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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 81 25
Rank change year-on-year +25 -56 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,197 1,179 3,544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.54% 3.39% 6.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.44% 25.49% 35.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,888 846 2,365
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £36,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,875 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 7,217 4,625 10,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.34% 13.31% 19.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,525 2,781 5,884
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 5 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 5 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 +40 687 £60,000 - 302
North of England +4 594 £56,500 -5.83% 357
Midlands +34 355 £60,000 +9.09% 219
North West -19 260 £60,000 -4.00% 200
East of England +28 206 £60,000 +9.09% 153
West Midlands +1 191 £58,750 +6.82% 113
South West +5 187 £55,000 +4.76% 97
North East +13 180 £57,500 +32.18% 61
East Midlands +46 164 £60,000 +9.09% 106
Yorkshire -3 154 £55,000 -8.33% 102
Scotland +39 73 £60,000 -6.98% 121
Northern Ireland -25 69 £35,000 -30.00% 41
Wales -68 29 £50,000 -9.09% 53
.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 45 (2.05%) IIS
2 27 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.82%) CMS
4 15 (0.68%) Confluence
5 11 (0.50%) ColdFusion
6 8 (0.36%) WordPress
7 7 (0.32%) nginx
7 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.27%) CICS
8 6 (0.27%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.18%) Apache
9 4 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.046%) Appian
12 1 (0.046%) Kentico
12 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.18%) Shopify
3 3 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (48.84%) Azure
2 358 (16.29%) AWS
3 350 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
4 218 (9.92%) GitHub
5 169 (7.69%) SaaS
6 160 (7.28%) Azure AI
7 141 (6.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 115 (5.23%) Power Platform
9 90 (4.10%) Serverless
10 86 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 78 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
11 78 (3.55%) Power Automate
12 62 (2.82%) PowerApps
13 54 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
15 43 (1.96%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
17 40 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.91%) Internet
2 20 (0.91%) Firewall
3 14 (0.64%) VLAN
4 12 (0.55%) Wireless
5 9 (0.41%) HTTP
5 9 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
6 6 (0.27%) SNMP
7 5 (0.23%) DHCP
7 5 (0.23%) DNS
7 5 (0.23%) LAN
7 5 (0.23%) WAN
8 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) RS-232
9 2 (0.091%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 2 (0.091%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.046%) Network Security
10 1 (0.046%) Profibus
10 1 (0.046%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 466 (21.21%) SQL Server
2 447 (20.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 394 (17.93%) MongoDB
4 154 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
5 82 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 70 (3.19%) Power BI
7 62 (2.82%) MySQL
8 58 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 57 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (0.73%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.46%) SQLite
15 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.36%) GIS
17 7 (0.32%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 163 (7.42%) Git
2 34 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 34 (1.55%) Visual Studio
3 33 (1.50%) JIRA
4 26 (1.18%) Claude Code
5 22 (1.00%) GitLab
6 18 (0.82%) NUnit
7 16 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 15 (0.68%) Postman
9 14 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.46%) Selenium
10 10 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.18%) MSTest
15 4 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 343 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 227 (10.33%) Finance
3 110 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (3.91%) Legal
5 77 (3.50%) Public Sector
6 63 (2.87%) Games
6 63 (2.87%) Manufacturing
6 63 (2.87%) Retail
7 55 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (2.46%) Advertising
9 52 (2.37%) Marketing
10 50 (2.28%) Law
11 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
12 24 (1.09%) Automotive
13 23 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 20 (0.91%) Electronics
15 12 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.50%) Aviation
16 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
16 11 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,379 (62.77%) Developer
2 856 (38.96%) .NET Developer
3 410 (18.66%) Senior
4 308 (14.02%) Software Engineer
5 258 (11.74%) Software Developer
6 251 (11.42%) Senior Developer
7 234 (10.65%) Lead
8 141 (6.42%) C# Developer
9 140 (6.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 126 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
11 115 (5.23%) .NET Software Engineer
12 113 (5.14%) Lead Developer
13 108 (4.92%) C# .NET Developer
14 107 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 106 (4.82%) Senior .NET Developer
16 91 (4.14%) .NET Software Developer
17 84 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 78 (3.55%) Web Developer
19 58 (2.64%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 57 (2.59%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (31.00%) .NET Core
2 648 (29.49%) ASP.NET
3 535 (24.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 363 (16.52%) React
5 342 (15.57%) HTML
6 338 (15.38%) CSS
7 269 (12.24%) AngularJS
7 269 (12.24%) Entity Framework
8 246 (11.20%) Blazor
9 243 (11.06%) RESTful
10 225 (10.24%) .NET Framework
11 221 (10.06%) Vue
12 217 (9.88%) Node.js
13 210 (9.56%) ASP.NET Web API
14 145 (6.60%) ML.NET
14 145 (6.60%) REST
15 108 (4.92%) LINQ
16 84 (3.82%) jQuery
17 75 (3.41%) Terraform
18 58 (2.64%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 123 (5.60%) Greenfield Project
2 118 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 108 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 70 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 38 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
9 35 (1.59%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.05%) Legacy Code
11 22 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 21 (0.96%) Hedge funds
13 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.86%) Algorithms
14 19 (0.86%) Digital TV
15 17 (0.77%) iPhone
16 16 (0.73%) BBC
16 16 (0.73%) Mainframe
16 16 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 101 (4.60%) Windows
2 38 (1.73%) Windows Server
3 26 (1.18%) Android
3 26 (1.18%) Linux
4 10 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (35.96%) Full-Stack Development
2 751 (34.18%) Agile
3 573 (26.08%) CI/CD
4 541 (24.62%) Software Engineering
5 494 (22.49%) DevOps
6 373 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
7 369 (16.80%) Microservices
8 353 (16.07%) AI
9 266 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (8.51%) Mentoring
11 184 (8.38%) Machine Learning
12 182 (8.28%) SDLC
13 171 (7.78%) Multithreading
14 147 (6.69%) Scrum
15 137 (6.24%) TDD
16 127 (5.78%) OO
17 124 (5.64%) Technical Leadership
18 120 (5.46%) Test Automation
19 115 (5.23%) Fintech
19 115 (5.23%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,700 (77.38%) C#
2 836 (38.05%) SQL
3 510 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 292 (13.29%) TypeScript
5 134 (6.10%) Python
6 101 (4.60%) Java
7 87 (3.96%) C++
8 61 (2.78%) VB.NET
9 56 (2.55%) PowerShell
10 54 (2.46%) PHP
11 53 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.23%) C
13 25 (1.14%) Bicep
14 20 (0.91%) COBOL
15 18 (0.82%) Bash
16 16 (0.73%) JCL
16 16 (0.73%) VB
17 13 (0.59%) Go
18 10 (0.46%) Delphi
19 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 183 (8.33%) Degree
2 102 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 60 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 20 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 16 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) 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 (0.14%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.14%) OCP
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.091%) CSQA
14 2 (0.091%) PhD
15 1 (0.046%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (8.19%) QA
2 43 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 15 (0.68%) GDPR
5 13 (0.59%) WCAG
6 7 (0.32%) NCSC
7 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.14%) NIST
10 2 (0.091%) PMO
11 1 (0.046%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.046%) GAMP
11 1 (0.046%) GMP
11 1 (0.046%) GRC
System Software
1 256 (11.65%) Docker
2 26 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.36%) Firmware
4 8 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 219 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (0.55%) Grafana
2 12 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.18%) Ansible
3 4 (0.18%) Argo
4 2 (0.091%) Bosun
4 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.046%) MOM
5 1 (0.046%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.046%) SCCM
Vendors
1 781 (35.55%) Microsoft
2 62 (2.82%) Google
3 56 (2.55%) Facebook
4 32 (1.46%) Oracle
5 30 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 21 (0.96%) YouTube
7 19 (0.86%) VMware
8 17 (0.77%) Adobe
8 17 (0.77%) Apple
9 16 (0.73%) Sony
9 16 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 10 (0.46%) Broadcom
11 9 (0.41%) Xamarin
12 8 (0.36%) Databricks
12 8 (0.36%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
14 6 (0.27%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.27%) Splunk
15 5 (0.23%) Sage
16 4 (0.18%) IBM