.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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -52 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,069 2,428 2,474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.55% 6.49% 8.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.77% 33.63% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 944 1,608 2,231
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,375 £69,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,004
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.23% +3.34%

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 3,850 7,219 7,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.29% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 4,080 5,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -44 334 £60,000 - 193
North of England -35 330 £60,000 +9.09% 240
Midlands -42 183 £57,500 +2.22% 76
North West -30 170 £65,000 +18.18% 160
West Midlands -26 120 £52,500 -8.70% 36
Yorkshire -32 108 £56,250 +7.14% 45
South West -65 82 £54,750 -4.78% 46
East Midlands -52 63 £65,000 +30.00% 40
East of England -69 60 £60,000 +20.00% 49
North East -11 52 £52,500 -19.23% 35
Scotland -65 49 £60,000 +20.00% 40
Wales -2 35 £52,500 +5.00% 14
Northern Ireland -1 4 £50,000 - 9
Channel Islands +3 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 42 (3.93%) IIS
2 17 (1.59%) CMS
2 17 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.75%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.56%) Confluence
6 4 (0.37%) nginx
6 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.28%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.19%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.094%) Apache
9 1 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.094%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.094%) Kentico
9 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.094%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.094%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 559 (52.29%) Azure
2 216 (20.21%) AWS
3 172 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (15.81%) SaaS
5 97 (9.07%) GitHub
6 80 (7.48%) Power Platform
7 72 (6.74%) Serverless
8 48 (4.49%) GCP
9 46 (4.30%) Power Automate
10 43 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
12 32 (2.99%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (2.62%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.53%) Azure Functions
17 23 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 22 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
19 21 (1.96%) Amazon S3
20 20 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.03%) VoIP
2 10 (0.94%) DNS
2 10 (0.94%) Internet
3 9 (0.84%) DHCP
3 9 (0.84%) VPN
4 7 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.47%) SSL
6 4 (0.37%) LAN
6 4 (0.37%) SAN
6 4 (0.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.28%) Firewall
7 3 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.19%) Intranet
9 1 (0.094%) MPLS
9 1 (0.094%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.094%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (28.91%) SQL Server
2 61 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 42 (3.93%) MySQL
3 42 (3.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 39 (3.65%) Power BI
5 35 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.06%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.96%) DynamoDB
10 18 (1.68%) Redis
11 16 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.56%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.47%) Tableau
14 4 (0.37%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.37%) GIS
15 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 97 (9.07%) Git
2 51 (4.77%) JIRA
3 42 (3.93%) Selenium
4 37 (3.46%) Postman
4 37 (3.46%) Team Foundation Server
5 35 (3.27%) Visual Studio
6 33 (3.09%) SoapUI
7 31 (2.90%) WebDriver
8 22 (2.06%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 15 (1.40%) Jenkins
11 12 (1.12%) Storybook
12 9 (0.84%) GitLab
13 8 (0.75%) NUnit
14 7 (0.65%) git-flow
15 6 (0.56%) MSTest
15 6 (0.56%) SpecFlow
16 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.28%) Moq
16 3 (0.28%) Snyk
General
1 253 (23.67%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.90%) Finance
3 34 (3.18%) Public Sector
4 32 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (2.71%) Law
6 18 (1.68%) Games
7 16 (1.50%) Legal
7 16 (1.50%) Retail
8 14 (1.31%) Aviation
9 13 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.03%) Banking
12 10 (0.94%) Automotive
13 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.75%) Marketing
14 7 (0.65%) Publishing
15 5 (0.47%) Electronics
15 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 626 (58.56%) Developer
2 243 (22.73%) Senior
3 231 (21.61%) .NET Developer
4 185 (17.31%) Software Developer
5 152 (14.22%) Software Engineer
6 134 (12.54%) Lead
6 134 (12.54%) Senior Developer
7 121 (11.32%) C# Developer
8 114 (10.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (5.52%) .NET Software Developer
10 55 (5.14%) Senior .NET Developer
11 52 (4.86%) Lead Developer
12 51 (4.77%) .NET Software Engineer
12 51 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 50 (4.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 46 (4.30%) C# .NET Developer
15 42 (3.93%) Senior Software Developer
16 40 (3.74%) Analyst
17 35 (3.27%) Applications Developer
18 32 (2.99%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (20.39%) .NET Core
2 204 (19.08%) React
3 177 (16.56%) ASP.NET
4 172 (16.09%) .NET Framework
5 144 (13.47%) HTML
6 126 (11.79%) CSS
7 117 (10.94%) AngularJS
8 79 (7.39%) Blazor
8 79 (7.39%) REST
8 79 (7.39%) RESTful
9 62 (5.80%) Entity Framework
10 51 (4.77%) Vue
11 48 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 44 (4.12%) SOAP
13 37 (3.46%) ASP.NET MVC
14 30 (2.81%) ASP.NET Web API
14 30 (2.81%) Web Services
15 29 (2.71%) Node.js
16 26 (2.43%) WinForms
17 25 (2.34%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.14%) Mobile App
4 43 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.94%) Clustering
13 10 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 9 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.84%) Driving Licence
15 8 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
15 8 (0.75%) IoT
16 7 (0.65%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 59 (5.52%) Windows
2 21 (1.96%) Android
3 20 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.40%) Linux
6 9 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
10 1 (0.094%) Fedora
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (39.20%) Agile
2 325 (30.40%) DevOps
3 315 (29.47%) Software Engineering
4 313 (29.28%) CI/CD
5 228 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 212 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 164 (15.34%) Mentoring
9 160 (14.97%) Microservices
10 101 (9.45%) Scrum
11 100 (9.35%) Clean Code
12 96 (8.98%) MVC
13 94 (8.79%) SDLC
14 91 (8.51%) AI
14 91 (8.51%) Containerisation
15 74 (6.92%) Roadmaps
15 74 (6.92%) User Experience
16 72 (6.74%) Software Testing
17 70 (6.55%) CRM
18 65 (6.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 760 (71.09%) C#
2 356 (33.30%) SQL
3 264 (24.70%) JavaScript
4 132 (12.35%) TypeScript
5 95 (8.89%) Java
6 69 (6.45%) Python
7 38 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 34 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.90%) PHP
10 29 (2.71%) C++
11 28 (2.62%) VB.NET
12 14 (1.31%) Bicep
13 11 (1.03%) Bash
14 8 (0.75%) XAML
15 7 (0.65%) Go
15 7 (0.65%) VB
16 6 (0.56%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.56%) C
17 4 (0.37%) Delphi
17 4 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (13.56%) Degree
2 56 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (3.27%) ISTQB
4 31 (2.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 21 (1.96%) Security Cleared
6 18 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 16 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.37%) HND
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 4 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.19%) PhD
13 2 (0.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.20%) QA
2 27 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.31%) GDPR
4 7 (0.65%) WCAG
5 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.28%) GRC
5 3 (0.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.094%) COBIT
7 1 (0.094%) HL7
7 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 113 (10.57%) Docker
2 23 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Firmware
4 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.094%) HDFS
5 1 (0.094%) Squid
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (7.95%) Terraform
2 78 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.96%) Grafana
4 16 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.75%) Ansible
6 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.094%) CASB
8 1 (0.094%) Kibana
8 1 (0.094%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 200 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.43%) Xamarin
3 15 (1.40%) Oracle
4 13 (1.22%) Sage
5 12 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.03%) Google
7 9 (0.84%) Apple
7 9 (0.84%) Telerik
8 8 (0.75%) Databricks
8 8 (0.75%) DevExpress
9 7 (0.65%) Datto
9 7 (0.65%) Freshdesk
10 6 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.47%) Infor
11 5 (0.47%) Syncfusion
11 5 (0.47%) Zoho
12 4 (0.37%) Adobe
12 4 (0.37%) ESRI
12 4 (0.37%) New Relic
12 4 (0.37%) VMware