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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -43 -11 +4
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,267 1,623 4,704
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.36% 5.97% 7.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.31% 30.69% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 1,312 4,219
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 £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 4,476 5,288 12,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.33% 19.44% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,419 3,777 9,676
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 £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 19 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 19 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 -29 407 £60,000 - 175
North of England -33 394 £65,000 +18.18% 150
North West -31 206 £65,000 +18.18% 82
Midlands -33 204 £55,000 -4.35% 89
Yorkshire -30 123 £60,000 - 46
South West -16 115 £55,000 -8.33% 65
West Midlands -45 108 £50,000 -15.97% 53
East Midlands -35 96 £62,000 +18.10% 36
East of England -55 71 £60,000 +20.00% 59
North East -5 65 £70,000 +19.15% 28
Scotland -50 60 £60,000 +20.00% 17
Wales -27 21 £45,000 -30.77% 13
Northern Ireland -30 3 £56,250 +12.50% 3
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 28 (2.21%) IIS
2 20 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.03%) CMS
4 9 (0.71%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.47%) Confluence
5 6 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.39%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.16%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.079%) Apache
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.079%) Kentico
Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 21 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.079%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.079%) Magento
3 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 509 (40.17%) Azure
2 198 (15.63%) SaaS
3 193 (15.23%) AWS
4 137 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (7.50%) GitHub
6 73 (5.76%) Power Platform
7 65 (5.13%) Serverless
8 36 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
9 35 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 35 (2.76%) GCP
10 34 (2.68%) PowerApps
11 33 (2.60%) Power Automate
12 32 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 30 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 29 (2.29%) Azure Functions
15 28 (2.21%) Azure AKS
16 27 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (1.66%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.26%) Internet
2 6 (0.47%) DNS
3 5 (0.39%) DHCP
3 5 (0.39%) VPN
4 4 (0.32%) VoIP
5 3 (0.24%) Firewall
5 3 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.16%) HTTP
6 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.16%) Intranet
7 1 (0.079%) AMQP
7 1 (0.079%) LTE
7 1 (0.079%) Modbus
7 1 (0.079%) MPLS
7 1 (0.079%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.079%) SSL
7 1 (0.079%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (23.84%) SQL Server
2 71 (5.60%) NoSQL
3 49 (3.87%) Power BI
4 40 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (2.68%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (1.97%) MySQL
8 23 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 17 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.26%) Redis
12 8 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.39%) GIS
14 4 (0.32%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (0.24%) QGIS
15 3 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (6.71%) Git
2 42 (3.31%) JIRA
3 39 (3.08%) Visual Studio
4 37 (2.92%) Selenium
5 32 (2.53%) Postman
6 27 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (1.74%) SoapUI
8 19 (1.50%) WebDriver
9 13 (1.03%) Jenkins
10 11 (0.87%) SpecFlow
11 9 (0.71%) NUnit
12 6 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.47%) git-flow
12 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.39%) GitLab
13 5 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 4 (0.32%) Appium
14 4 (0.32%) JMeter
14 4 (0.32%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.24%) MSTest
General
1 214 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 146 (11.52%) Finance
3 51 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (2.92%) Public Sector
5 26 (2.05%) Law
6 22 (1.74%) Games
7 15 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.10%) Aviation
9 13 (1.03%) Retail
10 11 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (0.79%) Marketing
12 9 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.71%) Banking
12 9 (0.71%) Electronics
12 9 (0.71%) Military
13 7 (0.55%) Automotive
14 6 (0.47%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.39%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 764 (60.30%) Developer
2 309 (24.39%) .NET Developer
3 303 (23.91%) Senior
4 253 (19.97%) Software Developer
5 225 (17.76%) Software Engineer
6 155 (12.23%) Senior Developer
7 146 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 144 (11.37%) Lead
9 133 (10.50%) C# Developer
10 97 (7.66%) .NET Software Engineer
11 84 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 77 (6.08%) .NET Software Developer
13 76 (6.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 74 (5.84%) C# .NET Developer
15 68 (5.37%) Lead Developer
15 68 (5.37%) Senior .NET Developer
16 55 (4.34%) Senior Software Developer
17 51 (4.03%) Applications Developer
18 44 (3.47%) React Developer
19 40 (3.16%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (23.84%) .NET Core
2 207 (16.34%) ASP.NET
3 206 (16.26%) React
4 176 (13.89%) .NET Framework
5 160 (12.63%) HTML
6 140 (11.05%) CSS
7 118 (9.31%) AngularJS
8 97 (7.66%) REST
9 85 (6.71%) RESTful
10 78 (6.16%) Blazor
11 76 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 71 (5.60%) Entity Framework
13 57 (4.50%) Node.js
14 56 (4.42%) Vue
15 39 (3.08%) SOAP
16 31 (2.45%) ASP.NET MVC
17 26 (2.05%) jQuery
17 26 (2.05%) React Native
18 25 (1.97%) ASP.NET Web API
19 23 (1.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 81 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.21%) Mobile App
3 61 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
5 35 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 13 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 11 (0.87%) Legacy Code
11 9 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.71%) IoT
12 8 (0.63%) 3D Graphics
12 8 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.63%) PropTech
12 8 (0.63%) Sports Betting
13 7 (0.55%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.71%) Windows
2 23 (1.82%) Android
3 20 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.34%) Linux
5 8 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.16%) Unix
9 1 (0.079%) Fedora
9 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (30.70%) Agile
2 379 (29.91%) Software Engineering
3 314 (24.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 288 (22.73%) DevOps
5 272 (21.47%) CI/CD
6 167 (13.18%) Microservices
7 164 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (10.10%) Mentoring
10 119 (9.39%) SDLC
11 106 (8.37%) Clean Code
11 106 (8.37%) Containerisation
12 96 (7.58%) AI
13 89 (7.02%) Scrum
14 83 (6.55%) MVC
15 69 (5.45%) User Experience
16 67 (5.29%) TDD
17 60 (4.74%) Technical Leadership
18 58 (4.58%) Software Testing
19 57 (4.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 859 (67.80%) C#
2 380 (29.99%) SQL
3 259 (20.44%) JavaScript
4 122 (9.63%) TypeScript
5 100 (7.89%) Java
6 87 (6.87%) Python
7 36 (2.84%) T-SQL
8 34 (2.68%) C++
9 24 (1.89%) PHP
10 19 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.10%) C
12 13 (1.03%) VB.NET
13 12 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.95%) Bash
14 9 (0.71%) Bicep
14 9 (0.71%) Go
15 6 (0.47%) VB
16 5 (0.39%) Delphi
17 4 (0.32%) VBA
17 4 (0.32%) XAML
Qualifications
1 120 (9.47%) Degree
2 39 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.60%) Security Cleared
4 32 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 23 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 19 (1.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 17 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.32%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.32%) ISEB
11 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 1 (0.079%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.31%) QA
2 35 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.87%) GDPR
4 10 (0.79%) WCAG
5 9 (0.71%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.39%) SLA
8 2 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.079%) HL7
9 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 124 (9.79%) Docker
2 15 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.079%) Squid
5 1 (0.079%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 63 (4.97%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Grafana
4 10 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.47%) Ansible
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.079%) Argo
7 1 (0.079%) CASB
7 1 (0.079%) Kibana
7 1 (0.079%) MIIS
Vendors
1 203 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.29%) Xamarin
3 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
4 15 (1.18%) Google
5 12 (0.95%) Sage
6 11 (0.87%) Oracle
7 9 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (0.63%) Adobe
8 8 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 7 (0.55%) Apple
10 6 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.47%) Telerik
11 5 (0.39%) Databricks
11 5 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.32%) Datto
12 4 (0.32%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.32%) New Relic
12 4 (0.32%) Zoho
13 3 (0.24%) Foundry
13 3 (0.24%) VMware