.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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -37 +3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,970 1,356 5,655
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.85% 4.33% 7.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.78% 26.92% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,821 983 4,781
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 5,831 5,037 14,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.43% 16.08% 18.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,724 3,174 10,602
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £73,750 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%

.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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +22 639 £57,500 - 149
North of England -6 560 £60,000 - 127
Midlands +7 311 £55,000 - 68
North West -2 284 £60,000 +4.35% 60
South West +7 193 £55,000 +4.76% 33
East of England +22 183 £65,000 +23.81% 42
West Midlands -16 161 £57,500 +4.55% 37
East Midlands +34 150 £55,000 - 31
North East 0 143 £57,500 +6.98% 32
Yorkshire 0 133 £57,500 -14.81% 38
Scotland +24 61 £57,500 -8.00% 12
Wales -47 24 £50,000 -24.81% 7
Northern Ireland -32 1 - - 10
.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 40 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.37%) IIS
3 16 (0.81%) ColdFusion
4 12 (0.61%) CMS
4 12 (0.61%) Confluence
5 8 (0.41%) WordPress
6 7 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.30%) nginx
8 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.051%) Appian
11 1 (0.051%) Drupal
11 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Magento
2 3 (0.15%) Shopify
3 2 (0.10%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.051%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.051%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 985 (50.00%) Azure
2 307 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
3 305 (15.48%) AWS
4 202 (10.25%) SaaS
5 169 (8.58%) GitHub
6 144 (7.31%) Azure AI
7 116 (5.89%) GitHub Copilot
8 103 (5.23%) Power Platform
9 82 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 77 (3.91%) Power Automate
11 76 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
12 73 (3.71%) Serverless
13 65 (3.30%) PowerApps
14 39 (1.98%) Azure Functions
14 39 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 35 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
16 33 (1.68%) GCP
17 31 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (1.22%) Azure AKS
18 24 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.91%) Internet
2 9 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.41%) Firewall
3 8 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (0.25%) DHCP
4 5 (0.25%) DNS
4 5 (0.25%) LAN
4 5 (0.25%) WAN
5 3 (0.15%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.15%) RS-232
6 2 (0.10%) HTTP
6 2 (0.10%) Modbus
7 1 (0.051%) AMQP
7 1 (0.051%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.051%) LTE
7 1 (0.051%) Network Security
7 1 (0.051%) SSL
7 1 (0.051%) VLAN
7 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 363 (18.43%) MongoDB
3 362 (18.38%) SQL Server
4 135 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
5 85 (4.31%) Power BI
6 54 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.62%) MySQL
8 31 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.66%) Redis
12 10 (0.51%) GIS
13 9 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
14 7 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.25%) Metadata
17 4 (0.20%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 108 (5.48%) Git
2 34 (1.73%) JIRA
3 27 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 22 (1.12%) Postman
5 14 (0.71%) GitLab
5 14 (0.71%) Selenium
6 13 (0.66%) NUnit
7 12 (0.61%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.36%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.36%) Moq
10 7 (0.36%) SoapUI
10 7 (0.36%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.25%) JMeter
12 5 (0.25%) MSTest
12 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.25%) Yeoman
General
1 239 (12.13%) Social Skills
2 193 (9.80%) Finance
3 68 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (2.84%) Public Sector
4 56 (2.84%) Retail
5 51 (2.59%) Games
6 49 (2.49%) Advertising
6 49 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 42 (2.13%) Marketing
8 26 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 25 (1.27%) Automotive
10 24 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.07%) Electronics
12 16 (0.81%) Law
13 14 (0.71%) Legal
14 9 (0.46%) Music Industry
15 8 (0.41%) Aviation
15 8 (0.41%) Back Office
15 8 (0.41%) Military
16 6 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1,312 (66.60%) Developer
2 803 (40.76%) .NET Developer
3 353 (17.92%) Senior
4 315 (15.99%) Software Developer
5 311 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 199 (10.10%) Lead
7 181 (9.19%) Senior Developer
8 148 (7.51%) C# Developer
9 141 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 132 (6.70%) .NET Software Engineer
11 118 (5.99%) C# .NET Developer
12 115 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 114 (5.79%) .NET Software Developer
14 108 (5.48%) C# Software Engineer
14 108 (5.48%) Lead Developer
15 94 (4.77%) Senior .NET Developer
16 72 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 65 (3.30%) Web Developer
18 60 (3.05%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 59 (2.99%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 672 (34.11%) .NET Core
2 590 (29.95%) ASP.NET
3 476 (24.16%) ASP.NET Core
4 315 (15.99%) React
5 313 (15.89%) HTML
6 310 (15.74%) CSS
7 258 (13.10%) AngularJS
8 229 (11.62%) RESTful
9 228 (11.57%) Entity Framework
10 219 (11.12%) Blazor
11 217 (11.02%) Vue
12 200 (10.15%) Node.js
13 193 (9.80%) .NET Framework
14 172 (8.73%) ASP.NET Web API
15 138 (7.01%) ML.NET
16 125 (6.35%) REST
17 97 (4.92%) LINQ
18 58 (2.94%) jQuery
19 42 (2.13%) WPF
20 37 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.24%) Greenfield Project
2 88 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 72 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 64 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.32%) Legacy Code
9 19 (0.96%) Digital TV
9 19 (0.96%) Hedge funds
10 17 (0.86%) iPhone
11 16 (0.81%) Algorithms
11 16 (0.81%) BBC
11 16 (0.81%) Social Media
11 16 (0.81%) Social Network
12 15 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 15 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
13 13 (0.66%) Sports Betting
14 12 (0.61%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 52 (2.64%) Windows
2 32 (1.62%) Android
3 19 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.86%) Linux
5 9 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.10%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (37.97%) Full-Stack Development
2 641 (32.54%) Agile
3 483 (24.52%) Software Engineering
4 444 (22.54%) CI/CD
5 437 (22.18%) DevOps
6 309 (15.69%) AI
7 289 (14.67%) Microservices
8 209 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (9.29%) Machine Learning
10 179 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (8.63%) SDLC
12 160 (8.12%) Multithreading
13 143 (7.26%) Mentoring
14 141 (7.16%) TDD
15 138 (7.01%) Scrum
16 112 (5.69%) Clean Code
17 110 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
18 109 (5.53%) OO
19 99 (5.03%) Technical Leadership
20 96 (4.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,463 (74.26%) C#
2 794 (40.30%) SQL
3 432 (21.93%) JavaScript
4 271 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 124 (6.29%) Python
6 92 (4.67%) Java
7 74 (3.76%) C++
8 63 (3.20%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.79%) PHP
10 48 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 22 (1.12%) Bicep
13 21 (1.07%) Bash
13 21 (1.07%) C
14 17 (0.86%) VB
15 9 (0.46%) VBA
16 7 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.36%) Delphi
16 7 (0.36%) XAML
17 5 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 156 (7.92%) Degree
2 76 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 63 (3.20%) Security Cleared
4 57 (2.89%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.25%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.20%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.10%) CSQA
12 2 (0.10%) MBA
12 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.97%) QA
2 41 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.76%) GDPR
4 13 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.56%) WCAG
6 8 (0.41%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.25%) SLA
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.20%) NCSC
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (11.83%) Docker
2 12 (0.61%) Firmware
3 11 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 212 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.40%) Terraform
3 5 (0.25%) Grafana
4 3 (0.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.10%) Ansible
5 2 (0.10%) MIIS
6 1 (0.051%) Consul
6 1 (0.051%) MOM
6 1 (0.051%) Packer
6 1 (0.051%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.051%) Puppet
Vendors
1 659 (33.45%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.69%) Facebook
2 53 (2.69%) Google
3 25 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 24 (1.22%) Adobe
5 20 (1.02%) Oracle
6 19 (0.96%) Xamarin
6 19 (0.96%) YouTube
7 16 (0.81%) Apple
7 16 (0.81%) Sony
7 16 (0.81%) Yahoo!
8 12 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (0.41%) Databricks
10 7 (0.36%) VMware
11 5 (0.25%) DevExpress
11 5 (0.25%) Sage
11 5 (0.25%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.25%) SYSPRO
12 4 (0.20%) IBM