.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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 213 198
Rank change year-on-year -195 -15 -34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 258 772 880
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 1.40% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 6.52% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 231 541 799
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

.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 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the UK

.NET Framework
Top 16 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 1 January 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 -160 230 £60,000 +9.09% 275
UK excluding London -172 172 £55,000 +10.00% 248
Work from Home -111 117 £60,000 +4.35% 240
London -62 65 £71,250 +9.62% 59
North of England -25 57 £55,000 +10.00% 88
South East -33 47 £55,000 +1.85% 54
North West +1 39 £55,000 - 62
Midlands -32 27 £60,000 +9.09% 29
South West -58 23 £47,500 -13.64% 24
West Midlands -13 22 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Yorkshire -33 10 £43,520 -3.29% 20
North East +12 8 £58,000 +10.48% 6
Wales +1 7 £41,500 -15.31% 6
East of England -75 7 £60,000 +20.00% 22
Scotland -65 6 £66,250 +65.63% 26
East Midlands -29 5 £60,000 +20.00% 17

.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 17 (6.59%) IIS
2 7 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.94%) Confluence
4 3 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
5 2 (0.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.78%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 187 (72.48%) Azure
2 70 (27.13%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (17.83%) AWS
4 40 (15.50%) Serverless
5 32 (12.40%) GitHub
6 30 (11.63%) Entra ID
6 30 (11.63%) SaaS
7 29 (11.24%) PaaS
8 27 (10.47%) Azure App Service
9 21 (8.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 20 (7.75%) Azure Functions
11 19 (7.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (7.36%) Power Platform
12 17 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (5.04%) Power Automate
14 12 (4.65%) Azure AKS
14 12 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (4.26%) PowerApps
16 10 (3.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.55%) Internet
2 2 (0.78%) DNS
2 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.78%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) DHCP
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (46.51%) SQL Server
2 39 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 27 (10.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (9.69%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 18 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.81%) MySQL
8 12 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.94%) Power BI
12 4 (1.55%) Redis
13 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.78%) MS Access
14 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.78%) PostHog
15 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
15 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (22.09%) Git
2 12 (4.65%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.71%) JIRA
4 7 (2.71%) NUnit
5 5 (1.94%) MSTest
6 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) GitLab
7 2 (0.78%) Moq
7 2 (0.78%) NSubstitute
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Storybook
7 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.39%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.39%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.39%) Vite
8 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 57 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.18%) Finance
3 15 (5.81%) Law
4 13 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.49%) Legal
7 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.55%) Games
9 3 (1.16%) Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 187 (72.48%) Developer
2 84 (32.56%) .NET Developer
3 69 (26.74%) Software Developer
4 61 (23.64%) Senior
5 43 (16.67%) Lead
6 40 (15.50%) Senior Developer
7 39 (15.12%) C# Developer
8 33 (12.79%) Software Engineer
9 32 (12.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (12.02%) Lead Developer
11 19 (7.36%) C# Software Developer
12 17 (6.59%) Applications Developer
12 17 (6.59%) Azure Developer
13 16 (6.20%) C# .NET Developer
13 16 (6.20%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 16 (6.20%) Lead .NET Developer
13 16 (6.20%) Senior Software Developer
14 15 (5.81%) .NET Software Developer
14 15 (5.81%) IT Engineer
14 15 (5.81%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (100.00%) .NET
2 115 (44.57%) Entity Framework
3 96 (37.21%) React
4 92 (35.66%) .NET Core
5 82 (31.78%) ASP.NET
6 63 (24.42%) AngularJS
7 53 (20.54%) CSS
8 50 (19.38%) HTML
9 48 (18.60%) ASP.NET Web API
10 44 (17.05%) RESTful
11 38 (14.73%) REST
12 35 (13.57%) ASP.NET MVC
13 33 (12.79%) Vue
14 32 (12.40%) Blazor
15 25 (9.69%) Node.js
15 25 (9.69%) Razor View Engine
16 18 (6.98%) WinForms
17 17 (6.59%) WPF
18 16 (6.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
19 15 (5.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.78%) IoT
7 2 (0.78%) Online Games
8 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.39%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.08%) Windows
2 5 (1.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Android
3 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (59.69%) Agile
2 118 (45.74%) DevOps
3 105 (40.70%) CI/CD
4 103 (39.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 78 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (29.46%) Microservices
7 64 (24.81%) Software Engineering
8 63 (24.42%) MVC
9 61 (23.64%) Scrum
10 57 (22.09%) Mentoring
11 48 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (16.67%) Clean Code
13 42 (16.28%) TDD
14 39 (15.12%) Computer Science
15 35 (13.57%) Design Patterns
16 33 (12.79%) Code Quality
16 33 (12.79%) Kanban
16 33 (12.79%) Test Automation
17 30 (11.63%) Front End Development
18 29 (11.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 206 (79.84%) C#
2 137 (53.10%) SQL
3 102 (39.53%) JavaScript
4 76 (29.46%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.36%) T-SQL
6 13 (5.04%) Python
7 9 (3.49%) Bicep
7 9 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.10%) Java
9 6 (2.33%) Bash
10 4 (1.55%) C++
10 4 (1.55%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.55%) XAML
11 2 (0.78%) Delphi
11 2 (0.78%) Groovy
11 2 (0.78%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Dart
12 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (22.87%) Degree
2 36 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (7.75%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.71%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.85%) QA
2 12 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.33%) WCAG
4 4 (1.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) COBIT
5 1 (0.39%) HL7
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (9.69%) Active Directory
1 25 (9.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.04%) Terraform
3 4 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 92 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.43%) Xamarin
3 12 (4.65%) Sage
4 11 (4.26%) Telerik
5 7 (2.71%) Oracle
5 7 (2.71%) Syncfusion
6 6 (2.33%) Google
7 5 (1.94%) Zoho
8 3 (1.16%) DevExpress
8 3 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.78%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.78%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.39%) Foundry
10 1 (0.39%) IBM
10 1 (0.39%) IONA
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk
10 1 (0.39%) Sybase