Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring .NET skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 61 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 -35 -1
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,705 2,068 6,871
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.75% 4.22% 6.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.55% 23.09% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,562 5,702
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -

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 10,189 8,956 20,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 18.27% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,627 5,918 15,290
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend

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

.NET job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 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 +4 2,518 £60,000 -4.00% 590
UK excluding London +3 2,054 £57,500 +2.68% 502
Work from Home 0 1,197 £60,000 - 370
South East +24 658 £57,500 - 171
North of England 0 560 £59,000 -1.67% 142
London -25 549 £80,000 - 181
Midlands +9 326 £55,000 - 62
North West -6 276 £60,000 +3.00% 69
South West +17 208 £53,750 +2.38% 36
East of England +20 191 £65,000 +26.83% 57
West Midlands -14 172 £57,500 +4.55% 32
East Midlands +26 154 £55,000 - 30
North East 0 144 £56,500 +7.62% 33
Yorkshire +4 140 £57,500 -13.21% 42
Scotland +11 58 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Northern Ireland -35 28 - - 19
Wales -51 27 £50,000 -23.08% 9

.NET
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 67 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.48%) IIS
3 31 (1.15%) CMS
4 22 (0.81%) Confluence
5 16 (0.59%) ColdFusion
5 16 (0.59%) Umbraco
6 8 (0.30%) nginx
6 8 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (0.30%) WordPress
7 7 (0.26%) Apache
8 6 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 6 (0.22%) JBoss
8 6 (0.22%) NServiceBus
9 5 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.11%) DNN
11 3 (0.11%) Kentico
11 3 (0.11%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.11%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.11%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.11%) Magento
3 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.074%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.037%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.037%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,402 (51.83%) Azure
2 433 (16.01%) AWS
3 432 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
4 238 (8.80%) GitHub
5 236 (8.72%) SaaS
6 183 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 171 (6.32%) Azure AI
8 152 (5.62%) Serverless
9 151 (5.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 127 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 115 (4.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 110 (4.07%) Power Automate
13 101 (3.73%) PowerApps
14 100 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 93 (3.44%) Azure Functions
16 88 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
17 68 (2.51%) GCP
18 67 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
19 57 (2.11%) Azure AKS
20 55 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.33%) Internet
2 11 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.30%) Firewall
4 7 (0.26%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.18%) DHCP
5 5 (0.18%) DNS
5 5 (0.18%) LAN
5 5 (0.18%) LTE
5 5 (0.18%) WAN
6 4 (0.15%) Broadband
6 4 (0.15%) Intranet
6 4 (0.15%) Modbus
7 3 (0.11%) HTTP
7 3 (0.11%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.11%) RS-232
8 2 (0.074%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.037%) AMQP
9 1 (0.037%) Profibus
9 1 (0.037%) SSL
9 1 (0.037%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (19.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 505 (18.67%) SQL Server
3 439 (16.23%) MongoDB
4 159 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 117 (4.33%) Power BI
6 70 (2.59%) NoSQL
7 65 (2.40%) MySQL
8 48 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 37 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 25 (0.92%) Redis
13 16 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.48%) GIS
15 12 (0.44%) Db2
16 11 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
17 9 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (0.33%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 169 (6.25%) Git
2 57 (2.11%) JIRA
3 28 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 23 (0.85%) GitLab
6 20 (0.74%) Postman
7 19 (0.70%) Selenium
8 16 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.59%) NUnit
9 15 (0.55%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.30%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.26%) Moq
11 7 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.22%) JMeter
12 6 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 419 (15.49%) Finance
2 380 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 115 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.11%) Public Sector
5 82 (3.03%) Retail
6 75 (2.77%) Law
7 73 (2.70%) Legal
8 62 (2.29%) Games
9 60 (2.22%) Advertising
10 57 (2.11%) Marketing
11 50 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 49 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (1.48%) Legal Technology
14 39 (1.44%) Banking
15 35 (1.29%) Aerospace
16 26 (0.96%) Automotive
17 22 (0.81%) Electronics
18 13 (0.48%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.44%) Back Office
20 11 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,658 (61.29%) Developer
2 986 (36.45%) .NET Developer
3 564 (20.85%) Senior
4 436 (16.12%) Software Engineer
5 332 (12.27%) Software Developer
6 285 (10.54%) Senior Developer
7 284 (10.50%) Lead
8 207 (7.65%) C# Developer
9 193 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 180 (6.65%) .NET Software Engineer
11 173 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
12 167 (6.17%) C# .NET Developer
13 150 (5.55%) C# Software Engineer
14 136 (5.03%) Lead Developer
15 126 (4.66%) Senior .NET Developer
16 122 (4.51%) .NET Software Developer
17 100 (3.70%) Architect
17 100 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 85 (3.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
19 84 (3.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 811 (29.98%) .NET Core
2 751 (27.76%) ASP.NET
3 584 (21.59%) ASP.NET Core
4 448 (16.56%) React
5 372 (13.75%) CSS
6 368 (13.60%) HTML
7 326 (12.05%) AngularJS
8 298 (11.02%) RESTful
9 292 (10.79%) Blazor
10 290 (10.72%) Entity Framework
11 281 (10.39%) .NET Framework
12 266 (9.83%) Vue
13 261 (9.65%) Node.js
14 223 (8.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 201 (7.43%) REST
16 154 (5.69%) ML.NET
17 120 (4.44%) LINQ
18 76 (2.81%) JSON
19 67 (2.48%) jQuery
20 58 (2.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 174 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 150 (5.55%) Greenfield Project
3 110 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 95 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 56 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 28 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 26 (0.96%) AI Agents
10 26 (0.96%) Legacy Code
11 24 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 24 (0.89%) Onboarding
12 22 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.74%) Digital TV
14 19 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.63%) BBC
16 17 (0.63%) iPhone
16 17 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (3.62%) Windows
2 37 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.26%) Linux
4 33 (1.22%) Android
5 12 (0.44%) VMS
6 9 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (35.30%) Full-Stack Development
2 912 (33.72%) Agile
3 720 (26.62%) Software Engineering
4 703 (25.99%) CI/CD
5 670 (24.77%) DevOps
6 503 (18.60%) Microservices
7 420 (15.53%) AI
8 341 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
9 290 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 257 (9.50%) Mentoring
11 223 (8.24%) Machine Learning
12 205 (7.58%) Test Automation
13 202 (7.47%) SDLC
14 185 (6.84%) Multithreading
15 181 (6.69%) Scrum
16 176 (6.51%) TDD
17 161 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
18 150 (5.55%) Infrastructure as Code
19 146 (5.40%) Business Intelligence
20 145 (5.36%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2,020 (74.68%) C#
2 1,048 (38.74%) SQL
3 610 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 392 (14.49%) TypeScript
5 240 (8.87%) Python
6 176 (6.51%) Java
7 89 (3.29%) C++
8 88 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 58 (2.14%) PHP
10 57 (2.11%) T-SQL
11 52 (1.92%) VB.NET
12 44 (1.63%) Bicep
13 28 (1.04%) C
14 25 (0.92%) Bash
15 20 (0.74%) VB
16 17 (0.63%) Go
16 17 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.52%) Apex Code
18 11 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 228 (8.43%) Degree
2 112 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 99 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 83 (3.07%) SC Cleared
5 21 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 20 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (0.18%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.15%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.11%) ISEB
13 3 (0.11%) MBA
13 3 (0.11%) PhD
14 2 (0.074%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (6.58%) QA
2 66 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 21 (0.78%) GDPR
5 16 (0.59%) WCAG
6 10 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 8 (0.30%) SLA
8 6 (0.22%) NCSC
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.074%) ITGC
System Software
1 330 (12.20%) Docker
2 21 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.48%) Firmware
4 9 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 311 (11.50%) Kubernetes
2 120 (4.44%) Terraform
3 16 (0.59%) Grafana
4 10 (0.37%) Ansible
4 10 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.074%) Kibana
5 2 (0.074%) MIIS
6 1 (0.037%) Consul
6 1 (0.037%) MOM
6 1 (0.037%) Packer
6 1 (0.037%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.037%) Puppet
Vendors
1 907 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 72 (2.66%) Google
3 60 (2.22%) Facebook
4 45 (1.66%) Oracle
5 29 (1.07%) Adobe
5 29 (1.07%) OpenAI
5 29 (1.07%) Salesforce
6 21 (0.78%) YouTube
7 18 (0.67%) Xamarin
8 17 (0.63%) Apple
8 17 (0.63%) Sony
8 17 (0.63%) Yahoo!
9 16 (0.59%) Databricks
10 15 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.44%) iManage
12 11 (0.41%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.37%) Intapp
13 10 (0.37%) VMware
14 8 (0.30%) Aderant
14 8 (0.30%) OneLogin