Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 28 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing .NET 4,035 11,317 13,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.56% 9.03% 10.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.69% 27.84% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,497 7,896 10,201
10th Percentile £41,400 £38,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

.NET 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 14,064 40,646 50,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.36% 32.43% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,002 24,675 32,177
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,125 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £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
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 2 December 2023.

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 2 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 -3 3,568 £65,000 +8.33% 1,683
UK excluding London -6 2,448 £55,000 - 1,324
Work from Home -7 2,038 £60,000 - 1,162
London +7 1,378 £80,000 +6.67% 496
North of England -3 683 £57,500 +4.55% 420
South East -6 627 £57,500 - 323
Midlands +5 401 £52,500 -4.55% 222
North West -11 339 £60,000 +9.09% 250
South West -20 307 £52,500 +3.96% 139
Yorkshire -1 302 £57,500 +4.55% 113
West Midlands +8 253 £53,500 -2.73% 136
Scotland -35 161 £55,000 - 67
East Midlands -5 150 £52,500 - 85
Wales +4 124 £55,000 +4.76% 53
East of England -11 97 £55,000 - 109
Northern Ireland -11 56 £50,000 -4.76% 22
North East -2 42 £50,000 +5.26% 63

.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
1 143 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 117 (2.90%) IIS
3 104 (2.58%) CMS
4 96 (2.38%) Umbraco
5 77 (1.91%) Confluence
6 27 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 21 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.52%) Kentico
8 20 (0.50%) NServiceBus
9 17 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 16 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 14 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
12 11 (0.27%) nginx
13 7 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.15%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.15%) SAS
14 6 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
14 6 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
15 5 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 59 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.099%) Trello
5 2 (0.050%) InDesign
5 2 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.025%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.025%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 179 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.40%) Maximo
4 15 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 9 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
6 8 (0.20%) Shopify
7 7 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 6 (0.15%) Visualfiles
9 5 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
9 5 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.050%) Fidessa
12 2 (0.050%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 2 (0.050%) Salerio
12 2 (0.050%) SAP CX
12 2 (0.050%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.050%) Scribe Insight
12 2 (0.050%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 2,076 (51.45%) Azure
2 716 (17.74%) AWS
3 675 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
4 354 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 309 (7.66%) SaaS
6 271 (6.72%) GCP
7 245 (6.07%) Dynamics 365
8 239 (5.92%) Serverless
9 153 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 126 (3.12%) GitHub
10 126 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
11 125 (3.10%) PowerApps
12 115 (2.85%) Azure Functions
13 114 (2.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 109 (2.70%) PaaS
15 106 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 59 (1.46%) IaaS
17 53 (1.31%) Power Automate
18 47 (1.16%) Azure API Management
19 46 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 37 (0.92%) Internet
2 25 (0.62%) DNS
3 21 (0.52%) HTTP
4 18 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.27%) Firewall
5 11 (0.27%) Network Security
6 10 (0.25%) WAN
7 8 (0.20%) SSL
8 7 (0.17%) DHCP
9 5 (0.12%) iSCSI
9 5 (0.12%) LAN
9 5 (0.12%) SSH
10 4 (0.099%) Modbus
10 4 (0.099%) MQTT
11 3 (0.074%) RTP
11 3 (0.074%) VLAN
11 3 (0.074%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.050%) Ethernet
12 2 (0.050%) FIX Connectivity
12 2 (0.050%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,259 (31.20%) SQL Server
2 224 (5.55%) NoSQL
3 209 (5.18%) Power BI
4 163 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 133 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 125 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 118 (2.92%) MySQL
8 106 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 98 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 76 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 61 (1.51%) Redis
13 49 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (0.84%) Big Data
15 30 (0.74%) DynamoDB
16 26 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
16 26 (0.64%) RDBMS
17 24 (0.59%) JasperReports
17 24 (0.59%) SQLite
18 22 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 495 (12.27%) Git
2 206 (5.11%) Visual Studio
3 200 (4.96%) JIRA
4 125 (3.10%) Selenium
5 102 (2.53%) Jenkins
6 101 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 88 (2.18%) TeamCity
8 73 (1.81%) GitLab
9 70 (1.73%) NUnit
10 69 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
11 61 (1.51%) Postman
12 48 (1.19%) SpecFlow
13 45 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
15 36 (0.89%) Subversion
16 32 (0.79%) Cypress.io
17 30 (0.74%) MSTest
17 30 (0.74%) SonarQube
17 30 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 25 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 867 (21.49%) Finance
2 718 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 260 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (4.24%) Banking
5 157 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 153 (3.79%) Retail
7 143 (3.54%) Front Office
8 125 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 111 (2.75%) Law
10 103 (2.55%) Legal
11 92 (2.28%) Marketing
12 63 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 43 (1.07%) Automotive
14 40 (0.99%) Tech for Good
15 35 (0.87%) Games
16 33 (0.82%) Electronics
17 31 (0.77%) Advertising
18 29 (0.72%) Back Office
18 29 (0.72%) Health Technology
19 26 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,463 (61.04%) Developer
2 1,153 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 955 (23.67%) Senior
4 652 (16.16%) Senior Developer
5 618 (15.32%) C# Developer
6 597 (14.80%) Software Engineer
7 505 (12.52%) Software Developer
8 468 (11.60%) Lead
9 403 (9.99%) Full Stack Developer
10 354 (8.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 291 (7.21%) Senior .NET Developer
12 233 (5.77%) Lead Developer
13 214 (5.30%) .NET Software Engineer
14 205 (5.08%) Architect
15 204 (5.06%) .NET Software Developer
16 174 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
17 169 (4.19%) Full Stack .NET Developer
18 149 (3.69%) C# Software Developer
19 145 (3.59%) Senior C# Developer
20 137 (3.40%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,069 (26.49%) ASP.NET
2 1,007 (24.96%) .NET Core
3 933 (23.12%) HTML
4 902 (22.35%) CSS
5 867 (21.49%) AngularJS
5 867 (21.49%) React
6 855 (21.19%) .NET Framework
7 382 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web API
8 367 (9.10%) ASP.NET MVC
9 330 (8.18%) Entity Framework
10 322 (7.98%) REST
11 290 (7.19%) Web Services
12 281 (6.96%) Vue
13 248 (6.15%) RESTful
14 246 (6.10%) jQuery
15 211 (5.23%) Blazor
16 207 (5.13%) XML
17 202 (5.01%) JSON
18 197 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
19 174 (4.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 198 (4.91%) Greenfield Project
2 156 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 136 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 114 (2.83%) Hedge funds
5 110 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 104 (2.58%) Derivative
7 101 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 100 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (2.38%) Fixed Income
10 93 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 78 (1.93%) Equities
12 59 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 59 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 47 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 46 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 45 (1.12%) Low-Code
16 44 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
17 42 (1.04%) Management Information System
18 35 (0.87%) IoT
19 32 (0.79%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 244 (6.05%) Windows
2 120 (2.97%) Linux
3 81 (2.01%) Android
4 64 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.46%) Unix
6 46 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.35%) VMS
8 8 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.050%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.050%) Solaris
12 1 (0.025%) CentOS
12 1 (0.025%) Debian
12 1 (0.025%) MVS
12 1 (0.025%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,635 (40.52%) Agile
2 1,246 (30.88%) DevOps
3 1,041 (25.80%) Software Engineering
4 901 (22.33%) Full Stack Development
5 782 (19.38%) CI/CD
6 771 (19.11%) MVC
7 610 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 609 (15.09%) Microservices
9 573 (14.20%) TDD
10 482 (11.95%) Scrum
11 444 (11.00%) Mentoring
12 344 (8.53%) Design Patterns
13 334 (8.28%) Test Automation
14 333 (8.25%) SDLC
15 310 (7.68%) Web Development
16 292 (7.24%) Unit Testing
17 278 (6.89%) SOLID
18 267 (6.62%) Computer Science
19 259 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
20 244 (6.05%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3,229 (80.02%) C#
2 1,665 (41.26%) JavaScript
3 1,648 (40.84%) SQL
4 524 (12.99%) TypeScript
5 374 (9.27%) Java
6 342 (8.48%) Python
7 317 (7.86%) T-SQL
8 228 (5.65%) PowerShell
9 165 (4.09%) VB.NET
10 104 (2.58%) C++
11 73 (1.81%) Go
12 53 (1.31%) Bash
13 52 (1.29%) VB
14 50 (1.24%) PHP
15 47 (1.16%) Bicep
16 38 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 38 (0.94%) Rust
17 34 (0.84%) C
18 30 (0.74%) Ruby
19 27 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 487 (12.07%) Degree
2 255 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 191 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 134 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 46 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (1.09%) DV Cleared
8 38 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 34 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 23 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.25%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 6 (0.15%) MCPD
17 6 (0.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (8.28%) QA
2 52 (1.29%) SLA
3 43 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 22 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.25%) WCAG
8 9 (0.22%) GDPR
9 8 (0.20%) PMO
10 7 (0.17%) NCSC
11 5 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.074%) HL7
12 3 (0.074%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.074%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.050%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.050%) WAI
14 1 (0.025%) GLBA
14 1 (0.025%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.025%) MiFID
14 1 (0.025%) NIST 800
System Software
1 430 (10.66%) Docker
2 64 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.050%) Firmware
6 2 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.050%) vSphere
7 1 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.025%) NFS
7 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 372 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 148 (3.67%) Terraform
3 39 (0.97%) Ansible
4 31 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 26 (0.64%) AirWatch
5 26 (0.64%) OpenSSO
6 15 (0.37%) Grafana
7 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.22%) Packer
9 8 (0.20%) Istio
9 8 (0.20%) MIIS
10 7 (0.17%) Argo
10 7 (0.17%) Control-M
10 7 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.099%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.074%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.074%) Nagios
13 3 (0.074%) Puppet
13 3 (0.074%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,146 (28.40%) Microsoft
2 183 (4.54%) Oracle
3 97 (2.40%) Xamarin
4 65 (1.61%) Salesforce
5 58 (1.44%) Google
6 38 (0.94%) Sitecore
7 34 (0.84%) SAP
8 30 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 27 (0.67%) Databricks
10 24 (0.59%) Finsemble
11 20 (0.50%) VMware
12 17 (0.42%) Sparx
12 17 (0.42%) Splunk
13 15 (0.37%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.37%) IBM
14 13 (0.32%) Zoho
15 12 (0.30%) iManage
16 8 (0.20%) Remedy
16 8 (0.20%) Telerik
17 7 (0.17%) Informatica