.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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,074 2,377 2,611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 6.50% 8.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.01% 33.54% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 951 1,558 2,350
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,625 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
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 3,835 7,088 7,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.14% 19.38% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 3,965 5,890
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 5 January 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 5 January 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
North of England -32 332 £62,500 +13.64% 274
South East -41 332 £60,000 - 319
Midlands -45 185 £55,000 -4.35% 187
North West -27 170 £65,000 +18.18% 152
West Midlands -32 120 £50,000 -13.04% 87
Yorkshire -35 107 £60,000 +14.29% 92
South West -58 85 £55,000 -6.38% 104
East Midlands -49 65 £65,000 +30.00% 92
East of England -65 58 £60,000 +20.00% 138
North East -5 55 £67,500 +3.85% 30
Scotland -62 51 £64,500 +29.00% 44
Wales -2 35 £52,500 +5.00% 31
Northern Ireland -3 4 £50,000 - 12
Channel Islands +3 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 39 (3.63%) IIS
2 17 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.49%) CMS
4 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.74%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.56%) Confluence
7 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.093%) Apache
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.093%) Kentico
10 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.19%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.093%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.093%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.093%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 551 (51.30%) Azure
2 211 (19.65%) AWS
3 171 (15.92%) SaaS
4 168 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (8.94%) GitHub
6 81 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 71 (6.61%) Serverless
8 48 (4.47%) GCP
9 46 (4.28%) Power Automate
10 43 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.98%) PowerApps
13 30 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (2.61%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.51%) Azure Functions
17 21 (1.96%) Amazon S3
17 21 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 21 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.93%) DNS
1 10 (0.93%) VoIP
2 9 (0.84%) DHCP
2 9 (0.84%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) VPN
3 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.37%) SSL
5 3 (0.28%) Firewall
5 3 (0.28%) HTTP
5 3 (0.28%) LAN
5 3 (0.28%) SAN
5 3 (0.28%) WAN
6 2 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.093%) MPLS
7 1 (0.093%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (28.31%) SQL Server
2 61 (5.68%) NoSQL
3 42 (3.91%) MySQL
4 40 (3.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 39 (3.63%) Power BI
6 34 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 33 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.68%) Redis
11 14 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
13 5 (0.47%) Tableau
14 4 (0.37%) GIS
15 3 (0.28%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 93 (8.66%) Git
2 51 (4.75%) JIRA
3 42 (3.91%) Selenium
4 37 (3.45%) Postman
5 36 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 36 (3.35%) Visual Studio
6 33 (3.07%) SoapUI
7 31 (2.89%) WebDriver
8 21 (1.96%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.40%) Jenkins
10 13 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (0.93%) Storybook
12 8 (0.74%) GitLab
12 8 (0.74%) NUnit
13 7 (0.65%) git-flow
14 6 (0.56%) MSTest
14 6 (0.56%) SpecFlow
15 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.28%) Moq
15 3 (0.28%) Snyk
General
1 249 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 169 (15.74%) Finance
3 34 (3.17%) Public Sector
4 32 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (2.61%) Law
6 18 (1.68%) Games
7 16 (1.49%) Legal
8 15 (1.40%) Aviation
9 14 (1.30%) Retail
10 13 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.02%) Banking
13 10 (0.93%) Automotive
14 8 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.74%) Marketing
15 7 (0.65%) Publishing
16 5 (0.47%) Electronics
16 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 628 (58.47%) Developer
2 245 (22.81%) Senior
3 234 (21.79%) .NET Developer
4 191 (17.78%) Software Developer
5 154 (14.34%) Software Engineer
6 135 (12.57%) Lead
6 135 (12.57%) Senior Developer
7 119 (11.08%) C# Developer
8 118 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (5.68%) .NET Software Developer
10 56 (5.21%) Senior .NET Developer
11 54 (5.03%) .NET Software Engineer
11 54 (5.03%) Lead Developer
12 53 (4.93%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 52 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 49 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
15 45 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
16 40 (3.72%) Analyst
17 36 (3.35%) Applications Developer
18 31 (2.89%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (20.76%) .NET Core
2 203 (18.90%) React
3 176 (16.39%) ASP.NET
4 171 (15.92%) .NET Framework
5 141 (13.13%) HTML
6 123 (11.45%) CSS
7 118 (10.99%) AngularJS
8 79 (7.36%) REST
9 78 (7.26%) Blazor
10 76 (7.08%) RESTful
11 61 (5.68%) Entity Framework
12 50 (4.66%) Vue
13 47 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 44 (4.10%) SOAP
15 35 (3.26%) ASP.NET MVC
16 29 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
17 28 (2.61%) Node.js
17 28 (2.61%) Web Services
18 26 (2.42%) WinForms
19 25 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 87 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.12%) Mobile App
4 41 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 9 (0.84%) Clustering
14 9 (0.84%) Driving Licence
15 8 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
15 8 (0.74%) AI Agents
15 8 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.21%) Windows
2 20 (1.86%) Android
3 19 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.30%) Linux
6 9 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.093%) Fedora
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (38.83%) Agile
2 318 (29.61%) DevOps
3 317 (29.52%) Software Engineering
4 305 (28.40%) CI/CD
5 235 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 208 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (14.90%) Mentoring
9 159 (14.80%) Microservices
10 101 (9.40%) Scrum
11 97 (9.03%) Clean Code
11 97 (9.03%) SDLC
12 95 (8.85%) AI
13 93 (8.66%) MVC
14 92 (8.57%) Containerisation
15 72 (6.70%) Roadmaps
15 72 (6.70%) Software Testing
15 72 (6.70%) User Experience
16 70 (6.52%) CRM
17 65 (6.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 760 (70.76%) C#
2 343 (31.94%) SQL
3 260 (24.21%) JavaScript
4 130 (12.10%) TypeScript
5 96 (8.94%) Java
6 68 (6.33%) Python
7 37 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.89%) PHP
10 29 (2.70%) C++
11 25 (2.33%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.12%) Bicep
13 11 (1.02%) Bash
14 8 (0.74%) XAML
15 7 (0.65%) VB
16 6 (0.56%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.56%) C
16 6 (0.56%) Go
17 4 (0.37%) Delphi
18 3 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 142 (13.22%) Degree
2 56 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (3.26%) ISTQB
4 31 (2.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 23 (2.14%) Security Cleared
6 20 (1.86%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.28%) HND
13 2 (0.19%) PhD
13 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.36%) QA
2 27 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.12%) GDPR
4 8 (0.74%) WCAG
5 3 (0.28%) GRC
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.093%) COBIT
7 1 (0.093%) HL7
7 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (10.24%) Docker
2 22 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.093%) HDFS
5 1 (0.093%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (7.82%) Terraform
2 79 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.86%) Grafana
4 15 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.74%) Ansible
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.093%) CASB
8 1 (0.093%) Kibana
8 1 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.42%) Xamarin
3 15 (1.40%) Oracle
4 13 (1.21%) Sage
5 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.02%) Google
7 9 (0.84%) Apple
7 9 (0.84%) Telerik
8 7 (0.65%) Databricks
8 7 (0.65%) Datto
8 7 (0.65%) DevExpress
8 7 (0.65%) Freshdesk
9 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.47%) Syncfusion
10 5 (0.47%) Zoho
11 4 (0.37%) ESRI
11 4 (0.37%) Infor
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic
11 4 (0.37%) VMware
12 3 (0.28%) ServiceNow