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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing .NET 5,948 6,294 17,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.58% 7.80% 9.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.79% 28.21% 24.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,662 5,264 9,319
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

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 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

.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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET in the UK

.NET
Top 18 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 26 July 2024. 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 +4 5,213 £60,000 -7.69% 646
UK excluding London +4 4,506 £55,000 - 605
Work from Home -2 2,412 £57,500 -4.17% 479
North of England +14 1,283 £55,000 - 177
South East +4 1,191 £60,000 -4.00% 146
London -10 1,173 £78,500 +1.29% 132
Midlands +17 821 £50,000 -9.09% 105
North West +21 678 £55,000 -3.51% 88
Yorkshire +9 453 £55,000 - 62
South West +10 437 £55,000 +4.76% 57
West Midlands +12 417 £52,500 -4.55% 55
East Midlands +12 401 £50,000 -9.09% 50
Scotland -13 334 £60,000 +9.09% 34
East of England +7 259 £55,000 -4.35% 63
North East +20 152 £60,000 +14.29% 30
Wales +1 113 £55,000 +22.22% 15
Northern Ireland -10 67 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Channel Islands -4 1 £57,500 +64.29%

.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
1 229 (3.85%) ArcGIS
2 214 (3.60%) GeoServer
3 186 (3.13%) CMS
4 167 (2.81%) IIS
5 111 (1.87%) Umbraco
6 105 (1.77%) SharePoint
7 41 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
8 39 (0.66%) Kentico
9 38 (0.64%) Confluence
10 37 (0.62%) Apache
11 28 (0.47%) Headless CMS
12 22 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 18 (0.30%) NServiceBus
14 14 (0.24%) WordPress
15 13 (0.22%) nginx
16 11 (0.18%) Apache Solr
17 10 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
17 10 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
18 7 (0.12%) ColdFusion
18 7 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 58 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.42%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.13%) Trello
6 7 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.067%) Revit
8 3 (0.050%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.050%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.050%) Fusion 360
8 3 (0.050%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.017%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.017%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 127 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 18 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 8 (0.13%) Shopify
7 6 (0.10%) Endur
7 6 (0.10%) Sage 50
8 5 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.050%) Elite 3E
10 3 (0.050%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.050%) SystmOne
11 2 (0.034%) Findur
11 2 (0.034%) Maximo
11 2 (0.034%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.034%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.034%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 3,271 (54.99%) Azure
2 1,059 (17.80%) AWS
3 843 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 382 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 363 (6.10%) Serverless
6 332 (5.58%) SaaS
7 287 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 270 (4.54%) Dynamics 365
9 257 (4.32%) Azure Functions
10 253 (4.25%) IBM Cloud
11 242 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 197 (3.31%) PowerApps
13 173 (2.91%) Power Automate
14 147 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
15 145 (2.44%) Azure API Management
16 144 (2.42%) GitHub
17 138 (2.32%) GCP
18 108 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 100 (1.68%) PaaS
20 71 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 87 (1.46%) Internet
2 55 (0.92%) DNS
3 45 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 36 (0.61%) Firewall
5 25 (0.42%) HTTP
6 23 (0.39%) SSL
7 19 (0.32%) Network Security
8 12 (0.20%) RS-232
8 12 (0.20%) Wireless
9 10 (0.17%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.13%) SAN
11 7 (0.12%) Broadband
11 7 (0.12%) FTP
11 7 (0.12%) Mobile Broadband
12 6 (0.10%) AMQP
13 5 (0.084%) CTI
14 4 (0.067%) BGP
14 4 (0.067%) Intranet
14 4 (0.067%) RS-485
14 4 (0.067%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,623 (27.29%) SQL Server
2 597 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
3 476 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 450 (7.57%) MongoDB
5 368 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 253 (4.25%) DB2
7 225 (3.78%) GIS
8 214 (3.60%) QGIS
9 168 (2.82%) Power BI
10 165 (2.77%) MySQL
11 138 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 110 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
13 99 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 98 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 73 (1.23%) Redis
16 42 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
16 42 (0.71%) DynamoDB
17 36 (0.61%) MS Access
18 35 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 31 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 623 (10.47%) Git
2 399 (6.71%) Visual Studio
3 166 (2.79%) JIRA
4 127 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 119 (2.00%) NUnit
6 94 (1.58%) TeamCity
7 93 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
8 81 (1.36%) Selenium
9 80 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 71 (1.19%) Moq
11 69 (1.16%) GitLab
12 49 (0.82%) SpecFlow
13 48 (0.81%) Jasmine
14 39 (0.66%) Postman
15 38 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
16 37 (0.62%) SoapUI
17 35 (0.59%) MSTest
18 32 (0.54%) Cypress.io
19 29 (0.49%) CircleCI
20 28 (0.47%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 975 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 734 (12.34%) Finance
3 357 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 311 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 235 (3.95%) Marketing
7 193 (3.24%) Law
8 186 (3.13%) Retail
9 112 (1.88%) Games
9 112 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 104 (1.75%) Front Office
11 102 (1.71%) Legal
12 90 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 80 (1.34%) Banking
14 78 (1.31%) Back Office
15 64 (1.08%) Advertising
16 63 (1.06%) Automotive
17 54 (0.91%) Tech for Good
18 49 (0.82%) Electronics
19 44 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3,869 (65.05%) Developer
2 1,973 (33.17%) .NET Developer
3 1,331 (22.38%) Senior
4 1,051 (17.67%) C# Developer
5 892 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 888 (14.93%) Senior Developer
7 832 (13.99%) Software Developer
8 702 (11.80%) C# .NET Developer
9 584 (9.82%) Full Stack Developer
10 547 (9.20%) Lead
11 437 (7.35%) Senior .NET Developer
12 353 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 324 (5.45%) .NET Software Developer
14 279 (4.69%) Azure Developer
15 261 (4.39%) C# Software Developer
16 232 (3.90%) Lead Developer
16 232 (3.90%) Senior C# Developer
17 222 (3.73%) .NET Software Engineer
18 218 (3.67%) Senior Software Developer
19 216 (3.63%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,625 (27.32%) ASP.NET
2 1,560 (26.23%) React
3 1,544 (25.96%) .NET Core
4 1,499 (25.20%) CSS
5 1,498 (25.18%) AngularJS
6 1,419 (23.86%) HTML
7 1,204 (20.24%) .NET Framework
8 779 (13.10%) ASP.NET Web API
9 750 (12.61%) Vue
10 685 (11.52%) Entity Framework
11 639 (10.74%) Web Services
12 623 (10.47%) REST
13 539 (9.06%) RESTful
14 512 (8.61%) jQuery
15 480 (8.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 444 (7.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 387 (6.51%) ASP.NET Core
18 377 (6.34%) Node.js
19 357 (6.00%) HTML5
20 343 (5.77%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 298 (5.01%) Algorithms
2 295 (4.96%) Data Structures
3 263 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 255 (4.29%) Blockchain
5 248 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 165 (2.77%) Mobile App
7 157 (2.64%) Product Ownership
8 130 (2.19%) e-Learning
9 116 (1.95%) Hedge funds
10 108 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 92 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 92 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 87 (1.46%) Derivative
13 84 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 84 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 81 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 79 (1.33%) Equities
16 73 (1.23%) Fixed Income
17 65 (1.09%) Public Cloud
18 50 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 581 (9.77%) Windows
2 404 (6.79%) Linux
3 330 (5.55%) Android
4 305 (5.13%) Apple iOS
5 30 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 22 (0.37%) AIX
7 19 (0.32%) VMS
8 18 (0.30%) Unix
8 18 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.050%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.034%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.017%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.017%) NetWare
13 1 (0.017%) Solaris
13 1 (0.017%) SUSE
13 1 (0.017%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,316 (38.94%) Agile
2 1,772 (29.79%) Full Stack Development
3 1,591 (26.75%) DevOps
4 1,528 (25.69%) Software Engineering
5 1,124 (18.90%) MVC
6 851 (14.31%) Web Development
7 844 (14.19%) Microservices
8 839 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
9 685 (11.52%) CI/CD
10 607 (10.21%) Design Patterns
11 604 (10.15%) Computer Science
12 592 (9.95%) OO
13 584 (9.82%) TDD
14 542 (9.11%) Scrum
15 539 (9.06%) SOLID
16 521 (8.76%) Mentoring
17 512 (8.61%) Artificial Intelligence
18 442 (7.43%) OOP
19 412 (6.93%) User Experience
20 401 (6.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4,730 (79.52%) C#
2 2,528 (42.50%) JavaScript
3 2,157 (36.26%) SQL
4 776 (13.05%) TypeScript
5 668 (11.23%) Python
6 410 (6.89%) Java
7 286 (4.81%) T-SQL
8 251 (4.22%) VB.NET
9 203 (3.41%) C++
10 139 (2.34%) VB
11 126 (2.12%) C
12 119 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 74 (1.24%) PHP
14 40 (0.67%) Bicep
14 40 (0.67%) XAML
15 39 (0.66%) VB6
16 37 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.55%) VBA
18 30 (0.50%) XPath
19 23 (0.39%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 858 (14.43%) Degree
2 385 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 321 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 307 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 43 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 20 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (0.30%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.20%) PhD
14 9 (0.15%) CIPD
14 9 (0.15%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
15 8 (0.13%) Postgraduate
16 7 (0.12%) HND
16 7 (0.12%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (5.36%) QA
2 74 (1.24%) Accessibility
3 36 (0.61%) GDPR
4 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (0.37%) SLA
5 14 (0.24%) MiFID
6 12 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 12 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.13%) WCAG
8 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.10%) IEC 61131
9 6 (0.10%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.10%) PMO
10 5 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.084%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.067%) DICOM
11 4 (0.067%) EMIR
11 4 (0.067%) HL7
12 3 (0.050%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.050%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 459 (7.72%) Docker
2 58 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 35 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.13%) Firmware
6 6 (0.10%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.067%) vSphere
9 3 (0.050%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.017%) GridGain
11 1 (0.017%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 392 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 140 (2.35%) Terraform
3 44 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 34 (0.57%) Grafana
5 22 (0.37%) Ansible
6 10 (0.17%) MIIS
7 8 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.10%) Consul
8 6 (0.10%) Puppet
9 5 (0.084%) Control-M
10 4 (0.067%) Kibana
10 4 (0.067%) SCOM
10 4 (0.067%) SCOrch
10 4 (0.067%) vMotion
11 3 (0.050%) MOM
11 3 (0.050%) Packer
12 2 (0.034%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.034%) cPanel
12 2 (0.034%) linkerd
13 1 (0.017%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,309 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 258 (4.34%) IBM
3 253 (4.25%) Red Hat
4 225 (3.78%) ESRI
5 178 (2.99%) Oracle
6 87 (1.46%) Google
7 73 (1.23%) Xamarin
8 66 (1.11%) Sitecore
9 39 (0.66%) SAP
10 36 (0.61%) Adobe
10 36 (0.61%) Optimizely
10 36 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 33 (0.55%) Facebook
12 29 (0.49%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.45%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.42%) Splunk
15 21 (0.35%) VMware
16 19 (0.32%) Databricks
16 19 (0.32%) Sparx
17 18 (0.30%) Cognizant