77%) .NET Framework
12 239 (10.68%) Vue
13 230 (10.28%) Node.js
14 212 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.84%) ML.NET
16 142 (6.34%) REST
17 109 (4.87%) LINQ
18 71 (3.17%) jQuery
19 57 (2.55%) WPF
20 52 (2.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
2 120 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 95 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 58 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 51 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.39%) Legacy Code
8 30 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
9 27 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 22 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.89%) Digital TV
13 18 (0.80%) Algorithms
13 18 (0.80%) Management Information System
13 18 (0.80%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.76%) BBC
14 17 (0.76%) iPhone
14 17 (0.76%) Social Media
15 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (3.66%) Windows
2 29 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.21%) Android
4 26 (1.16%) Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (36.64%) Full-Stack Development
2 778 (34.76%) Agile
3 569 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 549 (24.53%) Software Engineering
5 515 (23.01%) DevOps
6 398 (17.78%) Microservices
7 344 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
8 336 (15.01%) AI
9 276 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (8.80%) Machine Learning
11 193 (8.62%) SDLC
12 180 (8.04%) Multithreading
13 172 (7.69%) Mentoring
14 162 (7.24%) Scrum
15 152 (6.79%) TDD
16 135 (6.03%) OO
17 125 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
18 121 (5.41%) Clean Code
19 119 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
20 118 (5.27%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,703 (76.09%) C#
2 866 (38.70%) SQL
3 501 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 304 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 140 (6.26%) Python
6 99 (4.42%) Java
7 75 (3.35%) C++
8 66 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.90%) PHP
10 54 (2.41%) T-SQL
11 48 (2.14%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.34%) Bicep
13 26 (1.16%) C
14 22 (0.98%) Bash
15 14 (0.63%) VB
16 13 (0.58%) COBOL
17 12 (0.54%) Go
18 9 (0.40%) JCL
18 9 (0.40%) XAML
19 8 (0.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 186 (8.31%) Degree
2 97 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (3.71%) Security Cleared
4 75 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.13%) OCP
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.089%) CSQA
13 2 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (8.45%) QA
2 47 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.71%) GDPR
4 14 (0.63%) WCAG
5 10 (0.45%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) SLA
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
8 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 270 (12.06%) Docker
2 13 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 242 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.98%) Terraform
3 13 (0.58%) Grafana
4 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 2 (0.089%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) MOM
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 795 (35.52%) Microsoft
2 67 (2.99%) Google
3 59 (2.64%) Facebook
4 28 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.16%) Adobe
6 23 (1.03%) Oracle
7 21 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
8 17 (0.76%) Sony
8 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
9 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.40%) Sage
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.36%) VMware
12 7 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.22%) SYSPRO