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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -35 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET 2,074 7,269 8,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.99% 7.38% 7.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.52% 34.45% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 6,000 6,380
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,875 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +5.04%
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 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £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 £80,000 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -36 1,885 £62,500 +4.17% 1,595
UK excluding London -42 1,401 £56,000 +1.82% 1,244
Work from Home -17 1,030 £60,000 +4.35% 966
London -34 565 £76,250 -1.61% 496
South East -25 437 £60,000 - 326
North of England -68 368 £57,500 +4.55% 385
Midlands -47 260 £53,688 +7.38% 237
North West -81 208 £57,500 +4.55% 227
West Midlands -41 178 £57,500 +9.52% 133
East of England -40 123 £52,500 -4.55% 133
Yorkshire -33 105 £60,000 +9.09% 99
Scotland +11 91 £50,000 -16.67% 53
South West -67 90 £60,000 +9.09% 108
East Midlands -55 81 £52,500 +5.00% 94
North East -7 55 £55,000 -8.33% 65
Wales -22 32 £65,000 +23.37% 28
Northern Ireland -22 1 £50,000 -9.09% 12

.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 68 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.51%) Confluence
3 39 (1.88%) IIS
4 29 (1.40%) 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
10 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.14%) ColdFusion
10 3 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.096%) DNN
Applications
1 44 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.48%) Trello
4 7 (0.34%) 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 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.82%) Sage 200
2 17 (0.82%) Sage 50
3 13 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
4 12 (0.58%) 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 1,146 (55.26%) Azure
2 372 (17.94%) AWS
3 341 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (11.67%) Power Platform
5 170 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
6 160 (7.71%) SaaS
7 130 (6.27%) GitHub
8 110 (5.30%) PowerApps
9 105 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 105 (5.06%) Serverless
10 102 (4.92%) Power Automate
11 69 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 68 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 58 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 57 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 57 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (2.51%) Azure Functions
17 44 (2.12%) GCP
18 39 (1.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.45%) Network Security
2 22 (1.06%) HTTP
3 14 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.58%) MQTT
5 11 (0.53%) Modbus
6 7 (0.34%) Internet
7 5 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.096%) Broadband
8 2 (0.096%) Firewall
8 2 (0.096%) Intranet
8 2 (0.096%) Multicast
8 2 (0.096%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.096%) RTP
8 2 (0.096%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.048%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.048%) FTP
9 1 (0.048%) LAN
9 1 (0.048%) SMTP
9 1 (0.048%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.048%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (32.30%) SQL Server
2 133 (6.41%) MySQL
3 125 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
4 119 (5.74%) Relational Database
5 114 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 105 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 98 (4.73%) MongoDB
8 86 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
9 84 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 84 (4.05%) Power BI
10 66 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (1.59%) DB2
12 30 (1.45%) Redis
13 25 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (0.72%) DynamoDB
15 11 (0.53%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.53%) MS Access
16 9 (0.43%) Tableau
17 8 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 321 (15.48%) Git
2 195 (9.40%) Visual Studio
3 114 (5.50%) JIRA
4 76 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 58 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 51 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 51 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 40 (1.93%) MSBuild
7 40 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 37 (1.78%) NUnit
9 34 (1.64%) Selenium
10 26 (1.25%) GitLab
11 20 (0.96%) Postman
11 20 (0.96%) SpecFlow
12 16 (0.77%) webpack
13 14 (0.68%) MagicDraw
14 13 (0.63%) Moq
14 13 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (0.58%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.53%) Babel
General
1 546 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 379 (18.27%) Finance
3 136 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (4.48%) Retail
6 74 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 71 (3.42%) Law
8 60 (2.89%) Banking
9 39 (1.88%) Marketing
10 38 (1.83%) Tech for Good
11 35 (1.69%) Front Office
11 35 (1.69%) Public Sector
12 33 (1.59%) Automotive
13 21 (1.01%) Back Office
13 21 (1.01%) Legal
14 20 (0.96%) Electronics
15 17 (0.82%) Advertising
16 14 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.68%) Games
17 13 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,214 (58.53%) Developer
2 540 (26.04%) Senior
3 417 (20.11%) .NET Developer
4 319 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 294 (14.18%) Software Engineer
6 281 (13.55%) C# Developer
7 225 (10.85%) Software Developer
8 214 (10.32%) Lead
9 151 (7.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (6.94%) C# .NET Developer
11 121 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 110 (5.30%) Architect
13 93 (4.48%) Senior .NET Developer
14 88 (4.24%) Senior C# Developer
15 81 (3.91%) Lead Developer
16 69 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 61 (2.94%) Full-Stack C# Developer
18 60 (2.89%) .NET Software Developer
19 58 (2.80%) Analyst
20 56 (2.70%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (23.53%) .NET Core
2 475 (22.90%) .NET Framework
3 454 (21.89%) ASP.NET
4 403 (19.43%) React
5 401 (19.33%) HTML
6 392 (18.90%) CSS
7 310 (14.95%) AngularJS
8 211 (10.17%) REST
9 198 (9.55%) Entity Framework
10 180 (8.68%) RESTful
11 159 (7.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 154 (7.43%) XML
13 138 (6.65%) HTML5
14 130 (6.27%) Node.js
15 129 (6.22%) JSON
16 126 (6.08%) ASP.NET MVC
17 118 (5.69%) Blazor
18 106 (5.11%) jQuery
19 95 (4.58%) Vue
20 86 (4.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.24%) Mobile App
2 85 (4.10%) Cloud Native
3 82 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
4 62 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.36%) Cyberattack
6 41 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 35 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 35 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.59%) Client/Server
9 32 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.35%) IoT
11 27 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 25 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 21 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 19 (0.92%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.87%) Reinsurance
16 18 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.24%) Windows
2 152 (7.33%) Linux
3 80 (3.86%) Android
4 34 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.35%) Unix
6 20 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (43.97%) Agile
2 622 (29.99%) DevOps
3 589 (28.40%) Software Engineering
4 511 (24.64%) CI/CD
5 461 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
6 376 (18.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 349 (16.83%) Microservices
8 348 (16.78%) MVC
9 273 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 235 (11.33%) Computer Science
11 230 (11.09%) Design Patterns
12 219 (10.56%) OO
13 199 (9.59%) TDD
14 182 (8.78%) OOP
15 181 (8.73%) SDLC
16 152 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 152 (7.33%) Scrum
17 151 (7.28%) Containerisation
18 145 (6.99%) API Development
19 138 (6.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1,599 (77.10%) C#
2 814 (39.25%) SQL
3 721 (34.76%) JavaScript
4 254 (12.25%) TypeScript
5 249 (12.01%) Java
6 240 (11.57%) Python
7 159 (7.67%) C++
8 100 (4.82%) VB.NET
9 81 (3.91%) T-SQL
10 79 (3.81%) PHP
11 54 (2.60%) Go
12 52 (2.51%) PowerShell
13 50 (2.41%) Rust
14 49 (2.36%) C
15 45 (2.17%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.01%) Bicep
17 15 (0.72%) XAML
18 14 (0.68%) X++
19 13 (0.63%) Bash
19 13 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 330 (15.91%) Degree
2 156 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 104 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 53 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.25%) SC Cleared
9 21 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.24%) MCSE
13 5 (0.24%) PhD
14 4 (0.19%) MCP
15 3 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.14%) HND
16 2 (0.096%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.096%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (7.28%) QA
2 47 (2.27%) GDPR
3 42 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.01%) SLA
5 14 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.34%) 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 (15.19%) Docker
2 18 (0.87%) Firmware
3 10 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.34%) 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 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 122 (5.88%) Terraform
3 92 (4.44%) Ansible
4 19 (0.92%) Grafana
5 16 (0.77%) 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
1 566 (27.29%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.86%) Oracle
3 46 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 45 (2.17%) Databricks
5 24 (1.16%) Xamarin
6 19 (0.92%) Google
7 18 (0.87%) Sage
7 18 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 10 (0.48%) Salesforce
8 10 (0.48%) Telerik
9 9 (0.43%) Okta
10 8 (0.39%) EMC
10 8 (0.39%) Epicor
10 8 (0.39%) IBM
10 8 (0.39%) SAP
10 8 (0.39%) UiPath
11 7 (0.34%) Adobe
11 7 (0.34%) SolarWinds
11 7 (0.34%) VMware
12 6 (0.29%) Facebook