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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 76 25
Rank change year-on-year +20 -51 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,243 1,173 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.58% 3.41% 6.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.49% 25.42% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,910 837 2,229
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,356 4,614 9,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 13.42% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,584 2,779 5,586
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,050 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +37 675 £60,000 - 71
North of England +2 607 £57,500 -4.17% 97
Midlands +39 383 £60,000 +9.09% 60
North West -26 259 £60,000 -7.69% 35
West Midlands +8 212 £58,750 +6.82% 36
East of England +17 211 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North East +10 188 £56,500 +29.89% 24
South West -2 187 £55,000 +4.76% 36
East Midlands +49 171 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Yorkshire +7 160 £55,000 -8.33% 43
Scotland +57 77 £60,000 -5.51% 25
Northern Ireland -25 69 £35,000 -44.00%
Wales -61 37 £55,000 - 17
.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 43 (1.92%) IIS
2 27 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.85%) CMS
4 17 (0.76%) Confluence
5 8 (0.36%) ColdFusion
5 8 (0.36%) WordPress
6 7 (0.31%) CICS
6 7 (0.31%) nginx
6 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.18%) Apache
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.089%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.089%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.045%) Kentico
12 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.089%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (48.77%) Azure
2 363 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 359 (16.01%) AWS
4 227 (10.12%) GitHub
5 161 (7.18%) Azure AI
6 160 (7.13%) SaaS
7 144 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 120 (5.35%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.10%) Serverless
10 91 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 81 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 81 (3.61%) Power Automate
12 65 (2.90%) PowerApps
13 57 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
14 56 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.96%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
17 37 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
17 37 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.83%) Internet
2 21 (0.94%) Firewall
3 14 (0.62%) VLAN
4 12 (0.53%) Wireless
5 10 (0.45%) HTTP
6 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.27%) DNS
8 6 (0.27%) SNMP
9 5 (0.22%) DHCP
9 5 (0.22%) LAN
9 5 (0.22%) WAN
10 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.13%) RS-232
11 2 (0.089%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.089%) Modbus
11 2 (0.089%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.045%) Network Security
12 1 (0.045%) SSL
12 1 (0.045%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (20.86%) SQL Server
2 450 (20.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 399 (17.79%) MongoDB
4 155 (6.91%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.08%) Power BI
7 61 (2.72%) MySQL
8 58 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 58 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.71%) Redis
11 15 (0.67%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.62%) Spark SQL
13 13 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (0.45%) SQLite
16 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.36%) GIS
18 7 (0.31%) Db2
Development Applications
1 165 (7.36%) Git
2 37 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.65%) Visual Studio
3 31 (1.38%) Claude Code
3 31 (1.38%) JIRA
4 22 (0.98%) GitLab
5 20 (0.89%) NUnit
6 17 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (0.58%) Postman
9 12 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.31%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.18%) JUnit
15 4 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 360 (16.05%) Social Skills
2 234 (10.43%) Finance
3 112 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (3.88%) Legal
5 85 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.08%) Manufacturing
7 64 (2.85%) Games
8 62 (2.76%) Retail
9 55 (2.45%) Advertising
9 55 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (2.36%) Law
11 52 (2.32%) Marketing
12 30 (1.34%) Legal Technology
13 25 (1.11%) Automotive
14 24 (1.07%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.85%) Electronics
16 14 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.53%) Aviation
18 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
18 11 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,382 (61.61%) Developer
2 850 (37.90%) .NET Developer
3 431 (19.22%) Senior
4 315 (14.04%) Software Engineer
5 272 (12.13%) Senior Developer
6 265 (11.81%) Software Developer
7 229 (10.21%) Lead
8 145 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 134 (5.97%) C# Developer
10 126 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
11 116 (5.17%) .NET Software Engineer
12 113 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (4.86%) Lead Developer
14 108 (4.81%) Senior .NET Developer
15 100 (4.46%) C# .NET Developer
16 95 (4.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 91 (4.06%) .NET Software Developer
18 81 (3.61%) Architect
19 70 (3.12%) Web Developer
20 67 (2.99%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 672 (29.96%) .NET Core
2 645 (28.76%) ASP.NET
3 539 (24.03%) ASP.NET Core
4 369 (16.45%) React
5 334 (14.89%) HTML
6 330 (14.71%) CSS
7 272 (12.13%) AngularJS
8 271 (12.08%) Entity Framework
9 255 (11.37%) Blazor
10 245 (10.92%) RESTful
11 235 (10.48%) .NET Framework
12 220 (9.81%) Node.js
13 218 (9.72%) Vue
14 212 (9.45%) ASP.NET Web API
15 148 (6.60%) REST
16 146 (6.51%) ML.NET
17 110 (4.90%) LINQ
18 86 (3.83%) jQuery
19 75 (3.34%) Terraform
20 60 (2.67%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
2 117 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 115 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 74 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 39 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
8 39 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.56%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.03%) Legacy Code
10 23 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 20 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 19 (0.85%) Digital TV
12 19 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 19 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 18 (0.80%) Mainframe
14 17 (0.76%) iPhone
15 16 (0.71%) BBC
15 16 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 99 (4.41%) Windows
2 37 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.16%) Android
3 26 (1.16%) Linux
4 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 761 (33.93%) Agile
3 589 (26.26%) CI/CD
4 553 (24.65%) Software Engineering
5 515 (22.96%) DevOps
6 384 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
7 376 (16.76%) Microservices
8 355 (15.83%) AI
9 266 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 190 (8.47%) Mentoring
10 190 (8.47%) SDLC
11 185 (8.25%) Machine Learning
12 171 (7.62%) Multithreading
13 145 (6.46%) Scrum
14 140 (6.24%) TDD
15 139 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
16 127 (5.66%) OO
17 126 (5.62%) Test Automation
18 117 (5.22%) Fintech
18 117 (5.22%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,760 (78.47%) C#
2 847 (37.76%) SQL
3 513 (22.87%) JavaScript
4 297 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 138 (6.15%) Python
6 102 (4.55%) Java
7 86 (3.83%) C++
8 62 (2.76%) VB.NET
9 60 (2.67%) T-SQL
10 53 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 49 (2.18%) PHP
12 29 (1.29%) Bicep
13 26 (1.16%) C
14 22 (0.98%) COBOL
15 18 (0.80%) JCL
16 16 (0.71%) Bash
17 14 (0.62%) VB
18 13 (0.58%) Go
19 10 (0.45%) Delphi
20 9 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 177 (7.89%) Degree
2 97 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (3.30%) Security Cleared
4 65 (2.90%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.18%) MBA
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.13%) HND
13 3 (0.13%) OCP
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.089%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.089%) PhD
15 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.16%) QA
2 40 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 14 (0.62%) GDPR
5 12 (0.53%) WCAG
6 7 (0.31%) NCSC
7 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.13%) NIST
10 2 (0.089%) 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
1 255 (11.37%) Docker
2 26 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) Firmware
6 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 219 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.53%) Grafana
2 12 (0.53%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.18%) Ansible
3 4 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.089%) Bosun
4 2 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.045%) MOM
5 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.045%) SCCM
Vendors
1 805 (35.89%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.81%) Google
3 56 (2.50%) Facebook
4 31 (1.38%) Oracle
5 29 (1.29%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.94%) YouTube
7 18 (0.80%) VMware
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
9 16 (0.71%) Sony
9 16 (0.71%) Yahoo!
10 13 (0.58%) Adobe
11 11 (0.49%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
12 8 (0.36%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.36%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Sage
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 4 (0.18%) New Relic