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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 23
Rank change year-on-year -41 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,286 1,467 4,883
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.31% 5.66% 7.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.21% 29.74% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,284 4,328
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £83,750 £79,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -3.42%

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 4,559 4,932 12,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.20% 19.02% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,497 3,726 9,877
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -28 412 £60,000 - 174
North of England -31 397 £65,000 +13.04% 164
North West -30 208 £65,000 +18.18% 89
Midlands -35 207 £55,000 - 87
Yorkshire -27 125 £60,000 +9.09% 48
South West -5 121 £55,000 -8.33% 64
West Midlands -35 110 £50,000 -14.16% 50
East Midlands -29 97 £60,000 +14.29% 37
East of England -57 75 £61,250 +22.50% 63
North East -15 64 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Scotland -46 60 £60,000 +20.00% 18
Wales -31 19 £45,000 -30.77% 18
Northern Ireland - 3 £56,250 - 4
Channel Islands - 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 27 (2.10%) IIS
2 24 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.93%) CMS
4 9 (0.70%) Umbraco
5 8 (0.62%) Confluence
6 6 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.39%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.31%) ColdFusion
8 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 2 (0.16%) Apache
10 2 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.078%) Drupal
11 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.078%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 21 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Magento
3 1 (0.078%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 504 (39.19%) Azure
2 202 (15.71%) SaaS
3 197 (15.32%) AWS
4 132 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (7.23%) GitHub
6 74 (5.75%) Power Platform
7 64 (4.98%) Serverless
8 37 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 36 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (2.80%) Power Automate
10 35 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (2.72%) GCP
11 33 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (2.18%) Azure AKS
13 28 (2.18%) Azure Functions
13 28 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.24%) Internet
2 6 (0.47%) DNS
3 5 (0.39%) DHCP
4 4 (0.31%) VoIP
4 4 (0.31%) VPN
5 3 (0.23%) Firewall
6 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.16%) Intranet
6 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.078%) AMQP
7 1 (0.078%) HTTP
7 1 (0.078%) LTE
7 1 (0.078%) Modbus
7 1 (0.078%) MPLS
7 1 (0.078%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.078%) SSL
7 1 (0.078%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.44%) NoSQL
3 52 (4.04%) Power BI
4 45 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (2.49%) MongoDB
6 28 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (1.94%) MySQL
8 19 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 19 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.24%) Redis
9 16 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.54%) GIS
12 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.31%) QGIS
14 3 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 83 (6.45%) Git
2 42 (3.27%) JIRA
3 41 (3.19%) Visual Studio
4 37 (2.88%) Selenium
5 30 (2.33%) Postman
6 26 (2.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 21 (1.63%) SoapUI
8 18 (1.40%) WebDriver
9 13 (1.01%) Jenkins
10 10 (0.78%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.70%) NUnit
12 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.47%) git-flow
12 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.39%) JMeter
13 5 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.31%) Appium
14 4 (0.31%) GitLab
14 4 (0.31%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 213 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 141 (10.96%) Finance
3 53 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (3.27%) Public Sector
5 27 (2.10%) Law
6 23 (1.79%) Games
7 15 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.09%) Aviation
8 14 (1.09%) Retail
9 11 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.70%) Banking
10 9 (0.70%) Electronics
10 9 (0.70%) Marketing
10 9 (0.70%) Military
11 7 (0.54%) Automotive
12 6 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 785 (61.04%) Developer
2 323 (25.12%) .NET Developer
3 308 (23.95%) Senior
4 258 (20.06%) Software Developer
5 229 (17.81%) Software Engineer
6 161 (12.52%) Senior Developer
7 148 (11.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 143 (11.12%) Lead
9 138 (10.73%) C# Developer
10 101 (7.85%) .NET Software Engineer
11 86 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 83 (6.45%) .NET Software Developer
13 81 (6.30%) C# .NET Developer
14 77 (5.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 71 (5.52%) Senior .NET Developer
16 67 (5.21%) Lead Developer
17 57 (4.43%) Senior Software Developer
18 52 (4.04%) Applications Developer
19 45 (3.50%) C# Software Developer
20 43 (3.34%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (23.79%) .NET Core
2 211 (16.41%) ASP.NET
3 202 (15.71%) React
4 173 (13.45%) .NET Framework
5 164 (12.75%) HTML
6 143 (11.12%) CSS
7 118 (9.18%) AngularJS
8 98 (7.62%) REST
9 89 (6.92%) RESTful
10 79 (6.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 77 (5.99%) Blazor
12 71 (5.52%) Entity Framework
13 63 (4.90%) Vue
14 60 (4.67%) Node.js
15 38 (2.95%) SOAP
16 31 (2.41%) ASP.NET MVC
17 26 (2.02%) jQuery
17 26 (2.02%) React Native
18 24 (1.87%) ASP.NET Web API
19 22 (1.71%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.98%) Mobile App
3 56 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
5 34 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 16 (1.24%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.01%) Legacy Code
9 13 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
10 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.78%) PropTech
12 9 (0.70%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.70%) Sports Betting
13 8 (0.62%) 3D Graphics
13 8 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.58%) Windows
2 21 (1.63%) Android
3 18 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.24%) Linux
5 9 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.31%) VMS
7 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.078%) Unix
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (30.02%) Agile
2 383 (29.78%) Software Engineering
3 324 (25.19%) Full-Stack Development
4 280 (21.77%) DevOps
5 262 (20.37%) CI/CD
6 173 (13.45%) Microservices
7 161 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (9.25%) Mentoring
9 119 (9.25%) SDLC
10 105 (8.16%) Clean Code
11 99 (7.70%) Containerisation
12 95 (7.39%) AI
13 86 (6.69%) Scrum
14 83 (6.45%) MVC
15 67 (5.21%) User Experience
16 66 (5.13%) TDD
17 64 (4.98%) Technical Leadership
18 58 (4.51%) Business Intelligence
19 57 (4.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 871 (67.73%) C#
2 387 (30.09%) SQL
3 263 (20.45%) JavaScript
4 119 (9.25%) TypeScript
5 101 (7.85%) Java
6 93 (7.23%) Python
7 38 (2.95%) C++
8 35 (2.72%) T-SQL
9 28 (2.18%) PHP
10 20 (1.56%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.17%) C
12 12 (0.93%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.93%) Bash
13 11 (0.86%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.78%) Bicep
15 9 (0.70%) Go
16 7 (0.54%) VB
17 5 (0.39%) Delphi
17 5 (0.39%) VBA
18 4 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 118 (9.18%) Degree
2 38 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 38 (2.95%) Security Cleared
3 35 (2.72%) SC Cleared
4 22 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 18 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 18 (1.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 11 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.31%) ISEB
9 4 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.16%) PhD
12 1 (0.078%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.07%) QA
2 34 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.86%) GDPR
4 10 (0.78%) WCAG
5 9 (0.70%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.078%) HL7
8 1 (0.078%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.078%) NCSC
System Software
1 123 (9.56%) Docker
2 15 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.078%) Squid
5 1 (0.078%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 65 (5.05%) Terraform
3 14 (1.09%) Grafana
4 10 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.16%) MIIS
8 1 (0.078%) Argo
8 1 (0.078%) CASB
8 1 (0.078%) Consul
8 1 (0.078%) Kibana
8 1 (0.078%) Packer
8 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.078%) Puppet
Vendors
1 209 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.26%) Xamarin
3 17 (1.32%) Google
4 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 11 (0.86%) Oracle
5 11 (0.86%) Sage
6 10 (0.78%) Adobe
7 9 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.62%) Apple
8 8 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.47%) Telerik
10 5 (0.39%) Databricks
10 5 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.31%) Datto
11 4 (0.31%) Facebook
11 4 (0.31%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.31%) New Relic
12 3 (0.23%) VMware
12 3 (0.23%) Zoho