.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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 79 25
Rank change year-on-year +24 -54 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,204 1,187 3,611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 3.45% 6.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.28% 25.62% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 853 2,418
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,775
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 7,278 4,634 10,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.45% 13.47% 19.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,591 2,794 6,031
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +40 684 £60,000 - 217
North of England +3 600 £55,000 -8.33% 261
Midlands +35 354 £60,000 +9.09% 156
North West -17 268 £60,000 -4.00% 167
East of England +29 207 £60,000 +14.29% 103
South West -6 194 £55,000 +4.76% 56
West Midlands -2 190 £56,250 +2.27% 81
North East +9 179 £56,500 +24.18% 33
East Midlands +41 164 £60,000 +9.09% 75
Yorkshire +3 153 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Scotland +41 72 £60,000 -5.51% 86
Northern Ireland -31 66 £35,000 -30.00% 62
Wales -62 29 £50,000 -9.09% 32
.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 44 (2.00%) IIS
2 28 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.77%) CMS
4 13 (0.59%) Confluence
5 12 (0.54%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.23%) CICS
8 5 (0.23%) 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 (0.045%) Appian
12 1 (0.045%) Kentico
12 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.59%) 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%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.045%) Magento
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,081 (49.05%) Azure
2 361 (16.38%) AWS
3 353 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (9.75%) GitHub
5 175 (7.94%) SaaS
6 160 (7.26%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 117 (5.31%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.22%) Serverless
10 88 (3.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 81 (3.68%) Power Automate
12 78 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
13 64 (2.90%) PowerApps
14 53 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
15 50 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
16 43 (1.95%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
19 39 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
19 39 (1.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.95%) Internet
2 19 (0.86%) Firewall
3 12 (0.54%) VLAN
4 11 (0.50%) Wireless
5 9 (0.41%) HTTP
5 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) DNS
7 5 (0.23%) LAN
7 5 (0.23%) WAN
8 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) RS-232
9 2 (0.091%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.045%) Network Security
10 1 (0.045%) Profibus
10 1 (0.045%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (20.96%) SQL Server
2 449 (20.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 393 (17.83%) MongoDB
4 154 (6.99%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.40%) Power BI
7 62 (2.81%) MySQL
8 59 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 56 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.77%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 12 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
14 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (0.45%) SQLite
16 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.36%) GIS
18 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 165 (7.49%) Git
2 33 (1.50%) Visual Studio
3 32 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.45%) JIRA
4 25 (1.13%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 20 (0.91%) NUnit
7 17 (0.77%) Postman
8 16 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.50%) Selenium
11 10 (0.45%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.36%) Moq
13 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.32%) MSI
14 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.23%) MSTest
16 4 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 337 (15.29%) Social Skills
2 222 (10.07%) Finance
3 107 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.90%) Legal
5 77 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 65 (2.95%) Retail
7 63 (2.86%) Games
8 61 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.45%) Advertising
11 52 (2.36%) Marketing
12 51 (2.31%) Law
13 30 (1.36%) Legal Technology
14 24 (1.09%) Automotive
15 23 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.86%) Electronics
17 12 (0.54%) Aviation
18 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 11 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
18 11 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,398 (63.43%) Developer
2 858 (38.93%) .NET Developer
3 409 (18.56%) Senior
4 309 (14.02%) Software Engineer
5 267 (12.11%) Software Developer
6 249 (11.30%) Senior Developer
7 237 (10.75%) Lead
8 147 (6.67%) C# Developer
9 142 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 126 (5.72%) C# Software Engineer
11 116 (5.26%) Lead Developer
12 114 (5.17%) .NET Software Engineer
12 114 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
13 109 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
14 101 (4.58%) Senior .NET Developer
15 93 (4.22%) .NET Software Developer
16 83 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 81 (3.68%) Web Developer
18 59 (2.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 59 (2.68%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (30.90%) .NET Core
2 653 (29.63%) ASP.NET
3 536 (24.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 359 (16.29%) React
5 347 (15.74%) HTML
6 342 (15.52%) CSS
7 273 (12.39%) AngularJS
8 266 (12.07%) Entity Framework
9 245 (11.12%) Blazor
10 243 (11.03%) RESTful
11 228 (10.34%) .NET Framework
12 227 (10.30%) Vue
13 214 (9.71%) Node.js
14 210 (9.53%) ASP.NET Web API
15 145 (6.58%) ML.NET
16 143 (6.49%) REST
17 107 (4.85%) LINQ
18 85 (3.86%) jQuery
19 78 (3.54%) Terraform
20 57 (2.59%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 125 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
2 119 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 103 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 67 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
8 35 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 21 (0.95%) Hedge funds
13 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
15 17 (0.77%) iPhone
16 16 (0.73%) BBC
16 16 (0.73%) Social Media
17 14 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.54%) Windows
2 37 (1.68%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.23%) Android
4 25 (1.13%) Linux
5 8 (0.36%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (36.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 757 (34.35%) Agile
3 575 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 545 (24.73%) Software Engineering
5 498 (22.60%) DevOps
6 374 (16.97%) Microservices
7 367 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
8 356 (16.15%) AI
9 269 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 186 (8.44%) Mentoring
11 185 (8.39%) Machine Learning
12 183 (8.30%) SDLC
13 172 (7.80%) Multithreading
14 150 (6.81%) Scrum
15 139 (6.31%) TDD
16 127 (5.76%) OO
17 124 (5.63%) Test Automation
18 123 (5.58%) Technical Leadership
19 117 (5.31%) Software Testing
20 116 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (76.91%) C#
2 850 (38.57%) SQL
3 510 (23.14%) JavaScript
4 293 (13.29%) TypeScript
5 136 (6.17%) Python
6 101 (4.58%) Java
7 90 (4.08%) C++
8 59 (2.68%) VB.NET
9 58 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 57 (2.59%) PHP
11 52 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.23%) Bicep
12 27 (1.23%) C
13 19 (0.86%) Bash
14 18 (0.82%) COBOL
15 17 (0.77%) VB
16 14 (0.64%) JCL
17 12 (0.54%) Go
18 10 (0.45%) Delphi
19 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 185 (8.39%) Degree
2 101 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (3.22%) Security Cleared
4 64 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.091%) CSQA
14 2 (0.091%) PhD
15 1 (0.045%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (8.35%) QA
2 46 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) 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 (0.045%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.045%) GAMP
11 1 (0.045%) GMP
11 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.66%) Docker
2 24 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Firmware
5 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 219 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.54%) Grafana
2 12 (0.54%) 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 (0.045%) MOM
Vendors
1 782 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.86%) Google
3 56 (2.54%) Facebook
4 30 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 29 (1.32%) Oracle
6 21 (0.95%) YouTube
7 18 (0.82%) Adobe
7 18 (0.82%) VMware
8 16 (0.73%) Apple
8 16 (0.73%) Sony
8 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
9 10 (0.45%) Xamarin
10 9 (0.41%) Broadcom
10 9 (0.41%) DevExpress
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
12 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.27%) Sage
12 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.27%) Splunk
13 4 (0.18%) IBM