Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring .NET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited .NET over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,092 7,250 8,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.01% 7.37% 7.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.63% 34.45% 26.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 5,986 6,386
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for .NET in the UK

.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 -34 1,901 £62,500 +4.17% 1,267
UK excluding London -43 1,414 £56,000 +1.82% 916
Work from Home -15 1,035 £60,000 +4.35% 859
London -33 568 £77,500 - 384
South East -25 440 £60,000 - 187
North of England -66 375 £57,500 +4.55% 308
Midlands -46 260 £53,688 +7.38% 195
North West -88 213 £57,500 +4.55% 188
West Midlands -41 177 £57,500 +9.52% 113
East of England -43 123 £52,500 -4.55% 90
Yorkshire -33 105 £60,000 +9.09% 72
Scotland +12 93 £50,000 -16.67% 40
South West -62 91 £60,000 +9.09% 80
East Midlands -54 82 £52,500 +5.00% 81
North East -5 57 £57,500 -4.17% 49
Wales -24 32 £65,000 +23.37% 20
Northern Ireland -22 1 £50,000 -9.09% 10

.NET
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 71 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.49%) Confluence
3 38 (1.82%) IIS
4 29 (1.39%) CMS
5 20 (0.96%) Umbraco
6 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.29%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.24%) Sitefinity
8 5 (0.24%) WordPress
9 4 (0.19%) Apache
9 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.19%) Kentico
9 4 (0.19%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.14%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.096%) DNN
Applications
1 46 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.48%) Trello
4 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.096%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.096%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.096%) Revit
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.048%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 84 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.86%) Sage 200
2 18 (0.86%) Sage 50
3 13 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 12 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.24%) Endur
7 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.096%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.096%) Eikon
8 2 (0.096%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.096%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.096%) Magento
8 2 (0.096%) Odoo
8 2 (0.096%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.096%) RMDS
9 1 (0.048%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.048%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.048%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,151 (55.02%) Azure
2 373 (17.83%) AWS
3 342 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
4 254 (12.14%) Power Platform
5 179 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
6 159 (7.60%) SaaS
7 131 (6.26%) GitHub
8 112 (5.35%) PowerApps
9 105 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
9 105 (5.02%) Serverless
10 104 (4.97%) Power Automate
11 69 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 68 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 58 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 58 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
14 57 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 57 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 52 (2.49%) Azure Functions
16 44 (2.10%) GCP
17 38 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.43%) Network Security
2 22 (1.05%) HTTP
3 14 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.57%) MQTT
5 11 (0.53%) Modbus
6 7 (0.33%) Internet
7 5 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.14%) Intranet
9 2 (0.096%) Broadband
9 2 (0.096%) Firewall
9 2 (0.096%) Multicast
9 2 (0.096%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.096%) RTP
9 2 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.048%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.048%) FTP
10 1 (0.048%) LAN
10 1 (0.048%) SMTP
10 1 (0.048%) SSL
10 1 (0.048%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 675 (32.27%) SQL Server
2 134 (6.41%) MySQL
3 123 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 119 (5.69%) Relational Database
5 114 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 106 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 99 (4.73%) MongoDB
8 86 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
9 85 (4.06%) Power BI
10 84 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 66 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (1.58%) DB2
13 31 (1.48%) Redis
14 25 (1.20%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (0.72%) DynamoDB
16 12 (0.57%) MS Access
17 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
18 9 (0.43%) Tableau
19 8 (0.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 321 (15.34%) Git
2 197 (9.42%) Visual Studio
3 114 (5.45%) JIRA
4 76 (3.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 59 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 51 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 51 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
7 40 (1.91%) MSBuild
8 39 (1.86%) TeamCity
9 36 (1.72%) NUnit
10 34 (1.63%) Selenium
11 26 (1.24%) GitLab
12 20 (0.96%) Postman
12 20 (0.96%) SpecFlow
13 16 (0.76%) webpack
14 14 (0.67%) MagicDraw
15 13 (0.62%) Moq
15 13 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
16 12 (0.57%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.53%) Babel
General
1 549 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 380 (18.16%) Finance
3 139 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (4.45%) Retail
6 80 (3.82%) Law
7 75 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 61 (2.92%) Banking
9 39 (1.86%) Marketing
10 38 (1.82%) Tech for Good
11 36 (1.72%) Public Sector
12 35 (1.67%) Front Office
13 33 (1.58%) Automotive
14 21 (1.00%) Back Office
14 21 (1.00%) Electronics
14 21 (1.00%) Legal
15 17 (0.81%) Advertising
16 15 (0.72%) Games
17 14 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,228 (58.70%) Developer
2 543 (25.96%) Senior
3 422 (20.17%) .NET Developer
4 323 (15.44%) Senior Developer
5 292 (13.96%) Software Engineer
6 282 (13.48%) C# Developer
7 225 (10.76%) Software Developer
8 215 (10.28%) Lead
9 151 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (6.88%) C# .NET Developer
11 120 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 113 (5.40%) Architect
13 94 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
14 88 (4.21%) Senior C# Developer
15 82 (3.92%) Lead Developer
16 75 (3.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 61 (2.92%) .NET Software Developer
17 61 (2.92%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 58 (2.77%) Analyst
19 56 (2.68%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (23.47%) .NET Core
2 478 (22.85%) .NET Framework
3 454 (21.70%) ASP.NET
4 406 (19.41%) React
5 405 (19.36%) HTML
6 395 (18.88%) CSS
7 311 (14.87%) AngularJS
8 212 (10.13%) REST
9 197 (9.42%) Entity Framework
10 180 (8.60%) RESTful
11 168 (8.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 157 (7.50%) XML
13 139 (6.64%) HTML5
14 130 (6.21%) JSON
14 130 (6.21%) Node.js
15 127 (6.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 117 (5.59%) Blazor
17 108 (5.16%) jQuery
18 94 (4.49%) Vue
19 86 (4.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.21%) Mobile App
2 86 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 83 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.34%) Cyberattack
6 41 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 36 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 36 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.63%) Client/Server
9 33 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.34%) IoT
11 27 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.15%) Onboarding
14 21 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.91%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 18 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 172 (8.22%) Windows
2 152 (7.27%) Linux
3 80 (3.82%) Android
4 34 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.34%) Unix
6 21 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (44.02%) Agile
2 621 (29.68%) DevOps
3 589 (28.15%) Software Engineering
4 510 (24.38%) CI/CD
5 465 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
6 375 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 350 (16.73%) Microservices
8 348 (16.63%) MVC
9 275 (13.15%) Mentoring
10 236 (11.28%) Computer Science
11 231 (11.04%) Design Patterns
12 221 (10.56%) OO
13 200 (9.56%) TDD
14 184 (8.80%) OOP
15 182 (8.70%) SDLC
16 153 (7.31%) Scrum
17 152 (7.27%) Containerisation
17 152 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 145 (6.93%) API Development
19 139 (6.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,612 (77.06%) C#
2 817 (39.05%) SQL
3 725 (34.66%) JavaScript
4 254 (12.14%) TypeScript
5 249 (11.90%) Java
6 240 (11.47%) Python
7 160 (7.65%) C++
8 100 (4.78%) VB.NET
9 82 (3.92%) T-SQL
10 79 (3.78%) PHP
11 54 (2.58%) Go
12 53 (2.53%) PowerShell
13 50 (2.39%) C
13 50 (2.39%) Rust
14 45 (2.15%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.00%) Bicep
16 15 (0.72%) XAML
17 14 (0.67%) X++
18 13 (0.62%) Bash
18 13 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 332 (15.87%) Degree
2 156 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 54 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 39 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.29%) SC Cleared
8 21 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 16 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.24%) MCSE
12 5 (0.24%) PhD
13 4 (0.19%) MCP
14 3 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.14%) HND
15 2 (0.096%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.096%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.22%) QA
2 47 (2.25%) GDPR
3 42 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 22 (1.05%) SLA
5 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.29%) CDISC
7 6 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.14%) WCAG
11 2 (0.096%) HL7
11 2 (0.096%) MiFID
12 1 (0.048%) NCSC
System Software
1 315 (15.06%) Docker
2 19 (0.91%) Firmware
3 10 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.14%) LXC
7 2 (0.096%) vSphere
8 1 (0.048%) Squid
8 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 271 (12.95%) Kubernetes
2 121 (5.78%) Terraform
3 92 (4.40%) Ansible
4 19 (0.91%) Grafana
5 16 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.14%) Control-M
9 2 (0.096%) MIIS
10 1 (0.048%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.048%) logstash
10 1 (0.048%) Puppet
10 1 (0.048%) SCCM
10 1 (0.048%) SCOM
10 1 (0.048%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.048%) vRealize
Vendors
1 570 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.82%) Oracle
3 46 (2.20%) Atlassian
4 45 (2.15%) Databricks
5 24 (1.15%) Xamarin
6 19 (0.91%) Google
6 19 (0.91%) Sage
7 18 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.48%) Telerik
9 9 (0.43%) EMC
9 9 (0.43%) Okta
10 8 (0.38%) Epicor
10 8 (0.38%) IBM
10 8 (0.38%) SAP
10 8 (0.38%) UiPath
11 7 (0.33%) Adobe
11 7 (0.33%) SolarWinds
11 7 (0.33%) VMware
12 6 (0.29%) Facebook