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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 74 24
Rank change year-on-year +19 -50 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,202 1,183 3,724
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.65% 3.42% 6.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.49% 25.11% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 847 2,660
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,600 £36,250
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 £71,250 £70,250 £67,531
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
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 7,223 4,712 10,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.69% 13.64% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,625 2,845 6,566
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,052
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £86,250 £81,250
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 12 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 12 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 +51 691 £60,000 - 178
North of England 0 600 £56,500 -5.83% 169
Midlands +39 351 £60,000 +9.09% 103
North West -14 261 £60,000 -4.00% 86
East of England +27 216 £62,500 +19.05% 68
South West +5 199 £55,000 +6.80% 58
West Midlands -4 186 £59,000 +7.27% 49
North East +9 184 £56,500 +29.89% 35
East Midlands +41 165 £60,000 +9.09% 53
Yorkshire -1 155 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Scotland +34 61 £60,000 -5.51% 46
Northern Ireland -25 60 £35,000 -30.00% 17
Wales -72 26 £50,000 -9.09% 18
.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 35 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.68%) CMS
3 15 (0.68%) Confluence
4 14 (0.64%) ColdFusion
5 9 (0.41%) WordPress
6 8 (0.36%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.18%) CICS
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.14%) Apache
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.091%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Appian
11 1 (0.045%) Drupal
11 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) 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%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.091%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.091%) Magento
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (49.91%) Azure
2 361 (16.39%) AWS
3 356 (16.17%) Azure DevOps
4 209 (9.49%) GitHub
5 174 (7.90%) SaaS
6 160 (7.27%) Azure AI
7 137 (6.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 124 (5.63%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.22%) Serverless
10 92 (4.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 84 (3.81%) Power Automate
12 82 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.13%) PowerApps
14 51 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (1.95%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.82%) GCP
19 39 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.95%) Internet
2 16 (0.73%) Firewall
3 9 (0.41%) HTTP
3 9 (0.41%) VLAN
4 8 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.36%) Wireless
5 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.23%) DHCP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.045%) Network Security
9 1 (0.045%) Profibus
9 1 (0.045%) SSL
9 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (21.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 453 (20.57%) SQL Server
3 397 (18.03%) MongoDB
4 155 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (3.81%) Power BI
6 71 (3.22%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.72%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.54%) MySQL
9 50 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.82%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
15 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.41%) GIS
16 9 (0.41%) SQLite
17 8 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 163 (7.40%) Git
2 34 (1.54%) JIRA
3 33 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 20 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 20 (0.91%) NUnit
7 17 (0.77%) Postman
8 14 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (0.54%) Selenium
10 11 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
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%) SoapUI
General
1 330 (14.99%) Social Skills
2 219 (9.95%) Finance
3 103 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.81%) Legal
5 78 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.09%) Retail
7 64 (2.91%) Games
8 56 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.45%) Advertising
10 54 (2.45%) Law
11 51 (2.32%) Marketing
12 30 (1.36%) Legal Technology
13 24 (1.09%) Automotive
14 22 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.86%) Electronics
16 11 (0.50%) Aviation
16 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
17 9 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,437 (65.26%) Developer
2 864 (39.24%) .NET Developer
3 400 (18.17%) Senior
4 303 (13.76%) Software Engineer
5 289 (13.12%) Software Developer
6 248 (11.26%) Senior Developer
7 241 (10.94%) Lead
8 154 (6.99%) C# Developer
9 150 (6.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.63%) Lead Developer
11 122 (5.54%) C# Software Engineer
12 119 (5.40%) C# .NET Developer
13 112 (5.09%) .NET Software Engineer
14 108 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
15 102 (4.63%) .NET Software Developer
16 97 (4.41%) Senior .NET Developer
17 85 (3.86%) Web Developer
18 79 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 64 (2.91%) Lead Software Developer
20 63 (2.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 698 (31.70%) .NET Core
2 669 (30.38%) ASP.NET
3 544 (24.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 358 (16.26%) HTML
5 353 (16.03%) CSS
6 339 (15.40%) React
7 271 (12.31%) AngularJS
8 270 (12.26%) Entity Framework
9 250 (11.35%) RESTful
10 245 (11.13%) Blazor
11 234 (10.63%) Vue
12 229 (10.40%) .NET Framework
13 216 (9.81%) Node.js
14 212 (9.63%) ASP.NET Web API
15 147 (6.68%) ML.NET
16 135 (6.13%) REST
17 109 (4.95%) LINQ
18 83 (3.77%) Terraform
19 82 (3.72%) jQuery
20 59 (2.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 127 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
2 117 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 99 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 54 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 33 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
9 30 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 30 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.27%) Legacy Code
11 21 (0.95%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.91%) Digital TV
12 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 19 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 17 (0.77%) BBC
14 17 (0.77%) iPhone
14 17 (0.77%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.77%) Social Media
15 12 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.22%) Windows
2 35 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.27%) Android
4 27 (1.23%) Linux
5 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (36.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 762 (34.60%) Agile
3 564 (25.61%) CI/CD
4 534 (24.25%) Software Engineering
5 494 (22.43%) DevOps
6 380 (17.26%) Microservices
7 353 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
8 333 (15.12%) AI
9 276 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 190 (8.63%) Machine Learning
11 185 (8.40%) SDLC
12 183 (8.31%) Mentoring
13 176 (7.99%) Multithreading
14 153 (6.95%) Scrum
15 141 (6.40%) TDD
16 128 (5.81%) OO
17 126 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
18 125 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
19 115 (5.22%) Test Automation
20 113 (5.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (76.98%) C#
2 853 (38.74%) SQL
3 506 (22.98%) JavaScript
4 293 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 133 (6.04%) Python
6 101 (4.59%) Java
7 91 (4.13%) C++
8 63 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.72%) PHP
10 55 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 52 (2.36%) VB.NET
12 28 (1.27%) Bicep
13 26 (1.18%) C
14 21 (0.95%) Bash
15 16 (0.73%) COBOL
16 14 (0.64%) VB
17 12 (0.54%) JCL
18 10 (0.45%) Delphi
18 10 (0.45%) Go
19 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 182 (8.27%) Degree
2 97 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 68 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.091%) CSQA
13 2 (0.091%) PhD
14 1 (0.045%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.31%) QA
2 47 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.77%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.67%) Docker
2 21 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.59%) 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
1 228 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.59%) Grafana
3 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.091%) Bosun
6 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.045%) Consul
7 1 (0.045%) MIIS
7 1 (0.045%) MOM
7 1 (0.045%) Packer
7 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 785 (35.65%) Microsoft
2 65 (2.95%) Google
3 57 (2.59%) Facebook
4 27 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.14%) Oracle
6 23 (1.04%) Adobe
7 21 (0.95%) YouTube
8 17 (0.77%) Apple
8 17 (0.77%) Sony
8 17 (0.77%) Yahoo!
9 15 (0.68%) VMware
10 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.36%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Sage
12 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.32%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk