.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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 137 121
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 -29
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 29 77 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.88% 1.43% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 9.03% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24 37 57
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,000 £47,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,849 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +7.14%

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 430 853 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.11% 15.85% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 323 471 518
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,290 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £69,750 £69,800 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

.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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 2025. 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 20 £61,750 +7.39% 2
Warwickshire +37 1 - - 2
Staffordshire -5 1 £60,000 +11.63% 6
Coventry - 1 £47,500 - 4
Solihull - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
Herefordshire - 1 - - 2
.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 3 (10.34%) IIS
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) Azure
2 20 (68.97%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (51.72%) Power Platform
4 10 (34.48%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (34.48%) Power Automate
5 9 (31.03%) PowerApps
6 8 (27.59%) SaaS
7 6 (20.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (20.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (17.24%) Azure Functions
8 5 (17.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
8 5 (17.24%) Serverless
9 2 (6.90%) AWS
9 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
9 2 (6.90%) GitHub
9 2 (6.90%) PaaS
10 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (3.45%) IaaS
10 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DHCP
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Data Hub
2 2 (6.90%) MS Access
2 2 (6.90%) SQL CLR
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) NUnit
2 4 (13.79%) MSTest
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Moq
3 2 (6.90%) NSubstitute
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Law
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Back Office
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 10 (34.48%) C# Developer
3 9 (31.03%) Software Developer
4 8 (27.59%) CRM Developer
4 8 (27.59%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 7 (24.14%) Senior
6 6 (20.69%) Applications Developer
6 6 (20.69%) Automation Developer
7 5 (17.24%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (17.24%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (13.79%) .NET Developer
8 4 (13.79%) Blazor Developer
8 4 (13.79%) C# Software Developer
8 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 4 (13.79%) Lead
8 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
9 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (51.72%) Entity Framework
3 9 (31.03%) Blazor
4 6 (20.69%) .NET Core
5 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
5 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
6 4 (13.79%) REST
6 4 (13.79%) WPF
6 4 (13.79%) YAML
7 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
7 3 (10.34%) Dapper ORM
7 3 (10.34%) HTML
7 3 (10.34%) RESTful
8 2 (6.90%) ADO
8 2 (6.90%) CSS
8 2 (6.90%) ODBC
8 2 (6.90%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (6.90%) Web Services
9 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) CRM
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (27.59%) Clean Code
6 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (27.59%) Data Migration
6 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (27.59%) Migration
6 8 (27.59%) SOA
6 8 (27.59%) TDD
7 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) AI
9 5 (17.24%) MVC
9 5 (17.24%) Scrum
9 5 (17.24%) User Experience
9 5 (17.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) C#
2 13 (44.83%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) TypeScript
4 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 7 (24.14%) Bicep
6 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
7 4 (13.79%) VB
8 2 (6.90%) Delphi
8 2 (6.90%) Java
8 2 (6.90%) XAML
9 1 (3.45%) C++
9 1 (3.45%) Python
9 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Blue Prism
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle