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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -44 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,118 2,321 3,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.59% 6.50% 8.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.59% 33.30% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,499 2,791
10th Percentile £39,900 £38,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

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 3,910 6,969 8,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.06% 19.52% 22.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 3,861 6,685
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,383 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
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 18 January 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 18 January 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
North of England -34 348 £62,750 +14.09% 261
South East -32 342 £60,000 - 374
Midlands -38 195 £55,000 -4.35% 149
North West -24 189 £65,000 +18.18% 151
West Midlands -36 118 £50,000 -13.04% 53
Yorkshire -40 100 £55,000 +3.77% 75
South West -52 91 £55,000 -8.33% 143
East Midlands -43 77 £65,000 +23.81% 93
East of England -68 60 £60,000 +20.00% 157
North East -11 59 £70,000 +7.69% 35
Scotland -63 53 £65,000 +30.00% 49
Wales -6 33 £47,500 -20.83% 59
Northern Ireland -7 4 £50,000 - 20
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 38 (3.40%) IIS
2 17 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.34%) CMS
4 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.72%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.45%) Confluence
6 5 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Apache
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.089%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 40 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.27%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.089%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.089%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.089%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 555 (49.64%) Azure
2 217 (19.41%) AWS
3 188 (16.82%) SaaS
4 168 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
5 101 (9.03%) GitHub
6 80 (7.16%) Power Platform
7 76 (6.80%) Serverless
8 52 (4.65%) GCP
9 44 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (3.94%) Power Automate
10 38 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
11 34 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 32 (2.86%) Azure Functions
12 32 (2.86%) PowerApps
13 31 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 31 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 25 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.98%) Internet
2 10 (0.89%) DNS
3 9 (0.81%) DHCP
3 9 (0.81%) VoIP
3 9 (0.81%) VPN
4 5 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.27%) Firewall
5 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 3 (0.27%) SSL
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) LAN
6 2 (0.18%) SAN
6 2 (0.18%) WAN
7 1 (0.089%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.089%) MPLS
7 1 (0.089%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.089%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (27.01%) SQL Server
2 65 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.49%) Power BI
4 38 (3.40%) MySQL
5 36 (3.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 19 (1.70%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.61%) Redis
12 6 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.45%) Tableau
14 4 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.36%) GIS
15 3 (0.27%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (7.96%) Git
2 48 (4.29%) JIRA
3 39 (3.49%) Selenium
4 38 (3.40%) Visual Studio
5 36 (3.22%) Postman
6 34 (3.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 31 (2.77%) SoapUI
8 28 (2.50%) WebDriver
9 17 (1.52%) TeamCity
10 16 (1.43%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.72%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.72%) Storybook
13 7 (0.63%) git-flow
13 7 (0.63%) GitLab
14 6 (0.54%) NUnit
15 5 (0.45%) MSTest
16 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.27%) Snyk
17 2 (0.18%) CMake
General
1 242 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 161 (14.40%) Finance
3 33 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (2.95%) Public Sector
4 28 (2.50%) Law
5 18 (1.61%) Games
6 14 (1.25%) Aviation
7 13 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 13 (1.16%) Retail
8 11 (0.98%) Banking
8 11 (0.98%) Legal
8 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (0.72%) Automotive
10 8 (0.72%) Marketing
11 7 (0.63%) Publishing
12 6 (0.54%) Electronics
13 5 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 660 (59.03%) Developer
2 262 (23.43%) Senior
3 258 (23.08%) .NET Developer
4 205 (18.34%) Software Developer
5 173 (15.47%) Software Engineer
6 138 (12.34%) Lead
6 138 (12.34%) Senior Developer
7 122 (10.91%) C# Developer
8 120 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 67 (5.99%) .NET Software Developer
10 65 (5.81%) .NET Software Engineer
10 65 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 64 (5.72%) Lead Developer
12 63 (5.64%) Senior .NET Developer
13 56 (5.01%) C# .NET Developer
13 56 (5.01%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 47 (4.20%) Senior Software Developer
15 43 (3.85%) Analyst
16 41 (3.67%) Applications Developer
17 30 (2.68%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (22.18%) .NET Core
2 210 (18.78%) React
3 189 (16.91%) ASP.NET
4 173 (15.47%) .NET Framework
5 138 (12.34%) HTML
6 122 (10.91%) CSS
7 114 (10.20%) AngularJS
8 85 (7.60%) REST
9 84 (7.51%) Blazor
10 77 (6.89%) RESTful
11 61 (5.46%) Entity Framework
12 58 (5.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 51 (4.56%) Vue
14 42 (3.76%) SOAP
15 37 (3.31%) ASP.NET MVC
16 28 (2.50%) Node.js
16 28 (2.50%) WPF
17 27 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
18 26 (2.33%) WinForms
19 23 (2.06%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 84 (7.51%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.37%) Mobile App
4 40 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.81%) Driving Licence
13 9 (0.81%) IoT
13 9 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 8 (0.72%) 3D Graphics
14 8 (0.72%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.72%) Client/Server
14 8 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.83%) Windows
2 21 (1.88%) Android
3 19 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.43%) Linux
5 14 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.089%) Fedora
10 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (37.92%) Agile
2 333 (29.79%) Software Engineering
3 320 (28.62%) DevOps
4 303 (27.10%) CI/CD
5 250 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 200 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 167 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 162 (14.49%) Microservices
9 152 (13.60%) Mentoring
10 102 (9.12%) SDLC
11 100 (8.94%) AI
12 97 (8.68%) Clean Code
13 95 (8.50%) Containerisation
14 94 (8.41%) Scrum
15 93 (8.32%) MVC
16 71 (6.35%) Roadmaps
17 70 (6.26%) TDD
18 69 (6.17%) User Experience
19 68 (6.08%) CRM
20 65 (5.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 793 (70.93%) C#
2 358 (32.02%) SQL
3 266 (23.79%) JavaScript
4 128 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 95 (8.50%) Java
6 73 (6.53%) Python
7 39 (3.49%) T-SQL
8 32 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.77%) PHP
10 30 (2.68%) C++
11 22 (1.97%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.07%) Bash
12 12 (1.07%) Bicep
13 8 (0.72%) C
13 8 (0.72%) XAML
14 7 (0.63%) VB
15 6 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.54%) Go
16 4 (0.36%) Delphi
17 3 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 136 (12.16%) Degree
2 55 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 28 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 24 (2.15%) Security Cleared
6 22 (1.97%) SC Cleared
7 17 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 8 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.18%) HND
14 2 (0.18%) PhD
14 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.53%) QA
2 29 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.07%) GDPR
4 9 (0.81%) WCAG
5 3 (0.27%) GRC
5 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.089%) HL7
7 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
System Software
1 115 (10.29%) Docker
2 22 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.089%) HDFS
5 1 (0.089%) Squid
5 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (7.51%) Kubernetes
1 84 (7.51%) Terraform
2 19 (1.70%) Grafana
3 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.63%) Ansible
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.089%) CASB
6 1 (0.089%) Kibana
6 1 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.33%) Xamarin
3 14 (1.25%) Oracle
4 12 (1.07%) Google
4 12 (1.07%) Sage
4 12 (1.07%) Salesforce
5 10 (0.89%) Apple
6 9 (0.81%) Telerik
7 7 (0.63%) Databricks
7 7 (0.63%) Datto
7 7 (0.63%) Freshdesk
8 6 (0.54%) DevExpress
8 6 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 5 (0.45%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.45%) Syncfusion
9 5 (0.45%) Zoho
10 4 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (0.36%) ESRI
10 4 (0.36%) New Relic
11 3 (0.27%) Dynatrace