MVC Job Trends

Model-View-Controller (MVC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MVC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 235 123
Rank change year-on-year -262 -112 +74
Permanent jobs citing MVC 195 581 2,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 1.35% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.44% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 164 474 1,902
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,750 £38,066
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,282 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

MVC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

MVC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MVC job vacancy trend in the UK

MVC
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MVC

MVC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MVC over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for MVC in the UK

MVC
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MVC within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 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 -251 169 £55,000 -4.35% 71
UK excluding London -254 127 £52,500 -4.55% 65
Work from Home -128 109 £60,000 +9.09% 44
London -54 42 £75,000 - 12
South East -104 37 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Midlands -53 36 £45,000 -10.00% 11
East Midlands -35 27 £45,000 -10.00% 8
South West -69 26 £60,000 - 7
North of England -101 14 £42,039 -1.08% 21
East of England -61 11 £25,000 -47.37% 13
West Midlands -42 9 £52,500 -1.87% 3
Yorkshire -57 7 £42,039 -1.08% 5
North West -50 6 £47,000 -10.48% 12
Wales -20 2 £43,500 -8.42%
Scotland -55 2 £37,250 -37.92% 2
Northern Ireland -31 1 - -
North East -35 1 £47,500 +11.76% 4

MVC
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 7 (3.59%) CMS
2 4 (2.05%) IIS
3 3 (1.54%) Apache
3 3 (1.54%) JBoss
3 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.54%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.51%) Kentico
5 1 (0.51%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 110 (56.41%) Azure
2 47 (24.10%) AWS
3 32 (16.41%) SaaS
4 30 (15.38%) GitHub
4 30 (15.38%) Serverless
5 23 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (9.74%) Power Platform
7 16 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.69%) Azure Functions
9 14 (7.18%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (6.15%) Azure App Service
11 12 (6.15%) PaaS
12 11 (5.64%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.59%) GCP
14 6 (3.08%) Azure Storage
14 6 (3.08%) Miro
15 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
16 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
16 2 (1.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 38 (19.49%) MySQL
3 21 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (9.74%) Power BI
5 16 (8.21%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.54%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (3.08%) Axure RP
2 6 (3.08%) Gradle
2 6 (3.08%) Maven
2 6 (3.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (3.08%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.56%) JIRA
4 3 (1.54%) GitLab
4 3 (1.54%) JUnit
4 3 (1.54%) TestNG
5 2 (1.03%) Checkstyle
5 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.03%) ESLint
5 2 (1.03%) MSTest
5 2 (1.03%) NUnit
5 2 (1.03%) Selenium
5 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.36%) Finance
3 12 (6.15%) Law
4 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.56%) Retail
7 4 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Billing
9 2 (1.03%) Advertising
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.03%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 147 (75.38%) Developer
2 62 (31.79%) .NET Developer
3 41 (21.03%) C# Developer
4 38 (19.49%) Software Developer
5 35 (17.95%) Senior
6 30 (15.38%) Azure Developer
7 29 (14.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 29 (14.87%) PHP Developer
8 22 (11.28%) Senior Developer
8 22 (11.28%) SQL Developer
9 21 (10.77%) Graduate
9 21 (10.77%) Graduate Developer
10 20 (10.26%) C# Software Developer
10 20 (10.26%) Graduate Software Developer
10 20 (10.26%) Lead
11 17 (8.72%) Graduate C# Developer
11 17 (8.72%) Lead Developer
12 16 (8.21%) C# .NET Developer
12 16 (8.21%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 16 (8.21%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (67.69%) .NET
2 84 (43.08%) ASP.NET
3 81 (41.54%) CSS
4 70 (35.90%) .NET Core
5 63 (32.31%) HTML
6 52 (26.67%) .NET Framework
7 48 (24.62%) ASP.NET MVC
7 48 (24.62%) React
8 43 (22.05%) Entity Framework
9 36 (18.46%) RESTful
10 32 (16.41%) jQuery
11 31 (15.90%) AngularJS
12 29 (14.87%) ASP.NET Web API
13 28 (14.36%) Razor View Engine
14 27 (13.85%) REST
15 25 (12.82%) ASP.NET Core
16 24 (12.31%) Spring
17 21 (10.77%) Spring MVC
18 18 (9.23%) Spring Boot
18 18 (9.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.08%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.05%) N-Tier
3 4 (2.05%) PKI
4 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.03%) DataPower
5 2 (1.03%) Digital TV
5 2 (1.03%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.51%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.51%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.64%) VMS
2 2 (1.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (51.28%) Agile
2 81 (41.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 49 (25.13%) DevOps
4 48 (24.62%) CI/CD
5 42 (21.54%) Microservices
6 37 (18.97%) Scrum
7 36 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (17.95%) Computer Science
9 34 (17.44%) OOP
10 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (16.92%) Mentoring
11 25 (12.82%) Code Quality
11 25 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 25 (12.82%) User Experience
12 22 (11.28%) Design Patterns
12 22 (11.28%) OO
13 21 (10.77%) Kanban
13 21 (10.77%) Test Automation
14 19 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (9.74%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 125 (64.10%) C#
2 97 (49.74%) SQL
3 96 (49.23%) JavaScript
4 42 (21.54%) Java
5 38 (19.49%) TypeScript
6 36 (18.46%) PHP
7 20 (10.26%) C++
8 12 (6.15%) PowerShell
9 11 (5.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.64%) Python
10 2 (1.03%) Bash
10 2 (1.03%) C
10 2 (1.03%) Ruby
10 2 (1.03%) VB
10 2 (1.03%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.51%) F#
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (21.03%) Degree
2 34 (17.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.28%) QA
2 14 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.03%) SLA
3 2 (1.03%) WCAG
4 1 (0.51%) HL7
System Software
1 21 (10.77%) Docker
2 12 (6.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.08%) Terraform
3 2 (1.03%) Grafana
3 2 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.59%) Google
3 4 (2.05%) Telerik
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle
5 2 (1.03%) Facebook
5 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.03%) SAP
5 2 (1.03%) Splunk
5 2 (1.03%) YouTube
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe
6 1 (0.51%) IBM
6 1 (0.51%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.51%) Perforce
6 1 (0.51%) Zend