.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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 50 25
Rank change year-on-year -22 -25 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,644 1,465 5,284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.48% 4.99% 7.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.82% 28.64% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,500 1,085 4,576
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £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 5,166 5,116 13,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.79% 17.43% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,062 3,422 10,308
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%

.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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +11 569 £60,000 - 160
North of England -25 471 £60,000 +4.35% 148
North West -14 249 £60,000 +4.35% 83
Midlands -25 247 £55,000 +2.44% 70
South West 0 159 £55,000 - 45
East of England -7 128 £67,500 +28.57% 54
West Midlands -42 126 £55,000 - 38
Yorkshire -21 123 £60,000 - 37
East Midlands -1 121 £60,000 +14.29% 32
North East -7 99 £60,000 +6.67% 29
Scotland -16 58 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Wales -40 18 £47,500 -26.92% 15
Northern Ireland -37 1 - - 4
Channel Islands - 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 41 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.34%) IIS
3 16 (0.97%) ColdFusion
4 9 (0.55%) CMS
4 9 (0.55%) Confluence
5 6 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.18%) Apache
8 3 (0.18%) nginx
8 3 (0.18%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.18%) WordPress
9 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.061%) Appian
10 1 (0.061%) Drupal
10 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 669 (40.69%) Azure
2 229 (13.93%) AWS
3 221 (13.44%) SaaS
4 194 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
5 109 (6.63%) GitHub
6 86 (5.23%) Power Platform
7 62 (3.77%) Serverless
8 56 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.41%) Power Automate
9 54 (3.28%) Azure AI
10 49 (2.98%) PowerApps
11 47 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
12 46 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 33 (2.01%) Azure Functions
15 29 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.64%) GCP
17 26 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
18 24 (1.46%) Azure AKS
18 24 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.19%) Internet
2 5 (0.30%) Firewall
2 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.18%) DNS
3 3 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.12%) DHCP
4 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.12%) Intranet
4 2 (0.12%) LAN
4 2 (0.12%) WAN
5 1 (0.061%) AMQP
5 1 (0.061%) LTE
5 1 (0.061%) Modbus
5 1 (0.061%) MPLS
5 1 (0.061%) RS-232
5 1 (0.061%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (19.65%) SQL Server
2 177 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 140 (8.52%) MongoDB
4 72 (4.38%) Power BI
5 61 (3.71%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
7 38 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (1.34%) MySQL
9 21 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (0.61%) GIS
13 9 (0.55%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.55%) Redis
14 6 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
15 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.24%) Metadata
15 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 98 (5.96%) Git
2 42 (2.55%) JIRA
3 35 (2.13%) Visual Studio
4 34 (2.07%) Postman
5 29 (1.76%) Selenium
6 24 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.34%) SoapUI
8 16 (0.97%) WebDriver
9 11 (0.67%) NUnit
10 10 (0.61%) GitLab
10 10 (0.61%) Jenkins
11 8 (0.49%) Moq
12 7 (0.43%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.30%) JMeter
14 5 (0.30%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.30%) MSTest
15 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
General
1 218 (13.26%) Social Skills
2 167 (10.16%) Finance
3 62 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (3.04%) Public Sector
5 37 (2.25%) Retail
6 32 (1.95%) Games
7 31 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 23 (1.40%) Automotive
9 19 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.09%) Electronics
10 18 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.09%) Law
11 17 (1.03%) Advertising
12 15 (0.91%) Marketing
13 13 (0.79%) Aviation
14 8 (0.49%) Back Office
14 8 (0.49%) Military
15 7 (0.43%) Legal
16 6 (0.36%) Banking
16 6 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,035 (62.96%) Developer
2 535 (32.54%) .NET Developer
3 357 (21.72%) Senior
4 317 (19.28%) Software Developer
5 289 (17.58%) Software Engineer
6 187 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 176 (10.71%) Lead
8 154 (9.37%) C# Developer
9 149 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 134 (8.15%) .NET Software Engineer
11 113 (6.87%) C# .NET Developer
12 112 (6.81%) .NET Software Developer
13 107 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
14 96 (5.84%) Senior .NET Developer
15 87 (5.29%) C# Software Engineer
16 83 (5.05%) Lead Developer
17 65 (3.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 63 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 59 (3.59%) Web Developer
20 58 (3.53%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (27.13%) .NET Core
2 345 (20.99%) ASP.NET
3 223 (13.56%) HTML
4 210 (12.77%) React
5 206 (12.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 206 (12.53%) CSS
6 170 (10.34%) .NET Framework
7 157 (9.55%) AngularJS
8 139 (8.45%) RESTful
9 130 (7.91%) Entity Framework
10 121 (7.36%) Vue
11 111 (6.75%) Node.js
12 108 (6.57%) Blazor
13 98 (5.96%) REST
14 74 (4.50%) ASP.NET Web API
15 49 (2.98%) jQuery
15 49 (2.98%) ML.NET
16 39 (2.37%) LINQ
17 38 (2.31%) SOAP
18 31 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 75 (4.56%) Mobile App
3 72 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
4 48 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 35 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.40%) Legacy Code
9 17 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 16 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 14 (0.85%) Hedge funds
11 14 (0.85%) PropTech
12 13 (0.79%) Sports Betting
13 12 (0.73%) Onboarding
14 11 (0.67%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.61%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.55%) Client/Server
16 9 (0.55%) Digital TV
16 9 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.19%) Windows
2 21 (1.28%) Android
3 16 (0.97%) Linux
4 11 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.18%) VMS
7 1 (0.061%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.061%) Unix
7 1 (0.061%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (28.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 448 (27.25%) Software Engineering
3 439 (26.70%) Agile
4 322 (19.59%) CI/CD
5 312 (18.98%) DevOps
6 190 (11.56%) Microservices
7 184 (11.19%) AI
8 166 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
10 143 (8.70%) SDLC
11 128 (7.79%) Mentoring
12 103 (6.27%) Clean Code
13 102 (6.20%) Scrum
14 100 (6.08%) Containerisation
15 92 (5.60%) Machine Learning
16 89 (5.41%) TDD
17 85 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
17 85 (5.17%) Technical Leadership
18 83 (5.05%) MVC
19 82 (4.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (68.00%) C#
2 536 (32.60%) SQL
3 312 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 171 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 121 (7.36%) Python
6 108 (6.57%) Java
7 61 (3.71%) C++
8 47 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 46 (2.80%) PHP
10 31 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.22%) Bash
12 18 (1.09%) VB
13 16 (0.97%) C
14 14 (0.85%) Bicep
14 14 (0.85%) VB.NET
15 10 (0.61%) VBA
16 9 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.43%) XAML
18 6 (0.36%) Delphi
19 5 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 154 (9.37%) Degree
2 61 (3.71%) Security Cleared
3 58 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 18 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 16 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 13 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.18%) PhD
13 2 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.12%) CSQA
14 1 (0.061%) HND
14 1 (0.061%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.62%) QA
2 36 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.97%) GDPR
4 12 (0.73%) WCAG
5 10 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.30%) SLA
8 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.061%) HL7
10 1 (0.061%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (9.55%) Docker
2 9 (0.55%) Firmware
3 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.26%) Terraform
3 10 (0.61%) Grafana
4 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.12%) Ansible
5 2 (0.12%) MIIS
6 1 (0.061%) CASB
6 1 (0.061%) Consul
6 1 (0.061%) Packer
6 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.061%) Puppet
Vendors
1 363 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (1.58%) Google
3 24 (1.46%) Adobe
4 22 (1.34%) Xamarin
5 18 (1.09%) Facebook
5 18 (1.09%) Oracle
6 13 (0.79%) OpenAI
7 12 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 11 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (0.43%) Apple
10 6 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.36%) Sony
10 6 (0.36%) Yahoo!
10 6 (0.36%) YouTube
11 5 (0.30%) Databricks
11 5 (0.30%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.30%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.30%) Sage
12 4 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.24%) VMware