.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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -37 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 1,979 1,366 5,636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.83% 4.25% 7.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.67% 26.87% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,816 990 4,774
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 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 5,877 5,083 14,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.42% 15.82% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,738 3,210 10,576
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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +23 637 £57,500 - 171
North of England -2 559 £60,000 - 166
Midlands +10 308 £55,000 - 76
North West -2 286 £60,000 +4.35% 76
South West +15 196 £55,000 +4.76% 45
East of England +16 185 £65,000 +23.81% 59
West Midlands -17 159 £57,500 +5.22% 41
East Midlands +34 149 £55,000 - 35
North East -1 142 £57,500 +6.98% 38
Yorkshire -2 131 £57,500 -13.21% 55
Scotland +21 60 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Wales -48 24 £50,000 -24.81% 11
Northern Ireland -33 12 - - 21
.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 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.36%) IIS
3 16 (0.81%) ColdFusion
4 13 (0.66%) Confluence
5 12 (0.61%) CMS
6 8 (0.40%) WordPress
7 7 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.30%) nginx
9 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.051%) Appian
12 1 (0.051%) Drupal
12 1 (0.051%) Sitecore CMS
12 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 13 (0.66%) 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
1 988 (49.92%) Azure
2 306 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
3 305 (15.41%) AWS
4 201 (10.16%) SaaS
5 166 (8.39%) GitHub
6 146 (7.38%) Azure AI
7 115 (5.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 104 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 81 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 78 (3.94%) Power Automate
11 76 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (3.74%) Serverless
13 66 (3.34%) PowerApps
14 41 (2.07%) Azure Functions
15 39 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 37 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (1.72%) GCP
18 31 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
19 25 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
20 24 (1.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.94%) Internet
2 9 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.40%) Firewall
3 8 (0.40%) 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%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.051%) LTE
7 1 (0.051%) Network Security
7 1 (0.051%) Profibus
7 1 (0.051%) SSL
7 1 (0.051%) VLAN
7 1 (0.051%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.051%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 427 (21.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 364 (18.39%) MongoDB
3 360 (18.19%) SQL Server
4 135 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
5 86 (4.35%) Power BI
6 53 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.62%) MySQL
8 31 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.31%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.66%) Redis
13 10 (0.51%) GIS
14 9 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
15 8 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.30%) DynamoDB
17 5 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
17 5 (0.25%) Metadata
18 4 (0.20%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 109 (5.51%) Git
2 33 (1.67%) JIRA
3 23 (1.16%) Visual Studio
4 20 (1.01%) Postman
5 14 (0.71%) GitLab
6 13 (0.66%) NUnit
7 12 (0.61%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.56%) Selenium
9 8 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.35%) Moq
10 7 (0.35%) SpecFlow
10 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
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%) SoapUI
12 5 (0.25%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.25%) Yeoman
General
1 237 (11.98%) Social Skills
2 194 (9.80%) Finance
3 68 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (2.83%) Retail
5 54 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 52 (2.63%) Games
7 49 (2.48%) Advertising
7 49 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.12%) Marketing
9 27 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 27 (1.36%) Law
10 26 (1.31%) Automotive
10 26 (1.31%) Legal
11 24 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.06%) Electronics
13 14 (0.71%) Legal Technology
14 9 (0.45%) Music Industry
15 8 (0.40%) Back Office
15 8 (0.40%) Military
16 7 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,321 (66.75%) Developer
2 807 (40.78%) .NET Developer
3 365 (18.44%) Senior
4 312 (15.77%) Software Engineer
5 308 (15.56%) Software Developer
6 205 (10.36%) Lead
7 192 (9.70%) Senior Developer
8 151 (7.63%) C# Developer
9 139 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 131 (6.62%) .NET Software Engineer
11 121 (6.11%) C# .NET Developer
12 116 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 112 (5.66%) .NET Software Developer
14 111 (5.61%) Lead Developer
15 109 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
16 95 (4.80%) Senior .NET Developer
17 72 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 67 (3.39%) Web Developer
19 60 (3.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
20 58 (2.93%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 667 (33.70%) .NET Core
2 588 (29.71%) ASP.NET
3 477 (24.10%) ASP.NET Core
4 314 (15.87%) HTML
5 313 (15.82%) CSS
6 311 (15.72%) React
7 257 (12.99%) AngularJS
8 229 (11.57%) Entity Framework
8 229 (11.57%) RESTful
9 217 (10.97%) Blazor
9 217 (10.97%) Vue
10 200 (10.11%) Node.js
11 195 (9.85%) .NET Framework
12 172 (8.69%) ASP.NET Web API
13 139 (7.02%) ML.NET
14 123 (6.22%) REST
15 97 (4.90%) LINQ
16 59 (2.98%) jQuery
17 43 (2.17%) WPF
18 38 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 123 (6.22%) Greenfield Project
2 89 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 70 (3.54%) Mobile App
4 64 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.31%) Legacy Code
9 20 (1.01%) Digital TV
10 19 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 17 (0.86%) iPhone
12 16 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 16 (0.81%) BBC
12 16 (0.81%) Social Media
12 16 (0.81%) Social Network
13 14 (0.71%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (0.66%) Onboarding
14 13 (0.66%) Sports Betting
15 11 (0.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (2.73%) Windows
2 32 (1.62%) Android
3 20 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.86%) Linux
5 9 (0.45%) 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
1 747 (37.75%) Full-Stack Development
2 649 (32.79%) Agile
3 497 (25.11%) Software Engineering
4 452 (22.84%) CI/CD
5 433 (21.88%) DevOps
6 307 (15.51%) AI
7 301 (15.21%) Microservices
8 219 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
9 185 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 184 (9.30%) Machine Learning
11 168 (8.49%) SDLC
12 160 (8.08%) Multithreading
13 142 (7.18%) Mentoring
14 140 (7.07%) TDD
15 135 (6.82%) Scrum
16 111 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
17 109 (5.51%) Clean Code
17 109 (5.51%) OO
18 100 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
19 96 (4.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,474 (74.48%) C#
2 794 (40.12%) SQL
3 433 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 272 (13.74%) TypeScript
5 123 (6.22%) Python
6 91 (4.60%) Java
7 75 (3.79%) C++
8 63 (3.18%) PowerShell
9 55 (2.78%) PHP
10 48 (2.43%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 24 (1.21%) C
13 23 (1.16%) Bicep
14 21 (1.06%) Bash
15 17 (0.86%) VB
16 9 (0.45%) VBA
17 7 (0.35%) Delphi
17 7 (0.35%) XAML
18 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 154 (7.78%) Degree
2 78 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 56 (2.83%) SC Cleared
5 18 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.15%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.15%) MBA
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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.10%) PhD
13 1 (0.051%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.41%) QA
2 41 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 15 (0.76%) GDPR
4 13 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.51%) WCAG
6 8 (0.40%) ISO 9001
7 5 (0.25%) NCSC
7 5 (0.25%) SLA
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 233 (11.77%) Docker
2 13 (0.66%) Firmware
3 11 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 213 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 67 (3.39%) 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
1 665 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 54 (2.73%) Google
3 53 (2.68%) Facebook
4 25 (1.26%) Adobe
4 25 (1.26%) OpenAI
5 20 (1.01%) Oracle
6 19 (0.96%) YouTube
7 18 (0.91%) Xamarin
8 16 (0.81%) Apple
8 16 (0.81%) Sony
8 16 (0.81%) Yahoo!
9 11 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (0.40%) Databricks
11 7 (0.35%) VMware
12 5 (0.25%) DevExpress
12 5 (0.25%) Sage
12 5 (0.25%) SYSPRO
13 4 (0.20%) IBM
13 4 (0.20%) ServiceNow