Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for .NET Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited .NET Framework over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 223 161 171
Rank change year-on-year -62 +10 -58
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 836 2,853 2,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 2.33% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.08% 7.20% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 753 1,723 2,142
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% +3.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Framework is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,739 39,611 48,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.28% 32.41% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,720 24,123 32,015
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,351 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET Framework.

Salary trend for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England -53 738 £60,000 +4.35% 397
UK excluding London -85 500 £55,000 +0.92% 319
Work from Home -74 430 £60,000 +4.35% 284
London +6 305 £72,000 +6.67% 112
North of England -57 124 £55,000 +4.76% 89
Midlands -22 115 £55,000 - 52
South East -56 103 £55,000 - 72
Yorkshire -7 83 £58,000 +0.87% 31
East Midlands +20 61 £52,500 - 26
South West -87 61 £47,500 -5.00% 40
West Midlands -19 54 £57,500 +4.55% 26
Scotland +12 47 £57,500 +43.75% 20
North West -61 37 £50,000 +2.56% 53
East of England +69 24 £58,750 +6.82% 35
Wales +23 21 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Northern Ireland +21 5 £42,500 -5.56% 7
North East +37 4 £41,250 -13.16% 6

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.23%) IIS
3 25 (2.99%) Confluence
4 21 (2.51%) CMS
5 11 (1.32%) Umbraco
6 9 (1.08%) NServiceBus
7 6 (0.72%) SharePoint 2010
7 6 (0.72%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.36%) SAS
10 2 (0.24%) JBoss
10 2 (0.24%) Kentico
10 2 (0.24%) Mendix
10 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.84%) Shopify
3 6 (0.72%) Maximo
3 6 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 471 (56.34%) Azure
2 208 (24.88%) Azure DevOps
3 128 (15.31%) AWS
4 72 (8.61%) Power Platform
5 66 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 54 (6.46%) Serverless
7 50 (5.98%) GitHub
8 48 (5.74%) SaaS
9 45 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
10 41 (4.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 40 (4.78%) Azure Functions
12 33 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (3.83%) PowerApps
14 30 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (2.63%) GCP
16 18 (2.15%) PaaS
17 15 (1.79%) Azure API Management
17 15 (1.79%) Power Automate
18 14 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
19 13 (1.56%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) Internet
1 6 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.36%) DNS
2 3 (0.36%) Modbus
2 3 (0.36%) Network Security
2 3 (0.36%) SSL
3 2 (0.24%) DHCP
3 2 (0.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) LAN
3 2 (0.24%) WAN
3 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.12%) DMZ
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) HTTP
4 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (43.18%) SQL Server
2 58 (6.94%) Relational Database
3 54 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 42 (5.02%) Redis
6 39 (4.67%) MySQL
7 33 (3.95%) MongoDB
7 33 (3.95%) Power BI
8 32 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (2.75%) SQLite
12 15 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.44%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.20%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.08%) DB2
16 7 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 6 (0.72%) Oracle Database
18 5 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 142 (16.99%) Git
2 87 (10.41%) Visual Studio
3 46 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 42 (5.02%) Selenium
6 41 (4.90%) JIRA
7 32 (3.83%) NUnit
7 32 (3.83%) Postman
8 30 (3.59%) Subversion
9 26 (3.11%) TeamCity
10 22 (2.63%) MSTest
11 21 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 20 (2.39%) SpecFlow
13 18 (2.15%) GitLab
14 14 (1.67%) JMeter
15 13 (1.56%) Gatling
15 13 (1.56%) SonarQube
16 11 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 9 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (1.08%) WebDriver
General
1 144 (17.22%) Social Skills
2 141 (16.87%) Finance
3 40 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (3.47%) Law
5 29 (3.47%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.51%) Banking
7 15 (1.79%) Retail
8 14 (1.67%) Marketing
9 13 (1.56%) Legal
9 13 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.44%) Automotive
11 10 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.08%) Games
13 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.96%) Tech for Good
14 7 (0.84%) Advertising
14 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.72%) Military
15 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 579 (69.26%) Developer
2 310 (37.08%) .NET Developer
3 207 (24.76%) Senior
4 146 (17.46%) Software Engineer
5 141 (16.87%) Senior Developer
6 130 (15.55%) Full Stack Developer
7 123 (14.71%) C# Developer
8 117 (14.00%) Software Developer
9 80 (9.57%) Senior .NET Developer
10 72 (8.61%) Full Stack .NET Developer
11 64 (7.66%) Lead
12 58 (6.94%) C# .NET Developer
13 56 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 55 (6.58%) .NET Software Engineer
15 44 (5.26%) Lead Developer
16 43 (5.14%) Senior Software Developer
17 40 (4.78%) .NET Software Developer
17 40 (4.78%) C# Software Engineer
18 39 (4.67%) C# Software Developer
19 38 (4.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 836 (100.00%) .NET
2 347 (41.51%) ASP.NET
3 310 (37.08%) CSS
4 307 (36.72%) .NET Core
5 304 (36.36%) Entity Framework
6 296 (35.41%) HTML
7 231 (27.63%) AngularJS
8 222 (26.56%) React
9 187 (22.37%) ASP.NET MVC
10 175 (20.93%) ASP.NET Web API
11 126 (15.07%) Web Services
12 120 (14.35%) REST
13 101 (12.08%) jQuery
14 94 (11.24%) JSON
15 90 (10.77%) RESTful
16 77 (9.21%) LINQ
17 72 (8.61%) Vue
18 67 (8.01%) Blazor
19 59 (7.06%) XML
20 57 (6.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 43 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
7 17 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.91%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.32%) NHS
10 11 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.84%) Contactless
13 7 (0.84%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.34%) Windows
2 29 (3.47%) Android
3 22 (2.63%) Apple iOS
4 20 (2.39%) Linux
5 12 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) MVS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (48.33%) Agile
2 333 (39.83%) MVC
3 297 (35.53%) DevOps
4 251 (30.02%) Software Engineering
5 224 (26.79%) Full Stack Development
6 165 (19.74%) CI/CD
7 161 (19.26%) Microservices
8 147 (17.58%) TDD
9 137 (16.39%) Scrum
10 127 (15.19%) Mentoring
11 105 (12.56%) SOLID
12 104 (12.44%) Design Patterns
13 102 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (10.77%) Test Automation
15 81 (9.69%) OO
16 80 (9.57%) Unit Testing
17 77 (9.21%) Web Development
18 71 (8.49%) SDLC
19 67 (8.01%) Computer Science
20 64 (7.66%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 736 (88.04%) C#
2 461 (55.14%) SQL
3 421 (50.36%) JavaScript
4 131 (15.67%) T-SQL
5 126 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 54 (6.46%) Python
7 47 (5.62%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.26%) Java
9 33 (3.95%) C++
10 31 (3.71%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.67%) Bicep
12 10 (1.20%) Bash
12 10 (1.20%) XAML
13 9 (1.08%) VB
14 8 (0.96%) C
14 8 (0.96%) X++
15 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.72%) VBA
17 4 (0.48%) Scala
18 3 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (12.92%) Degree
2 42 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 35 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (2.39%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.72%) MCPD
10 3 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.24%) HNC
11 2 (0.24%) HND
12 1 (0.12%) MCP
12 1 (0.12%) MCSA
12 1 (0.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.12%) QA
2 18 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.03%) SLA
4 16 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.72%) WCAG
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.12%) GDPR
9 1 (0.12%) GLBA
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 127 (15.19%) Docker
2 22 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 81 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.03%) Terraform
3 9 (1.08%) Ansible
4 7 (0.84%) Argo
4 7 (0.84%) Packer
5 5 (0.60%) Control-M
5 5 (0.60%) Grafana
5 5 (0.60%) MIIS
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.24%) SCCM
6 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 266 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.22%) Xamarin
3 14 (1.67%) Splunk
4 11 (1.32%) Oracle
5 10 (1.20%) Google
6 7 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.72%) Sparx
8 4 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.48%) Telerik
9 3 (0.36%) Samsung
9 3 (0.36%) SAP
9 3 (0.36%) VMware
10 2 (0.24%) Aderant
10 2 (0.24%) Axosoft
10 2 (0.24%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.24%) F5
10 2 (0.24%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.24%) Quadient
10 2 (0.24%) Sage
10 2 (0.24%) Sitecore