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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 78 25
Rank change year-on-year +21 -53 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,233 1,170 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.57% 3.40% 6.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.44% 25.41% 34.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,905 835 2,214
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,325
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7,335 4,604 9,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.44% 13.38% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,570 2,771 5,549
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -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 14 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 14 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 +39 676 £60,000 - 209
North of England +3 606 £57,500 -4.17% 285
Midlands +34 377 £60,000 +9.09% 147
North West -22 257 £60,000 -7.69% 146
East of England +16 209 £60,000 +9.09% 111
West Midlands +5 208 £60,000 +9.09% 89
North East +8 187 £56,500 +29.89% 52
South West +6 185 £55,000 +4.76% 60
East Midlands +41 169 £60,000 +9.09% 58
Yorkshire +8 162 £55,000 -8.33% 92
Scotland +54 78 £60,000 -5.51% 80
Northern Ireland -25 69 £35,000 -37.22% 38
Wales -65 36 £55,000 - 39
.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 43 (1.93%) IIS
2 27 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.81%) CMS
4 17 (0.76%) Confluence
5 8 (0.36%) ColdFusion
5 8 (0.36%) WordPress
6 7 (0.31%) CICS
6 7 (0.31%) nginx
6 7 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.18%) Apache
8 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.090%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.090%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.045%) Kentico
11 1 (0.045%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.13%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.090%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1,091 (48.86%) Azure
2 359 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
3 357 (15.99%) AWS
4 226 (10.12%) GitHub
5 161 (7.21%) Azure AI
6 160 (7.17%) SaaS
7 143 (6.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 120 (5.37%) Power Platform
9 92 (4.12%) Serverless
10 90 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 81 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 81 (3.63%) Power Automate
12 65 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 57 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
14 56 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (1.97%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
17 38 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
18 35 (1.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.90%) Internet
2 21 (0.94%) Firewall
3 14 (0.63%) VLAN
4 12 (0.54%) Wireless
5 10 (0.45%) HTTP
6 9 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.27%) DNS
8 6 (0.27%) SNMP
9 5 (0.22%) DHCP
9 5 (0.22%) LAN
9 5 (0.22%) WAN
10 3 (0.13%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.13%) RS-232
11 2 (0.090%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.090%) Modbus
11 2 (0.090%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.045%) Network Security
12 1 (0.045%) SSL
12 1 (0.045%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (20.96%) SQL Server
2 451 (20.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 399 (17.87%) MongoDB
4 155 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (3.76%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.09%) Power BI
7 61 (2.73%) MySQL
8 58 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 58 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.72%) Redis
11 14 (0.63%) DynamoDB
11 14 (0.63%) Spark SQL
12 13 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
14 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.45%) SQLite
15 9 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.36%) GIS
17 7 (0.31%) Db2
Development Applications
1 165 (7.39%) Git
2 37 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.61%) Visual Studio
4 31 (1.39%) JIRA
5 29 (1.30%) Claude Code
6 22 (0.99%) GitLab
7 20 (0.90%) NUnit
8 17 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
9 14 (0.63%) Postman
10 12 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.49%) Selenium
12 8 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.36%) Moq
13 7 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.31%) MSI
14 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.18%) JUnit
16 4 (0.18%) Yeoman
General
1 362 (16.21%) Social Skills
2 235 (10.52%) Finance
3 111 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (3.90%) Legal
5 85 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 66 (2.96%) Manufacturing
7 64 (2.87%) Games
8 61 (2.73%) Retail
9 55 (2.46%) Advertising
9 55 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (2.33%) Law
10 52 (2.33%) Marketing
11 30 (1.34%) Legal Technology
12 24 (1.07%) Automotive
13 23 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 19 (0.85%) Electronics
15 14 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.54%) Aviation
17 11 (0.49%) Music Industry
18 10 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,384 (61.98%) Developer
2 851 (38.11%) .NET Developer
3 428 (19.17%) Senior
4 308 (13.79%) Software Engineer
5 271 (12.14%) Senior Developer
6 268 (12.00%) Software Developer
7 230 (10.30%) Lead
8 143 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 133 (5.96%) C# Developer
10 126 (5.64%) C# Software Engineer
11 116 (5.19%) .NET Software Engineer
12 110 (4.93%) Lead Developer
13 109 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 108 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
15 100 (4.48%) C# .NET Developer
16 92 (4.12%) .NET Software Developer
16 92 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 77 (3.45%) Architect
18 71 (3.18%) Web Developer
19 65 (2.91%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (30.23%) .NET Core
2 647 (28.97%) ASP.NET
3 540 (24.18%) ASP.NET Core
4 369 (16.52%) React
5 338 (15.14%) HTML
6 334 (14.96%) CSS
7 273 (12.23%) AngularJS
8 270 (12.09%) Entity Framework
9 255 (11.42%) Blazor
10 245 (10.97%) RESTful
11 234 (10.48%) .NET Framework
12 219 (9.81%) Vue
13 218 (9.76%) Node.js
14 213 (9.54%) ASP.NET Web API
15 150 (6.72%) REST
16 146 (6.54%) ML.NET
17 109 (4.88%) LINQ
18 87 (3.90%) jQuery
19 75 (3.36%) Terraform
20 59 (2.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.55%) Greenfield Project
2 118 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 115 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 73 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 39 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
9 38 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.03%) Legacy Code
11 23 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.85%) Algorithms
12 19 (0.85%) Digital TV
12 19 (0.85%) Hedge funds
12 19 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 18 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 17 (0.76%) iPhone
15 16 (0.72%) BBC
15 16 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 99 (4.43%) Windows
2 37 (1.66%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.16%) Android
3 26 (1.16%) Linux
4 10 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (35.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 761 (34.08%) Agile
3 590 (26.42%) CI/CD
4 545 (24.41%) Software Engineering
5 510 (22.84%) DevOps
6 383 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
7 373 (16.70%) Microservices
8 353 (15.81%) AI
9 267 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 191 (8.55%) Mentoring
11 189 (8.46%) SDLC
12 185 (8.28%) Machine Learning
13 171 (7.66%) Multithreading
14 145 (6.49%) Scrum
15 140 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
16 139 (6.22%) TDD
17 126 (5.64%) OO
18 124 (5.55%) Test Automation
19 117 (5.24%) Fintech
20 116 (5.19%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1,749 (78.33%) C#
2 847 (37.93%) SQL
3 516 (23.11%) JavaScript
4 296 (13.26%) TypeScript
5 138 (6.18%) Python
6 102 (4.57%) Java
7 86 (3.85%) C++
8 60 (2.69%) VB.NET
9 58 (2.60%) T-SQL
10 54 (2.42%) PowerShell
11 50 (2.24%) PHP
12 28 (1.25%) Bicep
13 26 (1.16%) C
14 22 (0.99%) COBOL
15 18 (0.81%) JCL
16 16 (0.72%) Bash
17 14 (0.63%) VB
18 13 (0.58%) Go
19 10 (0.45%) Delphi
20 9 (0.40%) XAML
Qualifications
1 174 (7.79%) Degree
2 97 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 67 (3.00%) SC Cleared
5 22 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 18 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 12 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.31%) 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 (0.13%) OCP
13 3 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.090%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.090%) PhD
15 1 (0.045%) CSQA
15 1 (0.045%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.20%) QA
2 41 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.21%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.67%) GDPR
5 12 (0.54%) WCAG
6 7 (0.31%) NCSC
7 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.13%) NIST
10 2 (0.090%) PMO
11 1 (0.045%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.045%) GAMP
11 1 (0.045%) GMP
11 1 (0.045%) GRC
System Software
1 258 (11.55%) Docker
2 26 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.36%) Firmware
6 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 220 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.54%) Grafana
2 12 (0.54%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.18%) Ansible
3 4 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.090%) Bosun
4 2 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.045%) MOM
5 1 (0.045%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.045%) SCCM
Vendors
1 805 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 63 (2.82%) Google
3 56 (2.51%) Facebook
4 32 (1.43%) Oracle
5 29 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.94%) YouTube
7 18 (0.81%) VMware
8 17 (0.76%) Apple
9 16 (0.72%) Sony
9 16 (0.72%) Yahoo!
10 14 (0.63%) Adobe
11 11 (0.49%) Broadcom
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
12 8 (0.36%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.36%) Xamarin
13 7 (0.31%) DevExpress
13 7 (0.31%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Sage
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 4 (0.18%) OneLogin