.NET Framework Job Trends

Microsoft .NET Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 228 162
Rank change year-on-year -229 -66 +42
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 242 615 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 1.41% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.99% 6.36% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 218 488 1,412
10th Percentile £38,375 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,313 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,144 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET Framework 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,093 9,668 18,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 22.17% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,935 6,675 15,098
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Framework relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Framework
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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
England -202 217 £60,000 +4.35% 117
UK excluding London -174 175 £55,000 +4.76% 95
Work from Home -136 98 £65,000 +13.04% 75
North of England -83 52 £55,000 +10.00% 23
South East -45 51 £55,000 +10.00% 27
London -92 43 £75,000 - 32
North West -22 42 £55,000 +10.00% 13
South West -52 30 £50,000 -21.57% 14
Midlands -48 28 £52,500 -6.67% 18
West Midlands -16 17 £52,500 -2.33% 9
East Midlands -39 11 £65,000 - 9
Yorkshire -68 7 £42,039 -15.92% 7
Wales -9 5 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Scotland -61 5 £40,000 +9.59% 6
East of England -70 5 £67,500 +35.00% 8
North East -20 3 £68,500 +24.55% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 20 (8.26%) IIS
2 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) CMS
3 3 (1.24%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (63.64%) Azure
2 54 (22.31%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (17.36%) SaaS
4 29 (11.98%) Serverless
5 28 (11.57%) AWS
5 28 (11.57%) Azure AKS
5 28 (11.57%) Entra ID
6 26 (10.74%) PaaS
7 25 (10.33%) GitHub
8 24 (9.92%) Azure App Service
9 16 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (5.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (5.37%) Azure Functions
11 13 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (4.96%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.13%) GCP
14 7 (2.89%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (2.89%) npm
15 6 (2.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) DNS
2 2 (0.83%) Intranet
3 1 (0.41%) AMQP
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (47.11%) SQL Server
2 44 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (5.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.96%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.55%) MySQL
7 10 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (2.48%) Power BI
11 4 (1.65%) Redis
12 2 (0.83%) MS Access
12 2 (0.83%) PostHog
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (22.31%) Git
2 8 (3.31%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.48%) JIRA
3 6 (2.48%) NUnit
4 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.83%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.83%) ESLint
6 2 (0.83%) MSTest
6 2 (0.83%) Postman
6 2 (0.83%) Selenium
6 2 (0.83%) Storybook
6 2 (0.83%) Vite
6 2 (0.83%) webpack
7 1 (0.41%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.81%) Finance
3 14 (5.79%) Law
4 10 (4.13%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.48%) Legal
7 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.07%) Retail
9 4 (1.65%) Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Games
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Front Office
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 154 (63.64%) Developer
2 64 (26.45%) .NET Developer
2 64 (26.45%) Senior
2 64 (26.45%) Software Developer
3 52 (21.49%) Software Engineer
4 44 (18.18%) Lead
5 35 (14.46%) Senior Developer
6 32 (13.22%) C# Developer
7 27 (11.16%) Lead Developer
8 24 (9.92%) .NET Software Engineer
8 24 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (7.44%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 17 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
12 16 (6.61%) .NET Software Developer
12 16 (6.61%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 15 (6.20%) C# .NET Developer
14 14 (5.79%) Azure Developer
14 14 (5.79%) Lead .NET Developer
15 13 (5.37%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (100.00%) .NET
2 100 (41.32%) Entity Framework
3 91 (37.60%) .NET Core
4 79 (32.64%) ASP.NET
5 72 (29.75%) React
6 45 (18.60%) CSS
7 43 (17.77%) HTML
8 41 (16.94%) RESTful
9 38 (15.70%) AngularJS
10 36 (14.88%) REST
11 29 (11.98%) ASP.NET Web API
12 25 (10.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 24 (9.92%) Razor View Engine
14 22 (9.09%) Vue
15 20 (8.26%) WinForms
16 17 (7.02%) ASP.NET Core
16 17 (7.02%) Blazor
17 16 (6.61%) ASP.NET Web Forms
18 14 (5.79%) Dapper ORM
19 13 (5.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.41%) IoT
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.41%) Lidar
9 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.74%) Windows
2 5 (2.07%) Linux
3 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (55.37%) Agile
2 107 (44.21%) DevOps
3 98 (40.50%) CI/CD
4 81 (33.47%) Software Engineering
5 78 (32.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (28.51%) Microservices
7 60 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (21.49%) MVC
9 50 (20.66%) Scrum
10 49 (20.25%) Mentoring
11 39 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (14.46%) Clean Code
13 33 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 31 (12.81%) Computer Science
14 31 (12.81%) Containerisation
15 27 (11.16%) Code Quality
15 27 (11.16%) User Experience
16 26 (10.74%) AI
16 26 (10.74%) TDD
17 22 (9.09%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 186 (76.86%) C#
2 135 (55.79%) SQL
3 73 (30.17%) JavaScript
4 61 (25.21%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.61%) T-SQL
6 12 (4.96%) Python
7 8 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.07%) Bash
8 5 (2.07%) Bicep
8 5 (2.07%) Java
9 4 (1.65%) PHP
9 4 (1.65%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.24%) Delphi
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) Rust
11 2 (0.83%) XAML
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (18.60%) Degree
2 29 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.20%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.07%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.41%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.57%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (14.88%) Docker
2 20 (8.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (17.77%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.96%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
3 2 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 80 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.37%) Xamarin
3 12 (4.96%) Sage
4 9 (3.72%) Google
5 6 (2.48%) Telerik
6 5 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (2.07%) Zoho
7 2 (0.83%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.83%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle
7 2 (0.83%) Rollbar
7 2 (0.83%) Syncfusion
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) Foundry
8 1 (0.41%) IBM
8 1 (0.41%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.41%) Perforce
8 1 (0.41%) Splunk
8 1 (0.41%) SYSPRO