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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 25
Rank change year-on-year +17 -44 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,225 1,319 3,978
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.89% 3.81% 6.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.08% 27.36% 37.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,957 961 3,149
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £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 6,528 4,821 10,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.48% 13.94% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,155 2,978 7,226
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,986 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

.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 August 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 August 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 +33 685 £57,500 - 239
North of England +1 626 £57,500 -4.17% 215
Midlands +23 336 £55,000 - 113
North West -3 284 £60,000 - 115
East of England +23 221 £65,000 +30.00% 78
South West +28 220 £52,500 - 69
West Midlands -9 179 £60,000 +9.09% 52
North East +8 172 £55,750 +28.16% 49
Yorkshire +20 170 £55,000 -12.00% 53
East Midlands +41 157 £55,000 - 61
Northern Ireland -21 57 £35,000 -30.00% 22
Scotland +29 56 £60,000 -6.98% 34
Wales -59 26 £50,000 -16.67% 22
.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 39 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 37 (1.66%) IIS
3 16 (0.72%) CMS
3 16 (0.72%) ColdFusion
3 16 (0.72%) Confluence
4 9 (0.40%) WordPress
5 8 (0.36%) nginx
6 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.13%) Apache
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.13%) CICS
8 3 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.13%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.045%) Appian
10 1 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.22%) Shopify
3 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.13%) Magento
5 2 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.045%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.045%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,120 (50.34%) Azure
2 353 (15.87%) AWS
3 352 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
4 211 (9.48%) GitHub
5 186 (8.36%) SaaS
6 164 (7.37%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.34%) GitHub Copilot
8 126 (5.66%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 86 (3.87%) Power Automate
11 83 (3.73%) Serverless
12 79 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.10%) PowerApps
14 53 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
15 47 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.98%) Azure Functions
17 43 (1.93%) GCP
18 41 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
19 37 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
20 32 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.87%) Internet
2 9 (0.40%) HTTP
2 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.36%) Firewall
4 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.22%) DHCP
6 5 (0.22%) DNS
6 5 (0.22%) LAN
6 5 (0.22%) WAN
7 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.13%) Modbus
7 3 (0.13%) RS-232
8 1 (0.045%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.045%) Network Security
8 1 (0.045%) Profibus
8 1 (0.045%) SSL
8 1 (0.045%) VLAN
8 1 (0.045%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 476 (21.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 441 (19.82%) SQL Server
3 406 (18.25%) MongoDB
4 157 (7.06%) Elasticsearch
5 93 (4.18%) Power BI
6 59 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 59 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 55 (2.47%) MySQL
8 43 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (0.81%) Redis
11 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (0.54%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.49%) GIS
13 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.40%) SQLite
16 8 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 150 (6.74%) Git
2 35 (1.57%) JIRA
3 28 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.26%) Visual Studio
4 22 (0.99%) GitLab
4 22 (0.99%) NUnit
4 22 (0.99%) Postman
5 18 (0.81%) Selenium
6 16 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 11 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 11 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 8 (0.36%) Moq
9 8 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.31%) MSI
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.27%) JUnit
11 6 (0.27%) MSTest
11 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
General
1 311 (13.98%) Social Skills
2 218 (9.80%) Finance
3 90 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (3.55%) Legal
5 67 (3.01%) Retail
6 66 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 58 (2.61%) Games
8 57 (2.56%) Advertising
9 56 (2.52%) Law
9 56 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (2.43%) Marketing
11 30 (1.35%) Legal Technology
12 26 (1.17%) Automotive
13 22 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.85%) Electronics
15 11 (0.49%) Aviation
15 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
16 9 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,484 (66.70%) Developer
2 888 (39.91%) .NET Developer
3 413 (18.56%) Senior
4 318 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 313 (14.07%) Software Developer
6 254 (11.42%) Senior Developer
7 241 (10.83%) Lead
8 155 (6.97%) C# Developer
9 150 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 124 (5.57%) .NET Software Engineer
11 123 (5.53%) C# Software Engineer
12 122 (5.48%) Lead Developer
13 120 (5.39%) C# .NET Developer
14 115 (5.17%) .NET Software Developer
15 111 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 98 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
17 90 (4.04%) Web Developer
18 79 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 63 (2.83%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 723 (32.49%) .NET Core
2 681 (30.61%) ASP.NET
3 550 (24.72%) ASP.NET Core
4 360 (16.18%) HTML
5 354 (15.91%) CSS
6 343 (15.42%) React
7 279 (12.54%) AngularJS
8 274 (12.31%) Entity Framework
9 256 (11.51%) RESTful
10 254 (11.42%) Blazor
11 240 (10.79%) Vue
12 237 (10.65%) .NET Framework
13 228 (10.25%) Node.js
14 210 (9.44%) ASP.NET Web API
15 153 (6.88%) ML.NET
16 142 (6.38%) REST
17 109 (4.90%) LINQ
18 68 (3.06%) jQuery
19 57 (2.56%) WPF
20 52 (2.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 135 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
2 119 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 93 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 51 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.44%) Legacy Code
9 27 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
10 23 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 21 (0.94%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.90%) Digital TV
12 20 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (0.81%) Algorithms
13 18 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.76%) BBC
14 17 (0.76%) iPhone
14 17 (0.76%) Management Information System
14 17 (0.76%) Social Media
15 14 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.64%) Windows
2 28 (1.26%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.21%) Android
4 25 (1.12%) Linux
5 4 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.090%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.045%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (36.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 771 (34.65%) Agile
3 560 (25.17%) CI/CD
4 546 (24.54%) Software Engineering
5 506 (22.74%) DevOps
6 394 (17.71%) Microservices
7 338 (15.19%) AI
8 328 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 269 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 195 (8.76%) Machine Learning
11 193 (8.67%) SDLC
12 180 (8.09%) Multithreading
13 168 (7.55%) Mentoring
14 160 (7.19%) Scrum
15 153 (6.88%) TDD
16 135 (6.07%) OO
17 121 (5.44%) Clean Code
17 121 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
18 119 (5.35%) Business Intelligence
19 118 (5.30%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1,684 (75.69%) C#
2 864 (38.83%) SQL
3 497 (22.34%) JavaScript
4 305 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 141 (6.34%) Python
6 104 (4.67%) Java
7 76 (3.42%) C++
8 66 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 65 (2.92%) PHP
10 53 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 45 (2.02%) VB.NET
12 30 (1.35%) Bicep
13 25 (1.12%) C
14 22 (0.99%) Bash
15 14 (0.63%) VB
16 12 (0.54%) Go
17 11 (0.49%) COBOL
18 9 (0.40%) VBA
18 9 (0.40%) XAML
19 8 (0.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 186 (8.36%) Degree
2 97 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (3.69%) Security Cleared
4 74 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 19 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
12 3 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.13%) OCP
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.090%) CSQA
13 2 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.22%) QA
2 48 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.72%) GDPR
4 14 (0.63%) WCAG
5 11 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) SLA
8 3 (0.13%) NIST
8 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 270 (12.13%) Docker
2 12 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.40%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 244 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.00%) Terraform
3 13 (0.58%) Grafana
4 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 2 (0.090%) MIIS
8 1 (0.045%) Consul
8 1 (0.045%) MOM
8 1 (0.045%) Packer
8 1 (0.045%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.045%) Puppet
Vendors
1 793 (35.64%) Microsoft
2 67 (3.01%) Google
3 59 (2.65%) Facebook
4 27 (1.21%) OpenAI
5 26 (1.17%) Adobe
6 23 (1.03%) Oracle
7 21 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
8 17 (0.76%) Sony
8 17 (0.76%) Yahoo!
9 12 (0.54%) Xamarin
10 10 (0.45%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.36%) Databricks
11 8 (0.36%) Sage
12 7 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.31%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.31%) VMware
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk
14 5 (0.22%) SYSPRO