.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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 79 23
Rank change year-on-year +23 -56 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,188 1,180 3,681
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.62% 3.45% 6.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.41% 25.29% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 846 2,602
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,125 £36,250
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 £70,286 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,458
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 7,196 4,665 10,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.62% 13.63% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,588 2,806 6,448
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +47 688 £60,000 - 282
North of England +3 594 £56,500 -5.83% 348
Midlands +34 350 £60,000 +9.09% 185
North West -16 263 £60,000 -4.00% 204
East of England +28 214 £60,000 +14.29% 111
South West -4 194 £55,000 +6.80% 93
West Midlands -1 186 £58,750 +6.82% 98
North East +6 179 £56,500 +30.26% 61
East Midlands +49 164 £60,000 +9.09% 86
Yorkshire +1 152 £55,000 -8.33% 86
Scotland +32 64 £60,000 -5.51% 94
Northern Ireland -28 60 £35,000 -30.00% 48
Wales -74 26 £50,000 -9.09% 41
.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 (2.06%) IIS
2 34 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.69%) Confluence
4 14 (0.64%) ColdFusion
5 13 (0.59%) CMS
6 9 (0.41%) WordPress
7 8 (0.37%) nginx
8 7 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.18%) CICS
10 3 (0.14%) Apache
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.091%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.091%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.091%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.091%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.046%) Appian
12 1 (0.046%) Drupal
12 1 (0.046%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.046%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
4 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%) Magento
4 2 (0.091%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 1,091 (49.86%) Azure
2 361 (16.50%) AWS
3 355 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (9.51%) GitHub
5 174 (7.95%) SaaS
6 159 (7.27%) Azure AI
7 136 (6.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 124 (5.67%) Power Platform
9 93 (4.25%) Serverless
10 92 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 85 (3.88%) Power Automate
12 82 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (3.15%) PowerApps
14 52 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
15 50 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (1.97%) Azure Functions
17 42 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
18 40 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
18 40 (1.83%) GCP
19 39 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.98%) Internet
2 16 (0.73%) Firewall
3 9 (0.41%) HTTP
3 9 (0.41%) VLAN
4 8 (0.37%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.37%) Wireless
5 6 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.27%) SNMP
6 5 (0.23%) DHCP
6 5 (0.23%) DNS
6 5 (0.23%) LAN
6 5 (0.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.14%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.14%) RS-232
8 2 (0.091%) Modbus
9 1 (0.046%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.046%) Network Security
9 1 (0.046%) Profibus
9 1 (0.046%) SSL
9 1 (0.046%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (20.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 452 (20.66%) SQL Server
3 394 (18.01%) MongoDB
4 155 (7.08%) Elasticsearch
5 84 (3.84%) Power BI
6 72 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 56 (2.56%) MySQL
9 50 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.82%) Redis
12 14 (0.64%) Spark SQL
12 14 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.55%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
15 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.41%) GIS
16 9 (0.41%) SQLite
17 8 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 162 (7.40%) Git
2 34 (1.55%) JIRA
3 31 (1.42%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.42%) Visual Studio
4 22 (1.01%) GitLab
5 20 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 20 (0.91%) NUnit
6 17 (0.78%) Postman
7 14 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (0.55%) Selenium
9 11 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.37%) Moq
12 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.32%) MSI
13 6 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.23%) MSTest
15 4 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 331 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 222 (10.15%) Finance
3 103 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (3.88%) Legal
5 79 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.02%) Retail
7 62 (2.83%) Games
8 56 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 54 (2.47%) Advertising
11 52 (2.38%) Law
12 51 (2.33%) Marketing
13 30 (1.37%) Legal Technology
14 24 (1.10%) Automotive
15 22 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.87%) Electronics
17 11 (0.50%) Aviation
17 11 (0.50%) Music Industry
18 10 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,421 (64.95%) Developer
2 858 (39.21%) .NET Developer
3 402 (18.37%) Senior
4 303 (13.85%) Software Engineer
5 279 (12.75%) Software Developer
6 249 (11.38%) Senior Developer
7 238 (10.88%) Lead
8 151 (6.90%) C# Developer
9 148 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 123 (5.62%) C# Software Engineer
11 121 (5.53%) Lead Developer
12 117 (5.35%) C# .NET Developer
13 113 (5.16%) .NET Software Engineer
14 110 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 101 (4.62%) .NET Software Developer
16 98 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
17 86 (3.93%) Web Developer
18 79 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.88%) Lead Software Developer
20 62 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 694 (31.72%) .NET Core
2 661 (30.21%) ASP.NET
3 539 (24.63%) ASP.NET Core
4 355 (16.22%) HTML
5 350 (16.00%) CSS
6 341 (15.59%) React
7 269 (12.29%) AngularJS
8 268 (12.25%) Entity Framework
9 246 (11.24%) Blazor
10 244 (11.15%) RESTful
11 233 (10.65%) Vue
12 227 (10.37%) .NET Framework
13 215 (9.83%) Node.js
14 210 (9.60%) ASP.NET Web API
15 146 (6.67%) ML.NET
16 133 (6.08%) REST
17 107 (4.89%) LINQ
18 83 (3.79%) jQuery
18 83 (3.79%) Terraform
19 57 (2.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 124 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
2 116 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 98 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 67 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 59 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 52 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (2.38%) Mobile App
7 33 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
8 31 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.14%) Legacy Code
11 21 (0.96%) Hedge funds
12 20 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 19 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 19 (0.87%) Digital TV
14 17 (0.78%) BBC
14 17 (0.78%) iPhone
14 17 (0.78%) Onboarding
14 17 (0.78%) Social Media
15 12 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.25%) Windows
2 36 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 27 (1.23%) Android
3 27 (1.23%) Linux
4 6 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.046%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (36.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 761 (34.78%) Agile
3 560 (25.59%) CI/CD
4 532 (24.31%) Software Engineering
5 494 (22.58%) DevOps
6 376 (17.18%) Microservices
7 354 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 333 (15.22%) AI
9 277 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 188 (8.59%) Machine Learning
11 185 (8.46%) SDLC
12 183 (8.36%) Mentoring
13 174 (7.95%) Multithreading
14 151 (6.90%) Scrum
15 140 (6.40%) TDD
16 128 (5.85%) OO
17 127 (5.80%) Technical Leadership
18 125 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
19 114 (5.21%) Test Automation
20 113 (5.16%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,687 (77.10%) C#
2 850 (38.85%) SQL
3 506 (23.13%) JavaScript
4 290 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 131 (5.99%) Python
6 100 (4.57%) Java
7 90 (4.11%) C++
8 62 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 60 (2.74%) PHP
10 54 (2.47%) T-SQL
11 53 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 28 (1.28%) Bicep
13 26 (1.19%) C
14 21 (0.96%) Bash
15 16 (0.73%) COBOL
16 14 (0.64%) VB
17 12 (0.55%) JCL
18 10 (0.46%) Go
19 9 (0.41%) Delphi
19 9 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 182 (8.32%) Degree
2 97 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 67 (3.06%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 17 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 15 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.18%) MBA
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.14%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.14%) OCP
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.091%) CSQA
13 2 (0.091%) PhD
14 1 (0.046%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.32%) QA
2 46 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 16 (0.73%) GDPR
5 14 (0.64%) WCAG
6 8 (0.37%) NCSC
7 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.046%) GRC
System Software
1 257 (11.75%) Docker
2 21 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.37%) Firmware
4 8 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 226 (10.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.59%) Grafana
3 12 (0.55%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.091%) Bosun
6 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.046%) Consul
7 1 (0.046%) MIIS
7 1 (0.046%) MOM
7 1 (0.046%) Packer
7 1 (0.046%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 782 (35.74%) Microsoft
2 65 (2.97%) Google
3 57 (2.61%) Facebook
4 27 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 25 (1.14%) Oracle
6 22 (1.01%) Adobe
7 21 (0.96%) YouTube
8 17 (0.78%) Apple
8 17 (0.78%) Sony
8 17 (0.78%) Yahoo!
9 15 (0.69%) VMware
10 11 (0.50%) Xamarin
11 8 (0.37%) Broadcom
11 8 (0.37%) Databricks
12 7 (0.32%) DevExpress
12 7 (0.32%) Sage
12 7 (0.32%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.27%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.27%) Splunk