.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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 24 24
Rank change year-on-year -53 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,194 3,709 2,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.47% 6.69% 8.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.19% 37.64% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 860 2,591 2,537
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,900
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,458 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.61% +7.08%

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 4,391 9,853 8,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 17.78% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 5,977 6,712
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing .NET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for .NET 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
North of England -33 469 £60,000 +9.09% 247
North West -27 326 £62,500 +13.64% 137
South East -63 285 £60,000 - 241
Midlands -68 176 £55,000 - 135
West Midlands -31 127 £55,000 - 72
East of England -55 115 £52,500 -12.50% 81
Yorkshire -53 99 £60,000 +9.09% 66
South West -51 80 £52,500 -8.70% 58
East Midlands -75 49 £55,000 +10.00% 61
North East -20 44 £43,375 -27.71% 49
Scotland -76 36 £62,500 +13.64% 25
Wales -21 28 £55,000 - 20
Northern Ireland -1 4 £50,000 -23.08% 17
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (4.61%) IIS
2 24 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.68%) CMS
4 14 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.09%) Umbraco
6 12 (1.01%) Confluence
7 5 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.42%) nginx
8 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.17%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.084%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.084%) Apache
10 1 (0.084%) Documentum
10 1 (0.084%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.25%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.17%) Trello
5 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 53 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.75%) Infor CloudSuite
2 9 (0.75%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 4 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.34%) Sage 1000
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.084%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.084%) Magento
5 1 (0.084%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.084%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 773 (64.74%) Azure
2 445 (37.27%) AWS
3 208 (17.42%) GCP
4 192 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
5 118 (9.88%) SaaS
6 83 (6.95%) Power Platform
7 67 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (5.28%) GitHub
8 63 (5.28%) Power Automate
9 58 (4.86%) Serverless
10 46 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
11 42 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 41 (3.43%) PowerApps
13 39 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
14 38 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
16 32 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
17 25 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (1.84%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.92%) Internet
2 8 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 8 (0.67%) VoIP
3 7 (0.59%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.59%) MQTT
3 7 (0.59%) WPA
4 6 (0.50%) LAN
4 6 (0.50%) Modbus
4 6 (0.50%) WAN
5 5 (0.42%) SAN
5 5 (0.42%) SSL
6 4 (0.34%) HTTP
6 4 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.25%) DHCP
7 3 (0.25%) DNS
8 2 (0.17%) Broadband
8 2 (0.17%) Firewall
9 1 (0.084%) Network Security
9 1 (0.084%) RS-232
9 1 (0.084%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (27.81%) SQL Server
2 78 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
3 58 (4.86%) MySQL
4 48 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 44 (3.69%) MongoDB
6 39 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 32 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 31 (2.60%) Power BI
9 28 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 10 (0.84%) Redis
14 9 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.50%) Data Hub
16 6 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
16 6 (0.50%) SQL CLR
17 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 127 (10.64%) Git
2 47 (3.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 45 (3.77%) JIRA
4 40 (3.35%) Visual Studio
5 36 (3.02%) TeamCity
6 30 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
7 25 (2.09%) Jenkins
8 20 (1.68%) NUnit
9 19 (1.59%) Postman
10 18 (1.51%) Selenium
11 17 (1.42%) MSBuild
12 15 (1.26%) GitLab
13 13 (1.09%) SoapUI
13 13 (1.09%) WebDriver
14 11 (0.92%) Storybook
15 10 (0.84%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.59%) Bitbucket
17 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 4 (0.34%) MSTest
19 3 (0.25%) Moq
General
1 232 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 214 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 170 (14.24%) Finance
4 58 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (4.86%) Retail
5 55 (4.61%) Law
6 32 (2.68%) Manufacturing
7 24 (2.01%) Legal
8 19 (1.59%) Public Sector
9 17 (1.42%) Automotive
10 16 (1.34%) Marketing
11 15 (1.26%) Back Office
11 15 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.17%) Games
13 11 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.84%) Police
15 8 (0.67%) Banking
16 6 (0.50%) Advertising
16 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 607 (50.84%) Developer
2 378 (31.66%) Senior
3 286 (23.95%) Software Engineer
4 209 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 208 (17.42%) .NET Developer
6 160 (13.40%) Software Developer
7 135 (11.31%) C# Developer
8 132 (11.06%) Senior Developer
9 122 (10.22%) Lead
10 106 (8.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 63 (5.28%) C# .NET Developer
12 47 (3.94%) Lead Developer
13 45 (3.77%) Architect
13 45 (3.77%) Senior .NET Developer
14 40 (3.35%) .NET Software Developer
14 40 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 38 (3.18%) Analyst
15 38 (3.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 35 (2.93%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (20.52%) Node.js
2 211 (17.67%) ASP.NET
3 179 (14.99%) React
4 172 (14.41%) .NET Core
5 160 (13.40%) CSS
6 148 (12.40%) .NET Framework
7 143 (11.98%) HTML
8 135 (11.31%) AngularJS
9 99 (8.29%) RESTful
10 80 (6.70%) Blazor
10 80 (6.70%) REST
11 64 (5.36%) Vue
12 59 (4.94%) Entity Framework
13 50 (4.19%) Web Services
14 45 (3.77%) jQuery
15 38 (3.18%) ASP.NET Core
16 37 (3.10%) HTML5
17 36 (3.02%) Pandas
18 35 (2.93%) ASP.NET Web API
19 33 (2.76%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 208 (17.42%) Cyberattack
2 188 (15.75%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (14.41%) Linux Command Line
4 61 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 58 (4.86%) Cloud Native
6 39 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.93%) Mobile App
9 31 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 24 (2.01%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.34%) Clustering
15 14 (1.17%) IoT
15 14 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
16 9 (0.75%) Public Cloud
17 8 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 7 (0.59%) Online Games
19 6 (0.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 236 (19.77%) Linux
2 63 (5.28%) Windows
3 47 (3.94%) Android
4 28 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.084%) Unix
8 1 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (50.59%) Agile
2 479 (40.12%) Software Engineering
3 346 (28.98%) Microservices
4 339 (28.39%) CI/CD
5 327 (27.39%) DevOps
6 322 (26.97%) Mentoring
7 272 (22.78%) User Experience
8 264 (22.11%) Scrum
9 221 (18.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 217 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
11 193 (16.16%) Machine Learning
12 190 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 187 (15.66%) Data Engineering
14 184 (15.41%) Cloud Security
15 163 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 146 (12.23%) MVC
17 116 (9.72%) Design Patterns
18 104 (8.71%) OOP
19 100 (8.38%) OO
20 97 (8.12%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 768 (64.32%) C#
2 492 (41.21%) JavaScript
3 400 (33.50%) SQL
4 333 (27.89%) Java
5 326 (27.30%) Python
6 253 (21.19%) C++
7 217 (18.17%) Go
8 210 (17.59%) Rust
9 130 (10.89%) TypeScript
10 54 (4.52%) VB.NET
11 52 (4.36%) PHP
12 49 (4.10%) PowerShell
13 30 (2.51%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.51%) Bicep
15 9 (0.75%) Bash
16 7 (0.59%) VB
16 7 (0.59%) X++
17 6 (0.50%) C
17 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 228 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 209 (17.50%) DV Cleared
3 172 (14.41%) AWS Certification
3 172 (14.41%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (14.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 137 (11.47%) Degree
5 73 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 13 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 12 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.92%) SC Cleared
10 10 (0.84%) HND
11 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
12 6 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.50%) HNC
12 6 (0.50%) MCP
12 6 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.78%) QA
2 29 (2.43%) GDPR
3 17 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.084%) COBIT
8 1 (0.084%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.084%) GRC
8 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.084%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (12.73%) Docker
2 17 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.25%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Squid
8 1 (0.084%) HDFS
8 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 129 (10.80%) Terraform
2 124 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 43 (3.60%) Ansible
4 26 (2.18%) Grafana
5 20 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.50%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.084%) Argo
9 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 272 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.43%) Oracle
3 17 (1.42%) Databricks
3 17 (1.42%) VMware
4 15 (1.26%) DevExpress
5 13 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 11 (0.92%) Rollbar
6 11 (0.92%) Splunk
7 9 (0.75%) IBM
7 9 (0.75%) Infor
8 8 (0.67%) Xamarin
9 7 (0.59%) IFS
10 6 (0.50%) AVEVA
10 6 (0.50%) Dell
10 6 (0.50%) Rockwell
10 6 (0.50%) Siemens
11 5 (0.42%) Google
11 5 (0.42%) Sage
11 5 (0.42%) Telerik
12 4 (0.34%) Pega