.NET Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -17 0
Permanent jobs citing .NET 35 42 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.31% 4.73% 9.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 45.45% 20.59% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34 23 73
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,054 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £45,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £59,250 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

.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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 77 204 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.28% 22.97% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 70 127 150
10th Percentile £38,750 £23,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,487 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.NET
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

.NET job vacancy trend in Wales

.NET
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing .NET

.NET
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET in Wales over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET in Wales

.NET
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
South Wales -1 26 £55,000 +10.00% 22
West Wales +10 9 £45,000 -25.00% 1
.NET
UK

.NET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (2.86%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DHCP
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (31.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (34.29%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) git-flow
3 1 (2.86%) Moq
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 16 (45.71%) Software Developer
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Senior Software Developer
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Developer
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Software Developer
6 5 (14.29%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) ICT Officer
8 1 (2.86%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (11.43%) KnockoutJS
2 4 (11.43%) RESTful
2 4 (11.43%) Web Services
3 3 (8.57%) CSS
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) Vue
4 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (5.71%) Bootstrap
4 2 (5.71%) HTML
4 2 (5.71%) HTML5
4 2 (5.71%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) Ajax
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.86%) CSS3
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) LESS
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (34.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (31.43%) Virtual Team
4 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.86%) IoT
6 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Software Delivery
4 11 (31.43%) AI
5 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
7 5 (14.29%) OOP
8 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (11.43%) OO
9 3 (8.57%) MVVM
10 2 (5.71%) CRM
10 2 (5.71%) Culture Change
10 2 (5.71%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (5.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 2 (5.71%) People Management
10 2 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 1 (2.86%) Architectural Patterns
11 1 (2.86%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) SQL
2 15 (42.86%) C#
3 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.86%) Dart
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Pega
2 1 (2.86%) VMware