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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 80 25
Rank change year-on-year +25 -55 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,197 1,179 3,481
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.54% 3.39% 6.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.37% 25.57% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,888 846 2,308
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 7,234 4,610 9,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.37% 13.27% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,544 2,774 5,762
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -3.79%
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 7 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 7 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 +43 693 £60,000 - 293
North of England +4 592 £57,500 -4.17% 343
Midlands +33 355 £60,000 +9.09% 209
North West -15 259 £60,000 -7.69% 194
East of England +21 205 £60,000 +9.09% 134
West Midlands +2 192 £58,750 +6.82% 117
South West -4 184 £55,000 +4.76% 85
North East +12 177 £57,000 +31.41% 59
East Midlands +48 163 £60,000 +9.09% 92
Yorkshire +2 156 £55,000 -8.33% 96
Scotland +44 73 £60,000 -6.98% 93
Northern Ireland -26 69 £35,000 -30.00% 43
Wales -68 29 £50,000 -9.09% 38
.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 45 (2.05%) IIS
2 28 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.82%) CMS
4 15 (0.68%) Confluence
5 10 (0.46%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.27%) CICS
8 6 (0.27%) 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 (0.046%) Appian
12 1 (0.046%) Kentico
12 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.046%) 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%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,074 (48.88%) Azure
2 360 (16.39%) AWS
3 352 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 218 (9.92%) GitHub
5 169 (7.69%) SaaS
6 160 (7.28%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 118 (5.37%) Power Platform
9 91 (4.14%) Serverless
10 86 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 80 (3.64%) Power Automate
12 78 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
13 64 (2.91%) PowerApps
14 54 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
16 43 (1.96%) Azure Functions
17 41 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
18 38 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.91%) Internet
2 21 (0.96%) Firewall
3 14 (0.64%) VLAN
4 12 (0.55%) Wireless
5 10 (0.46%) HTTP
6 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.27%) DNS
7 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.27%) SNMP
8 5 (0.23%) DHCP
8 5 (0.23%) LAN
8 5 (0.23%) WAN
9 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.14%) RS-232
10 2 (0.091%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.091%) Modbus
10 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.046%) Network Security
11 1 (0.046%) Profibus
11 1 (0.046%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (21.26%) SQL Server
2 447 (20.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 394 (17.93%) MongoDB
4 154 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 71 (3.23%) Power BI
7 62 (2.82%) MySQL
8 58 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 57 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.73%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQLite
15 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.36%) GIS
17 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 164 (7.46%) Git
2 35 (1.59%) Visual Studio
3 34 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.50%) JIRA
5 27 (1.23%) Claude Code
6 22 (1.00%) GitLab
7 19 (0.86%) NUnit
8 16 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 15 (0.68%) Postman
10 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (0.55%) Selenium
12 11 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.36%) Moq
14 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.32%) MSI
15 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
17 4 (0.18%) JUnit
17 4 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 346 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 228 (10.38%) Finance
3 109 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.91%) Legal
5 80 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 64 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 63 (2.87%) Games
7 63 (2.87%) Retail
8 55 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 54 (2.46%) Advertising
10 52 (2.37%) Marketing
11 50 (2.28%) Law
12 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
13 25 (1.14%) Automotive
14 24 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.86%) Electronics
16 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.50%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
17 11 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,373 (62.49%) Developer
2 856 (38.96%) .NET Developer
3 412 (18.75%) Senior
4 308 (14.02%) Software Engineer
5 252 (11.47%) Senior Developer
5 252 (11.47%) Software Developer
6 234 (10.65%) Lead
7 140 (6.37%) C# Developer
7 140 (6.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 126 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
9 115 (5.23%) .NET Software Engineer
10 112 (5.10%) Lead Developer
11 107 (4.87%) C# .NET Developer
11 107 (4.87%) Senior .NET Developer
11 107 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
12 92 (4.19%) .NET Software Developer
13 85 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 76 (3.46%) Web Developer
15 58 (2.64%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 57 (2.59%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 678 (30.86%) .NET Core
2 646 (29.40%) ASP.NET
3 535 (24.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 364 (16.57%) React
5 343 (15.61%) HTML
6 339 (15.43%) CSS
7 271 (12.34%) AngularJS
8 270 (12.29%) Entity Framework
9 247 (11.24%) Blazor
10 244 (11.11%) RESTful
11 229 (10.42%) .NET Framework
12 222 (10.10%) Vue
13 217 (9.88%) Node.js
14 210 (9.56%) ASP.NET Web API
15 146 (6.65%) REST
16 145 (6.60%) ML.NET
17 108 (4.92%) LINQ
18 85 (3.87%) jQuery
19 76 (3.46%) Terraform
20 58 (2.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 123 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
2 119 (5.42%) Cloud Native
3 109 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
4 71 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 53 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 38 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
9 35 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 22 (1.00%) Legacy Code
10 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 20 (0.91%) Hedge funds
11 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 19 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
13 17 (0.77%) iPhone
14 16 (0.73%) BBC
14 16 (0.73%) Mainframe
14 16 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 100 (4.55%) Windows
2 38 (1.73%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.18%) Android
3 26 (1.18%) Linux
4 10 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 752 (34.23%) Agile
3 581 (26.45%) CI/CD
4 542 (24.67%) Software Engineering
5 500 (22.76%) DevOps
6 375 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 371 (16.89%) Microservices
8 353 (16.07%) AI
9 268 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (8.51%) Mentoring
11 185 (8.42%) SDLC
12 184 (8.38%) Machine Learning
13 171 (7.78%) Multithreading
14 147 (6.69%) Scrum
15 138 (6.28%) TDD
16 127 (5.78%) OO
16 127 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
17 124 (5.64%) Test Automation
18 115 (5.23%) Software Architecture
18 115 (5.23%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,703 (77.51%) C#
2 839 (38.19%) SQL
3 514 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 296 (13.47%) TypeScript
5 134 (6.10%) Python
6 101 (4.60%) Java
7 86 (3.91%) C++
8 61 (2.78%) VB.NET
9 56 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 55 (2.50%) T-SQL
11 53 (2.41%) PHP
12 26 (1.18%) Bicep
12 26 (1.18%) C
13 20 (0.91%) COBOL
14 18 (0.82%) Bash
15 16 (0.73%) JCL
15 16 (0.73%) VB
16 13 (0.59%) Go
17 10 (0.46%) Delphi
18 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 183 (8.33%) Degree
2 102 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 60 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) 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 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.091%) CSQA
14 2 (0.091%) PhD
15 1 (0.046%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.28%) QA
2 43 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) GDPR
5 13 (0.59%) 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 (0.046%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.046%) GAMP
11 1 (0.046%) GMP
11 1 (0.046%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.70%) Docker
2 26 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) Firmware
6 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 219 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.55%) Grafana
2 12 (0.55%) 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 (0.046%) MOM
5 1 (0.046%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.046%) SCCM
Vendors
1 785 (35.73%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.82%) Google
3 56 (2.55%) Facebook
4 32 (1.46%) Oracle
5 30 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.96%) YouTube
7 19 (0.86%) VMware
8 17 (0.77%) Adobe
8 17 (0.77%) Apple
9 16 (0.73%) Sony
9 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.46%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.36%) Xamarin
12 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
13 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.23%) Sage
15 4 (0.18%) NEC