.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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 148 135
Rank change year-on-year -47 -13 +6
Permanent jobs citing .NET Framework 18 25 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.77% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.64% 4.79% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 54
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,625 £33,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £65,063 £63,750
90th Percentile - £70,518 £65,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

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 681 522 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.69% 16.04% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 493 393 585
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +6.36% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,407 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

.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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Coventry -14 6 £87,500 +84.21% 2
Worcestershire - 4 £47,500 -
Birmingham -45 3 £55,000 -8.33% 11
Dudley - 2 £47,500 -
Staffordshire +1 1 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Warwickshire -15 1 £50,000 - 2
Wolverhampton - 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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) MongoDB
3 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) NUnit
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Law
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (61.11%) Entity Framework
3 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (27.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (27.78%) Kafka
4 5 (27.78%) Terraform
5 4 (22.22%) CSS
5 4 (22.22%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) React
5 4 (22.22%) REST
6 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
6 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (16.67%) EDI
6 3 (16.67%) RESTful
6 3 (16.67%) SOAP
7 2 (11.11%) CSS3
7 2 (11.11%) HTML5
7 2 (11.11%) OpenCV
7 2 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.11%) IoT
3 2 (11.11%) Photography
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Software Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) AI
4 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Logistics
5 6 (33.33%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
6 5 (27.78%) High Availability
6 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (27.78%) Intelligent Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 5 (27.78%) Observability
6 5 (27.78%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (44.44%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (11.11%) Python
7 1 (5.56%) PHP
7 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.56%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft