.NET Framework Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 145 113
Rank change year-on-year -15 -32 +39
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 18 53 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.34% 1.28% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.38% 7.61% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 16 29 62
10th Percentile £41,832 £37,500 £40,125
25th Percentile £47,188 £51,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

.NET Framework 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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 411 696 647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.75% 16.77% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 358 374 583
10th Percentile £29,925 £37,725 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -5.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

.NET Framework job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

.NET Framework
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing .NET Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Framework in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Framework in the West Midlands

.NET Framework
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +9 14 £66,250 +15.22%
Solihull - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - -
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) CMS
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 12 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (55.56%) Power Automate
5 10 (55.56%) PowerApps
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Functions
6 4 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (22.22%) Serverless
7 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (11.11%) SaaS
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (5.56%) GCP
9 1 (5.56%) IaaS
9 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) MS Access
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MSTest
1 3 (16.67%) NUnit
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Moq
2 1 (5.56%) NSubstitute
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) C# Developer
2 8 (44.44%) CRM Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Applications Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Automation Developer
4 5 (27.78%) C# Application Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Power Apps Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Senior
5 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Lead
5 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
2 5 (27.78%) Entity Framework
3 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 3 (16.67%) ARM Templates
4 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (16.67%) Blazor
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (16.67%) YAML
5 2 (11.11%) ADO
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (11.11%) ODBC
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) WPF
6 1 (5.56%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) CRM
4 8 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 8 (44.44%) Migration
4 8 (44.44%) SOA
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) MVC
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) AI
7 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) Bicep
5 2 (11.11%) Delphi
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) XAML
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google