.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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 153 117
Rank change year-on-year 0 -36 +2
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 21 54 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% 1.26% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.10% 7.73% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18 29 58
10th Percentile £42,099 £37,500 £39,475
25th Percentile £50,313 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,850 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

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 412 699 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.81% 16.27% 17.67%
Number of salaries quoted 359 378 535
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,207 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -4.46%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,625 £76,550
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 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 3 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 +8 15 £63,500 +10.43% 1
Warwickshire +17 1 - -
Staffordshire -16 1 £60,000 +26.32% 2
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 (9.52%) CMS
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.52%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
1 16 (76.19%) Power Platform
2 15 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) Power Automate
4 11 (52.38%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (52.38%) PowerApps
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Functions
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (23.81%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (23.81%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) AWS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Intranet
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) MS Access
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) NUnit
2 4 (19.05%) MSTest
3 2 (9.52%) Moq
3 2 (9.52%) NSubstitute
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Law
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) C# Developer
2 8 (38.10%) CRM Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Automation Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
4 5 (23.81%) C# Application Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Power Apps Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 4 (19.05%) Lead Developer
6 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 2 (9.52%) Website Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (38.10%) Entity Framework
3 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
3 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (19.05%) .NET Core
4 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (19.05%) YAML
5 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
5 3 (14.29%) Blazor
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) HTML
5 3 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (9.52%) ADO
6 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (9.52%) ODBC
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) Web Services
6 2 (9.52%) WPF
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) CRM
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (38.10%) Data Migration
5 8 (38.10%) Migration
5 8 (38.10%) SOA
6 6 (28.57%) TDD
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 5 (23.81%) MVC
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Scrum
8 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Web Development
9 3 (14.29%) AI
9 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) C#
2 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) Delphi
5 2 (9.52%) Java
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.52%) XAML
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) DBS Check
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) WCAG
3 1 (4.76%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle