.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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 59 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,056 1,396 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.88% 4.13% 7.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.58% 27.10% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,876 1,020 4,334
10th Percentile £40,625 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
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 6,122 5,151 13,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 15.26% 18.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,936 3,266 9,873
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.60%

.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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +21 658 £57,500 - 175
North of England -1 564 £59,000 -1.67% 182
Midlands +10 324 £55,000 - 73
North West -9 276 £60,000 +3.00% 100
South West +19 208 £53,750 +2.38% 52
East of England +21 191 £65,000 +30.00% 65
West Midlands -16 171 £57,500 +4.55% 40
East Midlands +28 153 £55,000 - 33
North East 0 146 £56,500 +7.62% 39
Yorkshire +1 142 £57,500 -13.21% 45
Scotland +13 58 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Northern Ireland -33 28 - - 28
Wales -52 27 £50,000 -23.08% 12
.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 40 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.56%) IIS
3 16 (0.78%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.68%) Confluence
5 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 8 (0.39%) nginx
6 8 (0.39%) WordPress
7 7 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.097%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.049%) Appian
11 1 (0.049%) Drupal
11 1 (0.049%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.049%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
2 3 (0.15%) Shopify
3 2 (0.097%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.049%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.049%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (50.39%) Azure
2 325 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
3 318 (15.47%) AWS
4 194 (9.44%) SaaS
5 184 (8.95%) GitHub
6 159 (7.73%) Azure AI
7 131 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 106 (5.16%) Power Platform
9 87 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 80 (3.89%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (3.79%) Serverless
13 68 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 42 (2.04%) Azure Functions
15 39 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (1.56%) GCP
19 28 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.09%) Internet
2 9 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.39%) Firewall
4 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.24%) DHCP
5 5 (0.24%) DNS
5 5 (0.24%) LAN
5 5 (0.24%) WAN
6 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.15%) RS-232
7 2 (0.097%) HTTP
7 2 (0.097%) Modbus
8 1 (0.049%) AMQP
8 1 (0.049%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.049%) LTE
8 1 (0.049%) Network Security
8 1 (0.049%) SSL
8 1 (0.049%) VLAN
8 1 (0.049%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.049%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 472 (22.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 404 (19.65%) MongoDB
3 379 (18.43%) SQL Server
4 151 (7.34%) Elasticsearch
5 88 (4.28%) Power BI
6 54 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 34 (1.65%) MySQL
8 31 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (0.63%) Redis
13 11 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.49%) GIS
15 9 (0.44%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
16 5 (0.24%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.24%) Metadata
17 4 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 114 (5.54%) Git
2 34 (1.65%) JIRA
3 23 (1.12%) Visual Studio
4 18 (0.88%) Postman
5 15 (0.73%) GitLab
6 13 (0.63%) NUnit
7 12 (0.58%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.49%) Selenium
9 9 (0.44%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.34%) Moq
12 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.29%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.24%) JMeter
13 5 (0.24%) MSTest
13 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 242 (11.77%) Social Skills
2 206 (10.02%) Finance
3 72 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (3.02%) Retail
5 56 (2.72%) Advertising
5 56 (2.72%) Games
5 56 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 49 (2.38%) Marketing
7 48 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 43 (2.09%) Law
9 42 (2.04%) Legal
10 30 (1.46%) Legal Technology
11 28 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.26%) Automotive
14 21 (1.02%) Electronics
15 11 (0.54%) Music Industry
16 8 (0.39%) Back Office
16 8 (0.39%) Military
17 7 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,386 (67.41%) Developer
2 856 (41.63%) .NET Developer
3 374 (18.19%) Senior
4 313 (15.22%) Software Engineer
5 298 (14.49%) Software Developer
6 209 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 204 (9.92%) Lead
8 149 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 147 (7.15%) C# Developer
10 131 (6.37%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.74%) C# .NET Developer
12 110 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (5.30%) C# Software Engineer
13 109 (5.30%) Lead Developer
14 107 (5.20%) .NET Software Developer
15 95 (4.62%) Senior .NET Developer
16 79 (3.84%) Web Developer
17 71 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 66 (3.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 57 (2.77%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (34.00%) .NET Core
2 644 (31.32%) ASP.NET
3 527 (25.63%) ASP.NET Core
4 337 (16.39%) CSS
5 336 (16.34%) HTML
6 319 (15.52%) React
7 268 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 254 (12.35%) Entity Framework
9 243 (11.82%) RESTful
10 239 (11.62%) Blazor
11 232 (11.28%) Vue
12 221 (10.75%) Node.js
13 217 (10.55%) .NET Framework
14 194 (9.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 152 (7.39%) ML.NET
16 128 (6.23%) REST
17 109 (5.30%) LINQ
18 61 (2.97%) jQuery
19 49 (2.38%) JSON
20 46 (2.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 132 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 71 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 57 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 49 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.26%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.97%) Digital TV
9 20 (0.97%) Hedge funds
10 17 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 17 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 17 (0.83%) BBC
10 17 (0.83%) iPhone
10 17 (0.83%) Social Media
11 14 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
11 14 (0.68%) Onboarding
11 14 (0.68%) Social Network
12 13 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 13 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.11%) Windows
2 32 (1.56%) Android
3 26 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.92%) Linux
5 9 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.097%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (38.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 708 (34.44%) Agile
3 513 (24.95%) Software Engineering
4 487 (23.69%) CI/CD
5 451 (21.94%) DevOps
6 337 (16.39%) Microservices
7 325 (15.81%) AI
8 246 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 197 (9.58%) Machine Learning
11 173 (8.41%) Multithreading
12 168 (8.17%) SDLC
13 148 (7.20%) TDD
14 146 (7.10%) Scrum
15 142 (6.91%) Mentoring
16 115 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
16 115 (5.59%) OO
17 110 (5.35%) Clean Code
18 100 (4.86%) Kanban
18 100 (4.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,557 (75.73%) C#
2 836 (40.66%) SQL
3 460 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 287 (13.96%) TypeScript
5 123 (5.98%) Python
6 93 (4.52%) Java
7 76 (3.70%) C++
8 66 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.68%) PHP
10 49 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.61%) VB.NET
12 27 (1.31%) Bicep
13 24 (1.17%) C
14 22 (1.07%) Bash
15 17 (0.83%) VB
16 9 (0.44%) VBA
17 7 (0.34%) Delphi
17 7 (0.34%) XAML
18 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 159 (7.73%) Degree
2 81 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 61 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 55 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.15%) MBA
11 3 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.097%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.097%) CSQA
12 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.097%) PhD
13 1 (0.049%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (6.23%) QA
2 44 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.73%) GDPR
4 13 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.63%) WCAG
5 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.29%) NCSC
7 5 (0.24%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 250 (12.16%) Docker
2 13 (0.63%) Firmware
3 11 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.36%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) Grafana
4 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.097%) Ansible
5 2 (0.097%) MIIS
6 1 (0.049%) Consul
6 1 (0.049%) MOM
6 1 (0.049%) Packer
6 1 (0.049%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.049%) Puppet
Vendors
1 732 (35.60%) Microsoft
2 65 (3.16%) Google
3 59 (2.87%) Facebook
4 25 (1.22%) Adobe
4 25 (1.22%) OpenAI
5 21 (1.02%) Oracle
5 21 (1.02%) YouTube
6 18 (0.88%) Xamarin
7 17 (0.83%) Apple
7 17 (0.83%) Sony
7 17 (0.83%) Yahoo!
8 11 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.39%) Databricks
10 7 (0.34%) VMware
11 5 (0.24%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.24%) Sage
11 5 (0.24%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.19%) IBM
13 3 (0.15%) OneLogin