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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 31 20
Rank change year-on-year -47 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,167 2,182 4,100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.52% 6.50% 8.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.55% 32.62% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 1,403 3,760
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,475
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,100
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 4,088 6,690 10,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.81% 19.94% 22.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 3,751 8,825
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

.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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -32 372 £60,000 - 193
North of England -37 345 £65,000 +13.04% 189
Midlands -42 202 £52,500 -8.70% 80
North West -22 184 £65,000 +13.04% 123
West Midlands -38 117 £50,000 -13.04% 37
Yorkshire -50 103 £55,000 +3.77% 40
South West -43 100 £55,000 -8.33% 67
East Midlands -39 85 £65,000 +28.08% 43
East of England -64 64 £60,000 +20.00% 54
Scotland -61 59 £60,000 +20.00% 46
North East -9 58 £70,000 +7.69% 27
Wales -10 29 £45,000 -25.00% 17
Northern Ireland -18 4 £56,250 +12.50% 7
Channel Islands 0 1 £90,000 -
.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 37 (3.17%) IIS
2 15 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.11%) CMS
4 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Umbraco
6 6 (0.51%) Confluence
7 5 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.34%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.17%) JBoss
11 1 (0.086%) Apache
11 1 (0.086%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.086%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.086%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.086%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.086%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 35 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.086%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 551 (47.22%) Azure
2 215 (18.42%) AWS
3 199 (17.05%) SaaS
4 168 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (8.57%) GitHub
6 75 (6.43%) Power Platform
7 67 (5.74%) Serverless
8 55 (4.71%) GCP
9 42 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (3.26%) Power Automate
11 32 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (2.57%) Azure Functions
13 29 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
13 29 (2.49%) Entra ID
14 28 (2.40%) PowerApps
15 27 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
16 25 (2.14%) Azure AKS
17 22 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (1.80%) Amazon S3
19 20 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.03%) Internet
2 9 (0.77%) DNS
3 8 (0.69%) DHCP
3 8 (0.69%) VPN
4 6 (0.51%) VoIP
5 3 (0.26%) Firewall
5 3 (0.26%) HTTP
5 3 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 1 (0.086%) AMQP
7 1 (0.086%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.086%) LTE
7 1 (0.086%) MPLS
7 1 (0.086%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.086%) SSL
7 1 (0.086%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (25.88%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 41 (3.51%) Power BI
4 31 (2.66%) MySQL
4 31 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 19 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.54%) Redis
11 6 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.43%) Tableau
13 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.34%) GIS
14 3 (0.26%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (7.63%) Git
2 43 (3.68%) JIRA
3 39 (3.34%) Visual Studio
4 34 (2.91%) Selenium
5 31 (2.66%) Postman
6 30 (2.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 26 (2.23%) SoapUI
8 23 (1.97%) WebDriver
9 14 (1.20%) Jenkins
10 13 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.69%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.60%) git-flow
12 7 (0.60%) GitLab
12 7 (0.60%) Storybook
13 6 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.43%) NUnit
15 4 (0.34%) LabVIEW
16 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.26%) MSTest
16 3 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 240 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 168 (14.40%) Finance
3 40 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (3.00%) Public Sector
5 25 (2.14%) Law
6 17 (1.46%) Games
6 17 (1.46%) Manufacturing
7 16 (1.37%) Aviation
8 14 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (0.94%) Banking
9 11 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (0.94%) Retail
10 10 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (0.69%) Electronics
11 8 (0.69%) Marketing
12 7 (0.60%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.60%) Automotive
12 7 (0.60%) Military
12 7 (0.60%) Publishing
13 5 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 689 (59.04%) Developer
2 267 (22.88%) .NET Developer
2 267 (22.88%) Senior
3 223 (19.11%) Software Developer
4 194 (16.62%) Software Engineer
5 137 (11.74%) Lead
6 130 (11.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 130 (11.14%) Senior Developer
7 129 (11.05%) C# Developer
8 81 (6.94%) .NET Software Engineer
9 78 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 74 (6.34%) .NET Software Developer
11 65 (5.57%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 65 (5.57%) Lead Developer
12 59 (5.06%) C# .NET Developer
12 59 (5.06%) Senior .NET Developer
13 45 (3.86%) Senior Software Developer
14 43 (3.68%) Analyst
15 42 (3.60%) Applications Developer
16 34 (2.91%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (22.19%) .NET Core
2 210 (17.99%) React
3 182 (15.60%) ASP.NET
4 170 (14.57%) .NET Framework
5 138 (11.83%) HTML
6 125 (10.71%) CSS
7 112 (9.60%) AngularJS
8 87 (7.46%) REST
9 76 (6.51%) Blazor
10 74 (6.34%) RESTful
11 59 (5.06%) Entity Framework
12 58 (4.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 49 (4.20%) Vue
14 38 (3.26%) SOAP
15 33 (2.83%) Node.js
16 32 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC
17 26 (2.23%) WinForms
17 26 (2.23%) WPF
18 25 (2.14%) jQuery
19 23 (1.97%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 62 (5.31%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 10 (0.86%) IoT
12 8 (0.69%) 3D Graphics
12 8 (0.69%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.69%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.69%) Client/Server
12 8 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.69%) Driving Licence
12 8 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.63%) Windows
2 26 (2.23%) Android
3 24 (2.06%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.46%) Linux
5 11 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.086%) Fedora
10 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (36.25%) Agile
2 369 (31.62%) Software Engineering
3 312 (26.74%) DevOps
4 288 (24.68%) CI/CD
5 267 (22.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 196 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (13.45%) Microservices
9 146 (12.51%) Mentoring
10 107 (9.17%) SDLC
11 106 (9.08%) AI
12 101 (8.65%) Containerisation
13 94 (8.05%) Clean Code
14 87 (7.46%) Scrum
15 86 (7.37%) MVC
16 70 (6.00%) Computer Science
17 69 (5.91%) Roadmaps
18 68 (5.83%) User Experience
19 66 (5.66%) TDD
20 62 (5.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 807 (69.15%) C#
2 363 (31.11%) SQL
3 270 (23.14%) JavaScript
4 125 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 98 (8.40%) Java
6 84 (7.20%) Python
7 36 (3.08%) C++
8 35 (3.00%) T-SQL
9 33 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.74%) PHP
11 19 (1.63%) VB.NET
12 13 (1.11%) Bash
13 12 (1.03%) C
14 11 (0.94%) Bicep
15 8 (0.69%) XAML
16 7 (0.60%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.51%) VB
18 5 (0.43%) Delphi
18 5 (0.43%) Go
19 3 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 135 (11.57%) Degree
2 56 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (2.31%) ISTQB
4 23 (1.97%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 23 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 22 (1.89%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 11 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (0.51%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.34%) ISEB
9 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.17%) PhD
11 2 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.086%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.51%) QA
2 33 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.94%) GDPR
4 10 (0.86%) WCAG
5 7 (0.60%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.26%) GRC
7 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.17%) SLA
8 1 (0.086%) HL7
8 1 (0.086%) SOC 2
System Software
1 116 (9.94%) Docker
2 19 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.51%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
5 1 (0.086%) Squid
5 1 (0.086%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 78 (6.68%) Terraform
3 18 (1.54%) Grafana
4 15 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.60%) Ansible
6 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.086%) CASB
8 1 (0.086%) Kibana
Vendors
1 187 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.57%) Xamarin
3 18 (1.54%) Oracle
4 14 (1.20%) Google
5 13 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.03%) Sage
7 9 (0.77%) Apple
7 9 (0.77%) Telerik
8 7 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (0.51%) Databricks
9 6 (0.51%) Datto
9 6 (0.51%) Freshdesk
9 6 (0.51%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.43%) DevExpress
10 5 (0.43%) Syncfusion
10 5 (0.43%) Zoho
11 4 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.34%) New Relic
12 3 (0.26%) Foundry