.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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 82 25
Rank change year-on-year +25 -57 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,187 1,170 3,430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.53% 3.36% 6.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.38% 25.29% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 835 2,274
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £80,000
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 7,198 4,626 9,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.33% 13.29% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,507 2,779 5,705
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,424 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +45 679 £60,000 - 241
North of England +3 592 £57,500 -4.17% 305
Midlands +37 360 £60,000 +9.09% 177
North West -14 259 £60,000 -7.69% 162
East of England +23 205 £60,000 +9.09% 115
West Midlands +8 195 £58,750 +6.82% 102
South West -1 182 £55,000 +4.76% 69
North East +12 178 £56,500 +24.18% 48
East Midlands +42 165 £60,000 +9.09% 75
Yorkshire +5 155 £55,000 -8.33% 100
Scotland +48 72 £60,000 -5.51% 85
Northern Ireland -24 69 £35,000 -30.00% 44
Wales -75 31 £53,000 -3.64% 38
.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 (1.97%) IIS
2 23 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.82%) CMS
4 15 (0.69%) Confluence
5 9 (0.41%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.37%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) CICS
7 7 (0.32%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.18%) Apache
9 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.046%) Kentico
12 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.64%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,063 (48.61%) Azure
2 360 (16.46%) AWS
3 348 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 221 (10.11%) GitHub
5 163 (7.45%) SaaS
6 160 (7.32%) Azure AI
7 142 (6.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 113 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 91 (4.16%) Serverless
10 86 (3.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 75 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
11 75 (3.43%) Power Automate
12 59 (2.70%) PowerApps
13 57 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 43 (1.97%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
17 38 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
18 36 (1.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.89%) Internet
2 21 (0.96%) Firewall
3 14 (0.64%) VLAN
4 12 (0.55%) Wireless
5 10 (0.46%) HTTP
6 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.27%) DNS
7 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.27%) SNMP
8 5 (0.23%) DHCP
8 5 (0.23%) LAN
8 5 (0.23%) WAN
9 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.14%) RS-232
10 2 (0.091%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.091%) Modbus
10 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.046%) Network Security
11 1 (0.046%) Profibus
11 1 (0.046%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (20.99%) SQL Server
2 445 (20.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 395 (18.06%) MongoDB
4 153 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.06%) Power BI
7 61 (2.79%) MySQL
8 58 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 56 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.73%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQLite
15 8 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.37%) GIS
16 7 (0.32%) Db2
Development Applications
1 161 (7.36%) Git
2 37 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 34 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 30 (1.37%) JIRA
5 27 (1.23%) Claude Code
6 22 (1.01%) GitLab
7 19 (0.87%) NUnit
8 15 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.64%) Postman
10 11 (0.50%) Selenium
10 11 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.37%) Moq
12 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.18%) JUnit
15 4 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 340 (15.55%) Social Skills
2 229 (10.47%) Finance
3 106 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.93%) Legal
5 81 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.93%) Manufacturing
7 63 (2.88%) Games
8 62 (2.83%) Retail
9 55 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.47%) Advertising
11 52 (2.38%) Marketing
12 50 (2.29%) Law
13 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
14 24 (1.10%) Automotive
15 23 (1.05%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.87%) Electronics
17 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.50%) Aviation
18 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
19 10 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,361 (62.23%) Developer
2 849 (38.82%) .NET Developer
3 413 (18.88%) Senior
4 309 (14.13%) Software Engineer
5 254 (11.61%) Senior Developer
6 252 (11.52%) Software Developer
7 229 (10.47%) Lead
8 139 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
9 134 (6.13%) C# Developer
10 126 (5.76%) C# Software Engineer
11 116 (5.30%) .NET Software Engineer
12 110 (5.03%) Lead Developer
13 109 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
14 108 (4.94%) Senior .NET Developer
15 101 (4.62%) C# .NET Developer
16 90 (4.12%) .NET Software Developer
17 87 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 73 (3.34%) Web Developer
19 58 (2.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 56 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 671 (30.68%) .NET Core
2 640 (29.26%) ASP.NET
3 533 (24.37%) ASP.NET Core
4 363 (16.60%) React
5 337 (15.41%) HTML
6 334 (15.27%) CSS
7 271 (12.39%) AngularJS
8 269 (12.30%) Entity Framework
9 249 (11.39%) Blazor
10 243 (11.11%) RESTful
11 227 (10.38%) .NET Framework
12 220 (10.06%) Vue
13 216 (9.88%) Node.js
14 211 (9.65%) ASP.NET Web API
15 146 (6.68%) REST
16 145 (6.63%) ML.NET
17 108 (4.94%) LINQ
18 84 (3.84%) jQuery
19 75 (3.43%) Terraform
20 59 (2.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 123 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
2 120 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 111 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 69 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 43 (1.97%) Mobile App
8 39 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
9 38 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 22 (1.01%) Legacy Code
13 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.91%) Hedge funds
14 19 (0.87%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.87%) Management Information System
15 18 (0.82%) Mainframe
16 17 (0.78%) iPhone
17 16 (0.73%) BBC
17 16 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (4.48%) Windows
2 37 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.19%) Android
3 26 (1.19%) Linux
4 10 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (36.17%) Full-Stack Development
2 748 (34.20%) Agile
3 580 (26.52%) CI/CD
4 542 (24.78%) Software Engineering
5 496 (22.68%) DevOps
6 375 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
7 371 (16.96%) Microservices
8 352 (16.10%) AI
9 264 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.60%) Mentoring
11 184 (8.41%) SDLC
12 181 (8.28%) Machine Learning
13 171 (7.82%) Multithreading
14 144 (6.58%) Scrum
15 138 (6.31%) TDD
16 127 (5.81%) OO
17 124 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
18 121 (5.53%) Test Automation
19 115 (5.26%) Software Architecture
20 114 (5.21%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (77.50%) C#
2 832 (38.04%) SQL
3 511 (23.37%) JavaScript
4 292 (13.35%) TypeScript
5 135 (6.17%) Python
6 101 (4.62%) Java
7 85 (3.89%) C++
8 61 (2.79%) VB.NET
9 54 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 52 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 51 (2.33%) PHP
12 26 (1.19%) Bicep
12 26 (1.19%) C
13 22 (1.01%) COBOL
14 18 (0.82%) JCL
15 17 (0.78%) Bash
15 17 (0.78%) VB
16 13 (0.59%) Go
17 10 (0.46%) Delphi
18 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 176 (8.05%) Degree
2 97 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 65 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 57 (2.61%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.091%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.091%) PhD
15 1 (0.046%) CSQA
15 1 (0.046%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.28%) QA
2 41 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.69%) GDPR
5 12 (0.55%) 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 (0.046%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.046%) GAMP
11 1 (0.046%) GMP
11 1 (0.046%) GRC
System Software
1 256 (11.71%) Docker
2 26 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.37%) Firmware
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 219 (10.01%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.55%) Grafana
2 12 (0.55%) 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 (0.046%) MOM
5 1 (0.046%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.046%) SCCM
Vendors
1 777 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.83%) Google
3 56 (2.56%) Facebook
4 32 (1.46%) Oracle
5 29 (1.33%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.96%) YouTube
7 18 (0.82%) VMware
8 17 (0.78%) Apple
9 16 (0.73%) Sony
9 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 15 (0.69%) Adobe
11 11 (0.50%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.37%) Databricks
12 8 (0.37%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.37%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
14 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 5 (0.23%) Sage
16 4 (0.18%) NEC