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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 61 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 -36 +1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,074 1,378 5,148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.90% 4.08% 7.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.81% 26.95% 38.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,874 1,004 4,305
10th Percentile £40,375 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,458
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 6,135 5,114 13,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.57% 15.13% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,935 3,236 9,821
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 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%

.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 16 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 16 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 +25 661 £57,500 - 133
North of England +1 571 £57,500 -4.17% 110
Midlands +7 319 £55,000 - 65
North West -3 274 £60,000 +4.35% 52
South West +18 204 £52,500 - 47
East of England +23 191 £65,000 +23.81% 48
West Midlands -23 169 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East Midlands +25 150 £55,000 - 37
North East +2 149 £55,000 +7.32% 30
Yorkshire +5 148 £57,500 -11.54% 30
Scotland +18 59 £57,500 -9.45% 10
Northern Ireland -22 44 - - 17
Wales -56 27 £50,000 -24.81% 6
.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 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.59%) IIS
3 16 (0.77%) ColdFusion
4 14 (0.68%) CMS
4 14 (0.68%) Confluence
5 8 (0.39%) nginx
5 8 (0.39%) WordPress
6 7 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.19%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.19%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.048%) Appian
9 1 (0.048%) Drupal
9 1 (0.048%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.048%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.048%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.048%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 2 (0.096%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.048%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.048%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (50.19%) Azure
2 324 (15.62%) Azure DevOps
3 312 (15.04%) AWS
4 186 (8.97%) SaaS
5 183 (8.82%) GitHub
6 159 (7.67%) Azure AI
7 132 (6.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 109 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 85 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 81 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 79 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.57%) Serverless
13 69 (3.33%) PowerApps
14 43 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
15 39 (1.88%) Azure Functions
16 37 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
17 34 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
18 31 (1.49%) GCP
19 30 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
20 26 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.00%) Internet
2 9 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.14%) RS-232
7 2 (0.096%) HTTP
7 2 (0.096%) Modbus
8 1 (0.048%) AMQP
8 1 (0.048%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.048%) LTE
8 1 (0.048%) Network Security
8 1 (0.048%) Profibus
8 1 (0.048%) SSL
8 1 (0.048%) VLAN
8 1 (0.048%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (22.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 404 (19.48%) MongoDB
3 381 (18.37%) SQL Server
4 152 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
5 89 (4.29%) Power BI
6 53 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 35 (1.69%) MySQL
8 31 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.72%) Redis
12 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.48%) GIS
15 9 (0.43%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.24%) Metadata
18 4 (0.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 116 (5.59%) Git
2 33 (1.59%) JIRA
3 25 (1.21%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.92%) Postman
5 15 (0.72%) GitLab
6 14 (0.68%) NUnit
7 12 (0.58%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.53%) Selenium
9 10 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.39%) Moq
10 8 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.29%) MSTest
11 6 (0.29%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.24%) JMeter
12 5 (0.24%) MSI
12 5 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 250 (12.05%) Social Skills
2 206 (9.93%) Finance
3 72 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (3.04%) Retail
5 60 (2.89%) Legal
6 56 (2.70%) Games
7 55 (2.65%) Advertising
7 55 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 49 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 49 (2.36%) Marketing
9 42 (2.03%) Law
10 30 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.45%) Legal Technology
11 26 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.25%) Automotive
12 20 (0.96%) Electronics
13 11 (0.53%) Music Industry
14 8 (0.39%) Back Office
15 7 (0.34%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.34%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,407 (67.84%) Developer
2 860 (41.47%) .NET Developer
3 390 (18.80%) Senior
4 313 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 296 (14.27%) Software Developer
6 229 (11.04%) Senior Developer
7 208 (10.03%) Lead
8 148 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 146 (7.04%) C# Developer
10 132 (6.36%) .NET Software Engineer
11 119 (5.74%) C# .NET Developer
12 113 (5.45%) C# Software Engineer
13 111 (5.35%) Lead Developer
14 108 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 106 (5.11%) .NET Software Developer
16 96 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
17 79 (3.81%) Web Developer
18 71 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (3.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 57 (2.75%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (33.37%) .NET Core
2 647 (31.20%) ASP.NET
3 532 (25.65%) ASP.NET Core
4 336 (16.20%) CSS
4 336 (16.20%) HTML
5 319 (15.38%) React
6 268 (12.92%) AngularJS
7 253 (12.20%) Entity Framework
8 244 (11.76%) RESTful
9 238 (11.48%) Blazor
10 234 (11.28%) Vue
11 222 (10.70%) Node.js
12 213 (10.27%) .NET Framework
13 194 (9.35%) ASP.NET Web API
14 152 (7.33%) ML.NET
15 128 (6.17%) REST
16 109 (5.26%) LINQ
17 61 (2.94%) jQuery
18 49 (2.36%) JSON
19 46 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 73 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (3.04%) Mobile App
5 57 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.25%) Legacy Code
9 20 (0.96%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.92%) Hedge funds
11 17 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 17 (0.82%) Algorithms
11 17 (0.82%) BBC
11 17 (0.82%) iPhone
11 17 (0.82%) Social Media
12 14 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (0.68%) Onboarding
12 14 (0.68%) Social Network
13 13 (0.63%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.09%) Windows
2 32 (1.54%) Android
3 26 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.82%) Linux
5 9 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.096%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (38.28%) Full-Stack Development
2 722 (34.81%) Agile
3 510 (24.59%) Software Engineering
4 501 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 449 (21.65%) DevOps
6 356 (17.16%) Microservices
7 327 (15.77%) AI
8 269 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 218 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 198 (9.55%) Machine Learning
11 174 (8.39%) Multithreading
12 172 (8.29%) SDLC
13 150 (7.23%) Scrum
14 145 (6.99%) Mentoring
14 145 (6.99%) TDD
15 116 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
16 115 (5.54%) OO
17 107 (5.16%) Clean Code
18 100 (4.82%) Kanban
18 100 (4.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,575 (75.94%) C#
2 835 (40.26%) SQL
3 461 (22.23%) JavaScript
4 287 (13.84%) TypeScript
5 124 (5.98%) Python
6 92 (4.44%) Java
7 74 (3.57%) C++
8 66 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 57 (2.75%) PHP
10 48 (2.31%) T-SQL
11 33 (1.59%) VB.NET
12 27 (1.30%) Bicep
13 23 (1.11%) C
14 21 (1.01%) Bash
15 17 (0.82%) VB
16 9 (0.43%) VBA
17 8 (0.39%) Delphi
18 7 (0.34%) XAML
19 6 (0.29%) Apex Code
20 5 (0.24%) RPG
Qualifications
1 158 (7.62%) Degree
2 83 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (2.84%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 17 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.14%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.14%) MBA
11 2 (0.096%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.096%) CSQA
11 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.096%) PhD
11 2 (0.096%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.048%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (6.94%) QA
2 43 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.72%) GDPR
4 14 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 12 (0.58%) WCAG
6 6 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.29%) NCSC
7 5 (0.24%) SLA
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (11.91%) Docker
2 12 (0.58%) Firmware
3 11 (0.53%) 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
1 228 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 68 (3.28%) Terraform
3 7 (0.34%) Grafana
4 5 (0.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.096%) Ansible
5 2 (0.096%) MIIS
6 1 (0.048%) Consul
6 1 (0.048%) MOM
6 1 (0.048%) Packer
6 1 (0.048%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.048%) Puppet
Vendors
1 737 (35.54%) Microsoft
2 66 (3.18%) Google
3 59 (2.84%) Facebook
4 25 (1.21%) Adobe
4 25 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 21 (1.01%) Oracle
5 21 (1.01%) YouTube
6 18 (0.87%) Xamarin
7 17 (0.82%) Apple
7 17 (0.82%) Sony
7 17 (0.82%) Yahoo!
8 11 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.39%) Databricks
10 7 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
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 (0.14%) OneLogin