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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,048 7,939 7,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.66% 7.19% 7.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.07% 35.76% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 6,415 5,782
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,688 £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 £80,063 £72,500 £80,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 9,718 22,203 26,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.34% 20.10% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 16,359 17,485
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,834
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 15 June 2025.

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 15 June 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 -44 1,897 £62,500 +4.17% 2,435
UK excluding London -52 1,397 £55,000 - 1,849
Work from Home -33 1,092 £60,000 +9.09% 1,475
London -42 549 £80,000 +3.23% 964
North of England -55 482 £57,500 +4.55% 584
South East -49 365 £57,500 -4.17% 635
North West -55 343 £55,000 - 390
Midlands -58 251 £55,000 +10.00% 244
West Midlands -34 174 £53,688 +2.26% 128
East of England -57 128 £51,250 -6.82% 88
Yorkshire -63 91 £65,000 +18.18% 136
South West -68 83 £52,500 -4.55% 130
East Midlands -66 76 £55,000 +10.00% 110
Scotland -54 60 £55,750 -7.08% 68
North East -18 48 £55,000 -8.33% 60
Wales -34 27 £75,000 +36.36% 56
Northern Ireland -21 1 £50,000 -9.09% 36
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 1

.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 58 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 55 (2.69%) IIS
3 46 (2.25%) Confluence
4 32 (1.56%) CMS
5 21 (1.03%) Umbraco
6 20 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 4 (0.20%) OpenEdge
7 4 (0.20%) Sitefinity
7 4 (0.20%) WordPress
8 3 (0.15%) Apache
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) nginx
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.098%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.098%) DNN
9 2 (0.098%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.44%) Trello
4 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.098%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.049%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 102 (4.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 12 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.54%) Sage 200
4 11 (0.54%) Sage 50
5 7 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.20%) Endur
6 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 4 (0.20%) Sage 1000
7 3 (0.15%) Magento
7 3 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.098%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.098%) Eikon
8 2 (0.098%) Odoo
8 2 (0.098%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.098%) RMDS
8 2 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.049%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,230 (60.06%) Azure
2 557 (27.20%) AWS
3 302 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (11.08%) GCP
5 212 (10.35%) Power Platform
6 158 (7.71%) Dynamics 365
7 140 (6.84%) SaaS
8 118 (5.76%) GitHub
9 104 (5.08%) PowerApps
10 100 (4.88%) Serverless
11 98 (4.79%) Power Automate
12 94 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 85 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 60 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
16 58 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
17 50 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 49 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (2.39%) Azure Functions
19 40 (1.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.17%) Network Security
2 23 (1.12%) HTTP
3 18 (0.88%) MQTT
4 17 (0.83%) Modbus
5 16 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.44%) Internet
7 6 (0.29%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.20%) WPA
9 3 (0.15%) Broadband
9 3 (0.15%) Firewall
10 2 (0.098%) Multicast
10 2 (0.098%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.098%) RTP
10 2 (0.098%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.049%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.049%) IPv4
11 1 (0.049%) SMPP
11 1 (0.049%) SS7
11 1 (0.049%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 583 (28.47%) SQL Server
2 132 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 128 (6.25%) MySQL
4 116 (5.66%) Relational Database
5 111 (5.42%) MongoDB
6 103 (5.03%) Power BI
7 84 (4.10%) NoSQL
8 83 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 78 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 75 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
11 61 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (1.51%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.12%) Redis
14 18 (0.88%) DB2
15 13 (0.63%) Data Hub
15 13 (0.63%) SQL CLR
16 12 (0.59%) Tableau
17 11 (0.54%) DynamoDB
18 9 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
19 8 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 281 (13.72%) Git
2 145 (7.08%) Visual Studio
3 103 (5.03%) JIRA
4 75 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 49 (2.39%) TeamCity
6 47 (2.29%) Jenkins
7 44 (2.15%) NUnit
8 42 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 40 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 30 (1.46%) MSBuild
11 28 (1.37%) GitLab
12 22 (1.07%) Selenium
13 21 (1.03%) Postman
13 21 (1.03%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.68%) MagicDraw
15 12 (0.59%) Moq
16 11 (0.54%) Jasmine
16 11 (0.54%) PowerBuilder
17 9 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
18 8 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 495 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.51%) Finance
3 297 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (5.42%) Retail
6 79 (3.86%) Law
7 71 (3.47%) Banking
8 67 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 45 (2.20%) Back Office
10 44 (2.15%) Front Office
11 33 (1.61%) Marketing
12 32 (1.56%) Tech for Good
13 30 (1.46%) Automotive
14 29 (1.42%) Legal
15 23 (1.12%) Public Sector
16 21 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (0.98%) Advertising
17 20 (0.98%) Games
18 14 (0.68%) Electronics
19 12 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,103 (53.86%) Developer
2 618 (30.18%) Senior
3 404 (19.73%) Software Engineer
4 367 (17.92%) .NET Developer
5 277 (13.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 271 (13.23%) Senior Developer
7 267 (13.04%) C# Developer
8 195 (9.52%) Software Developer
9 189 (9.23%) Lead
10 151 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 137 (6.69%) C# .NET Developer
12 100 (4.88%) Architect
13 79 (3.86%) Lead Developer
14 77 (3.76%) Senior C# Developer
15 73 (3.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 72 (3.52%) Senior .NET Developer
17 59 (2.88%) Development Manager
18 57 (2.78%) .NET Software Engineer
19 52 (2.54%) Analyst
19 52 (2.54%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (21.63%) .NET Core
2 416 (20.31%) ASP.NET
3 408 (19.92%) .NET Framework
4 354 (17.29%) React
5 331 (16.16%) CSS
6 322 (15.72%) HTML
6 322 (15.72%) Node.js
7 275 (13.43%) AngularJS
8 196 (9.57%) REST
9 172 (8.40%) Entity Framework
10 171 (8.35%) RESTful
11 132 (6.45%) XML
12 129 (6.30%) ASP.NET Web API
13 113 (5.52%) HTML5
14 112 (5.47%) JSON
15 109 (5.32%) Blazor
16 105 (5.13%) ASP.NET MVC
17 101 (4.93%) jQuery
18 96 (4.69%) Vue
19 76 (3.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 227 (11.08%) Cyberattack
2 205 (10.01%) Self-Motivation
3 180 (8.79%) Linux Command Line
4 92 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 75 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 73 (3.56%) Mobile App
7 72 (3.52%) Product Ownership
8 35 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (1.61%) IoT
10 28 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 22 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
12 21 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 20 (0.98%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 18 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 16 (0.78%) Derivative
15 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 326 (15.92%) Linux
2 162 (7.91%) Windows
3 64 (3.13%) Android
4 33 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.32%) Unix
6 17 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (49.51%) Agile
2 673 (32.86%) Software Engineering
3 569 (27.78%) DevOps
4 519 (25.34%) CI/CD
5 512 (25.00%) Microservices
6 435 (21.24%) Mentoring
7 420 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
8 374 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 347 (16.94%) Scrum
10 314 (15.33%) User Experience
11 295 (14.40%) MVC
12 228 (11.13%) Machine Learning
13 217 (10.60%) OO
14 211 (10.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 209 (10.21%) Design Patterns
16 204 (9.96%) Data Engineering
17 201 (9.81%) Computer Science
18 195 (9.52%) Cloud Security
19 185 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 182 (8.89%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1,416 (69.14%) C#
2 807 (39.40%) JavaScript
3 768 (37.50%) SQL
4 448 (21.88%) Java
5 441 (21.53%) Python
6 328 (16.02%) C++
7 238 (11.62%) Go
8 237 (11.57%) TypeScript
9 229 (11.18%) Rust
10 85 (4.15%) VB.NET
11 77 (3.76%) PHP
12 61 (2.98%) T-SQL
13 60 (2.93%) PowerShell
14 33 (1.61%) C
14 33 (1.61%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.03%) Bicep
16 18 (0.88%) Bash
17 14 (0.68%) X++
18 10 (0.49%) VBA
19 8 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 271 (13.23%) Degree
2 257 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 227 (11.08%) DV Cleared
4 181 (8.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 180 (8.79%) AWS Certification
6 178 (8.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 138 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.07%) SC Cleared
12 17 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
13 10 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.34%) MCSE
15 6 (0.29%) HNC
15 6 (0.29%) HND
15 6 (0.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.96%) QA
2 42 (2.05%) GDPR
3 36 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 13 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.29%) CDISC
7 6 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.29%) SLA
8 5 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.098%) HL7
10 2 (0.098%) ITGC
11 1 (0.049%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.049%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.049%) MiFID
11 1 (0.049%) NCSC
11 1 (0.049%) WCAG
System Software
1 287 (14.01%) Docker
2 25 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (0.63%) Firmware
4 11 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.15%) LXC
8 2 (0.098%) KVM
8 2 (0.098%) Squid
8 2 (0.098%) vSphere
8 2 (0.098%) Xen
9 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 254 (12.40%) Kubernetes
2 138 (6.74%) Terraform
3 88 (4.30%) Ansible
4 27 (1.32%) Grafana
5 22 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.29%) Functional Safety
6 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.15%) Puppet
8 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.098%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.049%) Control-M
10 1 (0.049%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.049%) logstash
10 1 (0.049%) SCCM
10 1 (0.049%) SCOM
10 1 (0.049%) vRealize
Vendors
1 547 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 74 (3.61%) Oracle
3 41 (2.00%) Databricks
4 36 (1.76%) Atlassian
5 25 (1.22%) VMware
6 22 (1.07%) Salesforce
7 17 (0.83%) Siebel
8 15 (0.73%) IBM
8 15 (0.73%) Sage
9 13 (0.63%) Google
10 12 (0.59%) Okta
11 11 (0.54%) Rollbar
11 11 (0.54%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.54%) Splunk
12 9 (0.44%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.44%) Xamarin
13 8 (0.39%) Facebook
13 8 (0.39%) New Relic
14 7 (0.34%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.34%) Trayport