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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 148 125
Rank change year-on-year -12 -23 +59
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 18 53 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.33% 1.29% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 7.68% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16 29 75
10th Percentile £41,832 £37,500 £38,950
25th Percentile £47,188 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £57,500 £55,000
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 £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +0.32%

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 412 690 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.58% 16.79% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 357 369 707
10th Percentile £29,900 £38,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,163 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £58,194 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +8.77% -5.28%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £75,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

.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 23 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 23 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 +7 12 £69,500 +20.87%
Warwickshire +13 1 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Shropshire -21 1 £52,500 - 3
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 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 11 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (61.11%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (55.56%) PowerApps
5 8 (44.44%) Power Automate
6 3 (16.67%) SaaS
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (11.11%) Serverless
8 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) IaaS
8 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
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) MSTest
1 1 (5.56%) NUnit
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 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) CRM Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 7 (38.89%) C# Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Applications Developer
5 5 (27.78%) Automation Developer
5 5 (27.78%) C# Application Developer
5 5 (27.78%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Lead
6 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Senior
6 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
7 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
8 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
8 2 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET
3 4 (22.22%) Entity Framework
3 4 (22.22%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (16.67%) Blazor
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 2 (11.11%) ADO
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) ODBC
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) WPF
5 2 (11.11%) YAML
6 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.56%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (5.56%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
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%) MVC
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 4 (22.22%) AI
6 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bicep
4 2 (11.11%) Delphi
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) XAML
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Azure 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google